OCR GCSE History A (Explaining the Modern World) British depth study with historic environment: The impact of empire on Britain 1688-c.1730 + Urban environments: patterns of migration June 2023 question paper J410/11

Explain how British involvement in the slave trade affected people in Britain between 1688 and

c.1730.

Explain why there was conflict among weavers in Spitalfields in the late 1600s and 1700s.

Study Sources D and E.

Which of these sources is more useful to a historian studying Spitalfields in the late 1800s and

early 1900s?

A poster displayed in Spitalfields in 1899. The poster is written in Yiddish (a Jewish language). An English translation is shown next to it.

Source E

We often think of Spitalfields as the stalking ground of Jack the Ripper, as a maze of slums, or a ghetto crowded with foreign Jews chattering in Yiddish over piles of old clothes. But come and see for yourself. Visit Toynbee Hall where a library and clock tower stand either side of a courtyard. You could be in an old college at Oxford or Cambridge university! There is an air of sophistication and distinction.

Through the ‘University Settlements’ scheme, wise men of Oxford and Cambridge go to the East End to live helpful and simple lives among the poor, as neighbours, brothers and fellow-citizens. They manage clubs for working men and volunteer to patrol the narrow and gloomy streets.

‘Jack the Ripper’ was a killer who murdered five women in 1888.

An extract from an article about Spitalfields called ‘London’s Social Settlements’. It was written by journalist Howard Angus Kennedy and published in 1902.