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 November 2021 question paper J410/11

Explain why people emigrated from Britain to the Americas between 1688 and c.1730.

Explain how Spitalfields changed as a result of migration after 1945.

Study Sources D and E.

Which of these sources is more useful to a historian studying Spitalfields in the 19th century?

Source D

Changes are noticeable in some of the larger streets owing to the incoming of rich Jews and also to do with the replacing of rough English or Irish by poor but quiet Jews. The changes to the chapel to suit the requirements of a Jewish synagogue is characteristic of the change that has taken place in the neighbourhood.

Extract from Charles Booth’s ‘Notes about Spitalfields’, 1898. Booth was very interested in how much poverty there was in London and walked the streets of London making notes about the living conditions that he saw.

A drawing published in the Illustrated London News, 1869. The caption was ‘Distress in the East End of London: The Spitalfields Soup Kitchen’. The soup kitchen was set up as a charity by wealthy English Jews to provide for the Jewish poor.