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Whitechapel, part of London’s East End, outside the City but deeply, densely urban, has had a long history of immigration.
The Huguenots were most ungenerously described by the parish priest in the 1690s as ‘the very offal of the earth’ despite being highly skilled silk-weavers. They were followed by waves of Irish dock workers, Jewish tailors, South Asian garment workers and many more.
Wealth and poverty are threaded through the history of Whitechapel’s
