Education

How the Tour Links to Educational Syllabuses

Beyond the Streets has experience of running bespoke physical tours for GCSE, College and University students; go to our Tour options to make an enquiry. If you want to still access the Online Tour please note that whilst we look at the lives of the 5 victims of the unidentified murderer and what life was like in 1880’s Whitechapel, the tour also talks about the experiences of women selling sex for survival in the same area today, and the multiple and complex issues they face, including violence and abuse, substance misuse and homelessness. We advise that teachers view the tour themselves prior to sharing with students to determine suitability.

See examples below for how our Whitechapel Women alternative tour supports GCSE students studying history within two different examination boards. Please contact us, if you are an educator, and you believe our tour supports your course and we’ll add it to our website in the future.

How the Tour Links to Educational Syllabuses

Edexcel GCSE History

Syllabus Elements Relating to Tour:

1

The local context of Whitechapel. The problems of housing and overcrowding. Attempts to improve housing: the Peabody Estate. Provision for the poor in the Whitechapel workhouses. The lack of employment opportunities and level of poverty. Links between the environment and crime: the significance of Whitechapel as an inner city area of poverty, discontent and crime.

2

The prevalence of lodging houses and pubs creating a fluctuating population without ties to the community. The tensions arising from the settlement of immigrants from Ireland and Eastern Europe. Pressures caused by the increase in Jewish immigration during the 1880s and the tendency towards segregation. The growth of socialism and anarchism in Whitechapel.

3

The organisation of policing in Whitechapel. The work of H division and the difficulties of policing the slum area of Whitechapel, the rookeries, alleys and courts. Problems caused by alcohol, prostitution, protection rackets, gangs, violent demonstrations and attacks on Jews. The Whitechapel Vigilance Committee.

4

Investigative policing in Whitechapel: developments in techniques of detective investigation, including the use of sketches, photographs and interviews; problems caused by the need for cooperation between the Metropolitan Police, the City of London Police and Scotland Yard. Dealing with the crimes of Jack the Ripper and the added problems caused by the media reporting of the ‘Ripper’ murders.

5

The national and regional context: the working of the Metropolitan Police, the quality of police recruits, the role of the ‘beat constable’. The development of CID, the role of the Home Secretary and of Sir Charles Warren, public attitudes towards the police.

Pearson Student Textbook: Tour relates to syllabus covered between pages 146 and 189

OCR GCSE History

One of the options of study within their GCSE History A course is ‘Migration to Britain c.1000 to 2010’ (J410/08) and the attached study of the historic environment is ‘Urban Environments: Patterns of Migration’. The specified site for this study is fixed as Spitalfields. The focus is on immigration into Spitalfields and Whitechapel and the physical, social and economic conditions of that area over time. Including the period of the 1880’s and the poverty and hardship faced. Our tour overlaps with some syllabus content including Charles Booth’s map, the former Providence Row night shelter, and middle class activists that tried to raise awareness and address the poverty in the area.

Testimonials

Really enjoyed it and it was interesting. I think it is important, as a Londoner, to hear about what has and is happening on our streets.

Even if you think you know the story to come and visualize it is so helpful.

I would definitely recommend it……I knew the story before, we learnt about it in school……this showed me how unjust everything was and gave me more of an insight.

It really gave me another perspective. It allowed me to be more open-minded, because although we hear about the story in lessons, it gave me all of the facts and helped me form my own opinions.