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Urban Environments: Patterns of Migration

Reading the buildings, maps and records of Spitalfields

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Overview

The sundial and minaret of the Brick Lane Jamme Masjid, the renaming of Fournier Street, the Christ Church crypt excavation, Arkell's map of Jewish East London and Booth's poverty map, Rothschild Buildings and the Soup Kitchen, the scarce Irish traces and Bangladeshi oral history.

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Which addition to the Brick Lane Jamme Masjid in 2009 marks its newest community?

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What can Charles Booth’s poverty map of 1889 show about Spitalfields?

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What did the excavation of the crypt of Christ Church Spitalfields in 1984 to 1986 reveal?

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  1. 1

    What does the sundial on the Brick Lane Jamme Masjid tell a historian?

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    It is dated 1743 and carries the Latin motto “Umbra sumus”, meaning “we are shadows”, showing the building was put up as a Huguenot chapel before later communities took it over.

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    Which addition to the Brick Lane Jamme Masjid in 2009 marks its newest community?

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    A tall steel minaret-like structure standing on the pavement in front of the building.

  3. 3

    Why is the renaming of Church Street as Fournier Street in 1893 evidence to be used with care?

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    It honours George Fournier, a Huguenot benefactor, but it was chosen long after the Huguenots arrived, so it shows how the area wanted to remember them rather than what they called the street.

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    What did the excavation of the crypt of Christ Church Spitalfields in 1984 to 1986 reveal?

    Model answer

    Nearly a thousand burials from 1729 to the 1850s, and the coffin plates showed that around 40% of the people who could be named were of Huguenot descent.

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    What does George Arkell’s map of 1899, Jewish East London, show?

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    The share of Jewish residents in each street of Spitalfields and Whitechapel, coloured from dark blue for 95–100% Jewish to red for under 5%, showing how densely the community was concentrated.

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    Why should a historian be cautious about Arkell’s map of Jewish East London?

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    It used the same dark blue that Charles Booth’s poverty maps gave to the poorest, semi-criminal streets, which could suggest Jewish streets were poorer than Booth’s later map showed them to be.

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