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Extracts from a plan produced in 1883 for a government scheme to help emigration from Ireland
(PRO ref: CO 885/5/9)
6a
6b
6c
Study this source carefully.
1 What impression does this source give
of life in the British empire in terms of
the following issues:
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the reasons why people migrated
within the empire?
whether this migration was
voluntary or forced?
how the migration was organised
and paid for?
the scale of emigration?
the attitudes shown towards the
emigrants?
2 Explain whether you think this source
gives a positive or negative view of the
empire.
3 Are you going to use this source in
your own online exhibition?
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Source 6a
Extracts from a plan produced in 1883 for a government scheme to help emigration from
Ireland
(PRO ref: CO 885/5/9)
Source 6b
Extracts from a plan produced in 1883 for a government scheme to help emigration from Ireland
(PRO ref: CO 885/5/9)
Source 6c
Extracts from a plan produced in 1883 for a government scheme to help emigration from Ireland
(PRO ref: CO 885/5/9)