Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Migration in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain.
A period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland between 1845 and 1852, triggered by a potato blight, which acted as a major push factor for migration.
Great Famine appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Migrants in Britain and Notting Hill, especially Migration in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain and Case Studies: Liverpool and Jewish Migrants.
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