Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Historic Environment: Whitechapel.
A Victorian term for the 'underclass' or 'criminal class' perceived to live in slums and blamed for social disorder.
Residuum appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Crime and Punishment in Britain and Whitechapel, especially Historic Environment: Whitechapel and Crime, Policing and the Inner City in Whitechapel.
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