The City That Ate Its Own People | Dark History of Liverpool 1847

In 1847, a Liverpool physician named William Henry Duncan documented a cellar on Lace Street: sixteen people living in a twelve-by-nine-foot room of wet earth with no window and no light except what came through the door. Liverpool in 1847 was simultaneously the wealthiest port on earth and the city absorbing 300,000 Irish famine refugees in a single year — people arriving on the same ships that had just exported Irish grain to England, moving from the docks into the courts and into the cellars, and dying there in numbers that Duncan described as unlike anything he had seen in any city on earth. This is the story of how that happened — not as an accident but as the direct consequence of a system working exactly as designed, producing wealth for some people and death for others, in the same city, at the same moment. 00:00 — The cellar on Lace Street 02:30 — The city above: what Liverpool believed itself to be 07:00 — The ships: grain out, people in 12:00 — The descent: from the docks to the cellars 19:00 — The system: why it worked the way it was meant to 24:00 — What survived and what it cost #Liverpool1847 #IrishFamine #VictorianHistory #HistoryDocumentary #blackhole #victorianera #history IrishFamine