Victoria's Children of the Dark Paperback / softback
by Alan Gallop
Paperback / softback
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Victoria's Children of the Dark tells the story of Queen Victoria's invisible subjects - women and children who laboured beneath her 'green and pleasant land' harvesting the coal to fuel the furnaces of the industrial revolution.
Following the real fortunes of seven-year-old Joey Burkinshaw and his family, Alan Gallop recreates the events surrounding the 1838 Husker Pit disaster at Silkstone, Yorkshire - a tragedy which helped lead to better working conditions for miners.
Chained to carts and toiling half-naked for eighteen-hour shifts in near darkness, children as young as four were employed by mine owners.
Yet it was not until the catastrophe at Silkstone when twenty-six children were drowned in a mineshaft that Victoria and her subjects realised that many Britons were existing in virtual slavery.
This powerful and dramatic account exposes the real lives and working conditions of nineteenth-century miners.
A gripping human story, Victoria's Children of the Dark brings history, particularly the history of childhood, vividly to life.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:252 pages
- Publisher:The History Press Ltd
- Publication Date:09/06/2010
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- ISBN:9780752456980
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:252 pages
- Publisher:The History Press Ltd
- Publication Date:09/06/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780752456980