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Victoria's Children of the Dark
Engelsk Paperback

Victoria's Children of the Dark

Engelsk Paperback

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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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
252
ISBN-13:
9780752456980
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0752456989
Udg. Dato:
9 jun 2010
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
127mm
Højde:
202mm
Forlag:
The History Press Ltd
Oplagsdato:
9 jun 2010
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