Victoria's Children of the Dark : the Women and Children Who Built Her Underground by Gallop, Alan instant download

Victoria's Children of the Dark : the Women and Children Who Built Her Underground by Gallop, Alan instant download

1 online resource (403 pages), 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 sevenyearold Joey Burkinshaw and his family, Alan Gallop recreates the events surrounding the 1838 Husker Pit disaster at Silkstone, Yorkshire a tragedy which led to better working conditions for miners. Chained to carts and toiling halfnaked for 18hour shifts in near darkness, children as young as four were employed by mine owners. Yet it, Print version record, Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Welcome to the Silkstones; Part One; The Clarkes and the Silkstone Seam; Gentry, Traders and the Tommy Shop; A Collier's Life; A Multitude of Terrifying Calamities; Moorend, Husker and the Day Hole; A Thunderstorm of the Most Terrible Character; The Exterminating Angel; Part Two; Lord Ashley and the Royal Commission; Mr Symonds and Mr Scriven Come to Call; Part Three; An Enormous Mischief Has Been Discovered; Out of Darkness and Into Plight; Decline and Fall; Postscript: Weeping in the Playtime of Others, Includes bibliographical references