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Victoria's Children of the Dark tells the story of Queen Victoria's invisible subjects--women and children who labored 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 led to better working conditions for miners. Chained to carts and toiling half-naked for 18-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 26 children were drowned in a mineshaft, that Victoria and her subjects realized that many Britons were existing in virtual slavery. This powerful and dramatic account exposes the real lives and working conditions on nineteenth-century miners. This gripping human story brings history, particularly the history of childhood, to life.
Llegir més - Autor/a Alan Gallop
- ISBN13 9780752456980
- ISBN10 0752456989
- Pàgines 227
- Any Edició 2026
- Fecha de publicación 07/05/2026
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
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Victoria's Children of the Dark (Alemany, Francès)
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- Alan Gallop
- 9780752456980



