Victoria's Children of the Dark (eBook)

The Women and Children who Built Her Underground

Alan Gallop (Autor)

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2011 | 1. Auflage
252 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7524-6927-0 (ISBN)

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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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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 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 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. This gripping human story brings history, particularly the history of childhood, to life.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.8.2011
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bergbau
• Schlagworte: Childhood • children • coal • darkness • fuel • Furnaces • harvesting coal • Husker Pit disaster • Industrial Revolution • invisible subjects • Joey Burkinshaw • Labour • labourers • miners • mines • Queen Victoria • queen victoria, victorian, victorians, victorian era, invisible subjects, women, children, labourers, labour, harvesting coal, coal, fuel, furnaces, industrial revolution, Joey Burkinshaw, Husker Pit disaster, Silkstone, Yorkshire, working conditions, miners, mines, darkness, slavery, childhood • queen victoria, victorian, victorians, victorian era, invisible subjects, women, children, labourers, labour, harvesting coal, coal, fuel, furnaces, industrial revolution, Joey Burkinshaw, Husker Pit disaster, Silkstone, Yorkshire, working conditions, miners, mines, darkness, slavery, childhood, underground • Silkstone • Slavery • Underground • Victorian • Victorian Era • victorians • Women • Working conditions • Yorkshire
• ISBN-10: 0-7524-6927-4 / 0752469274
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7524-6927-0 / 9780752469270