Alan Gallop

Victoria's Children of the Dark (eBook, ePUB)

The Women and Children who Built Her Underground

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780752469270
• Artikelnr.: 38226992

Autorenporträt

Alan Gallop is an author, journalist, PR consultant, and teacher. He has links to South Yorkshire, close to Silkstone, as many of his relatives worked for the collieries until their closure in 1980s. He is the author of Buffalo Bill's British Wild West.