Victoria's Children of the Dark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victoria's Children of the Dark write by Alan Gallop. This book was released on 2011-08-26. Victoria's Children of the Dark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Victoria's Children of the Dark
Victoria's Children of the Dark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victoria's Children of the Dark write by Alan Gallop. This book was released on 2010. Victoria's Children of the Dark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Victoria's children of the dark
Victoria's Children of the Dark
Victoria's Children of the Dark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victoria's Children of the Dark write by Alan Gallop. This book was released on 2011-08-26. Victoria's Children of the Dark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Children of the Dark
Children of the Dark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Children of the Dark write by Alan Gallop. This book was released on 2003. Children of the Dark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a true story covering territory rarely featured in history books - a dark time when women and children toiled underground in Victorian coal mines. Using extensive research, the book brings back to life the early Victorian mining community of Silkstone, South Yorkshire. Recreating the sad date of July 4 1838 when a freak rain and hail storm caused a narrow and shallow stream to burst its banks and flood the main passageway shaft leading to the Huskar Pit, resulting in the death of 26 children aged between seven and 15 years. News of the disaster finds its way into The Times and is read by Lord Ashley (later the Earl of Shaftesbury), and an offical enquiry is launched. Lord Ashley and the Commissioner of the Royal Commission on mines and collieries, Jelinger C. Symons Esq., both visit and interview mine owners and workers, and descend into the mines to understand what conditions are really like, particularly for women and children. On August 10 1842 - over four years after the Huskar Pit disaster had brought the subject of women and children working in Yorkshire's coal mines to public attention - a bill is passed to change the country's labour laws regarding their employmen
Rider in the Dark
Rider in the Dark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rider in the Dark write by Victoria Holmes. This book was released on 2006-01-24. Rider in the Dark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Dorset in 1740, after her father brings home a mysterious and defiant stallion, fifteen-year-old Helena is desperate to keep the horse for her own.
