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Victoria's Children of the Dark
Life and Death Underground in Victorian England
Alan Gallop
Livre broché | Anglais
14,95 €
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Description
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.
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- Nombre de pages :
- 252
- Langue:
- Anglais
Caractéristiques
- EAN:
- 9780752456980
- Date de parution :
- 01-08-10
- Format:
- Livre broché
- Format numérique:
- Trade paperback (VS)
- Dimensions :
- 130 mm x 196 mm
- Poids :
- 249 g
