Children of the Dark

Alan Gallop (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2007
Sutton Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-3094-9 (ISBN)

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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. It recreates 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, 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 was passed to change the country's labour laws regarding their employment.

Alan Gallop is a journalist. PR consultant, teacher and author with family connections to the Yorkshire mining community stretching back many generations. A former news editor of a national reporting agency, he now works as a public relations consultant. His previous books include Buffalo Bill's British Wild West (Sutton, 2001)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2007
Zusatzinfo	24 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Bergbau
ISBN-10	0-7509-3094-2 / 0750930942
ISBN-13	978-0-7509-3094-9 / 9780750930949
Zustand	Neuware