Victoria's Children of the Dark: The Women and Children Who Built Her Underground

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.