Victoria's Children of the Dark: Life and Death Underground in Victorian England

by Alan Gallop

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752456989
• ISBN13: 9780752456980
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.7"