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

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 ha...