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Victoria's Children of the Dark

Victoria's Children of the Dark
Author: Alan Gallop
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2011-08-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0752469274
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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 helped lead to better working conditions for miners. Chained to carts and toiling half-naked for eighteen-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. A gripping human story, Victoria's Children of the Dark brings history, particularly the history of childhood, vividly to life.

Victoria's Children of the Dark

Victoria's Children of the Dark
Author: Alan Gallop
Publisher: History Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Child labor
ISBN: 9780752456980
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Victoria's children of the dark

Children of the Dark

Children of the Dark
Author: Alan Gallop
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2003
Genre: Social Science
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. Recreating 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 Esq., 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 is passed to change the country's labour laws regarding their employmen

Queen Victoria's Book of Spells

Queen Victoria's Book of Spells
Author: Ellen Datlow
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2013-03-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429960914
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Year An anthology featuring all-original tales of gaslamp fantasy from bestselling and award-winning authors including Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked. "Gaslamp Fantasy," or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike. A number of wonderful fantasy novels owe their inspiration to works by nineteenth-century writers ranging from Jane Austen, the Brontës, and George Meredith to Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and William Morris. And, of course, the entire steampunk genre and subculture owes more than a little to literature inspired by this period. Queen Victoria's Book of Spells is an anthology for everyone who loves these works of neo-Victorian fiction, and wishes to explore the wide variety of ways that modern fantasists are using nineteenth-century settings, characters, and themes. These approaches stretch from steampunk fiction to the Austen-and-Trollope inspired works that some critics call Fantasy of Manners, all of which fit under the larger umbrella of Gaslamp Fantasy. The result is eighteen stories by experts from the fantasy, horror, mainstream, and young adult fields, including both bestselling writers and exciting new talents, who present a bewitching vision of a nineteenth century invested (or cursed!) with magic. Includes short stories by Delia Sherman, Jeffrey Ford, Genevieve Valentine, Maureen McHugh, Kathe Koja, Elizabeth Wein, Elizabeth Bear, James P. Blaylock, Kaaron Warren, Leanna Renee Hieber, Dale Bailey, Veronica Schanoes, Catherynne M. Valente, Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer, Jane Yolen, Gregory Maguire, Tanith Lee, Theodora Goss. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Rider in the Dark

Rider in the Dark
Author: Victoria Holmes
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2006-01-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0060520272
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In Dorset in 1740, after her father brings home a mysterious and defiant stallion, fifteen-year-old Helena is desperate to keep the horse for her own.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria
Author: Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 582
Release: 1921
Genre: Science
ISBN:
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List of members in each volume (except v. 6, new ser., v. 27).

Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors

Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors
Author: Brian Elliott
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2014-02-11
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1848842392
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In the 1920s there were over a million coalminers working in over 3000 collieries across Great Britain, and the industry was one of the most important and powerful in British history. It dominated the lives of generations of individuals, their families and communities, and its legacy is still with us today _ many of us have a coalmining ancestor. ??Yet family historians often have problems in researching their mining forebears. Locating the relevant records, finding the sites of the pits, and understanding the work involved and its historical background can be perplexing. That is why Brian Elliott's concise, authoritative and practical handbook will be so useful, for it guides researchers through these obstacles and opens up the broad range of sources they can go to in order to get a vivid insight into the lives and experiences of coalminers in the past. ??His overview of the coalmining history _ and the case studies and research tips he provides _ will make his book rewarding reading for anyone looking for a general introduction to this major aspect of Britain's industrial heritage. His directory of regional and national sources and his commentary on them will make this guide an essential tool for family historians searching for an ancestor who worked in coalmining underground, on the pit top or just lived in a mining community.??As featured in Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine and the Barnsley Chronicle.

Pit Lasses

Pit Lasses
Author: Denise Bates
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2012-05-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 178159757X
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Women have long been recognised as the backbone of coalmining communities, supporting their men. Less well known is the role which they played as the industry developed, working underground or at the pit head. The year 2012 is the 170th anniversary of the publication of the Report of the Second Childrens Employment Commission. The report caused public outrage in May 1842, revealing that halfdressed women worked underground alongside naked men. Three months later, to protect them from moral corruption, females were banned from working underground. The Commissions report has been neglected as a historical source with the same few quotations widely used to illustrate the same headline points. And yet, across the country, around 350 women and girls described their lives and work. Together, this report and the 1841 census, produce a detailed and surprising picture of a female miner at work, at home and in her community. After 1842 females were still allowed to work above ground. Following a painful transition in the mid-1840s when some former female miners suffered severe hardship women forged a new role at pit heads in Lancashire and Scotland, and then fought to retain it against opposition from many men.This book examines the social, economic and political factors affecting nineteenth-century female coalminers, drawing out the largely untapped evidence within contemporary sources and challenging long-standing myths. It contains what may be the first identified photograph of a female miner who gave evidence in 1842 and reveals the future lives of some of those who gave evidence to the Royal Commission.

Queen Victoria's Children

Queen Victoria's Children
Author: Van der Kiste
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2011-10-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0752473247
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Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort had nine children who despite their very different characters, remained a close-knit family. Inevitably, as they married into European royal families their loyalties were divided and their lives dominated by political controversy. This is not only the story of their lives in terms of world impact, but also of their own personal achievements, their individual contributions to public life in Britain and overseas and in their roles as the children of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.

Daughter of Darkness - Victoria - Box Set

Daughter of Darkness - Victoria - Box Set
Author: W.J. May
Publisher: Dark Shadow Publishing
Total Pages: 500
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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Only Death Could Stop Her Now Victoria is a Hunter Vampire, one of the last of her kind. She's the best of the best. Book 1 Victoria When Victoria finds out one of her marks is actually her sister she lets her go, only to end up on the wrong side of the council. Forced to prove herself she hunts her next mark, a werewolf. Injured and hungry, she's forced to do what she must to survive. Her actions upset the ancient council and she finds herself now being the one thing she has always despised -- the Hunted. Book 2 Hunted When Victoria finds out one of her marks is actually her sister she let's her go, only to end up on the wrong side of the council. Forced to prove herself she hunts her next mark, a werewolf. Injured and hungry, she is forced to do what she must to survive. Her actions upset the ancient council and she finds herself now being the one thing she has always despised -- the Hunted. Tori has no other option but to run. She's disappointed the Council, attacked and killed an Elder and now Vlad, her abysmal father, is determined to find her. When secrets of the past reveal themselves, she finds herself at a crossroad. Unsure of which way to go, she must trust in other supernaturals to help guide her—something she has never allowed before. Forced to go against other Hunter vampires, she is backed into a corner where her only way out is to fight, or die trying. Book 3 Coveted When Evan is obviously been kidnapped by the Council, Tori will stop at nothing to get him back. At the same time, she's disappointed to learn Malcolm, her old hunting partner, is hot on her trail. Malcolm knows her very well as they worked together for countless decades. He knows her every move and her every hiding spot. She seeks Finns help. Finn has been alive for centuries and has somehow managed to stay completely off the Council's radar by living off the grid. She's confident he can keep her, Eddie, and Trent safe while they come up with a way to get to Evan. Vlad wants her - dead or alive, it seems to no longer matter. Tori will do whatever is needed to keep Evan safe, even if it means coming up against her father and hunting him. Book 4 Twisted Tori's mortal enemy, Vlad Montour, just happens to be the most powerful vampire in the world--and her father. He's got the world's most lethal network of allies, along with a near impenetrable fortress. Trained by him to be a Hunter, she's killed other supernatural creatures for a living. Tori's world is turned upside when she finds herself now being the one hunted. In the past, Tori's lived by the rule: if you love no one, you can't be hurt. Suddenly this rule can no longer hold up. She has a brother to protect, a werewolf she's in love with and is pregnant with his child. Life changes in the blink of an eye. She makes herself a new vow: take out anyone who would hurt the people she loves. The only way to stop Vlad is to beat him at his own game. Except how to you beat someone who never loses? How do you stop an original without dying in the process? How far would you walk through hell, to save the ones you love? This is Tori's story in one complete box collection! Victoria's Journey: Victoria, Huntress, Coveted, and Twisted 4 authors will each take a different daughter born from the Prince of Darkness, Vlad Montour. (Also known as Vlad the Impaler, an evil villain from history) Blair – Chrissy Peebles Jezebel – Kristen Middleton Victoria – W.J. May Lotus – C.J. Pinard Search Terms: shif, paranormal shifter romance, vampires, fantasy witches, fantasy, Young Adult, coming of age, shifter, shifters, coming of, dark fantasy, fantasy new adult, superhero fantasy ebooks, witches, vampires and witches, superhero, paranormal fantasy, paranormal romance, New Adult & College Romance Paranormal, new adult, new adult and college, New Adult & College Romance, w.j. may, chronicles of kerrigan, Tudor, supernatural, England, romance, mystery, tattoos, superpowers, paranormal, boarding school, series, Young Adu, fairy, fae, dwarves, romance paranormal werewolves and shifters, giantss, giants, kings queens