This 1843 report, The Physical and Moral Condition of the Children and Young Persons employed in Mines and Manufactures, is an off-shoot publication from the official Report of the Children’s Employment Commission of 1842.
The official report investigated the state of children working in mines and factories in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and is one of the most important documents in British industrial history. Comprising thousands of pages of oral testimony (sometimes from children as young as five), the report’s findings shocked society and swiftly led to legislation to secure minimum safety standards in mines and factories, as well as general controls on the employment of children.
From industrialisation to slavery, Dr Simon Avery looks at the 19th century social and political issues that fed into Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry.
George Norton shows how William Blake’s Chimney Sweeper poems highlight the injustice and brutality suffered by child chimney sweeps in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) completed this controversial nine-book novel in blank verse form in 1856. It ...
A two-volume anthology, Poems, by Elizabeth Barrett, later Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was published in 1844, to ...
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