Author: John Fox
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557001668
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Author: John G. Little
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781976505546
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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This is a tale of what might have taken place. It is fiction, though it is shot through with many historical facts. I came across a real story in a real photograph which forms the frontispiece of this book; or rather two real stories that interwove into a tale worth telling, and in both stories most of the people were real. They lived, they breathed, they walked under the sun and saw out their lives as we all do. But beyond that I have put words into their mouths, ascribed actions to them that they probably never took and made them interact in ways they may never have done. On the other hand, they may have done all of these things and the fact is that no-one alive today knows whether they did or not; their lives are mostly a blank sheet. So in telling their story I set them as far as I could into the world of their day and made the detail of their everyday lives real, though I have tried to treat them with respect. If my characters go to a shop, then be assured, that shop existed. In the visiting of a theatre, that also existed; the playbill is composed of acts of the time. If they catch a train at a station, though closed for 100 years, that station was there; many of the small details in my book may be searched for and found in books and on the internet should anyone care to do so. Not all of my characters are real, for it was necessary to invent some for story purposes. Nonetheless, they are of their time also; I have tried to make it so that my audience can enter into the age in which this story is set, even in minutiae, and in some way, though through a glass darkly, to see the world as it was then. It is my hope that the reader enjoys the result.

Author: Daughters of the American Revolution
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Author: Anthony Annakin-Smith
Publisher: University of Chester
ISBN: 1910481661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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The extraordinary story of the two early collieries at Neston, in west Cheshire, has been largely overlooked by historians. Yet, for a time the main coal mine, Ness Colliery, was more successful than most of its contemporaries in nearby south-west Lancashire and North Wales. It was the first large industrial site in west Cheshire and introduced the area’s earliest steam engine.

Author: Joseph W. Dally
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: Alan Gallop
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752469274
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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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 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.

Author: Parish Register Society (London, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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Author: Eng. Parish Monk Fryston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monk Fryston (West Riding of Yorkshire, England : Parish)
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Author: Yorkshire Parish Register Society, Leeds
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1080

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