CHILDREN OF THE DARK tells the story of Queen Victoria's invisible subjects - women and children who laboured beneath the 'green and pleasant land' harvesting coal to fuel the furnaces of the industrial revolution.
Alan Gallop recreates the events surrounding the 1838 Huskar Pit disaster a Silkstone. This powerful and dramatic account exposes the real lives and working conditions of ninenteenth-century miners. Appealing to those interested in the Victorian laboring classes, in the effects of the industrial revolution and in social reform, this gripping human story brings history, particularly the history of childhood to life.
ALAN GALLOP is an author, journalist, PR consultant and teacher. He has links to South Yorkshire, close to Silkstone, as many of his maternal relatives worked for the collieries until their closure in the 1980s. His books include the acclaimed Buffalo Bill's British Wild West (Sutton, 2001).