Edexcel paper 3 a-level history notes which summarises the chapter of the world of childhood from the textbook. The table is condensed quickfire notes highlighting statistics and is most useful for triggering key information for the exam.
Lime wash of factory 2x a year
working hours of 12 hrs reading
writing arithmetic Sunday
Health and morals of 1802 peel after outbreak of
religious instruction Success:
apprentices act cholera 20,000 paupers in mills
progressive step ca: only to
apprentices no inspectors, so
employers can avoid
conditions before: children 6 yrs Hurried- children 10-14 pull
Conditions of the mines before
half naked women working carts Thruster- youngest (led to
he act
alongside men underground premature balding)
Interviewed children and women
1842 Following an accident at
Lord Ashley and the mines act of the mines made
Huskar Colliery 26 killed
recommendations of reofrm
Real motive of victorian sense
of conversative morality and
1842 No female employees
propreity vs the sympathetic
underground no child under 10
Mines act attitude to children or huskar
parish apprentices 10+ can
Ensured that scandalous practice
continue
wouldn’t continue Victoria and
Albert morality
Negative impact Womens Opposed by duke of wellington
livelihoods slashed children most powerful coal mine 1,000
Limitations of the mines act
couldnt bring extra income to women lost employment in
family scotland
1841 country workforce on land
Land workers
22%
nomadic lifestyles damaging
Not okay in Victorian England
children no regular home life
developing sympathetic attitude
Agricultural gang act reasons develop uncivilised behaviour
to childhood greater sense of
unriuly behaviour and gang
morality
master exploitation
Agricultural gangs act 1867 No child under 8 no women in If breached gangmasters fired
public gang gangmasters to be could be fined 20 shillings/
World of childhood 1
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