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Huskar Pit disaster (1838)
On the Industrial Revolution map as “Huskar Pit, Silkstone”
4 Jul 1838 — A storm floods the ventilation drift of this South Yorkshire colliery and drowns 26 children, the youngest seven years old. The outcry helps produce the Mines Act of 1842.
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- Urbanisation and the Factory Acts (chapter 5 of Industrial Revolution)
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- The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
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