The Mines and Collieries Act, which prohibited females and children below the age of ten from working underground in mines, became law #OnThisDay 1842. Before the Act, women and children worked underground for 11 or 12 hours a day for smaller wages than men. pic.twitter.com/g2vmbxWYw8
— English Radical History (@EnglishRadical) August 10, 2021

