One of the most deplorable uses of child labour in 19th century Ireland was for the sweeping of chimneys. A master sweep would obtain very young boys, some as young as seven, to train as apprentice…
Source: Dublin’s 19th Century Sweep School | Vintage Treasures
A Historic England Blog
Updates from the Archive on WordPress
My experiences of my time sleeping rough on the streets of North east England
Free full-color vintage illustrations in the public domain! Curated from postcards, books, ads, and more antique media from the 19th to early 20th-century.
Ranting from the chalkface
Exploring the spidery corners of a culture and the weird stuff that tourist brochures ignore.
Art and the philosophy of life
Equality, cats, and tea.
Ruth's Old Movie Reviews
All things Music Hall...
Mainly about history.
💙I moved to my new site. Link is below! Please come say hello
david rosenberg
How can we improve our future if we don't understand the past?
A Blog about Music and Popular Culture
This site has been designed to provide reports together with news events as they happen when they happen across the world of bloggers and news sites
Wedding & Events Saxophonist - Isle of Wight & Hampshire
Books, Reviews and bookish thoughts
Writer - Author - Historian
Supporting the next generation of professional theatre practitioners
The site for 'Madcap Mabel' - Mabel Normand
The site for and by adults with ADHD
How can we improve our future if we don't understand the past?
Anne Clare explores the world of writing, one stolen minute at a time.
How can we improve our future if we don't understand the past?
How can we improve our future if we don't understand the past?
How can we improve our future if we don't understand the past?
Hear me roar. Writer, mother, actress, maker of beautiful things, witch. Not taking any more shit and neither should you.
Dedicated to Women Pilots of the Solent
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, Doctor Who,
Working Class History anniversaries every day
Yoga classes and aromatherapy products in Andalusia, Spain.
LOIS BRYAN Photography and Digital Art
How can we improve our future if we don't understand the past?
How can we improve our future if we don't understand the past?
Historical Fiction with a touch of Romance
Writer, Author & Maker of Mischief
Subject to change.
"Nothing Exceeds Like Superfluous Jejunity "
How can we improve our future if we don't understand the past?
Reblogged this on Jean Reinhardt and commented:
Thanks to Sarah for sharing this image. Sadly, many children are still being exploited today.
LikeLike
Will we ever see an end to the exploitation of children? I did a post about Mother Jones this week. She organized a children’s march from Philadelphia to New York and made this exploitation a national news topic and yet, here we are, over a century later, with the same atrocities still taking place. I’ve never seen this particular photo, thanks for sharing it, Sarah.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sad, yet but one of stories of cruelty and child labor. In my own state of Massachusetts, there were the mills.
LikeLiked by 1 person
This reminded me of Kingsley’s The Water Babies. That book fascinated me as a child.
Best wishes, Pete.
LikeLiked by 1 person