George Smith
George Smith was a manager of the Whitwick Colliery Company Tileries in Leicestershire, England during the nineteenth century, who campaigned against industrial child labour. Smith highlighted the plight of children employed in the Leicestershire and Derbyshire brickyards of mid-Victorian England, some of whom were as young as eight years old and worked for up to seventy-five hours a week.
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Gipsy Life Being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement
Discover the untold stories of a marginalized people and one man's fight to bring awareness to their struggles and call for change.
By George Smith
I've been a Gipsying or, Rambles among our Gipsies and their children in their tents and vans
Venture into the hidden world of 19th-century England's gipsy communities, as seen through the eyes of an observer determined to expose the hardships and joys of their children's lives.
By George Smith