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Sep 21, 2017 · Following reports of women and children being killed in coal mining accidents at work, commissioners like Scriven headed into mines to see for themselves, and were appalled by what they found.
- Natasha Frost
Sep 21, 2017 · Few other mines outside of Wigan had women customarily wearing trousers, and seem proud to have shaken off this moral affront. Scottish women miners were said to “dress like ordinary females, they do not dress like the Wigan ladies,” while the inspector for South Wales described the local women there as “respectably dressed.”
Oct 3, 2012 · The scandal of female miners in 19th-century Britain. Images of topless women and girls working down mines caused a furore when they appeared in the British press over 170 years ago. However, as Denise Bates explains, accusations of immorality did not reflect the true situation. Published: October 3, 2012 at 9:48 AM.
Jan 26, 1996 · Two Women Miners - From Great Britain, Parliamentary Papers, 1842, Vol. XV, p. 84, and ibid., Vol. XVII, p. 108. Betty Harris, age 37: I was married at 23, and went into a colliery when I was married. I used to weave when about 12 years old; can neither read nor write.
- Mining Booms
- A Miner’S Life
- What The Miners Wore
To understand the garments of the late-1800s and more importantly, the folks who wore them, we must take a moment to appreciate the incredible mining booms that happened on the West Coast of the United States. Though the most famous is probably the Gold Rush in California, which basically put San Francisco on the map, there were a number of other r...
Miners’ lives in the late-1800s were absurdly dangerous, large in part because many technologies we now take for granted hadn’t yet been invented. Even outside of the mines, life was uncertain. We can see today, from the ghost towns scattered across former silver and gold country, how folks followed the bonanzas and how later, these towns withered ...
A man named Jacob Davis was one of the tailors who followed the silver frenzy eastward into Nevada. His small, but thriving shop catered to the local miners who blew through pants at a breakneck pace. Davis’ shop in Reno specialized in made-to-order work pants for men too large for the ready-made stuff coming from San Francisco. As the legend goes,...
Dec 7, 2021 · The London papers reported this and it came to the attention of Queen Victoria who put pressure on the Prime Minister to hold an inquiry into the working conditions of women and children in mines and factories. Charles Dickens also expressed his great concern after visiting mines for himself.
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Mar 24, 2015 · Actor William Hart plays a blue jean-wearing Western hero in a silent film. It's believed that his fame also made the jeans famous. 1918. Levi Strauss & Co. makes its first denim garment for...
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