Title: Children of coal and iron
Description: Looks at the social and economic background to the rapidly growing iron and coal industries in Scotland during the 1800s. Includes eyewitness accounts from the Coal Report of 1842 which illustrate the conditions under which children worked and lived. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, junior secondary.
Subjects: Coal mines and mining, Child labor, History, Iron mines and mining
Places: Scotland
Time periods: 19th century