Harrowing lives of children sent to work in English mills revealed in first study of kind

Research on remains of 19th-century ‘pauper apprentices’ shows bodies riddled with disease, in study that resonates today

Scientists have found the first direct evidence of the harrowing and wrecked lives of children in the early 19th century who were transported from cities such as London to work in rural northern England cotton mills.

Academics at Durham University have published research from a project examining the skeletal remains of “pauper apprentices” found in a rural North Yorkshire graveyard.

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