The industrial revolution was forged with the lives of our ancestors' children.
All over Britain, children and young people toiled for hours every day. Their workplaces were pitch-dark mines, fiery furnaces, brightly-lit mills with deadly machines, and mud-filled brickyards.
Some workers were pauper apprentices, sent thousands of miles from their homes and indentured until the age of twenty-one.
Almost every item in our ancestors'...