Synopsis
Using animation and actual recorded testimony, historian Jane Humphries tells the story of the child workers whose exploitation was key to the success of the Industrial Revolution.
- Programme: The Children Who Built Victorian Britain
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2011
- History
Licence: ERA Licence required
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