Regarding seeing a copy, you might check the House of Lords Record Office.
You can make an appointment to research there.
Andy Cuckson
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
> Keith Ramsey
> Sent: 02 July 2002 17:36
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Royal Commission on Children's Employment of 1842
>
>
> Someone on the list sent me an email asking for further details of this
> Royal Commission report a week or so ago, but due to software
> problems I've
> lost the original message, so I hope Peter won't mind me replying via the
> list - the subject may be of some interest to others anyway.
>
> I've only looked closely at the section dealing with the collieries in the
> Bristol and Somerset area, but, from memory, the report deals with most of
> the coalfields in Britain and a number of metalliferous mining areas.
>
> There are two volumes: the Report itself and an Appendix. They
> contain more
> or less the same information, dealt with by subject in the Report and by
> area in the Appendix. The full details are as follows:-
>
> "Children’s Employment Commission. First Report of the
> Commissioners.
> Mines", PP 1842, XV
>
> "Children’s Employment Commission. Appendix to First Report of the
> Commissioners. Mines. Part II. Report and Evidence from
> Sub-Commissioners",
> PP 1842, XVII
>
> They only deal with those mines which were visited by the
> commissioners and
> consist largely of reports of interviews with named miners. They also give
> some details of owners and numbers employed at the mines.
>
> Getting hold of a copy is likely to be a problem. I've never seen an
> original copy, but they are included in the microfiche edition of
> nineteenth-century British Parliamentary papers published by Chadwyck
> Healey. They were also republished in book form by the Irish University
> Press in the 1960s. The trouble is that it's difficult to find either of
> these except in university libraries or large public libraries.
>
> Keith Ramsey
>
>
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