$A picture of\'Fy Hanes i: Merch y Felin - Dyddiadur Eliza Helstead, Manceinion, 1842-1843\'$

ISBN: 9781843233572

Price: £4.99

Department: Children, Children Factual, History, KS2 (7-11 yrs), KS3 (11-14 yrs)

Format: Paperback

Language: Welsh

No. of pages: 208

Reading age: 9-13

Fy Hanes i: Merch y Felin - Dyddiadur Eliza Helstead, Manceinion, 1842-1843

Dyddiadur Eliza Helstead, Manceinion, 1842-1843

Sue Reid

A Welsh adaptation of Mill Girl, the diary (1842-43) of a 13 year old girl who has to leave school to work in a Manchester cotton mill, her words reflecting the hardship and danger of work in the mills, people's grave living conditions, strikes and the political unrest of the Chartist uprising. 10 black-and-white illustrations.