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Events on Wednesday 10 August 1842 1
1842Mines and Collieries ActBritain bans women and young children from underground workParliament passed the Mines and Collieries Act after a royal commission report shocked the public with accounts of child labour in mines. The Act banned all women and girls, and boys under ten, from working underground. It also introduced inspectors of mines.