Provides an overdue and much-needed re-examination of the factory girl and child labour from the Industrial Revolution to 1900.
Paul Chrystal was educated at the Universities of Hull and Southampton where he took degrees in Classics. He is contributor to a number of history magazines and the author of over 120 books published since 2010. He has contributed to a 6-part series for BBC2 celebrating the history of some of Britain's most iconic craft industries'. In 2019 he took over the history editorship of Yorkshire Archaeological Journal'. He was part of the research team for a 2022 episode of Who do you think you are?' and is working for Mars Confectionary UK's on their 90th anniversary in 2022. Paul is married with three children and lives near York.