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The 1844 Factory Act limited the working hours for women and young people aged 14 to 18 to 12 hours per day.

The 1833 Factory Act limited the work of young people aged 14 to 18 to a maximum of 12 hours per day.

Lord Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley-Cooper) was a prominent reformer who led the commission investigating the employment of women and children in mines.

The 1833 Factory Act was significant because it appointed four paid inspectors to ensure the new regulations were actually being followed.

The 1842 Mines Act prohibited the employment of all women and girls, as well as boys under the age of ten, in underground mine work.

The 1847 Factory Act is famously known as the Ten-Hour Act because it limited the working hours of women and young people in textile factories to ten hours per day.

The 1844 Factory Act was the first to mandate that dangerous machinery must be fenced or guarded to prevent accidents to workers.

Cholera first arrived in England in 1831, spreading from the port of Sunderland. This outbreak marked the beginning of several major cholera epidemics in the 19th century.

The 1867 Factory Extension Act expanded the scope of factory legislation to include smaller workshops, specifically those employing 50 or more workers.

The 1850 Factory Act (often referred to as the Ten Hours Act amendment) established the legal working day for women and young persons as 6 am to 6 pm.