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The 1969 song ''The Testimony of Patience Kershaw''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiPATKRSHW.html |title=Testimony of Patience Kershaw |website=Sniff.numachi.com |date= |access-date=2016-08-09}}</ref> by Frank Higgins (recorded by [[Roy Bailey (folk singer)|Roy Bailey]]<ref>''If I Knew Who the Enemy Was'' Fuse Records CF 284; 1979</ref> and [[The Unthanks]]) is based on the testimony of Patience Kershaw (aged 17) when she spoke to the Children's Employment Commission.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/history/ashley.html |title=Testimony Gathered by Ashley's Mines Commission, 1842 |website=Victorianweb.org |date=2002-09-26 |access-date=2016-08-09}}</ref> Her testimony includes: "The bald place upon my head is made by thrusting the corves ... I hurry the corves a mile and more underground and back; they weigh 3 [[Hundredweight|cwt]] ... The getters that I work for are naked except for their caps ... Sometimes they beat me if I am not quick enough".<ref>Lloyd, A. L. (1975) ''Folk Song in England''. Frogmore: Granada Publishing {{ISBN|0-586-08210-7}}; p. 327</ref> It was published in ''My Song Is My Own'' (compiled by Kathy Henderson, Pluto Press, 1979).<ref>"Although the Honourable Gentlemen of the Commission may have been hearing the shocking news for the first time, contemporary songs and broadsheets, like "The Collier Lass", had made the predicament of the women and children working in the mines common knowledge in the streets."--Henderson, K. et al. ''My Song Is My Own''; pp. 151-52</ref> |
The 1969 song ''The Testimony of Patience Kershaw''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiPATKRSHW.html |title=Testimony of Patience Kershaw |website=Sniff.numachi.com |date= |access-date=2016-08-09}}</ref> by Frank Higgins (recorded by [[Roy Bailey (folk singer)|Roy Bailey]]<ref>''If I Knew Who the Enemy Was'' Fuse Records CF 284; 1979</ref> and [[The Unthanks]]) is based on the testimony of Patience Kershaw (aged 17) when she spoke to the Children's Employment Commission.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/history/ashley.html |title=Testimony Gathered by Ashley's Mines Commission, 1842 |website=Victorianweb.org |date=2002-09-26 |access-date=2016-08-09}}</ref> Her testimony includes: "The bald place upon my head is made by thrusting the corves ... I hurry the corves a mile and more underground and back; they weigh 3 [[Hundredweight|cwt]] ... The getters that I work for are naked except for their caps ... Sometimes they beat me if I am not quick enough".<ref>Lloyd, A. L. (1975) ''Folk Song in England''. Frogmore: Granada Publishing {{ISBN|0-586-08210-7}}; p. 327</ref> It was published in ''My Song Is My Own'' (compiled by Kathy Henderson, Pluto Press, 1979).<ref>"Although the Honourable Gentlemen of the Commission may have been hearing the shocking news for the first time, contemporary songs and broadsheets, like "The Collier Lass", had made the predicament of the women and children working in the mines common knowledge in the streets."--Henderson, K. et al. ''My Song Is My Own''; pp. 151-52</ref> |
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