She was six years old, and she’d already walked miles to reach the fields. In Victorian East Anglia, gangmasters hired out women and children to the farms for pennies — working dawn to dusk in all weather, children as young as six among them. It was cheaper than hiring men, so the law said nothing for years. Who was the law really built to protect? #BritishHistory #ForgottenHistory #VictorianHistory #SocialHistory #HiddenHistory