# @wild_history_uk on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DaAkPNJKlRF
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67082641-wild-history-uk-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/4c2277a29e.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-06-25T12:28:42.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Wild History Shocking Stories From the Past (@wild_history_uk) — https://gondola.cc/wild_history_uk

## Caption

She was six when she started work in a Leeds flax mill. By thirteen, her body was deformed.

Elizabeth Bentley worked from 5am to 9pm — strapped when she slowed, beaten when late. The work bent her bones: “I pulled my bones out of their places,” she told Parliament in 1832. Workers who gave evidence were sacked for it. The law that followed came too late for her.

#ForgottenHistory #BritishHistory #SocialHistory

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## Tags

socialhistory, forgottenhistory, britishhistory

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