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Textile mills could no longer hire children under nine, and inspectors enforced it. The figure is taken from UK Parliament, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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The Factory Act of 1833 limited child labour

Textile mills could no longer hire children under nine, and inspectors enforced it The 1833 act applied to textile mills in Britain and set a minimum age of nine, capped hours for older children and required two hours of schooling a day. Its real novelty was enforcement: four paid inspectors with powers to enter premises. Later acts lowered hours further and extended the rules to other trades. It sits in Mondo's history collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Textile mills could no longer hire children under nine, and inspectors enforced it. The figure is taken from UK Parliament, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a history fact?: Yes. It sits on the History shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.