St. Pancras Old Church, located in Central London, is believed to be one of the oldest sites of Christian worship in England. Largely rebuilt in the Victorian era, the church has many notable names in its churchyard, including a memorial tomb to Mary Wollstonecraft.

The Bank of England is the central bank of the U.K., and most modern central banks have been based on it. Established in 1694, it is the world’s 8^th oldest bank. The bank is owned by the U.K.

Located in Paris, the Bibliothèque nationale de France is the national repository of everything published in France. It began in 1368 as the royal library of Charles V in the Louvre Palace.

Although "The Cry of the Children" was written and published in the nineteenth century, its message is still very applicable in our modern world. Pictured is a child laborer in present-day Indonesia. 

"The Cry of the Children" was first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in Edinburgh, Scotland in August of 1843. This is interesting, given that EBB held liberal political views and the magazine was known for typically conservative positions.

Hitting closer to home where this timeline was created at Baylor University (Waco, Texas), this image shows a girl working at Brazos Valley Cotton Mill in West, Texas.  Factories in West employed child laborers as late as 1913.

On 7 August 1843, EBB wrote a letter to her friend R.H. Horne, who had been involved in a Parliamentary commission to investigate factory conditions in Wolverhampton. In this letter, EBB said that "The Cry of the Children" "owes its utterance to your exciting causations," referring to Horne's work as one of the investigators of the factories.

In December of 1847, EBB's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point," a poem also calling for social justice, was published in The Liberty Bell in Boston, Massachusetts.