WHY CORNELIUS STOTT CHANGED HIS NAME

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Peter Saunders meets his family. Agricultural labourers from Essex, Lincolnshire and the Scottish borders, hat-makers, pin-headers, shoemakers and coal miners from Gloucestershire, cotton spinners, weavers and piecers from the slums of industrial Lancashire, illiterate Irish peasants from County Cork, rag-pickers, charwomen, abandoned wives and prostitutes, soldiers who died in the Flanders mud and were never found, soldiers who made it home broken men, children sent to convalescent homes and old people dying in the workhouse. Reading their stories is like reading a potted history of the common people of these islands over the last three hundred years. These are the shadowy people who dug the coal that fuelled the industrial revolution, the people who wove and spun the yarn that clothed the world, the people who planted and harvested the crops that fed the cities, the people who fashioned our modern world. They were the unnamed, unrecorded heroes on whose shoulders we now perch.