Working People

Stonemasons, quarriers, seamen, steam laundry workers, crofters, calico packers, power loom weavers, tinsmiths, gamekeepers, carters, shepherds, coachmen, navvies, domestic servants. These are some of the working people whose lives are uncovered by historian James Hunter when he sets out to explore his own and his wife Evelyn's family background. It is a quest that spans three centuries and much o...