Christina Longden

Robert Stanley was a respectable, northern working-class Victorian man who converted to Islam. But his family managed to keep his Muslim identity a secret – for nearly a century. Robert grew up in the cradle of Bri...

He witnessed first-hand the Industrial Revolution, Chartist uprisings, the Lancashire Cotton Famine and the anti-Irish Murphy Riots and he was even called to Parliament in 1869 to give evidence about the need for th...