Common People

Stephen Ellcock is a London-based online collector and curator of images, writer, researcher and former musician and bookseller who spends most of his time nowadays creating an ever-expanding, virtual museum on Facebook and Instagram. His ongoing attempt at creating the ultimate social media ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ has so far attracted more than 350,000 followers and increasing media attention, not all of which is unwelcome.

"Common People is a unique and truly magnificent book, from its luminous art images, to its sharp, probing essays, to its enduring love for the commoners past and present who are its subject — a monument to the vanquished and a monument of “history from below.” Three cheers!"– Marcus Rediker, co-author of The Many-Headed Hydra"It is a major achievement by any measure, and it does what all great books do, it encourages our humanity."– Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution and Brief Encounters with Che Guevara