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Rugby was officially cancelled between 1939 and 1945, but that didn’t stop the people of Cornwall from playing the game. Here is the largely untold story of Cornish rugby during the war years…
Cornish Rugby During World War Two
On this date…
...25 June 1886: a mob paraded effigies of a man and a woman through the streets of Camborne and Pool, before burning them atop Carn Brea…
Effigy Burning in 1800s Cornwall
Coming soon…a major new study…
My most recent…
Cornish Sporting Heroes, #7: Ken Plummer
Sport on the Dole: Cornwall’s Unemployed Rugby Clubs
John Jackett’s Ghost: Cornish Rugby and the 1928 County Championship
Cornish Rugby’s England Trialists, 1919 to 1939
Fore Street, Redruth, 1870s. From Kresen Kernow, ref. corn0584
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…wonderful, accessible, high-quality content…extremely well written and researched, uncovering and retelling some of the amazing and curious stories relating to Cornwall’s heritage…
Terry Bracher, Judging Panel, Alan Ball Local History Awards, 2024
Francis Edwards ~ The Cornish Historian 