
Welcome to my website and blog.
An excellent addition to Cornwall’s literary landscape ~ @CornishStuff
A Cornish writer-for-hire, specialising in:
~ Social history
~ Social unrest
~ Crime
~ The Industrial Revolution and Mining
~ Cornish culture
~ Genealogy
~ Sport
Fore Street, Redruth, 1870s. From Kresen Kernow, ref. corn0584
Are you:

Cornish?
Or do you:

Live in Cornwall?
And are you:

Interested in history?
THEN YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE!
Contact/commission me if…
- You are an editor for an historical journal.
- Require an article/essay on Cornish history.
- Have an event from Cornwall’s past you would like investigated.
- Have an historical incident from your Cornish town/village that you want researched.
- Would like your Cornish sporting club’s history researched and/or written.
- Require assistance with your Family Tree.
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The Food Riots of 1847: Reader’s Responses:
- …as always very very interesting…
- Absolutely mind blowing…why aren’t we taught this in school?
- So much I was never told when a child in Redruth…
- Your articles are so educating…
- …it’s absolutely amazing reading about our history…
Many thanks to all of you!
In Search of An Gof: Recent Responses:
My quartet of posts on the topic of An Gof divided opinion…
…well balanced and fair…Excellent, well-written, and thought provoking…Thanks for your research. I’m interested…Love this…
…I am disgusted…I am less than impressed…
Thanks to all for reading!
Blog contents:
Cornwall Writer, 06/09/21
Website: The Camborne Riots of 1873, 07/09/21
Novel: The Camborne Riots of 1873, 09/09/21
Chapter Reading & Synopsis: The Camborne Riots of 1873, 13/09/21
A Cornish Wife Sale, 14/09/21
War and Emigration: The Family Tree, 19/09/21
Murder, Debt, Riot: Richard Holloway, Redruth Solicitor, 10/10/21
In Search of An Gof: Cornish Extremism, 1980-1990, part one, 2/11/21
In Search of An Gof, part two: Person or Persons Unknown, 3/11/21
In Search of An Gof, part three: The Two An Gofs, 4/11/21
In Search of An Gof, Conclusion: An Gof Today?, 5/11/21
Sister Helen and Saint Barnabas, 5/12/21
The Notorious Beatrice Small, Fortune Teller, 20/12/21
The Cornish Food Riots of 1847: Background and Context, 9/1/22
Rise of the Miners: The Food Riots of 1847, Part Two, 16/1/22
Commotion Time: Pool, June 4, 1847: The Cornish Food Riots, Part Three, 23/1/22
Hellfire Corner: Redruth: The Cornish Food Riots, Part Four, 30/1/22
The Fugitive: James Jewell: A Prologue to Part Five of The Cornish Food Riots, 5/2/22
Trouble in Clay Country: The Food Riots of 1847, Part Five, 6/2/22
They Died With Their Shoes On: The Career of Paul Rabey the Younger, Part One, 20/3/22
Paul Rabey and the False Imprisonment: They Died With Their Shoes On, Part Two, 27/3/22
The Two Paul Rabeys: They Died With Their Shoes On, Part Three, 3/4/22
Paul Rabey and the Bristol Con: They Died With Their Shoes On, Part Four, 9/4/22
Paul Rabey and The Foreign Girls’ Protection Society: They Died With Their Shoes On, Part Five, 17/4/22
About my work
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