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Interested in history?

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

Works in Progress, May 2022