Reading time: one minute Wishing all my subscribers a very happy 2026! The previous year for me was: 20 new posts 37,000 website views Over one million social media views 39 new website subscribers Six interviews Three presentations (Redruth School, Institute of Cornish Studies, Trevithick Society), and Several chapters of a co-authored book on theContinue reading “Happy New Year!”
Author Archives: TheCornishHistorian
Cornish Rugby’s England Trialists, 1919 to 1939
The stories of the Cornishmen who excelled at rugby, yet were never given the opportunity to play for England…
Roll of Honour ~ Camborne School of Mines RFC
The stories of the Camborne mining students who laid down their lives in World War One…
The Polruan School Strike of 1922
Child strikers take to the streets of the Cornish village of Polruan…
John Hicks Sobey and the Duke of Cornwall’s Cup, 1868
How a long-lost piece of Cornish sporting history was discovered in California…
Joseph Menear and Cornish Wrestling in London
The story of Cornishman Joseph Menear, London’s champion wrestler of Cornwall and Devon during the 1860s…
Cornwall’s Rugby Codebreakers: Part Two
From the 1920s to the present, the stories of the Cornish rugby union players who switched codes and joined the rugby league…
Cornwall’s Rugby Codebreakers: Part One
From the 1890s to World War One, the stories of all Cornwall’s rugby union players who switched codes and joined the northern union…
Cornish Sporting Heroes, #6: Gerry Cawley, Champion Wrestler
An interview with Cornishman Gerry Cawley, champion Cornish wrestler for over 25 years…
Survey ~ The Last Days of Holmans
Survey time: 5 minutes On July 16, I present a paper to the Institute of Cornish Studies entitled ‘The Last Days of Holmans’. I intend it to tell the story of the 500 redundancies the firm made in 1985, the demolition of the Number One Works in 1989 (and subsequent erecting of a large supermarket),Continue reading “Survey ~ The Last Days of Holmans”
Francis Edwards ~ The Cornish Historian 