Mass unemployment in 1930s, Depression-era Cornwall gave rise to rugby teams for those out of work…
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John Jackett’s Ghost: Cornish Rugby and the 1928 County Championship
The seldom told story of the Cornwall rugby team’s 1927/28 County Championship campaign, and how close they came to glory…
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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…
Francis Edwards ~ The Cornish Historian 