The tragic story of a Lostwithiel Town Sergeant’s death at the hands of a British soldier…
Category Archives: Cornwall in the 1800s
The Grampound Potwallopers: Corruption in Georgian Cornwall
A major parliamentary scandal in Georgian Cornwall…
Who Killed ‘Judas’ Penrose?
How a Cornishman came to America, started a newspaper, and got involved in trade unions, politics, masonic lodges, racial tension, married women…and paid the ultimate price…
The Camborne Riots of 1873: Part Two
Concluding the violent story of the biggest anti-police riot in Cornish history…
The Camborne Riots of 1873: Part One
150 years ago, the people of Camborne took part in the biggest anti-police riot in Cornish history…
Camborne~Redruth: The Oldest Continual Rugby Fixture in the World? Part One
Cornwall’s greatest sporting rivalry? The world’s oldest sporting rivalry? Here is the warts-and-all account of a great Cornish rugby tradition…
Camborne’s Feast Day Rugby
The story of how Camborne Feast led to the birth of its rugby club, and how the ‘Feast Monday’ fixture became one of the biggest games of the season!
The Wheal Agar Disaster of 1883
The harrowing true story of one of the worst disasters in Cornish mining history…
Murder, Debt, Riot: Richard Holloway, Redruth Solicitor
The career of a local solicitor laid bare, with an overview of his cases, financial problems, and harrowing family tragedy…
The Man Who Photographed the Miners: J. C. Burrow in Cornwall and Wales
Part two. Who was the man who photographed the miners? How did he do it? What risks did he take? Didn’t he always operate in Cornwall? Read the story behind the stunning photographs of Cornish and Welsh mining in the 1800s, by John Charles Burrow…
Francis Edwards ~ The Cornish Historian 