Category Archives: Cornwall in the 1800s

Chapter Reading & Synopsis: The Camborne Riots of 1873

A chapter reading of my fictionalised version of The Camborne Riots of 1873. This recording contains some offensive language…

Posted byTheCornishHistorianSep 13, 2021Sep 12, 2022Posted inCornwall in the 1800s, Mining and the Industrial Revolution, Riots and Social UnrestLeave a comment on Chapter Reading & Synopsis: The Camborne Riots of 1873

Novel: The Camborne Riots of 1873

How I cam to write my fictionalised version of the Camborne Riots of 1873…

Posted byTheCornishHistorianSep 9, 2021Sep 12, 2022Posted inCornwall in the 1800s, Mining and the Industrial Revolution, Riots and Social UnrestLeave a comment on Novel: The Camborne Riots of 1873

Website: The Camborne Riots of 1873

this tells the story of one of the greatest displays of defiance in Cornish history. Drunken miners, beaten policemen, a mob on the march, vandalism, violence…and I even dedicated an entire website to it here…

Posted byTheCornishHistorianSep 7, 2021Sep 12, 2022Posted inCornwall in the 1800s, Mining and the Industrial Revolution, Riots and Social UnrestLeave a comment on Website: The Camborne Riots of 1873

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