Things are getting worse. The miners get organised. The miners march for food – and the authorities react…
Category Archives: Cornwall in the 1800s
The Cornish Food Riots of 1847: Background and Context
The people are hungry! The miners are rising! A series of five posts on the food riots that erupted in Cornwall throughout the spring and summer of 1847. No town was safe from the starving thousands, and violence regularly broke out…
The Notorious Beatrice Small, Fortune Teller
Beatrice Small made her living telling the fortunes of the gullible folk living in the border country of North Cornwall. Her fanciful tales of spells and hidden fortunes found many willing ears, and she regularly ran foul of the law…
Sister Helen and Saint Barnabas
Sister Helen Phillipps-Treby was Head Nurse and General Manager of St Barnabas Hospital, Saltash, from 1896 to 1951. The span of her career covered some momentous changes in nursing and society, and the way nursing was viewed by this rapidly changing society. The story of Sister Helen is also the story of the early years of St Barnabas Hospital…
War and Emigration: The Family Tree
My own early forays into genealogical research…legends are debunked, myths shattered, and tragedy is uncovered…
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…
Novel: The Camborne Riots of 1873
How I cam to write my fictionalised version of the Camborne Riots of 1873…
Francis Edwards ~ The Cornish Historian 