Child strikers take to the streets of the Cornish village of Polruan…
Category Archives: Riots and Social Unrest
Death or Victory: The Bodmin Jail Riot of 1827
Penal treadwheels were a terrifying instrument of punishment, and Bodmin Jail’s was especially bad…
Effigy Burning in 1800s Cornwall
Nobody was safe from the Cornish cult of effigy burning: criminals, perverts, landlords, mine-owners…
Book Review: Mine to Die, by Rob Donovan
Reading time: 5 minutes Mine to Die, by Rob Donovan Troubadour Publishing, 2024 218 pages, 27 images £9.99 Rob Donovan has given us a compelling and moving whistle-stop tour of Cornwall’s industrial history. It is not, I hasten to add, a comprehensive history; readers are here directed to A. K. Hamilton Jenkin, John Rowe, andContinue reading “Book Review: Mine to Die, by Rob Donovan”
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…
The Cornish Butter Boycott of 1920
A cost of living crisis, low wages, high unemployment, militant Trades’ Unions, strikes, a county-wide boycott, protests in Penzance, and a riot in Redruth…
Trouble in Clay Country: The Food Riots of 1847, Part Five
The rioters finally meet their match in St Austell. Bayonets at the ready…
The Fugitive: James Jewell: A Prologue to Part Five of the Food Riots of 1847
A rioter on the run…who did he see? Who did he speak to? Did he escape?
Hellfire Corner: Redruth: The Cornish Food Riots, Part Four
Violence, looting, and arrests in Redruth as the miners and militia face off…continuing The Cornish Food Riots of 1847…
Francis Edwards ~ The Cornish Historian 