No relief in Helston. Little in Penzance. Matters get ugly when 3,000 starving people arrive in Pool. Part three of The Cornish Food Riots of 1847…
Category Archives: Riots and Social Unrest
Rise of the Miners: The Food Riots of 1847, Part Two
Things are getting worse. The miners get organised. The miners march for food – and the authorities react…
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…
In Search of An Gof, Conclusion: An Gof Today?
What of extreme Cornish Nationalist groups and their activities today?
In Search of An Gof, part three: The Two An Gofs
The historic An Gof and the group known as ‘An Gof’: does the use of his name by the 1980s extremists corrupt An Gof’s memory, or are the two ‘An Gofs’ more alike than mainstream pro-Cornish activists would like to admit?
In Search of An Gof, part two: Person or Persons Unknown
The extremist activities of the 1980s ‘An Gof’ group laid bare and analysed…
In Search of An Gof: Cornish Extremism, 1980-1990, and Beyond
A controversial series of four posts from November 2021. What was the story behind the alleged attacks of the ‘An Gof’ group in the 1980s? Why do Cornish nationalists get offended at the perceived tarnishing of the historical An Gof by the group’s use of his name? Is An Gof’s reputation as a Cornish martyr justified? Is there a version of ‘An Gof’ today?
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 