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?
Category Archives: Riots and Social Unrest
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…
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…
Francis Edwards ~ The Cornish Historian 