rugby – Francis Edwards ~ The Cornish Historian

Sport on the Dole: Cornwall’s Unemployed Rugby Clubs

Mass unemployment in 1930s, Depression-era Cornwall gave rise to rugby teams for those out of work…

The seldom told story of the Cornwall rugby team’s 1927/28 County Championship campaign, and how close they came to glory…

The stories of the Cornishmen who excelled at rugby, yet were never given the opportunity to play for England…

The stories of the Camborne mining students who laid down their lives in World War One…

From the 1920s to the present, the stories of the Cornish rugby union players who switched codes and joined the rugby league…