Feb 26, 20215 min‘The St Day Calamity’This week in 1875, on Tuesday 23 February, four oak coffins were carried in a procession of over four thousand people from Tolgullow...
Jan 29, 20214 minA Cornish Tale of Two TowersKeen-eyed travellers coming down the A30 into West Cornwall can spot the tiny hilltop town of St Day from a distance by picking out the...
Aug 26, 20181 minNew Book 'The Married Widows of Cornwall' Now AvailableI'm delighted to announce that my new book based on my research into the wives 'left behind' in Cornwall is now available. Full details...
Feb 13, 20183 minThe beloved brother on HMS VanguardHMS Vanguard – The name stirred a memory. I’d stumbled on a Facebook group (HMS Vanguard 9th July 1917 Lost Crew) that is attempting to...
Sep 27, 20174 minMonument to a lost brideThis graceful marble figure of a young woman was discovered lying face down in the rubble when the interior of the ruined Old Church in...
Jul 8, 20161 minStories of the war dead of St Day, Cornwall revealed in new bookletMy research into the lives of all the men commemorated on the war memorial in the Cornish community of St Day has been published in a new...
Feb 7, 20163 minHistory in an ImageHow is history communicated? I have been thinking about this a lot recently. Partly as a result of being asked to give a lecture to...