Cornish History

A decade ago I wrote a few short articles for a local Cornish magazine. It was an interesting enough task: find out something about the locality and form a 500 word article about it. The first published one focused on a link between the Saltash in Cornwall to the Saltash settled in the American colonies […]

Whilst researching for a short book about the earls of Cornwall I’ve come to the end of the story in 1337 when the earldom was transformed into a duchy. This is the period which I know a bit more about having written an article titled ‘The Cornish Historian & the Black Prince’ that was printed […]

Today – the 27th June – marks the anniversary of the Battle of Blackheath of 1497. It is a mostly forgotten battle that comprised a larger rebellion during the reign of Henry VII, and is usually unknown by many locals in Cornwall itself (this statement is based on my own observations of having lived in […]

As noted in previous blog posts I’ve been busy recently reading deeper into the relationship of the Earls of Cornwall and the royal family of the Normans and Angevins in the 11th-12th centuries. Whilst researching and writing up a new piece I’ve re-read some of my old articles. This was a short piece written for […]

I’ve spent the past week or so revisiting research into the earls of Cornwall during the medieval period. Back in 2011 I wrote an article – ‘A Brief History of the Earls of Cornwall’ – that was published in The Cornish Banner. It was based on a brief overview of the lives of the Cornish […]