Category: Yesteryear

After An Gof by Peter Waterfield

I ‘m looking at the dramatic painting by Donald MacLeod called Crossing the Tamar – the Cornish Rebellion. Under flaring torches and waving banners of

Thomas Flamank by PO Munn

The unsung qualify of the 1497 leadership – why we marched for him…. It has been said that the Cornish like arguing a point. Much

Here be Dragons

Despite a number of tales about Danish depredations, and their having a settlement of sorts in Scilly, Cornwall probably saw less of the Norsemen’s incursions