Ertach Kernow Articles 2020 & 2021
Ertach Kernow - Cornish Historic, Cultural & Environmental Blogs
Cornish Historic, Cultural & Environmental articles will be added weekly on an ongoing basis. The links are to articles written for the Voice, Cornish Times and Cornish & Devon Post newspapers, aimed at audiences who are interested in aspects of Cornwall's heritage. The website articles may include expanded information and images that newspaper space did not allow.
Recent past articles are now in a slider allowing a quicker and wider view of some from the past few months - Just click the relevant article to go to the page. For desktop users arrows are at the far left & right to navigate images, click to open. For mobile device users swipe left until you reach the image then tap to open, the title will often appear slightly before the image. All the articles can still be seen via the Thumbnails and Index pages through these blue links, or via Homepage and header index.
July to December 2020
- How Truro came to be the capital city of Cornwall - The transfer of power through the ages
- Visionary who engineered a great chapter in Cornish history - Joseph Thomas Treffry
- Let's step out of lockdown into a history mystery - Cornish heritage sites administered by Cornwall Heritage Trust
- Turner's travels over Tamar tell Cornwall's story - J M W Turner's visit to Cornwall and his artwork
- Nostalgic Ride to a Land of Legend - Some Cornish tales and legends
- The Place names that help unlock our past history - The importance of place names in Cornwall's past
- Historic homes reveal dramatic family histories - Houses with Cornish family histories - Lanhydrock, Trerice, Cotehele
- Backtracking to our railway past - Cornwall and its railway beginnings
- Bude - Growth of a thriving resort town - Bude, its canal and its growth
- Cornwall’s great global Diaspora - Emigration leads to Cornish descendents throughout the world
- Villages guard clues to our heritage - Bodmin Moor's villages
- Storytellers will help keep alive Cornish identity - Gorsedh Kernow 2020
- Net profits for our old coastal communities - Fishing in Cornwall an overview
- Summercourt Fair well worth a nostalgic visit - The origins of Summercourt fair
- Enduring legacy of Cornwall's great benefactor - John Passmore Edwards
- How Tragedy at sea devastated lives left behind - Great storm of October 1880
- The father of local English history - John Leland his Cornish itinerary Launceston-Bodmin-Truro
- Lostwithiel - Rich layer of town's history - Lostwithiel historic capital of Cornwall
- In touch with our Celtic Festivals - Lowender Peran
- Landscape and legend entwined - Dozmary Pool
- Huge contribution to our culture - Cornish Archaeological Legend - Lt Col F C Hirst
- The marvel that's beneath our feet- The Great County Adit
- Revealing the Face of Tudor Cornwall - John Norden
- Inside Britain's Oldest Home - Penfound Manor
- Medieval Marvels Light up our Lives - Medieval Cornish church stained glass windows
- Cornwall at Christmas - Christmas past from the newspapers
- Wreck of the Anson - A wreck that changed attitudes and the law
January to June 2021
- Greatest living Cornishman - Sir Arthur Quiller Couch 'Q'
- Preserving our holy ground - Cornish holy wells, recording and preserving them
- Fishing Smugglers and Wrecks - Stories of Mullion Cove
- Unlocking our past Cornwall's Canal Heritage - Overview of Cornwall canal's, built, not completed, planned and imagined
- Taking the High Ground - Bodmin's ancient hillforts - Castle Canyke and Dunmere
- Bridges battle for survival – Respryn Bridge - History and present day survival issues
- Miners toiled in the wake of St Piran - Mining in Perranporth
- Making a song and dance about us - Overview of some of Cornwall's cultural and historic heritage
- Lighting up the 'Age of the Saints' - St Petroc, Cornwall's medieval patron saint
- Amongst Mines and Miners - The work & achievements of J C Burrow, Camborne Photographer
- Rise and fall of our most iconic mine Botallack - Poldark, Royal visits and tunnels under the sea. The story of Botallack
- Roads to Fortune - Carrick Roads and the towns and settlements surrounding Cornwall's mighty waterway
- In the footsteps of Defoe - 18th century author of Robinson Crusoe tours Cornwall
- Britain's most beautiful branch line - St Erth to St Ives railway in the footsteps of Cyril Noall
- Brunel opens gateway to Cornwall - Saltash the opening of the Royal Albert Bridge and Cornwall Railway 1859
- Exploring the land of legend - Story Collectors & Storytellers
- A salute to the great Trevithick - An overview of Richard Trevithick a great Cornishman, his life and achievements
- Cornish Routes - Road development, turnpikes and toll-roads
- Called to the court of the king - Archaeology and the making of Tintagel as a destination
- The Newlyn Riots 125 years on - Religion and price of fish led to rioting in Newlyn
- Shining light in the darkness - Penzance's great son, Sir Humphry Davy
- Feisty travels with Celia - Early tour around Cornwall c1698 with Celia Fiennes
- The sky's the limit - Area of outstanding natural beauty AONB - Bodmin Moor
- Keep it Kernewek - Speak Cornish Week events and Cornish language
- A name perpetual - The Cornish uprising 1497 and dissatisfaction today
- Celtic Culture - International Celtic Congress and contribution from Celtic Congress Cornwall
July to December 2021
- On the edge - The Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall
- Taxing Times, Cornwall's historic hundreds 'Stratton' - Background on the hundreds and first of nine - Stratton.
- Tudor Travels - John Leland around the Roseland Peninsula c1542
- River Journey's - The River Camel historic aspects
- For those in Peril - Saving life on the North Cornish coast before the RNLI lifeboats
- Fancy a pint? - Pubs in mid and west Cornwall, visited and written about by Arthur Caddick Cornish poet
- Portrait of a Parish - Botus Fleming Cornwall's second smallest parish
- Churches endure the ravages of time and man - Cury Church & Gunwalloe Church
- An idyllic scene - Visit to St Clements village and burial in Truro
- Opening up - Heritage Open Days in Cornwall - including many links
- Literary giant had powerful roots in Cornwall - Sir William Golding Cornish ancestry
- Full steam ahead - Early guidebooks to Cornwall
- Tall tower, deep roots - Probus church, schools and historic houses
- Legacies in stone - Early farming & Cornish hedges
- The Levant Disaster - The why's and wherefores of the Levant Man Engine disaster of 1919
- Crossing the Tamar - Opening of the Tamar Road Bridge 60th anniversary
- The Great Storm of 1859 - The 'Royal Charter Storm' death and destruction on land and sea
- Gone but not forgotten - Cyrus Redding journalist, writer and traveller
- Lyonesse, Lost lands & lessons - Myth & Legend meets 21st century reality
- Quethiock, a community destroyed in an afternoon - Sale of the manorial land broke up a community
- Read all about it (Cornish newspapers 1800 - 1840) - A range of historical articles
- Penhale to Wheal Coates - Including St Agnes AONB
- An enjoyable heritage day out - Visiting Minions Moor, Cheesewring, Hurlers, Trethevy Quoit, St Neot & pub lunch
- Mousehole - The loveliest village, history and traditions
- Cornish Christmas' past - How and why Christmas was celebrated and here in Cornwall
- Pictures of the Past - Engravings of Cornish towns and places