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Voice Newspapers - Ertach Kernow

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1. How Truro came to be the capital city of Cornwall - The transfer of power through the ages
2. Visionary who engineered a great chapter in Cornish history - Joseph Thomas Treffry
3. Let's step out of lockdown into a history mystery - Cornish heritage sites administered by Cornwall Heritage Trust
4. Turner's travels over Tamar tell Cornwall's story - J M W Turner's visit to Cornwall and his artwork
5. Nostalgic Ride to a Land of Legend - Some Cornish tales and legends
6. The Place names that help unlock our past history - The importance of place names in Cornwall's past
7. Historic homes reveal dramatic family histories - Houses with Cornish family histories - Lanhydrock, Trerice, Cotehele
8. Backtracking to our railway past - Cornwall and its railway beginnings
9. Bude - Growth of a thriving resort town - Bude, its canal and its growth
10. Cornwall’s great global Diaspora - Emigration leads to Cornish descendents throughout the world
11. Villages guard clues to our heritage - Bodmin Moor's villages
12. Storytellers will help keep alive Cornish identity - Gorsedh Kernow 2020
13. Net profits for our old coastal communities - Fishing in Cornwall an overview
14. Summercourt Fair well worth a nostalgic visit - The origins of Summercourt fair
15. Enduring legacy of Cornwall's great benefactor - John Passmore Edwards
16. How Tragedy at sea devastated lives left behind - Great storm of October 1880
17. The father of local English history - John Leland his Cornish itinerary Launceston-Bodmin-Truro
18. Lostwithiel - Rich layer of town's history - Lostwithiel historic capital of Cornwall
19. In touch with our Celtic Festivals - Lowender Peran
20. Landscape and legend entwined - Dozmary Pool
21. Huge contribution to our culture - Cornish Archaeological Legend - Lt Col F C Hirst
22. The marvel that's beneath our feet- The Great County Adit
23. Revealing the Face of Tudor Cornwall - John Norden
24. Inside Britain's Oldest Home - Penfound Manor
25. Medieval Marvels Light up our Lives - Medieval Cornish church stained glass windows
26. Cornwall at Christmas - Christmas past from the newspapers
27. Wreck of the Anson - A wreck that changed attitudes and the law
28. Greatest living Cornishman - Sir Arthur Quiller Couch 'Q'
29. Preserving our holy ground - Cornish holy wells, recording and preserving them
30. Fishing Smugglers and Wrecks - Stories of Mullion Cove
31. Unlocking our past Cornwall's Canal Heritage - Overview of Cornwall canal's, built, not completed, planned and imagined
32. Taking the High Ground - Bodmin's ancient hill forts
33. Bridges battle for survival – Respryn Bridge - History and present day survival issues
34. Miners toiled in the wake of St Piran - Mining in Perranporth
35. Making a song and dance about us - Overview of some of Cornwall's cultural and historic heritage 
36. Lighting up the 'Age of the Saints' - St Petroc, Cornwall's medieval patron saint
37. Amongst Mines and Miners - The work & achievements of J C Burrow, Camborne Photographer
38. Rise and fall of our most iconic mine Botallack - Poldark, Royal visits and tunnels under the sea. The story of Botallack
39. Roads to Fortune - Carrick Roads and the towns and settlements surrounding Cornwall's mighty waterway
40. In the footsteps of Defoe - 18th century author of Robinson Crusoe tours Cornwall
41. Britain's most beautiful branch line - St Erth to St Ives railway in the footsteps of Cyril Noall
42. Brunel opens gateway to Cornwall - Saltash the opening of the Royal Albert Bridge and Cornwall Railway 1959
43. Exploring the land of legend - Story Collectors & Storytellers
44. A salute to the great Trevithick - An overview of Richard Trevithick a great Cornishman, his life and achievements
45. Cornish Routes - Road development, turnpikes and toll-roads
46. Called to the court of the king - Archaeology and the making of Tintagel as a destination
47. The Newlyn Riots 125 years on - Religion and price of fish led to rioting in Newlyn
48. Shining light in the darkness - Penzance's great son, Sir Humphry Davy
49. Feisty travels with Celia - Early tour around Cornwall c1698 with Celia Fiennes
50. The sky's the limit - Area of outstanding natural beauty AONB - Bodmin Moor
51. Keep it Kernewek - Speak Cornish Week events and Cornish language
52. A name perpetual - The Cornish uprising 1497 and dissatisfaction today
53. Celtic Culture - International Celtic Congress and contribution from Celtic Congress Cornwall
54. On the edge - The Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall
55. Taxing Times, Cornwall's historic hundreds 'Stratton' - Background on the hundreds and first of nine - Stratton.
56. Tudor Travels - John Leland around the Roseland Peninsula c1542
57. River Journey's - The River Camel historic aspects
58. For those in Peril - Saving life on the North Cornish coast before the RNLI lifeboats
59. Fancy a pint? - Pubs in mid and west Cornwall, visited and written about by Arthur Caddick Cornish poet
60. Portrait of a Parish - Botus Fleming Cornwall's second smallest parish
61. Churches endure the ravages of time and man - Cury Church & Gunwalloe Church
62. An idyllic scene - Visit to St Clements village and burial in Truro
63. Opening up - Heritage Open Days in Cornwall - including many links
64. Literary giant had powerful roots in Cornwall - Sir William Golding Cornish ancestry
65. Full steam ahead - Early guidebooks to Cornwall
66. Tall tower, deep roots - Probus church, schools and historic houses
67. Legacies in stone - Early farming & Cornish hedges
68. The Levant Disaster - The why's and wherefores of the Levant Man Engine disaster of 1919