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This Month’s Cornish Articles and Poems
In the church of St Germanus at ancient Lanaled, there survives a carved Misericorde seat showing a Huntsman and his Dandy Dogs. This is the terrifying story of the Dondu; the Demon Huntsman and the Wild Hunt he leads. He gathers in the ‘tythe’ of lost souls from Nomansland and the graveyard walks of old Wivelshire and in a ‘Danse Macabre’ drives them past Sheviock Church and down to the Dandy Hole on the Lynher River opposite the mound and Isle of Erth. There the Naffanog; the ‘Great Goldworm’ is supposed to lie sleeping; for every pile of good earth must have a worm within.
The Fisk University Jubilee Choir Tour of Cornwall
Black Musicians in the South West 1894-1895 – It all began with the arrival of an old scrapbook at the Perranzabuloe Museum in 2014.
Cornwall once had many railway branch lines but, sad to say, only a few remain. One that still operates is the Looe Valley Line but without the the need to transport minerals from Caradon to quayside, it would never have been built.
Perhaps that statement is not entirely true: who knows whether or not that is the case, but it was an industrial need that was the driving force behind its construction.
Bert Biscoe’s commemoration poem to Thomas Flamank and Michael Joseph An Gof – forever remembered by Cornish people wherever they may be.
Rooster Had Some Reason to be Proud – a Cornish Dialect audio
‘Rooster Had Some Reason to be Proud’ is a classic Cornish dialect story made famous by the late storyteller Herbie Lean and here recited by raconteur David Oates of Proper Job singers.
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Cornish Books
Publication to mark Black History Month
Projects
Newlyn Centenary Primitive Chapel (Photo: Jo Lewis)
Compilation of Truro Inns and Pubs
Compilation of St Agnes Inns & Pubs
Rescorla Cultural Centre Events
(Cornish Story is a part of the Rescorla Centre)
Creative workshops and events at the Rescorla Centre with an emphasis on Cornish History and Craft delivered in association with Cornish Story and the Institute of Cornish Studies. Click here for details.
Cornwall is the Honoured Nation at the 2026 Lorient Interceltic Festival. To mark this event the Rescorla Festival and Cornish Story will be holding a Celtic day on Saturday 18th July. At 10.30am there will be a discussion on Cornwall’s Celtic Connections and then at 2.30pm there will be a Celtic Journey session exploring the various Celtic nations through music and storytelling.
Other Events include:
Cornish Studies Group on the third Saturday of the month at 10.30am.
Celtic Music Session on the third Saturday of the month at 7.00pm.
Kegin (Cornish for ‘Kitchen’) session on the last Saturday of the month at 10.30am. Food, music, singing, dialect readings, and poetry around the kitchen table.
Rescorla Book Club throughout the year. Please email Tracy Pithie for further details.
Please email G.H.Tregidga@exeter.ac.uk to pre-book.
Cornish items by other writers or organisations
In accordance with our aim to promote a greater knowledge of Cornwall and the Cornish Diaspora overseas, we are pleased to include details of films, books, articles and projects relating to aspects of Cornish culture past and present.
Francis Edwards
His selection of articles about Cornish people
https://the-cornish-historian.com/category/people/
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