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In this talk Dr. Jo Esra, will examine the relationship between literary and historical narratives of Cornish smuggling, and how the “Maritime Gothic” of smuggling has shaped modern perceptions of place and identity in Cornwall.
Mention Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and their maritime history, and many people will have a vision of the Cornish and Islanders of the past as wreckers, purposely luring…
Remembrance of wars and those who fought in them naturally centres around the fighting forces and those who not only made the ultimate sacrifice but those who returned mentally and…
The paper surveys the development of commercial steam navigation in Cornwall, concentrating on contributions by local entrepreneurs. It examines three areas of mercantile activity under steam well represented in the…
This paper looks at the various ways in which yachting has been represented in words, pictures and photography and at how these representations specifically apply to the history of yachting…
By the 1820s the Admiralty controlled both the Falmouth Packet Service, delivering mails to the growing empire, and the Hydrographic Service, responsible for supplying all the navigational charts required by…
Until the end of the Second World War, employment on Britain’s docks was largely casual. This paper outlines the development of the National Dock Labour Scheme, created in 1947 from…
The perceived romance of Cornish smuggling is, in this paper, put into the context of its existence as part of the life of the fishing community in Cornwall during the…
Zephaniah Job is best remembered as ‘The Smugglers’ Banker,’ who organised and financed smuggling from the port of Polperro in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. However, Job, like…
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