In case you missed a series of (mostly) short reviews of a selection of recent academic literature that I put on this site in the latter part of 2023 here's a one-sentence summary of each to save you having to read them. To make it digestible I'll limit it to three and drip in the … Continue reading Cornish language, the care community and witches
Tag: Boscastle
Minster: coast, customers and Canada
Minster includes the northern side of the village of Boscastle within its boundaries. Now a tourist honey-pot, Boscastle was a quiet and remote village in 1861. Although the parish of Minster had 500 inhabitants in that year it only gives us three cases for the Victorian Lives database. The harbour at Boscastle in the 1890s … Continue reading Minster: coast, customers and Canada
Forrabury: a tale of migrating blacksmiths
Forrabury in the nineteenth century was a small parish which supplied just three entries for our database. Two thirds of parishioners lived in the village of Boscastle, which it shared with the slightly bigger parish of Minster. On the clifftop near Boscastle is Forrabury Stitches, a surviving open field. Similar open fields would have been … Continue reading Forrabury: a tale of migrating blacksmiths
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