We were thrilled to run our first Zoom workshop on journeys and migration at St John’s Catholic Primary School in Camborne, Cornwall. Our special guest, Mirabela Robatzchi originally from Romania but now living in Helston, joined us and talked about the distances (geographical, cultural and social) that she had travelled in her life. Due to […]
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A top BBC presenter has discovered that he has an unexpected direct family link to Camborne and that local World War One hero Dr William Blackwood was his great grandfather. BBC Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny grew up near Helston and attended Helston School. He is the face of the BBC Proms and currently presents […]
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A good turn-out this Remembrance Day (11/11/21) at the Memorial Gardens at Penlee in Penzance. The ceremony was led by the British Legion and a bugler played the Last Post and Reveille. We laid a wreath in memory of the three Bird brothers in Penzance who tragically lost their lives in World War One. A […]
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We’re continuing our workshops on the workers from overseas who play a vital role in the Cornish economy. The aim is to highlight the role that they play and the issues they might face when making the huge life decision to leave home and create a life elsewhere. Most recently we Zoomed in to Mousehole […]
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Great to see our work in Cornwall on the World War One centenary featured on the Imperial War Museum blog… Click here to read more and scroll down to discover a really good spotlight on the various projects we delivered – all under the umbrella of our Heritage Lottery funded project ‘Heart of Conflict’.
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Remembrance Sunday 2020 brought some fresh news of events of 100 years ago. The great niece of one of the men who joined the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) under Dr William Blackwood in 1914 came forward with information about Arthur Harris, her great uncle, who was sadly killed on 8 July 1917. Arthur, a […]
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