As part of our project Heart of Conflict, we’ve been looking at local World War One history. Now the centenary of the conflict has passed, we’re looking at the years immediately after the war. Many memorials were unveiled then, as people remembered all those who died. In Penponds, the War Memorial is unusual in that […]

As part of Heart of Conflict,our project looking at World War One in Cornwall, we studied local war memorials. Penponds Church near Camborne had very close links with Camborne School of Mines. The war memorial there remembers many young men who were not born locally – but had very strong links with the parish. Click […]

Students at the College du Sacre Coeur, Estaires, presenting an exhibition of correspondence between Cornish miner Leslie Pentecost and the Smagghue family who billeted him in the town during World War One. Leslie was one of a group of miners from Dolcoath who joined the 25th Field Ambulance when war broke out in 1914. They […]

‘Dancercise’ is hard to say…. but the name says it all. Here are photos of a recent session at the Masbro Centre, Hammersmith, London. Dancer Simone Sistarelli is working with the Elders’ group. The idea was to teach people a few simple movements that they could practice at home daily. They could practice the movements […]