Our project Heart of Conflict has been uncovering stories about World War One in Cornwall since 2014, the centenary of the start of the war. The aim is to uncover stories that have never previously been told. These are stories that didn’t make the history books but deserve to have a spotlight thrown on them. […]
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Great to see Max Whetter’s second year show in his degree course at Cornwall College, Pool, last month. Some very interesting takes on the famous self portrait by the 18th century Cornish artist John Opie at the Royal Cornwall Museum. Max won our competition for a new skateboard design in 2016. At the time he was working as a burger chef in Newquay.
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We were delighted to be able to write a piece about Heart of Conflict, our work in Cornwall on World War One, for SHCG News, the quarterly newsletter of the Social History Curators Group. It was an easy piece to put together – it’s been such a great project. The newsletter will eventually be put online: […]
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We stand united with shovels in hand, not rifles. Brave men, we face a different enemy; a private war, fought on home soil. We wish for freedom for all mankind, why is that so detested? Is it wrong to respect life? To take it, steal it from a parent, wife or child… And so we […]
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A poignant few hours on Saturday (1 July 2017) at the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, as we took down our exhibition Heart of Conflict – looking at Cornwall during World War One. It’s amazing how quickly all can be dismantled – disconcertingly quickly in comparison with the many hours, days and months the exhibition took to […]
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Smiling in the War London, East end, 1916. I became a Red Cross nurse two weeks after the war started. It was hard work, long hours and emotionally draining. The hospitals were full of wounded soldiers. Night shifts were the worst; all of the men with shell shock cried out in their dreams, speaking […]
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