PLHG News and Events July 2020

News update from the Penwith Local History Group,
July 2020


With lockdown easing, we are pleased to announce that we are now able to fulfil website orders for books as usual. Just click on the ‘Publications’ link.

We’re all looking forward to being able to fully use research facilities such as the Morrab Library and Kresen Kernow again, but in the meantime we’ve been enjoying virtual meetings, sharing information - and have even selected our favourite ever quotes about history. Our favourites were:

"History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past" (A J P Taylor)

and

"The past beats inside me like a second heart" (John Banville)


In the latest edition of the CALH (Cornwall Association of Local Historians) Journal, group member Jean Nankervis was very pleased to see Part 3 of her History of Zennor on pages 68-73. Jean’s piece covers the years AD 400 – 1000, and includes both the coming of Christianity and the farms being named and organized by the Anglo-Saxons into Cornish acres under the tithings system. The illustrations include a coloured map of Penwith showing the ten Anglo-Saxon tithings which preceded the Norman manors. A drawing by Ros Prigg shows Zennor church, which was built in a deserted round.

Jean is looking forward to seeing Part 4 in the in May 2021 edition of the CALH Journal – and has also promised us a Penwith Paper later this year.


Member Susan Soyinka has also been busy, and you may have heard her on Radio Cornwall back in June, talking about the arrival of wartime evacuees 80 years ago. The link is still working at the moment – so if you missed the broadcast and want to hear it, be quick! Susan’s interview begins at 1.11.


And finally, we are delighted to share some news from Devon History Society:

The Society is sponsoring a series of daily blogs by our leading heritage specialists (historians, archivists, archaeologists, librarians, writers and curators) in Cornwall and Devon on how life in quarantine has made them re-evaluate history. These are running through June and July and can be found on the Society’s Facebook page. There are a whole series of varied blog posts available, some with a Cornish connection, and all interesting.




PLHG publications can be purchased online here or perused in the Morrab Library.



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The Morrab Library showing the new extension
The Morrab Library showing the new extension.
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