Questions surround the life and death of Dolly Pentreath. But the details matter little, what matters more is what she represents and what she represents is, in the Cornish words of a Yorkshire poet,  Mes den hep tavas a-gollas y dyr.

The loss of the Solomon Browne exposed with all too chilling clarity the harsh reality of life on Cornwall's romantic granite coast.

On 30 October 1899 the fishing boat Emeline left Lowestoft to return home to Mousehole. She never arrived. What happened to her?

Thomas Victor was a well thought of Cornish artist who never travelled beyong Truro despite being offered a scolarship to the Slade.

It's a Tuesday morning in August and the staff and pupils in Mousehole are about to take possession of their new school...

Panic seized the people of Mounts Bay on 2 August 1595 when Mousehole, Paul Churchtown, Newlyn and Penzance were all set ablaze. The Spanish raid was just one of a number of actions in the intermittent Anglo-Spanish War of 1585-1604 in which both sides made frequent incursions on each other's territory and shipping. This is the age of Raleigh, Drake, Hawkins and the Armada.............

Richard Pentreath was one of the most accomplished artists of his generation and his works give an invaluable insight into west Cornwall's places and people before the Newlyn School painters were even born.

Long, long before the train from London bearing the evacuee children was due to arrive every available vantage point overlooking the station was crowded with spectators. ..... There was an air of expectancy about, a feeling of curiosity mingled with sympathy for these children sent so far from their own firesides.

The Antient house belonging to the sayd vicaridge consistinge of many Rooms was wholely burnt and demolished by Certaine Spanish Invaders aboute the yeare 1595, of which sayd house some parte was Reedifyed and some parte left ever since to ruines......

Walking over from Sheffield to Kerris for his day’s work in the fields, young Willie Wallis hears something unusual. “I thought it was funny sound”, he will explain later. It’s coming from a distance, from way over by the old Snell’s quarry.