[Mebyon Kernow] Conference 2011 next weekend

Mebyon Kernow’s 2011 Conference takes place this weekend, the 19th and 20th November, at the Shire House Suite in Bodmin. It will mark MK’s 60th anniversary as an organisation. On…

Rev. Robert Stephen Hawker

by Tom Bowden – Robert Stephen Hawker was born on 3rd December 1803 in Plymouth and he was the son of a doctor. Robert then went on to Oxford University…

[Save Penwith Moors] 2.5% is too much for ‘not-natural England’

2.5 % IS ALL WE ARE ASKING FOR, says Save Penwith Moors: The total ‘Natural England’ target area for ‘Higher Level Stewardship’ in Penwith is 24,134 hectares. Save Penwith Moors…

Cornish Celts exist, says Prof Peter Beresford Ellis

The Celtic Nations, 1961- 2011, a Sea Change? Some personal views, by Professor Peter Beresford Ellis Below is the text of the presentation about the Celtic League which was prepared…

Craig Weatherhill: Arrogant Qangos Must Go!

A Penzance archaeologist and historian has joined with Cornish MP George Eustice in calling for ‘English’ Heritage to be replaced, in Cornwall, with a locally based body. Craig Weatherhill, author…

Loveday Jenkin seeks your support to represent Wendron on Cornwall Council

Loveday Jenkin is Mebyon Kernow – The Party for Cornwall’s candidate for the by-election to fill the Wendron division vacancy on Konsel Kernow / Cornwall Council caused by the sad…

Mebyon Kernow national conference next month

You’ve had the London Parties national conferences and their excesses and irrelevancies, and the ground-breaking SNP conference just last week – but now … The Mebyon Kernow – Party for…

Cornish Heritage Society East honoured Rick Rescorla

Among many Cornish groups around the world, and especially in the USA and Cornwall, the memory of Rick Rescorla and his heroism was remembered recently by the Cornish Heritage Society…

Cornish Britons won their future at the battle of Hehil?

Cornish Britons won their future at the battle of Hehil – by Rob Simmons In the beginning of the eighth century, the old British Celtic kingdom of Dumnonia was in…

To ‘the three Rs’, add ‘I’ for identity

Since 2006 school children in Cornwall have rightly been allowed to record themselves as ‘ethnically’ Cornish on the annual Schools Census (PLASC). Since then the number identifying as Cornish has…