A History of Cornwall

A History of Cornwall
Author: F. E. Halliday
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-01-12
Genre: Cornwall (England : County)
ISBN: 9780755118786

This classic history provides a comprehensive review of Cornwall, skilfully illustrating why it is exceptional. With absorbing detail, Halliday moves through time from the Bronze Age to the Saints, Tudor rebellions, Spanish Armada, John Wesley, the making of the railway and into the modern era, whilst weaving the two threads of sea and mining.

Children's History of Cornwall

Children's History of Cornwall
Author: Peggy Burns
Publisher: Hometown World
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-05
Genre: Cornwall (England : County)
ISBN: 9781849931366

With a helpful timeline, fun imaginary accounts, cool old photos of places you ll recognize in Cornwall and amazing top facts and information, you will discover things in 'Children's History of Cornwall' that you never knew about your town.

The Little Book of Cornwall

The Little Book of Cornwall
Author: John Van der Kiste
Publisher: History Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-04
Genre: Cornwall (England : County)
ISBN: 9780752480954

Did you know cornwall has the longest coastline of any English county. A quarry at Carclaze was used as the location for filming Dr. Who in the 1970s. D.H. Lawrence and his German wife were forced to leave the county in the First World War under the Defence of the Realm Act. A compendium of fascinating information about Cornwall past and present, this book contains a plethora of entertaining facts about the county’s famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its towns and countryside, history, natural history, literary, artistic and sporting achievements, agriculture, transport, industry, and royal visits. A reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped into time and time again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage, the secrets and the enduring fascination of the county. A remarkably engaging little book, this is essential reading for visitors and locals alike.

Debi Cornwall: Necessary Fictions

Debi Cornwall: Necessary Fictions
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781942185697

From the author of Welcome to Camp America, an eerie exploration of America's performance of power and identity in the post-9/11 era What are the stories we tell ourselves, the games we play, to manage unsettling realities? Made on ten military bases across the United States since 2016, Necessary Fictionsdocuments mock-village landscapes in the fictional country of "Atropia" and its denizens, roleplayers who enact versions of their past or future selves in realistic training scenarios. Costumed Afghan and Iraqi civilians, many of whom have fled war, now recreate it in the service of the US military. Real soldiers pose in front of camouflage backdrops, dressed by Hollywood makeup artists in "moulage"--fake wounds--as they prepare to deploy. Brooklyn-based conceptual documentary artist and former civil rights lawyer Debi Cornwall (born 1973) photographs this meta-reality--the artifice of war--presented in the book with a variety of texts to provoke critical inquiry about America's fantasy industrial complex. The book includes an essay by PEN Award-winning critical theorist Sarah Sentilles.