A few months ago, back in the spring of 2025, I was honoured to be asked to be involved in an incredible project that aimed to bring the work of a little known local artist to print and hopefully to the attention of a wider audience. As soon as I saw the amazing images that this artist, Oliver Bedford, had produced and heard the incredible story of his life and his journeys t...

In the dark depths of the winter of 1870 the tiny Cornish fishing village of Cadgwith made the national newspapers when it became unwittingly embroiled in the ongoing Franco-Prussian war. The strange story of the lost balloon post brings to life a forgotten period of history, a time when the postal service (and a speedy delivery) could be a matter of life and death.

Ann Boswell, better known as Granny Boswell, is one of Cornwall’s best known characters and an important figure for many in the gypsy community but who was the real woman who has inspired so much affection, so many stories and has even been depicted in one of the biggest TV shows of the past decade?!

One of Cornwall’s best-known gypsies,