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Pengelly Press
The author Catherine Lorigan was born in London. After her uncle and aunt moved to Cornwall she started visiting them and quickly developed a deep and abiding interest in the history of the county.
She has degrees from the universities of Birmingham, Oxford and Exeter. She was awarded her Ph.D. by the Institute of Cornish Studies, part of the University of Exeter, in 2004.
The Holyer an Gof Trophy 2008.
Awards are organised annually by Gorsedh Kernow for publications about Cornwall. The overall award – The Holyer an Gof Trophy- is given to the best book on Cornwall in the previous year. In 2008 the number of books entered was 78 and the Holyer an Gof Trophy was presented by the Grand Bard to Catherine for her book on Delabole
Our Books
Delabole
This book explores many of the aspects which go to make up the history of Delabole – the working environment in the quarry, the lives of the men (and women) who laboured there over many centuries and the development of the settlement around its industrial heartland. The book also examines the way in which the village community has been moulded by the landscape in which it is set, religion (particularly Methodism), links with Wales and emigration.
Connections
This book examines a number of aspects of the history of North Cornwall. These include the probate records of St Teath parish, music and musicians, buildings, emigration and potters and pottery. Not least, it explores the lives of men and women who dwelt and worked in North Cornwall and the histories of some who, born there, later moved away to London, Oxford and as far afield as Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America to seek their fortunes.
Boconnoc
This book traces the history of the estate at Boconnoc, situated near Lostwithiel in south-east Cornwall, from the Bronze Age to the present day. The book took a long time to write due to the wealth of source material available from diaries, family archives, correspondence and estate records. These were scattered around a large number of archival repositories, not only in Cornwall, but in Hampshire, Devon and London.