Posted on March 5, 2021
Beatrice Rathbone
There can be little doubt that Beatrice Rathbone, later known as Beatrice Wright, Lady Wright MBE, was a strong female...
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Posted on March 3, 2021
Remembering and researching the Women’s Land Army in Cornwall
To celebrate International Women’s Day, Cherish Watton, founder of www.womenslandarmy.co.uk and PhD student at Churchill College, Cambridge has written this...
Posted on February 15, 2021
Hearts and Minds
One of the objects that first caught my attention at Bodmin Keep was the colourful pin cushion on display in...
Posted on January 18, 2021
An overlooked set of battles?
Ordinary Men in Extraordinary Times The fascination of working within the archives at Bodmin Keep is seeing and learning first-hand...
Posted on January 18, 2021
Sending secret messages in the field using the Slidex
Sending secret messages is an important part of military communication. All sides in the Second World War worked extensively on...
Posted on January 13, 2021
Meet the curator!
Ever wondered what goes into looking after a museum collection? This week I spent some time with Verity, the museum’s...
Posted on January 11, 2021
The Helmet with a Hole
One of the highlight pieces in the museum’s collection is a German Pickelhaube helmet punctured with a large bullet hole....
Posted on December 7, 2020
The Infectious Enemy of 1918
The military camps that harboured a deadly enemy The Corona Pandemic of 2020 feels like it came out of the...
Posted on November 10, 2020
Black History : Whose stories get told?
As a Trainee Curator at Bodmin Keep, one of my recent tasks was to rewrite some of our old text...
Posted on October 30, 2020
Volunteer Profile: Researcher Deborah Vosper
Debs is our research volunteer taking research enquiries from the public and uncovering what she can on their ancestors who...