Cornish people

going to between who you cooperate with and who you don't know.

Do I cooperate only, if I'm in Cornwall, do I only cooperate with Cornish or do I cooperate with all English or all British or all European? So it doesn't actually tell you exactly which group you should consider your own and what the boundary is.

So there's definitely a big role for them.

That comes through history and culture, what's been written down and talked about over many

So I learned, I went over there and spent a few weeks and then I wrote a report and I learned some interesting things.

Firstly, you know, the Cornish people, because of the collapse of the tin industry, tin mining a century ago, they went all over the world.

They actually went to Australia, they went to Canada, they went to the US, they went to Cork actually, and they went to Mexico.

And the national food of Mexico is called an empanada.

is a Cornish pasty.

Not many people know that.

And actually I had a bit of fun over there because when I was introduced at their first event, I said, it's great to be here in the great county of Cornwall.

But they weren't fighting the pugnacious Scots.

Their enemy was a large but disorganised rabble of Cornishmen and their sympathisers, miles from home, tired and poorly prepared for war.

These rebels had come to London to protest the harsh taxes Henry has levelled on his kingdom to pay for the Scottish campaign.

The very same soldiers they didn't want to pay for have now been sent into action against them.

These last have, indeed, been much exaggerated.

A Genoese would understand the Neapolitan quite as easily as a Cornishman would a Yorkshire peasant, and in a federal Italian assembly there would arise none of the impediments to which the Austrian diet is exposed.

Nor can the traditionary talent of the Italians for political life be altogether left out of consideration.

amidst the stormy republican excitements of the middle ages they combine what at this distance looks nearly as confused a social state as the present one of south america with all the grace and pleasure of existence with the summit of art and the flower of literature the diplomacy of european nations was almost exclusively in their hands and the policy of which machiavelli was the organ and the representative has always predominated in the italian spirit over that of chivalry and christian scruple it was this political aptitude probably which made napoleon who had no taste for sentimental nationalities always maintain the possibility of reconstituting in italy and direct his policy to that end as far as his other schemes permitted with such a spirit it is unlikely that she would have remained cantonized in chance principalities even if these general movements had not taken place and now the restoration of the old scheme is frankly impossible it will be of no ultimate disadvantage to the arrogant and boastful tendency of that people if many checks require many efforts and if they be made strongly to feel that so great a gift as independent nationality and self-government is worth the life-blood of a generation to england the peaceful consolidation of italy would bring nothing but advantage it would open to our manufactures a market all but closed against us by high tariffs and annoying restrictions of every kind the exportation of corn of the best quality would be quadrupled by good and quiet cultivation and that of silk and oil considerably increased her naval and commercial power, commanding the two coasts, would stand in the way of all monopoly of force in the Mediterranean and tend to preserve the liberty of the sea.

The assault... began at dawn on the 17th of April.

Colonel Clark led one column of boats towards the east of Tresco, whilst John Borden, a Cornishman, took a column to attack the western side of the island.

Borden's column got lost and then came under fire, so he aborted his mission Meanwhile, Clark's men had found the right beach, but encountered even fiercer resistance.

That meant he was also forced to withdraw, and he bivouacked on the small island of Tean.

I mean, people have been feeling that about Arthur for a thousand years, possibly more, and we've met some of them over the course of this series.

So they were the Cornishmen in 1113 who Ran into some French clerics who'd come over to raise money for their church building projects.

And the Frenchman poo-pooed the idea that Arthur was real and would come again.

And they got into a massive punch up.

And also, I think that what derives from Welsh mythology is the hero who passes from our world into a condition of, if not death, then a kind of suspended life.

And I think this is clearly one of the most venerable themes in Arthurian legend.

And those Cornishmen in 1113 who were getting upset because the French were laughing at them, that is testimony to how far back that story goes.

But the notion that Arthur himself was a god at one point and slowly got adapted into a historical figure it seems to me really implausible so if you look at the historia bretonum you've got an arthur whose dog is leaving his paw print on a stone and who's killed a son whose grave can't adequately be measured and then you've got an arthur who's a dux bretonum and fighting at the city of the legion or whatever and It seems improbable to me that the first one would have evolved to become the second one.

And

it all started with the Cornish.

Because they're the ones with the scones.

The Cornish keep themselves to themselves because they want independence from the rest of Britain, don't they? Yes,

they do, and I don't blame them.

Yeah, I don't blame

Cornsit.

I wonder if they tell each other how to have their scones.