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Digest is our quarterly publication of all things related to Charlestown’s history.
Issue 11 – Summer 2023
- Editorial – Getting to know Charles Rashleigh
- Charles Rashleigh’s Contemporaries
- Lady Daphne goes back to the future. A heritage harbour, an historic sailing vessel, and a fresh start. Part II
- The Chough Garret Engine
- News from the Charlestown History Group
- Future Events and Get Involved
Issue 10 – Spring 2023
- Editorial – Milestones and Celebration
- A Grand Day out in Charlestown from 1863
- Lady Daphne goes back to the future. A heritage harbour, an historic sailing vessel, and a fresh start. Part I
- News from the Charlestown History Group
- Future Events and Get Involved
Issue 9 – Winter 2022 / 23
- Editorial – Charles Rashleigh Bicentennial 1823-2023
- Charles Rashleigh and Polgooth. The beginnings of Charlestown?
- Charles Rashleigh’s ancestors and the arrival of the Rashleigh family in Cornwall.
- News from the Charlestown History Group
- Future Events and Get Involved
Issue 8 – Autumn 2022
- Editorial – Sign of the times
- Pascoe Williams and the Williams Family
- The canon of Cannons
- The Charlestown Leat sign (update)
- News from the Charlestown History Group
- Future Events and Get Involved
Issue 7 – Summer 2022
- Editorial – Looking back and tomorrow’s history
- How the iron horse bucked Charlestown
- Regatta 50 years. Milestones and highlights
- The Search for The Duporth Cup (part 4)
- News from the Charlestown History Group
- Future Events and Get Involved
Issue 6 – Spring 2022
- Editorial – Improving History
- Myths of Charlestown
- Captain Charles Henry Deacon & the Waterwitch
- Bombs on Charlestown
- News from the Charlestown History Group
- Future Events and Get Involved
Issue 5 – Winter 2021 / 22
- Editorial – The Charlestown Leat Sign
- Memories of The Charlestown Leat
- Prince George Visits Charlestown – 24th June 1931
- News from the Charlestown History Group and Review of the Year
- Future Events and Get Involved
Issue 4 – Autumn 2021
- Duporth Cup Discovered
- 50th Anniversary of Dock Improvement Project – Opening Day
- Regatta Memories
- Duporth Manor 1781-1933
- News from the Charlestown History Group
Issue 3 – Summer 2021
- The Building Stones of Charlestown Church
- Memories of Charlestown People
- Before there was Charlestown
- The Search for The Duporth Cup (part 3)
- News from The Charlestown History Group
Issue 2 – Spring 2021
- Charlestown Gun Battery and Cliff Volunteers
- The Charlestown Leat
- The Search for The Duporth Cup (part 2)
- News from The Charlestown History Group
Issue 1 – Winter 2020 / 21
- The Search for The Duporth Cup (part 1)
- Brick Hill
- Charlestown Regatta 50 years
- Introducing The Charlestown History Group