Cornish Smuggling: Organised Crime or Radical Romance?
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Dr Jo Esra presents a pre-recorded lecture for Cornish Story on Cornish Smuggling: Organised Crime or Radical Romance? The 'free trade' during the 18th and 19th centuries. Jo Esra is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English and Culture at the University of Exeter. Her research spans maritime history, smuggling, pirates, and the supernatural in early modern literature.
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