Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin - Publications

Publications

• "Boulton and Watt in Cornwall" in Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society Annual Report, 1926
• The Cornish Miner: an Account of his Life Above and Underground from Early Times. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1927: three editions, including 3rd edition, 1962 (reprinted by David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972 ISBN 0-7153-5486-8; reprinted in facsimile with an introduction by John H. Trounson, Launceston: Westcountry, 2004 ISBN 1-902395-06-9)
• "The Nationalisation of West-Country Minerals". (New Fabian Research Bureau. Publications series; no. 3) 17 pages.
• Cornish Seafarers: the Smuggling, Wrecking and Fishing Life of Cornwall. London: J. M. Dent, 1932
• Cornwall and Its People: being a new impression of the composite work .... London: J. M. Dent, 1945 (reprinted 1970 by David & Charles, Newton Abbot ISBN 0-7153-4702-0) including:
  • "Cornish Seafarers", 1932
  • "Cornwall and the Cornish: the story, religion and folk-lore of ’The Western Land’", 1933
  • "Cornish homes and customs", 1934
• Cornwall and the Cornish: the story, religion and folk-lore of ’The Western Land’", London: J. Dent, 1933
• Cornish Homes and Customs. London: J. M. Dent, 1934
• The Story of Cornwall. London: Thomas Nelson, 1934 (reprinted by D. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1962)
• The Western Land. London: Great Western Railway, 1937
• News from Cornwall. London: Westaway Books, 1946
• News from Cornwall, edited, with a memoir of William Jenkin, by A. K. Hamilton Jenkin. 1951
• Mines and Miners of Cornwall in 16 volumes, vols. 1-14 originally published by the Truro Bookshop, 1961 onwards and reprinted by various organisations:
  • Pt. I. Around St. Ives ISBN 0-904662-04-7
  • Pt. II. St. Agnes, Perranporth ISBN 0-904662-05-5
  • Pt. III. Around Redruth ISBN 0-904662-06-3
  • Pt. IV. Penzance-Mount's Bay ISBN 0-904662-08-X
  • Pt. V. Hayle, Gwinear and Gwithian ISBN 0-904662-10-1
  • Pt. VI. Around Gwennap ISBN 0-904662-11-X
  • Pt. VII. Perranporth-Newquay
  • Pt. VIII. Truro to the clay district
  • Pt. IX. Padstow, St Columb and Bodmin
  • Pt. X. Camborne and Illogan
  • Pt. XI. Marazion, St Hilary and Breage
  • Pt. XII. Liskeard area
  • Pt. XIII. The Lizard-Falmouth-Mevagissey
  • Pt. XIV. St Austell to Saltash
  • Pt. XV. Calstock, Callington and Launceston Penzance: Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, 1969 (reprinted Bracknell: Forge Books, 1976) ISBN 0-902660-00-4
  • Pt. XVI. Wadebridge, Camelford and Bude Penzance: Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, 1970
  • Index to Mines and Miners of Cornwall: Volumes 1-16. St. Austell: Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, 1978
• Mines of Devon. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1974
  • Volume 1: South Devon ISBN 0-7153-6784-6
  • Volume 2: Mines of Devon, north and east of Dartmoor: Sydenham Damerel, Lydford, Wheal Betsy, Wheal Friendship, Okehampton, Sticklepath, Chagford, Buckfastleigh, Ashburton, Ilsington, Teign Valley, Newton St. Cyres, and Upton Pyne. (Reprinted by Devon Libraries 1981 ISBN 0-86114-317-5)
  • Both volumes reprinted by Landmark, 2005 ISBN 1-84306-174-0
• Wendron Tin (commissioned by Poldark Mine), 1978