Forgotten hero Honouring the woman who exposed British Boer camps

He took on the might of the establishment and the empire to expose the suffering of women and children held in British concentration camps, but her story has faded from the history books.

- Steven Morris

From Saturday a series of events is being held at the Cornish home where the pacifist, whistleblower and activist Emily Hobhouse grew up, around the 165th anniversary of her birth, part of efforts to shine a new light on her fight for justice.

Hobhouse travelled from Cornwall to South Africa at the turn of the 20th century and reported back on the awful conditions endured in the British bell tent camps set up during the Anglo-Boer war, but was dismissed as a "hysterical woman" and a traitor.

Her life and times are being celebrated at a new historical attraction called The Story of Emily at the rectory in St Ive, near Liskeard, where she grew up.