Sharing Cornwall's historic, cultural & environmental heritage
Cornwall's historic, cultural & environmental heritage
Explore this site to learn more about Cornwall
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- Cornish heritage blogs - Articles covering many aspects of Cornish history, places and heritage
- Cornwall's Place names in Kernewek - Cornish towns, villages and places in the Cornish language with audio pronunciation
- Cornwall a Celtic Nation - Cornwall's historical status, Cornish national minority
- Cornish Heritage Projects - Sharing and promoting heritage projects throughout Cornwall
- YouTube videos - YouTube videos and social media
- Cornwall's Heritage - links to Cornish heritage groups - programmes & events
- The Reason Why (Podcast) by Seamas Carey - Provocative and interesting podcasts about Cornwall, the Cornish and life in Cornwall.
- Heritage in the News - Weekly update on aspects of Cornish heritage news from around Cornwall
- Ertach Kernow Blog Plus - Other issues relating to Cornwall including third party journalism
More content is being added on a weekly basis, please continue to check in
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Cornish heritage articles published weekly in newspapers across Cornwall
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Recent past articles are now in a slider allowing a quicker and wider view of some from the past few months - Just click the relevant article to go to the page. For desktop users arrows are at the far left & right to navigate images, click to open. For mobile device users swipe left until you reach the image then tap to open, the title will often appear slightly before the image. All the articles can still be seen via the Thumbnails and Index pages through these blue links, or via Homepage and header index.
Heritage in the News
Talking about Cornish heritage groups, activities & projects, if we can help promote your society, group or organisation - Click the Ertach Kernow LOGO
Each week the column next to the main Ertach Kernow article in the Voice, Cornish Times and the Cornish & Devon Post newspapers is devoted to sharing news about Cornish heritage and generally its organisations, societies and groups, similarly new projects in Cornwall's heritage sector. Sometimes just random thoughts about Cornish related 'stuff'.
Cornish heritage projects
There are always many Cornish heritage projects being carried out throughout Cornwall. These may be by larger heritage organisations, town teams, smaller societies and groups or individuals. If we can help promote your society, group or organisation's project - Click the Ertach Kernow LOGO
This is a new sharing opportunity and will help promote the hard work done, often by un paid volunteers about their projects and the activities involved. Let us know and this will enable us to promote the project across a range of media in Cornish regional newspapers and a various of social media sites and platforms.
New to this online promotion project by Kowethas Ertach Kernow
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A Troyl will be held on 24th April at St Mawes Memorial Hall. More information and links to main Cornish National Music Archive website and booking page on our Music of the Roseland project webpage.
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East Looe Town Trust is inviting tenders from suitably qualified historians to undertake comprehensive research into the history of the Old Lifeboat Station and three associated lifeboats, and to establish a new searchable website to showcase it. Deadline 30th April.
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If you, your organisation, group or society are running a Cornish heritage project and want to raise the profile or ask for assistance please let us know and we will share this on our website and across our social media.
Cornish Heritage Groups and Organisations
We share posters of future programme of events from Cornwall's history, culture and environmental heritage groups on our various social media platforms. Also this website, on the 'Cornish Heritage Societies & Groups Programmes of Events' page.
Click for poster and events page Posters of Events 2023 - 2024
Email your event information and posters to: associationcornishheritage@gmail.com
Monthly newsletters from an increasing number of Cornish groups within Cornwall and the overseas Cornish Diaspora can be found on our journals page. We hope you find these of interest and consider joining one of these groups. A website link is available adjacent to the newsletters so more can be found out about their activities. Click here for Newsletters & Journals Page
Cornwall's National Day - St Piran's Celebrations 2024
With the celebrations over the downloadable pdf's have been removed, but the posters will remain for 12 months to hopefully provide inspiration for Cornwall National Day / St Piran's events in 2025. Click the 'Baner Sen Peren' for Posters & Details.
Towan Vintage - Cornish Vintage Book Store
Towan Vintage an extension of Kowethas Ertach Kernow aims to provide a wide range of Cornish books, art and memorabilia. The majority of these will be 'preloved' and we hope that this will create an opportunity for those interested in Cornwall's rich heritage will find these of interest. Sale of a range of other articles supports the gallery room and work of Kowethas Ertach Kernow in sharing knowledge Cornwall's historic, cultural and environmental heritage to a wider audience and reuse of books and sale of vintage items assists the circular green economy.
Wanting a particular book on Cornwall, perhaps we have it as part of our sale stock, but not yet on our website. Please send your enquiry to towanvintage@gmail.com. Illustrated talks on a range of Cornish subjects take place in the Cornish Coffee Lounge at Newquay Museum. To find out more checkout and follow our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TowanVintage
Besides books there are original vintage paintings available to buy of Cornish scenes or by Cornish artists, as well as vintage Cornish studio pottery. We also support local artists and have contemporary paintings for sale at Towan Vintage in the Cornish Coffee Lounge.
If you have digital images on your mobile perhaps, why not print these off and share them in a birthday card to family and friends. Digital is great, but in a nice frame a photograph can make a lovely thoughtful and affordable present.
Come along to the Cornish Coffee Lounge, browse Towan Vintage and meet Josh at Proper Photography Kernow who will help you with printing your digital images. Printing up to 8" x 6" on the Kodak kiosks and much larger on our Epson printer to A3 and even larger.
If you have an old photograph and would like it digitised and reprinted Josh can do that for you as well. Click the poster image to see PPK's other services. There are also a good selection of vintage cameras for sale at Towan Vintage.
Association for Cornish Heritage is on YouTube & social media- Click the image for more information
Cornwall a Celtic Nation
Cornwall, or in Kernewek the Cornish language, Kernow, is one of the six Celtic nations. Kowethas Ertach Kernow supports the work of the International Celtic Congress and Celtic Nation Kernow the rebranded Celtic Congress Cornwall.
There are six Celtic nations all of whom have their own unique languages. To find out more about Cornwall's place amongst these Celtic speaking nations click:
Celtic Nation Kernow formerly Celtic Congress Cornwall is one of the six branches of the International Celtic Congress. To find out more about who we are and what we do click:
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