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. Two groups of 13 are now available.
- 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 - Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to see new video's when released
- 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
- The Cornish Language Podcast - By Owain Holland - Exploring and engaging with Cornish
More content is being added to blogs on a weekly basis, please continue to check in
Ertach Kernow
Cornish heritage articles published weekly across Cornwall
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Ertach Kernow Articles
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Recent past articles are now in a slider allowing a quicker and wider view of some from the past twelve 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 with text index through these blue links, or via Homepage and header index.
Ertach Kernow weekly Heritage Column
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'. Perhaps readers may wish to share news about their own Cornish organisations.
Click to enlarge to read - This can also be found on each week's Ertach Kernow weekly article/blog page
Cornish Place Names in Kernewek
The new set of posters and audio files for phase two of the Cornish Place Names are now available to view, listen and download. Click the thumbnail image for either phase ONE or phase TWO to access
Click above for Phase ONE
Click above for Phase TWO
The audio for the latest Phase Two of Cornish Place Names is provided by Owain Holland who runs the Cornish Language Podcast site on Spotify. This can be listened to without signing up to Spotify and is an easy listening podcast where Owain talks about the Cornish language in English.
Owains podcast is now updated to January 2025 and available to listen to. He talks about learning Cornish, where to find classes and also his experiences with his young son learning Kernewek. Useful stuff for any families wanting to encourage bilingualism in young children. Click the Cornish Language Podcast logo to access latest podcast.
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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.
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Click above to access Celtic Nation Kernow free membership page
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:
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:
