A short series on the collection, identification and preservation of family photographs; how to interpret the images you find and their significance for the social historian. Do you have a family photograph album or simply one of those boxes stored in the attic and piled full of old snapshots, or even strips of celluloid ‘negatives’?…Continue Reading “Unpacking Your Memories: Looking into the Family Photograph Album”
Emily Marsh, studying Creative Writing at Falmouth University, relates her journey to and from Cornwall through the years and tries to underpin what makes this charming county so important to come back to. The long drive down the A30 is all too familiar to me now. Some of my most vivid memories of childhood are…Continue Reading “Calling Cornwall Home”
Enya Nwaegbe is an English with Creative Writing undergraduate at Falmouth University. In this article, she relates on her first experiences of Cornwall from when she was a child to what it’s like to live here now as a student completing her degree. The first time I ever stepped foot in Cornwall I was either nine…Continue Reading “Memories in Cornwall: Then and Now”
Aysha Bryant, studying Journalism at Falmouth University, gives her account of a place in Falmouth that means the most to her. Everyone has that one place that touches them and this – this view by the sea – is mine. It has everything. Falmouth harbour, the castle, the pretty boats and the dainty little village across the…Continue Reading “Home Beside The Sea”
Under St. Piran’s Flag is a short documentary film and report of the travels of two students – Kateřina Hassmanová and Lucie Javůrková from the University of Life Sciences Prague in the Czech Republic. These two students visited the westernmost tip of Great Britain twice – in 2012 and 2013. In 2012, their colleague Filip Ivanov…Continue Reading “Under St Piran’s Flag”
Truro Festival, an annual celebration of art, culture and music, held a talk over their celebration week titled ‘Cornwall In My Soul’ led by the county’s ever popular myCornwall magazine. The talk was held in a yurt tent on Lemon Quay. As guests entered, they were met with current issues of myCornwall magazine which were…Continue Reading “‘Cornwall In My Soul’”