Impress your friends with your wide knowledge of recent academic work on Cornwall …
Tanya Krzywinska and Ruth Heholt claim that Cornwall has inspired Gothic novelists and explain the composition of ‘Gothic Cornwall’, simultaneously exciting and disturbing, attractive yet terrifying.
Constantine Manolchev presents the narrative of a daffodil picker from Bulgaria working on a Cornish farm who, despite promotion and good pay, was experiencing precarity and frustration.
Hilary Orange explores the connection between Cornwall’s mining heritage and its identity. She focuses on twentieth century mobility and the construction of a more international mines labour force in Cornwall, asking if this undermined the image of the ‘industrial Celt’.
Cornish studies resources 
My “Cornish Connection” dates back to Roman times when my Cornish ancestors the Dumnonia Tribe apparently reached some type of an accommodation with the Romans until the later Anglo Saxon invasion forced them to emigrate to Brittany. When I visited the church in Brittany that my ancestor was baptized in the priest directed my gaze across the Channel and pointed out the skyline of Cornwall. Isn’t it time to form a Pan-Celtic Alliance to include modern day Celtic adherents from the British Isles, Ireland, Brittany? William Gueguen Gouveia
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Mining heritage. I wonder how strong that link with identity is amongst say farmers, fishers and say boat builders who might have a different source of identity?
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