In terms of heritage, visibility and identity, this inclusive introduction to Cornish could be crucial.
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Unlike wind and solar which are weather-dependent sources of renewable energy, geothermal heat can produce energy steadily, day and night, all year round.
In advance of the release of the 2025 UK critical minerals strategy, the excitement for onshoring mining cannot ignore local experiences.
Take a world tour of monsters, from vampires in Serbia and giants in Cornwall to festivals of dragons in Bavaria and werewolves in Louisiana.
When ice gets trapped on land as giant ice sheets, it causes the sea level to change, but it doesn’t change by the same amount all around the planet.
Legal expert on the obscure law that makes King Charles and Prince Williams the heirs of people who die without wills or close relatives in Lancashire and Cornwall.
Efforts to launch rockets into space from the UK need to demonstrate reliability.
With the arrival of Cosmic Girl in Cornwall, the UK is preparing for its first rocket launch.
After the acrimony of the Trump years, we can expect a very different feel to the latest G7 summit.
Wild coastlines, rich folklore and a sense that it’s a place unto itself, at once England and not, has made Cornwall the ideal setting for Gothic tales.
New installation recreates the small world of this hugely influential, but largely unknown, Scottish poet.
In 1825, more than 130 Cornish miners and engineers landed in Mexico to work in the silver mines. Their legacy lives on.
Archaeologists believed there was too little left from the time of the saint who Christianised the Scottish Picts to prove the legend. Turns out they were wrong.
New lithium stores in Cornwall could give the UK a valuable domestic supply of the expensive commodity.
Fishermen had to discard their excess fish – or risk capsizing.
Poldark’s historical consultant on how she mulled over questions such as what an 18th century Cornish bank might look like and whether women would get drunk in taverns.
The literary hero represents a sea change in the region’s history.
Funding cuts could finally decimate one of Britain’s oldest surviving languages.
The reach of the Vikings in England went further than we thought.
There’s much more to the naked male bodies of these programmes than the simple titillation that meets the eye.
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Archaeology Project Support Officer, University of Glasgow
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Vice Provost, Faculty of Arts & Co-founder of the Centre for Television Histories, University of Warwick, University of Warwick
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Chair in Sustainable Global Resources, UCL
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Lecturer in English, University of Exeter
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Cornish language scholar and lecturer, University of Kent
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Teaching Fellow in English, University of Warwick
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Head of the Division of Criminology, Politics and Sociology, University of Huddersfield
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Chercheur au Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) – Université Paris-Saclay
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Teaching Fellow of Archaeology, University of Exeter
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Senior Lecturer, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia
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Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of York
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Chief Scientist, Heriot-Watt University
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Senior Lecturer in French Linguistics, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London