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In honour of World AIDS day on 1 December and Trans Day of Remembrance on 24 November, Queer Kernow are hosting a ‘Queer Collections Day’ at Kresen Kernow. Don’t let your story get lost. Book your free space on our Ticket Tailor event page #queerkernow Cornwall 365 What's On

Have you visited our current exhibition ‘Cornish Connections’ yet? It highlights a recent addition to our collections – a photograph album, created by Nicholas Holman, who left for South Africa with his family in 1899. #mining #telegraphy PK Porthcurno Museum of Global Communications KEM Workspace Units

Especially for the Redruth in Lights event, join us on Saturday 30 November for Rainbow Stars! Free! Pop in between 10am-12pm and 1-3pm, to make a beautiful star out of colourful wax paper and copies of maps from our collections. @discoverredruth #redruthinlights

Our Weekly Reads for November continue to look at novels inspired by Cornwall with ‘Through a granite mirror’ by Pauline Sheppard, described as ‘an incisive look at the land itself, the Cornish hedges and the way we connect with our past and our roots’. #weeklyreads

In honour of World AIDS day on 1 Dec and Trans Day of Remembrance on 24 Nov, Queer Kernow are hosting a ‘Queer Collections Day’ at Kresen Kernow. Come and explore local Cornish history and don’t let your story get lost. Book on our Ticket Tailor page. #queerkernow

Ever fancied learning a bit of Cornish? Drop into this special Christmas session and pick up a few words and phrases. Just for this Christmas session, please book your free space now, click the link in our BIO. #speakcornish

Especially for the Redruth in Lights event, join us on Saturday 30 November to make rainbow window stars! Pop in between 10am-12pm and 1-3pm, to make a beautiful star from colourful wax paper. Free! @discoverredruth #redruthinlights #christmaslightswtichon #festivecrafts

Today’s Explore Your Archives theme is ‘heroes’ 🦸‍♀️ Our Cornish Heroes school workshop is a celebration of Cornish people past and present including Rowena Cade (who built the Minack Theatre!) and John Couch Adams (discovered Neptune just by using maths!) @exploreyourarchive

Join us for ‘In Their Own Words’, a free online talk exploring Cornwall’s international mining and telecommunication connections, through the lives and words of the people employed in those industries. Tuesday 3 December, 3-4pm. buytickets.at/kresenkernow/1…

Join us live from kresenkernow as we take a deep dive into Cornwall’s treasured archives Listen in here from 10 🎧➡️ bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0k…

We’ve arrived! 📖 The archive was built in the shell of the former Redruth Brewery and opened as kresenkernow in 2019. Join is live from Redruth 🎧➡️ bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0k…

Deborah Tritton is the Archive Services Manager at kresenkernow This means she works with over 1.5 million Cornish records, books and maps!🗺️

What is the oldest archive at Kresen Kernow? One of the oldest is this deed referencing a grant of land in Lostwithiel that is 800 years old! 📜

Have you ever looked into your family tree?🌳🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Katrina Griffiths helps others to track down their family history kresenkernow Listen back here 🎧➡️ bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0k…

Isn’t history magical!!🪄🧙 These are digitalised prints taken by George Ellis. The collection from 1939-1982 includes approximately 95,000 glass plate negatives!📷 Join us life from kresenkernow 🎧➡️ bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0k…

Amanda Crago is one of the team who has digitalised 12,000 images from George Ellis. The team have around 83,000 glass plate negatives left to work through! 🎞️

Kim Cooper specialises in teaching children about Cornish history with kresenkernow We are live from Redruth until 2, catch up here ➡️🎧 bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0k…

Meet the Radford sisters🎶 This musical trio lived on the Roseland peninsula, they were well known for their musical talents after moving to Cornwall in 1911!🎻🎵

Pupils from Gerrans School visited kresenkernow earlier this autumn to learn more about Cornish history, supplementing their learning in the classroom. Their trip was made possible with the support of our School Transport Grants Scheme. Find out more buff.ly/3U4Ht7L