History and culture
Tyskennow Kernow – Screen Cornwall. Contemporary and archive films about Cornwall, Kernewek and Cornish identity
Timeline of Cornish History on Wikipedia. Very partial, biased and incomplete. What can we do to improve this content? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Cornish_history
Kresen Kernow Collections Guides
Kresen Kernow Cornish language and culture guide
Cornwall Forever – Kernow Bys Vyken. Cornish history sources.
Cornish Memory (Photographic, film and audio collections)
Kernewek/Cornish language resources: https://gocornish.org
Online Cornish dictionary: https://www.cornishdictionary.org.uk/
Cornwall Online Parish Clerks: https://www.opc-cornwall.org
History of Cornish National Minority status
The UK Government’s statement, April 2014:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cornish-granted-minority-status-within-the-uk
Cornish National Minority information by Cornwall Council:
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/community-and-living/equality-and-diversity/cornish-national-minority/
National resources with Cornish content
Legacies of British Slave-ownership. Many Cornish claims for compensation and records of plantation ownership and enslaved people.
The National Archives catalogue
British Newspaper Archive [subscription required. 30-day free trial]
National Trust collections (including Cornwall)
ArtUK. Paintings in public collections (including Cornwall)
Culture Grid. UK collections across museums, libraries and history groups
Europeana. Europe-wide collections that can be cross-searched
Sketchfab. 3D digital models of objects
Sources of collections expertise for cultural research
Mapping Museums Project. Information on current and defunct museums in the UK. http://museweb.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/home
Subject Specialist Networks (SSNs). Funded by Arts Council England: https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/sites/default/files/download-file/SSN_contact_list_june2019_0.pdf
Social History Curators’ Group firstBASE: http://www.shcg.org.uk/firstBASE-home
DATS: Dress and Textile Specialists: https://www.dressandtextilespecialists.org.uk
Society for Museum Archaeology: http://socmusarch.org.uk/
The Photographic Collections Network: https://www.photocollections.org.uk/about
Natural Sciences Collections Association: https://www.natsca.org/ssn
Collections Trust. All things about managing and recording collections: https://collectionstrust.org.uk/resources-start/