Cornish Story is an initiative of the Cornish Audio Visual Archive (CAVA) and designed by Project Brokers Digital Media with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund.
CAVA is based at the Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter at Tremough with its recordings publicly available at the Cornwall Centre/Kresenn Kernow in Redruth.
Click here to find out more about the Cornish Audio Visual Archive.
The Cornish Audio Visual Archive (CAVA) recently celebrated its tenth anniversary at the Cornwall Centre in Redruth.
Cornwall’s multimedia archive was established in 2000 as a partnership between the Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter and local resource providers including the Cornish Studies Library and Cornwall Record Office.
Its wide-ranging collection of oral history recordings, video interviews and film material ensures that Its wide-ranging collection of oral history recordings, video interviews and film material ensures that the archive has been able to emerge in recent years as a major cultural and educational resource for Cornwall. Delegates at the tenth anniversary celebrations were able to listen to audio recordings in the collection and watch some of the old films and video interviews that have been recently collected.
Stories told by lovers of Cornwall have been collected over the last ten years and will be explored in this magazine, while our team explores the land for new additions to the archive.
Season's greetings and welcome to the winter edition of Cornish Story, With Christmas nearly here, Cornish Story is striving to bring you all the best that Cornwall has to offer...
If you have any questions or contributions then please email magazine@cornishstory.com
Cornish Story is a digital platform for exploring Cornwall’s cultural heritage. It focuses on the importance of kinship and communal traditions through the presentation of a series of video interviews recorded as part of Narratives of the Family, a multimedia resource project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The collection of short testimony films on this site was produced by Rowan Musser, with additional contributions by Jocelyn Murgatroyd and Tim Robins, in order to highlight the importance of family stories and customs that in some cases have been passed down over several generations.
This experimental use of film forms part of a wider resource of audio-visual material collected by the project and available at the Cornwall Centre/Kresenn Kernow in Redruth. Cornish Story is a key part of a major outreach initiative by CAVA that also includes a book and DVD series on family testimonies distributed free to libraries, museums and resource providers throughout Cornwall. Click here for further details on Narratives of the Family
You can contribute your own story to the website! We would like to hear from anybody who would like to participate including descendants of Cornish families from around the world and members of other ethnic groups that have moved to Cornwall bringing their own oral traditions. The website will also promote Cornish Braids, a collection of oral history recordings established with the support of the HLF and covering such topics as work, religion, politics, leisure and migration, to a wider audience.
Our long-term plan is to develop Cornish Story as a unique cultural resource for Cornwall that builds on these existing collections and we would welcome donations of film (both old and new), music, oral history recordings, photographs and other relevant material relating to Cornwall and the Cornish Diaspora throughout the world.
Narratives of the Family was developed by CAVA in partnership with the Cornwall Family History Society, Cornwall Centre, Cornwall Record Office along with Cornwall’s Equality & Diversity Service and the Cornwall Family History Society.