Expect collage, drawing, writing, poetry, gossip, games & gloriously chaotic ideas — all made into a shared community zine. No experience needed, all materials provided. Booking essential | 16+ | Queer people & allies welcome. Come as you are. Make something. tiny.cc/kernowqueerp...
Join us Sat 2 May, 11am–3pm, for a one‑day zine‑making workshop with artist James Frost — a friendly, hands‑on session celebrating queer joy, DIY publishing and collective creativity 👇 🏳️🌈🖨️http://tiny.cc/kernowqueerpress
Come along to Storytale Studio! 🐰🦡🎨 Saturday 25 April, 10am–12pm. Make fun Cornish wildlife artworks using mono-printing and lots of imagination. Free, drop‑in and for all ages — little ones can explore, older children can get creative! In collaboration with Redruth Library, funded by SWRLS!
April’s Weekly Read highlights books published in Cornwall, alongside our new exhibition Cornwall in Print. This week: Tor Mark Press near St Day and their Love Cornwall series, including Cornish Curiosities — a pocket guide to Cornwall’s most unusual places. 📚🗺️
What happens to manor maps after they’ve been cleaned and flattened? We recently gave our volunteers a behind‑the‑scenes look at how historic maps move from archive tables to digital layers you can explore online… 👇 #manorialmapproject
Step into Cornwall’s letterpress past in ‘Cornwall in Print’. Learn how type was made, see metal and wood type, and uncover stories of local printers and the women who kept presses alive. Free to visit, with events to follow. #cornwallinprint #printinghistory
Join us for April’s Storytale Studio! Sat 25 April, 10am–12pm 🦡🐰 Create Cornish wildlife art using monoprinting and playful techniques. For all ages. Free, drop‑in. Led by Sophie Stanley‑Butcher (Pop Up Paint Pot) at Redruth Library.
🦋 Spring is here! Drop in this Easter to make bright woolly butterflies and cute caterpillars inspired by Cornwall’s wildlife. Free, fun and perfect for all ages — plus explore our library books on local nature for extra inspiration! No booking needed – Thurs 16 April, 10am-12pm. 🌷🐛
Make your own medieval inspired zigzag calendar! 📅✨Join us TOMORROW 15 April, 10am-12pm, for a free creative workshop with Lambeth Palace Library. Suitable for ages 5+
That longstone (a menhir) was excavated before being moved to Roche. Nearby is Cocksbarrow, where digs found post circles, burials and ritual pits. The tapering commons may meet at ‘Nine Lords Land’. Thanks to Pete Herring, Cornwall Archaeological Society.
Our Manors project continues! 🥳🗺️ We’ve been intrigued by this map of Trewoon Common, rich with archaeological detail. Land west of the common belonged to Mrs Agar of Lanhydrock and appears in the c1695 Lanhydrock Atlas, showing the ‘Levaga alias Long Stone’.
This week at KK:
🕰️ Unfolding Time talk — Tuesday 14 April, 2-3.30pm
📅 Zigzag calendars — Tuesday 14 & Wednesday 15 April, 10am-12pm; 1-3pm
🦋 Springtime butterflies — Thursday 16 April, 10am-12pm
Join us for creative, family friendly fun!
#EasterHolidays #FamilyFun
Join us Sat 25 April, 10am–12pm for Storytale Studio with a Cornish wildlife theme! 🦡🐰 Create monoprints and playful artworks for all ages. Free, drop‑in with Pop Up Paint Pot, in partnership with Redruth Library. #FamilyFun #CreativeCornwall
🦋 Spring is here! Drop in this Easter to make bright woolly butterflies and cute caterpillars inspired by Cornwall’s wildlife. Free, fun and perfect for all ages — plus explore our library books on local nature for extra inspiration! No booking needed – Thurs 16 April, 10am-12pm. 🌷🐛
See high‑quality facsimiles, hear new discoveries from the 2025 Unfolding Time exhibition—and you may even glimpse the original. 👀 Free event, but booking essential via Ticket Tailor. Supported by @heritagefunduk @lampallib
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✨ Discover a 600‑year‑old treasure that fits in your pocket… but unfolds to 2.4m!
Join us Tue 14 April, 2-3.30pm, for a free talk: ‘Unfolding Time in the Rashleigh Calendar’ with curator Dr Sarah Griffin. Explore this rare medieval almanac and its remarkable story.
#medievalcalendar
Make your own medieval inspired zigzag calendar! 📅✨Join us on 14 or 15 April, 10am-12pm, for a free creative workshop with Lambeth Palace Library. Suitable for ages 5+. Spaces are limited - book via Ticket Tailor! buytickets.at/kresenkernow...
DID YOU KNOW? 🌟 Our WI Lanner scrapbook Our Village Today – 1965 is shortlisted for Cornwall Heritage Awards Object of the Year! Celebrating community, it captures village life & traditions. Vote here: letstalk.cornwall.gov.uk/culture-hub/...
Lamellen’s plants reached gardens from Exbury to Japan, while the family continued restoring and expanding the collection. A self‑published history by Felicity & Jeremy Peter‑Hoblyn is held in our library. #atozcornishgardens
🌿 L is for Lamellen 🌿
A valley garden famous for its rhododendrons, shaped over generations of the Magor family. EJP Magor created 100+ hybrids and swapped plants with collectors worldwide.
Join Speak Cornish this Thursday 2 April, 2-3.30pm! A friendly session for beginners or anyone wanting to try a little Kernewek. Free and open to all.
#SpeakCornish #LearnCornish
🧱🖨️ Get creative this Easter! Drop in for Lego letterpress printing with Bristol Common Press at Kresen Kernow on 8 & 9 April, 10am–12pm or 1–3pm. Make your own print using 3D printed type and a portable press. Free & fun for all ages!
This week’s Weekly Read ‘Levant Mine—an anthology’. Explore the stories, people and history of one of Cornwall’s most remarkable mines, from bal maidens to the 1919 tragedy.
#WeeklyReads #LevantMine
Discover one of our favourite historic maps, showing Boconnoc, Bradock and even a Queen’s Highway — helping date it to the Elizabethan era. Spot the barrows, gateposts and hidden details!
#ManorialMonday #OldMaps
Happy Easter! As we enjoy chocolate eggs today, here’s a look back to 1972 when photographer George Ellis captured the opening of the Naval Wives Easter Fair. Bodmin’s Mayor, Mary Kendall, was presented with flowers. Digitised with @IntoBodmin via Roots & Routes.
Looking for fun, creative and family friendly activities this Easter?🐣
We’ve got two full weeks of FREE workshops and drop in makes to keep curious minds and busy hands entertained!
For all ages and drop-in, no need to book!
#easterholidays @cornwall_365 @discoverredruth
In 1950, the Greensplat Methodist Church in St Austell was preparing for the Band of Hope Good Friday tea! 🫖
This is a list of food and drink prices, including two pounds of butter and two quarts of milk – though it states that it ‘should be three quarts of milk’. 🥛
A splendid feast for 60! 😋
For family historians, these records reveal hidden stories of relationships, hardship and social pressure — rare glimpses into lives otherwise sparsely recorded.
To avoid supporting mother and child, parish officials used bastardy bonds to identify the father and compel him to pay for the child’s upkeep. If he refused, the case could go to court or even lead to imprisonment.
This newly catalogued document shows he was even sentenced to three months’ hard labour — a reminder of how seriously these cases were treated.
What exactly was a bastardy bond?
Children labelled “illegitimate” had no automatic rights to their father’s name, inheritance or financial support.
