Online Talk – KK

'The parish next door' free online talk with Dr Sharron Schwartz

Join Dr Sharron Schwartz for an online talk on ‘The parish next door’, about Cornish mineworkers in South Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The talk will take place online on Tuesday 20 August at 3pm, via Zoom.

About the speaker: Sharron Schwartz, born and bred in Redruth, received her doctorate at the University of Exeter on the Cornish in Latin America. She set up the Cornish Global Migration Programme in the late-1990s, was the documentary researcher for the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site Bid and Leverhulme Research Fellow in Migration Studies at the Institute of Cornish Studies. She is the author of a number of scholarly articles and books, including Lanner a Cornish Mining Parish (1998), Voices of the Cornish Mining Landscape (2008), Mining a Shared Heritage: Mexico’s ‘Little Cornwall’ (2011), and The Cornish in Latin America: Cousin Jack and the New World (2016). She manages the website cousinjacksworld.com and has visited numerous areas of Cornish interest worldwide, including South Africa.

Book your free tickets now over on our Ticket Tailor event page at: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/kresenkernow/1342095?

If you are unable to make this online talk live, it will be recorded and added to our YouTube channel a few weeks after the talk.