Save the dates!
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the first Cornish mineworkers to the great silver mines of Real del Monte and Pachuca in Mexico. I am delighted to have worked with the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site on the production of three fabulous banners which highlight this truly remarkable story. These are now on display at key sites across Cornwall and west Devon: Tavistock Guildhall, the King Edward Mine at Troon near Camborne and Geevor Tin Mine Museum. Find out more by clicking here
To continue with the celebration, I will be giving a series of talks during September in Cornwall and in Mexico during October.
Wednesday 11 September: Catch myself and Ainsley Cocks of the World Heritage Site on Radio Cornwall at 11.15, where we will be interviewed about Mexico’s ‘Little Cornwall’ and the bicentenary of the arrival of the first Cornish mineworkers
Thursday 12 September: The Making and Re-making of Mexico’s ‘Little Cornwall’: Some Points for Discussion, Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter, Tremough Campus, 3.00pm-6.00pm. Tickets on sale at Eventbrite
Friday 13th September: ‘Celebrating 200 years of the Cornish arrival in Real del Monte-Pachuca,’ A talk to the Redruth Old Cornwall Society, Wesley Memorial Hall, Redruth, 7.30-8.30pm, Non members, £2
Thursday 19 September: ‘Mexico’s “Little Cornwall”: Two hundred years of the Cornish in Real del Monte and Pachuca,’ a talk in the Mineral Gallery of the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, 6.00-7.00pm. Tickets on sale on Eventbrite
Monday 7 October, ‘The Making of Mexico’s Little Cornwall’, a talk at the behest of the British Society Mexico at the Catcus Club, British Embassy, Mexico City, 7.00-10.00 pm
Thursday 17 October: ‘El pequeño Cornualles de México: celebrando 200 años de herencia compartida’ a talk to the Comarca Minera Geopark, time and venue in Mexico TBA
© Dr Sharron P. Schwartz
Upcoming talks to celebrate the Bicentennial of the Cornish arrival in Real del Monte-Pachuca
Dr. Sharron Schwartz
Specialist in Cornish Mining Migration and transnational communities