Connecting Cornwall: Telecommunications, Locality and Work in West Britain 1870-1918
Cornwall has a number of significant historical communications sites starting with Porthcurno and ranging over early radio sites at Poldhu and the Lizard to Land’s End and Bodmin Radio and the Satellite station at Goonhilly. The ‘Connecting Cornwall’ project will be using the Cable and Wireless historic archive to develop new research into the communications industry in Cornwall with an emphasis on the Eastern Telegraph Company in the first instance. The intended outcomes will include a fully searchable website that will function as a resource for academic research and provide downloadable podcasts for educational use and for other visitors to the Cornish communications sites.
Project
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Principal investigator
Dr Richard Noakes
Principal project staff
Dr Richard Noakes, Prof Alan Booth, Prof Jo Melling, Dr Wendy Gagen, David Dawson, Robert Chester, Alan Renton, Fiona Chester, Dee Cleary, Charlotte Dando, Libby Buckley
Start date
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Completion date
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Era
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Source material
Material has been taken from the Porthcurno Telegraph Museum Archive and includes: images, letters, diaries, the staff index for the Eastern Telegraph Company, the index to the weekly board meetings of the Eastern Telegraph Company, misc documents.
Material has also been used from other archives including BT Archives, Imperial War Museum (all archives), Cornwall Country Records Office, the National Archives, The Huntley Archive, Cornish Studies Library, The Courtney Library, The Archive of Modern Conflict, The Guildhall London, The Marconi Collection (The Bodleian Library, Oxford), The Wellcome Library, the Institute for Engineering and Technology Archive, and the British Postal Museum and Archive.
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