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Nigel Pengelly

Cornish communications and keeping in touch with our cousins in the 21st century

In between spells of helping his father on the family dairy farm, Nigel Pengelly has been engaged in media and journalism for more than 20 years.
From the initial phase of writing for his university newsletter, Nigel progressed to newspaper journalism becoming a news reporter and then a subeditor at Cornwall and Devon Media.
He set up two publishing companies in Cornwall before taking over as editor of Code; a national men�s lifestyle magazine.

Feeling a call to return to Kernow, he took over the helm of Cornish World. Cornish World was a magazine of international Cornish interests with subscribers in 34 countries worldwide. The publication sought to maintain and promote Cornish culture and heritage. The magazine won awards and aims to preserve the Cornish cultural identity as well as offering a vehicle for commentary on Cornish affairs.

Since leaving Cornish World, Nigel is now the editor of The Celtic Link � a new magazine aimed at linking the international Celtic diaspora. He lives in Penzance, where he was born, with his wife Serena and two sons Joseph and Jago.

Sharron Schwartz

The Cornish in Latin America: 'Cousin Jack' and the New World

Sharron P. Schwartz is a native of Redruth and a history graduate of London University. She completed her PhD on Cornish migration to Latin America in 2003 at the University of Exeter.

She set up the Cornish Global Migration Programme to trace Cornish migrants worldwide at Redruth under the aegis of Exeter University where she became Research Fellow in Migration Studies. Sharron has a deep interest in metalliferous mining and migration, and was the documentary researcher for the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, Cornwall Council.

She has published widely on mining communities and migration, including Lanner: A Cornish Mining Parish (1998), Voices of the Cornish Mining Landscape (2008), and Mining a Shared Heritage: Mexico�s Little Cornwall� (2011). She is presently completing her latest book, The Cornish in Latin America: �Cousin Jack and the New World�.

Sharron now lives in Ireland with her partner and has advised the Irish Government on World Heritage issues, and worked on the Clonmacnoise Cultural Landscape World Heritage Site Bid. She is currently involved in an EU-funded bilateral project (Wales and Ireland) to promote and valorise the mining heritage of Glendalough and Glendasan in County Wicklow.