History of Cornwall

The history of Cornwall goes back to the Paleolithic, but in this period Cornwall only had sporadic visits by groups of humans. Continuous occupation started around 10,000 years ago after the end of the last ice age. When recorded history started in the first century BCE, the spoken language was Common Brittonic, and that would develop into Southwestern Brittonic and then the Cornish language. Cornwall was part of the territory of the tribe of the Dumnonii that included modern-day Devon and parts of Somerset. After a period of Roman rule, Cornwall reverted to rule by independent Romano-British leaders and continued to have a close relationship with Brittany and Wales as well as southern Ireland, which neighboured across the Celtic Sea. After the collapse of Dumnonia, the remaining territory of Cornwall came into conflict with neighbouring Wessex.
By the middle of the ninth century, Cornwall had fallen under the control of Wessex, but it kept its own culture. In 1337, the title Duke of Cornwall was created by the English monarchy, to be held by the king's eldest son and heir. Cornwall, along with the neighbouring county of Devon, maintained Stannary institutions that granted some local control over its most important product, tin, but by the time of Henry VIII most vestiges of Cornish autonomy had been removed as England became an increasingly centralised state under the Tudor dynasty. Conflicts with the centre took place with the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 and Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549.
By the end of the 18th century, Cornwall was administered as an integral part of the Kingdom of Great Britain along with the rest of England and the Cornish language had gone into steep decline. The Industrial Revolution brought huge change to Cornwall, as well as the adoption of Methodism among the general populace, turning the area nonconformist. Decline of mining in Cornwall resulted in mass emigration overseas and the Cornish diaspora, as well as the start of the Celtic Revival and Cornish revival which resulted in the beginnings of Cornish nationalism in the late 20th century.

[@davidbrown5185]

Great pity you didn’t have more images of Cornwall. I got so fed up of seeing the same few repeated over and over.

[@ballisticdan9135]

The Romans never ruled Cornwall

[@constantius4654]

This is a very good and enjoyable history of Cornwall, though surely there are six Celtic nations rather than five: Brittany, Cornwall, Ireland, Wales, Scotland and the Isle of Man. Does Galicia is north western Spain also count as Celtic?.

[@lindathomas5500]

Trust me it’s not…. There are soooo many things wrong, and don’t get me started on the fact they couldn’t be bothered to do any research, so that they don’t sound like an idiot pronouncing our Cornish place names!

[@kevindurand3237]

It should count I would say

[@rakadoni8403]

Why this voice?

[@sandratogneri9982]

Very interesting .....XXX

[@lindathomas5500]

If it wasn’t for all those Cornish tin miners, Stephen king would never have had the title the tommy knockers lol…. Knockers are mine piskies, our miners used to throw their crusts into the mines for the knockers. So they didn’t cause mischief. They were supposed to warn us of a mine cave in as they knocked on the walls of the mine.

[@lindathomas5500]

Oh for the love of, at least do the research to make sure you are pronouncing place names correctly.

[@lindathomas5500]

Ok just realised, you’ve literally lifted all of this from Wikipedia Timeline of Cornish History lol….

[@jakdagger1076]

Interesting apart from the butchering of the place names.

[@MegaBoilermaker]

Tintagel is pronoumcrd TintA gel agel and Fowey is Foy.