Garry Tregidga
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Garry Harcourt Tregidga is an academic at the Institute of Cornish Studies
in the United Kingdom.
in South West Britain since 1918: Political Decline, Dormancy and Rebirth. (2000) and a co-author of Mebyon Kernow and Cornish Nationalism (2003).
In 1998 he founded the Cornish History Network, a research forum based at the Institute. Two years later his growing interest in the potential of oral history
and cultural memory led to the creation of the Cornish Audio Visual Archive (CAVA) for the study and documentation of the region’s oral and visual culture.
In 2002 he was awarded £172,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund
and other funding sources for the development of Cornish Braids, a two-year fieldwork programme at the Institute that seeks to create a multigenerational profile of Cornish life in the twentieth century. The work of CAVA has recently been extended into the areas of project analysis and commercial development through Garry’s successful application for funding from the European Social Fund
.
CAVA seeks to build on the pioneering work of the Cornish Oral History Forum in the late 1990s and the Cornish Film and Video Archive a decade earlier. CAVA is keen to encourage wider participation in the research and recording process through a long-term programme of educational and cultural initiatives.
Based at the Institute of Cornish Studies and led by Dr Garry Tregidga, the Institute’s Assistant Director, the CAVA initiative is being developed in partnership with the College of St Mark & St John
, Cornwall Centre
, Cornwall Heritage Trust, Cornwall Record Office
and the National Trust
. This network of educational establishments, resource providers and heritage organisations is further strengthened through the active involvement of associated groups and individuals throughout Cornwall. CAVA is also keen to develop wider links with cultural, educational and archival institutions in other parts of the world, particularly those with an interest in the oral and visual dimension to regional cultures and identities.
, near St Austell was named as a Bard of the Cornish Gorseth for services to Cornish history, taking the name "Map Rosvean" - "Son of Rosevean".
Institute of Cornish Studies
The Institute of Cornish Studies is a research institute in west Cornwall: it started in 1970/71 as a research centre jointly funded by Exeter University and Cornwall County Council, with three core staff being employees of the University of Exeter...
in the United Kingdom.
Academic career
Garry Tregidga undertook both his MPhil and PhD degrees with the University of Exeter. He was appointed as the Assistant Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies in October 1997 and lives in his native mid-Cornwall. He has published a wide range of articles on Cornish themes and is the author of The Liberal PartyLiberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
in South West Britain since 1918: Political Decline, Dormancy and Rebirth. (2000) and a co-author of Mebyon Kernow and Cornish Nationalism (2003).
In 1998 he founded the Cornish History Network, a research forum based at the Institute. Two years later his growing interest in the potential of oral history
Oral history
Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews...
and cultural memory led to the creation of the Cornish Audio Visual Archive (CAVA) for the study and documentation of the region’s oral and visual culture.
In 2002 he was awarded £172,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund
Heritage Lottery Fund
The Heritage Lottery Fund is a fund established in the United Kingdom under the National Lottery etc. Act 1993. The Fund opened for applications in 1994. It uses money raised through the National Lottery to transform and sustain the UK’s heritage...
and other funding sources for the development of Cornish Braids, a two-year fieldwork programme at the Institute that seeks to create a multigenerational profile of Cornish life in the twentieth century. The work of CAVA has recently been extended into the areas of project analysis and commercial development through Garry’s successful application for funding from the European Social Fund
European Social Fund
The European Social Fund is the European Union’s main financial instrument for supporting employment in the Member States as well as promoting economic and social cohesion. ESF spending amounts to around 10% of the EU’s total budget....
.
CAVA
The Cornish Audio-Visual Archive (CAVA) was created in 2000 for the study and documentation of the oral and visual culture of Cornwall. It advocates an innovative and interdisciplinary approach towards interpreting the events of the past and present that harnesses the multimedia power of oral history, cultural memory, sociolinguistics, ethnomusicology, film representations, photographic studies and landscape narrative.CAVA seeks to build on the pioneering work of the Cornish Oral History Forum in the late 1990s and the Cornish Film and Video Archive a decade earlier. CAVA is keen to encourage wider participation in the research and recording process through a long-term programme of educational and cultural initiatives.
Based at the Institute of Cornish Studies and led by Dr Garry Tregidga, the Institute’s Assistant Director, the CAVA initiative is being developed in partnership with the College of St Mark & St John
College of St Mark & St John
The University College Plymouth St Mark & St John, commonly referred to as Marjon, is a higher education campus based university college on the edge of Plymouth, England.- History :...
, Cornwall Centre
Cornish Studies Centre
For other uses of the name "Cornwall Centre" see Cornwall Centre.The Cornish Studies Centre is in a building called The Cornwall Centre. It is Cornwall's largest library of Cornish printed and published archival material. It contains a wide range of resources for everyday use and academic...
, Cornwall Heritage Trust, Cornwall Record Office
Cornwall Record Office
Cornwall Record Office , part of Cornwall Council, is situated at Old County Hall in Truro and is the main repository for the historical archives of Cornwall....
and the National Trust
National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty
The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as the National Trust, is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland...
. This network of educational establishments, resource providers and heritage organisations is further strengthened through the active involvement of associated groups and individuals throughout Cornwall. CAVA is also keen to develop wider links with cultural, educational and archival institutions in other parts of the world, particularly those with an interest in the oral and visual dimension to regional cultures and identities.
Bard
Dr Garry Tregidga of BugleBugle, Cornwall
Bugle is a village in central Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is in the parish of Treverbyn and is situated about five miles north of St Austell on the A391 road....
, near St Austell was named as a Bard of the Cornish Gorseth for services to Cornish history, taking the name "Map Rosvean" - "Son of Rosevean".
Publications
- Map Kenwyn : the life and times of Cecil Beer / by Garry Tregidga and Treve Crago; Cornwall : Gorseth Kernow, 2000. ISBN 190366800x
- The Liberal Party in South-West Britain since 1918 : political decline, dormancy and rebirth / Garry Tregidga; Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2000. ISBN 085989679x
- Mebyon Kernow and Cornish nationalism / Bernard DeaconBernard DeaconBernard W. Deacon is a multidisciplinary academic, based at the Institute of Cornish Studies of the University of Exeter at the Tremough Campus. He has an Open University doctorate and displays his thesis on the ICS website.-Academic career:...
, Dick Cole and Garry Tregidga; Cardiff : Welsh Academic Press, 2003. ISBN 1860570755
- Killerton, Camborne and Westminster : the political correspondence of Sir Francis and Lady Acland, 1910-29 / edited by Garry Tregidga (Series: Devon and Cornwall Record Society ; volume 48); Exeter : Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 2006. ISBN 0901853488