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Dr Kensa Broadhurst

@drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social
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Cornish Language @exeter.ac.uk AFHEA, ATCL. Associate Fellow @royalhistsoc.org Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh. Music, rugby, books, and animals also feature.

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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#Culturalappropriation on #Pointless just now. Please learn how to say #Cornish words properly if you’re going to use our language 😡🤮
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The face of a cat who currently has 2 different medications in 2 different bowls and won’t touch either of them… the alternative is going to London to be injected with something radioactive and staying in a lead-lined kennel. 😳
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#Concert in #Cornwall next Friday 👇
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Kresen Kernow @kresenkernow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
August's #WeeklyReads celebrates Holyer an Gof award winners. 📚 This week ‘The Cornish Language in the Nineteenth Century’ by Kensa Broadhurst, which challenges the long-held belief that Cornish became extinct in 1777 and explores its continued use and preservation.
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... I was happy to be involved with a discussion about endangered languages on the BBC World Service this afternoon
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BBC World Service - Outside Source, Venezuela twin earthquakes one month on
More than 5,300 people are confirmed to have died in the quakes
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I was stunned to receive the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies Cup at the Gorsedh Kernow book awards this evening for the best book in the history classes
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Watching #EnolaHolmes 3. A) It’s rubbish. B) How they are saying that actor playing Tewkesbury can be #JamesBond is beyond comprehension
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Loving that Macron has had a proper word with all the players in the #Top14 final
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Me voilà à Strasbourg. About to enter the Conseil d’Europe to talk about research on Kernewek
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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Ahead of the #WorldCup Katy Humberstone from @hass-cornwall.bsky.social @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk spoke to BBC Radio Cornwall about the links between the Duchy and Cornwall - and why football fans there eat pasties! 🪅 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Julie Skentelbery - 11/06/2026 - BBC Sounds
Daytimes with Julie Skentelbery, where Cornwall comes to talk. Call: 0808 100 1039.
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
New friend on our back door this evening/ Koweth nowydh war again daras an gorthugher ma #stickinsect
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Just come across another #JohnProctor interpreter for the Creek tribe in 1766
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
celtic-studies.org/events/ I’m delighted to announce that Cornish will be the language of this year’s CSANA summer school. Details, including how to enrol, below:
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Events - Celtic Studies Association of North America
Virtual Summer Workshop - Modern Cornish May 25 - July 27 (10 Weeks): Tuesdays & Thursdays from 10:00 - 11:30 am (ET)(Go to the event post on the Home page for clickable links) The tcheu-tcheu: Percep...
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FOUNDATION FOR FELINE RENAL RESEARCH @felinerenalresrch.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
@treasurymog.bsky.social Feline Chronic Kidney Disease claims the lives of approx. 1 in 3 of our beloved cats. Would you please consider sharing, to raise awareness? Thank Mew:) #FelineCKD, #Caturday.
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I will be giving a talk about the Horizon Europe Revive project next Tuesday in Penzance #endangeredlanguages #Cornish #Griko
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
On Friday 24th the Institute of Cornish Studies and Revive Horizon project are hosting a joint seminar examining aspects of the Revival of Cornish, Griko, and wider language revival issues. Booking and online link both below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reviving-h...
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Reviving Heritage and Languages: Local, European, and Global Perspectives
Hybrid; on Zoom and in Peter Lanyon Lecture Theatre 5 on Penryn campus. ZOOM LINK IN OVERVIEW.
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Gool Peran lowen! Happy St Piran’s Day!
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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Dr @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social from @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk spoke to BBC Radio Wales about why signs in Welsh may have been put up in a Cornish supermarket - and how this could be a positive step forward for the Cornish language #Kernewek www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Radio Wales Breakfast - With Dot Davies and James Williams - BBC Sounds
Everything you need to know as you wake up.
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Ni eth dhe’n Edenva hedhyw. Heb kost o rag dyskadoryon. Meur ras @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Some free time this morning so we went to Baddesley Clinton Nebes termyn gwag an myttin ma ytho ni eth dhe Baddesley Clinton #Kernewek
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Northern lights!!!!! #Cornwall
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
2/3 people in our house didn’t receive the emergency phone alert at 5pm… #Cornwall #storm #redweatherwarning
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Meur ras!
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
So 2 episodes in and the #Nightmanager is still basically Licence to Kill
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Bledhen nowydh da! An myttin ma ni a wrug hwinni a chi gweder. Lemmyn ni a wra goslowes orth keskan an Vienna Philharmonic #Kernewek #Cornish Happy New Year! Spent this morning weeding the greenhouse, now watching this morning’s concert
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Annual claim to fame. I used to teach in the same school as #Nostradamus Obviously not at the same time… apple.news/AGiN_tWR3TCi...
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Nostradamus predictions for 2026 from war to wealth crashes — The Standard
From warnings of war and financial instability to speculation about space and science, Nostradamus’ writings are being revisited as 2026 draws closer
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Happy Tom Bawcock’s Eve! #Cornwall #cat Dydh Tom Bawcock lowen! #Kernewek 📸The Mousehole Cat by Antonia Barber, illustrated by Nicola Bayley
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Ni eth dhe Helygen hedhyw #Kernewek We went to the Night Garden at Heligan today
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Fancy learning some #Cornish #Kernewek next year? I have spaces in my evening classes. Beginners on Tuesdays at 5.30pm GMT. All classes are online. Details below: language-centre.exeter.ac.uk/evening/time...
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Timetable for 2025/26 courses | Language Centre | University of Exeter
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Dr Kensa Broadhurst @drkensabroadhurst.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
#Kernewek speakers! Please consider entering #Cornwall #music festival Mar pleg, gwregh omjunya orth Gool Ilow Kernow nessa mis Meurth! www.cornwallmusicfestival.co.uk
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