Emily Cunningham (PHD student, History)

Emily Cunningham is a PHD student of History at the University of Exeter and specialises in Everyday History in Cornwall. She is currently researching the emotive experience of environment in Nineteenth Century Cornwall, exploring the links between weather and landscape and how people felt about them.  Through this research she is highlighting the Cornish relationship to different environments throughout the county – for example, mines, coasts and farming. Emily is also working on the Cornish Artisan Heritage Project, which works to synthesise and maintain knowledge of Cornish Handcrafts in local communities. Her personal specialism is in Cornish knitting history, skills and techniques, and in her free time reproduces historical ganseys. 
 
Email: er485@exeter.ac.uk