This spring we’re throwing a spotlight on the brilliant work done by International nurses at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust. Too often we know little about their stories and background. Our project, Through My Lens, aims to change that.  We’ve run a series of photography workshops for the nurses who have learned a little […]

The ‘Through My Lens’ project, a collaboration between the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and the charity Bridging Arts, will be exhibited from March 2025 as part of a major relaunch of Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery (formerly known as the Royal Cornwall Museum). In 2023, a group of international nurses from the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS […]

Nearly 106 years after her death,  a photo has been discovered of Maybelle Stoneman – one of the two young women who were killed in a factory in the National Explosives Factory, Hayle, on 20 December 1916. The factory at the time was producing munitions for the Front and was one of the largest in […]

Issues around migration – and the role played by workers from overseas – are even more in the spotlight now than they were when we started our project, I PACKED THIS MYSELF. Here’s a reminder of the suitcases we created with people from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia  – and a host of other countries – who […]

A morning (15 May 2023) in brilliant sunshine at Madron Primary School in west Cornwall – talking about a refugee’s life and learning a few words of Arabic. A stunning view overlooking Mount’s Bay from the playground in this tiny school – scooters lined up here in the bike rack. Rawda Alater spoke about her […]