ELIZABETH DALE AKA THE CORNISH BIRD

Local History

Suggested by Gillian Golding

Elizabeth Dale is a Cornish freelance writer, blogger and podcaster who can trace her family tree in Cornwall back to 1550. After 9 years of travelling the world, visiting more than 50 countries, she returned to Cornwall where she realised she could find some of the best stories on her doorstep. She decided she wanted to share those stories with visitors and locals alike and created her blog, The Cornish Bird.

Elizabeth’s writing aims to bring together lesser-known stories of Cornish history and Cornish folk and make them available to anyone interested. It is important to her to record Cornwall’s cultural treasures. Elizabeth says on her blog, “My aim has always been to preserve local heritage and our cultural history. To tell Cornwall’s untold stories. If we don’t they will be lost forever and a little piece of ourselves will be lost too.”

Gillian says, “Elizabeth tells the stories and histories of Cornwall’s people and places reaching people from all over who would not know the stories and history otherwise. I have learnt much more about my home county Cornwall from her”

Elizabeth writes regularly for local publications and has contributed research and made appearances for national radio and television. This year she is delivering a lecture on “Forgotten Women of the Cornish Coast” at The National Maritime Museum Cornwall.

In 2022 Elizabeth received Cornwall Heritage Trust’s Heritage Champion Award, an award given every year to someone who gives their time and energy in a voluntary capacity and has made a significant contribution to Cornwall’s heritage.