Cornish College of the Arts

This paper explores the challenges and solutions involved in restoring a historic landmark while integrating modern thermal efficiency and moisture management techniques. It addresses Bodmin Jail’s architectural heritage and the complexities inherent in conserving its structure, including managing moisture within thick masonry walls and selecting materials compatible with the building’s historic fabric. The paper emphasises the importance of traditional lime mortars and insulation renders, designed to balance thermal performance and moisture control in an exposed environment. The reader will gain insights into conservation strategies that combine traditional and innovative methods, particularly for historic buildings subject to harsh environmental conditions. The paper offers practical knowledge on selecting compatible materials, understanding moisture dynamics within masonry and applying insulating renders in a conservation context. Additionally, readers can expect to learn about the analytical processes used to develop mortars and renders that meet both aesthetic and performance requirements, reinforcing the principles of sympathetic restoration.

As photography takes center stage on today's social media platforms, given the ease of modern capture devices (i.e. mobile phones, point and shoot cameras, tablets, etc.), the ability to produce and publish images occurs at a much quicker rate than the humble Kodak Brownie camera afforded the masses when introduced in January 1900. This enhanced ease has generated an opportunity for the everyday photographer to creatively communicate through the distribution of their images.This paper applies research results from a qualitative visual ethnographic study focusing on the non-verbal posts of a select group of Facebook users. The Dell Hymes' SPEAKING framework was used to structure the visual data; analysis leveraged Gerry Philipsen's Speech Codes Theory and James W. Carey's Ritual Communication Theory contributes to the creation of a communicative framework for the non-verbal social media postings.In conclusion, what emerges through the data is a visual speech code that tacitly leverages traditional photographic genres while at the same time supporting a system of meanings and symbols that enhance the instantaneous posts and communications of the day-to-day ebb and flow of life.

Abstract Since the 1960s much has been written about the decline of the Liberal Party in British politics during the first half of the twentieth century. Yet there is a tendency for historians to focus on the reasons for the demise of the Liberals as a party of government in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. This article seeks to extend Liberal historiography by investigating issues of decline and survival in subsequent decades. It focuses on the political experience of Cornwall, a traditional Liberal stronghold, to highlight the need to consider electoral realignment from a provincial perspective. This was particularly the case in the late 1930s, which tends to be dismissed as a further period of decline for the Liberals culminating in the disastrous election result of 1945. In Cornwall, however, the pre‐war years held out the prospect of a recovery in the general election due by 1940. The possibility of a protest vote on the part of the farming community, combined with a local momentum in favour of a Popular Front with Labour, meant that the Liberals were now in a position to mount a serious challenge to the National government's supremacy at the local level.

Cornwall has been recognised increasingly as an individual component of the United Kingdom’s “multi-national” diversity, part of the series of centre-periphery relationships that obtains within these isles. In addition to the cultural and territorial isolation which characterised the condition of “First Peripheralism”, there was in the era of industrialisation a “Second Peripheralism” of economic and social marginalisation. One consequence of this was the socio-economic “paralysis” which afflicted Cornwall from the end of the nineteenth-century until after the Second World War. Although regional development policies pursued by governments after 1945 appeared to make some contribution to the development of the Cornish economy, in fact they served merely to perpetuate the peripheral condition. The creation of a “branch factory” economy and the emergence of “counterurbanisation” heralded not the incorporation of Cornwall within the United Kingdom’s centre, but revealed the dynamics of peripherality and ushered-in a new era of “Third Peripheralism”.

In 24 infants (mean birth weight 3.3 +/-.09 kg) requiring ECMO, blood flow velocities in the internal carotid arteries were studied using pulsed doppler ultrasound. Systolic, mean and diastolic flow velocities were calculated in cm/s. Four infants had right common carotid repair. Fifteen healthy term babies (mean birth weight 3.4 +/-.11 kg) were used as controls. During ECMO. mean and diastolic flow velocities in the left internal carotid artery increased significantly (p<.05) (mean flow velocity 70%, diastolic flow velocity 123%). After ECMO,- systolic and mean flow velocities in the left internal carotid artery remained significantly elevated when compaired to control (p<.05). During ECMO, 48% of the infants had forward flow in the right internal carotid artery. No differences were found between the blood flow velocities in the left and the forward blood flow velocities in the right internal carotid artery during ECMO. The blood flow velocities in the left and in the right internal carotid artery appear similar in the 4 patients with right common carotid repair. Our results suggest a nigh prevalence of large collaterals between right and left internal carotid artery. The increase in left diastolic flow velocity may be due to ECMO pump action or decreased resistance. Carotid repair appears effective in restoring normal blood flow velocities.