Cornish people
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Cornish people or the Cornish are an ethnic group native to, or associated with Cornwall and a recognised national minority in the United Kingdom, which can trace its roots to the ancient Britons who
The Union and Cornish flags.
A poster in Cornwall telling people how to describe their ethnicity and national identity as Cornish in the 2011 census
Mên-an-Tol is an ancient lith site in Cornwall
A silver mining museum in Mineral del Monte, a remnant of the Cornish migration to Mexico during the early-19th century.
The constitutional status of Cornwall has been a matter of debate and dispute. Cornwall is currently an administrative county of England, with movements advocating for Cornwall to be regarded separate
Roman Britannia showing those areas under Roman rule and the position of Dumnonia as a part of Roman Britain
The British Isles c. 802, showing "West Wales Cornwall" across the Tamar from Wessex
An imaginative 16th-century illustration of the English parliament in front of Edward I. From its foundation until 1707, it intermittently included areas not now considered to be in England, e.g., Wales was represented in the parliament from 1536 onwards. At other times, Berwick-upon-Tweed and Calais were included, but Berwick was not formally incorporated into England until the 19th century.
A line drawing of the Domesday Book. Notably, large swathes of northern England, Winchester and London do not appear in it, but Cornwall does.