Articles and Talks

Papers

Books

  • History of Archaeoastronomy, Society for the History of Astronomy Press (2026)
  • Stone Circles, Reaktion Press (2026)
  • Moon, Dorling Kingsley (multi-authored) 2025
  • Cosmos, Dorling Kingsley (multi-authored) 2024
  • An Archaoastronomy Grand Tour of ancient stone monuments of Devon and Cornwall, Mayes Creative, 2024 https://issuu.com/mayescreative/docs/front_cover-combined
  • Uranus and Neptune – Kosmos series, Reaktion Books. (2022)
  • Prehistoric Sites of Bodmin Moor, (2022)
  • Neptune: From Controversial Discovery to Reigning Giant of the Outer Solar System. Editors William Sheehan, Robert W. Smith, Trudy. E. Bell and Carolyn Kennett (2021), Publisher Springer.
  • Watching the Sun Booklet (2020), Editors Carolyn Kennett and Cheryl Straffon. Published by Mayes Creative and Meyn Mamvro
  • Celestial Stone Circles of West Cornwall: Reflections of the sky in an ancient landscape (2018) ISBN-13: 978-1973529125

A selection of appearances/talks

Bronze Age and Astronomy BBC Sky at Night November 2024 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0k379nl

Moonlit Monuments: Exploring the Lunar Standstill Season in the Bronze Age Granite Uplands of Southwest UK. JORNADA RESEARCH INSTITUTE New Mexico USA 2025 Archaeoastronomy & Celestial Geometry Conference.

Dan Brown and Carolyn Kennett (2025). Immersive experiences to communicate sky heritage and dark skies. Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal CAP Conference, Cité de l’espace in Toulouse, France, from 23 to 28 June 2024.

Mary Proctor – British Astronomical Association historical section Exeter 2025

Walking with the Ancients 2025 Cornwall Heritage Trust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkmuSLQ8oDA

Dark Skies In Cornwall’s Protected Landscape National Landscapes (2025) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pa9KhKql4s

Weighing the World – the Dolcoath Mine experiments with George Biddel Airy – Keynote speaker Society for the History of Astronomy https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=HBAWHTBcRw8

Prehistoric Bodmin Moor – Megalithamania 2023

Equinox at St Ives Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09PPPxqdTq8

Uranus and Neptune – Nottingham Trent University 2023

A chat on Out of the Blank with American Podcaster Robb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khIJCiiGsEY&t=1s

6000 years of Astronomy History Oct 2021/2 Cosmos, Dark Skies Week, Isles of Scilly.

Wild Skies Film made for the Tin Coast. https://tincoast.co.uk/stories/wild-skies/

Neptune – Society for the History of Astronomy. May 2021

The Hurlers, JSA/Sophia Centre Skyscape Archaeology Keynote Lecture Series http://sophia-project.net/lectures-and-seminars/keynotes/skyscape-lectures-oct2020-mar2021.php Oct 2020

Watching the Sun with Cheryl Straffon, this talk can be viewed here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RheNiCXF6OQ&feature=youtu.be Sept 2020

One big question? Where on Earth actually is the Earth? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08j379c Jun 2020 Radio Cornwall with Jack Murley.

Jun 2020 Society of Popular Astronomy, Pop Astro with Vicky Duncalf. The Summer Solstice Special https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=293808848668951&ref=watch_permalink

May 2020 Astro Radio with Pete Williamson. Talking all things solar and ancient monuments.

Jan 2020 Miners and Mechanics Institute. The History of Astronomy in Cornwall

Nov 2019 The Tate St Ives – Measuring the Universe with Mayes Creative.

Sept 2019 Cohort, St Ives Festival – 400 Lightyears and the Transit of Venus.

Sept 2019 Dark Skies Stakeholder Event – The Wonders of the Night Sky.

July 2019 Avanti Communications Ltd, History of Astronomy in Cornwall.

June 2019 Helston Museum of Cornish Life, 400 Light Years and the Transit of Venus.

May 2019 Cornwall Archaeological Society AGM, Astronomy and Ancient Penwith.

2018 St Hilary Churchtown Museum – Malachy Hichens and the First Computers.

Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University, The Heritage of Astronomy in Ancient Cornwall – Archaeoastronomy Heritage in West Penwith.

March 2018 Royal Cornwall Museum, Astronomical Heritage of East Cornwall (covering archaeoastronomy on Bodmin Moor).

Selection of Articles

Researching the Hurlers: Mapping the Sun (2013), Reading the Hurlers (2016) with Nowakowski, J, A. and Gossip, J. Cornwall Archaeology (2021) Vol 60, p205

The Milky Way – A Visual Perception  Through Time, JSA 8.1 (2022) 64–67

Archaeoastronomy, 20th Anniversary Society for the History of Astronomy Book, 2022.

The Meteorite Age, Yearbook in Astronomy 2021.

Tregriffin Vean, Meyn Mamvro Vol 2 Issue 4, 2021

Lighting the Darkness: Cross-based urns. Meyn Mamvro, Vol 1. Issue 100. 2020
Burying the Sun, Yearbook in Astronomy 2021.
The Mythical Milky Way, Astronomy Now Magazine (June 2020)
Stars and Stones, Popular Astronomy (March 2020)
Meteorite use in Prehistory, Yearbook in Astronomy 2020
Cross-Based Urns and the Winter Solstice, Meyn Mamvro Issue 100
The Legend of Goonhilly, Astronomy Now Magazine (July 2019)
Superlative Sirius, Astronomy Now Magazine (Jan 2019)
Best places to see the Winter Solstice, Astronomy Now Magazine (Dec 2018)
A Medieval Search for Planet Nine, Astronomy Now Magazine (Oct 2018)
Through the Lens of Time, Sky at Night Magazine (June 2018)
Sun and Moon at Boscawen-un, Meyn Mamvro (2018) A Journal from a Mystery Man (Archibald Blair), Bulletin Magazine (March 2016)
Adventures in Archaeoastronomy 3 part series Bulletin Magazine (2016-2017)