Cornish Studies Volume 6
Cornish Studies: Six

The sixth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.

Contributions by
Tony Champion, Bernard Deacon, Brian Elvins, Ron Elzey, Richard Gendall, Anthony P. Grant, Alan M. Kent, Joanna Mattingly, Emma Mitchell, Philip Payton, Glanville Price, Malcolm Smith, Matthew Spriggs, Nicholas Williams, Malcolm Williams and Peter Wills

Contents:

Genetic variation and Celtic population history, Malcolm Smith;

The Helston Shoemakers' Gild and a possible connection with the 1549 rebellion, Joanna Mattingly;

The Reverend Joseph Sherwood - a Cornish language will o' the wisp?, Matthew Spriggs;

The myth of objectivity - the Cornish language and the 18th-century antiquarians, Emma Mitchell;

Cornwall's unsung political hero - Sir John Coman Rashleigh, 1772-1874, Brian Elvins;

A forgotten migration stream - the Cornish movement to England and Wales in the 19th century, Bernard Deacon;

Cornwall, poverty and in-migration, Malcolm Williams and Tony Champion;

In-migration to Newquay - migrants' lifestyles and perspectives on environments, Ron Elzey;

Cornish regional development - evaluation, Europe and Evolution, Peter Wills.

Research notes: the verbs cowas, cavas and cafel in late modern Cornish, Richard Gendall;

Indirect statement in Cornish and Breton, N.J.A. Williams.

Review articles: modern Cornish in context, Glanville Price; defending kernewek kemmyn, Anthony P. Grant; lamenting loss in contemporary Cornish literature, Alan M. Kent.

Book review.

Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish and Australian Studies in the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University’s Cornwall campus. He is also the author of A.L. Rowse in Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot and numerous other books on Cornwall and the Cornish.