Cornish Studies Volume 16

The sixteenth 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
Graham Busby, Pamela Dale, Robert Dickinson, Erik Grigg, Cheryl Hayden, Jan Lokan, Kevin Meethan, Catherine Mills, Philip Payton, Mark Stoyle, Peter Tremewan, Joanie Willett and Derek R. Williams

Notes on contributors, vii; Introduction, 1; 1 The Medieval Cornish Bible: More Evidence Erik Grigg (University of Manchester), 19; 2 Afterlife of an Army: The Old Cornish Regiments, 1643-44 Mark Stoyle (University of Southampton), 26; 3 From Cornish Miner to Farmer in Nineteenth-Century South Australia: A Case Study Jan Lokan (McLaren Vale, South Australia), 48; 4 The Relief of Poverty in Cornwall, 1780-1881: From Collateral Support to Respectability Peter Tremewan (Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter), 78; 5 'A Cornish Voice in the Celtic Orchestra': Robert Morton Nance and the Celtic Congress of 1926 Derek R. Williams (Oswestry, Shropshire), 104; 6 A Preference for Doing Nothing or a Misplaced Focus on Men? Problematic Starting Points for Early Twentieth-Century Public Health Reform in Cornwall Catherine Mills (University of Exeter) and Pamela Dale (University of Exeter), 126. 7 Cultural Capital in Cornwall: Heritage and the Visitor Graham Busby (University of Plymouth) and Kevin Meethan (University of Plymouth), 140; 8 Changing Landscapes of Difference: Representations of Cornwall in Travel Writing, 1949-2007 Robert Dickinson (Regional Council of Brittany and Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter), 167; 9 Cornish Identity: Vague Notion or Social Fact? Joanie Willett (University of Exeter), 183; 10 1549 - The Rebels Shout Back Cheryl Hayden (Queensland University of Technology), 206; Review Article; 11 Cornish Cases and Cornish Social History Bernard Deacon (Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter), 229.

Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish & 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 and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (UEP, 2005, paperback 2007), Making Moonta: The Invention of ‘Australia’s Little Cornwall’ (UEP, 2007) and numerous other books on Cornwall and the Cornish.