Cornish Studies Volume 1
Cornish Studies: One

The first 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
Lyn Bryant, Mary Buck, Bernard Deacon, Keith H. Hyatt, Edwin Jaggard, Margaret James-Korany, Philip Payton, Paul Thornton, Caroline Vink, Malcolm Williams and Harry Woodhouse

Contents: "...a concealed envy against the English" - a note on the aftermath of the 1497 rebellions in Cornwall, Philip Payton; liberals and conservatives in West Cornwall, 1832-1868, Edwin Jaggard; "Blue books" as sources for Cornish emigration history, Margaret James-Korany; "Face the music!" - church and chapel bands in Cornwall, Harry Woodhouse; re-inventing Cornwall - culture change on the European periphery, Bernard Deacon and Philip Payton; Cornwall and changes in tourist gaze, Paul Thornton; housing Cornish families, Mary Buck et al; "Be forever Cornish!" - some observations on the ethnoregional movement in late 20th-century Cornwall, Caroline Vink; the acarine fauna of the Isles of Scilly, Keith H. Hyatt.

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.