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Arthurian Sites in the West

A completely new revised and enlarged edition of this classic survey of monuments in South-West England associated with the stories of King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table: the castle of Tintagel, the great hill-fort of Cadbury in south Somerset, the ruined abbey at Glastonbury and Castle Dore in south Cornwall—the setting for one of the greatest European love-stories of all time, that of Tristan and Isolde.  In each case the archaeological evidence is summarised, and linked with relevant Arthurian literature.  The book includes maps, plans, photographs and suggestions for further reading; it will be valuable to specialists as well as accessible to the general reader.  

• Classic survey of South-West monuments associated with stories of King Arthur - Tintagel, Cadbury, Glastonbury, Castle Dore

• Includes maps, plans, photographs and suggestions for further reading

• accessible to the general reader as well as valuable to specialists

Market: The general reader with an interest in the subject. Archaeologists. Specialists in Arthurian legend. Academic and general libraries.

Author:  M.J. Swanton is Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Exeter.

Circled with Stone

Circled with Stone is the most comprehensive study to date of the fortifications of an early modern English city.  The culmination of some twenty years of archaeological and documentary research, it provides a richly detailed portrait of the ancient system of walls, towers and gates which ringed the city of Exeter during the Tudor and early Stuart periods.  The book traces the development of the fortifications over time, explores the many purposes which they served, and shows how they were defended against a series of major attacks: most notably during the Prayer Book rebellion of 1549 and the English Civil War.

The text is accompanied by a series of extensive transcripts from Exeter’s matchless civic archives, inlcuding two newly-discovered documents relating to the Prayer Book rebellion.  The book includes a wealth of illustrations and brings together, for the very first time, colour reproductions of all the early maps of Exeter, as well as a series of specially commissioned photographs of the city walls today.  Designed to be accessible to the general reader, as well as to the specialist, Circled with Stone paints a uniquely vivid picture of the role which urban fortifications played in everyday life in one of early modern England’s greatest cities.

• Richly detailed, fully illustrated and accessible to the general reader as well as of interest to historians and archaeologists.

• ‘The general subject needs detailed local studies of this sort to illuminate the wider picture and stimulate the posing of useful questions elsewhere.  Early modern urban, military and social history will all benefit.’ Robert Higham, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Exeter

• ‘It will provide the most comprehensive study to date of the fortifications of an early modern English city.  Its inclusion of transcripts of the very valuable information found in the city Receiver’s Accounts, as well as some useful subsidiary documents, will be especially welcome.  Such documentary detail is not available elsewhere, so both historians and military enthusiasts will benefit from being able to peruse transcripts of the original records.’ Maryanne Kowaleski, Professor of History, Fordham University, New York

Market: Informed general readers and local historians interested in the history of Exeter and the South West. Military enthusiasts. Urban, early modern and military historians. Archaeologists. Civil War enthusiasts.  Academic and general libraries, especially those in the South West.

Author: Mark Stoyle is senior lecturer in early modern history at the University of Southampton.  He is the author of West Britons: Cornish Identities and the Early Modern British State (Exeter, 2002), From Deliverance to Destruction: Civil War and Rebellion in an English City (Exeter, 1996) and Loyalty and Locality: Popular Allegiance in Devon during the English Civil War (Exeter, 1994).

CONTENTS

Part one

Introduction

Chapter 1. The nature of the city defences.                                                                 
Chapter 2. Purpose and function.                                                                                
Chapter 3. Maintenance and repair.                                                                            
Chapter 4. The city defences under the Tudors.                                                          
Chapter 5. The city defences under the early Stuarts.                                                  
Chapter 6. Epilogue.                                                                                                  

Part two

Introduction.                                                                                                              

Document 1. Extracts from the city receivers’ accounts, 1485–1660.
Document 2. Expenses in repelling Perkin Warbeck, 1497.                                         
Document 3. Extracts from the Chamber Act Book, 1511–45.                                   
Document 4. Purchase of ordnance for the city, 1545.                                                
Document 5. Expenses in the ‘Commotion’, 1549.                                                      
Document 6. List of the city ordnance, 1556.                                                              
Document 7. Instructions for the defence of the city, 1643.                                          
Document 8. List of the city ordnance, 1643.                                                              

Table 1. Annual expenditure on the city defences, 1485–1660.                                   
Glossary.                                                                                                                   

Index 1: Places and Subjects.                                                                                     

Cornish Studies Series

‘Cornish Studies is a wide-ranging and stimulating series.  The topics which it covers relate primarily to the development of Cornish culture and society, past and present, but they are often of relevance far beyond Cornwall.  It is meticulously edited to a very high standard, and beautifully produced.  Its contents and format make it a most attractive and useful contribution to knowledge, accessible to the general reader as well as to the academic.’
Donald E. Meek, Professor of Celtic, University of Aberdeen

 'Cornish Studies provides a fresh, accessible and illuminating insight into the many-sided history and culture of Cornwall.  The interdisciplinary and comparative approach encouraged by the editor, Philip Payton, has proved particularly rewarding and has deepened our understanding of Celtic societies in general.' 
Professor Geraint H. Jenkins, Director of the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth

Cornish Studies: One

". . . most articles emphasize Cornish 'difference', and place it in a wider context of European cultural and territorial diversity."Southern History, Vol. 18, 1997

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

"a . . . concealed envy against the English': a Note on the Aftermath of the 1497 Rebellions in Cornwall."
Philip Payton (Institute of Cornish Studies)

Liberals and Conservatives in West Cornwall, 1832 - 1868
Edwin Jaggard (Edith Cowan University, Western Australia)

'Blue Books' as Sources for Cornish Emigration History
Margaret James-Korany (McGill University)

'Face the Music' - Church and Chapel Bands in Cornwall
Harry Woodhouse (Institute of Cornish Studies)

Re-inventing Cornwall: Culture Change on the European Periphery
Bernard Deacon (Open University) and Philip Payton

Cornwall and Changes in the 'Tourist Gaze'
Paul Thornton (Institute of Cornish Studies)

Housing the Cornish: Containing the Crisis
Mary Buck, Malcolm Williams and Lyn Bryant (University of Plymouth)

'Be Forever Cornish!' Some Observations on the Ethnoregional Movement in Contemporary Cornwall
Caroline Vink (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

The Acarine Fauna of the Isles of Scilly
Keith H. Hyatt (British Museum, Natural History)

Cornish Studies: Two

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

The Diffusion of the Hindu-Arabic Numerical System: Numeracy, Literacy, and Historical Analysis of Writing Skills in Seventeenth-Century West Cornwall
David Cullum (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Peter Wardley (University of the West of England)

Defining the Group: Nineteenth Century Cornish on the North American Mining Frontier
Ronald M. James (Nevada State Historic Preservation Office, United States of America)

Constantine Stonemasons in Search of Work Abroad, 1870 - 1900
Hörst Rossler (University of Bremen, Germany)

Labour Failure and Liberal Tenacity: Radical Politics and Cornish Political Culture, 1880 - 1939
Philip Payton (Institute of Cornish Studies)

Authenticity in the Revival of Cornish
Charles Penglase (University of Newcastle, Australia)

Tourism in Cornwall: Recent Research and Current Trends
Paul Thornton (Institute of Cornish Studies)

Celtic Tourism - Some Recent Magnets
John Lowerson (University of Sussex)

Cornwall's Territorial Dilemma: European Region or 'Westcountry' Sub-region?
Alys Thomas (Institute of Cornish Studies)

Towards a Cornish Identity Theory
Allen E. Ivy (University of Massachusetts, United States of America) and Philip Payton

An Introductory Note on the Wildlife of Brittany and Cornwall with Special Reference to the Lepidoptera
Adrian Spalding (Institute of Cornish Studies)

Cornish Studies: Three

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Collective Action and the Cornish Miner in Australia: An Early Repudiation of the 'Individualistic' Thesis
Mel Davies (University of Western Australia)

Not What They Seemed? Cornish Assisted Immigrants in New South Wales 1837 - 77
Patricia Lay (Australian National University)

Cornish Emigration in Response to Changes in the International Copper Market in the 1860s
Philip Payton (Institute of Cornish Studies)

The Great Western Railway and the Cornish-Celtic Revival
Philip Payton and Paul Thornton (Institute of Cornish Studies)

Which Base for Revived Cornish?
Ken George (University of Plymouth)

Voice from a White Silence: The Manuscripts of Jack Clemo
John Hurst (University of Exeter)

The Significance of Cornish and Scillonian Natural History
Stella Turk (Institute of Cornish Studies)

The Importance of Metaliferous Mining Sites in Cornwall for Wildlife (With Special Reference to Insects)
Adrian Spalding (Institute of Cornish Studies)

Movers and Stayers: A Comparison of Migratory and Non-Migratory Groups in Cornwall 1981 - 1991
Malcolm Williams and Eric Harrison (University of Plymouth)

Housing in Cornwall: A Two Tier System?
Carol Williams (University of Plymouth)

Book Reviews

Cornish Studies: Four

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Art Thou of Cornish Crew? Shakespeare, Henry V and Cornish Identity
Alan Kent (University of Exeter)

'Sir Richard Grenville's Creatures': The New Cornish Tertia, 1644-46
Mark Stoyle (University of Southampton)

Reforming Thirties and Hungry Forties: The Genesis of Cornwall's Emigration Trade
Philip Payton

Is 'John of Chyanor' really a 'Cornish Ruodlieb'?
Brian Murdoch (University of Stirling)

'Linguistically Sound Principles': The Case Against Kernewek Kemmyn
N.J.A. Williams (University College Dublin)

Language Revival and Language Debate: Modernity and Postmodernity
Brian Deacon (Open University)

A Century of Centralisation: Cornish Health and Healthcare
Rod Sheaff (University of Manchester)

Research Notes: Negative Particles in Cornish
Glanville Price (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

Second Homes in Cornwall
Paul Thornton (Institute of Cornish Studies)

REVIEW ARTICLES:

BOOK REVIEWS:

Cornish Studies: Five

The fifth volume in this acclaimed paperback series covers a wide range of topics, including Celtic Cornwall, Cornish politics, the Cornish economy, Cornish genetics, constructions of language and race in contemporary Cornwall, Cornish rugby, and education in Cornwall.

Cornish Studies: Six

"Cornish Studies provides a fresh, accessible and illuminating insight into the many-sided history and culture of Cornwall. The interdisciplinary and comparative approach encouraged by the editor, Philip Payton, has proved particularly rewarding and has deepened our understanding of Celtic societies in general."

Professor Geraint H. Jenkins
Director of the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
University of Wales, Aberystwyth

• Will appeal to Cornish and Celtic 'enthusiasts' worldwide

• Includes reviews of recently published books on Cornwall

• A list of contents and contributors overleaf

Editor: Philip Payton is Reader in Cornish Studies in the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at Truro.

CONTENTS

Joanna Mattingly (Institute of Cornish Studies)
'The Helston Shoemakers' Gild and a Possible Connection with the 1549 Rebellion'

Matthew Spriggs (Australian National University)
'The Reverend Joseph Sherwood: A Cornish Language Will o' The Wisp?'

Emma Mitchell (University of London)
'The Myth of Objectivity: The Cornish Language and the Eighteenth-century Antiquarians'

Brian Elvins (retired)
'Cornwall's Unsung Political Hero: Sir John Colman Rashleigh, 1772-1847'

Bernard Deacon (University of Exeter)
'A Forgotten Migration Stream: The Cornish Movement to England and Wales in the Nineteenth Century'

Malcolm Williams (University of Plymouth) and Tony Champion (University of Newcastle)
'Cornwall, Poverty and In-migration'

Ron Elzey (University of Plymouth)
'In-migration to Newquay: Migrants' Lifestyles and Perspectives on Environments'

Peter Wills (New Cornish Studies Forum)
'Cornish Regional Development: Evaluation, Europe and Evolution'

RESEARCH NOTES

Richard Gendall (Institute of Cornish Studies)
'The Verbs cowas, cavas and cafel in Late Modern Cornish'

N.J.A. Williams (University College Dublin)
'Indirect Statement in Cornish and Breton'

REVIEW ARTICLES

Anthony P. Grant (University of Stirling)
'Defending Kernewek Kemmyn'

Alan M. Kent (University of Exeter)
'Lamenting Loss in Contemporary Cornish Literature'

BOOK REVIEW

Cornish Studies: Eight

"Cornish Studies is a wide-ranging and stimulating series.  The topics which it covers relate primarily to the development of Cornish culture and society, past and present, but they are often of relevance far beyond Cornwall.  It is meticulously edited to a very high standard, and beautifully produced.  Its contents and format make it a most attractive and useful contribution to knowledge, accessible to the general reader as well as to the academic."

Donald E. Meek, Professor of Celtic, University of Aberdeen

"Cornish Studies provides a fresh, accessible and illuminating insight into the many-sided history and culture of Cornwall.  The interdisciplinary and comparative approach encouraged by the editor, Philip Payton, has proved particularly rewarding and has deepened our understanding of Celtic societies in general."

Professor Geraint H. Jenkins, Director of the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth

Market: Undergraduates and scholars of ethnic history, South-West history.  Academic libraries. General libraries in the South West. The general reader with an interest in Cornwall and the Celtic.

Editor: Philip Payton is Reader in Cornish Studies in the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at Truro.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Paul Cockerham (Institute of Cornish Studies): 'On My Grave a Marble Stone': Early Modern Cornish Memoralization

Dorothy Mindenhall (Institute of Cornish Studies):  Choosing the Group: Nineteenth-century non-mining Cornish in British Columbia.

Simon Trezise (University of Exeter): Celt and Saxon: Stereotypes and Counter-stereotypes of the Late Victorian Period

Sharron P. Schwartz (Institute of Cornish Studies):  'No Place for a Woman': Gender at Work in Cornwall's Metalliferous Mining Industry.

Lyn Abrams (University of Glasgow):  'The Best Men in Shetland': Women, Gender and Place in Peripheral Communities.

Ronald Perry (New Cornish Studies Forum): 'The Breadwinners': Gender, Locality and Diversity in Late Victorian and Edwardian Cornwall

Katherine Bradley (Oxford Brookes University): 'If the Vote is Good for Jack, Why Not for Jill?': The Women's Suffrage Movement in Cornwall 1870-1914

Treve Crago (Institute of Cornish Studies):  'Play the Game as Men Play It': Women in Cornish Politics 1918-1922

Garry Tregidga (Institute of Cornish Studies): 'Bodmin Man': Peter Bessell and the Liberal Revival

Amy Hale (Institute of Cornish Studies): 'In the Eye of the Sun': The Cornish Gorseth and Esoteric Druidry

Graham Busby and Zoe Hambly (University of Plymouth):  Literary Tourism and
the Daphne du Maurier Festival

Bernard Deacon (University of Exeter): In Search of the 'Missing Turn': The Spatial Dimension and Cornish Studies

Cornish Studies: Nine

edited by Philip Payton

"Cornish Studies is now a well established and highly regarded series. It inevitably focuses on Cornwall but adds an additional intellectual perspective which few local or regional journal publications possess by adopting fascinating interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to many of the themes which are considered. This lends a freshness and vitality."  Professor Thomas M Devine, Director, Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen

"Cornish Studies provides a fresh, accessible and illuminating insight into the many-sided history and culture of Cornwall.  The interdisciplinary and comparative approach encouraged by the editor, Philip Payton, has proved particularly rewarding and has deepened our understanding of Celtic societies in general."   Professor Geraint H. Jenkins, Director of the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth

"Cornish Studies is a wide-ranging and stimulating series.  The topics which it covers relate primarily to the development of Cornish culture and society, past and present, but they are often of relevance far beyond Cornwall.  It is meticulously edited to a very high standard, and beautifully produced.  Its contents and format make it a most attractive and useful contribution to knowledge, accessible to the general reader as well as to the academic."  Donald E. Meek, Professor of Celtic, University of Aberdeen

Market: Undergraduates and scholars of ethnic history, South-West history.  Academic libraries. General libraries in the South West. The general reader with an interest in Cornwall and the Celtic.

Editor: Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish Studies in the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at Truro.  

Cornish Studies: Ten

edited by Philip Payton

"Congratulations are due to Professor Philip Payton, the Institute of Cornish Studies and University of Exeter Press on this, the tenth volume in the series Cornish Studies. Its publication marks an important milestone in the development of Cornish Studies as an area of academic activity.  Over the last decade or so we have seen the emergence of an energetic 'new' Cornish Studies, which has sought to engage with major scholarly debates such as those surrounding 'Britishness', 'Celticity', identity, gender, the politics of the periphery, language revival, and ethnicity and emigration.

"Often courageous and always innovative, these new interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to studying Cornwall and the Cornish have allowed Cornish Studies to escape the narrow confines of 'English local history' to embrace what have been termed the 'new Cornish historiography' and the 'new Cornish social science'. Nowhere has this been more evident than within the pages of Cornish Studies itself, the series becoming a showcase for the latest and best Cornish work as well as placing consideration of Cornwall and the Cornish very firmly within the wider context of the 'Atlantic Archipelago'."
Professor Máiréad Nic Craith, Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster

"Cornish Studies provides a fresh, accessible and illuminating insight into the many-sided history and culture of Cornwall.  The interdisciplinary and comparative approach encouraged by the editor, Philip Payton, has proved particularly rewarding and has deepened our understanding of Celtic societies in general."
Professor Geraint H. Jenkins, Director of the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth

"Cornish Studies is a wide-ranging and stimulating series.  The topics which it covers relate primarily to the development of Cornish culture and society, past and present, but they are often of relevance far beyond Cornwall.  It is meticulously edited to a very high standard, and beautifully produced.  Its contents and format make it a most attractive and useful contribution to knowledge, accessible to the general reader as well as to the academic."
Donald E. Meek, Professor of Celtic, University of Edinburgh

Market: Undergraduates and scholars of ethnic history, South-West history.  Academic libraries. General libraries in the South West. The general reader with an interest in Cornwall and the Celtic.

Cornish Studies: Eleven

‘Congratulations are due to Professor Philip Payton, the Institute of Cornish Studies and University of Exeter Press on the series Cornish Studies. Its publication marks an important milestone in the development of Cornish Studies as an area of academic activity.  Over the last decade or so we have seen the emergence of an energetic “new” Cornish Studies, which has sought to engage with major scholarly debates such as those surrounding “Britishness”, “Celticity”, identity, gender, the politics of the periphery, language revival, and ethnicity and emigration.

‘Often courageous and always innovative, these new interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to studying Cornwall and the Cornish have allowed Cornish Studies to escape the narrow confines of “English local history” to embrace what have been termed the “new Cornish historiography” and the “new Cornish social science”. Nowhere has this been more evident than within the pages of Cornish Studies itself, the series becoming a showcase for the latest and best Cornish work as well as placing consideration of Cornwall and the Cornish very firmly within the wider context of the “Atlantic Archipelago”.’  Professor Máiréad Nic Craith, Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster

‘Cornish Studies provides a fresh, accessible and illuminating insight into the many-sided history and culture of Cornwall.  The interdisciplinary and comparative approach encouraged by the editor, Philip Payton, has proved particularly rewarding and has deepened our understanding of Celtic societies in general.’    Professor Geraint H. Jenkins, Director of the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth

‘Cornish Studies is a wide-ranging and stimulating series.  The topics which it covers relate primarily to the development of Cornish culture and society, past and present, but they are often of relevance far beyond Cornwall.  It is meticulously edited to a very high standard, and beautifully produced.  Its contents and format make it a most attractive and useful contribution to knowledge, accessible to the general reader as well as to the academic.’ 

Donald E. Meek, Professor of Celtic, University of Edinburgh

Market: Undergraduates and scholars of ethnic history, South-West history.  Academic libraries. General libraries in the South West. The general reader with an interest in Cornwall and the Celtic.

Editor: Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish Studies in the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at Truro.

Cornish Studies: Twelve

Comments on this acclaimed series:

‘The outcome and intention has been to place Cornwall squarely in new debates about the nature of “Britishness” and the territorial identities’ Cornish Studies Ten reviewed in Western Morning News

‘For more than ten years Cornish Studies has helped make Cornwall one of the better studied and documented parts of the British Isles.  Each issue contains fascinating new research over the broadest agenda.  The distinctiveness of Cornwall, as well as its similarities with and relationship to other regions, are given sharp focus.  I’m especially glad its purview stretches as far as Australia. Cornish Studies deserves to be read across the Cornish world and beyond.’ Professor Eric Richards, Department of History, Flinders University of South Australia

‘Cornish Studies provides a fresh, accessible and illuminating insight into the many-sided history and culture of Cornwall.  The interdisciplinary and comparative approach encouraged by the editor, Philip Payton, has proved particularly rewarding and has deepened our understanding of Celtic societies in general.’  Professor Geraint H. Jenkins, Director of the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth

‘Cornish Studies is a wide-ranging and stimulating series.  The topics which it covers relate primarily to the development of Cornish culture and society, past and present, but they are often of relevance far beyond Cornwall.  It is meticulously edited to a very high standard, and beautifully produced.  Its contents and format make it a most attractive and useful contribution to knowledge, accessible to the general reader as well as to the academic.’ Donald E. Meek, Professor of Celtic, University of Edinburgh

Market: The general reader with a committed interest in Cornish Studies, Celtic Studies and the South West. Academic and general libraries. Historians, Social Scientists and scholars in Ethnic Studies.

Editor: Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish Studies in the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at Truro.

Contents and contributors:  to be announced

English Church Dedications

People assume that parish church dedications are ancient, but many of those in use today are inventions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the original dedications were entirely different. This startling discovery reveals fresh information about the history of English parish churches and throws light on religion in England in all periods of history.

Part One of English Church Dedications is a general history of Church dedications in England from Roman times to the present day. Part Two provides a gazetteer of dedications in Cornwall and Devon, with dates and references, showing how far each one can be traced back and what changes and misunderstandings have occurred. It offers totally new evidence about the Cornish saints and provides a guide and model for similar research in other counties.

• Will appeal to the general reader with an interest in Church history
• Totally new evidence on English parish churches
• Gives a general outline history of the subject

Author: Nicholas Orme is Professor of History in the University of Exeter. He has written widely on religious, educational and social history. He is the leading authority on Church history in the South West of England.

CONTENTS

Part One: Introduction

1. English Church Dedications
2. The Period before 1066
3. From 1066 to the Reformation
4. From the Reformation to 1800
5. Church Dedications since 1800
6. The Gazetteer and How to Use It

Part Two: Gazetteer of Church Dedications

Church Dedications in Cornwall
Church Dedications in Devon

Bibliography
Index of Saints
General Index

"In addition to providing the first real scholarly treatment of the subject, Nicholas Orme's work also raises a number of questions which should inspire local researchers........Professor Orme has produced a masterly study of a neglected subject for which he is to be congratulated. The value for local historians in Cornwall and Devon is immense, and hopefully this book will inspire more detailed country studies eslewhere. It richly deserves a place on all serious local historian's bookshelves alongside Dr. Oliver Padel's Cornish Place Names which it complements so well." 
Cornwall Association. A Local History.

". . . an exemplary demonstration of the deep scholarship which we have come to expect of its author, who provides several kinds of index and an awe-inspiring bibliography to the whole study . . . (He) sets the present investigation before us with the hope of its proving the start of an enterprise to trace the history of all church dedications in England and he provides a model of formidable erudition and great clarity for others to follow." 
Newsletter of the Centre for South-Western Historical Studies, Spring 1997

Faction and Faith

" . . . Anne Duffin's scholarly study of early seventeenth-century Cornwall worthily takes its place alongside Mary Coate's classic 1933 volume on this county's Civil War experience. Based on copious research, clearly presented, balanced in its judgements, it fills a significant gap in early modern regional history." Southern History, Vol. 18, 1997

"This is a book which will be valued by historians of this period and by those with a particular interest in Cornwall."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, Autumn 1997

The history of Cornwall in the first half of the seventeenth century is both dramatic and turbulent. In Faction and Faith, Anne Duffin draws upon extensive new source material, combining national documents and local family collections with a detailed analysis of churchwardens' accounts, borough records and over 350 wills. She challenges the established view that Cornwall was naturally royalist and presents a picture of a politically-aware and religiously-splintered society.

• Makes use of extensive new source material from national and local records
• First major publication since 1933 on Cornwall in this period
• Challenges the established view of Cornish society in the early seventeenth century

Author: Anne Duffin is a part-time lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Exeter. She is also a freelance historian and writer.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1 Cornwall and the Cornish Gentry
Chapter 2 The Religious Landscape: Papists, Puritans and Arminians
Chapter 3 The Political Landscape: Harmony and Faction 1600-1638
Chapter 4 Local Government and Defence 1600-1638
Chapter 5 The Impact of Arbitrary Taxation
Chapter 6 The Approach of War

Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index

From Deliverance to Destruction

"Dr Stoyle's account deserves to become the standard authority. He ranges widely in the sources to describe and explain the circumstances by which parliamentary authority was ousted and replaced by royalist administration until the final siege of Exeter in 1646. He explores the tensions between the commands of Berkeley and Goring on the Royalist side, and convincingly analyses conflicts between military and civic authority."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 1998

"Dr Stoyle is to be congratulated on a book which is highly readable and widely accessible, which presents a lively and engaging account, but which also makes an important contribution to our knowledge of the urban sector before and during the civil war."
Southern History, Vol. 18, 1997

"This is of more than local interest, since Exeter offers something of a case study, challenging the view that in provincial urban communities little concern was shown there for national issues until citizens were faced by the mind-concentrating demands posed by war in the kingdom . . . Similar searching reinspection of other urban centres is called for."
Cromwelliana

From Deliverance to Destruction is a study of the city of Exeter during the Great Civil War of 1642-46; it offers a lively, immediate account of how one English city slid, inexorably, into the chaos of civil war. The book shows how Exeter's inhabitants first began to dissent from each other over religious issues, then became divided into two warring camps, and finally, after three years of bitter conflict, witnessed much of the ancient city being destroyed about their ears. The main text is accompanied by a generous collection of transcripts from original seventeenth-century documents. These have been specially selected to illuminate the war's effect on ordinary men and women, and to show how closely engaged they were with the national politico-religous debate. This book will be of interest to all serious students of the English Civil War, while at the same time being accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Readership: Scholars, undergraduates and advanced level students studying history, local history, military history, religion, politics and popular behaviour during the early modern period; Civil War enthusiasts; the general reader interested in local history.

MARK STOYLE is lecturer in Early Modern History, University of Southampton. He is the author of Loyalty and Locality, published by UEP in 1994.

The Garden History of Devon

A reference guide to historical sources for over 200 Devon gardens. It also provides an introduction for would-be garden historians on how to conduct garden research. The book is the result of an exploration of the archival resources of Devon's garden history; the objective being to provide signposts to research material for those interested in the development of Devon's gardens.

Each entry begins with a brief section describing the garden's history, amplified by quotations from contemporary travellers and diarists; following the descriptive sections are listings of documents, printed sources and illustrations relating to the garden. The greater part of this material is unknown to garden historians.

Readership: Established garden historians and those wishing to undertake research into garden history. Local historians and those interested in the history of Devon, particularly in the field of buildings, family history and the landscape.

TODD GRAY is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies, University of Exeter. He is a specialist on Tudor and Stuart Devon.

" . . . this volume will be an invaluable handbook for tourists and others visiting the county's historica gardens as well as a guide to further research . . . Don't assume, though, that this is just garden history de haut en bas; Gray is broad-minded enough to provide appendices listing records of allotments and of nurseries and market-gardens in the county."
Archives, Volume 23, No. 98

"For anyone involved in researching historic parks and gardens a publication of this kind is both invaluable and a great rarity. Lucky Devon! The information contained in it is the kind that takes hours of painstaking trawling through record office indexes and catalogues to unearth. Todd Gray has done the sifting process for us and produced a short-cut to relevant archival, illustrated and published sources for the 226 parks and gardens listed......A wide range of users will find this book useful and fascinating, from those involved professionlly with historic parks and gardens to owners, local historians, or even media researchers in search of authenticity ....... The author has opened an Aladdin's cave of riches: let us hope that it is put to good use." Landscape History

Gentry Leaders in Peace and War

"A well-researched and positive contribution to appreciation of the local dimension of early Stuart government. Her pertinent questions elicit thoughtful and stimulating answers."
Exeter Cathedral News, February 1998

The great strength of the government of Devon in the early seventeenth century lay in the quality of its leaders. They ruled together in harmony, free from rivalries for supremacy, free from the influence of any powerful resident nobles and saved from religious conflicts by the pacific Bishop Hall. Confident of their ability to rule the county and prepared to introduce innovative methods, even in the judicial sphere, they achieved a high level of competent administration. They gave the king loyal service but were also prepared to be outspoken over the difficulties his policies caused them.

GENTRY LEADERS IN PEACE AND WAR emphasizes this strength by describing much of the administration through a series of biographical studies, each biography covering the whole life of the subject and so relating service in peacetime to actions during the civil war. In this way the book describes the government of Devon in the early seventeenth century through the eyes of its administrators and helps us to understand the whole class of gentry leaders.

• First county history to deal with seventeenth century by a series of biographical studies
• Contains maps and illustrations

Author: Mary Wolffe is a freelance historian specialising in the early seventeenth century.

The Geology of Cornwall

"A useful book for an introduction to Cornish geology."
OUGS Journal, 22(1), Spring 2001

Cornwall is renowned for the diversity and complexity of its geology. This geology, and its relation to the mineral wealth of the county, has been the subject of continuing investigation since the end of the seventeenth century. A literature of great historical interest exists, and this is analysed in The Geology of Cornwall alongside a wide-ranging review of the current position and assessments of the environmental consequences of rock and mineral exploitation.

These contributions by twenty-one leading academic and commercial geologists are aimed at all readers with an amateur or professional interest in exploring the fascinating geology of Cornwall. Undergraduate fieldworkers will find the book particularly helpful.

• Up to date review of current research
• Accessible to readers with an amateur or professional interest
• Includes a listing of sites of notable scientific interest

Editors: E.B. Selwood is Senior Lecturer in Earth Science, University of Exeter. E. M. Durrance is Emeritus Professor of Geology, University of Nebraska. C.M. Bristow is Visiting Professor in Industrial Geology, Camborne School of Mines.

CONTRIBUTORS

Geology of Devon

Devon shows perhaps one of the most varied displays of geology in the British Isles. Intended for anyone with an interest in geology, The Geology of Devon covers the geological development of the county and adjacent areas from Devonian times to the present day. Each appropriate chapter has a list of representative localities so that the book can also serve as an excursion guide for field work.

New, revised and expanded edition

This is a new and completely revised edition of The Geology of Devon, first published in 1982 and reprinted three times. 

Each chapter in this new edition has been thoroughly revised and rewritten to reflect the major changes in knowledge since the first edition.  There are four additional chapters, on Geological Pioneers, Engineering Geology, Environmental Geology and Off-shore Geology.  The book also lists all official and local sites of geological and geomorphological interest, includes an expanded reference list and a colour geological map

The Geology of Devon is aimed at all readers with an amateur or professional interest in geology and undergraduate fieldworkers will find the book particularly helpful.  It is a companion volume to The Geology of Cornwall, also published by University of Exeter Press.  

• Each chapter is thoroughly revised and rewritten, reflecting major changes in knowledge since the first edition

• Includes four additional chapters, an expanded reference list and a colour geological map

• Accessible to readers with an amateur or professional interest

• Includes a listing of all official and local sites of geological and geomorphological interest

Market: Academic and commercial geologists. Undergraduate and postgraduate students studying regional geology. The informed amateur geologist. Civil engineers, miners, agriculturalists and exploration geologists. Environmentalists.

Editors: Eric Durrance and Brian Selwood are retired geologists who have worked at the University of Exeter; Deryck Laming is a consultant geologist based in Exeter.

Contributors: Michael Brooks, Robin Cullingford, John Dangerfield, Eric Durrance, Richard Edwards, Edward Freshney, Peter Grainger, Malcolm Hart, Michael Heath, Michael House, Jan Hawkes, Kevin Isaac, Deryck Laming, Clive Nicholas, Kevin Page, Richard Scrivener, Brian Selwood, Michael Thomas, Cliff Tubb, Alfred Whittaker, Gordon Witte.

The Great East Window of Exeter Cathedral

Exeter glazing, and particularly the Great East Window, is of major importance. For the first time, this study establishes the correct dating, provenance and authorship of all the Great East Window's figure panels and most of its heraldic glass, and substantially rewrites the general history of the Cathedral's glazing. In the process, important parts of the Exeter glass are identified with the output of a previously unrecognized fifteenth-century studio whose work can be traced in Devon, Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire.

"... the authors and the University of Exeter are to be congratulated on a very valuable edition to the bibliography of English stained glass. Everyone interested in the subject should obtain a copy."
Journal of Stained Glass

Historical Atlas of South-West Britain

"This marvelous book."
Mapline, 91 (2000)

"A heavyweight in every sense . . .  The scope of its sixty-five chapters could hardly be wider: in time, from the palaeolithic to such late twentieth-century developments as the coming of out-of-town shopping centres; in subject matter, from Bronze Age metalwork to the early modern book trade and the surburban growth of post-war Exeter.  Its 400 maps chart almost everything chartable, from finds of worked flints to the distribution of second homes as a percentage of total housing stock.  So broad and diverse a range may seem to encourage superficiality, but in fact the maps and the extended commentaries which accompany them are generally first-rate pieces of historical research, often with implications beyond the south-west . . .  this is local history at its best, informed throughout by a strong sense of place but resting always on documentary evidence and on an awareness of larger patterns in a wider world."
English Historical Review, Vol 115, June 2000

"Not to be missed by historians, geographers, and archaeologists who might wish to acquire an almost perfect example of the genre . . . Text, maps, and illustrations are at once authoritative, clear and unambiguous . . . A key text for future studies of the south-west."
Journal of Historical Geography, 27, 2001

This is the first historical atlas of a major region of the United Kingdom. Its aim is to create and communicate the history of the south-western peninsula of England-Cornwall, Devon and the Isles of Scilly-from the beginnings of man's occupation to the present day. The cartographic message projected by around 400 maps is extended by a substantial text of about 250,000 words as well as diagrams, contemporary prints and photographs.

This is one of the most substantial collaborative cartographic ventures undertaken in the United Kingdom. There are more than fifty contributors, about half of whom are drawn from within the University of Exeter, the remainder being researchers at other universities who specialize on topics relating to South-West England. The majority are geographers, archaeologists and historians, but there are also important contributions from political scientists, sociologists, educationalists and the region's museums, library and archive services. The pre-medieval content is organized chronologically but thereafter the reconstruction of human occupation is structured thematically.

• Large format hardback in slipcase-nearly 600 pages
• Accessible to the general reader and 'A' level students
• More than 50 specialist contributors

Editors: Roger Kain is Montefiore Professor of Geography in the University of Exeter, a Fellow of the British Academy and one of its Vice-Presidents. He has been honoured with medals and prizes from The Royal Geographical Society, The Newberry Library Chicago, the Library Association. William Ravenhill was Reardon Smith Professor of Geography in the University of Exeter.

The History of the Honiton Lace Industry

Honiton lace is one of the world's great laces and this book for the first time tells the full story of the industry that produces it, from its beginnings in the sixteenth century to its demise in the twentieth. Over 100 photographs illustrate the history of design in Honiton lace as well as the technical aspects of manufacture. There is an intensive bibliography which is the most comprehensive in the field yet to appear and forms a useful source of reference.

"This is a satisfying study, provoking much thought on domestic industries of the past, and perhaps of the future too."
Business History

"I highly recommend it not only to lacemakers . . . but also to anyone interested in textiles or the social and historical aspects of cottage industries."
Canadian Lacemaker Gazette

"Dr Yallop's book is a treasure chest filled with new clues for those who approach lace as a fascinating puzzle."
The Lace Collector

The Jews of South-West England

The definitive study of the once-important Jewish communities of Devon and Cornwall, providing an in-depth study of the demography and economic activity as well as the political, cultural, religious and social life of South-Western Jewry.

"This well-documented account of the communities of Plymouth, Exeter, Falmouth and Penzance during the medieval and modern eras offers an affectionate account of provincial Jewish life in an overwhelmingly gentile environment, which led inexorably to a process of assimilation and eventual decline.

The author, who was for many years the minister of Plymouth Hebrew Congregation . . . augments what is an essentially scholarly work with a wealth of anecdotes."
Jewish Chronicle

The Letters of Sir Walter Ralegh

"The University of Exeter Press has done the proud Devon man proud. The book is well printed and generously illustrated. Students will be grateful for plates of holograph letters which illustrate the varying forms of Ralegh's hand, and include an example of a sketch of a scaffold or gallows that he use to emphasize the message 'hast post hast! hast for life'."
TLS October 22 1999

This edition of the letters of Sir Walter Ralegh will replace the long out-of-print edition of Edward Edwards published in 1868. It contains the full text, in the original spelling, with modern punctuation, of all known surviving letters, 240 in all, compared with Edwards' 160, in most cases taken from the original manuscripts, many never before published. All are extensively annotated, many have been newly dated and corrected; there is a substantial Introduction by Joyce Youings.

The letters help to reconcile the family man, never happier than at home on his estate in the West Country, with one who is revered, especially in North America, as the founder and inspirer of English overseas settlement. They show him drawn both towards his native West Country, where he was not universally admired, and towards the Court at Westminster where lay the determination of the success or failure of his enterprises. Never before have we been able to get as near to understanding the strengths and weaknesses of one of the best-known figures of English history, the man who was both patriot and European; courtier and failed politician; soldier and poet; owner of ships and organiser of privateering ventures yet a reluctant sailor; greedy for personal wealth and social status but apparently ready to plead the case of the poor and disadvantaged.

• Includes 240 surviving letters - many never before published

• Impeccable scholarship but very accessible to the general reader

• Indispensable to all future biographers of Ralegh and his Elizabethan and Jacobean contemporaries

Editors: Agnes Latham was Reader in English Literature, Bedford College London and editor of the standard edition of Sir Walter Ralegh's poetry. Joyce Youings is Emeritus Professor of History in the University of Exeter and is well known as a specialist in Tudor history and as an editor of Tudor documents.

The Liberal Party in South-West Britain Since 1918: Political Decline, Dormancy & Rebirth

"Tregidga has identified several persistent themes in the survival of Liberalism and makes a good case for the peculiarities of politics in the South West."
English Historical Review, Sept 2001

The decline of the Liberal party is one of the most controversial subjects in twentieth-century British politics, and this book makes a distinctive contribution to the debate by focusing on the South West, where Liberalism remained a powerful force after 1918.  During the 1920s it was one of the few areas where the party survived as a major force.  By the early 1950s, when the Liberals were fighting for their very existence, it was their early revival in the far west which provided morale and purpose.  Victories in Cornwall and Devon after 1958 improved the party’s credibility and effectively heralded the national Liberal revival.  In recent years the regional Liberal Democrats have built on these historic foundations to emerge on equal terms with the Conservatives at Westminster and as the dominant party in local government. 

By concentrating on one region, this book offers fresh insight into issues relating to the UK as a whole.  It moves away from the conventional focus on urban Britain to the neglected world of rural and small-town politics, and explores differences within the South West itself, from Celtic Cornwall in the far west to modern ‘Wessex’ in the east.

• A study of one of the key regions of Britain for the Liberal Party’s survival and revival
• Raises important questions about the nature of regional politics
•  Includes the significant 1997 election when the South West went against national trends

"A thoughtful and persuasive account of a significant part of twentieth-century Liberal history."
Journal of Liberal Democratic History, Issue 29, Winter 2000

Market: Historians of politics and of the South West.  Political scientists.  Students of politics, modern British history, South-West studies, Celtic studies. Party members and political activists.  Academic and general libraries. The general reader with an interest in British political history and the South West.

Author: Garry Tregidga is Assistant Director, Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1            Politics in the Provinces
Chapter 2            Keeping the Faith: 1918–1929
Chapter 3            Into the Wilderness: 1929–1935
Chapter 4            Advance and Retreat: 1936–1945
Chapter 5            Crusade for Survival: 1945–1950
Chapter 6            Towards the Promised Land: 1951–1956
Chapter 7            The Dawn of Victory: 1956–1959
Chapter 8            Past to Present: 1997 in Context

Bibliography
Appendix 1: Parliamentary Representation for the South West, 1918–1997

Loyalty and Locality

This volume is a study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War. The book makes three claims. The first is that English counties did not behave as homogeneous units during the conflict of 1642-46, but that they divided instead along regional lines, certain areas supporting Parliament, others supporting the King. The second is that this general rule applied to cities too, and that in urban communities it is possible to discern both 'Royalist' and 'Parliamentarian' parishes. The third is that these internal divisions were not simply temporary alignments, conjured up by extraordinary circumstances, but that they reflected deep and enduring splits in local society, contrasting patterns of popular behaviour stretching back over very many years.

"...is a model of scrupulous scholarship, which sets a high standard to imitate for those who seek in future to apply similar techniques to other counties in order to interpret popular attitudes to the rival parties in the English Civil War."
War in History 6 (2) 1999

" . . . the work of a historian of unmistakable flair. Like all really good local studies it has a sensuous feel for the nature of its territory, and utilizes a very wide range of varieties of source material to reconstruct the experience of its people."
History, January 1998, Volume 83, No. 269

"The book is a brilliantly original exploration of Devon's experience of the seventeenth-century civil wars....his work has important implications for the whole history of Stuart England."
David Underdown, Professor of History, Yale University

"There is no doubt that this book will now represent the benchmark of how to measure popular participation [in the English Civil War]..." 
John Morrill, Reader in Early Modern History, University of Cambridge.

"'It is a book which displays what every solid work of history ought to exhibit, that curious epithet which emanates from senior common rooms: "a first-class mind". ... The clarity and cogency of the argument shine through."  
Literary Review

". . . an important contribution to the long-running debate on the origins and nature of the English Civil War." 
History Today

"A Clear, persuasive and often trenchantly written discussion.....he has made a significant and refreshingly original contribution to regional history and to the diverse, oft-changing, story of the English Civil War."
English Historical Review

Maps and History in South-West England

This volume of essays considers the practical and political purposes for which maps were used, the symbolic and ideological roles of maps in the history of South-Western England and the ways in which map evidence can be used to recover facts about the past for use in the writing of history. The text is accompanied by 43 pages of maps and illustrations.

New Directions in Celtic Studies

New Directions in Celtic Studies is divided into four sections: popular culture and representation; commodities and Celtic lifestyles; contemporary Celtic identity and the Celtic diaspora; Celtic praxis.

• Textbook for courses in Celtic and ethnic history, folklore and ethnography

• Will appeal to the general reader interested in Celtic culture and 'New Age' subjects

• Responds to recent attempts to 'deconstruct' the notion of Celticity

Editors: Amy Hale is Research Fellow in Celtic Studies at the Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter. Philip Payton is Reader in Cornish Studies and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Historical Society and editor of the series Cornish Studies, published annually by University of Exeter Press.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Section One: Popular Culture and Representation

1 Reading the Record Bins: The Commercial Construction of Celtic Music
Shannon Thornton (Doctoral candidate in Folklore at UCLA)
2 Representation of the Celts in Film and Television
Leslie Jones (Freelance writer, folklorist and Celticist)
3 Legend and Breton Identity
Antone Minard (Doctoral student in Folklore at UCLA)

Section Two: Commodities and Celtic Lifestyles

4 Reclaiming Celtic Spiritual Ancestry
Marion Bowman (Lecturer in the Study of Religions at Bath College of Higher Education)

Section Three: Contemporary Celtic Identity and the Celtic Diaspora

5 Pagans, Pipers and Politicos: Constructing Celtic Identities in a Festival Context
Amy Hale and Shannon Thornton
6 The Celtic Revival in Australia
Philip Payton
7 Ethnicity and the Individual: A Case Study in Scottish-American Identity
Deborah Curtis ((Research Fellow in Contemporary Celtic Studies at the Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter)

Section Four: Celtic Praxis

8 Establishing the Manx Language Programme in Schools
Brian Stowell (Developer of the peripatetic Manx teaching programme in Manx schools)
9 The Development of Gaelic Tourism
Roy Pedersen (Developer with the Highlands and Islands Enterprise)
10 Rural Tourism and Identity in Western Ireland and Brittany
Moya Kneafsey (Research Fellow in Geography at the University of Coventry)
Conclusions and Remarks

Colin H. Williams (Research Professor in Welsh in the University of Wales, Cardiff)

Power and Politics at the Seaside

Drawing on rich local, regional and national sources and bringing together approaches from history, sociology, geography and cultural studies, the book addresses the seaside holiday as an historical and sociological phenomenon. It locates seaside tourism within the wider leisure experience and suggests that the seaside manifests and reinforces the wider social, economic and political power relations which shape society.

• First book to examine the role of politics and power in seaside development
• Adopts an interdisciplinary approach
• Authors have extensive experience of tourism and leisure policy

Authors: Nigel Morgan is Principal Lecturer and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism at the University of Wales Cardiff. He was previously Tourism Development Officer for Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council. Annette Pritchard is Senior Lecturer in the School of Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism at the University of Wales Cardiff. She was previously Senior Research Officer for the Wales Tourist Board and is editor of The Leisure Monitor. Morgan and Pritchard are co-authors of Tourism, Promotion and Power: creating images, creating identities (John Wiley & Sons, 1998).

CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. Tourism, Power and the Historical Perspective
3. The British Seaside in the Twentieth Century
4. Resorts, Communities and Social Tone in Devon
5. Creating the Seaside Image
6. Planning Resort Entertainment
7. Power and Politics at the Seaside

The Rise of the Devon Seaside Resorts, 1750-1900

"... this lucid and enjoyably written book, which is spiced throughout by the author's eye for the telling example and wittily pointed anecdote."
John K. Walton, Mariner's Mirror

"Travis has produced a valuable study relevant to both the history of leisure and maritime history in its widest sense."
The Northern Mariner

The first comprehensive study of the emergence of Devon's seaside resorts. Relating the development of these resorts to the wider processes of social and economic change, it explains why early tourists were drawn to the remote Devon coast and shows how fishing villages were transformed into fashionable watering places. Themes covered include bathing rituals and sea-water drinking, health cures and cholera epidemics, sophisticated amusements and improving recreations, paddle-steamers and excursion trains.

AL Rowse and Cornwall

“A.L. Rowse was a man of very great natural gifts, whose achievement was sadly limited by his assertive incapacity for self-criticism.”  “Tudor Cornwall was a truly remarkable book . . .”  “. . . a wonderful subject, . . . no-one is better qualified than Payton to pursue the project to a successful conclusion.”  “Previous attempts to elucidate the precise nature of A.L. Rowse’s complicated relationship with Cornwall have been somewhat hesitant and simplistic . . .”             (from readers’ reports on the proposal and draft typescript)

Even those, with an interest in history, who know little or nothing about Cornwall will be aware of Rowse.  Philip Payton’s latest book offers a revisionist view of the complex and enigmatic Cornishman.  It promises to be a radically different appraisal from the general view that Rowse’s complexity was essentially about class and ‘provincialism’—Rowse was born into a working-class family and spent his working life aspiring to be something ‘better’. 

Payton’s study moves beyond the rigours of a Cornish childhood, the struggle to get to Oxford, the penetration of the English establishment and the sentimental construction of  his ‘Little Land of Cornwall’ to ask deeper questions about Rowse’s life as Cornishman, politician, historian, anglophile and ‘man of letters’.  In particular, it illuminates Rowse’s role in the development of the ‘new British historiography’ and the placement within it of Cornish history.

• The life and times of A.L. Rowse, from an author of proven quality, an eminent Cornish Studies scholar, and a very fine historian

•   Draws on the Rowse archive, some of it previously unavailable, held at Exeter University

• Cornwall: explores the complex and often paradoxical relationship between Rowse and Cornwall

•   Rowse’s books A Cornish Childhood and Tudor Cornwall remain in strong demand

•   There is still an enormous amount of public interest in A.L. Rowse, not only in Cornwall, but throughout the British isles and the wider Atlantic world as well

Market: Biography.  History.  Cornwall.  The wider general audiences will include that for critical  biography, and the attested (and loyal, though sometimes uncritical) ‘Cornish’ and ‘Rowse’ markets.  The academic interest will focus on what the book has to say about the relationship between Rowse and Cornwall and what that tells us about British historiography.  Academic libraries. 

Editor: Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish Studies and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter.  He edits the series Cornish Studies, published by University of Exeter Press, and is author of numerous books and articles.

Contents

Introduction

One:                ‘No wonder I preferred life at All Souls’: Escaping a Cornish Childhood

Two:                ‘A political Wesley’: The Politics of Paralysis

Three:             ‘I am haunted by Cornwall’: Defeat and Rejection

Four:               ‘Not being English alas . . . but hopelessly Cornish’: Embracing Shakespeare’s England

Five:                ‘. . . the biggest and most significant of Cornish themes’: The Great Emigration

Six:                  ‘I am the real thing, 100 per cent Cornish’: Reclaiming Cornwall

Seven:            ‘. . . a synthesis of local and national history’: Towards a New British History

Eight:              ‘. . . the great awakening of all island peoples’: Anticipating the Archipelago

Conclusion

Index

School House In The Wind

"There is much here to reflect upon, about gender, identity, work and women's lives. But that is only part of the story. Treneer writes with extraordinary sensitivity about her childhood in Cornwall, and about the countryside and natural history wherever she lived and worked. She has a sharp eye for detail, and an irreverent sense of humour. Her story is absorbing, and deserves a wider audience".
Social History Bulletin Vol. 23 No. 2 Autumn 1998

"Anne Treneer was the last of the great stylists among Cornish authors writing in English. She takes her place with "Q" and A.L. Rowse at the high water mark of good writing. She is a mistress of the arresting phrase, the happy shaft of wit, the illuminating picture of life around her, continually celebrating the Cornwall she knew and loved."
Cornish World September/November 1998

"Anne Treneer's books have been out of pr