University of Exeter Press

Cornish Studies Volume 11

    • 336 Pages


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







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




    1. Introduction

    2. 'I was before my time, caught betwixt and between': A.L. Rowse and the Writing of British and Cornish History, Philip Payton

    3. A Cornish Assembly? Prospects for Devolution in the Duchy, Mark Sandford

    4. Cornwall's Newspaper War: The Political Rivalry Between the Royal Cornwall Gazette and the West Briton-Part Two 1832-1855, Brian Elvins

    5. The Response in Cornwall to the Outbreak of the First World War, Stuart Dalley

    6. Screening Kernow: Authenticity, Heritage and the Representation of Cornwall in Film and Television, 1913-2003, Alan M. Kent

    7. Cornwall's Visual Cultures in Perspective, Patrick Laviolette

    8. 'A True Cornish Treasure': Gunwalloe and the Cornish Church as Visitor Attraction, Graham Busby

    9. Celtic Revival and the Anglican Church in Cornwall, 1870-1930, David Everett

    10. Truro: Diocese and City, John Beckett and David Windsor

    11. Where Cornish was Spoken and When: A Provisional Synthesis, Matthew Spriggs

    12. On the Track of Cornish in a Bilingual Country, Julyan Holmes

    13. Sacrament an Alter: A Tudor Cornish Patristic Catena, D.H. Frost

    14. The Medieval 'Cornish Bible', Malte W. Tschirschky

    Review Article

    15. Propaganda and the Tudor State or Propaganda of the Tudor Historians? Bernard Deacon



    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.