University of Exeter Press

Cornish Studies Volume 16

    • 256 Pages


    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.







    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.




    Introduction

    1. The Medieval Cornish Bible: More Evidence, Erik Grigg

    2. Afterlife of an Army: The Old Cornish Regiments, 1643-44, Mark Stoyle

    3. From Cornish Miner to Farmer in Nineteenth-Century South Australia: A Case Study, Jan Lokan

    4. The Relief of Poverty in Cornwall, 1780-1881: From Collateral Support to Respectability, Peter Tremewan

    5. 'A Cornish Voice in the Celtic Orchestra': Robert Morton Nance and the Celtic Congress of 1926, Derek R. Williams

    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 and Pamela Dale

    7. Cultural Capital in Cornwall: Heritage and the Visitor, Graham Busby  and Kevin Meethan

    8. Changing Landscapes of Difference: Representations of Cornwall in Travel Writing, 1949-2007, Robert Dickinson

    9. Cornish Identity: Vague Notion or Social Fact? Joanie Willett

    10. 1549 - The Rebels Shout Back, Cheryl Hayden

    Review Article

    11. Cornish Cases and Cornish Social History, Bernard Deacon



    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.