Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the former Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter. He edited Cornish Studies, published annually from 1993-2013, the only series of publications that seeks to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.

• A Culture of MobilityThe Rage for EmigrationBonanzas and Bugbears - Latin AmericaFrom Famine to Frontier - The Hungry Forties and the First American Mining BoomSouth Australia's Copper KingdomGold! The Californian RushGold! The Victorian RushCrashed Copper, Tumbled Tin & 'The Largest Cornish Communities Beyond Land's End'New Frontiers - AustraliaNew Frontiers - North America'But a Suburb of Cornwall' - South Africa'All Hail! Old Cornwall! May Thy Glory Last' - The End of an EraAn Enduring Identity? The Cornish in a Globalised World

A magisterial survey of the creation during the nineteenth century of the Cornish diaspora, the experiences of the Cornish who emigrated, and the emergence in many different parts of the world of communities based upon mining which cherished their distinctive Cornish identity.

Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the former Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter. He edited Cornish Studies, published annually from 1993-2013, the only series of publications that seeks to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.

• A Culture of MobilityThe Rage for EmigrationBonanzas and Bugbears - Latin AmericaFrom Famine to Frontier - The Hungry Forties and the First American Mining BoomSouth Australia's Copper KingdomGold! The Californian RushGold! The Victorian RushCrashed Copper, Tumbled Tin & 'The Largest Cornish Communities Beyond Land's End'New Frontiers - AustraliaNew Frontiers - North America'But a Suburb of Cornwall' - South Africa'All Hail! Old Cornwall! May Thy Glory Last' - The End of an EraAn Enduring Identity? The Cornish in a Globalised World

A magisterial survey of the creation during the nineteenth century of the Cornish diaspora, the experiences of the Cornish who emigrated, and the emergence in many different parts of the world of communities based upon mining which cherished their distinctive Cornish identity.

Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the former Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter. He edited Cornish Studies, published annually from 1993-2013, the only series of publications that seeks to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.

• A Culture of MobilityThe Rage for EmigrationBonanzas and Bugbears - Latin AmericaFrom Famine to Frontier - The Hungry Forties and the First American Mining BoomSouth Australia's Copper KingdomGold! The Californian RushGold! The Victorian RushCrashed Copper, Tumbled Tin & 'The Largest Cornish Communities Beyond Land's End'New Frontiers - AustraliaNew Frontiers - North America'But a Suburb of Cornwall' - South Africa'All Hail! Old Cornwall! May Thy Glory Last' - The End of an EraAn Enduring Identity? The Cornish in a Globalised World

A magisterial survey of the creation during the nineteenth century of the Cornish diaspora, the experiences of the Cornish who emigrated, and the emergence in many different parts of the world of communities based upon mining which cherished their distinctive Cornish identity.