Cornish Studies Volume 15

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.

• Introduction1. The Cornish Englyn, Nicholas J. A. Williams2. Glasney's Parish Clergy and the Tregear Manuscript, D. H. Frost3. 'We don't travel much, only to South Africa': Reconstructing Nineteenth-century Cornish Migration Patterns, Bernard Deacon4. From St Just to St Just Point: Cornish Migration to Nineteenth-century, Victoria Charles Fahey5. Home Away From Home: Cornish Immigrants in Nineteenth-century Nevada, Ronald M. James6. Representing the Duchy: Francis Acland and Cornish Politics, 1910-1922, Garry Tregidga7. John Betjeman and the Holy Grail: One Man's Celtic Quest, Philip Payton8. Alex Parks, Punks and Pipers: Towards a History of Popular Music in Cornwall 1967-2007, Alan M. Kent9. Economic Theory and Cornwall, John Dirring

'The outcome and intention has been to place Cornwall squarely in new debates about the nature of "Britishness" and the territorial identities.' (Western Morning News)'Cornish Studies is probably the only 'county' series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation. As such it consistently provides rich material for the understanding of the British past and present as a whole, and of their impact on the wider world.' (Ronald Hutton, Professor of History, University of Bristol)'I am deeply impressed by the Cornish Studies series. As a researcher on the construction of Englishness and its exclusivities, as well as a specialist on minority cultures, I find its contents thought-provoking and challenging. It is exceptional to find such wide-ranging and truly interdisciplinary approaches within a scholarly series. In particular, its reflexivity and self-criticism is refreshing and stimulating.' (Professor Tony Kushner, Department of History, University of Southampton)