Cornish Studies Volume 5

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.

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

• 1. Introduction2. Cornwall in Context: The New Cornish Historiography, Philip Payton3. The Cornish: Identity and Genetics - An Alternative View, Dick Cole4. The Tithing Framework of West Cornwall: A Proposed Pattern and an Interpretation of Territorial Origins, David Harvey5. Tyranny in Beunans Meriasek, Lynette Olson6. Proto-industrialisation and Potatoes: A Revised Narrative for Nineteenth-Century Cornwall, Bernard Deacon7. Rethinking Celtic Cornwall: An Ethnographic Approach, Amy Hale8. Genesis of the Celto-Cornish Revival? L.C. Duncombe-Jewell and the Cowethas Kelto-Kernuak, Amy Hale9. Celtic Revival and Economic Development in Edwardian Cornwall, Ronald Perry10. The Politics of the Celto-Cornish Revival, 1886-1939, Garry Tregidga11. A Passion to Exist: Cultural Hegemony and the Roots of Cornish Identity, Rob Burton12. Cornish Rugby and Cultural Identity: A Socio-historical Perspective, Andy SewardResearch Note13. Cornwall Education Week: Seventy Years On, F. Roff Rayner, F.L. Harris, Philip Payton14. Book ReviewNotes on Contributors