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.

'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)‘All the articles are well written and contain much in the way of facts rather than generalisations as one would expect from the academic authors but still of much interest to ordinary readers.’ (Cornwall FHS Journal, No. 125, September 2007)

• Introduction1. Cornish or Klingon? The Standardization of the Cornish Language, Bernard Deacon2. I-Affection in Breton and Cornish Nicholas, J.A. Williams3. Additional Thoughts on the Medieval 'Cornish Bible', Matthew Spriggs4. Who was the Duchess of Cornwall in Nicholas Boson's (c. 1660-70) 'The Duchesse of Cornwall's Progresse to see the Land's End...'?, Matthew Spriggs5. The Literary Anthropology of Mrs Havelock Ellis: An Exploration of the Insider and Outsider Categories, Gemma Goodman6. 'The Words Are There Before Us': A Reading of Twentieth-century Anglo-Cornish Poems Written by Women, Briar Wood7. Narratives in the Net: Fiction and Cornish Tourism, Graham Busby and Patrick Laviolette8. Cornish Copper Mining 1795-1830: Economy, Structure and Change, Jim Lewis9. The 1913 China Clay Dispute: 'One and All' or 'One-That's All'?, Ronald Perry and Charles Thurlow10. Nationalized Cornwall, Terry Chapman11. 'Guizing': Ancient Traditions and Modern Sensitivities, Merv Davey

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.

'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)‘All the articles are well written and contain much in the way of facts rather than generalisations as one would expect from the academic authors but still of much interest to ordinary readers.’ (Cornwall FHS Journal, No. 125, September 2007)

• Introduction1. Cornish or Klingon? The Standardization of the Cornish Language, Bernard Deacon2. I-Affection in Breton and Cornish Nicholas, J.A. Williams3. Additional Thoughts on the Medieval 'Cornish Bible', Matthew Spriggs4. Who was the Duchess of Cornwall in Nicholas Boson's (c. 1660-70) 'The Duchesse of Cornwall's Progresse to see the Land's End...'?, Matthew Spriggs5. The Literary Anthropology of Mrs Havelock Ellis: An Exploration of the Insider and Outsider Categories, Gemma Goodman6. 'The Words Are There Before Us': A Reading of Twentieth-century Anglo-Cornish Poems Written by Women, Briar Wood7. Narratives in the Net: Fiction and Cornish Tourism, Graham Busby and Patrick Laviolette8. Cornish Copper Mining 1795-1830: Economy, Structure and Change, Jim Lewis9. The 1913 China Clay Dispute: 'One and All' or 'One-That's All'?, Ronald Perry and Charles Thurlow10. Nationalized Cornwall, Terry Chapman11. 'Guizing': Ancient Traditions and Modern Sensitivities, Merv Davey

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.

'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)‘All the articles are well written and contain much in the way of facts rather than generalisations as one would expect from the academic authors but still of much interest to ordinary readers.’ (Cornwall FHS Journal, No. 125, September 2007)

• Introduction1. Cornish or Klingon? The Standardization of the Cornish Language, Bernard Deacon2. I-Affection in Breton and Cornish Nicholas, J.A. Williams3. Additional Thoughts on the Medieval 'Cornish Bible', Matthew Spriggs4. Who was the Duchess of Cornwall in Nicholas Boson's (c. 1660-70) 'The Duchesse of Cornwall's Progresse to see the Land's End...'?, Matthew Spriggs5. The Literary Anthropology of Mrs Havelock Ellis: An Exploration of the Insider and Outsider Categories, Gemma Goodman6. 'The Words Are There Before Us': A Reading of Twentieth-century Anglo-Cornish Poems Written by Women, Briar Wood7. Narratives in the Net: Fiction and Cornish Tourism, Graham Busby and Patrick Laviolette8. Cornish Copper Mining 1795-1830: Economy, Structure and Change, Jim Lewis9. The 1913 China Clay Dispute: 'One and All' or 'One-That's All'?, Ronald Perry and Charles Thurlow10. Nationalized Cornwall, Terry Chapman11. 'Guizing': Ancient Traditions and Modern Sensitivities, Merv Davey