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Quintessentially English, Sir John Betjeman was an outsider in England and doubly so in his adopted home of Cornwall, where, as he was the first to admit, he was a foreigner. Nonetheless, as this book describes, the former Poet Laureate strove to acquire a veneer of Cornishness, discovering his own Welsh ancestry and cultivating an alternative Celtic identity that he wove during sojourns in Ireland, the other Celtic countries, and even Australia. Here eminent Cornish studies scholar Philip Payton provides a lively new account of the life of one of Britain's most beloved poets, offering new...

Quintessentially English, Sir John Betjeman was an outsider in England and doubly so in his adopted home of Cornwall, where, as he was the first to admit, he was a foreigner. Nonetheless, as this book describes, the former Poet Laureate strove to acquire a veneer of Cornishness, discovering his own Welsh ancestry and cultivating an alternative Celtic identity that he wove during sojourns in Ireland, the other Celtic countries, and even Australia. Here eminent Cornish studies scholar Philip Payton provides a lively new account of the life of one of Britain's most beloved poets, offering new...

Cornish Studies has consistently and successfully sought to explore the nature of Cornish identity and discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.

This latest volume includes articles on mining in both nineteenth-century and contemporary Cornwall, an assessment of research into Cornish folklore, discussion of the modern growth of alternative "Celtic spiritualities" in Cornwall, a fresh perspective on the Middle Cornish language of medieval Cornish drama, and a fascinating account of the rise and importance of swimming matches in Victorian...

The latest volume of Cornish Studies includes articles on the possible existence of a Medieval Cornish Bible; the rebellion and Civil War during Cornwall's early modern period; the Cornish Army; Cornish emigration to Australia; Cornish identity; tourism and representations of Cornwall in travel writing; and social, political, economic, and public health issues affecting Cornwall in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

Winner of the 2008 Holyer An Gof Award for non-fiction. An investigation of the popular tradition of 'Australia's Little Cornwall' how one town in South Australia gained and perpetuated this identity into the twenty-first century. This book is about Moonta and its special place in the Cornish transnational identity. Today Moonta is a small town on South Australia's northern Yorke Peninsula; along with the neighbouring townships of of Wallaroo and Kadina, it is an agricultural and heritage tourism centre. In the second half of the nineteenth century, however, Moonta was the focus of a major...

The tenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.

Contributions by
Allen Buckley, Treve Crago, Bernard Deacon, Amy Hale, Edwin Jaggard, Neil Kennedy, Alan M. Kent, Kenneth MacKinnon, Philip Payton, Ronald Perry, Sharron P. Schwartz, Mark Stoyle, Charles Thomas, Garry Tregidga, Colin H. Williams and Malcolm Williams

The sixth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.

Contributions by
Tony Champion, Bernard Deacon, Brian Elvins, Ron Elzey, Richard Gendall, Anthony P. Grant, Alan M. Kent, Joanna Mattingly, Emma Mitchell, Philip Payton, Glanville Price, Malcolm Smith, Matthew Spriggs, Nicholas Williams, Malcolm Williams and Peter Wills

The nineteenth volume in this acclaimed series furthers the mission to investigate and elucidate the nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.

The eleventh volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.

Contributions by
John Beckett, Graham Busby, Stuart Dalley, Bernard Deacon, Brian Elvins, David Everett, D. H. Frost, Julyan Holmes, Alan M. Kent, Patrick Laviolette, Philip Payton, Mark Sandford, Matthew Spriggs, Malte W. Tschirschky and David Windsor

The seventh volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.

Contributions by
Catherine Brace, Brian Elvins, Michael Everson, Jim Hall, John Hurst, Patrick Laviolette, Jon Mills, William A. Morris, Philip Payton, Ronald Perry, Sharron P. Schwartz, Garry Tregidga and Nicholas Williams

The fourth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.

Contributions by
Bernard Deacon, Amy Hale, Neil Kennedy, Alan M. Kent, Brian Murdoch, Philip Payton, Glanville Price, Rod Sheaff, Mark Stoyle, Paul Thornton and Nicholas Williams

The thirteenth volume in this acclaimed paperback series includes articles on Cornish emigration, Cornish literature, the novelist Virginia Woolf, the poet Jack Clemo, Cornish mining history, Cornish folklore, the medieval Cornish-language miracle plays, and William Scawen: the seventeenth-century Cornish patriot and language revivalist.

Contributions by
Michael Bender, Amy Hale, Alan M. Kent, Cynthia Lane, Gary Magge, Paul Manning, Philip Payton, Sharron P. Schwartz, Matthew Spriggs, Andrew C. Symons, Andrew Thompson and Malcolm Williams

The ninth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.

Contributions by
Manuel Alberro, Philipa Aldous, Chris Carter, Paul Cockerham, David Crowther, Brian Elvins, Andrew Hawke, Cheryl Hayden, Neil Kennedy, Philip Payton, John Rule, Sharron P. Schwartz, Garry Tregidga, Malcolm Williams and Nicholas Williams