Cornwall is a special place. It generates a fierce pride among its native sons and daughters, and a passionate attachment from newcomers. Dreams of Cornwall can also inspire the Cornish overseas, descendants of nineteenth-century emigrants. But why? Cornwall and the Cornish reveals the meanings of some of the places that inspire an identity with Cornwall. It explains why Cornwall is so often viewed as a distinctive place, and where the Cornish identity comes from.
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Dr Bernard Deacon is Senior Lecturer in Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter’s Cornwall Campus at Tremough near Penryn. Born in east Cornwall and living in the west, he is the author of The Cornish Family and Cornwall: The Concise History, as well as numerous articles about Cornwall and its history.
Cornwall and the Cornish is published in our Pocket Cornwall series.
1st edition Paperback 128 pages 150 colour photographs 150 x 153 mm 25.05.10
Narratives of Cornwall Discovering Difference Sacred Places Groups How Others See Us
‘Familiar but foreign – that's the feeling that nudges so many of us when we are in deepest Cornwall ... ‘It's 128 pages mine a wealth of information...’ (Tavistock Times Gazette, 15.07.10)
