The fourth in my series of one sentence (sometimes two) summaries of recent academic work on Cornwall …
Mary O’Sullivan follows the money and tells us why the miners who were demonstrating in 1787 had a better grasp of economics than some mines adventurers of the time.
Joan Passey is attracted by the ‘Cornish Gothic’ but finds herself repulsed by evil Cornish Studies which is merely ‘academic isolationsim’ from which she bravely sets out to rescue Cornwall.
In three articles Rhys Sandow argues that in Camborne-Redruth some people invert the usual pattern, whereby in careful speech speakers will drop their regional accent. Instead, they use dialect words in careful speech while not doing so when conversing casually.
Cornish studies resources 