Save yourself all the bother of having to read them – here’s the fifth instalment of very short summaries of some recent academic takes on Cornwall …
Nigel Saul ascribes the Carminow family’s myth about their coat of arms to the family’s sixteenth century decline while going on to claim the Cornish identity was by then no different from English county identities.
Mark Stoyle’s book on the 1549 rising offers a detailed new narrative of the causes, course and consequences of this key event in Cornwall’s history, arguing that it was more of a threat to the government of the day than historians have hitherto assumed. In doing so, he revises the timing of the Cornish rising, with major implications for our understanding of it.
John Tredinnick-Rowe and Jeremy Anbleyth-Evans ask how much people are prepared to pay to protect the Cornish chough. They find that it’s £23.60.
Cornish studies resources 