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Cornish surnames
Context
Why do surnames matter? An introduction
Where surnames come from – a brief history
Classifying surnames
Surnames and Cornwall
What makes a surname ‘Cornish’?
Surnames and the Cornish language
Data on Cornish surnames
Surname maps – 1861
Allen to Buzza
Caddy to Currah
Dabb to Guy
Hain to Knuckey
Ladner to Oxnam
Paddy to Runnalls
Sambells to Sweet
Tabb to Tyzzer
Udy to Yeo
17th century surnames by parish
18th century surnames by parish
Case studies
How to trace the origin of your family name: an example
Hosking: a bit of a Cornish mystery
Surnames in Madron: By Nicholls. Mitchell and Roberts you shall know the Cornish
Cornish language
The history of Cornish
Early Cornish to c.1100
The loss of the east: 1100-1300s
Relative stability: 1300 to the early/mid 1500s
Growing pressure: the early 1500s to 1700
The final years: 1700-1800
Cornish demography
Cornwall’s population history: an overview
Cornwall’s population history before 1750
Industrialisation and population growth, 1750-1860s
Deindustrialisation and depopulation: the 1860s to the 1950s
The Great Emigration
The Great In-migration: 1960s to the present day
Cornish Identities
Defining identity
The Cornish identity
English identity in Cornwall
British identity in Cornwall
Cornish Methodism
Cornish Methodism or Methodism in Cornwall?
The causes of Methodist growth
What was different about Cornish Methodism?
The Consequences of Methodism for Cornish society
Cornish mining
Cornish mining: a short history
The geography of mining
Cornish politics
1922-45
1950-59
1964-74
1979-92
1997-2005
2010-19
Cornish towns
Academic articles on Cornwall
Contemporary social/cultural/political
The Anglican Church and Cornwall
Cornwall as an ‘almost island’
Town councils, Cornwall Council and austerity
Skills gaps and stereotypes
Legend and history at Tintagel
Healthcare and diversification in Cornish fishing
Political theatre at St Ives: the second homes ‘ban’
Contrasting Padstow’s festivals
Rather Westminster than Brussels or Truro. The brexit vote in Cornwall.
Pasty appreciation
How inclusive are Cornish tourist sites?
Exploiting culture, mining heritage?
De-territorialisation and Downderry
Justice and the planning system
EU funding and Cornwall
History/archaeology
The railway and Cornish identity
Travel writers and native responses
Match-fixing in Cornish wrestling
Politics and power in late 17th century Mitchell
From Cornwall to Crete? Bronze age trading routes
The Cornish gentry’s ‘county’ identity in the 1400s
Emily Hobhouse and the limits of agency
The drink problem in sixth century Tintagel
Robert Hunt and early photography
Nellie Sloggett and North Cornish folklore
Bronze Age metal mining
Environment
Cornish beaches top anthropogenic litter league
Bringing biology into cultural heritage
What’s going on at Godrevy?
People pressure at Land’s End
Environmental concern on the streets of Truro?
Scallop dredging and docks expansion in Falmouth
Litter on north Cornish beaches
Literature and language
What can piskey tales tell us about Cornish difference?
Attitudes to the promotion of revived Cornish
Cornish, past and planned, placenames and polemics
The Cornish language as symbolic icon
Angels dancing on pins. Or studies in the history of the Cornish language.
Cornwall and Finnegan’s Wake
The names and naming of revived Cornish
‘Where was Middle Cornish spoken?’
Gothic/Mystical Cornwall: a review
My publications
All publications: a list
The Surnames of Cornwall
Industrial Celts
From a Cornish Study
Cornwall’s First Golden Age
TV and Cornwall
Picturing Cornwall: a review
Fact and fiction in The Last Kingdom
Doc Martin: creating a stereotype
Other
A tribute to James Whetter
Contact
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