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Cornwall: history, surnames and society, from Bernard Deacon
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Cornish surnames
Why do surnames matter? An introduction
Where surnames come from – a brief history
Classifying surnames
Surnames and the Cornish language
What makes a surname ‘Cornish’?
Surname maps – 1861
18th century surnames by parish
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
The Surnames of Cornwall
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
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
2010-17
Recent articles on Cornwall
What’s going on at Godrevy?
Pasty appreciation
People pressure at Land’s End
How inclusive are Cornish tourist sites?
Environmental concern on the streets of Truro?
From Cornwall to Crete? Bronze age trading routes
Cornwall and Finnegan’s Wake
Exploiting culture, mining heritage?
The Cornish gentry’s ‘county’ identity in the 1400s
De-territorialisation and Downderry
Emily Hobhouse and the limits of agency
Justice and the planning system
The drink problem in sixth century Tintagel
Robert Hunt and early photography
Scallop dredging and docks expansion in Falmouth
The names and naming of revived Cornish
Litter on north Cornish beaches
Nellie Sloggett and North Cornish folklore
Bronze Age metal mining
EU funding and Cornwall
‘Where was Middle Cornish spoken?’
Gothic/Mystical Cornwall: a review
Cornish towns
My publications
Publications: a list
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
Proper Poldark
Other
A tribute to James Whetter
Contact
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