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Cornwall: history, surnames and society, from Bernard Deacon

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  • About
  • 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
    • Contemporary social/cultural/political
      • 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
      • 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
      • 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
      • 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
  • 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

Literature and language

Stephanie Boland, ‘The “Cornish tokens” of Finnegan’s Wake: A journey through the Celtic archipelago’, James Joyce Quarterly 54.1-2 (2016-17), 105-118.

Merryn Davies-Deacon, ‘Names, varieties and ideologies in revived Cornish’, Studia Celtica Posnaniensia, 2 (1) (2017), 81-95.

Oliver J.Padel, Where was Middle Cornish spoken?’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 74 (2017), 1-32.

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