Payton, Philip, Prof.
Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and is the former Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies in the University of Exeter. He edited Cornish Studies, published annually from 1993-2013, the only series of publications that seeks to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.
He has written extensively on Cornish topics, and recent books include A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (2005), Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia’s Little Cornwall (2007), John Betjeman and Cornwall: ‘The Celebrated Cornish Nationalist’ (2010), and (edited with Alston Kennerley and Helen Doe), The Maritime History of Cornwall (2014). He has recently been awarded South Australian Historian of the Year 2017 by the History Council of South Australia.
Payton, Philip, Prof.
Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and is the former Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies in the University of Exeter. He edited Cornish Studies, published annually from 1993-2013, the only series of publications that seeks to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.
He has written extensively on Cornish topics, and recent books include A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (2005), Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia’s Little Cornwall (2007), John Betjeman and Cornwall: ‘The Celebrated Cornish Nationalist’ (2010), and (edited with Alston Kennerley and Helen Doe), The Maritime History of Cornwall (2014). He has recently been awarded South Australian Historian of the Year 2017 by the History Council of South Australia.
Frost, D. H.
Daveth H. Frost was the Principal of Holy Cross College and University Centre, Bury, Lancashire.
He is the author of ‘Sacrament an Alter: A Tudor Cornish Patristic Catena’ in Cornish Studies: Eleven (2003) and ‘Glasney’s Parish Clergy and the Tregear Manuscript’ in Cornish Studies: Fifteen (2008), both edited by Philip Payton. Daveth has also contributed patristic references and commentary as part of the online Variorum Edition of John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. He was a part of the advisory committee assisting in the restoration of Llandeilo Talybont at the St Fagan’s National History Museum in Wales and contributed to Saving St Teilo’s: Bringing a Medieval Church to Life edited by Gerallt D. Nash (National Museum of Wales Books 2009).
With special interests in the pre-Reformation Church in Cornwall, Wales and Brittany, he is currently jointly editing, with Benjamin Bruch, the 16th century Cornish translation of Bishop Bonner’s Homilies which was made by the priest John Tregear, alongside associated material by his fellow priest, Thomas Stephen.
James, Ronald M.
Ronald M. James has taught and published in the fields of history and folklore for five decades. He was adjunct faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno, and is a retired state historic preservation officer, also serving as chair of the National Historic Landmarks Committee. An I.T.T. Fellow studying folklore in Ireland, 1981–1982, he is a bard in the Gorsedh Kernow. He has authored or co-authored thirteen books and contributed chapters and articles to many more, including The Folklore of Cornwall: The Oral Tradition of a Celtic Nation (UEP, 2018), which was a finalist for the Katharine Briggs Award.
Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies in the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University’s Cornwall campus. He is also the author of A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (UEP, 2005, paperback 2007), Making Moonta: The Invention of ‘Australia’s Little Cornwall’ (UEP, 2007) and numerous other books on Cornwall and the Cornish.
