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Bernard Deacon

    Bernard W. Deacon je multidisciplinární akademik se zaměřením na 18. a 19. století v Cornwallu, jeho jazyk a identitu. Jeho práce se zabývá změnami obyvatelstva, způsobem vládnutí v periferních regionech a prezentací cornwallské identity. Deacon, plynulý mluvčí cornwallštiny, je aktivní v jejím oživení a v organizacích usilujících o její podporu. Jeho akademické působení zahrnuje výzkum a výuku na různých univerzitách, kde se soustředí na historii a společnost Cornwallu.

    From a Cornish Study: Essays on Cornish Studies and Cornwall
    Mebyon Kernow and Cornish Nationalism
    A Concise History of Cornwall
    The Land's End? The Great Sale of Cornwall
    • The Land's End? The Great Sale of Cornwall

      • 274 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení
      3,0(1)Ohodnotit

      The book examines the prioritization of second home owners and in-migrants over local residents in Cornwall, highlighting the economic failures and environmental repercussions of such policies. It also delves into the cultural ramifications, detailing how these strategies marginalize the Cornish community and jeopardize the preservation of their unique identity and heritage.

      The Land's End? The Great Sale of Cornwall
    • A Concise History of Cornwall

      • 192 stránek
      • 7 hodin čtení
      3,6(5)Ohodnotit

      This book traces the creative tensions produced by Cornwall's unique history, from an independent British kingdom through a culturally distinct medieval province and a prominent industrial region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to its present location as a post-industrial paradox: nation, region and county all wrapped in one.

      A Concise History of Cornwall
    • This volume addresses the issue of Cornish Nationalism and the history of the political movement that has set the political agenda in Cornwall since the 1950s.

      Mebyon Kernow and Cornish Nationalism