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Bernard Deacon

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Liskeard, The United Kingdom

Website

https://psephologyfromtheperiphery.wordpress.com/

Genre

Cornish Studies

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Bernard W. Deacon is a multidisciplinary academic, based at the Institute of Cornish Studies; he has previously worked for the Open University and Exeter University’s Department of Lifelong Learning. His main research interests are:

18th and 19th century Cornish communities
The Cornish language and its revitalisation
Cornwall's population and how it has changed
How peripheral regions are governed
Who are the Cornish and how their identity is presented

Deacon is a fluent Cornish language speaker, and represents the Institute of Cornish Studies on the Cornish Language Partnership. In 2007, he was re-elected as Chairman of Cussel an Tavaz Kernuak (The Cornish language Council). ...more

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Female forenames in 1500

We’ve identified the most popular forenames given to boys in Cornwall around 1500. But to do the same for girls presents us with a data problem. The lay subsidy lists of 1524/25 that were used to identify male names include far fewer females. In fact, only 143 in the eight (out of nine) Cornish hundreds …

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Average rating: 3.8 · 54 ratings · 7 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Cornwall 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mebyon Kernow & Cornish Nationalism: Concise History by Bernard Deacon, Dick Cole, Garry Tregidga 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Surnames of Cornwall 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Real World of Poldark: Cornwall: 1783-1820 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cornwall's First Golden Age: From Arthur to the Normans 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cornwall and the Cornish really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cornish Family: The Roots Of Our Future 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cornwall at the Crossroads?: Living Communities or Leisure Zone? by Bernard Deacon, Andrew R. George, Ronald Perry liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1988	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Liskeard and Its People in the Nineteenth Century really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From a Cornish Study: Essays on Cornish Studies and Cornwall really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars