Books by Bernard W. Deacon

Bernard Deacon was born in Launceston and grew up and went to school in Liskeard. After graduating in economic history at Exeter University (1970), he gained an MA in Modern Social History at Lancaster University in 1971, and was awarded a doctorate by the Open University (2001) for his dissertation on the historical formation of Cornish identity. He is currently a Lecturer at the Institute of Cornish Studies and in the Department of Lifelong Learning, both based at the University of Exeter in Cornwall (from September 2004 part of the new Tremough campus in Penryn). Bernard's publications include: A History of Liskeard and its People (1989) and articles in Cornish Studies and academic journals such as Rural History, Family and Community History and Journal of Regional and Local Studies. Since 2002, he has been co-editor of the journal Family and Community History. Bernard Deacon is a Bard of the Cornish Gorseth and a Cornish speaker. He lives at Redruth with his wife and family. Sharron P Schwartz was born, bred and educated in Redruth. She completed a BA (Hons) degree in European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London (1987). Sharron has worked for several years as a history tutor in the University of Exeter's Department of Lifelong Learning, and was the documentary researcher for the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site Bid. In 2003, she was awarded a doctorate in Cornish Studies at the Institute of Cornish Studies for her thesis that examined Cornish migration to Latin America from a trans-national perspective. She is currently working on the Cornish Communities Programme with Bernard Deacon. Sharron is the author of prize-winning community history, Lanner: A Cornish Mining Parish (1998), and has published numerous articles on Cornish migration, mining and gender in Cornish Studies, New Perspectives in Transatlantic Studies and the Journal of the Trevithick Society. She lives at Redruth with her eleven-year-old daughter, Keren. David Holman was educated at Huish Grammar School, Taunton, Somerset, and took his BSc Honours degree from the Open University. David served in HM Armed Forces for more than twenty years, before taking up a civilian post in Bodmin. He has been active in the Cornwall Family History Society for many years and became Chairman in 2001. He teaches family history at Cornwall College as well as giving numerous talks on family history in Cornwall and further afield. David lives near St Austell.