Bernard W. Deacon is a multidisciplinary academic, based at the Institute of Cornish Studies

Institute of Cornish Studies

The Institute of Cornish Studies is a research institute in west Cornwall: it started in 1970/71 as a research centre jointly funded by Exeter University and Cornwall County Council, with three core staff being employees of the University of Exeter...

  of the University of Exeter

University of Exeter

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 at the Tremough

Tremough

Tremough Campus is a university campus situated in Penryn, Cornwall. It is the only such university project in Cornwall currently. The name Tremough derives from the Cornish word for "pig farm"....

 Campus

University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus

University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus is a campus of the University of Exeter at Tremough, in Penryn, Cornwall. Since 2004 it has housed all the university's operations in Cornwall, previously scattered across a number of different sites. It is set in of countryside, but close to the towns of...

. He has an Open University

Open University

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 doctorate and displays his thesis on the ICS website.

Academic career

Deacon has worked for the Open University

Open University

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 and Exeter University’s Department of Lifelong Learning. In 2001, he joined the Institute of Cornish Studies and is the director of the Institute's Masters degree programme in Cornish Studies.
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

Cornish language

Cornish is a Brythonic Celtic language and a recognised minority language of the United Kingdom. Along with Welsh and Breton, it is directly descended from the ancient British language spoken throughout much of Britain before the English language came to dominate...

 speaker, and represents the Institute of Cornish Studies on the Cornish Language Partnership

Cornish Language Partnership

The Cornish Language Partnership is a representative body that was set up in Cornwall, United Kingdom in 2005 to promote and develop the use of the Cornish language in Cornwall...

. In 2007, he was re-elected as Chairman of Cussel an Tavaz Kernuak (The Cornish language Council).

In book form

• Cornwall at the crossroads : living communities or leisure zone?, with Andrew George and Ronald Perry. Cornish Social & Economic Research Group, 1988. ISBN 0951391801
• Liskeard & its People in the 19th Century. Self-published, 1989. ISBN 0951535501
• The reformulation of territorial identity : Cornwall in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Open University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-1238843-9
• Mebyon Kernow and Cornish Nationalism, with Dick Cole and Garry Tregidga
  Garry Tregidga
  Garry Harcourt Tregidga is an academic at the Institute of Cornish Studies in the United Kingdom.-Academic career:Garry Tregidga undertook both his MPhil and PhD degrees with the University of Exeter. He was appointed as the Assistant Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies in October 1997...
  
  . Cardiff: Welsh Academic Press, 2003. ISBN 012379714
• The Cornish Family: the roots of our future; with Sharron Schwartz and David Holman; Cornwall Editions 2004. ISBN 1904880010
• Cornwall: the Concise History, (The Histories of Europe series). Cardiff: University of Wales Press
  University of Wales Press
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  , (November 2007) ISBN 978-0-70832032-7 (hardback) 978-0-7083-2031-0 (paperback)
• Cornwall and the Cornish; Penzance, Alison Hodge (2010) ISBN 978-0906720-72-1 (small format paperback, lavishly illustrated.

In Cornish studies

Deacon has prolific publications in learned journals. The following were published in the Institute's journal:

• “Cornish or Klingon
  Klingon language
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  ?: the standardization
  Standardization
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   of the Cornish language
  Cornish language
  Cornish is a Brythonic Celtic language and a recognised minority language of the United Kingdom. Along with Welsh and Breton, it is directly descended from the ancient British language spoken throughout much of Britain before the English language came to dominate...
  
  ”; Exeter, The University of Exeter Press; Cornish studies edited by Philip Payton
  Philip Payton
  Philip John Payton is a British historian and Professor of Cornish and Australian Studies at the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies based at Tremough, just outside Penryn, Cornwall.-Birth and education:...
  
  , New series, No. Fourteen (2006). ISBN 978-0-85989-799-0, ISSN 1352-271X. pp 13–23.
• “From 'Cornish Studies' to 'Critical Cornish Studies': reflections on methodology”; Cornish studies: Twelve (2004). ISBN 978-0-85989-799-0,pp. 13–29.
• "Propaganda and the Tudor state or propaganda of the Tudor historians?; Cornish studies: Eleven (2003) ISBN 0-85989-747-8. pp.317-328.
• "The New Cornish Studies: new discipline or rhetorically defined space?";Cornish studies: Ten (2002) ISBN 0-85989-733-8. pp. 24–33
• "In Search of the 'Missing Turn': The Spatial Dimension and Cornish Studies";Cornish studies: Eight (2000) ISBN 0-85989-682-X.. pp. 213–230.
• "Breaking the chains and forging new links"";Cornish studies: Eight (2000) ISBN 0-85989-682-X. pp. 231-234.
• "A Forgotten Migration Stream: The Cornish Movement to England and Wales in the Nineteenth Century'"; Cornish studies: Six (1998) ISBN 0-85989-610-2 .pp. 96–117.
• "Proto-industrialization and potatoes: a revised narrative for 19th century Cornwall" Cornish studies: Five (1997). ISBN 0-85989-551-3. pp. 60–84.
• "Language Revival and Language Debate: Modernity and Postmodernity"; Cornish studies: Four (1996). ISBN 0-85989-523-8 pp. 88–106.
• "Re-inventing Cornwall: Culture Change on the European Periphery" with Philip Payton; Cornish studies: One (1993). ISBN 0-85989-413-4 pp. 62–79
• “Heroic individualists: the Cornish Miners and the Five-Week Month”, Cornish Studies (old series): 14 (1986) pp. 39–52.
• “Attempts at Unionism by Cornish metal miners in 1866”, Cornish Studies (old series): 10 (1982) pp. 27–36.

External links

• The Cornish Community Programme: Working papers: includes work by Bernard Deacon.