Philip Payton

Philip John Payton is professor of Cornish and Australian Studies [Payton also is Vice-President of the [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/menzies/basa/ British Australian Studies Association.] ] at the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies based at Tremough, just outside Penryn, Cornwall.

Birth and Education

He was born in 1953 of Cornish parents. His father a merchant seaman "Cornwall today" Vol. 3 No. 1 p. 68: "Interview with Dr. Philip Payton by Alan Murton" (?1991).] .

Following education at Haywards Heath Grammar School, Sussex [Haywards Heath Grammar School is now part of Central Sussex College] , he obtained his first degree from the University of Bristol in 1975 and returned to Australia (where he had lived as a child) to read for a doctorate at the University of Adelaide, choosing as his theme the Cornish in Australia, completing in 1978 [http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/seminars/2007/ppayton.pdf Poster for Lecture to the Australian National University June 2006.] .

Naval career

In 1979 he joined the Royal Navy as an officer in the Instructor Branch, training at the Britannia Royal Naval College (Dartmouth) and at sea in HMS Intrepid before being appointed to HMS Fisgard at Torpoint in Cornwall. Subsequently, he served at HMS Cochrane, HMS Collingwood and at the Royal Navy Engineering College [ [http://www.rnecmanadon.com/about/default.php Royal Navy Engineering College website] ] at Manadon .

In 1989 was appointed Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and International Affairs at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

He now holds the rank of Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve and has seen active service when attached to the Army in Bosnia and Croatia in 1993 and more recently aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal in 2003 during the Iraq War. [http://www.cornwalleditions.co.uk/products/prod_aHistory/prod_ahistory.html Cornwall editions website.] .

Academic career

In 1990 he gained a second doctorate, from the University of Plymouth, for a study of modern Cornwall from a centre-periphery perspective ["Modern Cornwall : The Changing Nature of Peripherality : A Thesis Submitted In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements of the Council For National Academic Awards For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy ",(1989)] . He joined the University of Exeter as Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, then situated at Pool, near Redruth, in 1991 but now at the Tremough Campus. He was promoted Reader in 1995 and Professor in 2000. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts.

Amongst his many book and articles are "Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia's Little Cornwall" (2007), "A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot" (2005), and the acclaimed "Cornwall - A History", first published in 1996 and updated in 2004, which remains a major modern authoritative history of Cornwall. Other titles include: "The Cornish Miner in Australia" (1984), "The Making of Modern Cornwall" (1992), and "Cornwall Since the War" (1993). He also edits the annual serial publication, "Cornish Studies". His other research interests Modern Cornish history; Cornish emigration; ethnicity and territorial politics, including centre-periphery relations [ [http://www.exeter.ac.uk/postgraduate/degrees/cornishstudies/research.shtml University of Exeter-Postgraduate Research Degrees website.] ] .

Bard of the Cornish Gorseth

Payton was made a Bard of Gorseth Kernow in 1981, taking the Bardic name "Car Dyvresow" ('Friend of Exiles').

Personal life

He is married with two adult daughters .

Publications

* "Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia's Little Cornwall", Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2007 ISBN 978 0 85989 795 2 paperback 978 0 85989 796 9
* "A.L. Rowse and Cornwall : a paradoxical patriot", Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2005 ISBN 0859897443 paperback ISBN 978-085989-798-3.
* "Cornish carols from Australia / a new edition of "The Christmas Welcome", compiled - with an introduction - by Philip Payton , Trewirgie : Dyllansow Truran, 1984 ISBN 0907566928
* "The Cornish eclipse 1649-1751", (1999) Notes An illustrated lecture, commissioned by Artys war anow Kernow (Verbal Arts Cornwall) for the Daphne du Maurier Festival of Arts & Literature
* "The Cornish farmer in Australia or, Australian adventure : Cornish colonists and the expansion of Adelaide and the South Australian agricultural frontier ", Redruth : Dyllansow Truran, c1987 ISBN 1850220298
* " The Cornish miner in Australia : (cousin Jack down under)", Redruth) : Dyllansow Truran, 1984. ISBN 0907566510
* " The Cornish overseas", Fowey : Alexander Associates, 1999. ISBN 1899526951. Revised edition Rev. and updated edition, Fowey : Cornwall Editions, 2005 ISBN 1904880045
* "Cornwall"; Fowey : Alexander Associates, 1996 ISBN 1899526609. Revised edition "Cornwall : a history" , Fowey : Cornwall Editions Ltd, 2004 ISBN 1904880002 (Available online on [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UfCvxdhNLHIC&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=%22james+whetter%22&source=web&ots=xZMzSC7uJq&sig=pxj-rLTFfE_QaR2MGItgicadb6E&hl=en#PPP1,M1 Google Books] ).
* "Cornwall for ever! = Kernow bys vyken!", edited by Philip Payton: Cornwall Heritage Trust, 2000.
* "Cornwall Since the War : The Contemporary History of a European Region" Edited by Philip Payton, Redruth : Institute of Cornish Studies, Dyllansow Truran, 1993 ISBN 1850220735
* "Cornwall's history : an introduction", Redruth : Tor Mark Press, 2002 ISBN 0850253926.
* "Making Moonta: The Invention of ‘Australia’s Little Cornwall", Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2007 ISBN 978-085989-796-9 paperback ISBN 978-085989-795-2
* "The making of modern Cornwall : historical experience and the persistence of "difference"., Redruth : Dyllansow Truran, c1992 ISBN 1850220646
* [http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Sea/articles/payton.html "Maritime history and the emigration trade: the case of mid-nineteenth-century Cornwall"] in "History in Focus", 2005: The sea (Full text of article online (Accessed 19 March 2008)).
* "New directions in Celtic studies" / edited by Amy Hale and Philip Payton, Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2000 ISBN 0859896226
* "Pictorial history of Australia's Little Cornwall", Adelaide : Rigby, 1978 ISBN 0727006045
* "Re-Inventing Celtic Australia: Notions of Celtic Identity From the Colonial Period to the Era of Multi-Culturalism" in "Australian Studies Journal",Volume 12, Number 2, Winter 1997.
* "The story of HMS Fisgard", Redruth : Dyllansow Truran, 1983 ISBN 0907566561
* "Tregantle and Scraesdon : their forts and railway" , Redruth : Dyllansow Truran, 1987 ISBN 1850220387
* "A vision of Cornwall ", [foreword by Sir John Trelawny] , Alexander Associates, 2002 ISBN 189952602

References

External links

* [http://www.institutes.ex.ac.uk/ics/payton.htm Institute of Cornish Studies Website: Academic staff biographies-Payton]

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