Bernard Deacon (linguist)

Academic career

• 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

Publications

In book form

• Cornwall at the crossroads : living communities or leisure zone?, with Andrew George and Ronald Perry. Cornish Social & Economic Research Group, 1988.
• Liskeard & its People in the 19th Century. Self-published, 1989.
• The reformulation of territorial identity : Cornwall in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Open University Press, 2001.
• Mebyon Kernow and Cornish Nationalism, with Dick Cole and Garry Tregidga. Cardiff: Welsh Academic Press, 2003.
• The Cornish Family: the roots of our future; with Sharron Schwartz and David Holman; Cornwall Editions 2004.
• Cornwall: the Concise History,. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 978-0-7083-2031-0
• Cornwall and the Cornish; Penzance, Alison Hodge .
• The Land's End? The Great Sale of Cornwall; Cornish Social & Economic Research Group, 2013 .

  In ''Cornish studies''

• “Cornish or Klingon?: the standardization of the Cornish language”; Exeter, The University of Exeter Press; Cornish studies edited by Philip Payton, New series, No. Fourteen., ISSN 1352-271X. pp 13–23.
• "From 'Cornish Studies' to 'Critical Cornish Studies': reflections on methodology"; Cornish studies: Twelve.,pp. 13–29.
• "Propaganda and the Tudor state or propaganda of the Tudor historians?; Cornish studies: Eleven . pp.317–328.
• "The New Cornish Studies: new discipline or rhetorically defined space?";Cornish studies: Ten . pp. 24–33
• "In Search of the 'Missing Turn': The Spatial Dimension and Cornish Studies";Cornish studies: Eight .. pp. 213–230.
• "Breaking the chains and forging new links"";Cornish studies: Eight . pp. 231–234.
• "A Forgotten Migration Stream: The Cornish Movement to England and Wales in the Nineteenth Century'"; Cornish studies: Six .pp. 96–117.
• "Proto-industrialization and potatoes: a revised narrative for 19th century Cornwall" Cornish studies: Five.. pp. 60–84.
• "Language Revival and Language Debate: Modernity and Postmodernity"; Cornish studies: Four. pp. 88–106.
• "Re-inventing Cornwall: Culture Change on the European Periphery" with Philip Payton; Cornish studies: One. pp. 62–79
• “Heroic individualists: the Cornish Miners and the Five-Week Month”, Cornish Studies : 14 pp. 39–52.
• “Attempts at Unionism by Cornish metal miners in 1866”, Cornish Studies : 10 pp. 27–36.

  Work in progress

• Cornish surnames, their origin and spread