Garry Tregidga

Garry Harcourt Tregidga is a Cornish academic, director of the Institute of Cornish Studies based at the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus in Cornwall, UK,[1] and editor of the journal Cornish Studies.

Garry Harcourt Tregidga
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Liberal Party in Cornwall, 1918-39 (1991)
Academic work
DisciplineHistorian
Institutions

He lives at Bugle, near St Austell, and was named as a Bard of the Cornish Gorseth for services to Cornish history, taking the name "Map Rosvean" - "Son of Rosevean".

Tregidga took both his MPhil and PhD[2] degrees with the University of Exeter. In October 1997 he was appointed Assistant Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies. He has published articles on many themes related to Cornwall and is the author of The Liberal Party in South West Britain since 1918: Political Decline, Dormancy and Rebirth (2000), and is a co-author of Mebyon Kernow and Cornish Nationalism (2003).

In 1998 he founded the Cornish History Network,[3] followed in 2000 by the Cornish Audio-Visual Archive (CAVA) which aims to document the oral history and visual culture of Cornwall.[4]

Publications
  • Map Kenwyn : the life and times of Cecil Beer / by Garry Tregidga and Treve Crago; Cornwall : Gorseth Kernow, 2000. ISBN 1-903668-00-X
  • The Liberal Party in South-West Britain since 1918 : political decline, dormancy and rebirth / Garry Tregidga; Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2000. ISBN 0-85989-679-X
  • Mebyon Kernow and Cornish nationalism / Bernard Deacon, Dick Cole and Garry Tregidga; Cardiff : Welsh Academic Press, 2003. ISBN 1-86057-075-5
  • Killerton, Camborne and Westminster : the political correspondence of Sir Francis and Lady Acland, 1910-29 / edited by Garry Tregidga (Series: Devon and Cornwall Record Society ; volume 48); Exeter : Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 2006. ISBN 0-901853-48-8
  • Mysticism, Myth and 'Celtic' Identity / by Marion Gibson, Shelley Trower and Garry Tregidga; London : Routledge, 2012.
  • Memory, Place and Identity: The Cultural Landscapes of Cornwall / by Garry Tregidga; London : Francis Boutle Publishers, 2012.
  • 21st Century Celts: Memory and Place in the Celtic World / by K. Milden and Garry Tregidga; University of Wales Press, 2011.
  • Narratives of the Family: Kinship and Identity in Cornwall / Garry Tregidga; Redruth, Cornwall Centre, 2009.
  • Culture, character or campaigns? : assessing the electoral performance of the Liberals and Liberal Democrats in Cornwall 1945-2010 / by John Ault and Garry Tregidga; University of Exeter, 2014.

References
  1. http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/history/staff/tregidga/ Staff Profile on the University of Exeter website
  2. Doctoral Thesis (1991): The Liberal Party in Cornwall, 1918-1939. University of Exeter.
  3. "The Cornish History Network Home Page". Projects.ex.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  4. "Music Kernow – Contesting". Cornish Story. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
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