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In South Australia, the Cornish connection with the state's copper mining communities is well-known and deservedly celebrated. So too is the influence of the South Australian Cornish in other parts of the continent, especially neighbouring Broken Hill and Victoria. But mining was only ever part of their story. They were, as this volume makes clear, much more than miners, their distinctive impact readily apparent in an array of 'Cornish' cultural and social activities, notably music and Methodism. Besides, not all Cornish immigrants were miners, with many Cornish men and women involved in a wide variety of other occupations, particularly farming. This important collection of essays illuminates this extraordinary diversity, adding new depth and new insights to the endlessly fascinating story of the South Australian Cornish.

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Jan Lokan has Cornish origins traced back to Crowan in the early 1600s. Her forebears were 'tinners', then copper miners. Her great-grandfather brought his family to Moonta Mines in 1864, but soon opened a much-needed school for miners' children. Jan is an Adelaide University Arts graduate and later gained a PhD in Education in Ottawa, Canada. Her working life was in educational research, first in Canada and then with the Australian Council for Educational Research in Melbourne. She has many publications in that field and was awarded a Centennial Medal for services to educational research in 2003. In retirement she has followed her interests in Cornish history, organising the Cornish Association of South Australia's biennial history seminars for 15 years. She became a bard of the Cornish Gorsedh in 2018, with the name Myrgh Golsery ('daughter of Goldsworthy'), using the 17th-century form of the name. Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies at the University of Exeter, where he was formerly Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, and is Professor of History at Flinders University as well as Honorary Professor at the Australian National University. He is the author or editor of more than sixty books, most on Cornish themes. Recent volumes include Cornwall in the Age of Rebellion: 1490-1690 (University of Exeter Press) and Vice-Regal: A history of the Governors of South Australia (Wakefield Press). He is an Honorary Life Member of the Cornish Association of South Australia, and is a bard of the Cornish Gorsedh. His bardic name Car Dyvresow means 'friend of exiles'.

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