Gathering the Fragments: The Selected Essays of a Groundbreaking Historian - Softcover

Thomas, Charles

 
9781908878038: Gathering the Fragments: The Selected Essays of a Groundbreaking Historian

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This selection of work by Professor Charles Thomas, Cornwall's leading historian, focuses on the more elusive titles from his long and illustrious career and covers the whole range of his output from folklore and archaeology to military and local history, and from cerealogy to cryptozoology. The book also includes unpublished material, as well as specially composed introductions to each chapter, a full biography and a select bibliography.

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Professor Charles Thomas CBE DL DLitt FBA FSA is a British historian and archaeologist who was Professor of Cornish Studies at Exeter University, and the first Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, from 1971 until his retirement in 1991. He was recognised as a Bard of the Cornish Gorseth with the name Gwas Godhyan in 1953. He is also the former President of the Council for British Archaeology, the Society for Medieval Archaeology, the Royal Institution of Cornwall, the Cornwall Archaeological Society and the Cornish Methodist Historical Society. He is currently the President of The John Harris Society. He lives in Cornwall and is married to the crime writer Jessica Mann.

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9781908878021: Gathering the Fragments: The Selected Essays of a Groundbreaking Historian

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ISBN 10:  1908878029 ISBN 13:  9781908878021
Verlag: The Cornovia Press, 2012
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