This publication marks the development of Cornish Studies as an area of academic activity. The emergence of a new Cornish Studies has sought to engage with major scholarly debates such as those surrounding Britishness , Celticity , identity, gender, the politics of the periphery, language revival, and ethnicity and emigration. These interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to studying Cornwall and the Cornish allow Cornish Studies to escape the narrow confines of English local history to embrace what have been termed the new Cornish historiography and the new Cornish social science . Cornish Studies has become a showcase for the best Cornish work as well as placing consideration of Cornwall and the Cornish very firmly within the wider context of the Atlantic Archipelago .