James Whetter
Dr James Whetter is a noted Cornish historian and editor of The Cornish Banner (An Baner Kernewek), a Cornish journal. His books include The History of Glasney College, Cornwall in the Seventeenth Century and The History of Falmouth. In 1974 he stood twice as the Mebyon Kernow parliamentary candidate [1] but in 1975 he founded the Cornish Nationalist Party, a political party which had split from Mebyon Kernow and is campaigning for Cornish Independence. Dr Whetter is Director of the Roseland Institute - a centre for Cornish Studies at Gorran Haven near St Austell. The Institute contains a library of over 20,000 books in the process of being catalogued and put on-line and is the base for the publishing activities of Lyfrow Trelyspen and CNP Publications. The former produces works on Cornish history, essays and related subjects. The latter, the quarterly Cornish magazine, The Cornish Banner / An Baner Kernewek.[2]
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