Garry Harcourt Tregidga is a Cornish academic, director of the

Institute of Cornish Studies The Institute of Cornish Studies (, ICS) is a research institute in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, affiliated with the University of Exeter. Formerly at Pool, near Redruth, then in Truro, it is now on the Penryn Campus near Penryn, ...

at the University of Exeter's

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Cornwall Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...

, UK, and editor of the journal '' Cornish Studies''. He lives in

Bugle The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments, normally having no valves or other pitch-altering devices. All pitch control is done by varying the player's embouchure. History The bugle developed from early musical or communication ...

, near St Austell, and was named as a Bard of the

Cornish Gorsedh Gorsedh Kernow (Cornish Gorsedd) is a non-political Cornwall, Cornish organisation, based in Cornwall, United Kingdom, which exists to maintain the national Celtic spirit of Cornwall. It is based on the Welsh-based Gorsedd, which was founded by ...

for services to Cornish history, taking the name "Map Rosvean" - "Son of Rosevean". Tregidga took both his MPhil and PhD degrees with the

University of Exeter , mottoeng = "We Follow the Light" , established = 1838 - St Luke's College1855 - Exeter School of Art1863 - Exeter School of Science 1955 - University of Exeter (received royal charter) , type = Public , ...

. In October 1997, he was appointed Assistant Director of the

. He has published articles on many themes related to

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, followed in 2000 by the Cornish Audio-Visual Archive (CAVA) which aims to document the oral history and visual culture of

. He stood as a

Mebyon Kernow Mebyon Kernow – The Party for Cornwall (, MK; Cornish for ''Sons of Cornwall'') is a Cornish nationalist, centre-left political party in Cornwall, in southwestern Britain. It currently has five elected councillors on Cornwall Council, and s ...

candidate for the Bugle division on

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in the 2017 local elections, coming second. He also stood in the 2021

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for the Roche and Bugle division under Mebyon Kernow. placing second, behind The Conservative Party candidate Peter Guest with a margin of 28% to 23%.

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tregidga, Garry Education in Cornwall Academics of the University of Exeter Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British historians Historians of Cornwall Writers from Cornwall Cornish culture Cornish nationalists Bards of Gorsedh Kernow