Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies. He is now Emeritus Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies at the University of Exeter, as well as Professor of History at Flinders University in Australia. Amongst his many book and articles are Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia's Little Cornwall (2007), A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (2005), and the acclaimed Cornwall – A History, first published in 1996 and updated in 2004, which remains a major modern authoritative history of Cornwall. Other titles include The Cornish Miner in Australia (1984), The Making of Modern Cornwall (1992), and Cornwall Since the War (1993). He also edited the annual book series, Cornish Studies, published by University of Exeter Press, for twenty years, and was editor-in-chief of the Millennium Book for Cornwall Kernow Bys Vyken! – Cornwall Forever!, published by Cornwall Heritage Trust and distributed free to every schoolchild in Cornwall in 2000. His other research interests in Modern Cornish history include Cornish emigration; ethnicity and territorial politics; and centre-periphery relations. In 2010, he completed a book on John Betjeman and Cornwall: 'The Celebrated Cornish Nationalist (University of Exeter Press), and is editing (with Helen Doe and Alston Kennerley) a Maritime History of Cornwall. Among his other books are Regional Australia and the Great War: "The Boys from Old Kio" (University of Exeter Press, 2012), and a History of Sussex, published in 2017. Bard of the Cornish Gorseth Payton was made a Bard of Gorseth Kernow in 1981, taking the Bardic name Car Dyvresow ('Friend of Exiles'). In 2006 Payton's book A.L. Rowse and Cornwall : a paradoxical patriot won the Gorseth's Holyer an Gof trophy for best publication. Personal life He lives in Canberra with his partner, and has two adult daughters. Select publications Paperback: Paperback: . Rev. & updated ed., Fowey: Cornwall Editions, 2005, Rev. ed. Cornwall : A history, Fowey: Cornwall Editions, 2004, Paperback: Paperback: References External links University of Exeter, College of Humanities profile: Professor Philip Payton, Emeritus Professor Living people Education in Cornwall Academics of the University of Exeter Academics of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich Alumni of the University of Bristol Alumni of the University of Plymouth Bards of Gorsedh Kernow Cornish language Cornish culture English historians Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Royal Navy officers University of Adelaide alumni Historians of Cornwall British maritime historians 1953 births Royal Naval Reserve personnel