Garry Tregidga

Garry Harcourt Tregidga is an academic at the Institute of Cornish Studies based at the Penryn Campus near Penryn, Cornwall, England, UK. It is part of the University of Exeter.
He lives at Bugle, near St Austell, and was named as a Bard of the Cornish Gorseth 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. In October 1997 he was appointed Assistant Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies. He has published articles on many themes related to Cornwall 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 Cornwall.

Publications

• Map Kenwyn : the life and times of Cecil Beer / by Garry Tregidga and Treve Crago; Cornwall : Gorseth Kernow, 2000. ISBN 1-903668-00-X
• The Liberal Party in South-West Britain since 1918 : political decline, dormancy and rebirth / Garry Tregidga; Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2000. ISBN 0-85989-679-X
• Mebyon Kernow and Cornish nationalism / Bernard Deacon, Dick Cole and Garry Tregidga; Cardiff : Welsh Academic Press, 2003. ISBN 1-86057-075-5
• Killerton, Camborne and Westminster : the political correspondence of Sir Francis and Lady Acland, 1910-29 / edited by Garry Tregidga (Series: Devon and Cornwall Record Society ; volume 48); Exeter : Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 2006. ISBN 0-901853-48-8