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When Germany invaded Belgium in 1914, more than a million Belgians fled their homes and around 100,000 sought refuge in Britain. The Davies family of Llandinam assisted several families to come to Mid Wales and the artist members of this expatriate community were the subject of a major exhibition at National Museum Cardiff and Ghent’s Museum of Fine Arts in 2003.

Their musician colleagues were equally distinguished, yet their lives and careers are now almost entirely forgotten. Drawing on original sources in the UK and Belgium and offering powerful parallels with the migration crises of today, this lecture reconstructs a remarkable lost narrative and presents it in London for the first time.

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Gan ddefnyddio model Michael Cronin o ‘microcosmopolitaniaeth’ a’i werthfawrogiad o gymhlethdod ac amrywiaeth cenhedloedd bychan, yn y ddarlith hon mae’r Athro Wynn Thomas yn pleidio achos pwysigrwydd ‘astudio Cymru heddiw’, ac yn awgrymu datblygiadau ar gyfer sicrhau dyfodol cynaliadwy a deinamig i’r maes.

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Gellir lawr lwytho testun y ddarlith yma.

William Robert Grove (1811-1896) was a physical scientist who is known as “the father of the fuel cell”. His pioneering research on fuel cell technology and on the conservation of energy was sufficiently groundbreaking and renowned for him to become a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1840. Born in Swansea, he was also a founder of what became the Royal Institution of South Wales in 1838. In terms that are intelligible to non-scientists and interested lay persons, Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas describes Grove’s work on the fuel cell and assesses the contemporary significance of his discovery and its potential for the development of the hydrogen economy – the use of hydrogen, in conjunction with a fuel cell, to provide a low-carbon source of energy.

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In this lecture, Professor Dafydd Johnston, Director of the Universty of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, and a Co-Editor of the Dictionary, traces the history of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography from the foundation of the project by the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion during the 1930s to the present day. He describes some of the significant developments that the Centre and the National Library of Wales are currently taking forward. These include the improvement of the Dictionary’s gender balance through the addition of more articles about Welsh women, the digitisation of articles and the addtion of photographs and other illustrations. Professor Johnston goes on to outline the challenges facing the Centre and the Library as they seek to ensure the long-term future of this important national resource.

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Darlith cyfrwng Cymraeg a gafodd ei thraddodi yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yn y Fenni, dydd Llun, 1 Awst 2016, gan y Dr Celyn Gurden-Williams ar destun yr Arglwyddes Llanofer (1802 – 1896), un o gyfranwyr pwysicaf diwylliant Cymreig yn ystod y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg ac un o gymeriadau mwyaf diddorol y cyfnod.

The Annual June Gruffydd Memorial Lecture, organised in association with the Montgomeryshire Society.

The lecture focuses on the three generations of the renowned Mills Family of Llanidloes, who spanned the nineteenth century, and their contribution to the musical and cultural life of Wales and beyond.

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