IRON AGE WALES IN A MODERN NATION: RETHINKING WELSH HILLFORTS
The Medical Society of London 11 Chandos Street, London, W1G 9EB, United KingdomDr Toby Driver FSA
Senior Investigator (Aerial Survey) at the Royal Commission, Wales
Dr Toby Driver FSA
Senior Investigator (Aerial Survey) at the Royal Commission, Wales
Dame Elan Closs Stephens, Vice President of the Cymmrodorion, will give a tribute to Dame Siân Phillips’ life and work, and the Medal will be presented by Sir Deian Hopkin, President of the Cymmrodorion. To order a ticket please click here. London Welsh Centre, 157-163 Grays Inn Road London WC1X 8UE
Efa Gruffudd Jones
Comisiynydd y Gymraeg/Welsh Language Commissioner
Professor Jane Williams
Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Swansea University
This is the first of a new series of talks on topical subjects of concern to the people of Wales and its diaspora. Key Welsh organisations in London are getting together to discuss some of the issues facing Wales now and into the future. Your views are important. Do come along and take part. The […]
The Very Reverend Dr Sarah Rowland Jones LVO OBE
Dean of St Davids, Cathedral
Dr Huw Williams
Reader in Philosophy and University Dean for the Welsh Language, School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University
Martin Shipton
Associate Editor, Nation.Cymru
Yr Athro Mererid Hopwood
Adran y Gymraeg ac Astudiaethau Celtaidd, Prifysgol Aberystwyth Yr Athro Syr Deian Hopkin,
Dr Sian Rhiannon Williams
Archif Menywod Cymru/Women’s Archive Wales
Dr Rowan Williams
Theologian and poet
Emeritus Professor Prys Morgan
Swansea University
Professor David Willis
Jesus Professor of Celtic, University of Oxford
The June Gruffydd Memorial Lecture
Richard Mayou
Emeritus Professor and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University
Dr Marion Löffler Reader in Welsh History, Cardiff University Michael Gibbons QC, Member of Council in the chair
Peter Lord and Rhian Davies Independent visual art and music scholars Peter Lord and Rhian Davies will talk on their newly published joint work The Art of Music: Branding the Nation, published by Parthian Books. The authors’ outstanding contribution to Welsh scholarship in their respective fields of art and music is well-recognised. Hear them together […]
A Welsh Parliament has been able to make laws again since the Wales Act 2017. How does this work within the framework of a single England and Wales legal jurisdiction? David Lloyd-Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court, explains at the society’s next meeting. Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, former Lord Chief Justice and vice president of […]
Wales is dotted with fine country houses, many still in active occupation, others not, and far too many just a memory after demolition in the early 20th century. Bur how much do we know about these sometimes splendid properties and their surrounding estates, and, just as importantly, the role they played in Welsh community life […]
Dr Lucy Taylor Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University Admired in Wales for irrigation and peaceable relations with indigenous neighbours, the 156 pioneers who crossed perilous seas to establish Y Wladfa struggled to resist assimilation by an Argentine state keen on building a coherent nation. This talk will chart these tensions, including appeals for help […]
Bydd darlith Daniel G Williams, ‘Dylan Thomas ac W. D. Davies: Barddoniaeth a Diwinyddiaeth wedi’r Holocost’, yn archwilio ymateb dau Gymro i’r holocost. Pontio Cristnogaeth ac Iddewiaeth fu ymdrech W. D. Davies a dyna, awgryma’r ddralith, un o briodweddau cerddi Dylan hefyd. Deillia’r ddadl o’r ffaith i’r ddau gwrdd yn 1953. Theologian W. D. Davies, […]