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 […]
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 […]
All are welcome to join this talk, which will be live and with questions. Wales and Islam: contact, coexistence and conflict in nine centuries of literature. Award-winning poet and critic Dr Grahame Davies shows the full and surprising story of the Welsh relationship with Islam. Speaker: Dr Grahame Davies, poet, librettist and cultural historian, Governor of Goodenough […]
All are welcome to join this talk, which will be live and with questions. Ben Bowen Thomas was one of the most influential Welsh adult educators and civil servants of the twentieth century. He was very well-known among those who, like himself, were prominent civil servants but perhaps less well known to the Welsh public […]
All are welcome to join this talk, which will be live and with questions. Access will be via this page; no registration is needed. Almost all scholars of medieval Welsh texts will have come across manuscripts in the hand of John Jones of Gellilyfdy, Flintshire (c.1580–1658), a competent scribe who copied countless texts, of prose […]