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 […]
Ymgais sydd yn y ddarlith hon i ddeall cyd-destun Cymreictod ysgolion Cymru yn y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg cyn y daeth O. M. Edwards yn brif arolygydd addysg yn 1907 […]
The video below will become available from 4pm today Ganed Catrin o Ferain yn 1535. Bu farw yn 1591. Cafodd bedwar gŵr, John Salsbri, Rhisiart Clwch, Morys Wyn ac Edward […]
Geraint Talfan sets out the ambitious plan for Cyfarthfa Castle and Park in Merthyr Tydfil and says it must involve a dialogue between our past and our future. Speaker: Geraint […]
As the first and only Future Generations Commissioner, Sophie Howe will discuss the pressing issues facing the world. Sophie will lay out how we must use a future generations lens […]
How different configurations of national identity, class and values underpin different nationalisms in Wales, and how these nationalisms shape contemporary Welsh politics. Speaker: Professor Richard Wyn Jones Director, Wales Governance […]
To celebrate the centenary of her birth, Simon Brooks will discuss the Birkenhead-born Welsh-language novelist, Marion Eames. Central to her work are religious and ethnic tolerance, often within the Welsh […]
Martin Crampin takes us on a journey around churches in Wales, introducing the imaging of Welsh saints by the Swansea stained glass firm, Celtic Studios. Speaker: Dr Martin Crampin University […]
The June Gruffydd Memorial Lecture A fascinating figure in the history of Wales and of the harp, Edward Jones from Llandderfel, was a notable harpist, antiquarian and collector of Welsh […]
Women were not treated as equal to men in the middle ages, and were limited in many ways. This lecture will consider the evidence of the Welsh laws and the […]
One of Stonehenge’s great mysteries is its link with the source of the famous bluestones from the Preseli hills of North Pembrokeshire 180 miles away. Recent research has identified megalith […]
One of the best-selling novelists of her time, Marguerite Jervis (1886-1964) lies in an unmarked grave near her beloved adopted hometown of Aberystwyth. Author, journalist, actor, theatre, she worked with […]
<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/720282839?h=594b43a518" width="540" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> Awn ar drywydd rhai o’r artistiaid o Gymru a ddenwyd i’r Eidal rhwng y 18fed a dechrau’r 20fed ganrif, boed i […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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? […]
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 […]
Dr Marion Löffler Reader in Welsh History, Cardiff University Michael Gibbons QC, Member of Council in the chair
The June Gruffydd Memorial Lecture
Richard Mayou
Emeritus Professor and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University
