The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion

Promoting the language, literature, arts and science of Wales

History

home > History
filter & search

filter by

search

×

Wales and Agincourt

Dr Adam Chapman

Wednesday 15 April, 2015

Download MP3

The Royal Welch Fusiliers and the Christmas Truce 1914 and 1915

Lt General Jonathon Riley

Tuesday 10 March, 2015

Download MP3

Re-Thinking 13th Century Powys

Dr David Stephenson

Wednesday 5 February, 2014

Download MP3

Llewellyn Wyn Griffith and the Great War 100 Years On

Lt General Jonathan Riley

Tuesday 14 January, 2014

Download MP3

The Wye Tour and its Artists

Julian Mitchell

Tuesday 22 October, 2013

Download MP3

The Wit and Wisdom of Two William Jonses

Prof Michael Franklin

Tuesday 14 May, 2013

Download MP3

Origins, values and benefits of four cultural projects in Wales

William Wilkins

Friday 16 November, 2012

Download MP3

Hynt a Hanes Llawysgrif Gyfreithiol

Dr Sara Elin Roberts

Thursday 5 July, 2012

The paper will look at the history of one particular manuscript of medieval Welsh law, or Cyfraith Hywel: Peniarth 259B. Following an introduction to medieval Welsh law and manuscript production,

The Golden Treasurer: F. T. Palgrave

Prys Morgan

Monday 12 March, 2012

I first became acquainted with the name of Palgrave in 1950, when my brother Rhodri and I were invited ( with our parents) to be the only guests at the

The First Welsh Missionary among the Khasis

D. Ben Rees

Monday 12 March, 2012

India has been part of the psyche of the Welsh since the eighteenth century. Since the days of the hymn writer William Williams Pantycelyn we have been singing of ‘the

Lloyd George at Paris, 1938

J. Graham Jones

Monday 12 March, 2012

In September 1936, Lloyd George paid two visits, which were soon to become infamous, to the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler at his mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps.

Crime, the Welsh and the Old Bailey

Tegid Rhys Williams

Monday 12 March, 2012

On 6 April 1752, between the hours of one and two in the morning, George Basset, with his accomplice, George Hall, broke into and entered the dwelling house of Samuel

Alfred Zimmern’s Brave New World

Kenneth O. Morgan

Monday 12 March, 2012

  ‘The tents have been struck and the great caravan of humanity is once more on the move.’ ‘We are making the world safe for democracy.’ Thus General Smuts and

The Mansion of Owain’s Grave

Christopher Jobson

Sunday 5 June, 2011

The disappearance of Owain Glyn D ̆r in 1415 is probably the most celebrated unsolved mystery in the history of Wales. His revolt against the English crown and his struggle

Wales and the Citizens’ Advice Bureau

Rhys Jones, BA , PhD

Sunday 5 June, 2011

The Citizens’ Advice Bureau (CAB) Service1 was formed at the outbreak of the Second World War as a means of providing advice and information to the citizens of Britain’s cities,