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The Wales Media Crisis – Can the Welsh newspaper industry survive

Martin Shipton

Tuesday 8 May, 2012

Listen to an MP3 edition of a lecture by Martin Shipton (Chief Reporter of the Western Mail) given to the Society on 8 May 2012 at the Medical Society of

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.

The Counterfactual Case for Sir George Cornewall Lewis

Richard Shannon

Monday 12 March, 2012

After many decades of neglect and obscurity, even in his home county of Radnorshire, it appears that the name of the late George Cornewall Lewis is beginning to emerge into

Devolution and Broadcasting

Geraint Talfan Davies

Monday 12 March, 2012

I am deeply grateful to the Cymmrodorion for this opportunity to address the Honourable Society for the second time in less than a decade, and this time for an opportunity

The Machinery of Justice in a Changing Wales

David Lloyd Jones

Sunday 5 June, 2011

In recent years, immense changes have taken place in the machinery of government in Wales as a part of the process of devolution. Public attention has concentrated principally on the

Lloyd George and Land Reform: The Welsh Context

Ian Packer, MA , DPhil, FRHistS

Sunday 5 June, 2011

David Lloyd George was undoubtedly the outstanding Welsh political figure of the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.1 Among the multifarious themes that intersected with

The Future of Welsh Devolution

Emyr Jones Parry

Friday 3 June, 2011

It is a particular pleasure to address a joint meeting of the Montgomeryshire Society and the Cymmrodorion – organizations with proud histories – on this memorial occasion. I used to

Huw T Edwards a Datganoli 1945–1964

Gwyn Jenkins

Thursday 2 June, 2011

O dderbyn gwireb Ron Davies mai proses nid digwyddiad yw datganoli (‘devolution is a process, not an event’), yna adeg o arbrofi a thafoli opsiynau oedd y cyfnod o ddiwedd

Lloyd George at Eighty

J. Graham Jones

Thursday 2 June, 2011

David Lloyd George celebrated his eightieth birthday at his home at Bron-y-de, Churt, Surrey on 17 January 1943. It was an especially tense, potentially explosive occasion for the notoriously feud-racked

Alfred Thomas and Wales in Parliament, 1885-1910

Gerard Charmley

Thursday 2 June, 2011

Alfred Thomas (1840–1927) is a curiously neglected figure in the history of late nineteenth century Wales. This is in spite of the fact that he left voluminous personal papers (most