Swansea Branch Programme

Swansea from space.

June 18 (Friday), 4pm, National Waterfront Musem

Talk by Colin Wheldon James (branch vice-chairman) on ‘The Role of the Supernatural in the First Crusade'.

June 21-22 (Monday-Tuesday), Swansea University

Swansea University Postgraduate Summer Symposium, involving a number of scholars delivering papers on various aspects of Welsh History.  HA Swansea will sponsor the keynote speaker, Professor Prys Morgan, who will speak on ‘Iolo Morganwg: Bard, Dissenter and Revolutionary'.

July 23 (Friday)

Branch coach excursion to Wells, Somerset.

July 28 (Wednesday), 6pm, Uplands Bookshop, Uplands, Swansea

Talk by Gerald Gabb (editor of The Swansea History Journal) on ‘Writing Swansea History'.

Tickets available from the Uplands Book Shop or from committee members.

Members: £1.   Non-members: £3.

September 11 (Saturday), 11am, National Waterfront Museum

Talk by Dr Kenneth Brassil of the National Museum of Wales on ‘Celtomania, Past and Present'.

September 24 (Friday), 4pm

Members' guided tour of the Guildhall, Swansea.

October (date and venue to be confirmed)

Members' Anniversary Event (details to be confirmed).

November (date, venue and topic to be confirmed)

The Anniversary Lecture by Baron Morgan of Aberdyfi (Kenneth O Morgan).

December 17 (Friday), 4pm, National Waterfront Museum

Talk by Liz Pitman on ‘Pigsties and Paradise. Lady Diarists and the Tour of Wales, 1795-1860'.

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