Prof Marged Haycock is a native of Radnorshire and emeritus professor of Welsh, University of Aberystwyth, where she taught for 36 years, before teaching in the University of Vienna in 2016 to 2018. Her books on medieval Welsh poetry include Blodeugerdd Barddas o Ganu Crefyddol Cynnar (1994), Legendary Poems from the Book of Taliesin (2007, …
Online talk – Creature Comforts in Medieval Mid-Wales Read More »
The heritage tour at 2.00pm on Saturday 7th October at Home Farm, Abbeycwmhir, will be followed at 3.30 pm by the official opening of the new displays in the Exhibition Room by Will Davies of Cadw. The public are invited to join us and there will be light refreshments. If you plan to attend, please …
Here is the full article describing our Cwmhir Community Heritage Walk. For more information about individual walks click here
On-line talk – ‘Piety and Peril: medieval monastic foundation and consequent violence’ by Dr David Stephenson Dr David Stephenson’s career as a historian has taken him to appointments in the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Aberystwyth, Bangor and more. He is a prize-winning author of several standard works on medieval Welsh History, and a well-known …
Sorcha Lewis is on the Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN) Steering Group for Wales, Sorcha and Brian Lewis are third-generation tenant farmers in the Elan Valley. They manage the farm with nature in mind, creating habitats to benefit nature as well as the farm business and over the last 10 years have developed the productivity …
We have begun to excavate a house platform at Cwmffwrn. We held a public weekend on 24/25th June 2023 and had the pleasure of the company of members of the public, Trust volunteers, our professional supervisors – Jenny Hall and Martin Locock, and farmers Angela and Ian Lewis. It was an excellent social occasion and …
The Mysterious Events at Orewyn Bridge, 11th December 1282 The Death of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd The Protagonists: an uneven balance of forces English Forces – Edmund Mortimer, Lord Mortimer of the Marches Object To defeat the Welsh army and kill or capture Llywelyn ap Gruffudd Numbers Total: 6,300 Cavalry: 1,300; Infantry and Archers: 5,000 …
