Glamorgan History Society
Society Programme
Annual Autumn Day, Sat. 13th Nov 2010
52nd Volume of Morgannwg, the Glamorgan History Society Journal.
Each year the Society holds two events -
The AGM is held in May and the business meeting is followed by a talk given by a guest speaker. Arrangements for the venue and speaker are made in alternate years by the Secretary of Glamorgan History Society and the Secretary of the South Wales Record Society, the two
Societies sharing the venue for their AGM and their members joining together for the talk.
The Autumn Day School is held annually on the second Saturday in November at The Orangery, Margam Park. The whole day is devoted to a particular theme with relevance to Glamorgan. Talks are given by three or four guest speakers and the day's programme includes time for discussion. Members are advised to book well in advance for this very popular annual event, the cost of which is kept as low as possible.
Recent Day Schools have focused upon the following topics:
Emigration and immigration; Historians of Glamorgan; Glamorgan’s musical tradition; Cardiff, 50 years a city.
Bookstalls enable those present at the Day School to see (and purchase) a wide range of local history publications.
The annual Autumn Day will be held on Saturday 13th November 2010 at the Orangery, Margam Abbey and thhe theme of the day school this year will be
Images of Glamorgan
Three distinguished speakers have agreed to contribute:
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Mr Richard Morris will speak on early photography in general and on John Dillwyn Llewelyn in particular |
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Ms Carolyn Bloore will talk about Calvert Richard Jones of Swansea and a distant relative of Dillwyn Llewelyn and like him a pioneer photographer. She will be using images of south Wales from the V & A photographic collection. |
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Mr Peter Lord, who is an art historian specialising in the study of the visual culture of Wales and author of a number of well regarded books on the subject, will speak on the ways in which artists have presented issues arising in industrial society as well as its physical context |
Annual General Meeting , Sat. 8th May 2010
Following this meeting at 3.30 pm approx, Dr David Wyatt of Cardiff University will speak on the subject of