Tywyn and District History Society Forum

At the meeting on Monday 17th May the speaker, John Lloyd Jones, extended April’s theme of historic houses in Meirionnydd. John set the story of Hendy farm within the context of the eighteenth and nineteenth-century development of the local area. The talk was entertaining, enlightening and wide-rang...

This was the first meeting of the new programme by Zoom, a talk entitled 'St David Up-to-Date: The Cult of Lloyd George' by Dr Neil Evans of the Harlech Historical Society. David Lloyd George was a key figure in the political history of Britain and Wales in the twentieth century. Dr Evans did full j...

Quentin and Liz Deakin each gave a talk following up the presentation by Dylan Foster Evans at the previous meeting. Quentin’s presentation, ‘Alchemists of the Imagination’, set the work into its historical context and highlighted the beliefs prevailing at the time they were written down in the twel...

Quentin and Liz Deakin each gave a talk following up February’s lecture by Dylan Foster Evans . Quentin’s presentation, ‘Alchemists of the Imagination’, set the work into its historical context and highlighted the beliefs prevailing at the time they were written down in the twelfth or thirteenth cen...

Members once again welcomed Dylan Foster Evans, Head of Welsh at Cardiff University and a former resident of Tywyn, for a talk entitled ‘Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi' /'The Four Branches of the Mabinogi': the greatest medieval Welsh tales? After an exposition on the origins and contents of this key text ...

The society’s Zoom meeting on 15th February began with a tribute by Ann Malin to the late Peggy Griffiths, who will be sorely missed by all who had the privilege of knowing her. For the following talk the members once again welcomed Dylan Foster Evans, Head of Welsh at Cardiff University and a forme...

The society’s first meeting of 2021 on 18th January was a Zoom presentation by Dr John Hirst on the nineteenth-century development of coastal resorts from Aberystwyth to Pwllheli. The talk was lavishly illustrated by contemporary postcards, other rare documents and extracts from the accounts of visi...

The society’s first meeting of 2021 on 18th January was a Zoom presentation by Dr John Hirst on the nineteenth-century development of coastal resorts from Aberystwyth to Pwllheli. The talk was lavishly illustrated by contemporary postcards, other rare documents and extracts from the accounts of visi...

On Monday 21st December the society’s members met for a Zoom meeting on the traditions of Christmas. Hilary Harrison was the main speaker. She gave a comprehensive talk on the history of traditional mid-winter festivals and customs at the time of the Winter Solstice. She began with a slide showing S...

‘One thing leads to another’ : the consequences of the Black Death ‘The only sure thing to be said about History is that one thing leads to another’..true of pandems.. BD = greatest single catastrophic event in human history...series of events 1346-53, ‘61, ‘69, ‘71, ‘93 1361 worse than the earlier ...