Dear Cambrians We are delighted to announce our 2024 Cambrian Christmas Lecture, which will take place online (Zoom) on Wednesday 11 December at 7 pm, and will be given by Michael Freeman. Michael will be talking about ‘Welsh costume’, as worn by women in Wales from the mid-18th to mid-20th centuries. It developed from a Read more about Christmas Lecture for 2024 – 7pm on 11th December[…]
Over an autumn weekend at the end of September a group of Cambrians explored a less well known corner of Wales. Staying in the centre of Wrexham in the Wynnstay Arms hotel we studiously avoided Wrexham football ground which is what the town seems to be best known for today. The group assembled on the Read more about Cambrians Wrexham Tour September 27th to 29th, 2024[…]
The second tranche of Cambrian Archaeological Association Walks and Talks will take place in August and September when we will be guiding walks in different areas of Wales, exploring a variety of historic landscapes dating from prehistory to early modern. These are free of charge and open to all. Come and join us by booking Read more about Walks and Talks 2024 – Part Two: August to October[…]
Wednesday 7 August, 4:30pm, Societies Pavilion on the Maes. It may be difficult to appreciate that the world’s finest porcelain was created in the locality of the National Eisteddfod, but that is a fact… come and hear how the Nantgarw China Works was founded by William Billingsley and how his feat was re-created 200 years Read more about National Eisteddfod Cambrians Lecture: Wednesday 7 August, 4:30pm[…]
This year, our Autumn Meeting will be in the lovely town of Wrexham in North Wales. We will be staying at the Wynnstay Arms in central Wrexham and ideally we should all arrive by lunchtime as the afternoon activities will start 1.30pm. Friday 27th pm The afternoon will start with a tour of the fantastic Read more about Cambrians Autumn Meeting – Wrexham, 27 to 29 September, 2024[…]
The 171st Annual General Meeting of The Cambrian Archaeological Association/Cymdeithas Hynafiaethau Cymru will be held via Zoom at 7.30 pm, Thursday 10 October 2024. Joining details will be emailed to members nearer the time. The Minutes of the 2023 AGM, the Agenda for 2024 and the 2023 Trustees Annual Report and Accounts can be viewed Read more about Annual General Meeting – 7.30 pm, Thursday 10th October 2024[…]
In June, July and August the Cambrians will be guiding four walks in different areas of Wales, exploring a variety of historic landscapes dating from early prehistory to early modern. These are free of charge and open to all. Come and join us by booking on the walks detailed below. Another three walks in September Read more about Walks and Talks 2024 Part One: June to August, 2024[…]
Our summer meeting, based in and around the lovely town of Hay on Wye, comprises a varied programme of site visits and lectures from Neolithic tombs to medieval castles and churches and 18th century architecture and a flour mill. Hay on Wye is a small Welsh market town, very much a border settlement. It stands Read more about Summer Meeting, Hay-on-Wye, 30 June to 5 July, 2024[…]
Here is the second tranche of walks and talks organised for 2023. Saturday, 23 September 2023. 2pm (note change of date) Roman and Medieval Caernarfon, N W Wales Leader: Rachel Swallow This walk and talk focuses on Rachel’s multidisciplinary research in Gwynedd and the ground-breaking research she presented at a conference held as Read more about Summer/Autumn Walks and Talks 2023[…]
Our foremost historian of the Middle Ages, Professor Huw Pryce, will deliver the Cambrian Archaeological Association’s annual lecture at the National Eisteddfod in Boduan at 4.30 on Wednesday 9 August in Pabell y Cymdeithasau 2 on the subject of the power of the past in mediaeval Wales… clearly we are not alone today in looking Read more about CAA Annual Eisteddfod Lecture, 9 August 2023[…]