Gwilym Hughes The president of the Cambrian Archaeological Association for 2024-25 is Gwilym Hughes, Head of Cadw, Welsh Government. Brought up in Radyr and Creigiau, near Cardiff, he read archaeology at Southampton University, and then worked as a field archaeologist and heritage manager in Wales, northern Italy and Zimbabwe. His four years Zimbabwe included excavation Read more about Past President – Gwilym Hughes[…]

Alasdair Whittle   I was brought up in Edinburgh, went to school at Sedbergh (then in the West Riding of Yorkshire) and read Literae Humaniores at Christ Church, Oxford. I have researched the Neolithic period in Europe for over fifty years, since beginning my doctorate at Oxford in the early 1970s, under the supervision of Read more about Past President – Alasdair Whittle[…]

  Elizabeth A. Walker B.A., M.Phil., PhD, AMA, FSA   Elizabeth Walker was brought up in Porthcawl and studied archaeology at Lancaster University under the late Roger Jacobi. In vacations she commenced her association with AC-NMW, working with Stephen Aldhouse Green on his research projects including the early Neanderthal site at Pontnewydd Cave, Denbighshire, where Read more about Past President – Elizabeth A. Walker B.A., M.Phil., PhD, AMA, FSA[…]

Eurwyn Wiliam, MA, PhD, FSA Eurwyn Wiliam studied archaeology at University College Cardiff and was appointed to the then Welsh Folk Museum (now St. Fagans National Museum of History) in 1971 where he was responsible for the site’s programme of re-erecting historic buildings. His most notable acquisitions included the Rhyd-y-car terrace of workers’ houses from Read more about Past President – Eurwyn Wiliam[…]

Michael Jones MA, DPhil, D Litt, FSA, FRHistS   Michael Jones is Emeritus Professor of Medieval French History at the University of Nottingham. He was born in Wrexham, and studied history at Oxford University, thereafter teaching at the universities of Exeter and Nottingham, specialising in French medieval history. The importance of his research into medieval Brittany Read more about Past President – Michael Jones[…]