Meetings 2011/12

Meetings programme during 2011/2012

Friday 20 May, 2011 at 7.30 pm – Oriel Ynys Môn
Annual General Meeting
From Rhos-y-bol to the National Library and back… 20 years on the road and only half way there!
Address by R. Arwel Jones, Director of Public Services, National Library of Wales

Friday 16 September, 2011 – Oriel Ynys Môn at 7.30 pm
J E Lloyd’s History of Wales (1911): a centenary appraisal
Talk by Professor Huw Pryce

Friday 21 October, 2011 – Oriel Ynys Môn at 7.30 pm
Sir Ifor Williams Memorial Lecture (Public lecture in Welsh – Free of charge)
John Elias ac Ordeinio 1811
Darlith gan Yr Athro Densil Morgan

Friday 18 November, 2011 – Oriel Ynys Môn at 7.30 pm
The launch of Medieval Anglesey, a revised edition
Professor Antony Carr

Friday 20 January, 2012 – Oriel Ynys Môn at 7.30 pm
Becoming Welsh: the emergence of connected communities in Wales, c. 1200 BC – AD 1000
Talk by Professor Raimund Karl

Friday 17 February, 2012 – Oriel Ynys Môn at 7.30 pm
150 years of excavations in Anglesey
Talk by Frances Lynch

Friday 16 March, 2012 – Oriel Ynys Môn at 7.30 pm
Centenary Pot-Pourri
A collection of short talks by members of the Society
1) Robin Grove-White – Being High Sheriff of Gwynedd in the 21st century
2) Julie Stone – The Portrait of John Hemingway, Contractor for the Britannia Bridge
3) Gareth Parry – Excursions over the past 100 years plus Pictures of 2011 excursions

Friday 20 April, 2012 – Oriel Ynys Môn at 7.30 pm
Wylfa: a landscape history
Talk by Andrew Davidson

Friday 18 May, 2012 AGM – Oriel Ynys Môn at 7.30 pm
The Welsh Cottage
Address by Dr Eurwyn Wiliam, Chairman, Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales.

Mrs Ann Benwell, (Meetings Secretary) 27 Ty Mawr, Porthaethwy, Ynys Môn LL59 5LJ (Tel: 01248 712967)