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Day Schools 1986, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2023
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1986: Aspects of Medieval Anglesey<\/strong>
\nDay School: Beaumaris, Community Centre (The old David Hughes Grammar School)
\nTopics\/Speakers:<\/span>
\nThe Medieval community: Carr, A.D.
\nArchitechtural influences and Medieval Anglesey: Hughes, Eryl Rothwell
\nMedieval writing from Anglesey: Jones, Bedwyr Lewis
\nThe Medieval economy and settlement: Jones, Glanville
\nMedieval place names in Anglesey: Roberts, Tomos
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\n2002: Interpreting the Anglesey Landscape<\/strong>
\nDay School: Saturday, 9 February, 2002; Hen Goleg, University of Wales Bangor
\nTopics\/Speakers:<\/span>
\nAgriculture: Andrew Davidson
\nSettlement: David Longley
\nIndustry and inland communications: David Gwyn
\nMarine communications – the coastline and ports: Owain T. P. Roberts
\nThree workshops:<\/span>
\n1. Archives at University Wales Bangor and Anglesey (Llangefni):
\n(Elen Wyn Hughes and Anne Venables)
\n2. Aerial photographs and the Sites and Monuments Record:
\n(Mary Aris and Kate Geary)
\n3. Recording and surveying techniques:
\n(Danny Dutton and Andrew Davidson)
\nLandscape archeology – the wider context: David Gwyn
\nOrganised by Ann Benwell
\nChaired by Frances Lynch<\/em>
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\n2004: Anglesey and the sea<\/strong>
\nDay School: 7 February, 2004 ; Hen Goleg, University of Wales Bangor
\nTopics\/Speakers:<\/span>
\nSea level change in Anglesey: James Scourse
\nLocal ports and harbours. Andrew Davidson
\nAgweddau ar hanes diwydiant pysgota Moelfre c. 1750 \u2013 1950 (Aspects of the history of the Moelfre fishing industry) A bilingual presentation. by Robin Evans)
\nShort contributions:<\/span>
\n1. The Holyhead breakwater: David Gwyn
\n2. Ship building in Amlwch: Brian Hope
\n3. Liverpool to Menai Bridge Pleasure Steamers:- 1822-1962: John Cowell
\n4. The fish weirs of Anglesey: David Hopewell
\n5. The robbers of Crigyll: John Rowlands
\n6. Maritime archaeology around Anglesey: Cecil Jones
\nMaritime trade and piracy on Elizabethan Anglesey: Eryl Rothwell Hughes
\nOrganised by Ann Benwell
\nChaired by Frances Lynch<\/em>
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\n2006: Communications in Anglesey \u2013 conduits for social change<\/strong>
\nDay School: 11 February, 2006; Hen Goleg, University of Wales Bangor
\nTopics\/Speakers:<\/span>
\nUsing maps to discover ancient routeways in Anglesey. Mike Blackburn
\nPlacename analysis in Roman road research in Anglesey. Ann Benwell
\nThe Menai ferries. David Longley
\nThe post roads of Anglesey. John Cowell
\nShort contributions:<\/span>
\n1. The sea fords of Anglesey. Gwilym T. Jones
\n2. The Gwynedd Archaeological Trust (GAT) Roman roads project in Anglesey. Dave Hopewell
\n3. The railways of Anglesey. Larry Davies
\n4. The Holyhead breakwater tramway. Andrew Davidson
\nThe drovers of Anglesey and their roads. Emlyn Richards
\nOrganised by Ann Benwell<\/em>
\nChaired by Frances Lynch<\/em>
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\n2008: The Parish Churches of Anglesey: past, present and future<\/strong>
\nDay School: 9 February, 2008; Hen Goleg, University of Wales Bangor
\nTopics\/Speakers:<\/span>
\nThe formation of the parish: David Longley
\nThe Romanesque church in Anglesey: Aimee Pritchard
\nThe later medieval churcjes in Anglesey: Andrew Davidson
\nThe lost churches of Anglesey: Ann Benwell
\nPenmon church: a case study: Rev. Neil Fairlamb
\nThe Friends of Friendless Churches in North Wales: Rev. John Morgan-Guy
\nTremadoc church: a case study: Frances Voelcker
\nA view from Llanfaelog and Trefdraeth: Rev. Madalaine Brady and Rev. Jane Bailey
\nOrganised by Ann Benwell
\nChaired by Frances Lynch<\/em>
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\n2010: Anglesey: Work and Leisure<\/strong>
\nDay School: 13 February, 2010; Hen Goleg, University of Wales Bangor
\nTopics\/Speakers:<\/span>
\nAgriculture in medieval Anglesey. Prof. A.D. Carr
\nThe impact of the Agricultural Revolution on the Landscape of Anglesey. Andrew Davidson
\nThe other mines of Anglesey. Neil Summers
\nThe production of stone and brick on Anglesey. Dr. David Gwyn
\nThe concept of leisure in nineteenth century Britain. Judith Taylor
\nThe growth of organised sport in late Victorian and Edwardian Anglesey. John Cowell
\nAn introduction to heritage and the local economy. Neil Johnstone of Menter M\u00f4n
\nOrganised by Ann Benwell<\/em>
\nChaired by Frances Lynch<\/em>
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\n2011: Anglesey in Welsh History<\/strong>
\nCentenary Day Conference: Saturday 5th November, 2011; Music Room, Plas Newydd
\nTopics\/Speakers:<\/span>
\nThe Long Sixth Century: Maelgwyn to Cadwallon – Anglesey and its wider connections: David Longley
\nAnglesey and the wider world 1300-1550: Professor Ralph Griffiths (Paper read by Ann Benwell)
\nThe rule of the Copper Kingdom: Dr David Jenkins
\nArtisan painting from Wales to America 1720-1860: Edward Owen of Penrhos to Williams Roos of Amlwch: Peter Lord
\nOrganised by Ann Benwell
\nChaired by Frances Lynch Llewellyn<\/em>
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\n2014: The Rich and the Poor: Charity in Anglesey<\/strong>
\nDay School: Saturday 8th February, 2014, David Hughes Community Centre, Beaumaris
\nTopics\/Speakers:<\/span>
\nFrom doles to donations: the development of charities and their role in Anglesey: Sylvia Pinches
\nA charity challenged: an episode in the history of the David Hughes Charity in the nineteenth century: Antony Carr
\nNoblesse oblige in the 18th and 19th centuries: the evidence of Baron Hill and Plas Newydd estates: Neil Fairlamb
\n‘How apt the poor are to be proud’ – Poverty and Religion in 19th century Anglesey: Gareth Hughes
\nWomen and the Poor Law in Nineteenth Century Anglesey: Annie Williams
\nThe Pritchard Jones Institute, Newborough: Bob Morris
\nRev. William Bulkeley and his charitable exploits: Robin Grove-White
\nThe architecture of charity: Andrew Davidson
\nOrganised by Andrew Davidson and Ann Benwell<\/em>
\nChaired by Frances Lynch Llewellyn<\/em>
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\n2016: Through Other’s Eyes: Travellers to Anglesey in the 18th and 19th centuries<\/strong>
\nDay School: Saturday 13th February, 2016, David Hughes Community Centre, Beaumaris
\nTopics\/Speakers:<\/span>
\n“Curious Travellers”: Thomas Pennant and the ‘discovery’ of North Wales: Mary-Ann Constantine
\n‘Nothing pleasant in Anglesea [sic]’? Romantic-period manuscript tours of Wales — from antiquities to industry and effusive to dismissive: Elizabeth Edwards
\n\u2018I have the advantage of not being a Welshman\u2019: George Borrow’s interest in Anglesey’s poets: Ann Ridler
\n\u2018Clerical Visitors to the Island\u2019 (Skinner, Bingley etc): Neil Fairlamb
\nThe Genius of Michael Faraday (visitor to Parys Mines 1819): Sir John Meurig Thomas
\nGeorge IV\u2019s far-reaching visit to Anglesey 1821: Andrew Davidson
\nAccompanying artists: the True Eyes: Jeremy Yates
\nOrganised by Andrew Davidson, Frances Lynch Llewellyn and Robin Grove-White
\nChaired by Frances Lynch Llewellyn<\/em>
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\n2018: \u201cSpheres of Influence\u201d<\/strong>
\nHeld at Plas Cadnant on Saturday 3 February 2018
\nTopics\/Speakers:<\/span>
\nThe emergence of the gentry and estates of Anglesey in the later middle ages – A.D. Carr
\nPolitics and precedence: Power struggles and estate owners in late Tudor Anglesey – Robin Grove-White
\nNew insights from St. Gredifael\u2019s Church, Penmynydd – Andrew Davidson
\nRestoring Plas Cadnant – Anthony Tavernor.
\nGuto\u2019r Glyn (c1412-93) and bardic patronage in Anglesey – Ann Parry Owen
\nMusic in 18th Century Anglesey – Stephen Rees
\nCelia Constance Irby, Lady Boston – Dinah Evans
\nInheriting Bodorgan: the influences of the past on the present – George Meyrick
\nOrganised in association with the Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates, Bangor University and Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
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\n<\/em>2020: Excavations at Parc Cybi, Holyhead
\n<\/strong>Held at the Ucheldre Centre, Holyhead, 8 February 2020
\nTopics\/Speakers:
\n<\/span>Jane Kenney (GAT): Discoveries at Parc Cybi
\n<\/em>Alison Sheridan (National Museums of Scotland): later Neolithic pottery across Britain
\n<\/em>Frances Lynch: multiple cist barrows
\n<\/em>Tim Young (GeoArch): early smithing
\n<\/em>David Hopewell (GAT): the impact of Rome <\/em>on native settlements on Anglesey
\n<\/em>Jane Kenney: Iron Age settlement at Parc Cybi
\n<\/em>Kate Waddington (Bangor University): Iron Age <\/em>settlement across north-west Wales
\n<\/em>Nancy Edwards (Bangor University): from the late <\/em>Roman to early medieval
\n<\/em>Gary Robinson (Bangor University): summing up
\n<\/em>In addition there was an exhibition on the excavtions<\/strong> at the Ucheldre Centre<\/strong>
\nOrganised in association with the Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
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2023: Anglesey’s Chapel Culture: Nonconformity and Social Change in the ‘long’ 19th Century<\/strong>
\nHeld at the Glan Hwfa Community Centre at Capel Moriah, Glanhwfa Road, Llangefni 11 February 2023
\nTopics\/Speakers
\nProfessor Densil Morgan: Dissent, Nonconformity and the Free Churches in Wales during the long nineteenth century, 1760-1914
\n<\/em>Dr Eryn White\u00a0 \u2013 Early Methodism in Anglesey
\n<\/em>Dr Gareth Evans Jones:\u00a0The Methodist Pope: A Reflection on the Religiosity of John Elias of Anglesey
\nProfessor <\/em>Densil Morgan: <\/strong>Christmas Evans \u2013 Baptist Minister and Noncomformist pioneer on Anglesey
\n<\/em>Ieuan Elfryn Jones: <\/strong>The Social Life of the Chapel in Anglesey
\n<\/em>Sue Fielding (RCAHMW): <\/strong>The Architecture of Chapels
\n<\/em>Sylvia Pinches: Discussion
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2025: Anglesey and Ireland: Connections Through Time<\/strong>
\nHeld at The Management Centre, Bangor University on Saturday 15 February 2025.
\nTopics\/Speakers
\nJon Gower:\u00a0The Crossroads of the Waves: Anglesey and cargoes across the Irish Sea<\/em>
\nProfessor\u00a0<\/em>Emeritus<\/em> Paul O’Leary: A Balloon, a Coffin and a Treaty: Anglesey and Ireland in the period of Union 1800-1922<\/em>
\nDr Dafydd Gwyn:\u00a0Unprecedented novelty and magnitude: trade and movement across Anglesey 1816-1873.<\/em>
\nDr Mark Redknapp:\u00a0When the vikings set foot on Anglesey
\nProfessor<\/em> Marged Haycock: Draw dros y don – Cecile O’Rahilly yng Nghymru, a chysylltiadau dysg rhwng Iwerddon a Chymru, 1900-1950<\/em> (Over the sea – Cecile O’Rahilly in Wales, and the scholarly connections between Ireland and Wales, 1900-1950) –<\/em> In Welsh with translation.<\/p>\n

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