Merthyr Tydfil Historical Society – 2018 Programme

The Merthyr Tydfil Historical Society are pleased to announce the lecture programme for 2018. One or two lectures need to be confirmed, but will be announced in due course.

DATE SPEAKER LECTURE
5 February Brian Davies The Welsh Paintings of Julius Ibbetson
5 March Rev David Lee The Disestablishment of the Church in Wales
9 April Stephen Brewer 1936 – A Year in History
14 May Gregg Buick To be announced
4 June Keith Lewis-Jones “Green” Transport in Aberdare and Merthyr
3 September Gethin Matthews Commemorating the First World War in South Wales Communities
1 October Ben Price To be announced
5 November Clive Thomas Merthyr Tydfil: A Decade of Change – 1968-1978
3 December Daryl Leeworthy The Rise and Fall of Council Housing in Twentieth-Century Merthyr

4 thoughts on “Merthyr Tydfil Historical Society – 2018 Programme”

    1. Hello,

      Thanks for you comment. As far as I am aware, the only lectures are the ones listed.

  1. Kia Ora
    ,The book The Story of Wales by Jon Gower (2012) says that the Cyfartha Works were so well know internationally that the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte sent two crates of Italian iron ore to them, and enquired if they could be smelted there. The ore arrived in early 1815, just before the 18th June Battle of Waterloo and his abdication, 22nd June.
    Obviously Napoleon had no further use for iron products, and the iron ore was not processed.
    Does anyone in your Society know what happened to the iron ore?

  2. to whom it may concern
    would anyone there be interested in what I have on dic pen. -his widow – his bro. in-law morgan howells – the socalled letter to his sister [its a fake ] also john evans and his two doughters Margaret and Elizabeth [deaf and dumb] . james abbot his wife and two doughters . dic lived in IRON BRIDGE in Merthyr NOT ynysfach at the time of the riots ….I have shot down a no- of myths surrounding dic NOT GUESS WORK …..
    hope to hear from you
    j.morgan

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