Swansea Branch Programme 2022-23

All talks are at 11am, at the National Waterfront Museum, Oystermouth Road, Maritime Quarter, Swansea SA1 3RD

Contact: Elizabeth McSloy historyliz1565@yahoo.com 

Annual Branch Membership fees: Individual £10; Concessionary (part time workers; retired; unwaged) £5; Family (household) membership £15; Full-time Student membership £5.

 

16^th July 2022

Campus and community; writing a centenary history of Swansea university

Dr Sam Blaxland

 

20^th August 2022

Swansea from older paintings, drawings and prints

Gerald Gabb

 

17^th September 2022

Gerald of Wales: A Natural Historian

Colin James

 

15^th October 2022

Copper and Steel Communities

Professor Louise Miskell

 

19^th November 2022

Memories of National Service 1945-1960

Malcolm Cowper

 

10^th December 2022

A Woman Ahead of Time?  Florence Nightingale

Dr Anne Kelly

 

21^st January 2023

Politics and the Past: statues and monuments in Modern Europe

Dr Simon John

 

18^th February 2023

Three Brunel Bridges on the South Wales Railway

Glyn Williams

 

18^th March 2023

William Chambers Junior of Llanelly House

Rev Eldon Phillips

 

15^th April 2023

Swansea’s Three Nights’ Blitz in Context

Dr John Alban

 

20^th May 2023

War and Madness in the Russian Civil War

Dr Alan Bilton