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2025-26 Season Speakers List
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Wednesday 08 October 2025 at 7.00 P.M
Paul Davis is a professional surveyor and author of the highly acclaimed Forgotten Castles of Wales, notable for its stunning graphics. Houses in the Hills: dendrochronology and the farmhouses of upland Gwent .An opportunity to learn about the results of a survey of historic farmhouses (backed up by a programme of tree-ring dating) that were built before the heavy industrialisation of the Valleys—an area largely neglected in the classic study of Monmouthshire by Fox & Raglan.
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Wednesday 19 November 2025 at 7.00 P.M
Dr James January-McCann ,is the Place Names Officer for the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.Collecting place names in the north. James will explain the work of the the Royal Commission, which maintains the statutory List of Historic Place Names, an invaluable source for historians and anyone with an interest in Wales's heritage and landscape. How useful are place and field names in understanding the development of estates and farmsteads? We should soon find out!
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Wednesday 10 December 2025 at 7.00 P.M
Nathan Goss, Director Nathan Goss Conservation:Breathing life back into Strata Florida
The great Cistercian abbey of Strata Florida is well looked after by Cadw but some of the buildings around it have fared less well. Working with the Strata Florida Trust, Nathan who runs one of the leading conservation companies in Wales, explains the thinking behind saving the buildings and bringing them back into new educational uses.
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Wednesday 14 January 2026 at 7.00 P.M
Dr Liz Green. is the Senior National Curator, Architectural History, at the National Trust. Architectural History in the National Trust :The National Trust is one of the power houses for research in architectural history—on buildings, furnishings, landscapes and the way buildings were used—and Liz has a unique overview in that her responsibilities extend over both Wales and England.
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All talks will be held on the second Wednesday in each month and will all start at 7 p.m. They will be given in English. Reminders and Zoom invites will be sent by email to all members nearer the time and fuller details of each presentation will be available on the website. Fuller details about the 2023/24 programme will appear later in the Year.
Please note your microphone will be muted when you enter. Please leave it muted until the end of the talk, when there will be an opportunity for questions. It is also helpful if you would turn your video off as this helps the quality of the presentation.
Our Zoom meetings programme for 2025-26
Unless otherwise stated, all start at 7 p.m. All talks will be in English
Dates for Your Diary
DOWH Lecture Series 4/2025-6
Owing to Covid we decided to deliver our talks via Zoom. This has proved popular and attendances have generally been far higher than for talks held in physical venues. We recognise that face-to-face contact is an important aspect of our activities and, as restrictions have eased, branch activities are gradually resuming with real meetings, workshops, talks and visits.