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Wednesday 11 December 2024. Scott Lloyd .Research manager for the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales.pre-Ordnance Survey mapping that survives for North East Wales which can be helpful in researching the history of houses. The talk will also discuss some of the different issues surrounding their use and look at how they can be used in a digital age	Duration 58 mins	View Here
Wednesday 9 October 2024. Matt Osmont, Practice Director at Donald Insall Associates .Conservation and creativity: breathing new life into old buildings. A leading practitioner from a leading conservation practice, Matt talks about the challenges of conservation—giving historic buildings a sustainable future—looking in detail at Plas Gwyn, a wonderful sixteenth-century gentry house on the Llŷn and Porth Mawr, one of the gatehouses in the town walls of Caernarfon.	Duration 55 mins	View Here
Wednesday 19 June 2024. Robin Grove-White. Professor Emeritus of Environment and Society at Lancaster University and Chair of the Advisory Board, Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates, Bangor University ."My dad the Communist landowner and other Anglesey tales"	Duration 48 mins	View Here
Wednesday 8 May 2024. Dr Jenny Day. Research Fellow, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in Aberystwyth “The fair court of St Bernard”: the poets’ view of the Cistercian abbeys of Wales.	Duration 45 mins	View Here
Wednesday 10 April 2024. Martin Cherry DOWH trustee. After Glyndŵr: Building in an age of anarchy. Over the last decade or so, a substantial number of buildings in Wales have been securely tree-ring dated to the fifteenth century, several of them built during or within a few years of the Glyndŵr wars.	Duration 45 mins	View Here
Wednesday 13 March 2024. Judith Alfrey. Head of Heritage Regeneration and Conservation at Cadw and a trustee of the Vernacular Architecture Group. From listing to local heritage: finding value in historic buildings. Listing often seems a top-down process, and in many ways it is. But every listed building is someone’s local heritage.	Duration 35 mins	View Here
Wednesday 14 February 2024 . Scott Lloyd is Research Manager at the Royal Commission for the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales and one of the key players in the prize-winning Deep Mapping Estate Archives Project. More than just a map: The Ordnance Survey County survey was an enormous undertaking But how did they gather the information that is shown on the maps, especially for boundaries and antiquities?	Duration 58 mins	View Here
Wednesday 10 January 2024. Danny McCarrol (FLSW) One thousand years. Welsh Houses and the climate of the past. Professor McCarroll discusses how past changes in climate may have impacted on the population of Wales and how those impacts are reflected in some old Welsh houses.	Duration 54 mins	View Here
6 December 2023. Helen Williams-Ellis Sex, Power, Marriage: Katheryn of Berain and her Four Husbands Katheryn of Berain was married four times. Why did she marry – whom did she marry – and how did she become known as the ‘Mother of Wales’?	Duration 48 mins	View Here
8 November 2023. Ross Cook an archaeologist and experienced dendrochronologist Recording Ruthin - Investigating the historic buildings of a town and its countryside. The development of the town and the rich legacy of medieval buildings.	Duration 43 mins	View Here
11 October 2023. Edward Parry a retired history teacher with a particular interest in local history and vernacular architecture.’"Exploring North Wales with the Rev.John Parker,1798-18602" Artist and antiquary,who produced an astonishing body of work over several decades	Duration 1 hr 10 mins	View Here
19 April 2023. Meinir Moncrieffe, Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates, University of Bangor."Where I mean to make my utmost court": The Early Modern Development of Image and Status at Gwydir	Duration 43 mins	View Here
8 March 2023. Gareth Evans, former Chief Officer with Denbighshire County Council Buildings of Ruthin. A history of building usage and development in a market town	Duration 1 hr 10 mins	View Here
22 Feb 2023. Andrew Davidson Chief Archaeologist, Gwynedd Archaeological Trust Medieval Churches in north Wales	Duration 1 hr 10 mins	View Here
11 Jan 2023. Bethan Scorey, Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates, University of Bangor. St Fagans Castle, the Grade I Elizabethan mansion in Cardiff now home to the National Museum of History	Duration 41mins	View Here
07 Dec 2022. Andy Hyde, DOWH Member, furniture maker and carpenter. How to think like a carpenter’	Duration 50 mins	View Here
09 Nov 2022. Dr Frances Richardson, University of Oxford, Department of Continuing Education .‘Shops and shopkeepers in early nineteenth-century Wales’	Duration 51 mins	View Here
12 Oct 2022. Michael Freeman, Curator, Ceredigion Museums 1991-2012; Honorary Research Fellow at the National Museum of Wales. ‘Welsh homes, 1770-1840' tourists' descriptions and illustrations	Duration 55 mins	View Here
22 Jun 2022. Fiona Gale FSA. MBE. DOWH member and Trustee of Ruthin Castle ‘Ruthin Castle and the recent conservation work which is taking place there’	Duration 58 mins	View Here
06 Apr 2022. Sarah Maitland-Jones, DOWH member and owner of Henllys ‘Introducing Henllys, Caerwys a Tudor court house	Duration 28 mins	View Here
09 Mar 2022. John Townsend, a DOWH trustee and keen beekeeper. ‘Bees and Bee keeping before the modern hive (1851)’	Duration 48 mins	View Here
23 Feb 2022. Richard Cuthbertson, DOWH Chairman 'The Homes of our Ancestors 50,000,000 years ago to 1400 AD’	Duration 42 mins
12 Jan 2022. Dr.Martin Bridge.Oxford Dendro Laboratory. An online talk about understanding Dendrochronology	Duration 1 hr 8 mins	View Here
09 Nov 2021. Richard Cuthberson.Ty Du Bishop Goodmans House, Llanberis,north Wales	Duration 42 mins	View Here
09 Sept 2021. Richard Suggett .Discovering Historic Wall Paintings in Wales	Duration 1 hr	View Here
19 May 2021. Mathew Rowlands. Interpreting Country Houses	Duration 42 mins	View Here
10 Mar 2021. Janice Dale. 'The Fifth Dimension'	Duration 22 mins	View Here

13 December 2024

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