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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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