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 |
Do you have an upcoming on Cwmtaf and the flooding of the village, Ynysfelin?
Hello,
Thanks for you comment. As far as I am aware, the only lectures are the ones listed.
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?
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