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Llandeilo Literary Festival
Llandeilo’s annual festival celebrating the written and spoken word. Penwythnos yn dathlu llenyddiaeth lafar ac ysgrifenedig.
Past Events
Details of talks and conferences that have finished, but which may still have interesting links or information.
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Author Talk Rossiter Books Ross on Wye
Discover the incredible lives and deaths of 1000 Tudor people with Melita Thomas, co-founder of Tudor Times, who will give an illustrated talk. Royalty, military and religious…
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Society of Antiquaries: Open Friday Burlington House
"Enjoy a visit to the lower ground floor of our London premises and learn about our history, the rooms and collections within.
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‘The city in the castle and the castle in the city’: New perspectives on the archaeology and history of Old Sarum - Swansea University
"Old Sarum remains one of the most significant monuments in southern England, essential to our understanding of political, administrative and cultural developments in the…
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Online Talk: Rethinking a Renaissance Masterpiece: The Tomb of Dr John Yonge (d.1516)
"The tomb by Torrigiano is usually only considered in terms of its artistic merit, but the purpose of this lecture will be to think about how it actually functioned as a monument…
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Online Talk: He Promise Did A Hopefull Man: Epitaphs to Children in the Early Modern Era
A lecture on Early Modern tomb inscriptions in Britain, by Dr Lena Wahlgren-Smith of the University of Southampton.
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Queen Jane’s Proclamation of Accession of 1553 and Gendering of the English Monarchy
"This lecture will analyze the text of the Proclamation of Accession of Queen Jane (Grey Dudley) through the lens of gender and relative to specific gender role expectations…
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Searching for a Portrait of Jane Grey Dudley, England’s ‘Nine-Days Queen’ of 1553
"Jane Grey Dudley, known to history as ‘the nine-days queen’ of 1553, is unique among English monarchs of the past 550 years in that no authentic portrait of her is known to have…