2020 Journal
Reviews The Stories Behind the Stones: The Churchyard of St Thomas a Becket Haverfordwest Pat Swales Barker Published by PASB. ISBN 978-1-9160765-1-8 One might think that a description of graves and their occupants would be dreary and cheerless but Pat and her...
2020 Journal
PAPERS FROM THE PAST By Mary John The Black Book of St David’s AN EXTENT OF ALL THE LANDS AND RENTS OF THE LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVID’S, MADE BY MASTER DAVID FRANCEYS, CHANCELLOR OF ST. DAVID’S, IN THE TIME OF THE VENERABLE FATHER THE LORD DAVID MARTYN, BY THE GRACE OF...
2020 Journal
Ambition and Schism: The Reverend Benjamin Chubb Evans at Neyland (1894-1919) By Simon Hancock The third chapel built by the Baptists at Neyland was a very large affair. Situated on the junction of Frederick Street and High Street, the huge edifice was opened in 1903...
2020 Journal
Did the Baron Damage the Church of St Womar? By Mary John In 1861 Baron de Rutzen of Slebech found himself in trouble with the Bishop of St Davids. It was claimed that in 1844 he was responsible for the unauthorised destruction of the church of St Womar in Minwear, an...
2020 Journal
High Tides and Low Politics: an Eclectic History of the Llangwm Ferry By Dai Stephens Milford Haven has long been recognised as one of the finest natural harbours on the planet. It has served naval and commercial purposes over many centuries. Most recently, the...
2020 Journal
Female Friendly Societies in Pembrokeshire By Simon Hancock Friendly societies were voluntary organisations composed of people who came together to contribute to a common financial fund where the members received assistance during periods of sickness, infirmity and...
2020 Journal
What Happened To Mr Ward? By Mary John On 16 July 1904 Mr Ward went missing. He was apparently visiting his brother, Admiral Thomas Le Hunte Ward, in Kensington, London, and was intending to make his way from Charing Cross Station to Cannon Street via Waterloo...
2020 Journal
Pembrokeshire’s Crimean War Veterans By David Norris Recent years have seen considerable popular media interest in veterans of the two World Wars. This is not a new phenomenon as perusal of newspapers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century shows. However,...
2020 Journal
Lewis Landry (1772-1857): The Voluntary Prisoner By Simon Hancock Early nineteenth-century prisons would have housed categories of prisoners other than convicted felons. The prison for the county of Pembroke located in the Cock House (situated between St Mary’s Street...
2020 Journal
Llandudoch, St Dogmaels and St Thomas the Martyr By Neil Ludlow The monastic site at St Dogmaels has a rich and lengthy history. It began as an early medieval cult site, within which a monastic community was founded for the Tironensian order of reformed...
LECTURES & OUTINGS, News
Regretfully, due to circumstances beyond our control, the February 2022 lecture is not able to go ahead and has been cancelled. Currently it is planned that the March and April lectures will go ahead as advertised. Updates will be posted as they become...
LECTURES & OUTINGS, News
Regretfully, following the introduction of amended Welsh guidelines, the January 2022 lecture is not able to go ahead and has been cancelled. It is hoped that later lectures will be able to take place. Updates will be posted as they become available.
Previous Lectures
During several periods of English and Welsh history the national government was either unwilling or unable to provide the means of exchange, coinage of small denominations to enable the population to conduct everyday transactions. The Crown had issued monopolies which...
Previous Lectures
Forgotten Heritage – the untold stories of an incredibly important military town! Why doesn’t Pembroke Dock get recognition as an important historic/military town? Possible theories: 1. Is it confused as being a part of Pembroke? 2. Is it because it was regarded as an...
News
Having not been able to meet at all during the 2020-21 season it was a real pleasure to be able to start the 2021-22 season with a field visit. On Saturday 11th September a group of twenty five members visited the Waun Mawn Neolithic stone circle site where there is...
News
Katie, the South West Community Fundraiser for Wales Air Ambulance, has written to say that in June Wales Air Ambulance is launching a virtual event called Walk Wales; Castle to Castle Challenge. Castles are an important part of Wales’ history and we are lucky enough...
News
Professor Mike Parker Pearson’s years of archaeological excavations around Brynberian are the subject of a BBC2 documentary to be shown at 9.00pm on Friday 12 February. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s5xm It includes film of the digs at Craig Rhos-y-felin,...
2018 Journal, Journals
The PAXS Coins of Wales By Bob Joyce (updated) Although Wales did not have a monetized economy until the Norman occupation of south Wales in the early twelfth century, a number of late eleventh century Norman coins have been ascribed to St Davids, Cardiff and...
2019 Journal, Journals
PAPERS FROM THE PAST By Mary John THE TREASON OF THE BLUE BOOKS In October 1846, during the last session of Parliament, attention was called to the state of education in Wales by a motion in the House of Commons for an Address to the Queen, praying Her Majesty… ‘…to...
2019 Journal, Journals
The Life and Reminiscences of Warren Carter of Haverfordwest (1826-1919) By Simon Hancock One of the utilities of history is how it provides communities with a sense of identity and, as Black and Macraild put it, provides societies and individuals with a dimension of...
