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John Law^ (Chairman) studied at the universities of St Andrews and Oxford, and in 1971 became a lecturer at Swansea University. He has been a member of the Council of the Society for Renaissance Studies for over twenty years, and was a founding member of its Welsh branch; he was editor of Renaissance Studies between 1997 and 2007. John became a corresponding member of the Deputazione Veneta di Storia Patria in 1981, and in 1985 was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society; he is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. In addition, he was Visiting Professor at the University of Havard Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, the Villa I Tatti (Florence), 1994–5 and 2007. John is the author of a number of published works dealing with the history of Italy in the time of the Renaissance.

John Ashley*/** (Vice-

Richard Bodenham*/^ (Treasurer) has been interested in Genealogy since 1968 and is
the Branch's Family History & Heraldry Co-

Colin Wheldon James*/^ (Executive Secretary) is a History graduate of the University
of Wales Swansea (where he also gained a Diploma in Local History), is associated
with Mellen University in the United States and is a Field Editor for the Edwin Mellen
Press. He lectures Medieval History at Swansea University’s Department of Adult Continuing
Education and is a tutor within the Department of History and Classics. As well as
being a full member of the Historical Association, Colin also holds membership of
the Royal Historical Society, the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin
East, the British Association for Local History, and the British Academy of Songwriters,
Composers and Authors. His published works include A Study Based on the Clerk’s Report
Book of the Swansea Local Board of Health, 1855–1866, ‘Swansea’s First Charter’ (in
Minerva, vol xii) and ‘The Miraculous Crusade’ (in The Historian, vol 105). Colin
is chairman of the branch’s South-