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Programme of Events 2012

 7 January 2012 (Saturday)
 National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
 Branch AGM: 10am
 Folllowed by a talk at 11am by Colin Wheldon James (Branch Executive Secretary)
 ‘Happy New Year! The changing date of New Year’s Day’
14 January 2012 (Saturday) 11am
National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
A talk by John Ashley (Branch Vice-Chairman)
 ‘The Great Meridian Conference. How Greenwich formalised time around the globe’
21 January 2012 (Saturday) 11am
National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
A talk by Dr Adam Mosley (Swansea University)
 ‘Day-time, Night-time, Mari-time’
28 January 2012 (Saturday) 11am
National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
A talk by Dr Nicholas Riall
 ‘The Red Lady of Paviland is 30,000 years old. How do we know?’

11 February 2012 (Saturday), 11am
 National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
 A talk by Professor Mark Humphries (Swansea University)
 ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It? The Origins of St Valentine’s Day’
18 February 2012 (Saturday), 11am
National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
 The Presidential Lecture:
 A talk by Professor Jackie Eales (President of the Historical Association)
‘“The Monstrous Regiment of Women” in Tudor and Stuart Britain’
17 March 2012 (Saturday), 11am
 National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
 A talk by Bernard Knight and Susanna Gregory
 ‘Authenticity in Historical Fiction’
23 March 2012 (Friday) 7pm
 The Dynevor Centre, Swansea
 A talk by Dr Nigel Spivey (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge)
 Olympia and the Making of a Classical Body
 This event is in collaboration with the Friends of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, the South-West Wales branch of the Classical Association, and Swansea University’s Department of History and Classics.
24 March 2012 (Saturday) 10am-4pm
 National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
 Family History Fair arranged by the Glamorgan Family History Society
21 April 2012 (Saturday), 11am
 National Watefront Museum, Swansea
 A talk by Dr Rhianydd Biebrach (Swansea University)
 ‘Mapping the Neath Abbey Estates’

 19 May 2012 (Saturday), 11am
 National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
 A talk by Professor Chris Evans (University of Glamorgan)
 ‘El Cobre: Cuban Slaves and Swansea Copper in the Nineteenth Century’
22 May 2012 (Tuesday), 3.30pm
 National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
 A talk by The Right Reverend the Bishop of St David’s
 ‘Saint David’
20 May 2012 (Sunday) 2.30-7.00pm
 National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
 Local History ... Live!
16 June 2012 (Saturday) 11am
 National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
 A talk by Lucinda Matthews-Jones
 ‘Upstairs, Downstairs at Toynbee Hall, East London, 1880-1914’
21 July 2012 (Saturday) 11am
 National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
 A talk by Dr Leighton James (Swansea University)
 ‘Anti-Christ and Tsar: Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia, 1812’
21 July 2012 (Saturday) (times to be confirmed)
 Carmarthenshire County Museum, Abergwili, Carmarthen
 The branch will be providing two speakers at the museum’s Archaeology Day
29 July 2012 (Sunday) (time to be confirmed)
 Laugharne Castle, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire
 The branch will be providing a speaker at Cadw’s Festival of Heritage, Arts and Crafts
15 September 2012 (Saturday) 11am
 National Waterfront Museum
 A talk by Professor Hugh Dunthorne (formerly of Swansea University)
 ‘Images of War in the Early-Modern Period’
20 October 2012 (Saturday) 11am
 National Waterfront Museum
 A talk by Professor Peter Edbury (Cardiff University; Chair of Cardiff Branch)
 ‘Constructing the Third Crusade’
17 November 2012 (Saturday) 11am
 National Waterfront Museum
 A talk by Professor David Howell (formeerly of Swansea University)
 ‘Living at the Edge: the Celtic Land Wars of Nineteenth-Century Britain’
15 December 2012 (Saturday) 11am
 National Waterfront Museum
 A talk by Dr John Law (Swansea University; Chair of Swansea Branch)
 ‘Christmas in the Renaissance’