Owain Glyndwr and the Battle of Pilleth
2021-07-05T11:55:20+01:00The Battle of Pilleth, 1402, was a great victory for the Welsh forces under Owain Glyndwr over those of the English forces of Edmund Mortimer. The story of this important [...]
The Lost Elementary Schools of Radnorshire
2019-12-01T17:26:39+00:00REPORT OF RADNORSHIRE SOCIETY AGM LECTURE 2019 ( BY CLIVE BARRETT) This year's post AGM lecture “50 becomes 14: The Lost Elementary Schools of Radnorshire” was delivered by the Radnorshire [...]
New Angles on Old Sites
2018-12-10T13:39:55+00:00Julian Ravest, addressing an audience of over 100, spoke about the use of drones in the photography of archaeological sites. The speaker briefly described the early history of aerial photography [...]
The Geology of Radnorshire by Joe Botting
2018-11-18T16:23:56+00:00The third Radnorshire Society lecture of the 2018 season took place at Llandewi Village Hall on Friday October 19. It followed the AGM of the Society's Field Section. The guest [...]
Lost farms of the Elan Valley 1500-1900
2018-10-20T15:41:55+01:00Talk by Lloyd Lewis Lloyd has traced the history of Elan Valley farms and the families who lived in them from the time of Henry VIII until the start of [...]
The Geology of Radnorshire
2018-10-14T17:03:35+01:00Radnorshire Society Lecture Friday 19 October 2018 The Geology of Radnorshire by Dr Joe Botting 8.00 p.m: Village Hall, Llanddewi Ystradenni Admission free – all welcome
New Book: Radnorshire Wills and Other Historical Papers
2018-09-17T11:03:51+01:00By John Cole and Michael Faraday This book, edited and published by Michael Faraday, is essentially a homage to John Cole who wrote many articles which have been published in [...]
The Mortimers and Radnorshire
2021-06-26T12:15:51+01:00Philip Hume, Secretary of the Mortimer History Society, started by giving a general overview of the genealogy of powerful Mortimer family and the way in which their power derived from [...]
James Watt, Father and Son
2018-05-25T11:09:52+01:00The Radnorshire Society held their first lecture of the year on Friday April 13 at Doldowlod House, when the speaker was Julian Gibson-Watt, his lecture was entitled “James Watt, father [...]
