Events
A nation under siege: Wales and the Welsh in the Civil Wars of the 1640s
Saturday 15th October 2022
The Cromwell Association presents a study day looking at the Civil Wars in Wales and the involvement of the Welsh during the conflict to be hald at The Auditorium, St Fagans National Museum of History, St Fagans, Cardiff.
Chaired by Dr Ismini Pells, Trustee of the Cromwell Association and postdoctoral research fellow, Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford, working on the major AHRC-funded research project, ‘Conflict, Welfare and Memory: Maimed Soldiers and War Widows of the English Civil Wars, 1642-1700’, Civil War Petitions Project.
Agenda
9.45 Registration and coffee
10.25 Welcome and introduction
10.30 ‘The Nursery of the King’s Infantry’? How distinctive was the main civil war (1642-46) in Wales? - Professor Peter Gaunt
11.30 Coffee
11.45 ‘North Wales […] will shake off that yoke of servitude which formerly did lie upon their neck’: The causes, course and consequences of the Battle of Montgomery - Dr Jonathan Worton
12.45 Lunch
13.30 John Poyer, Oliver Cromwell and the Second Civil War in Wales - Dr Lloyd Bowen
14.20 Caricaturing Cymru: Images of the Welsh in the London Press,
1642-46 - Professor Mark Stoyle
15.10 Tea
15.25 Women’s work in civil war Wales 1640-48 - Verne Walker
16.15 Final comments and questions
16.30 Ends
Costs and Booking
The cost of the event is £45 for Cromwell Association members and full time students, £54 for Battlefields Trust members, Friends of St Fagans Musuem and Glamorgan Historical Society members and £55 for all others
Bookings can be made online at:
http://www.olivercromwell.org/wordpress/study-day-2022/
For further information.
- Contact name : Cromwell Association
- Contact email : enquiries@olivercromwell.org
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