This presentation is by Cardiff u3a member Niclas Ap Glyn – Lady Godiva’s Granddaughter and other Welsh Oddities.      A Welsh-linked miscellany including William the Conqueror, King Harold’s mother, Robert the Bruce’s mother-in-law, Christopher Columbus, Robert Jones Day, some maths, some place names, some flags and a cake maker in a balloon. Intrigued? Come along and […]

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Dr. Jean Silvan Evans presents – Wales’ only Communist Mayor Annie Powell. In 1960, she was a CPGB delegate at a major conference of Communist parties in Moscow, where she claimed to have impressed Nikita Khrushchev with her rendition of “Hen Wlad fy Nhadau”, the national anthem of Wales. Annie was a teacher, social reformer […]

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Steve Davies of South Wales police will bring you up to date on how to avoid being ‘scammed’ on the internet and keeping you safe whilst using the internet

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Despite the invention in the early nineteenth century of a machine to clean chimneys, master sweeps still sent little boys up flues. The talk will explain the involvement of the Guardians of the Workhouses, and the long battle by lawmakers to stop this cruel practice. Dickens, Kingsley and Blake wrote about the exploitation of children, […]