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10th September 2024
The Ghost Story in 19th century Popular Fiction
Mike Bailey
Mike Bailey presents this intriguing topic. More details to follow!
Read more ...13th August 2024
Behind the Green Baize Door
Paul Busby
Paul Busby a guide at The National Trust property, Tredegar House presents an intriguing insight into the world of ‘Below Stairs’ at the house. Paul explains how we know far ...
Read more ...9th July 2024
Love and betrayal behind enemy lines
Rosemary Chaloner
Rosemary Chaloner tells the story of a group of British soldiers trapped behind enemy lines during the early stages of the First World War. As the years passed the local ...
Read more ...11th June 2024
How Blaenavon changed the world
Mike Woodford
Mike Woodford explains how from here Wales heaved and belched and blasted itself onto the global stage. Welsh iron fashioned trailblazing engines, tools and machines. It built bridges, ships and ...
Read more ...14th May 2024
Behind the Silver Screen
Roger Evans
Roger Evans presents the story of Nine Miles Point Miners’ Institute and valleys’ institutes in general. Roger also includes a “behind the scenes” look at how cinemas operated in their ...
Read more ...9th April 2024
Captain Scott and the Cardiff Connection
Ted Richards
Ted Richards tells how Captain Scott and his team left Cardiff in June 1910 in their attempt to be the first people to ever reach the South Pole. This talk ...
Read more ...12th March 2024
Mr Rolls and Mr Royce
Roger James
Roger James will talk about this famous pair who produced the cars we might aspire to own and drive.
Read more ...13th February 2024
Consequences of a family history exploration
Dr John Pitts
Dr John Pitts is a retired family doctor and medical educationalist who is going to talk about how an exploration of a family history led through a trail of major ...
Read more ...9th January 2024
Aberfan – Ceri Thomas
Ceri Thompson
Ceri Thompson, curator of the National Museum, Wales, is based at Big Pit Blaenavon. Ceri’s presentation is based on work done by the museum on the Aberfan disaster of 1966 ...
Read more ...12th December 2023
Using History in Creative Writing
Jimmy Stokes
Local author Jimmy Stokes has written two novels, Digging for Gold and Blood on their Hands. He spent time working in night shelters which led him to appreciate the waste ...
Read more ...14th November 2023
Annual General Meeting 2023
Committee
The 2023 Annual General Meeting of Cardiff u3a will be held at 2.00pm on Tuesday November 14th at Cornerstone, Charles Street, Cardiff CF10 2GA. For full details and documents click ...
Read more ...10th October 2023
Meet the Groups
Group Convenors and Committee