Welsh Journals

ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1967 SPRING MEETING THE Spring Meeting, which was also the Annual General Meeting, was held at the University Building, Alexandra Road, Aberystwyth, on Saturday, I April. Sixty-five members were present, and the Society's President, Capt. J. Hext Lewes, O.B.E., took the Chair. The Honorary Secretary (Mr. Dafydd M. Jones) presented the Report on the year's work and this was adopted. In the unavoidable absence of the Honorary Treasurer (Mr. H. Morris Roberts) he also presented the financial report and the audited accounts. There was a loss on the year's working due to the increase in the cost of producing the 1965 number of Ceredigion. The report was adopted. The Honorary Officers were re-elected en bloc, but the office of Vice-President was left vacant. The present members of the Executive Committee were re-elected, as were the Local Correspondents. A warm welcome was extended to Dr. Kenneth O. Morgan, Fellow and Praelector of The Queen's College, Oxford, who is a leading exponent of the political history of Wales in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He addressed the meeting on Cardiganshire Politics The Liberal Ascendancy, 1885-1923' (see pp. 311-46). He traced the rise of the Liberal Party in the county, which culminated in the by- election of 1921, when two Liberal candidates opposed one another. A lively dis- cussion followed this address. A hearty vote of thanks to Dr. Morgan was proposed by Councillor E. Glyn Davies, O.B.E., Aberarth, and this was seconded by Alderman Mrs. G. Eluned Jones, Aber- ystwyth, and carried with acclamation. At the conclusion, the Honorary Secretary displayed a photograph of the Liberal Coalition Central Committee at the 1921 by-election, which had been presented to the Society for safe-keeping. SUMMER MEETING THE Society this year held its Summer Meeting and Annual Field Day outside the County. On Saturday, 1 July, a party of ninety members visited Montgomeryshire. A visit was first made to the site of the Roman fort at Caersws, where Mr. W. G. Putnam, B.A., Newtown, spoke of the excavations carried out on the site. At Hen Domen, near Montgomery, the party partook of a picnic lunch, and Mr. C. J. Spurgeon, B.A., Aberystwyth, spoke of the history of this motte-and-bailey castle and referred to the excavations carried out in recent years. The speaker at Montgomery Castle was Mr. J. D. K. Lloyd, O.B.E., M.A., F.S.A., who delivered an interesting address based on his researches into the history of the Castle. The party then proceeded to Ffridd Faldwyn, where Mr. C. H. Houlder, M.A., F.S.A., Aberystwyth, described the earthworks and members were allowed to inspect this extensive site. Following tea at Montgomery, the party visited Offa's Dyke and inspected this ancient boundary between Wales and England. The arrangements for this Field Day had been made by the Officers of the Archaeo- logical Section, and Mr. Dafydd M. Jones, B.A., thanked all who had contributed to the success of this most enjoyable visit to the Paradise of Wales on a dry sunny day.