Sir John Lloyd Memorial Lecture

Historian Sir John Lloyd, in whose memory the Brecknock Society and Museum Friends' Sir John Lloyd's Lecture is held.

The Sir John Lloyd Memorial Lecture has been held in early spring each year since 1998. Admission is free, but a collection is made either for Society Funds, or for a charitable purpose connected with the Lecture. In recent years Theatr Brycheiniog has been the venue for the lecture and tickets are obtainable from the Box Office. Booking is essential, since the Lecture is often a sell-out. The lecture is normally published in Brycheiniog the following year

  • 2024 - Dr Ben Guy, Brychan Fact and Fiction.

  • 2023 - Dr Peter Wakelin, Romanticism in British Art: the view from Breconshire.

  • 2022 - Dr David Robinson, “A pretty castle and a fair place” : the conservation and interpretation of Tretower Court and Castle

  • 2021 - Professor Janet Burton, The monastic presence in medieval Brecknock. You can view a recording of this lecture here.

  • 2020 No lecture (Covid lockdown)

  • 2019 - Professor Prys Morgan, Writing History: The world of Theophilus, Jones, our county historian

  • 2018 - Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, Justice in Brecknock over the centuries: some reflections

  • 2017 - Dr Rowan Williams, A Poet's view of Henry Vaughan

  • 2016 - Mr Richard Suggett, The Vernacular Buildings of Breconshire

  • 2015 - Professor Anne Curry, The Battle of Agincourt and its Breconshire Connections

  • 2014 - Dr Toby Driver, The History and Archaeology of Breconshire from the Air

  • 2013 - Dr Mark Redknap, Early Medieval connections: Brycheiniog in the time of the Llangorse Crannog and Viking age Britain

  • 2012 - Dr David Stephenson, Conquerors. Courtiers and Careerists: The Struggle for Supremacy in in Brycheiniog 1093 1282

  • 2011 - Professor Sioned Davies, Breconshire and the Mabinogion

  • 2010 - Dr L Davies, The Roman Presence in Brecknockshire

  • 2009 - Dr John Vickers, Dr Thomas Coke

  • 2008 - Professor Penelope Corfield, Thelwall in Breconshire

  • 2007 - Professor Ian McIntyre, Frances Hoggan Doctor of Medicine, Pioneer Physician, Patriot and Philanthropist

  • 2006 - Professor Richard Moore-Colyer, On the Home Front

  • 2005 - Professor J Gwynfor Jones, John Penry – Puritan Firebrand

  • 2004 - Professor John Davies, The Landed Families of Breconshire

  • 2003 - Professor Aled Jones, Brecon at the Crossroads:Journalism

  • 2002 - Professor Ralph Griffiths, Bishop Morton and the Ely Tower at Brecon

  • 2001 - Professor Wendy Davies, Mediaeval Lordship of Brecknock

  • 2000 - Professor Rees Davies, Brecon, Owain Glyn Dŵr and Dafydd Gam

  • 1999 - Professor Sir Glanmor Williams, Sir John Pryse of Brecon

  • 1998 - Dr William Jones, Emigration from Breconshire to N America