HISTORY enthusiasts in Denbighshire are looking forward to their first get-together of 2023.

The next Cymdeithas Hanes Lleol Llandyrnog & Llangwyfan Local History Society meeting will be in Llandyrnog Village Hall on Wednesday, January 18 (7.30pm).

Dr Shaun Evans will be giving a talk entitled ‘Landed estates in Wales: History and significance’.

He will include Denbighshire and North East Wales in his talk.

Dr Evans was appointed director of The Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates (ISWE) based at Bangor University in 2015 with responsibilities for overseeing the management, strategic direction and intellectual development of the research centre.

He grew up on the Mostyn estate in Flintshire, where his dad works as a forester.

Dr Evans studied history at York before undertaking a doctoral research project at Aberystwyth University on the dynastic identity of the Mostyn family and estate in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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Following the award of his PhD, he worked in the research team at The National Archives, with responsibilities for research programmes and academic engagement strategy, prior to taking up his position at Bangor University.

Dr Evans is a historian of gentry culture and landed estates in Wales across the period from around 1500 to 1900.

Beyond his roles at Bangor University, Shaun is a member of the North East Wales Heritage Forum, which represents over 50 local history and heritage groups across Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham.

He is a trustee of the Discovering Old Welsh Houses group, patron of the Friends of Clwyd Archives and sits on the council of the Flintshire Historical Society. He is also a member of the advisory committee for the RCAHMW List of Historic Place Names of Wales initiative.

All are welcome to the society meetings, with members paying £6 for the yearly programme of four meetings and visitors are charged £3 per meeting.

Light refreshments are served for all at the end of every meeting.

For additional details or queries or to join the society, or volunteer to be part of the projects, e-mail the society secretary via llangwyfanhistory@hotmail.com