Welsh Voices
FREE VIRTUAL SEMINARS ON ZOOM
Presented by experts on Welsh and Welsh North American culture and history.
PLEASE NOTE: The virtual screening of Tiger Brides has moved to January 18.
NEW DATE: Sunday, January 18, 2026, 1 PM CT/2 PM ET
Tiger Brides: Memories of Love and War from the GI Brides of Tiger Bay
A documentary film presented by Dr. Valerie Hill-Jackson, Texas A & M University
Tiger Brides tells the story of women from Cardiff who married African-American servicemen during and after the Second World War. It is estimated that around 70 women from the multicultural Tiger Bay area married black GIs, despite the US military's segregationist policies that prohibited mixing with the local population. Dr. Hill-Jackson, whose own mother-in-law set sail from Tiger Bay for Texas in the late 1940s and later joined the American Civil Rights movement, spent a year in Wales conducting interviews and researching the powerful, poignant and sometimes heartbreaking experiences of the women of Tiger Bay.
Dr. Hill-Jackson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Human Resource Development at Texas A & M University. A highly recognized educator and publicly engaged scholar, in 2013 Hill-Jackson won a Traditional Core Fulbright Award and was hosted by the Center for Critical and Cultural Theory at the School of English Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University in Cardiff, Wales.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/94764198966?pwd=AVJuGv6i2UlLrfShb02I7ORybdWrRJ.1
Tiger Brides: Memories of Love and War from the GI Brides of Tiger Bay
A documentary film presented by Dr. Valerie Hill-Jackson, Texas A & M University
Tiger Brides tells the story of women from Cardiff who married African-American servicemen during and after the Second World War. It is estimated that around 70 women from the multicultural Tiger Bay area married black GIs, despite the US military's segregationist policies that prohibited mixing with the local population. Dr. Hill-Jackson, whose own mother-in-law set sail from Tiger Bay for Texas in the late 1940s and later joined the American Civil Rights movement, spent a year in Wales conducting interviews and researching the powerful, poignant and sometimes heartbreaking experiences of the women of Tiger Bay.
Dr. Hill-Jackson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Human Resource Development at Texas A & M University. A highly recognized educator and publicly engaged scholar, in 2013 Hill-Jackson won a Traditional Core Fulbright Award and was hosted by the Center for Critical and Cultural Theory at the School of English Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University in Cardiff, Wales.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/94764198966?pwd=AVJuGv6i2UlLrfShb02I7ORybdWrRJ.1
Sunday, January 25, 2026, 1 PM CT/2 PM ET
The Siege of Pembroke, 1648
Sponsored and hosted by the Welsh Society of Western New England
Historian Terry John will bring to life the gripping story of Pembroke's revolt against Parliamentary rule during the English Civil War, and Oliver Cromwell’s six-week siege of the Welsh town, as well as the fate of its leaders.
Terry John has worked as a teacher and as Education Officer for the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. A member of the English Civil War re-enactment society the Sealed Knot, John is the author of The Civil War in Wales: The Scouring of the Nation.
Please visit https://www.welshwne.org/events/2026-pembroke
to RSVP and receive the Zoom link.
The Siege of Pembroke, 1648
Sponsored and hosted by the Welsh Society of Western New England
Historian Terry John will bring to life the gripping story of Pembroke's revolt against Parliamentary rule during the English Civil War, and Oliver Cromwell’s six-week siege of the Welsh town, as well as the fate of its leaders.
Terry John has worked as a teacher and as Education Officer for the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. A member of the English Civil War re-enactment society the Sealed Knot, John is the author of The Civil War in Wales: The Scouring of the Nation.
Please visit https://www.welshwne.org/events/2026-pembroke
to RSVP and receive the Zoom link.
Sunday, February 15, 2026, 1 PM CT/2 PM ET
The Cambrian Guards in the American Civil War
Presented by Dr. Jerry Hunter, Bangor University
Dr. Jerry Hunter has extensively researched the men who served in the Cambrian Guards, a division of the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment comprised mainly of Welsh Americans from Racine. Motivated by patriotism and opposition to slavery, the Cambrian Guards enthusiastically answered the call to arms before marching south through Kentucky and Tennessee and taking part in the siege of Atlanta. Their experiences brought them face to face with the harrowing realities of slavery, war and imprisonment, which they documented in letters and diaries written in Welsh.
A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Jerry Hunter is an acclaimed scholar of Welsh literature, eisteddfod winner and novelist in the Welsh language. He teaches at Bangor University, and collaborates with Dr. Richard Wyn Jones on the award-winning literary podcast, Yr Hen Iaith.
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/92174716924?pwd=lbfvImsGyHMama4XlnJXunxvEM5mJI.1
The Cambrian Guards in the American Civil War
Presented by Dr. Jerry Hunter, Bangor University
Dr. Jerry Hunter has extensively researched the men who served in the Cambrian Guards, a division of the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment comprised mainly of Welsh Americans from Racine. Motivated by patriotism and opposition to slavery, the Cambrian Guards enthusiastically answered the call to arms before marching south through Kentucky and Tennessee and taking part in the siege of Atlanta. Their experiences brought them face to face with the harrowing realities of slavery, war and imprisonment, which they documented in letters and diaries written in Welsh.
A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Jerry Hunter is an acclaimed scholar of Welsh literature, eisteddfod winner and novelist in the Welsh language. He teaches at Bangor University, and collaborates with Dr. Richard Wyn Jones on the award-winning literary podcast, Yr Hen Iaith.
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/92174716924?pwd=lbfvImsGyHMama4XlnJXunxvEM5mJI.1
Sunday, March 15, 2026, 1 PM CT/2 PM ET
Madame Hannah Hughes-Thomas and Her Royal Welsh Ladies' Choir
Presented by Dr. Bill Jones, Emeritus Professor, Cardiff University
Between 1908 and 1913, Madame Hannah Hughes-Thomas led the world-famous Royal Welsh Ladies’ Choir, of which she was the second director, on several tours of the United States and Canada, which included performances in San Francisco, Winnipeg, Atlanta, and the coal towns of the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. Dr. Bill Jones will discuss the choir’s North American tours during Madame Hughes-Thomas tenure and her life after she settled in Detroit in 1915.
Dr. Bill Jones, Emeritus Professor in Modern Welsh History at Cardiff University, has written extensively on Welsh emigration to the United States. His works include Wales in America: Scranton and the Welsh, 1860-1920.
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/95207004108?pwd=9lTRUWMfbV7cfe1NQq6MuEvYe11RyB.1
Madame Hannah Hughes-Thomas and Her Royal Welsh Ladies' Choir
Presented by Dr. Bill Jones, Emeritus Professor, Cardiff University
Between 1908 and 1913, Madame Hannah Hughes-Thomas led the world-famous Royal Welsh Ladies’ Choir, of which she was the second director, on several tours of the United States and Canada, which included performances in San Francisco, Winnipeg, Atlanta, and the coal towns of the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. Dr. Bill Jones will discuss the choir’s North American tours during Madame Hughes-Thomas tenure and her life after she settled in Detroit in 1915.
Dr. Bill Jones, Emeritus Professor in Modern Welsh History at Cardiff University, has written extensively on Welsh emigration to the United States. His works include Wales in America: Scranton and the Welsh, 1860-1920.
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/95207004108?pwd=9lTRUWMfbV7cfe1NQq6MuEvYe11RyB.1
