Brecknock Society and Museum Friends (Welsh: Cymdeithas Brycheiniog a Chyfeillion yr Amgueddfa) is a Welsh historical society that promotes "the study and understanding of the Archaeology, History, Geology, Natural History, the Arts and Literature of Wales, especially the historic county of Brecknock."[1]
The Brecknock Society was founded in 1928. In 1929 they made a successful appeal for the government to purchase Tretower Court, which had become badly neglected.[2] The society handed the museum and its collections to the Breconshire County Council in 1950.[3] In 1986 the Brecknock Society merged with the Friends of Brecknock Museum to form the Brecknock Society and Museum Friends.
The organization publishes the historical journal Brycheiniog since 1955. It also awards the annual Roland Mathias Prize, a literary prize named after author Roland Mathias.[4] In 2007, they successfully petitioned for government funds to restore the Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery. [5]
^Roulstone, Michael (1980). Bibliography of Museum And Art Gallery Publications And Audio Visual Aids in Great Britain And Ireland, 1979-80. Chadwyck-Healy, ISBN 978-0-85964-097-8
^Brecknock Society (1929). Appeal by the Brecknock Society to purchase for the nation the 14th century building known as Tretower Court. Western Mail
^Janet Foster, Julia Sheppard (1995). British archives: a guide to archive resources in the United Kingdom. Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-333-53255-3
^Staff report (February 9, 2005). Welsh writers shortlisted for new literary prize. News Wales, ISSN 1744-4004
^Staff report (November 12, 2007). Museum's £400,000 repairs grant BBC News
and 17 Related for: Brecknock Society and Museum Friends information
Brycheiniog or Sir Frycheiniog), also formerly known as the County of Brecknock, Breconshire, or the County of Brecon, was an administrative county in...
Poetry Prize was established under the auspices of the BrecknockSocietyandMuseumFriends, and Glyn Mathias was its Committee chairman from 2005 to 2011...
the BrecknockSocietyandMuseumFriendsand is named in his honour. There are collections of manuscripts and correspondence of Roland Mathias and of The...
inaugural Roland Mathias Prize in 2005, from the BrecknockSocietyandMuseumFriends, for its "fresh eye and boldness of metaphor, a sense of living on the...
River Trust. Retrieved 30 April 2016. "News from the Museum". BrecknockSocietyandMuseumFriends. Retrieved 30 April 2016. "Llangynidr Bridge, Llangynidr...
both active periodicals and those that have ceased publication. Before the advent of the modern journal format, the Society of Antiquaries of London...
"Henry Vaughan, Poet and Physician: Grave and heritage at Llansantffraed, Brecknockshire". BrecknockSocietyandMuseumFriends. Retrieved 28 April 2016...
National Museum of Wales, the National Library of Wales, Contemporary Art Society of Wales, Arts Council of Wales, Museum of Modern Art Wales, Brecknock Museum...
the middle of the seventeenth century, and were widespread a century later. A breed society was formed in 1969, and a flock book was published from 1972...
biographical and genealogical notices of the members, together with particulars of the various contested elections, double returns and petitions". Brecknock : Priv...
Coloured Sheep Breeders Association "Boreray sheep". Soay Sheep Society: Friends of the Soay and Boreray. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013. Retrieved...
of this stationing he was seriously ill); 1773 Pembrook, Wales; 1774 Brecknock, Wales; 1776 Launceston, Cornwall, England; 1777 St. Austle, Cornwall...
School by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studio Montpelier Community Nursery, Brecknock Road, London by AYA Newhall Be, Harlow, Essex by Alison Brooks Architects...
Liaison Officer, Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Area Health Authority. Miss Vera Jones, County Organiser, Brecknock Young Farmers' Clubs. Albert James...
of RSPB, and President, Brecknock Wildlife Trust. For services to Nature Conservation. Jeanette Marion Appleton. For services to Blind and Partially...
Global Information