WEA Llanelli
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| name = Workers' Education Association Llanelli
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| other_name = Cymdaethas Addysg Y Gweithwyr Llanelli
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| parent = Adult Learning Wales
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| established = {{start date|1914|06|20}}
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| president = Lord Griffiths of Burry Port
| chairman = Bill Griffiths
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| city = Llanelli
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| country = Wales
| coordinates = {{Coord|51.6813|-4.1681|display=title}}
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The WEA Llanelli is a branch of Adult Learning Wales.{{Cite web |last=WEALlanelli |title=WEALlanelli |url=https://weallanelli.cymru/ |access-date=2025-06-03 |website=WEALlanelli |language=en-GB}}
History
The formation of the WEA Llanell was first proposed in the months leading up to the First World War, when a meeting was held on the 20th June, 1914 at the old Town Hall in Hall Street. By March 1915, lectures and classes were established jointly with the Aberystwyth Joint Committee for University Tutorial Classes.
Lectures
The WEA Llanelli holds a series of lectures during the academic year running from September to April. These include memorial lectures dedicated to a local politician Lord Elwyn Jones and Burry Port born diplomat Sir John Gray.
= Sir John Gray Memorial Lecture =
- 2008 - Lloyd George and Venizelos by Michael Llewellyn-Smith{{Cite web |title=Michael Llewellyn-Smith |url=https://michaelllewellynsmith.co.uk/ |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=michaelllewellynsmith.co.uk |language=en}}
- 2009 - Afghanistan: Pasts, Presents and Futures, by Lee Jarvis{{Cite web |title=Lee Jarvis Resume/CV {{!}} Loughborough University, International Relations, Politics and History, Department Member |url=https://lboro.academia.edu/LeeJarvis/CurriculumVitae |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=lboro.academia.edu}}
- 2015 - A Gift of Sunlight - the Fortune and Quest of the Davies Sisters of Llandinam, by Trevor Fishlock
= Lord Elwyn Jones Memorial lecture =
- 2007 - Nia Griffith
- 2015 - 50 Years in Westminster, by The Lord Rowlands
Patron/President
- 2004 - Lord Griffiths of Burry Port{{Cite web |title=Experience for Lord Griffiths of Burry Port - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament |url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/3707/experience |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=members.parliament.uk |language=en}}
- Sir John Meurig Thomas{{Cite web |title=Cymmrodorion Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2014 |url=https://www.cymmrodorion.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Eisteddfod-Genedlaethol-2014.pdf |access-date=2025-06-08 |website=www.cymmrodorion.org}}
Amrywiaeth Llanelli Miscellany
The WEA Llanelli publishes an annual journal Amrywiaeth Llanelli Miscellany covering a range of historical and cultural topics, as well as short stories from members and local artists{{Cite web |title=Llanelli Miscellany |url=https://www.llanellich.org.uk/publications/books/102-llanelli-miscellany |access-date=2025-06-08 |website=www.llanellich.org.uk}}. The first Miscellany was launched in 1986 and was the idea of Brynmor Voyle, then chairman.