On Friday, May 20 at 6.30, historian Ryland Wallace, author of The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Wales, will give a talk on the Suffragettes’ infamous actions at the last National Eisteddfod in Abergavenny.

At the 1913 Eisteddfod, both David Lloyd George and Reginald McKenna, the Home Secretary, were invited members of the Gorsedd Committee – the ‘Circle’ of those honoured by the Eisteddfod.

This made Abergavenny, in the words of The Chronicle at the time ‘a prime target for the suffragettes.’ The frustrated protest ended in violence.

After the interval, Jane Blank and Friends will be giving a hard-hitting, dramatised presentation: ’Sexual apartheid - still alive and kicking’.

Jane, author of novel The Geometry of Love which explores life amongst the Algerian community in the ghetto suburbs of Lille, will be looking at the ongoing struggle against what she terms ‘sexual apartheid’.

Tickets from the library in advance or on the door.