The Vaughan Association 30th Annual Colloquium,
April 25-27 2025
INFORMATION FOR DELEGATES AND ATTENDEES
Location: The Brecon Castle Hotel, Brecon, Wales
Tel.: 01874 624611 or 01858 438300
Website: https://www.breconcastle.co.uk/
The Brecon Castle Hotel is situated within walking distance from Brecon town centre.
The Vaughan Association has reserved 13 rooms for delegates:
(all prices are for 2 nights)
1 x classic single
Single occupancy £211.70
4 x classic doubles
Single occupancy £229.70
Double occupancy £249.70
8 x superior doubles
Single occupancy £265.70
Double occupancy £285.70
Please note that it is your responsibility to book your own room. If you wish to be assured of a room at the Castle Hotel, you must book your room BEFORE March 4th. After that, rooms will not be held by the VA.
You can book your room by emailing the hotel and informing them that you are attending the Vaughan Association Colloquium 2025 at:
There are many other good hotels, guesthouses, B&Bs and self-catering cottages in the Usk Valley, in and around Brecon: for details, visit: www.visitbrecon.org and www.booking.com.
BOOKING
Despite inflation and rising costs, Colloquium fees will remain the same as last year, £100 for the full conference: please follow the instructions below to book your place.
NAME:
Please indicate by ticking clearly which combinations of days and suppers you require:
Standard delegate, full attendance (includes all talks, facilities, tea/coffee and two dinners, Friday and Saturday night: £100.00
Concessions, full attendance (students) £85.00
Friday night talks and dinner only: £40.00
Saturday talks and dinner only: £70.00
Friday/Saturday/Sunday talks only (no dinner): Friday night £10 only/two days £30/three days £40.
NB Lunches are not included in these prices, to allow delegates to make their own arrangements, either in The Brecon Castle Hotel or elsewhere.
Method of payment
Online payment:
IBAN: GB13 NWBK 5161 2873 7299 73
BIC: NWBK GB 2L
account name: The Vaughan Association
account type: business current account
account number: 73729973
sort code: 51-61-28
Please make your payment, then complete, print out and scan the form as an email attachment, confirming online payment at:
Cheque payment:
Cheque payable to: The Vaughan Association
Send, with completed form, to:
The Rev. Allan Wilcox,
21 Highgate
Beverley
East Yorkshire
HU17 0UH
Programme
The Vaughan Association 30th Annual Colloquium, 25-27 April 2025
The Brecon Castle Hotel, Brecon
Friday 25th April:
18.30 Dinner
20.00 Dr. Bob Wilcher, ‘“As now, so then”: Perspectives on time in the poetry of Anne Cluysenaar’
Saturday 26th April:
09.30 Dr. Maria Salenius, ‘Encircling God – John Donne and the Metaphysical conceit’
10.30 Tea and coffee
11.00 Dr. Jason Walford Davies, ‘“After Silent Centuries”: Waldo Williams, Vaughan and Hopkins’
[Delegates make their own lunch arrangements and the afternoon is free]
17.30 Poetry reading by Grevel Lindop
19.30 Dinner
Sunday 27th April:
09.30 Drs Jonathan Nauman and Holly Nelson, “George MacDonald and Henry Vaughan”
10.30 Tea and coffee
11.00 Dr. Rachel Willie, ‘“the ruines of their King and State”: royalism, religion and mourning in Katherine Philips and Henry Vaughan’
12.00 Annual meeting of the Vaughan Association
[Delegates make their own arrangements for lunch]
15.00 Annual Commemoration Evensong for Henry Vaughan at Llansantffraed Church; address TBA
