Cedwyn Academy
Learn the Great House Farm case, record by record
A course on Tŷ Mawr (Great House Farm), Llandough: what the records show, in what order, and where the gaps are. It runs as graded questionnaires built from the evidence catalogue: answer, reveal the answer and its source, and score 90% to move up.
QuestionnairesThe questionnaires carry version numbers, like the e-books. Each version is a fixed set of questions; the newest is at the top of the list.
v0.0.2 is the full set: seven grades and 85 questions, from the farm and its names to the open questions. It comes with the membership (£49.99 a month), a member's access code or a family code.
v0.0.1 is the free set: Grade 1, The farm and its names, 12 questions. No sign-in and nothing to pay.
A pass of Grade 1 in either version counts in the other. Older versions, once there are any, are listed as -v0.0.2, -v0.0.3 and so on.
v0.0.1 (Grade 1) is free to play with no sign-in.
Included while you are a member
- Questionnaires v0.0.2: all seven grades, 85 questions, and every newer version as it is released.
- An access code that opens the Academy on any of your devices.
- The latest version of each Cedwyn e-book, free.
- The latest documentary scenes, free.
- New missing-record findings and institution replies, explained as they are catalogued.
- Founding members help shape the course and join the first live sessions.
£49.99 a month
- £49.99 is taken every month until you cancel.
- The first payment is taken today. The least you will pay is £49.99.
- No free trial and no annual plan. The free questionnaire set (v0.0.1) is open to everyone.
- Cancel online at any time from Stripe's billing page, linked at the bottom of every Academy page. Access runs to the end of the month you have paid for.
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Have a family code?
Family of the Cedwyn estate join with the family code they were given, instead of paying. It opens every version in this browser the same way a membership does, and nothing is charged.
The course
- The place and its namesCedwyn, Cwm Cedwyn and Tŷ Mawr: the place-name record from 1392 onwards, and how the farm sits in Llandough parish.
- The familyThe Williams and Buckler family across the generations, from the 1667 acquisition reported in the press to 1988.
- Reading the evidence catalogueHow each record is identified (EV and GHF-E numbers), graded and sourced, and how to tell a disclosed record from one that has not yet been disclosed.
- The timelineThe 1877 agreement, the 1916 and 1939 tenancies, the 1955 and 1962 possession orders and the 1974 licence letters, in order.
- BP Properties Ltd v Buckler (1987)The Court of Appeal judgment, the twelve-year rule and the questions the records raise about it.
- Missing recordsThe register of documents that should exist by statute, practice or cross-reference but have not been disclosed, and which party should hold each.
- DisclosureFreedom of information and subject access requests: what was asked, who answered, who did not, and the deadlines.
- Recorded incidentsThe incidents and deaths in the record, set out by date and source.
- Doing the researchHow the editors and research agents work: the editing protocol, page versions and how a new record joins the catalogue.
Start smaller: every e-book's first edition is free, and the next edition of each is £4.99. See the e-books.