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Michael Charles Webb was a plant biologist and forester and a founder member of Grŵp Canolbarth America Môn & Arfon (Môn & Arfon Central America Group), a local group of the Wales Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign, founded in 1986. As a result of these interests, he visited Nicaragua on two occasions (1987 and 1990), working on environmental projects and acting as an observer during the 1990 General Election. He was also active in promoting awareness of Nicaraguan and Central American issues as a member of the Central America Group and the Wales Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign. These concerns and interests are reflected in the nature of the papers accumulated by him.

Harri Webb (1920-1994), poet, from Swansea, Glamorgan, went to Magdalen College Oxford. He worked as a bookseller and librarian in Cardiff, Dowlais and Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, retiring in 1974; in the 1970s he wrote several television scripts. He was strongly influenced by the Scottish poet Hugh Mac Diarmid, writer and nationalist politician. He was a member of the Welsh Republican Movement, as well as Plaid Cymru; he was a prolific journalist, and editor of Welsh Nation magazine. He was an active member of the New Nation/Cilmeri group in the 1960s, aiming to replace the leadership of Plaid Cymru. He stood as Plaid Cymru candidate in the general election of 1970 at Pontypool, but in the mid 1970s became disillusioned with the party. His poetry was published in the collections 'The Green Desert' (1969) and 'A Crown for Branwen' (1974). He mainly wrote in English, although he also used Welsh. He contributed regularly to the magazine Poetry Wales, which he had helped to establish; he also acted as a reader for the Welsh Arts Council, and published two collections of songs and ballads. Since his death in 1994, a Collected Poems and selections from his political and literary journalism have been published.