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Documents relating to the Welsh Labour Party campaign to achieve an equal number of women and men candidates for the first elections to the Welsh Assembly.

Archive contains material relating to Baroness Randerson's political career as a member of Cardiff City and Council councils, and as a Member of the National Assembly for Wales, along with material relating to the Federal Liberal Democrats and Welsh Liberal Democrats.

Seven boxes of papers from Baroness Randerson’s political office in the House of Lords, including contemporary papers connected with her work on transport policy, papers from her time in the Cameron-Clegg coalition government and in government in the Welsh Assembly, together with some association copy books and records of official visits to other countries and NATO; April 2025.

Deeds, 1298-1837, relating to North Wales, notably to the manor of Gogarth, Caernarfonshire.

Records, almost all title deeds, of the estates of the Thelwall family of Bathafarn Park and Llanbedr Hall, Denbighshire, lying manily in that county, but with lands in Flintshire, Merionethshire, Anglesey, Chester and Lancashire, 1483-1864, and papers relating to the Frodsham charity, Cheshire, 1815-1841.

Approximately a thousand boxes containing files of background information, correspondence with contributors, listeners and viewers, and essential documentation regarding programmes in both English and Welsh for BBC radio and television from the mid 1960s to about 1995.

Tua mil o focsys yn cynnwys ffeiliau o wybodaeth gefndirol, gohebiaeth â chyfranwyr, gwrandawyr a gwylwyr, a dogfennaeth allweddol parthed rhaglenni Cymraeg a Saesneg ar gyfer radio a theledu'r BBC rhwng tua canol y chwedegau hyd at tua 1995.

Correspondence and papers of Beata Brookes: papers relating to the 1979 Euro-election campaign in North Wales, 1979; correspondence with local Conservative Associations, 1978-1984; North Wales European Constituency Conservative Council papers, 1976-1984; correspondence on European issues, 1979-1988; correspondence with local authorities, 1980-1989; papers relating to charities for the mentally handicapped, 1985-1989; constituency correspondence, 1985-1989; Conservative Party correspondence, 1985-1989; general correspondence, 1979-1987; printed material, 1984-1988; correspondence with Margaret Thatcher, 1984-1987; and correspondence from John Major, 1993.

Deeds and documents relating to Trimsaran Coal, Iron and Steel Company, [c. 1861]-1872; Ynisarwed Resolven Colliery Company, 1866-1875; and Yniscedwyn Iron, Steel, and Coal Company, 1837-1875; and copies of Court Rolls of the Manor of Evenjobb, Radnorshire, 1798-1851.

Miscellaneous deeds relating to Wales, 1600-1653.

Manuscripts, deeds, documents, manuscript maps and plans, and printed matter, 1814-1904, relating to David Davies and other members of the Davies family of Llwyn, Cardiganshire, and of Ffrwd-fâl (Froodvale) and Rhosybedw, Carmarthenshire.

Papers, [c. 1913]-[c. 1936], mainly of the Rev. Ben Davies, comprising poetry submitted for eisteddfodau, lecture notes, sermons, and correspondence; as well as poetry of the Rev. Thomas William Llynfi Davies.

Family correspondence, 1882-1950; general correspondence, 1891-1952, including letters from Evan Pan Jones and George M. Ll. Davies; important correspondence with Sir Oliver Lodge, 1885-1941, concerning experiments in telegraphy etc.; correspondence, laboratory notebooks, files etc., relating to Ben Davies's work for Sir Oliver Lodge and the Eastern Telegraph Company, 1892-1946; correspondence with Messrs Bibby & Sons Ltd., 1928-1951, about agricultural experiments; papers about spiritualism, 1894-1943, including notes of communications by mediums; files of correspondence, circulars etc., concerning movements such as the Union of Democratic Control, 1914-1949, and the Fellowship of Reconciliation Committee, 1915-1922; diaries, 1884-1950; pocket diaries and notebooks, 1894-1908; bound volumes and files of press cuttings including articles by Ben Davies; manuscript and typescript drafts of his publications, lectures and articles, with offprints, pamphlets and booklets; and files, 1915-1918, concerning experiments on the detection of submarines conducted by Ben Davies on behalf of the Admiralty.

Papers, 1889-1988, of Ben G. Jones, including academic notes, 1932-1935; personal letters, 1942-1968; political papers, 1935-1985; correspondence relating to politics in Merionethshire, 1963-1967; press cuttings, 1958-1963, printed material relating to the four main political parties in Wales, 1949-1966; papers relating to the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1939-1988; minute book, 1889-1909, of the London Welsh Mutual Improvement Societies' Union; papers deriving from the compilation and publication of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography, 1953-1986; papers relating to his public life, 1968-1984, including the Kilbrandon Commission, 1936-1969, the BBC, 1968-1978, UCW Aberystwyth, 1968-1985, and the Agricultural Land Tribunal, 1980-1984; minute book, 1889-1909, of the London Welsh Mutual Improvement Societies' Union; and papers relating to the status of the Welsh language and to teaching and broadcasting through the medium of Welsh, 1965-1987.

Papers, [c. 1924]-1983, relating to Workington Music Festival, including correspondence, 1925-1983, programmes, 1934-1935, press cuttings, [c. 1924]-1982, and photographs.

Records of Benjamin Evans, Henllan, Cardiganshire, relating mainly to his work as a blacksmith, 1888-1954, comprising account books, 1888-1924; material relating to the Master Farriers and Smiths Union, Newcastle Emlyn District, including papers regarding scales of prices, c.1913-1940; and Christmas cards sent to Mr T. Evans, Benjamin Evans's sôn, 1940-1954.

Papers, [1775x1825], of Benjamin Hall, D.D., including a diary for 1806, correspondence, an incomplete autobiographical novel, and miscellaneous notes.

Manuscripts of Benjamin Millingchamp, [17 cent.]-1829, including manuscripts of Persian poetry and prose, [17 cent.]-[18 cent.]; translations of Persian works, [?18 cent., last ¼]-[early 19 cent.]; manuscripts in Hindustani and Rekhta, [18 cent., last ¼]; letters and papers, 1778-1829, including Millingchamp's certificate of proficiency in Persian; Indian travel journals, 1781-1782; a diary, 1796; and sermons, [late 18 cent.]-[early 19 cent.]. Also included is the manuscript of Herbert M. Vaughan's biography of Millingchamp, 1940.

Papers, [1790]-1921, of and collected by Benjamin Piercy and his estate, relating to civil engineering projects and to the Piercy estate in Flintshire and Denbighshire. They include copies of plans of the following railways: the Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay; the Whitchurch, Wrexham and Mold; the Flintshire, Oswestry and Newtown; the Oswestry and Llangynog; the Denbighshire and Shropshire; the North Wales and Birkenhead; the Birkenhead, North Wales and Stafford; the Porthdinlleyn; and the Llangammarch and Neath. There is also a large number of working plans of railways in north-east Wales, particularly those for which Benjamin Piercy was engineer, as well as collections of Acts of Parliament relating to railways in England and Wales, bills, minutes of evidence, speeches, petitions and reports of Railway Commissions. The archive also includes a volume of Acts of Parliament relating to the navigation and conservancy of the river Dee, some Acts relating to north Wales waterworks, copies of correspondence, 1881-1885, between Benjamin Piercy and Henry Robertson of Pale, and minute books, 1888-1920, of the Piercy Trustees, and papers and deeds of Benjamin Piercy's estate mainly in Wrexham, and Marchwiel parish, 1881-1921.

A small collection containing verse and prose compositions by T. E. Griffith ('Beren'), most of the work having been submitted to 'eisteddfodau'.

Early education materials from Lewis School, Pengam, 1934-1936; undergraduate materials at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1936-1940; minute books of the Joint Wages Board of Local Authorities of Monmouthshire, 1922-1951, and bills and receipts from the Gabalfa Nursing Cadet Division of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, 1952-1959.

Papers, 1923-2004, of Bernice Rubens, novelist, writer, and director of documentary films, including manuscript and typescript drafts of her novels, film scripts and plays, and adaptations of them; related press cuttings, interviews and publicity material; business and personal correspondence; and her memoirs and some personal papers.