File 6 - Liberal politics

Papers relating to the Liberal Party of Wales during the 1950s and 1960s, including leaflets and election addresses when Glyn Tegai Hughes stood as a Liberal candidate in the Denbigh Parliamentary Division at the 1950, 1955 and 1959 General Elections; papers relating to his campaigns and television broadcasts in 1959; agenda and minutes of meetings, together with papers and letters relating to the Liberal Party of Wales and the North Wales Liberal Federation (mainly in his capacity as Chairman to both during the 1960s).
Also, letters received (with some copies or drafts of his replies), including from G. W. Madoc Jones (Honorary Secretary of The Liberal Party of Wales); Emlyn Thomas (Secretary of The Welsh Liberal Party); Emlyn Hooson MP; a folder containing interview notes and correspondence, 1954-1955, between Sir Henry Morris-Jones and Madoc Jones, regarding Sir Henry’s forthcoming book [in box 6]; and a letter from Dafydd Miles, Organizer of Ymgyrch Senedd i Gymru, 10 September 1952 [located in an envelope marked “Denbigh & Election Broadcasts” in box 6].
The papers are of interest to those interested in the development of the Liberal Party in Wales and their policies during this time, as they include a draft entitled ‘The Liberal Policy for Wales’ with a copy of Glyn Tegai Hughes’s comments on the draft statement addressed to Emrys Roberts MP, dated 28 May 1949 (page 2 missing), with further correspondence on the subject regarding Liberal policy for a Welsh parliament, which culminates with a copy of a ‘Draft Bill for the Establishment of a Parliament of Wales’ by Martin Thomas, August 1966 and the evidence presented by The Welsh Liberal Party to the Royal Commission on the Constitution in 1969. Also, copies of the constitution of the Liberal Party of Wales adopted by the party at Aberystwyth in May 1950, and constitution of the North Wales Liberal Federation (with subsequent amendments to both constitutions); draft manifestos of The Liberal Party of Wales, including a manuscript draft of the 1963 manifesto in the hand of Glyn Tegai Hughes and a bilingual typescript draft; and programmes of the annual Liberal Schools held at Pantyfedwen, Borth during the late 1950s.
Also includes newspaper cuttings and printed material, including ‘The Future of the Small Farmer’ by S. O. Thomas (Liberal Party of Wales Publications No. 1, 1956).