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- 1774-1947
Papers, 1774-1947, of Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, popularly known as the 'Ladies of Llangollen', comprising diaries and correspondence, together with related papers.
Ponsonby, Sarah, 1755-1831
Papers, 1774-1947, of Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, popularly known as the 'Ladies of Llangollen', comprising diaries and correspondence, together with related papers.
Ponsonby, Sarah, 1755-1831
Comprises records of Fforwm Iaith Genedlaethol, including administrative records, correspondence collected by Dr Carl Clowes as chairman, along with papers from Dr Clowes' involvement with the campaign for a Welsh Language Act in the 1980s and his campaign for a General Register Office for Wales.
Clowes, Carl
R.H. Williams Associates (Consulting Engineers) Archive
Records of R H Williams Associates, Consulting Structural & Civil Engineers. Material comprises architectural drawings and job (project) files. Project files include letters & correspondence, architect’s instructions, fee schedules, structural calculations, copies of working drawings, completion certificates, structural surveys, specifications, test reports, site visit minutes and reports, and similar documentation.
R. H. Williams Associates, Consultant Structural Engineers
Papurau Dr Menna Elfyn, 1950-2017, sy'n adlewyrchu ei bywyd a'i gwaith llenyddol a gwleidyddol, gan gynnwys deunydd yn ymwneud â'r meysydd canlynol: barddoniaeth, rhyddiaith, dramâu ar gyfer y llwyfan a'r cyfryngau a phrosiectau cerddorol a chelfyddydol ar y cyd, ynghyd â chyfieithiadau o'i gwaith barddonol i amryw ieithoedd; ei mynych deithiau i ŵyliau barddonol, seminarau a darlleniadau ac i gynnal gweithdai; gyrfa academaidd Menna Elfyn, gan gynnwys ei chyfnodau fel awdur preswyl; anrhydeddau a gwobrau a ddaeth i'w rhan yn ystod ei gyrfa; cyfnodau ymgyrchu a charcharu Menna Elfyn a'i gŵr Wynfford James fel aelodau o Gymdeithas yr Iaith, ac ymgyrchoedd dros heddwch, cyfiawnder a hawliau merched; yn ogystal ag ystod sylweddol o ohebiaeth, yn bennaf gyda beirdd a llenorion eraill.
Daeth ychwanegiad i law ym mis Mai 2023, a atodwyd i'r archif fel cyfres 'Y' (Deunydd ychwanegol Mai 2023), fel a ganlyn:
Papurau o eiddo neu sydd a wnelo â'r bardd, dramodydd, colofnydd a golygydd Dr Menna Elfyn, sy'n cynnwys barddoniaeth, rhyddiaith a gweithiau llwyfan a chyfryngol (drafftiau llawysgrif, teipysgrifau a deunydd argraffiedig) gan Menna Elfyn, deunydd yn ymwneud â chysiau academaidd a gweithdai a diwtorwyd gan neu a gyd-gyfarwyddwyd gan Menna Elfyn, llyfrau nodiadau a gohebiaeth; ynghyd ag erthyglau, adolygiadau a datganiadau i'r wasg gan awduron eraill sy'n ymwneud a bywyd a gwaith Menna Elfyn a rhai papurau'r Parchedig T. (Thomas) Elfyn Jones, tad Menna Elfyn.
Elfyn, Menna
Papers of the Welsh Baseball Association, 1892-2014, relating to matches, the game in general in Wales, clubs, players and teams, including ladies teams and youth teams, comprising items such as programmes, yearbooks, fixture lists, cuttings, articles, score books and scoring cards, handbooks, rules and official laws, photographs, biographies, correspondence, minutes and minute books, diamond drawings, accounts and financial reports, newsletters, statistical information, league tables and results, together with draft and proof copies of the magazine Around the Bases.
Welsh Baseball Association
Comprises Gwilym Prys-Davies' political papers, 1954-2008, including letters, articles, minutes and reports, as well as subject files, 1912-2012, and letters between Harri Webb and John Legona and some papers relating to William Abraham (Mabon). The papers relate mainly to devolution, Welsh language legislation, language rights and contain files relating to the Welsh Republican Movement and civil rights group Cefn.
Papers relating to the funeral of Gwilym Prys Davies, 8 April 2017, comprising the order of service, tributes and a booklet containing family photographs; April 2017.
Five letters, 2005-2006, from Gwilym Prys Davies to Prys Davies and Meri Huws of the Welsh Language Board, together with three attached documents; September 2018.
Prys-Davies, Gwilym Prys Davies, Baron, 1923-2017
Frederick Davies (John Cowper Powys) manuscripts
Papers, 1962-[c. 1986], of Frederick Davies, relating to John Cowper Powys, including letters to Davies from Phyllis Playter, Alyse Gregory, Lucy Amelia Penny, Marie Canavaggia and others, 1962-1986; letters to Powys on his ninetieth birthday, 1962; and an unpublished account of the love affair between Powys and Frances Gregg, [c. 1986].
Davies, Frederick, 1916-1990
CMA: Records of Hermon Presbyterian Church, Maesycoed, Pontypridd
Records of Hermon Church, Mound Road, Maesycoed, Pontypridd, comprising three church minute books, 1918-87, the first of which contains a brief history of the cause; a Sunday School minute book, 1927-50, and attendance statistics, 1990-93; annual reports, 1934-91; and a diary for 1947, including a Sunday Diary, 1947-53.
Hermon Presbyterian Church, Maesycoed
Papers, largely relating to her work, of artist and draughtswoman Vera Bassett, comprising items relating to exhibitions; draft pictorial and textual designs; correspondence; press cuttings; photographs; and miscellaneous material relating to Vera Bassett or to her family.
Dates denote those of original material, not date of photocopying.
Bassett, Vera, 1912-1997
CMA: Records of Mid Wales & Border Presbytery
Records of the Mid Wales & Border Presbytery, including copies of the Directory, 2008-2013, together with printed agenda and minutes of Presbytery meetings, 2008-2010; November 2016.
Additional material; February 2024.
A copy of the Mid Wales & Border Presbytery Directory (November 2024); November 2024.
Mid Wales & Border Presbytery
Archive of the charity Chwarae Teg, consisting of paper and electronic material.
Cofysgrifau Eglwys Gymraeg (Annibynwyr) Mayer Street, Hanley
Cofysgrifau Eglwys Gymraeg Mayer Street (Mân Adnau 1325B, 1326-8A gynt); Mai 1979.
Cofysgrifau ychwanegol (Mân Adnau 1328(ii) gynt); Medi 2004.
Cofysgrifau ychwanegol, 1893-1949, yn bennaf cofnodion ariannol yn ymwneud â chapel Mayer Street; Medi 2024.
Cofnodion capel Mayer Street, Hanley, ac yn ddiweddarach Eglwys Gymraeg Hanley a'r Cylch (cyfarfu yn Newcastle Methodist Church, Merrial Street), gan gynnwys cofnodion ariannol, 1950-2020, adroddiadau blynyddol, 1969 a 1981-2019 (ag eithrio 2014), dogfennau yn ymwneud â phrynu'r tir a sefydlu'r eglwys, a gohebiaeth ynghylch cau'r eglwys; Medi 2024.
Eglwys Gymraeg Mayer Street, Hanley
CMA: Siloh Chapel, Hardshaw Street, St Helens.
Document (4 pp.), dated 28 May 1895, containing specifications of proposed alterations and additions to the Welsh Chapel, Hardshaw Street, St Helens.
Siloh Chapel, Hardshaw Street, St Helens
Estate and family records of the family of Walsh (also Benn, Benn-Walsh), later barons Ormathwaite, of Radnorshire, including rentals and surveys, 1865-1939; deeds relating to premises purchased in Radnorshire, 1558-1912, and deeds relating to mortgages and sales of parts of the same estate, 1875-1947; estate papers, 1844-1943; family papers, [late 1690s]-1920, including diaries of Sir John Benn Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite (1798-1881), politician, 1811-1877, diaries of his mother, Lady Margaret Walsh, 1788-1828, and diaries of Arthur John Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite, 1848-1917. -- The BRA deposit relates mainly to the marriage settlement, mortgages, bankruptcy, receivership and executorship of Arthur Henry John Walsh (1859-1937), 3rd Baron Ormathwaite, 1841-1951.
A further three boxes of papers relating to the family was received, together with a portrait of Jane Walsh and a collection of photographs. This deposit remains uncatalogued.
Walsh family, Barons Ormathwaite
Papers, 1962-1983, of Dannie Abse, comprising autograph and typescript drafts of poems, plays (including a dramatisation of his poem 'Funland', later titled 'Pythagoras'), essays, and television and radio scripts.
Heb deitl
Welsh Republican Movement and Plaid Cymru papers collected by Cliff Bere, 1940-1973, including correspondence, [c. 1947]-1965; membership forms and subscriptions, [c. 1948]-1957; constitution, meetings and reports, 1949-1952; newspaper cuttings, 1949-1991; political and personal correspondence, 1933-1997; papers relating to Plaid Cymru, [c. 1949]-1996, including the Parliament for Wales Campaign, Cymdeithas yr Iaith (Welsh Language Society) campaign for bilingual road signs, 1971; 'Cofiwn', the National Commemoration Association, 1976-1987; the Welsh Socialist Republican Movement (Mudiad Gweriniaethol Sosialaidd Cymru) 1975-1985; Cymdeithas Cyfamod y Cymry Rhydd (the Society of the Covenant of the Free Welsh) 1986-1994; Cardiff City Planning Department, 1965-1982; Harri Webb papers, 1949-1996; Eurig ap Gwilym [d. 1988], 1976-1988; papers relating to holiday homes arson campaign and Bere's arrest, 1980-1982; Yr Undeb Celtaidd /The Celtic League, 1988-1993; the Free Wales Army, 1993-1998; unpublished drafts of articles, 1934-1996; various journals and pamphlets, [c. 1946]-1976; newspapers cuttings, 1946-1997; undated translations of pamphlets published by the National Museum of Wales; papers, 1984-1998, relating to his publications, and other printed ephemera, 1935-1956.
Bere, Cliff, 1915-1997
Evans Williams (Bryntirion Hall) Family Diaries
Diaries of Mary Caroline Evans Williams of Bryntirion Hall, Rhaeadr, Radnorshire, 1861-1906, and of her daughter, Elizabeth Alice Evans Williams, later E. A. Lewis Lloyd, 1889-1903. Most of the entries are brief, apart from those detailing vacations in Germany, 1861-1862, and Belgium, 1897 and 1906.
Evans Williams, Mary Caroline
Papers of the late Philip Weekes, former Area Director of the South Wales Coalfield, comprising National Coal Board papers, 1947-1985, arising directly from his career with the Board; professional papers, 1911-[c. 2000], which are more generally connected with his work in the coal industry; a large amount of accumulated reference material, 1934-2003; numerous press cuttings, [1957]-2002; and a few historical documents, 1860-1980, collected by Philip Weekes and relating to mining and the South Wales Coalfield.
Weekes, Philip, 1920-2003.
Papers of political interest, 1909-1995, including papers relating to local and general elections, in Swansea West, 1982-1983; Pontypridd, 1987; Pembroke, 1991-1992; Vale of Glamorgan, 1985-1993; papers relating to the SDP, 1983-1994, including correspondence, minutes, press releases; papers relating to the SDP/Liberal Alliance, 1987-1988; papers of the Alliance Committee for Wales, 1985-1987, including correspondence, minutes of meetings, drafts of speeches, memoranda; papers of the SDP Welsh Council, 1981-1988, including correspondence, minutes of meetings, newspaper cuttings; papers of the Welsh Regional Economic Policy Group, 1981-1982; papers of the Vale of Glamorgan SDP, including CVs of prospective candidates, 1982-1983; personal papers of Peter Sain Ley Berry, [c. 1981]-1988, including correspondence and diaries; printed material, 1977-1995, including SDP policy documents and manifestos; records of the Lloyd George Society, including correspondence, 1975-1993, and printed material, 1909-1991; papers of the Welsh Centre for International Affairs, 1986-1991; and miscellaneous material, 1968-1984. The 2003 Donation, as yet uncatalogued, comprises further papers, c. 1982-2000, relating to the SDP, including papers relating to the Hillhead bye election and miscellaneous Wales in Europe papers.
Berry, Peter Sain Ley, 1946-.