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Miscellaneous papers, 1970-1985, relating to Welsh broadcasting, mainly television, including papers on the development of the BBC television service, the campaign to secure a Welsh language television channel, the role of the Broadcasting Council for Wales, the stand made by Gwynfor Evans in 1980, the 1981 Broadcasting Act, and the establishment of S4C. The correspondents include Alun Talfan Davies, 1972, Gwynfor Evans (4), 1972-1980, Cledwyn Hughes (3), 1980, Glyn Tegai Hughes (3), 1972-1973, Emyr Jenkins, 1980, Jâms Nicolas (James Nicholas), 1980, Alwyn D. Rees (2), 1972, Gwilym Williams, Archbishop of Wales (2), 1973-1980.

Printed items, typescripts, press cuttings, and some letters, 1963-1994, on the Welsh language. They include material on the 1963 Report of the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire, teaching through the medium of the Welsh language in the University of Wales, parliamentary debates on the status of the Welsh language, broadcasting, bilingual road signs, the use of the Welsh language in the law courts, the Welsh language and the education system, the 1971 Census, publishing in the Welsh language, and Welsh language television.