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Arranged into Welsh Republican Movement (1-12), political and personal papers (13-21), printed material (22-23) and miscellanea (24).

A copy of Cliff Bere's Towards the Political Confederation of Celtia (Gwasg yr Ynys Newydd [1987]), letters from Peter Beresford Ellis, 1989-94, and correspondence and papers relating to Yr Undeb Celtaidd /The Celtic League and its secretary Merfyn Phillips, 1988-93.

Arranged into personal correspondence (25-35), political papers (36-46) and printed material (47-48).

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campaign and Bere's arrest, 1980-1982; Yr Undeb Celtaidd /The Celtic League, 1988-1993; the Free Wales Army, 1993-1998; unpublished drafts of articles, 1934-1996; various journals and pamphlets, [c. 1946]-1976; newspapers cuttings, 1946-1997; undated translations of pamphlets published by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.

Constitution, resolutions, minutes of meetings and reports of the WRM, together with correspondence from the Inland Revenue office at Merthyr Tydfil, 1952.

Correspondence and papers relating to 'Cofiwn', the National Commemoration Association, and their commemoration of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd at Abaty Cwm Hir and Owain Glyndr at Nant y Moch; with papers relating to Eurig ap Gwilym, 'T Cenedl', 'Coed Cymru', 'Cenedl Cymru Rydd', the campaign to release John Jenkins, and a memorial service for the 'Abergele martyrs'; together with a copy of 'Cilmeri Centrepoint' edited by John Legonna.

Correspondence and papers relating to Welsh affairs including papers relating to the Welsh Language Society's campaign for bilingual road signs and the resulting court case in 1971; and papers relating to CEFN, Plaid Cymru, the Institute of Welsh Affairs, Parliament for Wales Campaign and 'Cymreigyddion y Rhondda'.

Correspondence and papers, 1950, relating to the patent of a new type of corkscrew invented by CB and L. C. Morgan.

Correspondence including letters relating to CB's application for an award to train as a solicitor; a reference for CB on his application to join the staff of the National Museum of Wales; and letters regarding his retirement. There is also a letter from Ted Spanswick, September 1967, commenting on Plaid Cymru's lack of political thinking (13/4).

Correspondence relating to the publication of the WRM's pamphlet The Welsh Republican, together with copies of the Welsh Republican Manifesto, 1949, Voice of the North, February-March 1950, and the Bulletin, January-June 1950. There are also minutes of meetings held in May and December 1950, resolutions, newsletters, leaflets and newspaper cuttings.

Correspondence, 1951-2, relating to André Geffroy, a Breton nationalist accused of betraying two British soldiers to the Germans during the war, together with accounts of his trial and newspaper cuttings.

Correspondence, and undated, from Irish nationalists, namely Rory Brady, Seán McStiobain and Pádraig Ó Murcada, together with an issue of Clann Bulletin, April-May 1950.

Drafts of articles, mostly unpublished, by Cliff Bere including 'The Republican Standpoint', 'Our Chance in Wales', 'United front to save Wales', 'Ffrynt unedig i achub Cymru', 'A Republican Union', 'Undeb Gweriniaethol i gydweithio'n wleidyddol', 'Rhaid wrth effeithiolrwydd a chadernid', 'Diarfogaeth Niwclear' and 'Blaengyrchwyr Rhyddid'; and a report on devolution in the Isle of Man by Helena Charles.