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Celtic League Archive Sub-fonds
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1999 and 2001 Donations

Papers deriving mainly from the activities of Alan Heusaff as General Secretary and Secretary of the International branch, and also of Bernard Moffatt as Assistant General Secretary and General Secretary. They include: administrative and financial documents; correspondence, tracts and press releases relating to the aims of the League, its policies and campaigns, and also general matters concerning Celtic countries and cultures, linguistic minorities, and political movements and ideas; letters and petitions to governments and international bodies; correspondence relating to the compilation, publication and distribution of Carn, including articles for the magazine, with notes; copies, drafts and notes of letters written by Heusaff and Moffatt; press cuttings; letters and other documents forwarded by branch secretaries relating to matters of particular concern; minutes of Annual General Meetings; and some copies of minutes of branch meetings.

2002 Deposit

Papers relating to financial matters and other aspects of the administration of the Celtic League and of its Cornwall Branch, including correspondence, membership details, statements of accounts, circulars, leaflets and other printed material, together with additional political and educational material accumulated by Roy Green. They were accumulated by Roy Green as Treasurer of the Celtic League and as both Secretary and Treasurer of the Cornwall Branch (through which he acquired the papers of his successor as Treasurer, Peter Wills), and also in his capacity as a member of numerous Cornish cultural and political organisations and as a founding member and District Secretary of the Cornish branch of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Celtic League. Cornwall Branch.

2011 Deposit

Papers accumulated by Merfyn Phillips as Secretary of the Wales Branch of the Celtic League, and also by Gwynn Bowyer as Secretary and Treasurer of the Dyfed Area, including correspondence and other administrative records, as well as material relating to Merfyn Phillips's role as Secretary of the Welsh Branch of the Cornish Language Council, his support of Modern Cornish in opposition to other variants of the language, his work with the Cornish publisher An Venton, and his contribution to the Llandudoch-Tredarzek Twinning Committee.