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Correspondence dating from the establishment of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association in 1943 to 2021, mainly to and from Welsh Beekeepers' Association officials - who include J[ohn] E[mrys] Anwyl (Honorary Secretary), J. H. Ball (Honorary Secretary, later Honorary Editor), John E. Lancaster (Honorary Secretary), Mr D. A. Thomas (Honorary Secretary), Commander Eric George Verge (Honorary Secretary), Wally Shaw, Tom Rowlands (President), Lynfa Davies (Secretary), John Page (Secretary) and Lynda Christie (Chair) (tendering her resignation from her post) - and other members, writing either as individuals or as representatives of their respective county/district beekeepers' associations. Other correspondents include the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society (see also under Royal Welsh Agricultural Society correspondence within this archive); the Forestry Commission; the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF); the National Library of Wales; the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA); the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD); the Welsh Office; the Council of National Beekeeping Associations (CONBA); the (then) Welsh Assembly Government (one of the correspondents being Elin Jones, who at the time was the Assembly's Minister for Rural Affairs); the Food Standards Agency (Wales) (Asiantaeth Safonau Bwyd (Cymru)); and various Welsh county councils and education authorities/committees. Topics of discussion include Association membership, the appointment of Association officers, bee diseases and the environmental effects of crop spraying and other forms of pollution on the health and wellbeing of bees.
Correspondence relating to the deposit of Welsh Beekeepers Association records at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth includes a letter, 25 July 2014, from then Chief Executive and Librarian Aled Gruffydd Jones informing John Page of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association that WBKA papers held at the Library had been destroyed by fire in April 2013 (see note in main section of archive).
Correspondence with the National Library and undated correspondence kept in marked envelopes in box labelled '1969-2021'.

Together with folder of correspondence, 1969-1972, between the Welsh Beekeepers' Association and the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society (kept in separate box from remainder of correspondence material).

Correspondence on topics such as insurance policies and claims, festivals and shows, grant applications, training and assessment and conferences and summer schools may be found under their relevant headings within this archive.

Miscellaneous items relating to the Welsh Beekeepers' Association, comprising: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (later known as the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF))/Ministry of Education circular dated 28 August 1946; memorandum, 24 January 1947, regarding the advice and instruction of beekeepers; Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) press releases (kept in marked envelope) regarding Foul Brood Disease (16 March 1964; 1972), food labelling (10 September 1964), pesticide use (with covering letter from MAFF, 11 September 1964), labelling and composition of food (21 December 1967), importation of bees (8 June 1971), Foul Brood Disease (25 March 1971) (with covering letter and booklet), and the Food Standards Committee's report on claims and misleading descriptions (16 August 1966); newspaper cutting, 11 June 1964, regarding beekeeping and referencing Dr Eva Crane and the Bee Research Association (For Dr Crane, see under Grant applications within this archive); newspaper cutting, 30 June 1964, showing Myfanwy Davies working on the Welsh Beekeepers' Association's new logo; typescript piece, dated October 1964, titled 'Better Bees: You can help to produce them'; typescript list, [1965], of clerks of county councils in Wales; newspaper cutting, 29 October 1965, featuring Dewi Thomas of Teifiside Beekeepers' Association; list, [1966], of Honorary Secretaries of branch associations; list, January/February 1966, of Aberystwyth & District Beekeepers' Association officials; British beekeepers' associations [?]mailing list; list of honorary secretaries of Welsh Beekeepers' Association branches, [1966]; Board of Trade document titled 'Application for changes in the protective tariff', [1966]; Brecon & Radnorshire Beekeepers' Association Programme of Meetings, 1970/71; typescript notes, [1973], titled 'Notes from Other Days'; press release issued, 28 January 1983, by the Welsh Beekeepers' Association relating to the appointment of Charles F. R. Dublon as Principality Beekeeping Adviser at Coleg Howell Harris (now Coleg Trefeca), Brecon; security memo relating to 'travel to or through Communist countries', dated 7 March 1985, issued by Commander Eric Verge, Ranges Security Officer, RAE Aberporth and Honorary Secretary of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association; Official Journal of the European Communities legislation booklet, 30 March 1985; press cutting, 28 May 1986, relating to sugar expenditure amongst Gwent beekeepers; curriculum vitae, [1993], of scientist Christopher R. Harries; bilingual booklet containing Welsh Beekeepers' Association honey recipes; printed pollen identification cards by W.D. J. Kirk, with covering note from the International Bee Research Associaton; undated guidelines relating to the treatment of Varroa disease in bees; BBC News printout titled 'Welsh urged to become beekeepers', which references Welsh Beekeepers' Association secretary John Tayler; printed Welsh Beekeepers' Association booklet, 2008, titled 'Coping with Nosema Ceranae ...'; typescript piece titled 'Raising the Standard of Beekeeping in Wales'; typescript list of Welsh Beekeepers' Association officers; printed copy of a transcript of a House of Commons parliamentary debate, 11 May 2006, titled 'Bee Diseases and Pests Control (England) Order 2006'; typescript piece, 2017, titled 'WBKA and the Annual Hive Count'; circle of embroidered material showing the Welsh Beekeepers' Association logo.

Correspondence and other material relating to grant applications made by the Welsh Beekeepers' Association, 1957-2014. Target bodies include the Environment Wales Project Grant Fund, the National Lottery Fund, the (former) Welsh Office, the Eva Crane Trust, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), the Commission of the European Communities (now the European Commission) and the European Economic Community (EEC)
Other correspondents include the International Bee Research Association (IBRA).

Documents relating to pesticides, their risks and control in relation to bees and beekeeping. Organisational bodies referenced include the Pesticides Safety Directorate, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the Food Standards Agency and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF).

Material, comprising mainly press and online articles and news releases, consultation papers and correspondence, relating to the genetically-modified crop debate, and including responses from the Welsh Beekeepers' Association and related organisations, the Welsh Assembly, Friends of the Earth, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

General correspondence files, chiefly financial in nature, with various companies, related bodies such as National Association of Agricultural Services, etc., 1955-1979, correspondence with Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1930-1957; Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1957-1968; Agricultural Research Council, 1951-1979; National Institute for Agricultural Botany, 1954-1985; WPBS reports, 1919-1980; annual reports, 1944-196; papers of the Directors and heads of sections, 1919-1974; minutes, etc., relating to various seed production committees, 1947-1957; the papers of Gwilym Evans, 1928-1961; the Cahn Hill Improvement Station at Pwllpeiran, Cwmystwyth, 1933-1973; files of experiments, with details of experiments in progress, field record cards, slips and notebooks, agrotype experiment data, including results of research undertaken at Bicton, Cambridge, Newcastle, Hurley and Aberdeen, and at Welsh county trials, [1919]-1969.