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The group consists of Communist Party Wales District papers, including papers relating to Congress, 1945-1991, the Welsh executive committee, 1958-1991, and the Wales District, 1916-2002. The group includes publications, 1884-1998, subject files, 1935-2000, and files relating to Party education, 1929-1998, devolution in Wales and Scotland, 1936-1998, industry and industrial disputes, including the miners' strikes, 1892-1998, campaigns for peace, anti-apartheid, peoples march for jobs, and the poll tax, 1919-1995, and elections, 1934-1996.

The file includes letters to Bert Pearce, 1965-1996, mainly from fellow Communists in Wales, including Gwyn Alf Williams, Hywel Francis, Dr Julian Tudor Hart and Idris Cox, with material relating to T. E. Nicholas.

The file comprises papers relating to memorial meetings and funerals of Harry Pollitt, 1960, Len Jefferies, 1979, Dai Francis 1981, Alistair Wilson 1981 (with photographs), George Baker 1982, Dora Cox, 2000, and the retirement of Annie Powell, 1983 and others, with material relating to T. E. Nicholas, 'Niclas y Glais'.

The file includes memorial meeting leaflets, obituaries written by Bert Pearce, and information about members of the Communist Party Wales, 1959-1999, including amongst others, Cliff True, Idris Cox, Dave Priscott, Dr Alistair Wilson, Will Paynter, Dr Frank Jarman, Tommy Hanley, Margaret Hunter, Dai Francis, Jack Howells, Iorwerth Badger Price, Howie Martin, Arthur Lewis Jones, Stella Garrett Jones, Bill Waters, Edgar Evans, Frederick Charles Palmer, Dora Cox, Len Jefferies, Dai Dan Evans, Richard Beamish, T. E. Nicholas, Jack Jones, George Baker, George Strangward, and Jim David.

The file comprises accumulated publications, including a copy of Lenin (V. I. Ulyanov), Ogiz State Publishing House of Political Literature, 1939, and Idris Cox, Y Maniffesto Comiwnyddol, 1948, with various pamphlets relating to the NUM and the South Wales Miners, trade unions, and Communism.