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Material relating to campaigning work of the Wales Anti-Apartheid Movement (WAAM), covering a wide range of areas targeted at a national level including sports, consumer goods, cultural figures and events, UK trade with South Africa, the release of political prisoners and an end to military and nuclear collaboration. There is also material relating to regional and local campaigns and events in which WAAM took part.

The group comprises research notes and source materials, [post-1786]-1995, kennel and stud books, 1846-1961, newspaper and magazine articles, 1816-1993, pamphlets and circulars, 1901-1997, accumulated by Hubbard as an author and editor of canine literature. Additional material includes obituaries and tributes to Doggie Hubbard, 2000 and 2003.

The section consists of the administrative and financial records of the branch, 1976-1995.

Deeds And Documents relating to properties acquired by the Marquis of Bute by exchanges. Although kept by the estate solicitors as a separate class of 'Cardiff deeds (exchanges)' in Bute tin box number 35, and relating mainly to the Cardiff area, they also contain deeds for p's Ystradyfodwg and Pen-tyrch and other places. A small number of deeds relating to exchanges have been added to this class.

The Cardiff District was formed out of the Glamorgan Estate in 1842, 'of that part of the Marquis of Bute's Estate that is situated in Cardiff and its immediate vicinity comprehending the Town of Cardiff the Docks and accommodation Lands extending easterly to the confines of Adams Down Farm on the road leading from the Bristol Channel along the Cardiff Moors to near the County Gaol and from thence to the East Toll Gate on the Turnpike Road leading to Newport and from thence along the Road leading to the Race Course to Crws y bychan Toll Bar to the Road over the Railway Bridge at the Top of Cathays Park and along the Boundary of the Blackweir and Park Farm to the Taff River following its course from thence to the Channel' (R 5/1, cover). In 1842 Cardiff was made a separate district. The arrears of 1841 and the previous years were however charged to the 'Cardiff District and are contained in the following pages' (R 4/1, p.3). From 1876/77, most of the remaining Cardiff properties and all of the Roath properties in the Glamorgan Estate were transferred to the Cardiff District which, as Cardiff, has rentals coming down to 1895. Many of the draft Cardiff District rentals (series R 5) contain an index to streets which was not fair-copied into these rentals, except in 1894 and 1895 (R 4/43 and 44). R 4/12-26 contain lists of 'Public House License Money', listing Bute's licensed Cardiff premises and their tenants.

The main body of records of the North Cardiganshire Presbytery, detailed in a seperate schedule (c.1940), were withdrawn by the Presbytery's solicitor in 1993.

Deeds and other documents found with the Gogerddan estate records, relating to two other prominent Cardiganshire estates., Peterwell and Nanteos. The bulk of this section is concerned with the proposed purchase by Edward Loveden Loveden oof the Peterwell estate ultimately confined to the acquisition of a single crown property and the profits issuing from the lordship of Iscoed Gwynionydd, 1607, 1748-1811. There is also a small number of papers in this section which relate to Nanteos, 1695, 1808-1812.

See also NLW, CMA: Cofysgrifau Capel Ffosyffin, Cofysgrifau Capel Bwlchgwynt, Tregaron, Cofysgrifau Capel Hermon, Trichrug.

The section consists of the administrative and financial records of the branch, 1978-1990.