- P1/85
- File
- 1978-1979
Undeb Cenedlaethol Athrawon Cymru
Undeb Cenedlaethol Athrawon Cymru
Addysg a'r Iaith Gymraeg/Education and the Welsh Language
Report on Welsh Intermediate Schools
Part of O. M. Edwards Papers,
A draft manuscript report prepared by O. M. Edwards on intermediate schools in Wales, discussing the provision of intermediate schools; further education; the inspection of the intermediate schools; the development of the Central Welsh Board; the differentiation of school curricula; the teaching of English, Welsh history and geography; the education of future teachers; and the responsibility for progress.
Part of O. M. Edwards Papers,
This section comprises correspondence, papers and records accumulated by O. M. Edwards as Chief Inspector of Schools in Wales under the new Welsh Department of the Board of Education from 1907. It consists of correspondence files; notebooks recording details of Edwards's visits to Welsh schools; a register of visits, 1909-1910; and two reports on Welsh education, 1892 and 1911, prepared by O. M. Edwards.
Great Britain. Board of Education.
Letters from Sir John Morris-Jones to O. M. Edwards
Part of O. M. Edwards Papers,
The file comprises letters in which Sir John Morris-Jones discusses his career and activities, the contents of Welsh journals and literary matters (notably the contents of the journals edited by O. M. Edwards), his research work and publications. There are also numerous references to the University of Wales and to higher education and to academic matters more generally.
Morris-Jones, John, 1864-1929
Letters from university principals to O. M. Edwards
Part of O. M. Edwards Papers,
The series contains letters with a mixture of personal and professional news. Many of the letters refer to matters relating to the University of Wales and the individual colleges: academic matters, research, appointments and buildings. There are also numerous references to developments in secondary education in Wales and to relations between the schools and the university. Some of the letters arrange meetings with O. M. Edwards. There are a few references to contemporary political life.
O.M. Edwards and D.H. Williams: correspondence
Part of O. M. Edwards Papers,
The file comprises letters discussing educational matters, mainly arising from O.M. Edwards's work as Chief Inspector of Schools in Wales.
O.M. Edwards: letters to his wife Ellen Edwards
Part of O. M. Edwards Papers,
The series comprises personal letters written from Oxford, Cardiff, London and other places discussing his career and professional activities, as well as illuminating the complex relationship, full of tensions and problems, between husband and wife. The letters also refer to many members of the family and to a host of prominent contemporary figures, amongst them Sir Edward Anwyl, Thomas Edward Ellis, Sir John Morris-Jones, Sir John Rhys and Daniel Lleufer Thomas. There are many references to Llanuwchllyn and Penllyn more generally and to O. M. Edwards's wide-ranging services to Wales, including his editorship of a number of journals and his work as Chief Inspector of Schools in Wales after 1907.
Edwards, Elin, Lady, 1868-1919
Part of Labour Party Wales Archives
The file comprises correspondence, 1987, relating to discussion of the consultative document 'The National Curriculum'.
Departmental Committee of Enquiry into the Welsh language: papers and subject files
Part of University of Wales Archive
Agendas and papers for meetings, 1925, and general papers and correspondence, 1922-1927.
Untitled
Appointment of teachers in Wales
Part of University of Wales Archive
Part of Cwrtmawr manuscripts
Miscellaneous papers relating to the Central Welsh Board, Welsh Intermediate Education etc.
Part of Cwrtmawr manuscripts
A scrap-book inferentially compiled by John Lloyd Jones ('Clwydwenfro'; 1835-1919) containing press cuttings and a few manuscript items. Some of the cuttings are dated within the 1850s-1870s and among the more interesting titles are 'Hynodion Cwm Rhondda .... Testyn Cystadleuol Eisteddfod y Porth, Nadolig, 1861'; 'Collegiate and University Education in Wales'; 'Llythyr oddiwrth y Parch. Morris Phillips, Cenhadwr i India'; 'Teyrnged i Goffadwriaeth Ioan Pedr'; 'Beirniadaeth ar Gyfansoddiadau Barddonol Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Aberdar, Awst 1861'; 'Llangollen Great National Eisteddfod' [1858]; 'Y Ffrwydriad yn Abercarn'; 'Sketches of Cardiff Preachers'; etc. The manuscript material comprises a tale entitled 'The Bride of Santa Croce', 19 November 1856, described in an annotation by J. Ll. James as 'the composition of the late John Griffith Davies (son of the Rev. J. Davies ['SiƓn Gymro'], Glandwr, Pembrokeshire) who wrote it and sent it to John Lloyd James, then a student at Carmarthen College, that he might fill up the outline', and verses entitled 'Y Messiah', etc. addressed to John Ll. James, Berllandawel, Llanglwydwen and annotated in the latter's hand 'J. G. Davies, Yetwen, pan yn Narberth', etc. The outer upper cover is inscribed, in the hand of J. H. Davies, 'Articles and poetry from Cyfaill y Werin and other papers'.