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Reports and printed material relating to the Strike of 1893, and the Mines (Eight Hours) Bill which includes an overview of the Bill, the petitions and deputations of the Mining Association of Great Britain, and evidence given by South Wales colliery owners before the Royal Commission on Labour, and extracts of Commission findings. Also, a volume about the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association, which includes an historical overview of the formation of the Association and presents copies of key documents in the Association's history including deeds, Sliding Scale Committee agreements and details of disputes, documents relating to the General Strikes of 1871, 1873, 1875, 1879 and 1893, and large sections on Royal Commissions and Acts of Parliament relating to the coal industry.

A transcript of The Petition of the Six Counties of South Wales and the County of Monmouth, Presented to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England For a supply of Ministers, in lieu of those that have been Ejected [printed in 1652], together with a part-transcript, part-abstract of A true and perfect Relation of the Whole Transaction concerning The Petition of the six Counties of South Wales ... With the Parliament's Resolves and proceedings thereupon Now humbly Represented to his Highnesse the Lord Protector's consideration [published in 1654].

Papers of the South Wales Women's Temperance Union, including correspondence, 1911-1965; minute books and accounts of meetings, 1931-1957; account books, 1916-1966; printed material, 1948-1957; hymn sheets, 1839-1966; and posters, 1932-1957.

Minutes, accounts and newsletters of the South Wales Sheepdog Trials Association, 1951-1988.

A book of South Wales pedigrees, [c. 1592], written in two distinct hands.
The manuscript also contains the tract known as 'Bonedd Saint Cymru' (f. 48 verso).

Typescript draft by Ernest Lewis Thomas ('Richard Vaughan', 1904-1983) of his first novel, Moulded in Earth (London, 1951), with corrections by the author, being the final draft submitted to the publishers, incorporating a number of changes to the earlier manuscript draft (now NLW MS 14799C).

The file comprises accumulated publications relating to Wales, 1937-1940, and 1959-1998, especially to South Wales, Trade Unions, Socialism, poverty, and including copies of Rebecca and Radical Wales.

A manuscript containing sermons, in Welsh, preached, 1817-1835, by J. Davies, mainly at Baptist chapels in south-west Wales.

Notes by Arlunydd Penygarn on the geology of South Wales; an outline of a proposed work on 'The Literature of Parody'; translations by James Ifano Jones of 'Buchedd Mair Vadlen' and 'Buchedd Martha' as contained in Havod MS. 23.

One of six volumes of memoranda, accounts, and miscellaneous notes and extracts mainly relating to the industrial development of South Wales, compiled between 1806 and 1849 by Thomas Ellis (b. 1781), a patternmaker at Tredegar.

One of six volumes of memoranda, accounts, and miscellaneous notes and extracts mainly relating to the industrial development of South Wales, compiled between 1806 and 1849 by Thomas Ellis (b. 1781), a patternmaker at Tredegar.

One of six volumes of memoranda, accounts, and miscellaneous notes and extracts mainly relating to the industrial development of South Wales, compiled between 1806 and 1849 by Thomas Ellis (b. 1781), a patternmaker at Tredegar.

One of six volumes of memoranda, accounts, and miscellaneous notes and extracts mainly relating to the industrial development of South Wales, compiled between 1806 and 1849 by Thomas Ellis (b. 1781), a patternmaker at Tredegar.

One of six volumes of memoranda, accounts, and miscellaneous notes and extracts mainly relating to the industrial development of South Wales, compiled between 1806 and 1849 by Thomas Ellis (b. 1781), a patternmaker at Tredegar.

One of six volumes of memoranda, accounts, and miscellaneous notes and extracts mainly relating to the industrial development of South Wales, compiled between 1806 and 1849 by Thomas Ellis (b. 1781), a patternmaker at Tredegar.

The cuttings relate mainly to the Merthyr, Aberdare and Cardiff areas. They relate mainly to the industrial and commercial life of south Wales and some to political activities. A few concern Lord Senghennydd himself.

An alphabetical list of men, mainly connected with South Wales, named in the public records, in charters of the abbeys of Neath and Margam and elsewhere, together with lists of some of the monks of Margam and of the ecclesiastical officials of Llandaff.