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Miscellaneous material relating to Siân Phillips' period of study at Pontardawe Grammar School, including photocopied photograph of staff and prefects, 1950-1951, with names written on dorse; photocopied photograph of the cast of Tobias and the Angel, performed by the school 1951-2 (Siân (then Jane) Phillips, as the angel, seated in front row); manuscript list of school staff, c. 1949-1950; pieces written by Siân (then Jane) Phillips, the one titled 'Dramatic Society', the other 'A Visit to France' (both photocopied); and Siân (then Jane) Phillips' school reports, 1943, 1948, 1949. Together with printed copies of School Certificate examination papers, dated July 1934, and photocopied photograph of school staff, 1938, both of which would have predated Siân Phillips' period of attendance.

Printed Philosophy examination paper, 1954, of University College Cardiff, where Siân Phillips read English and Philosophy. Annotated in Siân Phillips' hand.

Material relating to stage, screen, radio, sound recordings and audiobook productions, as well as an art exhibition, in which Siân Phillips participated.

Material relating to the numerous stage productions in which Siân Phillips has appeared throughout her career, beginning with the school, chapel and Urdd events of her childhood, through her acting rôles while studying at Cardiff University and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and continuing for the duration of her professional life. Some of the productions co-star Siân Phillips' second husband Peter O'Toole, or her third husband, Robin Sachs. The material includes Siân Phillips' guest appearances at public events. A substantial number of the items are annotated by Siân Phillips and/or by friends and colleagues.

Material, including press articles and reviews, original texts, scripts and theatrical programmes, relating to stage productions in which Siân Phillips appeared during the 1980s. The items comprise: Crime and Punishment (1980); Pal Joey (1980); Dear Liar (1982); Major Barbara (1982); A Night of 100 Stars (1984); Love Affair (1984); Peg (1984); Gigi (1985); Thursday's Ladies (1987); Brel (1987); Paris Match (1989); The Glass Menagerie (1989).

Material, including press articles and reviews, original texts, scripts and theatrical programmes, relating to stage productions in which Siân Phillips appeared during the 1990s. The items comprise: Vanilla (1990); The Manchurian Candidate (1991); Painting Churches (1992); Ghosts (1993); The Lion in Winter (1994); In Bed With Magritte (1994-5); An Inspector Calls (1995); Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards (1995); A Little Night Music (1996); And No Birds Sing (1996); Marlene (1996-9); Froggy Style (1998).

Various props relating to rôles played by Siân Phillips, including a suffragette sash bearing the legend 'Votes for Women'; a fan; two pairs of shoes; a notebook; and a pair of pince-nez spectacles. The notebook is inscribed in Siân Phillips' hand: '2013-2014 My Prop Lady Bracknell Act I' (stage production of The Importance of Being Earnest (2015), notes inside the shoes in Siân Phillips' hand state that they were worn by her in her rôle of Juliet in the stage production Juliet and her Romeo (2010) and the sash most probably relates to Siân Phillips rôle as Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst in the television mini-series Shoulder to Shoulder (1974), while the remaining items are less obviously placed, having no identifying factors.

Material relating to school, university and professional qualifications, awards and honours awarded to Siân Phillips.

Material relating to Siân Phillips winning the Bancroft Gold Medal award while a student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, which she attended from 1955 to 1957, including a congratulatory note from Kenneth Barnes, one-time Principal of RADA; certificate awarded to Siân Phillips on her achievement of the William Poel Memorial Prize, 18 March 1957.

Press cutting announcing Siân Phillips' admission to RADA via scholarship in September 1955.

Honours Diploma certificate awarded to Siân Phillips on leaving RADA in December 1957.

Certificates awarded to Siân Phillips in recognition of her achievements in film and television, comprising: National Society of Film Critics Award 1969 for best supporting actress (Goodbye, Mr Chips) (nominated 1969, won 1970); Filmdom's Famous Fives Award 1969 (Goodbye, Mr Chips) (envelope); BAFTA Award 1976 for best actress (I, Claudius and How Green Was My Valley) (won); Royal Television Society Performance Award 1977 (I, Claudius) (won); BAFTA Cymru Film & Television Awards 1991, 1992 & 2001 for best actress and for best contribution to light entertainment (1991 nominated; 1992 nominated; 2001 won); Chivers Audio Books award for excellence 1992 (Swan Sister by Annie Dalton).

Certificate (two copies), printed invitation, order of proceedings, correspondence and associated material relating to Siân Phillips' award of an Honorary D. Litt. by the University of Wales in July 1984.

Certificates awarding Siân Phillips the Honorary Fellowship of the Polytechnic of Wales (1988); the Fellowship of the Welsh College of Music & Drama (1991), together with invitation, 1991, to become a member of the college's Board of Governors; the Honorary Fellowship of the University of Wales Swansea (1998); and the Honorary Fellowship of Trinity College Carmarthen (1998).

Award certificate of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), conferred upon Siân Phillips on 31 December 2015. 'DBE Certificate' written on front of envelope in Siân Phillips' hand.

Guidelines and protocol procedures relating to the honours investiture held at Buckingham Palace on 6 May 2016, at which Siân Phillips was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). One page in booklet titled 'Investiture at Buckingham Palace' annotated by Siân Phillips.

Booklet and accompanying material relating to the Order of the British Empire's Service of Dedication at St Paul's Cathedral, 24 May 2017. Press cutting annotated by Siân Phillips.

Press articles relating to the private and professional lives of Siân Phillips, her second husband Peter O'Toole, their daughters Kate O'Toole and Pat O'Toole and to Siân Phillips' third husband Robin Sachs, the contents ranging from Siân Phillips' earliest school successes to her latter-day career. Some items annotated by Siân Phillips. Together with miscellaneous press articles not directly related to Siân Phillips or her family but some of which reference leading figures in the theatrical world, Welsh current affairs or notable Welsh figures.

Diaries, 2020 - 2021, and calendar, 2021, of Siân Phillips, the contents largely relating to Siân Phillips' personal, domestic and family affairs and to her professional life.

Three notebooks used as diaries by Siân Phillips. One volume is titled 'Mexico' (where the film Dune (1984), in which Siân Phillips played Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, was filmed), another titled 'People' (possibly a reference to a 2013 stage production of that title - see Stage productions: 2010s & 2020s), both in Siân Phillips' hand. One volume cover references the musical Pal Joey, in which Siân Phillips starred in its 1980 production (for which see Stage productions: 1980s). Two pages of one volume are annotated in a child's hand. As far as can be discerned, the only date noted is 2013.

Letters and postcard, 1969, 1977, 1978 and 1983 (postmark), to Siân Phillips' second husband Peter O'Toole. The material comprises: telegram [incomplete] (?possibly from director Herbert Ross) to Peter O'Toole relating to the successful preview of the film Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), in which O'Toole played the title rôle; letter from Robert Powell, headmaster of Sherborne School, Sherborne, Dorset during the filming there of Goodbye Mr Chips; letter from novelist Alun Richards; letter from US film producer Jules Buck; letter from a correspondent signing herself 'M. [treble clef] O.' (most likely a Mexican woman named Anna, who became O'Toole's mistress and was renamed by him 'Malinche'); postcard from a woman named 'Kate', possibly another mistress of O'Toole's; and letter from Siân Phillips' mother Sally Phillips. The letters signed 'M. [treble clef] O.' and 'Kate' are annotated by Siân Phillips.

Undated note from Peter O'Toole to 'John', most likely actor and theatre director John Gielgud, with whom O'Toole starred in the 1979 film adaptation of Gore Vidal's original screenplay 'Caligula', the media response to which is referenced in O'Toole's note.

Postcard, 1977, from Peter O'Toole to his younger daughter, Pat (Patricia) O'Toole.

Letters and cards sent to Siân Phillips on her separation from her third husband Robin Sachs in 1991 from family, friends and colleagues, including her cousin Gethin Lewis and actor friends Ken Parry, Patricia Lawrence, Eileen Atkins, Marion Rosenberg, Martin Smith, Robert Styles, Brian Rawlinson, Richenda Carey and Annette Bening. An envelope in which the correspondence was originally kept is annotated by Siân Phillips with a comment on her separation from Sachs.

Letters and gift tag, all undated (day and month only noted), to Siân Phillips and to Siân Phillips and Peter O'Toole from Sally Phillips, mother of Siân Phillips, mostly discussing family matters. One letter and the gift tag are annotated, respectively, 'From my Mother' and 'My mother' in Siân Phillips' hand.

Undated letters to Siân Phillips from Patricia Coombs (née O'Toole), sister of Siân Phillips' second husband Peter O'Toole. One letter congratulates Siân Phillips on the birth of her first daughter, Kate O'Toole, born in 1960; another (fax transmission) congratulates Siân Phillips on being awarded the CBE in 2000. One letter annotated in Siân Phillips' hand.