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Awards achieved by Siân Phillips (then known by her birth name of Jane Phillips) during her time at Pontardawe Grammar School, largely comprising certificates denoting successes in Urdd Eisteddfod competitions and in school examinations.

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.

Undated letter (photocopy) from Siân Phillips while at University College Cardiff, where she read English and Philosophy, to her school and university friend Audrey Watkins.

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.

Awards achieved by Siân Phillips while a student at University College Cardiff, where she read English and Philosophy, comprising: Welsh Students Eisteddfod (Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Myfyrwyr Cymru) Award for recitation (1951); Bachelor of Arts award from University College Cardiff (1954), which is inscribed with Siân Phillips' birth name of Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips.

Miscellaneous material relating to Siân Phillips' period of study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, including qualifiying passages; prospectus; student timetable; notes on vocal and postural exercises; annotated scripts; progress reports; list of candidates in a Shakespeare speaking test, autographed by participating students; notice of student productions at the Vanbrugh Theatre; items in Siân Phillips' hand; printed items annotated by Siân Phillips. Some items torn and consequently somewhat fragile.

Two items have been subsequently added to this collection in August 2023: Photocopied record of stage rôles played during 1956-7 by Sian Phillips whilst studying at RADA; together with a printed programme of a RADA production of Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler, staged at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, 3 December 1957, in which Siân Phillips took the leading rôle.

Miscellaneous material (other than awards and honours) relating to Siân Phillips' education and training through school, university and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

First-place certificates awarded to Siân Phillips by the English Festival of Spoken Poetry, at which she would have competed while a student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London (see Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) awards and honours).

Letters and card to Siân Phillips from friends, colleagues and acquaintances, the contents largely relating to Siân Phillips' burgeoning stage career. Correspondents include a presumed member of the teaching staff at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) who writes regarding a conflict between Siân Phillips' professional and personal life (incomplete and undated letter, [1957]); and Welsh writer, dramatist and actor Emlyn Williams.

Printed invitation to Siân Phillips' second husband Peter O'Toole to attend her induction into the Gorsedd of Bards, 6 August 1959; together with press articles relating to Siân Phillips' induction into the Gorsedd.

Material, including press articles and reviews, original texts, scripts and theatrical programmes, relating to early stage appearances by Siân Phillips dating from her time at school, university and at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). The items comprise: Dyfnant Sunday School performance (1936); Mair a'r Wyau [1938x1944]; Urdd Girls' Concert (1947); Upper Cwmtwrch Christmas Concert (1948); Randibŵ (1949); Les Derniers Outrages [1950s]; The Pirate [1950s]; The Three Daughters of M. Dupont [1950s]; Tobias and the Angel (1951-2); Othello (1952); Doctor Er Ei Waethaf (1952); Ewyrth Ifan (1954); Gymerwch Chi Sigarét? (1955-6); Les Justes (1956); The Silver Curlew (1956); Magda (1957); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1957); Hedda Gabler (1957); A Thanksgiving for William Shakespeare, Southwark Cathedral (1958); The Three Sisters (1958); St Joan (1958); The Holiday (1958); The King's Daughter (1959).

Material, including press articles and reviews, original texts, scripts and theatrical programmes, relating to stage productions in which Siân Phillips appeared during the 1960s. The items comprise: The Taming of the Shrew (1960); The Duchess of Malfi (1960); Ondine (1961); The Lizard on the Rock (1962); Les Maxibules (1964); Ride A Cock Horse (1965); Come And Go (1965); Man and Superman (1966); The Man of Destiny (1966); The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1967); The Burglar (1967); The Cardinal of Spain (1969).

Letters, cards and telegrams to Siân Phillips and to Siân Phillips and her second husband Peter O'Toole from friends, colleagues and acquaintances, the contents largely relating to Siân Phillips' stage and screen career. Correspondents include novelist Alun Richards (six letters); academic, novelist, sculptor, poet and Anglican priest Moelwyn Merchant (one letter) (annotation by Siân Phillips at head of letter: 'Moelwyn 'coached' Peter [O'Toole] for [the rôle of] Shylock [in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, staged 1960]'); American playwright and screenwriter Tennessee Williams (one letter); actress Patricia Lawrence and her husband, writer and arts administrator Greville Poke (one letter); Australian-born stage and screen actress Marie Löhr (one letter); Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) principal John Fernald (one letter); and theatre director Philip Wiseman (one letter). Some letters annotated in Siân Phillips' hand.

Diaries, 1964, 1966-1969, of Siân Phillips, the contents largely relating to Siân Phillips' personal, domestic and family affairs and to her professional life. One diary has the initials 'P.O'T.' embossed at lower right-hand corner of cover (relating to Siân Phillips' second husband Peter O'Toole, although there is no evidence of his hand within any of the volumes). One or two inserts, including two small linen sheets.

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.

Miscellaneous items relating to Siân Phillips' second husband, stage and screen actor Peter O'Toole, comprising photograph of O'Toole as a boy playing the bagpipes (annotated on dorse in Siân Phillips' hand: 'O'Toole'); watercolour drawing of Peter O'Toole in the rôle of Shylock (The Merchant of Venice, 1960); printed copy of Loughborough National Union of Students' Drama Festival programme 1962-1963, at which Peter O'Toole gave a talk entitled 'The Hazards of Acting'; printed theatre programme for a 1963 production of Bertolt Brecht's 1923 play Baal, in which Peter O'Toole played the title character; printed theatre programme for a 1969 production of Samuel Beckett's 1952 play Waiting for Godot, in which Peter O'Toole played Vladimir; bound first draft screenplay of Peter Shaffer's 1962 play The Public Eye, inscribed on cover 'P O'T[oole]'; material, which contains some annotation by Peter O'Toole, relating to Man of La Mancha, a 1972 musical film adaptation by Dale Wasserman of Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote, in which Peter O'Toole played the title character; agreements made between H. M. Tennant of the Globe Theatre, London and Alexander Film Productions Ltd whereby Siân Phillips became the investor in a 1976 play by Peter King titled Dead Eyed Dicks (1976), together with summary of accounts relating to the same play (1976 agreement annotated in Siân Phillips' hand to the effect that O'Toole 'forced' her to invest in what she calls 'this awful play'); 1977 agreement annotated in Siân Phillips' hand: 'Invested £2,500.00 against Sara's [Randall, Siân's theatrical agent] wishes Never saw a penny'); photocopied bill from the Hotel Danieli, Venice, dated 26 September 1977, made out to 'Peter O'Toole Keep Films Ltd' and signed by O'Toole (annotated in Siân Phillips' hand: 'our favourite hotel'); photocopied list in Peter O'Toole's hand headed 'P. O'T DAILY LIFE NEEDS' and dated 10 April 1979 (annotated in Siân Phillips' hand 'He wrote this out for someone!'); and undated notes in Peter O'Toole's hand written on headed paper printed with 'Siân Phillips', one folio also including Siân Phillips' hand.

Letters, cards and telegrams to Siân Phillips (together with some to both Siân Phillips and her second husband Peter O'Toole and to Siân Phillips and her third husband Robin Sachs) from friends, colleagues and acquaintances, the contents largely relating to Siân Phillips' stage and screen career. Correspondents include the novelist Alun Richards (six letters); US-born Venetian cook, author and theatre afficionado Herbert F. (Buzz) Bruning, Jr and his then wife Leslie (six letters); playwright and screenwriter Robert Bolt (three letters); poet Laurence Cotterell (three letters); actor and screenwriter Brian Rawlinson (two letters); US screenwriter and author George Baxt (two letters); playwright, screenwriter and actor John Osborne (one telegram) and his fourth wife, actress Jill Bennett (one telegram); actor Peter Cushing (one letter); actress Dame Edith Evans (one letter); and author David Cornwell (John le Carré) (one letter). Some items annotated in Siân Phillips' hand. Of interest is an introductory letter, 1972, from Sara Randall, then of BKM (Personal Agency) Ltd, who, according to Siân Philips' own annotation at the top of the letter, was to serve as her agent for a total of twenty-six years (for Sara Randall/Saraband Associates, see also under Stage productions).

Material, including press articles and reviews, original texts, scripts and theatrical programmes, relating to stage productions in which Siân Phillips appeared during the 1970s. The items comprise: Lady Windermere's Fan (1972); Epitaph for George Dillon (1972); Alpha Beta (1973); A Nightingale in Bloomsbury Square (1974); The Gay Lord Quex (1975); Spine Chiller (1977-8); Gloriana (1978); The Inconstant Couple (1978); A Woman of No Importance (1978); You Never Can Tell (1979).

Material, including press articles and reviews, original texts and scripts, relating to film and television productions in which Siân Phillips appeared or was otherwise involved with from the 1940s through to the 1970s. The items comprise: Brethyn Cartre (1948); Special Enquiry (1952); Who's Next? (1958); A Game For Eskimos (1958); Land of Song (1958); Granite (1958); Who's Next? [1958]; Mae'r Oll Yn Gysegredig [1958x1960]; The Garden of Loneliness [1959]; A Quiet Man (1959); The Breaking Point (1959); The Tortoise and the Hare (1959); Treason (1959); Siwan (1960); Don Juán in Hell (1962); The Fanatics (1962); Becket (1964); The Other Man (1964); Levine (1964/5); Eh Joe (1966); Thief (1968); The Beast in the Jungle (1969); Goodbye, Mr Chips (1969); The Vessel of Wrath (1970); Murphy's War (1970-1); Platonov (1971); Croeso'r Castell (1971); Sharing the Honours (1972); Under Milk Wood (1972); The Man Outside (1972); Pillars of Society (1972); How Many Miles To Babylon? (1974); Shoulder To Shoulder (1974); The Puritan Experience: Forsaking England (1975); How Green Was My Valley (1975-6); Antony and Cleopatra (1976); In Memory of Aberfan (1976); I, Claudius (1976); Frieda [1976]; Heartbreak House (1977); The Achurch Letters (1977); Warrior Queen (1978); Mr Kettle and Mrs Moon (1978); Crime and Punishment (1979); Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979).