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Gwilym Prys-Davies Papers
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Political and general papers

General correspondence and political papers including material related to the Welsh Hospitals Board, the Welsh language, Welsh language legislation, devolution, the Labour Party, elections and broadcasting.

Letters and political papers 1949-1974

Letters and political papers including correspondence with Goronwy Roberts MP, press releases, speeches and documents on subjects including devolution, the Welsh Hospitals Board, the Welsh language, education, Adfer, the Welsh Language Act 1967, copy of a report about the security risks of the investiture of Prince Charles in 1969, a memorandum on the political situation in Wales in 1967, employment, papers of a working group on local government reorganisation in 1962, Welsh language in NHS services and NHS reorganisation.

Letters and political papers 1974-1979

Letters and political papers including correspondence, press releases, speeches and documents on subjects including devolution, domestic violence, the Welsh language, the NHS and rural devleopment.

Letters and political papers 1980-1993

Letters and political papers including correspondence, press releases, speeches and documents on subjects including the Welsh Language Act 1993, broadcasting, the Wales Rural Forum and Northern Ireland.

Letters and political papers 1994-2000

Letters and political papers including correspondence with the civil rights movement Cefn, press releases, speeches and documents on subjects including employment tribunals, devolution, the law, the history of the labour movement and language rights.

Letters and political papers 2000-2008

Letters and political papers including correspondence, press releases, speeches and documents on subjects including devolution, Welsh civic society, civil rights movement Cefn, the Labour Party, the Welsh language, the use of Welsh in courts and the Richard Commission.

Subject files

Contains material arranged by subject relating to devolution, Welsh language legislation, the Labour Movement, the Welsh Republican Movement and Gwilym Prys-Davies's funeral.

Miscellaneous items

Includes newspaper cuttings related to Welsh issues, notes on election results between 1951 and 1955, various lists etc.

Gwilym Prys-Davies's Funeral

File contains material relating to Gwilym Prys-Davies's funeral held on April 8th 2017 at the Church of Saints Mary and Egryn, Llanegryn, including an order of service, a booklet of photographs and printed copies of the eulogies.

Lecture on the oil industry

Typescript and notes for a lecture delivered by Gwilym Prys-Davies to the Philosophy Department of the University of Wales Guild of Graduates at the University College of Wales, Swansea in 1960.

Certificates relating to William Abraham

Share certificates in the name of William Abraham for a number of companies; The North Wales Quarries Ltd., Housing Reform Company Ltd., The London and Provincial Bank, the Automatic Free Directory Company of America and The Rhondda Leader Ltd. along with cheques and other paperwork related to companies.

Private Members Welsh Language Bill

Papers relating to efforts to pass a Welsh Language Act between 1982 and 1985 including conferences, correspondence, papers of the steering committee along with drafts of the legislation.

Welsh Language Act, 1993

Letter received by Gwilym Prys-Davies regarding an amendment to the Welsh Language Act 1993, which would have officially recognised Welsh as an official language. The letters are from a range of individuals and organisations both within and outside Wales.

Gwilym Prys-Davies Papers

  • GB 0210 GPDAVS
  • Fonds
  • 1901-2017

Comprises Gwilym Prys-Davies' political papers, 1954-2008, including letters, articles, minutes and reports, as well as subject files, 1912-2012, and letters between Harri Webb and John Legona and some papers relating to William Abraham (Mabon). The papers relate mainly to devolution, Welsh language legislation, language rights and contain files relating to the Welsh Republican Movement and civil rights group Cefn.
Papers relating to the funeral of Gwilym Prys Davies, 8 April 2017, comprising the order of service, tributes and a booklet containing family photographs; April 2017.
Five letters, 2005-2006, from Gwilym Prys Davies to Prys Davies and Meri Huws of the Welsh Language Board, together with three attached documents; September 2018.

Prys-Davies, Gwilym Prys Davies, Baron, 1923-2017