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Annual Conferences of Labour Party Wales (Women)

  • Y1
  • Series
  • 1983-1994

The series consists of files of material, including agenda, preliminary agenda, memoranda, resolutions and reports, relating to the holding of the Annual Conferences of the Labour Women Wales and to the array of matters discussed at the conferences. The documents discuss a wide range of issues including child care, defence, education, local government, the National Health Service, poverty and privatisation. Some refer to the organisation of women's groups within the Labour Party.

Letters to Eirene White

The file comprises letters reflecting the wide range of functions and events which Lady White attended and the large number of committees and public bodies with which she was associated. There are particularly interesting and revealing letters relating to the problems which faced the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, University College, Cardiff, and Coleg Harlech. Several of the correspondents write appreciatively in response to a documentary programme entitled The Baroness broadcast on BBC2 television during June 1988. The correspondents include Eric, Lord Ashby, 1988, James Callaghan, 1988, Gwilym, Lord Prys-Davies, 1988, Cledwyn Hughes, Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos, 1988, Barry Jones MP, 1988, Principal Robert Steel, 1988, and David, Lord Gibson Watt, 1988.

Ashby, Eric, 1904-1992

Gohebiaeth gyffredinol/General correspondence

Llythyrau cyffredinol, 1939-2002, wedi eu cyfeirio at Gwynfor Evans. Mae'r ohebiaeth ar ei hyd yn trafod datblygiad ac ymgyrchoedd Plaid Cymru. Ceir nifer fawr o lythyrau yn trefnu cyfarfodydd cyhoeddus, datblygiad polisi a'r trefniadau ar gyfer etholiadau. Mae nifer sylweddol o wahoddiadau at Gwynfor Evans i annerch cyfarfodydd mewn canghennau'r Blaid ac achlysuron cyhoeddus eraill ledled Cymru, ac mae amryw yn ymdrin â llunio, paratoi, cyhoeddi a dosbarthu'r Ddraig Goch a'r Welsh Nation bob mis. Ceir hefyd nifer o lythyrau'n ymwneud â gweithgarwch a dyletswyddau Gwynfor Evans fel henadur ar Gyngor Sir Gaerfyrddin. Mae materion llywodraeth leol ac addysg yn arbennig o flaenllaw ymhlith y pynciau a drafodir yn yr ohebiaeth. -- Mae nifer o lythyrau hefyd yn adlewyrchu diddordebau llenyddol a diwylliannol eang Gwynfor Evans, gan gynnwys ei gefnogaeth gyson i'r Eisteddfod Genedlaethol ac Urdd Gobaith Cymru. Ceir amryw o geisiadau i ysgrifennu erthyglau a chyfrannu at raglenni radio a theledu ac eraill yn ymateb i gyfrolau, pamffledi ac erthyglau a luniwyd gan Mr Evans. Mae'r llawer o'r ohebiaeth gynnar yn cyfeirio at fudiadau fel Heddychwyr Cymru, ymrwymiadau Gwynfor Evans i bregethu mewn capeli a chyhoeddi taflenni ac erthyglau. -- Mae'r llythyrau yn cynnwys llawer iawn o dystiolaeth am ddatblygiad ac ymgyrchoedd Mudiad Senedd i Gymru rhwng 1950 a 1956, ymgyrch Tryweryn ac is-etholiad Sir Gaerfyrddin, Gorffennaf 1966. Yn ystod y cyfnodau pan fu Gwynfor Evans yn cynrychioli Sir Gaerfyrddin yn y Senedd - 1966 tan 1970, a Hydref 1974 tan 1979 - mae'r ohebiaeth wrth reswm llawer iawn llawnach ac yn fwy cyfoethog. Mae'n cynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth nifer fawr o wleidyddion blaenllaw yn y pleidiau gwleidyddol eraill yn ogystal â ffigyrau Cymraeg yn y byd gwleidyddol. Ceir cyfeiriadau at ddigwyddiadau a datblygiadau yn San Steffan, mesurau a deddfau. -- -- Mae rhai o'r ffeiliau mwy diweddar hefyd yn cynnwys copïau o atebion Gwynfor Evans. -- General letters, 1939-2002, addressed to Gwynfor Evans. Throughout the series the correspondence discusses the development of Plaid Cymru and the varied campaigns in which the party was engaged. Many of the letters discuss the arrangements for public meetings, the formulation of party policy and election preparations. There are a large number of invitations to Gwynfor Evans to address meetings of Plaid Cymru branches and other public events throughout Wales, and a substantial number relate to the drafting, preparation, publication and distribution of Y Ddraig Goch and the Welsh Nation each month. Some of the letters concern Mr Evans's activities and duties as an alderman of Carmarthenshire County Council. Among the many subjects discussed in the letters, local government matters and education are especially prominent. -- Many letters reflect Gwynfor Evans's wide-ranging literary and cultural interests, including his constant support for the National Eisteddfod and Urdd Gobaith Cymru. There are many requests to write press columns and articles and contribute to radio and television programmes, and some responses to books, pamphlets and articles written by him. -- Much of the early correspondence refers to movements like Heddychwyr Cymru (the Welsh Pacifist movement), Gwynfor Evans's commitments to undertake preaching engagements in various chapels and the publication of pamphlets and articles. -- The letters include a great deal of evidence about the development and the campaigns of the Parliament for Wales movement between 1950 and 1956, the Tryweryn campaign and the Carmarthenshire by-election of July 1966. During the periods when Gwynfor Evans represented Carmarthenshire in parliament - 1966 until 1970, and October 1974 until 1979 - the correspondence is, as might be expected, much fuller and richer. It includes letters from a large number of prominent politicians in the other political parties as well as from Welsh political figures. They refer to events and developments at Westminster, and bills and acts of parliament. -- Some of the more recent files also contain copies of letters sent by Gwynfor Evans.

O. M. Edwards: letterbook

The file consists of a letterbook bearing copies of 21 letters written by O. M. Edwards during October 1889. All the letters are addressed to persons outside the family. They are stray, unconnected letters, but many relate to educational matters.

Education

The section consists of papers, 1928-1997, relating to educational life, mainly higher and university education, the University of Wales, the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, and Coleg Harlech.

Letters to Thomas Jones

The file consists of miscellaneous, unrelated letters, 1908-1955, addressed to Dr Thomas Jones on a very wide range of subjects and issues. Many discuss political, public and educational life in Britain. Several discuss the world of publishing. The file includes letters from Clement Attlee, 1950, Lord (David) Davies, Llandinam, 1920, Huw T. Edwards, undated, H. J. Fleure, 1955, James Griffiths, 1955, D. Dilwyn John, 1955, Major Edgar Jones, 1951, Professor Lily Newton, 1955, Sir Thomas Parry, 1955, Lord Sankey, 1934, A. J. Sylvester, 1955, Sir Ben Bowen Thomas, 1939, David Thomas, Bangor, 1955, Gildas Tibbott, 1955, Sir Wyn Wheldon (3), 1955, and Sir Alfred Zimmern, 1926.

Attlee, C. R. (Clement Richard), 1883-1967

Education Working Group

The file contains miscellaneous papers, 1987-1988, relating to the proceedings of the Education Working Group of the Labour Party Wales, including the text of the Education Reform Bill, 1987, and related printed items.

Letters to Eirene White

The file comprises letters again reflecting Lady White's many activities and interests. There are many letters on educational matters, notably concerning the new University of Wales, Cardiff, formed by the merger of two university colleges. The correspondents include Lord Heycock.

Heycock, Llewellyn, 1905-1990

General letters to O. M. Edwards

The series comprises letters, 1880-1920, addressed to O. M. Edwards, from his first arrival at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, until the time of his death. Many of the letters are from prominent Welsh public figures. The early letters relate to Edwards's career as a student at the UCW, Aberystwyth, the University of Glasgow and Balliol College, Oxford. Some concern his preaching engagements, his plans and ambitions, while others give local news from the Llanuwchllyn area. Following his appointment as Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1889, many of the letters concern his academic work and university responsibilities, and there are numerous requests for references and testimonials from students and former students. Some correspondents write in relation to educational matters in Wales, notably the passage and operation of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act, 1889, and the affairs of the University of Wales. -- From the 1890s onwards many letters concern O. M. Edwards's editing of Cymru and Cymru'r Plant, and later Wales, Heddyw and Y Llenor. Intermingled with these letters are some which refer to personal events in Edwards's life: his marriage in 1891, the death of his father in 1895, and the death of the eldest son Owen ab Owen in 1897. In 1899 many letters concern the death of Thomas Edward Ellis MP, the selection of Edwards as his successor as Liberal MP for Merionethshire, and his brief sojourn in the House of Commons until July 1900. -- Throughout these years the letters abound with references to educational matters, notably within the Universities of Wales and Oxford. Others relate to Welsh literary and cultural matters, the publication of Cyfres y Fil and the organization of Urdd y Delyn. A few letters concern Edwards's researches, writings and academic publications. -- From 1907 onwards many of the letters relate to O. M. Edwards's duties as Chief Inspector of Schools in Wales. Throughout the remaining years there are numerous communications from Edwards's former students at Oxford, invitations to deliver lectures and attend various functions and events, and letters relating to the editing of journals, notably Cymru and Cymru'r Plant. Others concern literary, cultural and publishing matters, and many relate to educational themes. These are interspersed with congratulatory messages on receipt of the Medal of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in 1915 and a knighthood in January 1916. Many of the letters from the final years refer to O. M. Edwards's personal, health and family problems.

Urdd y Delyn

Home Policy Committee

The file is made up of typescript reports and memoranda on various aspects of the domestic policies of the Labour Party, among them leisure, the nationalised industries, the arts, house purchase and municipation, education, non-manual workers and public service pensions.

Labour Party (Great Britain)

Letters from Thomas Jones

The file contains miscellaneous, unrelated letters, 1921-1955, from Thomas Jones to a wide range of recipients. Many discuss political and educational life.