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A bilingual report prepared by the Welsh Office, 1995, analysing the results of the 1992 Welsh Social Survey, undertaken to assess the ability of people to speak Welsh and the extent to which the language was used.

Papers, 1889-1988, of Ben G. Jones, including academic notes, 1932-1935; personal letters, 1942-1968; political papers, 1935-1985; correspondence relating to politics in Merionethshire, 1963-1967; press cuttings, 1958-1963, printed material relating to the four main political parties in Wales, 1949-1966; papers relating to the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1939-1988; minute book, 1889-1909, of the London Welsh Mutual Improvement Societies' Union; papers deriving from the compilation and publication of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography, 1953-1986; papers relating to his public life, 1968-1984, including the Kilbrandon Commission, 1936-1969, the BBC, 1968-1978, UCW Aberystwyth, 1968-1985, and the Agricultural Land Tribunal, 1980-1984; minute book, 1889-1909, of the London Welsh Mutual Improvement Societies' Union; and papers relating to the status of the Welsh language and to teaching and broadcasting through the medium of Welsh, 1965-1987.

Research and personal papers of Dafydd Jenkins, comprising correspondence, drafts and other papers relating to his articles and books, [1937]-1997; correspondence, 1935-1989, on subjects including legal and academic matters, 1972-1991, evening classes given by DJ on agricultural subjects, 1944-1957, the New Welsh Language Act Campaign, 1983-1987, broadcasting, 1950-1963, and publishing, 1942-1989; papers concerning the Welsh language, 1972-1992; papers, 1938-1939, relating to the Welsh Language Petition, including circulars and newsletters; papers relating to British Legal History Conferences, 1971-1995, and International Congresses of Celtic Studies, 1967-1975; correspondence, minutes and other papers relating to organisations including Plaid Cymru, the National Eisteddfod, Undeb Cymru Fydd, the Sociological Group of the Church in Wales and the Milk and Dairies Tribunal for Wales, 1947-1979; ecumenical papers relating to Siloh Calvinist Methodist Chapel, Aberystwyth, 1958-1970; miscellaneous papers relating to various associations, societies, and organizations, 1969-1996; printed material relating to Plaid Cymru and Denmark, 1938-1970.

Mainly the typescript texts of lectures and talks given by Sir Goronwy Daniel, 1969-1993, to the inter-collegiate eisteddfod 1969; the Urdd National Eisteddfod, 1969; 'General Lectures for First-Year Students' at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1969; 'Living in Wales' (the Principal's Annual Address to first year students at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth); the opening of the industrial exhibition at the Ammanford National Eisteddfod, 1970; a talk on 'Welsh Nationalism' at Chester, March 1970; an address to the Congress of Celtic Youth, November 1970; 'Addysg Uwch drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg', 3 July 1971, subsequently published in Yr Athro, September 1971; 'Welsh Nursery Schools: an important movement' to the St Davids Day dinner of the Haverfordwest Cymmrodorion Society, 4 March 1974, etc. The file also includes similar material prepared by Dr Douglas Bassett, 1987-1989.

Printed items, typescripts, press cuttings, and some letters, 1963-1994, on the Welsh language. They include material on the 1963 Report of the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire, teaching through the medium of the Welsh language in the University of Wales, parliamentary debates on the status of the Welsh language, broadcasting, bilingual road signs, the use of the Welsh language in the law courts, the Welsh language and the education system, the 1971 Census, publishing in the Welsh language, and Welsh language television.

Papers relating to Richard Rees ('Maldwyn', 1851-1927), of Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, and Edward Walter Rees, ('Gwallter Dyfi', 1881-1940), of Carmarthen, including correspondence, 1874-1940; printed materials, 1866-1937; papers relating to the National Eisteddfod and the Gorsedd of Bards, 1909-1939; papers relating to the National Petition on the Legal Status of the Welsh Language, 1938-1939; papers relating to Maengwyn Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Machynlleth, 1875-1920; and various papers relating to manifold aspects of Machynlleth life.