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Papers of Keith Raffan, mainly subject files, including files on abortion, 1981-1990; agriculture, 1985-1992; Bagillt floods, 1985-1991; British Rail, 1984-1992; coal, 1982-1992; Clwyd County Council, 1983-1991; community charge, 1983-1989; companies, 1986-1992; Conservative Central Office for Wales, 1983-1992; Courtaulds, 1983-1989; Delyn Borough Council, 1981-1992; drugs, 1984- 1988; education, 1983-1992; Europe, 1982-1990; Flint By-Pass,1987-1992; Hamilton Oil, 1991-1992; health and the National Health Service; 1983-1991; Holywell By-Pass and Inner Relief Road, 1983-1987; Lab-Lib Party Alliance, 1982-1990 (including alternative to the Poll Tax); local associations, 1983-1992; Local Government, 1975-1990; London and Cardiff Conservative Central Offices, 1987-1988; ministerial correspondence 1984-1990; Conservative Associations correspondence, 1985-1989; Parliamentary papers, 1983-1992; open cast mining, 1986-1992; pensions, 1987-1991; police, 1983-1987; Prestatyn Town Council, 1983-1990; rates, 1983-1987; Rhuddlan Borough Council, 1983-1991; roads, 1986-1989; Sunday trading, 1985-1991; teachers' pay dispute and unions, 1985-1992; television broadcasting policy, 1983-1992; University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1985-1989; Welsh Members of Parliament, Welsh Grand Committee and Committee on Welsh Affairs, Welsh Office,1981- 1993; Young Conservatives March 1983-1992; Pressure for Economic and Social Toryism (PEST), 1956-1974; speech notes, [?1974]-1992, relating to Devolution, 1975-1989, Welsh Water, 1983-1991, Welsh Language, 1990-1992; and press releases, 1983-1992. There is also a series of files mainly of correspondence on a wide range of subjects, arranged alphabetically by subject.

Papers of Stuart Rendel and family members, including papers relating to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the proposal to establish the National Library of Wales and its development during the early years of its existence, 1883-1916; speeches, addresses and political papers relating to disestablishment of the church in Wales and the 1889 Intermediate Education Act, 1882-1909; press cuttings, 1881-1913; photographs, 1892; miscellaneous letters, 1878-1912; letters to Stuart Rendel, 1853-1912, including letters from A. C. Humphreys Owen, 1877-1905, family letters, 1853-1902, and letters from prominent political figures and Welsh public figures; letters and copies of letters from Rendel, 1880-1912; diaries, mainly recording details of Stuart Rendel's business activities, 1863-1869; notes of conversations with W. E. Gladstone, John Morley and H. H. Asquith, 1888-1910; papers relating to Chinese affairs and French and Chinese peace talks, 1884-1886; papers of James Meadows Rendel, including letters, 1828-1856, and papers relating to his estate, 1856-1859; letters of Catherine Jane Rendel, 1845-1855; letters and papers of George Wightwick Rendel, 1871-1902; papers relating to Rendel's other brothers, 1841-1889, and his daughters, 1882-1910; letters and papers of Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel, 1898-1959, and other papers concerning him, 1963-1977; papers, mainly letters, of the Goodhart family, 1819-1957; papers of Miss Rosemary Rendel, 1986-1996; papers of Sir George William Rendel, including: Foreign Office papers, 1917-1967, correspondence, 1912-1973, papers relating to the Catholic Union of Great Britain, 1942-1979, lectures, diaries and notes, 1915-1954, personal and family papers, 1908-1980, and material relating to the book The Sword and the Olive (1957), 1954-1986.

The collection comprises accounts, including annual accounts, 1925-1954, a letter, 1997, relating to investments, treasurer's correspondence, 1945-1997, memorandum on OSA finances, 1950, bank statements, 1959-1969, building society pass books, 1988-1989, reunion records, 1991-1997; fund-raising records, including material relating to the use of the Assembly Rooms, 1922-1970, New College Buildings Appeal brochures, 1933?-1964, New College Buildings Appeal, 1933-1964; New College Buildings Appeal correspondence, 1930-1973, New College Buildings Appeal donations, 1934-1962, New College Buildings Appeal 'memoranda and manuscripts', 1964-1966, 1993 Centenary Appeal sub-committee, 1991-1992, 1993 Centenary Appeal appeal committee, 1992-1995, 1993 Centenary Appeal administration, 1993-1994; Memorabilia, including papers relating to the centenary tie, 1989, 'dramatics', 1928-1952, drama programmes, 1888-1948, eisteddfodau programmes, 1924-1944, entertainment programmes, 1926-1935, St. David's Day celebrations, 1928-1933, media: press cuttings, 1899-1992, memorial services and memorial funds, 1923-1988, tree planting ceremony, March 1997, music concerts, 1920-1952, photographs, 1894-1992, other pictorial material, 1910-1959, student's diary for 1935-1936, speeches and toasts, 1908, college yell, 1924-1928, gymnastic cap for 1923-1926; organisation, including acquisitions, 1998, accommodation of OSA archives, 1998 and undated, Aberystwyth branch, 1934-1994, Bangor branch, 1966, Cardiff branch, 1966-1990, Hong Kong branch, undated, London branch of Old Aberystwythians, 1898-1981, Malaysia branch, 1988-1989, Midland branch, 1937-1969, Swansea and West Wales branch, 1967-1992, Aberystwyth business club, 1993, Cambridge Society of Old Aberystwythians, 1923-1929, Manchester branch, 1938, Aberystwyth College Club, Oxford, 1880-1883, general committee, 1907-1997, OSA development committee, 1992-1997, housing association sub-committee, 1968, revised constitution, 1998, earlier versions of the constitution, 1913-1994, secretary's correspondence, 1928-1982, OSA Centenary, 1992-1993, correspondence relating to the funding of the association, 1892, press reports concerning the founding of the association, 1892, annual general meetings, 1935-1975, Llandaff lectures, life membership, 1920s-1996, presidents of the OSA, 1951-1972, list of vice-presidents of the OSA, 1892-1998, secretaries, 1892-1998, treasurers, 1892-1998, flyers and leaflets, c. 1992, attendance at re-unions, 1936-1994, correspondence relating to re-unions, 1964-1982, re-union programmes, 1907-1997, travel club activities, 1994-1998, guidelines, 1994-1998; relations between the OSA and other bodies, including the University College of South Wales, 1909, the Guild of Graduates of the University of Wales, 1969, list of subscribers to the building fund of the National Library of Wales, 1924, OSA publications - series, 1908-1998, OSA publications - occasional, 1920-1992, OSA publications - articles, 1931, college publications - series, 1892-1992, college publications - occasional, 1932-1996, University of Wales Press, 1947-1961, other publications - series, 1944-1986, other publications - occasional, 1874-1988; links between the OSA and the UCW, inclding, ceremonial - anniversaries, 1922-1973, official openings, 1973-1998, consultation relating to the charter and statutes, 1968-1969, Court and Council, 1934-1977, new buildings committee, 1936, college and students joint committee, 1936-1939, Union House committee, 1938-1939, Principal, 1907-195?, account books of various societies, 1920-1936, activities of various societies, 1923-1959, heads of departments at UCW, 1988-1992; unclassified papers, 1901-1905 and undated. Additional records (1 box), [c. 1913]-2002, of the Aberystwyth Old Students' Association, including correspondence, tributes, photographs, membership lists, programmes and other miscellaneous papers, were deposited by Mr A. H. Clark, Aberystwyth, in December 2002, March 2008 and 2009 and in May 2012 (these remain unlisted).