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- 1995-2010 (Creation)
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4 large boxes
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Scope and content
Material relating to Don Touhig's political career in Westminster following his 1995 Islwyn by-election victory, incorporating his post as Under Secretary of State for Wales and as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Chancellor Gordon Brown. Material includes parliamentary diaries, 1996, 2000-2004, 2006-2008; parliamentary reports; general election literature; newsletters; press releases; material relating to the 1998 resignation of Ron Davies as Secretary of State for Wales and his succession by Alun Michael; and correspondence, which includes messages of congratulations to Don Touhig on his elevation to the peerage and letters to/from the Home Office concerning the British naturalisation process of the Welsh Labour MP Leo Abse's Polish wife Anja.
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Accruals
System of arrangement
Dated correspondence arranged chronologically.
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Language of material
- English
- French
- Welsh
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- Abse, Anja (Subject)
- Abse, Leo (Subject)