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The Council for Wales and Monmouthshire was established by the Attlee government in May 1949 (as an alternative to a Welsh Secretary of State) as a nominated advisory council, but was denied any statutory powers. Its first chairman was the influential north Wales trade union leader Dr Huw T. Edwards. The Council produced detailed reports on the problems facing Wales, and consistently pressed for extended functions for government departments in Wales. The Council's publication Government Administration in Wales: Third Memorandum of the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire, Cmnd. 53 (HMSO, 1957) (the product of two years' intensive work) reopened the discussion on the Labour Party's position on Welsh devolution. Edwards resigned as chairman of the Council in 1958 and joined Plaid Cymru, in response to the lack of enthusiasm in the Labour Party for any separate powers for Wales. Nevertheless, the report paved the way for the inclusion of a policy commitment on the appointment of a Secretary of State for Wales in the 1959 Labour Party manifesto. Following Edwards's resignation, the Council was reconstituted, but thereafter declined in importance, although it remained in existence until 1966, when the post of Secretary of State for Wales was created by the Labour government.

Ymgorfforwyd Llan and Welsh Church Press Company Limited (Cwmni'r Llan a'r Wasg Eglwysig Gymreig Cyf) ar 13 Mehefin 1923. Ni newidiwyd enw cofrestredig y cwmni, ond defnyddiwyd yr enw Cymraeg gan fwyaf yn yr ohebiaeth. Cyhoeddai deunydd ar gyfer yr Eglwys yng Nghymru. T. I. Ellis oedd ysgrifennydd Comisiwn Cyhoeddiadau'r Eglwys yng Nghymru, 1949-1951, a Chwmni'r Llan. Griffith Jones, Caernarfon, oedd trysorydd y cwmni, 1947-1953. Diddymwyd y cwmni yn 1987.

The Dot Cym campaign was founded by Sion Jobbins and Maredudd ap Gwyndaf to secure the .cym top level internet domain for Wales and the Welsh and Welsh speaking community. The .cym TLD was eventually assigned to the Cayman Islands the campaign but the .cymru and .wales TLDs were assigned to Wales in 2012.

The Aberfan Parents' and Residents' Association represented the interests of the bereaved parents and other residents following the Aberfan disaster.
On the morning of 21 October 1966 in Aberfan, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, 144 people, of whom 116 were children, were killed when a coal waste tip slid into the village engulfing some 20 houses and Pantglas Junior School. Following the disaster, a Tribunal of Inquiry was appointed by the Secretary of State for Wales under the chairmanship of Sir Herbert Edmund Davies. The Inquiry lasted from 29 November 1966 until 28 April 1967. Its report was published on 3 August 1967. During the Tribunal and afterwards the Aberfan Parents' and Residents' Association was represented by the firm of solicitors Morgan, Bruce and Nicholas, Pontypridd, with Desmond Ackner QC, Aubrey Myerson and Cyril Moseley being present at the Tribunal.