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Authors include J. B. Jones, George F. Thomason and Oswald R. Davies.

Correspondence and papers concerning the appointment of Allan Rogers (afterwards MP for Rhondda) as district secretary of the South Wales District WEA, 1970. They include particulars of duties and conditions of service, and correspondence from Harry Nutt, General Secretary of the WEA, and Professor Brinley Thomas, Department of Economics, University College Cardiff.

1939 And 1970-1973.

A co-operative venture established in 1920.

Papers relating to Coleg Harlech, including minutes of the College executive committee, house committee, council of management and college senate; together with agenda, warden's report, balance sheets, notes, papers, syllabuses, reports and college diary.

Includes a circular issued by the Welsh Department of the Board of Education concerning adult education, March 1936; typescript review of the 'Report of the University Extension Board Concerning the Attitude of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth towards the WEA' (no author, c.1930s-40s); confidential letter, 1938, to D. E. Evans, acting district secretary of South Wales District WEA concerning the possible re-organisation of the WEA in Wales and expressing the views of Ben Bowen Thomas and Mrs Silyn Roberts on the subject (3/4); report by E. H. P. Birchall, district secretary of Oxford District WEA concerning district accounts, March 1939; typescript report from the South Wales District WEA entitled 'WEA Educational Work and the Army', April 1940; typescript report entitled 'Branch Procedure at a Glance' (no author, c.1930s-40s); University Extension Board Survey of Adult Education: Observations of the University Extension Board on the Survey of Adult Education in Wales and Monmouthshire Issued in January, 1940 (1943); minutes of the Fortieth Meeting of the University Extension Board, 1944; notes and report on an anglo-Scandinavian Summer School at Brunnsvik, Sweden, July 1948; letters from C. E. Thomas, district secretary of the North Wales District WEA, 1948; letter concerning Mrs Silyn Roberts's ninetieth birthday party; manuscript notes and lectures (no author); minutes of the South Wales District WEA, 1938; nomination forms for election to the District Council, 1938; minutes of the executive meeting of the South Wales District WEA, 25 July 1942, 24 July 1943; agenda, minutes, balance sheet and annual report for the 1974 AGM; syllabuses and programmes for the South Wales and West Wales Districts of the WEA, 1940s-50s; minutes of the Workers' Educational Trade Union Committee (No. 1 Division), June 1941; minutes of the Service of Youth Advisory Committee, June 1940; and miscellaneous material, including press cuttings.

The case, failing to purchase a bus ticket, was later dismissed. Included are letters of support sent from many prominent figures in the social service movement in South Wales, including Thomas Jones (1/1), Ben Bowen Thomas (1/11) and Edgar Jones, Barry (1/16, 33).

Papers, correspondence, minutes of the executive committee, annual reports and magazine, 1971-1975, relating to the Council for Education in World Citizenship - Cymru; summer programme of the United Nations Association Wales; and UNESCO Courier, 1970-1971.

Papers of David Thomas Guy, 1912-1975, including papers relating to the Workers' Educational Association, 1920-1973, in particular of the South Wales District; minute book of Cardiff Printers Ltd, 1946-1973; papers relating to the University of Wales, 1973-1975, and Coleg Harlech, 1971-1975; papers of the Welsh Advisory Committee of the British Council, 1971-1973; appointment diaries, 1939-1973; and bibliographical notes, press cuttings, photographs and personal memorabilia, 1948-1970.

The correspondents include Neil Kinnock, 1970, and Sir Bowen Thomas, 1969.

Includes correspondence with Thomas Jones (2/6, 9) and Percy Watkins (2/10-11); typescript extracts from letters and speeches used in the Gregynog commemorative publication, John Davies, ed. Marjorie Ffrangcon Davies (Gregynog, 1938); original letters and speeches from which the extracts were taken, including extracts from a letter to Principal Dr Owen Prys, Dec. 1926; copy of a speech given to the Conference on Social Service and Unemployed Clubs, 12 Oct. 1937; two letters from John Davies to his wife Ruby, a Labour candidate for the Wells Parliamentary Division, 1929; miscellaneous ephemera including Regulations for the Gilchrist Lectures (Gilchrist Educational Trust, 1920), WEA, Welsh District Lecture Courses (no date), The Workers Educational Association Summary of the Report of the Central Executive Committee of the Association on National Policy in Respect to WEA Relationships with Universities and Local Education Authorities (Gloucester, 1931), and 'Adult Classes. The WEA in Wales. "Liberty by Education", Mr Tawney's Inspiring Review', a typescript pamphlet copied from the South Wales News, 6 July 1925.

Most relate to the history of the WEA and adult education in Wales. Some are notes for talks to various groups and societies.