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Papers relating to Dr Alan Williams's Labour Party campaign for the East Carmarthenshire and Dinefwr, including leaflets, posters, campaign team minutes, and party votes from sample ballot boxes on election night. Also a copy of 'The Wales Labour Party election guide 1997 llawlyfr etholiad y Blaid Lafur Cymru'.

Papers including Labour Party press releases, May-Aug. 1997; Labour Party 'Yes' leaflets; briefing pack for Labour helpers, 'Wales deserves a voice=Mae Cymru'n haeddu cael llais'; and copies of the Sun, 18 March, South Wales Guardian, 18 Sept., and South Wales Evening Post, 19 Sept.

Papers relating to the 1997 referendum campaign, including House of Commons Library research papers 'The West Lothian question' (95/58), May 1995, and 'Wales and devolution' (97/60), May 1997; white paper 'A voice for Wales: the government's proposals for a Welsh Assembly=Llais dros Cymru: cynigion y llywodraeth ar gyfer Cynulliad Cymreig', July 1997; Labour Party press releases, Aug.-Sept. 1997; Scotland Forward 'Yes' posters; briefing pack for Labour helpers, 'Wales deserves a voice=Mae Cymru'n haeddu cael llais'; note of [polling?] at Lady Street Kidwelly and Ffwrnes, Llanelli; and ticket for the 'Noson i'w gofio=A night to remember' post-referendum party, 18 Sept. 1997.

Leaflets, posters and other papers, mainly Labour Party but including other parties; Plaid Cymru's transport policy (New Wales Policy, no. 3), Feb. 1999, and manifesto 'Working for a new Wales=Cyrchu at y Cymru newydd', 1999; manifestos from CLA Wales and The Law Society. Also Phil Williams, 'Pam y dylai Cymru gael hunanlywodraeth?=Why should Wales have self-government?' (Plaid Cymru), June 1997, and two letters from the House of Commons library to Gareth Thomas MP costing Plaid Cymru's spending pledges in the 1997 general election, Sept. 1998.

Wales Labour Party candidates' morning and overnight briefs and press releases, April 1999, and other papers, including Labour Party and Plaid Cymru manifestos; also CBI, FUW and RSPB manifestos. Also souvenir programme for the BBC Wales 'Voices of a nation=Lleisiau cenedl' concert, and Leighton Andrews's ticket allocation, May 1999.

Print-outs of emails between Lee Waters, Cynog Dafis, Daran Hill, Roger Lewis, Dafydd Trystan and others, April 2009-May 2011, and other papers, including Electoral Commission feedback form, c.April 2011; press release of filing of Yes for Wales campaign financial returns with the Electoral Commission, June 2011; Lee Waters's invitation, programme and menu for the opening of the 4th Assembly, June 2011; and Richard Wyn Jones and Roger Scully's presentation 'Why Wales said yes: the 2011 referendum', June 2011.

Papers relating to the 1st Assembly, comprising a memorandum on the working of the Labour Group, Sept. 1999; 'The roads to the manifesto: the political parties in Wales and their policy creation processes' (IWA discussion paper, no. 12), Sept. 1999; and transcripts of interviews by Lee Waters with Karl Davies of Plaid Cymru and Chris Lines of the Welsh Liberal Democrats as to how their parties organise their AMs' offices and researchers, Nov. 1999.

File of briefing material for incoming ministers. Enclosed is 'The Welsh Assembly referendum: analysis and way forward; paper by the Secretary of State for Wales', Oct. 1997.

A note of a meeting to discover the strength of the various parties and local 'Yes' groups in each constituency.

The file comprises a manifesto entitled 'Cynulliad 99 = Assembly 99' published by the Farmers' Union of Wales as part of the Assembly campaign in 1999.

Draft, Sept. 2010, and final version, Oct. 2010.

The file comprises documents and correspondence relating to Civil Society engagement with the Government's devolution proposals with submission from the Welsh Local Government Association, the NHS Confederation in Wales, the Wales Assembly for Women, trades unions along with related articles.

Letters, articles and newspaper cuttings. Also rough notes for Ron Davies's speech at the Eisteddfod, 1999, and rough notes on hunting, possibly in anticipation of a devolved campaign in 2000.

Letters, press releases, research papers, newspaper cuttings and other papers relating to devolution, the quango state and unitary local government in Wales, including Report & Agenda for the 60th Wales Labour Party Annual Conference, Llandudno, Feb.-March 1997; House of Commons Library research paper 'The quango debate' (96/72), June 1996, and copies of 'Welsh agenda', Aug. 1995, and 'Agenda: the journal of the Institute of Welsh Affairs', Winter 1996/7.

Print-outs of emails between Lee Waters, Daran Hill, Kay Jenkins, Richard Wyn Jones, Roger Lewis, Rhodri Morgan, Dafydd Trystan and others, and other papers, including relating to the Red, Green and White campaign strands, the failure of True Wales to apply for official No campaign status and the impact on the Yes campaign, and print-outs of relevent news stories and True Wales stories.

Print-outs of emails between Lee Waters, Cynog Dafis, Daran Hill, Hywel Ceri Jones, Cathy Owens, Rebecca Williams and others, and other papers, including logo development presentation by RedRiver, a complaint by GB Choice that the Yes campaign's Tick for Wales compromises their tick logo, Facebook adverts, and print-outs of relevent news stories and online discussions.

Print-outs of email messages between Lee Waters, Cynog Davis, Hywel Jones, Daran Hill relating to 'Yes for Wales', 'Cymru Yfory' etc., Dec. 2010-Jan. 2011; print-out of an article entitled 'Of the elite, by the elite, for the elite' by Rachel Banner, spokesperson for True Wales, a 'No' campaign group, and below-the-line comments, Dec. 2009-Feb. 2011; and 'Yes for Wales' launch press release and supporting statements, 4 Jan. 2011.

Print-outs of emails between Lee Waters, Dave Hagendyk, Daran Hill, Cathy Owens, Roy Payne and others, and other papers, including copies of adverts.

The file comprises ephemera from Lee Waters' campaign to be re-elected as Member of the Senedd for Llanelli yn 2021. Waters won with a majority of 5,675. It was the first time a sitting Am or MS for Llanelli had been re-elected for the constituency.

Papers relating to the European Union Objective One funding programme for 2000-2006, including relating to UK government match-funding, the Fontainbleau Agreement (the UK rebate), the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), and devolution.