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Items assembled by Dr Siriol Colley associated with her uncle Gareth Jones. These include the typescript address of Rev. Gwilym Davies at the Memorial Hall, Barry, 25 August 1935; press cuttings, 1935, recording the death of Gareth Jones and paying tribute to him, and noting the establishment of memorial scholarships; papers relating to the publication of the memorial volume In Search of News; a brochure advertising Gareth Jones's lecture tour in the United States; a list of subscriptions, undated, to the Gareth Jones Memorial Fund; letters, 1988, from A. J. Sylvester to David Morley relating to investigations into the death of Gareth Jones; an account by Baron von Plessen, entitled 'Ill-fated Journey', of the circumstances leading up to Gareth Jones's death; a biographical note on Dr Herbert Mueller; and correspondence, 2001-02, concerning the award of the Gareth Jones Travelling Scholarship.

Includes letters to and from the Revd. Gwilym Davies, Sir Anthony Eden, Field Marshall Jan Smuts and Professor Brinley Thomas, Cardiff.

Includes letters to and from the Revd. Gwilym Davies.

Includes letters to and from the Revd. Gwilym Davies.

Includes letters to and from the Revd. Gwilym Davies.

Includes letters to and from the Revd. Gwilym Davies.

Includes a substantial number of letters to and from the Revd Gwilym Davies.

Includes letters to and from the Revd. Gwilym Davies.

Personal correspondence, 1916-1954; study notes, 1902-1952; biographical material, 1903-1954; notebooks entitled 'Tennyson Biography'; sermons and addresses, 1932-1952; orders of service for Victory, 1945, the United Nations 1946, Human Rights Day, 1951-1954, the Coronation and other occasions, 1931-1954; religious and international affairs, 1944-1945; Welsh Book Festivals, 1935-1938; Welsh School of Social Service, 1911-1940; The Gregynog Conferences on International Education, 1922-1937; Advisory Education Committee minutes, 1926-1929; international co-operation, 1933-1937; Welsh nationalism, 1910-1943, including nationalists' attitudes towards World War II, 1939-1941; broadcasting materials mostly of Marconi and Kemp, 1931-1953; Welsh broadcasting, 1923-1948; the Welsh Children's Peace Message, Pageant, and Wales and the Peace Movement, 1923-1955; BBC staff changes and administration in Wales, 1934-1952; the League of Nations, 1923-1952; the Welsh National Council of the League of Nations Union, 1923-1945; United Nations, 1942-1954; UNESCO, 1925-1947; addresses, radio talks and notebooks on the international situation, 1930-1954; Council for Education in World Citizenship, 1940-1950; London International Assembly, 1941-1944; Welsh Committee of the UNESCO, 1949-1953 and human rights materials, 1945-1953.

Papers relating to the Revd. Gwilym Davies (1879-1955), Baptist minister, promoter of international understanding, and the founder of the annual Goodwill Message from the Youth of Wales . They include correspondence, sermon and lecture notes, documentation relating to the League of Nations, the League of Nations Union and various other peace initiatives, the Welsh Book Festival, radio broadcasting in Wales, a pocket diary for the year 1934, printed material and press cuttings, and a substantial corpus of papers concerning the Annual Goodwil Message, 1922-56.

Correspondence and papers, 1926-29, relating to the unveiling of a bust of Robert Owen at the Powys National Eisteddfod, Newtown, August 1926, the administration of the Robert Owen Memorial Fund and the affairs of the Robert Owen Memorial Museum, and the unveiling of a bust of Owen at the International Labour Office at Geneva, 11 March 1929. The file includes a number of letters from the Revd. Gwilym Davies.

Appeal containing approximately 6,500 petitions of signatures received by the women of Wales during the 1923 Wales Peace Petition, organised by the Welsh League of Nations Union in April-May 1923.