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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Papers relating to devolution and Welsh Labour Action - Campaign for a Real Assembly=Gweithredu Llafur Cymru - Ymgyrch dros Gynulliad Go Iawn (initially titled Labour Campaign for an Assembly with Real Power=Ymgyrch Llafur dros Gynulliad gyda Phwerau Gwirioneddol), May 1995-Sept. 1996; draft (English only) and copy of 'Shaping the vision: a report on the powers and structure of the Welsh assembly=Cynllunio'r weledigaeth: adroddiad ar bwerau a strwythur a cynulliad Cymreig', May 1995; letters, June-Sept. 1995, including from Paul Flynn, "I am an enthusiastic supporter of the proposal for real powers for the Assembly but ... I think my attendance would simply provide our neanderthal friends with a club to beat us"; and newspaper cuttings, Aug. 1995-Feb. 1996. Also Kevin Morgan, 'Towards democratic devolution: the challenge of the Welsh Assembly', to be publ. in Trans. Hon. Soc. Cymm., 1998; and papers of the Caerphilly Entertainment and Leisure Project (CELP), March-Sept. 1995.

Minutes of the executive committee of the Wales Labour Party, Sept. 1995-Feb. 1998; and letters and newsletters from Gareth Hughes, April 1995-Nov. 1998. Also copies of 'Shaping the vision: a consultation paper on the powers and structure of the Welsh Assembly (Wales Labour Party, July 1994), and 'Dewi Watkin Powell, 'Cynulliad i genedl' (Cyfres y Cynulliad, 8, March 1999).

Papers relating to the Labour Party's policy of twinning male and female candidates, including Lee Waters and Ron Davies's speeches to the Welsh Labour conference, 1998.

Lee Waters's diary, with many daily entries between 10 Sept. 2010 and 4 Jan. 2011, and an eight-page summing up, 12 March 2011.

A note by Lee Waters says that this is an edited version (Feb. 2013) of Nick Bourne's diaries, as cut down by Daran Hill in an attempt to find a publisher. They were to be published by the IWA, but plans were suspended on Nick Bourne getting a peerage and re-entering politics.

Publications, mainly national Labour Party publications, but including East Carmarthen and Dinefwr constituency leaflets and newsletters; pack of papers for the Wales Labour Party political education conference, Llandrindod, 25 Nov. 1995; 'Welsh Night songbook, Brighton, 4 Oct. 1995'; New Labour pledge card, 1996; Conservative manifesto, 1997; and 'The betrayal of our nation' by James Goldsmith's Referendum Party criticising Tony Blair's proposed referendum on the single European currency, [c.March 1997]; Parliamentary debates (Hansard), 26 March 1998, including (col's 708-787) the second day and third reading of the Government of Wales Bill.