The final reports of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales including the Welsh and English version of the full report, the easy-read version, your version, and infographics. The report covers considering and developing options for fundamental reform of the constitutional structures of the United Kingdom, as well as considering and developing all progressive principal options to strengthen Welsh democracy and deliver improvements for the people of Wales.
The Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales
Thirty-six typescript and manuscript letters, 1977-1994, from Thomas Dilworth, University of Windsor, Ontario, to Huw Ceiriog Jones, Bow Street and the National Library of Wales, concerning their research into the poet and artist David Jones as well as relating personal news. Also included is a printout of an email exchange between Jones and Dilworth, September 2021, and explanatory notes (in Welsh) by the donor, 2024.
The file comprises Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg ephemera including a 1993 calendar, stickers, posters and flyers relating to various campaigns including "Mwy na Miliwn" and "Cymunedau Byw".
Various flyers and documents circulated at a conference entitled "Heddwch ar waith" held in St Paul's Chruch, Aberystwyth on 17 February 2024 relating to peace, the treatment of refugees, Gaza, nuclear weapons and the arms trade.
Typescript (3 pp.) 'Summary of experiences of Jeff Cuthbert' as Police and Crime Commissioner for Gwent, 2016-24, and member of the Welsh Assembly for the Caerphilly Constituency, 2003-16.
Leaflets circulated as part of the campaign against a proposals by Green Gen cymru to run a 132kV power line on pylons through the Tywi Valley to connect Nant Mithil Energy Park in the Radnor Forest in Powys to a new National Grid substation near Llandyfaelog, between Carmarthen and Pont Abraham.
Campaign material circulated to Labour Party members in Wales by Vaughan Gething and Jeremy Miles as part of the campaign to elect a Welsh Labour leader in 2024.
The file comprises leaflets and posters circulated by organisations campaigning for a cease-fire in the Hamas- Israel war and a long term solution to the Israel-=Palestinian conflict.
Papers relating to Jonathan Edwards' fourth term as Member of Parliament for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr. The file contains greetings cards, correspondence, speeches, letters of condolence on the death of Jonathan Edwards' father, interview notes, campaign material, papers and letters of support regarding this disciplinary case against Jonathan Edwards by Plaid Cymru following his acceptance of a police caution for domestic violence in 2024. Topics covered include controversial proposals to have pylons and a high voltage electricity line through the Tywi Valley, the UK Infrastructure bank, law and order, assisted dying. Correspondents include Cynog Dafis.
The box contains a folder which has materials on Ann Clwyd herself and her Rebel with a Cause book. There is a notebook, letters, book launch list, information sheet on the speaker's house, a list of scrapbooks, obituary newspaper clipping and a funeral order of service booklet.
The file comprises stickers and flyer for events organised by Melin Drafod, a left leaning think tank on Welsh independence at the national Eisteddfod in 2023.
The file comprises 2 documents, entitled The Right to Housing/Deddf Eiddo Dyma'r Cyfle published by Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg and The Right to Adequate Housing: New Possibilities for Wales Conference/Cynhadledd Yr Hawl i Dai Digonol Beth sy'n Bosibl.
The file comprises various political ephemera collected during the National Eisteddfod of Wales at Boduan in 2023 including material listing fringe events held at the Eisteddfod, Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, Welsh language education, Welsh in the workplace, second homes, a leaflet produced by Eryr Wen promoting the organisation and a Welsh language version of the Morning Star entitled "Seren y Bore"
Copies of 'A Catalogue of the Powys Collection at Mappowder' (273 ff.) and 'A Checklist of the Casey Collection at Mappowder' (15 ff.), both compiled in 2012 by Peter J. Foss, listing between them the entirety of the papers, books, photographs, etc., of Lucy Penny and Mary Casey then in the possession of Louise de Bruin in Mappowder, Dorset. Not all of the papers listed were offered for sale in 2023 or were then purchased by the National Library of Wales; large parts of those that were have been completely reordered. Consequently the catalogues are not a reliable guide to the contents of the archive now at NLW; they are nevertheless included as a snapshot of the entire Collection in its previous home, for the additional information they contain concerning the letters and for details of material not at the NLW. Also included is a copy of the Dominic Winter auction catalogue for 13-14 December 2023, listing the Mappowder Powys Collection (lots 672-687).
A copy of the donor's memoir, titled 'An unconventional childhood', describing time spent in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills (Meghalaya, India) from 1945-1960, as the daughter of Welsh Presbyterian Church missionaries.
Material produced by Welsh independence campaign Yes Cymru and associated organisations relating to marches for independence in swansea nad Bangor in 2023 and Pec indy, a box of playing card size cards designed to promote discussion on Welsh independence
Copy of Ian Robinson: Remembrances (ed. Michael John DiSanto) (Anywhere But Here Publications, 2023), a volume of tributes to university lecturer, literary critic and author Ian Robinson (1937-2020), which includes a piece by Imelda Morgan, sister of Christopher Morgan.
