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An album of photographs, with a small number of related documents, 1928-2017 (with gaps). The album documents the activities of the Bristol Welsh Society, arranged into themed sections including: ‘Photographs including Presidents’ (1949; 1951-1953; 1957-1958; 1960; 1979), with a list of the Bristol Welsh Society’s Presidents, 1944-2002 ([2002]); ‘Dydd Gwyl Dewi Happy Memories of St David’s Day Celebrations…’ (1948-1950; 1952-1954; 1956-1957; 1959; 1979; 1984), also including press cuttings (1957); ‘Ladies Choir’ (1953; 1956); ‘Eisteddfodau…’ (1953; 1966; 1990; c.2008), including a press cutting ([1966]) and a copy of an Eisteddfod score sheet for the Bristol Welsh Society Pensioners’ Choir ([1990]); ‘The Dancing Years’ ([?1945]); ‘Tennis…’ ([?1945]), with a note (1952); ‘Rambling’ ([?1945x?1955]); Christmas parties ([?1950s]); garden parties (2011; 2017); ‘Bathodyn y Gymdeithas’ ([?2000s]), including notes regarding the Society’s Badge of Office (1928; 1930; 1940; 1960); and ‘Miscellanea’, including photographs of various activities and events such as dinners and concerts ([?1950s]; 1953; 1955; [1960s]), press cuttings (1944; 1954; 1966), notes (1956; 1958), and rules, results, and programme for the Inter-town Eisteddfod (1969). The file also contains (within a separate envelope) a number of descriptive notes originally included with the photo album ([?2017]).

Papers, 1946-2017, of Captain Ted Lees, relating to Island Farm Prisoner of War Camp, Bridgend. Captain Lees was the camp's Intelligence Officer and interpreter during the period 1946-1948, when it held some of the most senior German officers, including Feldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt.
The papers include a nominal roll of senior prisoners compiled by Lees (ff. i-ii, I-XVI); some eighteen letters to Lees, from von Rundstedt and others, 1946-1948, 1957 (ff. 1-21); a typescript statement by von Rundstedt concerning the Blomberg-Fritsch affair of 1938 (ff. 22-25); a typescript memorandum, dated 9 July 1947, from a prisoner to a 'Herr Bieri' [?Frederick Bieri of the IRCC], concerning the Geneva Convention (ff. 30-36); Lees's manuscript recollections of von Rundstedt, 1953 (ff. 54-57); and a copy of a War Office urgent memorandum (U.M./4202(P.W.1m)), dated 8 September 1947, enclosing a categorised nominal roll of senior German officers detained in the UK (ff. 38-53). The letters to Captain Lees, mostly in German, are from Generalmajor [Walter] Leuze, 10 May 1946 (f. 1), [Generalmajor Hans] Erdmann, 3 December 1946 (f. 2), von Rundstedt, 25 December 1946 (f. 3), [Generalmajor Burkhart] Muller-Hildebrand, 2 February 1947 (ff. 4-5), [Konteradmiral] Hans Voss, 13 August 1947 (f. 6), General der Flieger Hans-Georg von Seidel, 14 August 1947 (f. 8), General der Artillerie Anton[-Reichard Hermann Friedrich Maria] Fr[ei]h[er]r v[on] Bechtolsheim, 19 August 1947 (f. 9), Dr Rudolf Aettig, 9 December 1947 (f. 11), [General] Gunther Blumentritt, 26 February 1948 (f. 13), and [General Edwin Graf von] Rothkirch [und Trach], 1 May 1948 (f. 14). Also included are a letter to Lees's wife from von Rundstedt, 10 February 1948 (f. 12), a Christmas card from Voss, made in camp, [1946x1948] (f. 17), a note from Voss certifying the handing over of medals to Captain Lees, [1946x1948] (f. 18), and correspondence, 1957, between Lees, Wilhelm Bauer de Betaz and a Manchester bank, concerning the whereabouts of Bauer de Betaz's medals (ff. 19-21). Items subsequently added to the papers include typescript translations of two of the letters into English (ff. 7, 15), photocopies of parts of the Blomberg-Fritsch and Geneva Convention typescripts (ff. 26-29, 37, kept for conservation purposes) and printouts of web pages relating to Lees and von Rundstedt, 2010, 2017 (ff. 62-64).

Miscellaneous health papers, including report of a Dolen Cymru visit to Lesotho with the Betsi Cadwaladr-Quthing Link, April-May 2014. The only papers 2015-2017 relate to Health Committee meetings, 2015 and 2017.

A facsimile, 2017, of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward Grey, Lord Powis, Montgomery, 28 January 1551 - 27 January 1552 (TNA C142/94/28).

A facsimile, 2017, of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward Grey, Lord Powis, Montgomery, 25 July 1557 - 5 July1558 (TNA C142/114/1).

Miscellaneous letters, [?1912]-2017 (mostly [?1912]-1969), collected by Tristan de Vere Cole, relating mostly to the John family.
They include letters from Augustus John to Horace de Vere Cole, November 1927 (ff. 1-3), and Poppet John, [29 November 1928] (f. 4, beginning lost, sent from Boston, Massachusetts); letters to Augustus John from Arthur Symons, [?1912] (ff. 6-7), Francis Macnamara, [?1915] (ff. 8-23, incomplete), the Duke of Alba, 3 January 1945 (f. 30, partly in Caló), Jan [Sliwinski], 12 June 1945 (f. 31), and Genevieve [Banchet], [1940s] (f. 33, French); letters to Dorelia McNeill from Lytton Strachey, 12 March [1912x1916], 10 May 1918 (ff. 41-42), Michael Holroyd, 1966-1969 (ff. 43, 45-63), and Juliette [de Bairacli Levy], 19 December 1967 (f.44); letters from Henry John to Poppet John, [1927] (ff. 64-71), Romilly John to Dr [Aubrey Thomas] Westlake, 31 January 1964 (f. 73), Michael Holroyd to Tristan de Vere Cole (ff. 74-75, 77), Mavis de Vere Cole (f. 76), and Romilly John (f. 78), 1968-1969, and Meg O'Malley to [Oskar] Kokoschka, 2 February 1939 (f. 72). Also included are miscellaneous items, 1928-[?1961], in the hand of Augustus John (ff. 34-40), including poetry in English, 1928, and French, [1940s] (ff. 34-35); a photocopy of the Nettleship family tree (ff. 79-80); a photocopy, [?2000s], of a photograph published in Nova, February 1970, pp. 36-37, showing members of the John family and others (c. 1928) (ff. 81-84); cuttings, [1992], 2008, relating to Oskar Kokoschka (ff. 85-87, see also f. 72; and an anecdote regarding Augustus John, written by Lucilla van den Bogaerde, dated 12 December 2017 (f. 88).

File contains election addresses and other material distributed in the Aberconwy constituency during the 2017 General Election campaign.

File contains election addresses and other material distributed in the Alyn and Deeside constituency during the 2017 General Election campaign.

File contains election addresses and other material distributed in the Arfon constituency during the 2017 General Election campaign.

File contains election addresses and other material distributed in the Caerphilly constituency during the 2017 General Election campaign.

File contains election addresses and other material distributed in the Cardiff South and Penarth constituency during the 2017 General Election campaign.

File contains election addresses and other material distributed in the Cardiff West constituency during the 2017 General Election campaign.

File contains election addresses and other material distributed in the Carmarthen East and Dinefwr constituency during the 2017 General Election campaign.

File contains election addresses and other material distributed in the Llanelli constituency during the 2017 General Election campaign. Only material from the Labour, Liberal Democrat and Plaid Cymru candidates was received.

File contains election addresses and other material distributed in the Monmouth constituency during the 2017 General Election campaign.

File contains election addresses and other material distributed in the Newport East constituency during the 2017 General Election campaign.

File contains election addresses and other material distributed in the Ogmore constituency during the 2017 General Election campaign.

File contains election addresses and other material distributed in the Torfaen constituency during the 2017 General Election campaign.

A facsimile, 2017, of a bill and answer in the Court of Chancery in the case of Edward Grey versus Henry Vernon and John Vernon concerning the Barony of Powis, Poole castle and borough [Welshpool] and other manors and lands (specified), Montgomeryshire, 1558-1579 (TNA C3/77/37).

Press cuttings, 2005-2017 (with gaps), relating to the politician Rhodri Morgan, consisting mainly of cuttings relating to Morgan’s political career, including his roles as First Minister for Wales, leader of the Welsh Labour party, and MS for Cardiff West constituency; cuttings relating to other political matters, such as Welsh Government policies, the Labour-Plaid Cymru coalition of 2007, the 2007 Welsh Assembly elections, and Morgan’s retirement in 2009; and cuttings relating to his death in 2017, including tributes and obituaries.