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The collection listed in 1997 comprises: papers concerning the Craft Potters' Association: administative records, 1956-1986, events, 1958-1995, exhibitions, 1957-1995, publications, 1957-1994, and miscellaneous papers. Craft Advisory Council: national organisation, 1953-1990, local and regional organisations, 1956-1997. Museums, libraries, public art galleries, art centres, etc., 1952-1996. Educational establishments, 1956-1996. Private shops and galleries, 1930-1996. Auctions, 1980-1996. Potters' suppliers, 1955-1994. Individual potters and potteries. Miscellaneous publications, c. 1970-1992. Non-United Kingdom material, 1964-1993, including papers relating to a large number of countries. Miscellaneous papers, 1957-1989. The collection listed in 2001 comprises: Craft Potters Association: administration, 1956-1995, and events, 1958-1997. Local and regional organisations - South Wales Potters: administration, 1964-2000, events and exhibitions, 1983-1992, and publications, 1968-2000. Potters' supplies. Later groups remain unlisted.

An additional group of papers to be added to the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceramic Archive, comprising the records of the Craft Potters Association, including minutes of council meetings, 1958-1997, correspondence, 1968-94, financial accounts, membership applications and subscriptions, 1956-1982, press cuttings and exhibition catalogues; together with papers relating to advertising, pottery suppliers, camps and weekends, the pottery export scheme and rural industries bureau; the group also includes material relating to the South Wales Potters, including minutes of executive committees and annual general meetings, newsletters, membership information, financial accounts and general correspondence.

Additional records, ca. 1980s - 2001, relating to the University of Wales, Aberystwyth School of Art's Ceramic Archive, including correspondence, reviews, draft articles, catalogues and journals, photographs, and craft slides.

Further papers, ca. 1970s-2002, of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, School of Art's Ceramic Archive, including press releases, letters, catalogues and reviews.

Papers, 1966-1979, accumulated by the International Politics Department of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, comprising interview schedules of the Welsh Election Study, 1979, and papers relating to 'The Welsh Council' study, 1966-1972.

Administrative records of the University of Wales from its establishment in 1893 comprising papers relating to the foundation of the University; records of the University Court, Guild of Graduates, the Senate, Academic Board, University Council, Board of Celtic Studies, University of Wales Press Board, The Committee of Principals, Registrar's papers; records of committees, sub-committees and ad hoc committees created by, or answerable to, the Court, the Council, the Academic Board, etc., and printed materials. The archive is a fundamental source for the history of the University and for University education in Wales; to the development and provision of bilingual education in higher education in Wales, and, to a lesser extent to education in general in twentieth-century Wales.

Papers of the University of Wales Guild of Graduates, 1979-1983, include minutes and reports of meetings of the Guild of Graduates and its standing committee and correspondence, 1979-1983, and programmes of degree ceremonies and reports and newsletters from constituent colleges, 1979-1983.

The archive contains papers created by various officers of, and departments within the university, along with associations directly related to the university. These include papers of the Court; Council; Senate; past governing bodies; principals; the Administration Division; Information Services; academic schools; the college chapel; the Lampeter Society; various student societies; St. David's College School; various university and university related publications; photographs and works of art; papers relating to individual members of staff and students; papers concerning the founding of the college; AUT papers and the papers of Gownsman Publications Ltd.

Deeds and documents acquired by Urdd Gobaith Cymru, relating to lands and property in the parishes of Llangower, Llanymawddwy, and Llanycil, Merionethshire, 1679-1900.

Papers of the Department of Music of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1883-1986, including concert programmes, 1898-1988, posters for concerts, 1961-[c. 1983]; minute book of the UCW Aberystwyth Musical Club, 1920-1927; student record cards, 1922-1929; attendance registers, 1933-1981; staff notes and reports, 1951-1983; miscellaneous papers and correspondence relating to the Department, 1921-1984; minute book of the Aberystwyth Music Festival, 1925-1927; papers relating to Aberystwyth and Gregynog music festivals, 1922-1969; music manuscripts and facsimiles by individual composers, including Arthur Charles Edwards, Ian Parrott, and David Wynne, 1916-1982; miscellaneous music papers, 1883-1904; papers of Charles Clements, 1909-1973; and papers of Griff Williams and his wife, 1916-[1980s].

The fonds comprises minutes books of the Society, 1952-1997, and files of correspondence and papers, 1960-2001, together with a file of correspondence with the Inland Revenue, 1960-1961.

Records of Vale of Glamorgan Liberal Association and Barry Constituency Liberal Association, comprising minutes of Annual General Meetings, 1974-1982; Executive Committee minutes, 1975-1987, papers relating to the Welsh Liberal Party, 1982-1987; Barry Town Liberal Association accounts, 1975-1984; correspondence concerning Prospective Parliamentary Candidate, 1981-1982 and with Vale of Glamorgan SDP, 1981-1985; notes on environment and planning in South Glamorgan, 1981-1982; general correspondence and papers, 1982-1987, including the proposed amalgamation with the SDP, 1987; election literature, 1983-1987; and papers relating to Sully and Wenvoe branches, 1983-1986.

Records of Vale of Glamorgan SDP, comprising members and committee meeting minutes and Group papers, 1981-1990; SDP Council for Wales correspondence and papers, 1988-1989; and miscellaneous printed material, including policy documents and newsletters, 1981-1986.

Records of the Vale of Neath Brewery, 1844-1913, including ledgers, 1894-1897; pay books, 1882-1912; purchase abstract books, 1896-1908; beer sales books, 1896-1913; spirit sales books, 1897-1912; and printed books, 1863-1913.

Deeds and documents of the Bennett family of Glanyrafon, Montgomeryshire, and the Owen family of Dolgoed and Llawrpenegoes, 1546-1946, relating mainly to properties in the parishes of Llanidloes, Llanwrin, Penegoes, and Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire, and Talyllyn, Merionethshire; and a map of properties in Trefeglwys, 1819.

The collection known as the Vaux Manuscripts are the manuscripts of W. S. W. Vaux, F.R.S., Cambridge.

Estate and family records of the Lyon, Winder, and Corbett-Winder families of Vaynor Park, Berriew, Montgomeryshire, including title deeds, leases, abstracts of title, and subsidiary documents relating to the Vaynor Park estate in Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, 1459-1977; plans, valuations, and accounts, mainly nineteenth century; particulars and conditions of sale of properties in Montgomeryshire; and accounts of rents of Lord Viscount Herefordshire's estates in Montgomeryshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Pembrokeshire, and Herefordshire, 1740-1751.

A collection comprising largely of eighteenth and nineteenth century volumes of music, including vocal music, piano and other instrumental arrangements, dance music, etc., some of which are of Italian and Spanish-American origin. Amongst the composers mentioned are Weber, Beethoven, Rossini, Mozart, Verdi and Mendelssohn. Also included is a nineteenth century volume comprising poetry, hymns and transcripts of correspondence.

Papers, [1920s]-1988, of Vernon Watkins, comprising drafts of poems published in collections and elsewhere, 1934-1967, unpublished poems, [1920s]-1967, and verse translations from German, French, Greek, Italian, Spanish and Hungarian, [1920s]-1967; drafts and translations of verse dramas, [1920s]-[1940x1967]; prose articles and essays, [1935]-1967; radio scripts, 1948-1967; talks and lecture notes, 1947-1967; correspondence, 1937-1988, including letters to Gwen Watkins following her husband's death; diaries, 1931, 1966; bibliographical lists of his poetry, [?1941]-1967; and some literary material relating to posthumous publications, 1976-1978.

Papers of Victor Hampson-Jones, 1881-1975, comprising lectures and speeches, 1966-1973, teaching notes, radio scripts, 1966-1975, material relating to lawsuits and tribunals involving trades union members, 1960-1975, material relating to Undeb Cenedlaethol Athrawon Cymru, 1953-1972, and personal and family papers, 1881-1973.

Papers relating to the disestablishment of the Church in Wales including pamphlets and speeches debating the cases for and against disestablishment and discussing the drafting of schemes and amendments; papers used as research for the drawing of the Constitution; drafts and printed copies including amendments of the Constitution of the Church in Wales, and schemes for the Governing Body, the Representative Body, and the establishment of Ecclesiastical Courts; schedules of revised statutes; papers relating to the Convention of the Church in Wales held in 1917; papers relating to questions and disputes arising from the disestablishment; papers relating to the work of the Governing Body and the Representative Body; papers relating to the Joint Committee of the Church in Wales; papers relating to stipends, livings and benefactions; correspondence between Viscount Sankey and various dignitaries of the Church in Wales and other individuals; and other papers relating to the disestablishment and the Church in Wales, 1853-1948, 1972. -- Also included within this archive are the papers of Frank Morgan relating to the Constitution of the Church in Wales, mainly comprising correspondence with C. A. H. Green, 1910-1934, but also including a manuscript draft of the Constitution in the hand of C. A. H. Green; and papers of Derrick Greenslade Childs on Viscount Sankey and the disestablishment, [1948]-[c. 1965].

General personal and political correspondence, 1936-1997, including letters from the Royal Family, MPs and Government Ministers, such as James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher and John Major; subject files including the Labour Party, 1951-1979, the National Union of Teachers, 1963-1971, Secretary of State for Wales, 1968-1969, Devolution in Wales, 1970-1973, the Christian Heritage, 1977-1985, Aberfan Disaster Fund Bill, 1978-1979, Cardiff West Constituency Labour Party, 1981-1982, the National Children's Homes, 1981-1993, British housing, 1984-1985, GT's memoirs, 1983-1985, the College of Preceptors, 1982-1987, the House of Lords, 1985-1987, St George's House, Windsor Castle, 1985-1987, education, 1986-1987, European Union, 1990-1997, the Welsh Assembly, 1996-1997, the WDA, 1991-1992, and various medical and charitable foundations, 1982-1997; miscellaneous political and personal papers, 1927-1997, including material concerning the Cardiff City Labour Group; 1927-1958; religious interests, 1960's-1990's; Speaker's engagements and official papers, 1976-1983; general publications, 1950-1987, including The Gospel Witness, 1955-1983; Parliamentary publications, 1961-1986, The House Magazine, 1980-1991; personal papers, [c. 1940s]-[1990s]; political papers, accumulated as MP for Cardiff West, Government Minister and Member of the House of Lords, 1955-1997; and letters, 1983-1997, from Sir Julian Hodge, relating to European union and devolution.

Records of the Vivian family, later barons Swansea, of Cornwall and Swansea, including records of the copper industry in Cornwall and Swansea (the Hafod works), 1720-1934; estate papers, 1853-1909; business and personal correspondence, 1807-1934, notably that of John Henry Vivian (1785-1855), and Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea (1821-1894). The archive is a major source for the 19th century history of Swansea.