The series consists of financial ledgers detailing income from membership dues, branch contributions, donations, and sales of publications through the South Wales Bookshop, and the expenditure of the Communist Party on organisers' wages, and administrative costs.
The file includes South Wales Bookshop branch accounts summaries, and personal account summaries.
South Wales Bookshop Ltd.
The file includes South Wales Bookshop income and expenditure.
South Wales Bookshop Ltd.
File comprises loose leaves originally from ledgers mainly noting income from branches, 1954-1980, with gaps.
The series includes obituaries, memorials and autobiographies of Communist Party Wales members.
The file includes material relating to Councillor Edgar Evans, or 'Edgar the Ironmonger' as he was known, who served a prison sentence of nine months in 1936 for the part he played in the fight to establish a lodge of the South Wales Miners' Federation at the Taff Merthyr Colliery. There is a photograph of the first group of those committed for trial at Taff Merthyr, and twelve photographs of the demonstration and meeting in support of them. The file also includes greetings to Edgar Evans from Tom Mann, Harry Pollitt, and T. E. Nicholas, 1936, with related correspondence, and Edgar Evans' County Council Election leaflet, 1946.
South Wales Miners' Federation
'Obituaries, notices and records'
The file includes memorial meeting leaflets, obituaries written by Bert Pearce, and information about members of the Communist Party Wales, 1959-1999, including amongst others, Cliff True, Idris Cox, Dave Priscott, Dr Alistair Wilson, Will Paynter, Dr Frank Jarman, Tommy Hanley, Margaret Hunter, Dai Francis, Jack Howells, Iorwerth Badger Price, Howie Martin, Arthur Lewis Jones, Stella Garrett Jones, Bill Waters, Edgar Evans, Frederick Charles Palmer, Dora Cox, Len Jefferies, Dai Dan Evans, Richard Beamish, T. E. Nicholas, Jack Jones, George Baker, George Strangward, and Jim David.
Memorial meetings and funerals
The file comprises papers relating to memorial meetings and funerals of Harry Pollitt, 1960, Len Jefferies, 1979, Dai Francis 1981, Alistair Wilson 1981 (with photographs), George Baker 1982, Dora Cox, 2000, and the retirement of Annie Powell, 1983 and others, with material relating to T. E. Nicholas, 'Niclas y Glais'.
Pollitt, Harry
The file comprises a privately published biography by Harry Stratton of his wife Lil Stratton (1910-1961) entitled "Lil... a real adopted daughter of Wales", which was presented to the Welsh Committee of the Communist Party in 1983.