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'What's in a name?',

  • NLW ex 2411.
  • File
  • [2006].

A photocopy of 'What's in a name?', autobiography of boxer Beaumont Valentine Griffiths, known as Beau, born in 1931 in Gilfach Goch in the Rhondda Valley.

Griffiths, Beaumont Valentine.

Western Sea Fisheries Records,

  • GB 0210 WESTFISH
  • Fonds
  • 1891-1938 /

Papers, 1891-1938, relating to the work and administration of the Western Sea Fisheries and the Lancashire and Western Sea Fisheries, comprising files of correspondence relating to individual fisheries, 1896-1914; reports of Fishery Officers, annual reports and printed material, 1892-1938; correspondence relating to Committee personnel, 1892-1923; bye-laws and certificates, 1892-1899; Committee papers, 1891-1913; financial papers, 1893-1923; papers of James Travis Jenkins on Fishery Schools, the Sardine Case of 1912, and a bibliography of whaling [20th century].

Lancashire and Western Sea Fisheries Joint Committee.

Welsh Secondary Schools Association Records,

  • GB 0210 WSSA
  • Fonds
  • 1968-1984 /

Records accumulated by Dr John Herbert, 1968-1984, comprising Welsh Secondary Schools Association records, minutes and papers, 1968-1984; and Headmasters' Association and Secondary Heads Association minutes, correspondence, discussion papers and related material, 1969-1984.

Welsh Secondary Schools Association; Headmasters' Association; Secondary Heads Association; John Herbert.

Welsh Political Ephemera Collection,

  • GB 0210 EPHEMERA
  • Fonds
  • 1837-2023 (accumulated [1911]-2023)

The collection consists of election addresses, leaflets, circulars and other printed matter, 1837-1991, generally acquired before the establishment of the Welsh Political Archive; election addresses, leaflets etc., 1905-2019, collected by the WPA; and printed materials, 1887-2019, concerning the political parties in Wales, various pressure groups and organisations, subject files, and other miscellaneous papers.

Welsh Political Archive.

Welsh Hospital Board Papers,

  • GB 0210 WELARD
  • Fonds
  • 1951-1974 /

Press-cuttings relating to Welsh Hospital Board, 1951-1974.

Welsh Hospital Board

Welsh Gypsy Folk-tales,

  • NLW ex 2756.
  • File
  • 1891-1930.

A volume containing offprints and articles relating to Welsh Gypsy folk-tales, mainly from the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, collected and edited by John Sampson.

Sampson, John, 1862-1931.

Welsh entrepreneurs?,

  • NLW ex 2536.
  • File
  • 2008 /

A copy of a lecture given at the National Library of Wales, 31 January 2008, by Richard Livsey, Lord Livsey of Talgarth.

Livsey, Richard 1935-

Welsh clergy papers,

  • GB 0210 MSWELSHCLERG
  • Fonds
  • 1693-[1899].

A collection of seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century manuscripts containing sermons and correspondence of Welsh clergymen, who include Lewis Evans of Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn and Llanfihangel Genau'r-glyn, David Price of Merthyr Cynog and Robert Pughe of Dolgellau.

Welsh Church Commission Papers,

  • GB 0210 WELCHCION
  • Fonds
  • 1283-1960 [accumulated 1914-1960] /

Papers of, and acquired by, the Welsh Church Commission, 1283-1960, including records of the Commission, 1914-1960; records relating to border parishes, 1914-1915; accounts, 1920-1958; papers relating to Sir Alfred Watson, 1916-1941; records concerning compensation to lay holders of freehold offices, 1915-1931; records relating to burial grounds, 1934-1947; records relating to the destination of records, 1914-1960; records relating to parish lands, 1844-1946; manorial records and court books, 1842-1925; transfer of documents, 1822-1947; deeds of properties, 1566-1929; and rentals and surveys, 1919-1947.

Welsh Church Commission.

Welsh Association of Community and Town Councils Records

  • GB 0210 WACTC
  • Fonds
  • 1948-1999

Records of the Welsh Association of Community and Town Councils, 1976-1999, comprising correspondence, 1976-1999, minutes of national and local committees, 1976-1992, administrative and financial records, 1963-1986, papers relating to annual conferences, 1977-1993, material relating to 'Bro', 1981-1986, and papers and publications relating to issues concerning local government, 1948-1995.

Wales Association of Community and Town Councils

Welsh Agriculture 1815-1914,

  • NLW MS 14141C.
  • File
  • 1969 /

Thesis: 'Welsh Agriculture 1815-1914' (University of London Ph.D.) by David Wesley Howell (typescript).

Howell, David W., 1940-, dissertant.

Valley of song,

  • NLW ex 2519.
  • File
  • 1952-1953.

Papers, 1952-1953, of the director Gilbert Gunn relating to the production of the classic Welsh comedy-drama film 'Valley of song' (frequently referred to in these papers as 'Choir practice', the play which it is based on).

Gunn, Gilbert.

Uncle Allan's bumper song book for delinquent railwaymen,

  • NLW ex 2584.
  • File
  • [1930]-[1960].

A typescript undated copy containing the words for eight songs including 'The wild wild railroad man or the ballad of Richard Hilton, 'Pen Cob races' and 'Blaenau town ride', [1930]-[1960].

Two Cycle Pivotal Engine Design,

  • NLW ex 2689.
  • File
  • 2009.

Artist's illustration and key, in colour, of the Davies Two Cycle Pivotal Engine Design.

Trade Unions of Wales,

  • NLW ex 2706.
  • File
  • 1970.

Correspondence and papers, 1970, relating to a symposium of trade unions in Wales, assembled together by the donor Dr H. G. Alun Hughes.

Hughes, H. G. A. (Henry Goronwy Alun), 1921-

The Welsh Clergy 1558-1642,

  • NLW Facs 935
  • File
  • 1998.

A copy of Barrie Williams's PhD thesis 'The Welsh Clergy 1558-1642' (Open University, 1998)

Williams, Barrie, Dr.

Sir Cadwaladr Bryner Jones Papers,

  • GB 0210 CBRNES
  • Fonds
  • 1600-1951 (accumulated [1900-1954]) /

Papers of Sir Cadwaladr Bryner Jones, including personal papers, 1902-1907; lecture notes, [1900s]; correspondence and papers relating to research into the history of cattle, [?1920s]-1951; and miscellaneous papers collected by Sir Cadwaladr Bryner Jones, 1600-1928. The archive does not include any papers relating to his public life.

Jones, Bryner.

Senghenydd mining disaster, 1913.

  • NLW Facs 860.
  • File

Photocopies of papers assembled by Neil Evans whilst researching the Senghennydd mining disaster, 1913, including transcripts of letters from Will Fisher, one of the rescue team, to his cousin; a diary ('the little black book') of the rescue work which inspired Luther Thomas to write his novel The Deep of the Earth (London,1956); together with book reviews and letters, 1966, from the author; and a photocopy of Rev Emlyn Stephens, History of Ebenezer English Baptist Church Senghenydd 1896-1946.

Rugby memorabilia,

  • NLW ex 2655.
  • File
  • 1924-1955.

A small collection of programmes and tickets for Wales rugby matches against England, Ireland, Scotland and New Zealand, 1924-1955.

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