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The group consists of material relating to Communist Party election campaigns in Britain, but mainly in Wales, including election manifestos, 1964-1987, elections results, 1945-1995, files relating to election campaign arrangements, 1934-1987, electoral reform, 1964-1996, general election leaflets, 1935-1989, and local election leaflets, 1946-1992.

The group includes files of miscellaneous accumulated material relating to the Communist Party, Welsh affairs, devolution, the labour movement, social issues and miscellaneous subjects. They include material produced by the Communist Party Great Britain or Communist Party Wales District, and also documents relating to particular subjects of interest. Some may be research files created by Bert Pearce while preparing an article or leaflet. Most of the files contain information relating to a variety of subjects and only the most significant subjects are noted in the description. They may also occasionally contain minutes of committee meetings, election leaflets, information leaflets, publications, magazines, reports, correspondence, or notes. The dates are often wide ranging since they contain accumulated documents and publications relating to a subject.

The group contains Communist Party of Great Britain Welsh Executive Committee agendas, minutes, and related papers [1958]-1991; with papers relating to the Welsh Committee, to branches in South Wales, to the Wales District and to the Wales Secretariat. Some files include correspondence, press releases, leaflets, material relating to elections, and party education; and occasionally material relating to membership, officers and finance.

The group comprises Communist policy documents on devolution, 1936-1994, papers relating to the Welsh language and culture, 1949-1968, Scotland, 1967-1992, devolution referenda, 1979 and 1997, Campaign for a Welsh Assembly papers, 1987-1993, and Parliament for Wales campaign papers, 1992-1998.

The group consists of newspaper cuttings, 1921-1998, copies of 'Party News' and other newsletters, 1943-1987, papers relating to the South Wales Bookshop, 1884-1991, and drafts and copies of Cyffro and Moving Left in Wales, 1964-1983.

The group comprises papers relating to trade unions, 1892-1998, unemployment and economic policy, 1916-1987, the mining industry and miners' strikes, 1924-1993, and the steel and tinplate industry, 1943-1983.

Many of the files in this series were used for Party education purposes, and many relate to a summer course or weekend school held by the Communist Party. They may include Communist Party education department material, central propaganda department material, arrangements for schools, lists of attendees, speakers' papers, pamphlets, education packs, books, newspaper cuttings, leaflets, and notes by Bert Pearce or his pupils.

Papers relating to roads and railways in North Wales and Shropshire, in which Sir Watkin Williams Wynn had an interest. The first of the two series concerns roads, mainly the legal and financial aspects, 1770-1910; and the second series deals with the construction and funding of various named railways, 1845-1865.

This class consists of material directly related to Thomas Jones's personal and family life. The largest single item consists of correspondence between Thomas Jones and his wife, some of which is of political interest. There are also letters from his daughter and a little material on his son Elphin. There is, in addition, a mass of miscellaneous material relating to his career, to some turning-points in his life, to his family background and to movements with which he was associated in his early days. This material has been broadly classified in terms of his career up to 1919, when it loses coherence. Family correspondence follows, and the class is completed by a volume of miscellanea, relating to his honours, to newspaper comments upon him, to mementoes which he preserved, and to his death. The early material, which stretches back sometimes a couple of generations and includes family trees, etc., is of historical value and may be usefully collated with class U (Sir Henry Jones collection). Arranged into: Background and Career, 1866-1903 (X 1); Socialism and Suffragettes, 1895-1914 (X 2); Career, 1904-1919 (X 3); Cardiff Principalship, 1917-1919 (X 4); Aberystwyth Principalship, 1919 (X 5); Wife: Eirene T. Jones, 1896-1903 (X 6); Wife: Eirene T. Jones, 1903-1935 (X 7); Wife: Letters of condolence, 1935 (X 8); Daughter: Eirene Lloyd Jones, 1921-1932 (X 9); Daughter: Eirene Lloyd Jones, 1933-1955 (X 10); Son, Elphin Lloyd Jones, 1928-1939 (X 11); Honours, 1901-1955; mementoes, 1928-1950, comments on Thomas Jones, 1920-1952, death of Thomas Jones and Memorial Fund, 1955-1956 (X 12).

Copies of the journal Savings, Weekly Campaign Circular and News Letter published by the National Savings Movement. Their purpose was to provide a link between the National Savings Committee and the voluntary workers throughout England and Wales, and a means of passing on ideas, suggestions and information.

The section consists of records relating various other artists' associations in Britain and abroad, 1975-1993.

The section consists of records relating to the provision of opportunities for disabled persons' participation in artistic activities, 1982-1992.

The section consists of papers relating to the Royal National Eisteddfod, 1978-1993.

The section comprises records relating to art in the community, 1978-1991.

The section consists of correspondence with the Welsh Arts Council relating to various topics, reports on the Association, and the Association's responses to the reports, together with a number of guidelines, and leaflets, 1975-1994.