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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Cymorth chwilio | Finding Aid - Huw T. Edwards Papers, (GB 0210 HUWRDS) Cynhyrchir gan Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Argraffwyd: Mai 05, 2017 Printed: May 05, 2017 Wrth lunio'r disgrifiad hwn dilynwyd canllawiau ANW a seiliwyd ar ISAD(G) Ail Argraffiad; rheolau AACR2; ac LCSH Description follows ANW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.;AACR2; and LCSH https://archifau.llyfrgell.cymru/index.php/huw-t-edwards-papers-2 archives.library .wales/index.php/huw-t-edwards-papers-2 Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Allt Penglais Aberystwyth Ceredigion United Kingdom SY23 3BU 01970 632 800 01970 615 709 [email protected] www.llgc.org.uk Huw T. Edwards Papers, Tabl cynnwys | Table of contents Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information .............................................................................................. 3 Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch ......................... 3 Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content .......................................................................................................... 4 Trefniant | Arrangement .................................................................................................................................. 5 Nodiadau | Notes ............................................................................................................................................. 4 Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points ............................................................................................................... 5 Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions ............................................................................................................ 6 - Tudalen | Page 2 - GB 0210 HUWRDS Huw T. Edwards Papers, Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information Lleoliad | Repository: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Teitl | Title: Huw T. Edwards Papers, ID: GB 0210 HUWRDS Virtua system control vtls003844103 number [alternative]: Project identifier ANW [alternative]: Dyddiad | Date: 1894-1974 (accumulated [c. 1923]-1974) / (dyddiad creu | date of creation) Disgrifiad ffisegol | 0.222 cubic metres (9 boxes) Physical description: Lleoliad ffisegol | ARCH/MSS (GB0210) Physical location: Dyddiadau creu, golygu a dileu | Dates of creation, revision and deletion: Nodyn | Note Title supplied from contents of fonds. Some items postdate Huw [generalNote]: T. Edwards' death. These include letters of condolence to his daughter and press cuttings on his death, 1970, and correspondence concerning the deposit of his papers at the National Library of Wales, 1974. Papers relating to Hughes and Son, Wrexham, pre-date Huw T. Edwards. Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch Nodyn | Note Huw Thomas Edwards ('Huw Pen Ffridd', 1892-1970) was a trades union leader, Labour politician and poet. He was born 19 November 1892 at Ro-wen, in the Conwy valley, Caernarfonshire. He received little formal education; from 1907 he worked at the Penmaenmawr quarry, Caernarfonshire, and in the coal mines of the Rhondda valley, Glamorgan. After serving in World War I he returned to work in the quarries of North Wales, and helped to set up branches of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) and the Labour Party. He was the agent of Thomas ap Rhys, the Labour candidate for Caernarfon Boroughs in the 1929 general election. In 1932, he was appointed a full-time TGWU Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 3 GB 0210 HUWRDS Huw T. Edwards Papers, official, based at Shotton, Flintshire, and served as area secretary for North Wales and Ellesmere Port, 1934-1953. He became the first Chairman of the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire in 1949, and produced important reports on devolution and on depopulation in rural Wales. He resigned from the Council in 1958, when the Macmillan Government failed to implement the Council's recommendations regarding the appointment of a Secretary of State for Wales. He chaired various other bodies including the Welsh Tourist Board, and served as a member of the Board of Directors of Television Wales and the West (TWW), the National Broadcasting Council of the BBC, Gorsedd y Beirdd, and the Council of the National Eisteddfod. He was a director of Gwasg Gee press, Denbigh, and a Vice-President of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. He owned the periodical Y Faner in the 1950s and was the president of the Welsh Language Society. He was a long-time member of the Labour Party, apart from a period as a member of Plaid Cymru, 1959-1965. For many years he served as the Chairman of the Flintshire Labour Party and the North Wales Labour Federation. Huw T. Edwards also wrote both poetry and prose. His autobiographies, Tros y tresi (1956) and Troi'r drol (Denbigh, 1963), were translated into English as Hewn From The Rock (Cardiff, 1967). He edited a poetry anthology Ar y cyd (Bala, 1962), and published his own volume of poetry Tros f'ysgwydd (Denbigh, 1959). It Was My Privilege (1957) was a history of the trades unions in North Wales. He married Margaret Owen in 1920, and, following her death in June 1966, he spent his last years at his daughter's home in Sychdyn, Flintshire. He died on 9 November 1970 at Abergele hospital and was cremated at Pentrebychan, Wrexham. Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content Letters addressed to Huw T. Edwards, 1929-1970, and carbon copies of letters sent by him, 1945-1969, concerning politics, literature, and the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire, including letters to and from political figures in the Labour Party and Plaid Cymru, and Welsh literary figures; pocket diaries, 1929-1968; minute books of the North Wales Labour Federation, 1923-1930; reports and memoranda concerning the activities of the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire, political life in North Wales, and the activities of TWW, 1935-1966; press cuttings relating to Edwards' political career and the activities of the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire, 1930-1968; illuminated addresses and distinctions presented to him, 1933-1969; miscellaneous printed items, 1912-1967; poems by him, 1950-1958; and other personal papers, 1926-1967; and acquired papers, notably letters from Sir Owen M. Edwards to Hughes and Son, Wrexham, printers, 1894-1895. Nodiadau | Notes Nodiadau teitl | Title notes Ffynhonnell | Immediate source of acquisition Deposited by Mr Gwilym Huws, Tal-y-bont, Ceredigion, 1974. Converted into a donation, 1999, by Mrs Eleri Huws, Tal-y-bont, and Miss Sioned Williams, London, Huw T. Edwards' granddaughters, together with a second donation. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 4 GB 0210 HUWRDS Huw T. Edwards Papers, Trefniant | Arrangement Arranged by date of deposit with each deposit arranged into correspondence, pocket diaries, subject files and items, certificates and distinctions, personalia and miscellanea, scrapbooks of press cuttings. Cyfyngiadau ar fynediad | Restrictions on access Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to sign the 'Modern papers - data protection' form. Amodau rheoli defnydd | Conditions governing use Usual copyright regulations apply. Rhestrau cymorth | Finding aids A hard copy of the catalogue is available at the National Library of Wales. Ychwanegiadau | Accruals Accruals are not expected. Nodiadau eraill | Other notes • Statws cyhoeddiad | Publication status: Published • Dynodwr sefydliad | Institution identifier: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points • Plaid Cymru. • Great Britain. Council for Wales and Monmouthshire. • TWW Ltd. • North Wales Labour Federation. • Edwards, Huw T. (Huw Thomas), 1892-1970 -- Archives (pwnc) | (subject) • Edwards, Owen Morgan, Sir, 1858-1920 (pwnc) | (subject) • Broadcasting -- Wales. (pwnc) | (subject) • Labor unions -- Wales -- Flintshire. (pwnc) | (subject) • Political parties -- Wales, North. (pwnc) | (subject) • Welsh poetry -- 20th century (pwnc) | (subject) • Labor leaders -- Diaries (pwnc) | (subject) • Flintshire (Wales) (pwnc) | (subject) • Wales -- Politics and government -- 20th century (pwnc) | (subject) Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 5 GB 0210 HUWRDS Huw T. Edwards Papers, Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions Cod cyfeirnod | Ref Teitl | Title Dyddiadau | Statws mynediad | Cynhwysydd | code Dates Access status Container A. vtls005285909 Otherlevel - Correspondence, 1894-1970. A. ISYSARCHB59 Cyfres | Series A1. vtls005285910 ISYSARCHB59: General correspondence addressed to Huw T. Edwards, Dyddiad | Date: 1929-1970. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation) Lleoliad ffisegol | Physical location: ARCH/MSS (GB0210) Nodyn | Note: Preferred citation: A1. Ffeil / rhestr eitemau | File / item list Cod cyfeirnod | Ref Teitl | Title Dyddiadau | Statws mynediad | Cynhwysydd | code Dates Access status Container A1/1-57. Otherlevel - General correspondence 1929-1949. A1/1-57. vtls005285911 addressed to Huw T. Edwards, ISYSARCHB59 A1/1. vtls005285912 File - R. Price Jones, Divisional 1929, Oct. 25. A1/1. ISYSARCHB59 Controller, Ministry of Labour, Employment Department, Law Courts, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Huw T. Edwards has been ..., A1/2. vtls005285913 File - E. Marsh, Treasury Chambers, 1929, Dec. 30. A1/2. ISYSARCHB59 Whitehall. The improvement