'Yes for Wales' 1997 Referendum Campaign Records,

The collection comprises: Group 1: papers, 1997-1998, deriving from the Cardiff HQ of the 'Yes for Wales' campaign, including correspondence, strategy papers, minutes of committees and sub-groups, campaign materials, conference papers, financial papers, material emanating from the various Yes Supporting Groups, and papers deriving from several local support groups, among them Swansea, Pontypridd, Ceredigion and Neath. Group 2 consists of correspondence, press releases, governmental publications, strategy papers and campaign materials, 1997-1998. Group 3 comprises correspondence, minutes and agenda, strategy papers, financial papers, membership papers, press and media papers, newsletters, volumes of press cuttings, papers relating to each of the political parties in Wales, other support groups and a few papers relating to the 'No' campaign in 1997.

Arranged into three groups by provenance (as noted in immediate source of acquisition above).

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Yes for Wales Campaign per Ms Mari James, Vice Chair of the Campaign; Donation; 1997 and 1998
Mr Ioan Bellin; Cardiff; Donation; 1999
Mr Leighton Andrews; Cardiff; Donation; 1999
Mr David Egan and Mr Chris Simpson; Donation; 1997
Mr Gareth Richards; Donation; 1998

Title supplied from contents of fonds.

A hard copy of the catalogue is available at the National Library of Wales at NLW, Minor Lists and Summaries, 2000, pp. 87-91. The catalogue can also be accessed online.

August 2006.

Compiled by J. Graham Jones for the ANW project. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: NLW, list of the 'Yes for Wales' 1997 Referendum Campaign Records in NLW, Minor Lists and Summaries, 2000, pp. 87-88;

Usual copyright regulations apply.

Action: All the papers received by the National Library have been retained..

Accruals are possible.

For papers relating to the No Campaign, see NLW ex 2039.

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