CND CYMRU
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
COMPILED BY KATE SULLIVAN, 1996
CONTENTS
Introduction
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Professor Mansel Davies Donation, 1967
Mary Jones Donation, March 1993
Veronica Wood Donation, March 1993
Vera Jones Donation, April 1993
Bob Cole Donation, August 1993
Fiona Hayes Donation, March 1994
James Stewart Donation, November 1994
INTRODUCTION
The CND movement was founded in 1958 in the wake of the H-Bomb programme,
although it was not the first organization in Britain to campaign for nuclear
disarmament. It quickly gained support, and the intensity of anti-nuclear feeling in
Britain was reflected in the Aldermaston Marches of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The signing of the Partial Test Ban Treaty by the USA and the Soviet Union in 1963
caused support to dwindle somewhat, although CND became a membership
organization in 1966 and continued throughout the 1970s as a smaller, but active,
movement. The arrival in the UK of Cruise Missiles and Trident led to a revival in
the campaign for nuclear disarmament in the 1980s, and consequently CND has
become the largest group of its kind in Britain. It has nearly 100,000 members
nationally, in addition to some 300,000 local members, affiliated organizations such
as Labour CND, Liberal CND, Trade Union CND and the CND Youth Wing. Many
professional members have also formed their own groups, such as the Medical
Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons, Scientists Against Nuclear Weapons and
Teachers for Peace.
Welsh support for CND was enthusiastic from the outset, although actual numbers of
members were relatively few. A branch of CND was established in Cardiff in 1958,
and small local anti-nuclear groups appeared in other parts of Wales, such as the
Aberystwyth Committee on Nuclear Weapons. These independent groups later
became affiliated to the Welsh National Council of the CND. Despite its close
connection with the British CND movement, the National Council remained a
distinctively Welsh organization, and this Welshness still characterizes the activities
of its successor, CND Cymru.
The CND Cymru Archives were donated to the National Library over a number of
years, beginning with the first group presented by Professor Mansel Davies of
Aberystwyth in 1967. The papers have been listed according to the date of donation,
and the original arrangement of the files has been preserved while cataloguing.
GROUP A
PROFESSOR MANSEL DAVIES DONATION, 1967
1
Correspondence and papers
A1
Notes and drafts of speeches, letters and articles by Mansel Davies concerning nuclear
weapons and CND, c. 1950s-60s.
A2
Typescript copies and drafts of articles by Mansel Davies concerning nuclear weapons
and CND, c. 1950s-60s.
A3
Drafts and copies of letters sent by Mansel Davies, 1958-61.
A4
Correspondence, 1958-66, including letters from Philip Noel-Baker, MP, Roderick
Bowen, MP, Dr Pennar Davies, Huw T. Edwards, William George and Lt Col P. Lort
Phillips.
A5
Papers, 1958-61 and undated, concerning CND Cymru, including minutes of meetings
of the Welsh National Council, 1958-9; a programme for a summer school at Coleg
Harlech on the subject of ‘Nuclear Power and Society’, 1960; details of an All Wales
Rally for the renunciation of nuclear weapons held at Aberystwyth in May 1961; and
papers of the Cardiganshire Nuclear Disarmament Group, undated.
A6
Papers, 1958-61, of the Aberystwyth Nuclear Weapons Committee, comprising a
minute book, an address list of committee members, circular letters, leaflets and
details of a mass meeting at the King’s Hall, Aberystwyth, in May 1958, including a
summary of the speeches of Dr Pennar Davies, Professor Josef Rotblat and Lord
Russell.
A7
Minutes and Annual Reports of the British CND movement, 1958-63.
A8
Papers, 1958-63 and undated, of the British CND movement, including constitution,
details of meetings and events, circular letters, drafts of press statements, and a list of
anti-nuclear newsreel films.
Printed material
A9
CND leaflets, c. 1950s-60s.
A10
Journals, pamphlets and articles, 1955-63 and undated, relating to CND.
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A11
Newspaper cuttings, 1957-64 and undated, relating to CND.
GROUP B
MARY JONES DONATION MARCH 1993 (A1993/54)
B1
Papers, 1958-88, concerning the first thirty years of CND, including correspondence,
newspaper cuttings, pamphlets, press releases and an information package, 1988,
outlining the history of CND.
B2
Posters, pamphlets and newsletters, 1980s, concerning Cruise missiles and the
Greenham Common women.
B3
Papers, 1980s, concerning civil defence and the world-wide effects of nuclear war.
B4
Papers, 1983-4, relating to Trident and the Royal Ordnance Factory at Llanishen,
Cardiff.
B5
Correspondence, articles and pamphlets, c. 1983-4, relating to the ‘Farmers for a
Nuclear Free Future’ campaign.
B6
Papers, 1985-7, concerning the Carmarthen Nuclear Bunker,
correspondence, circulars, press statements and the Ombudsman’s report.
including
B7
Correspondence, newsletters and pamphlets, c. 1985-7, concerning nuclear-free zones.
B8
Papers, 1985-8, concerning CND’s election strategy, including briefings, press
releases and correspondence.
B9
Papers, c. 1985-9, relating to Labour CND, including correspondence, briefings,
reports, manifestos and newspaper cuttings.
B10
Papers, c. 1985-92, concerning nuclear energy, power stations and weapons, including
correspondence, newsletters, journals and newspaper cuttings.
B11
Papers, 1985-91, relating to CND Cymru and the media, including newsletters,
pamphlets, reports, briefings, press releases, newspaper cuttings and a CND
information guide to using the media, together with an issue of Radio Active Times,
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December 1988-January 1989. There are also anti-war and anti-nuclear papers
produced by other organizations, including Oxfam, Friends of the Earth and NUPE,
together with an issue of the Welsh Nation, February-March 1990 and two issues of
War Report, a newspaper against wartime censorship produced by independent
journalists, February 1990 and February 1991.
B12
Papers, 1986, relating to America’s ‘Star Wars’ Strategic Defence Initiative [SDI],
including correspondence with David Morris MEP concerning SDI research in Welsh
University Colleges.
B13
Papers, 1986-7, concerning Chernobyl and Trawsfynydd, including press releases,
reports and leaflets.
B14
Papers, pamphlets and newspaper reports, 1986-92, relating to Student CND and the
Campaign Against Military Research on Campus [CAMROC].
B15
Papers, 1987, concerning the ‘Rich World-Poor World’ lunch organized by CND and
War on Want as part of the ‘Bread Not Bombs’ week.
B16
Papers concerning nuclear testing and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty campaign,
1987, including correspondence, reports and press releases, together with papers
relating to the Western Shoshone Women’s Tour, 1992, comprising correspondence,
press releases and three photographs.
B17
Papers, 1987-9, relating to Nuclear-free festivals
correspondence, newsletters and promotional material.
in
Swansea,
including
B18
Papers, 1988-9, relating to the Nuclear-free Festival at Swansea in February 1989,
comprising press releases, newspaper cuttings, promotional material and
correspondence, including letters from Donald Anderson, MP, Lord Cledwyn of
Penrhos, Joan Ruddock, MP, Dafydd Elis Thomas, Gareth Wardell, MP and Alan
Williams, MP.
B19
Papers, 1990-1, relating to the Nuclear Free Festival at Newport in February 1991,
including correspondence, briefings and leaflets.
B20
Papers and correspondence concerning the CND Cymru stall at the Wales Garden
Festival in Ebbw Vale, 1992.
B21
4
Papers, 1992, concerning the views of prospective parliamentary candidates on
nuclear weapons and defence, including correspondence, questionnaires and a CND
discussion paper on election strategy.
B22-3
Newspaper cuttings, 1980s.
GROUP C
VERONICA WOOD DONATION, MARCH 1993 (A1993/55)
C1
Papers, c. 1980-8, relating to the RAF and US Naval bases at Brawdy in
Pembrokeshire, together with a pamphlet entitled ‘Nuclear Power in Wales’, c. 1980;
a photocopy of a factsheet entitled Cyngor, published in America by Wales 21, 1989;
and papers concerning the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State,
undated.
C2
Papers, 1983-4, relating to CND Cymru and local Welsh groups, including
correspondence, minutes of meetings and newsletters.
C3
Papers, 1983-4, relating to CND Cymru and local Welsh groups, including
correspondence, minutes of meetings, newsletters and an issue of Peace Calendar,
August 1984.
C4
Correspondence, 1983-4, concerning membership and local council affiliation to
CND, together with minutes of meetings, newsletters and an issue of West Midlands
Peace Action, February 1984.
C5
Papers, 1984-5, relating to the 1985 Nuclear Free Week, including correspondence
and promotional material.
C6
General Secretary’s file, 1984-6, mainly comprising correspondence concerning
membership and affiliation to CND.
C7
Papers, 1984-7, relating to the British CND movement, CND Cymru and local Welsh
CND groups, including correspondence, minutes of meetings and newsletters,
together with papers, 1984, concerning the miners’ strike.
C8
General Secretary’s file, 1984-6, comprising newsletters, reports, leaflets and
correspondence, including letters from Ann Clwyd, MP and Dafydd Wigley, MP.
C9
5
Newsletters and leaflets, c. 1984-90, relating to CND and CND Cymru.
C10
Papers, 1985, relating to the CND National Council, including agenda, minutes and
reports, together with the CND Annual Conference Report, 1986.
C11
Newsletters and pamphlets of anti-nuclear organizations world-wide, 1985-7.
C12
Papers, 1985-7, including reports, newsletters, pamphlets and leaflets concerning
CND and campaigns against Trident and Molesworth.
C13
National CND and CND Cymru Annual Conference Reports, 1985-8.
C14
Papers, 1985-8, relating to CND and CND Cymru, including correspondence,
minutes, reports, newsletters, press releases, newspaper cuttings, posters and leaflets.
C15
Papers relating to the CND National Council, 1986-7, including agenda and reports.
C16
Papers, 1986-8, relating to CND projects and the Projects Committee, including
correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports and briefings.
C17
Papers, 1986-8, concerning National CND and CND Cymru Committee and Council
meetings, including correspondence, minutes and reports.
C18
Papers relating to nuclear power stations in Britain, 1987-8, including reports, leaflets
and newspapers cuttings.
GROUP D
VERA JONES DONATION, APRIL 1993 (A1993/55A)
D1
CND Cymru papers relating to civil defence, 1988, the St David’s Day of Action,
1989, and CND street polls, 1990-1.
GROUP E
BOB COLE DONATION, AUGUST 1993 (A1993/113)
E1
Papers concerning civil defence, 1983-6, including correspondence and reports of the
CND Cymru Civil Defence Working Group and the Nuclear Free Zones Steering
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Committee, together with the Boundary Commission for Wales Third Periodical
Report, 1983.
E2
Papers, 1984-7, relating to National CND and CND Cymru, including
correspondence, newsletters, pamphlets and leaflets.
E3
Report of a conference held at South Glamorgan County Headquarters in September
1984 on ‘Civil Defence: Nuclear Winter or Nuclear Free Spring’; minutes of
meetings of North Wales CND and North Gwynedd CND Campaign Committee,
1986; and a compilation of press reports and photographs entitled ‘CND in the News’,
1990.
E4
Papers, 1984-90, concerning CND and CND Cymru, including newsletters, briefings,
leaflets and the report of the CND Cymru Annual Conference at Lampeter, 1986.
E5
Papers concerning the arms trade and the militarization of Britain, 1984-91, including
material relating to the ‘war villages’ and training areas of Cophill Downs and
Sennybridge, and the ‘Pembrokeshire Against Radar’ campaign.
E6
CND and CND Cymru Annual Conference Reports, 1984-92, together with
correspondence, minutes of meetings and newspaper cuttings.
E7
Papers, 1985-8, concerning nuclear power, including correspondence, briefings, press
releases, newspaper cuttings, posters, leaflets and newsletters of Welsh and British
anti-nuclear groups.
E8
Newsletters of CND Cymru and local Welsh groups, 1985-92.
E9
Papers, 1985-92, concerning international issues and campaigns, including The
International Shadow Project Handbook, 1985, sponsored by Performers and Artists
for Nuclear Disamarment [PAND], together with correspondence and itineraries
relating to exchange visits between CND Cymru and the Latvian Peace Committee.
E10
Reports and briefings, 1986, concerning the American Strategic Defence Initiative
[‘Star Wars’].
E11
Circular correspondence and briefings, 1986-8.
E12
7
Papers, 1986-9, relating to Trade Union affiliation to CND.
E13
Papers, 1986-9, concerning the ‘Snowball Campaign’, including correspondence,
legal documents, statements, briefings and magazine articles.
E14
Minutes of meetings, 1986-90, including those of Cyngor CND Cymru, the Working
Group, the Staffing Committee and the Finance and General Purposes Committee.
E15
Correspondence, briefings and newsletters concerning Trawsfynydd and Wylfa B,
1987-9, together with papers and reports on nuclear power stations in Britain.
E16
Correspondence and reports relating to Trawsfynydd and Wylfa B, 1987-91, together
with papers on nuclear energy and radioactive waste.
E17
Papers, 1987-91, concerning defence and the Peace Dividend, including
correspondence and reports.
E18
Papers, 1987-91, concerning Trade Union CND, including Annual Reports, minutes of
meetings, briefings and newsletters.
E19
Papers concerning CND fund-raising, 1988-91.
E20
Notes and drafts of speeches, c. 1980s-90s.
E21
Papers, 1990, concerning nuclear power and weapons, including Nuclear Warships
and Naval Nuclear Weapons 1990: A Complete Inventory, by Joshua Handler and
William M. Arkin, together with an agenda and briefing notes for the 1990 Dublin
Conference on a nuclear-free Irish sea.
E22
Papers, 1990-1, concerning the arms trade, including newsletters, briefings and
newspaper cuttings.
E23
Papers relating to the Gulf War, 1990-1, including correspondence, reports,
newsletters, leaflets and newspaper cuttings.
E24
Press releases, 1990-2, together with an issue of Heddwch, 1991, and miscellaneous
papers, including leaflets relating to the ‘Committee of 100’ and the ‘Mass
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Resistance’ campaign, 1961; papers concerning group organization, 1991; and CND’s
‘Fifteen Demands for a Just Peace in the Middle East’, undated.
E25
Papers, 1991-2, concerning Trawsfynydd, including correspondence, newsletters,
press releases and newspaper cuttings.
GROUP F
FIONA HAYES DONATION, MARCH 1994 (A1994/28)
F1
Papers, 1985-90, relating to the Swansea CND and CND Cymru campaign to oppose
the establishment of a nuclear submarine base at Swansea, including correspondence,
briefings, newsletters, leaflets and press releases, together with a Greenpeace ‘Nuclear
Free Seas’ publication entitled A Naval Nuclear Base: the Costs to Portsmouth,
undated.
GROUP G
JAMES STEWART DONATION, NOVEMBER 1994 (A1994/159)
G1
Papers, 1974-88, concerning military research in universities and Student CND,
including correspondence, briefings and newspaper cuttings.
G2
Pamphlets, newsletters and election leaflets, 1982-92, relating to environmental
issues, the Green Party, Greenpeace and the Socialist Environment and Resources
Association [SERA].
G3
Papers, 1983-8, concerning health, including the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear
Weapons and the ‘Beds Not Bombs’ campaign, and the TUC’s NHS campaign.
G4
Papers, 1983-9, relating to civil defence, including correspondence, briefings, reports,
minutes, newsletters and newspaper cuttings, together with details of south Wales
local authorities’ civil defence plans.
G5
Papers, 1984-9, relating to military bases and low flying in England and Wales,
including reports, briefings, newsletters, Parliamentary Questions and newspaper
cuttings, together with issues of Radio Active Times, 1984-6.
G6
Newspaper cuttings, reports and articles, 1985-9, relating to nuclear weapons.
G7
Papers, 1986-9, concerning nuclear energy and power stations, including
correspondence, briefings, minutes, reports, newsletters and newspaper cuttings,
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together with photographic negatives of suspected radio-active waste containers at
Llandudno Junction.
G8
Papers, c. 1987, relating to peace groups in the USA and the ‘People to People’
project to establish links between American groups and peace movements in Britain.
G9
Papers, 1987-9, relating to CND, CND Cymru and Trade Union CND, including
correspondence, newsletters and newspaper cuttings, together with issues of Alter
Plan News, produced by the Joint Action Committee to save the Royal Naval Stores
Depot at Llangennech near Llanelli.
G10
Papers, 1987-9, relating to CND’s campaign against NATO and the ‘Treatment not
Trident’ campaign, including correspondence and newsletters.
G11
An issue of Space and Security News, 1987, a journal published by the American
Institute for Space and Security Studies, containing a number of articles on the
Strategic Defence Initiative [‘Star Wars’], together with reports and leaflets on low
flying in the UK, c. 1990.
G12
The commissioning report to the CND Publications Committee meeting, March 1988,
together with various CND leaflets.
G13
Circular letters and postcards relating to the CND stand at the 1988 National
Eisteddfod in Newport, together with a letter and notes relating to the publication of a
pamphlet by Gwyn A. Williams on Henry Richard as part of a CND centenary
celebration of his death.
G14
Papers concerning the 1988 CND Cymru Annual Conference at Lampeter, together
with material relating to the One World Sponsored Event and the Great Welsh Walk
in July 1988.
G15
Correspondence, circulars and leaflets, 1988-9, concerning the Ex-Services Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament, Youth and Student CND, and the Women’s International
League for Peace and Freedom.
G16
Papers, 1988-9, relating to the CND campaign to prevent nuclear submarines berthing
at south Wales ports, including correspondence, reports, Parliamentary Questions,
press releases and newspaper cuttings.
G17
10
A CND information pack and briefing papers for local groups, 1988-9, together with
the names and addresses of secretaries and contacts, and issues of Campaign News.
G18
CND press releases and newspaper cuttings, 1988-9, together with names and
addresses of press contacts.
G19
Five Amstrad computer disks containing correspondence and material relating to
CND conferences, the press and publicity, 1988-9.
G20
Papers, 1988-90, concerning political parties and Parliamentary matters, including
correspondence, briefings, newsletters, press releases and newspaper cuttings, together
with CND information guides on lobbying MPs and a public opinion poll relating to
the 1989 European Elections. There is also correspondence relating to Denmark’s ban
on warships carrying nuclear weapons, including letters from Ann Clwyd, Wayne
David, Denzil Davies, Paul Flynn, Win Griffiths, Ian Grist, Martin Jones, Ieuan Wyn
Jones, Neil Kinnock and Dafydd Elis Thomas.
G21
Papers, 1988-90, concerning international disarmament, including correspondence,
newsletters, press releases and newspaper cuttings.
G22
Papers, 1988-9, concerning the campaign against NATO, including briefings, reports,
press releases and newspaper cuttings.
G23
Papers concerning the CND Cymru Annual Conference at Aberystwyth, together with
leaflets and a postcard relating to the Swansea Peace Festival in February 1989.
G24
Papers concerning the 1990 CND Cymru Annual Conference at Aberystwyth, together
with minutes of meetings, briefings, newsletters, photographs and papers relating to
the Nuclear Free Wales Festival held at Bangor in February 1990.
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