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  • This is the admission ticket of Mr J. T. Williams, Welsh Board of Health, Market St, Caernarfon, to the Caernarfon Winter Assizes, 13 October 1936, to the trial of Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine and D. J. Williams. On 8 September 1936, the three defendents, all of whom were prominent members of Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru (the Welsh Nationalist Party), had deliberately set fire to a 'bombing school' which was being built at Penyberth, near Pwllheli.
Admission ticket to the trial of Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine and D. J. Williams, Caernarfon Assizes, 1936 [image 1 of 2]
  • This 'radio talk' was prepared by Saunders Lewis, at the request of the BBC, to be broadcast on 6 December 1930. However, on 4 December 1930, the author was informed that his talk had not been approved by BBC officials and must not be given as it 'was calculated to inflame Welsh national sympathies'. The 'talk' was subsequently published by Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru (the Welsh Nationalist Party) in 1931.
Saunders Lewis, 'The Banned Wireless Talk on Welsh Nationalism' (Caernarvon, 1930) [front cover, image 1 of 8]
  • The front cover of this pamphlet by Gwynfor Evans, President of Plaid Cymru, features an illustration by Ivor Owen of Bob Roberts Tai'r Felin, a renowned Welsh ballad singer, whose home was near to the site of the proposed Tryweryn dam.
Gwynfor Evans, 'Save Cwm Tryweryn for Wales' (Plaid Cymru, 1956) [front cover, image 1 of 27]
  • Saunders Lewis broadcast his historic radio-lecture 'Tynged yr Iaith' (The Fate of the Language) on 13 February 1962. Lewis, a renowned poet and playwright, was a prominent Welsh nationalist who had served as the president of Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru (the Welsh Nationalist Party) between 1926 and 1939. Following the Second World War, Lewis had maintained a relatively low public profile in Wales but the publication of the 1961 census statistics which had revealed that only 26 per cent of the Welsh population could speak Welsh, inspired him to break his silence. In his radio-lecture, 'Tynged yr Iaith', he drew attention to the crisis facing the Welsh language and advocated the adoption of unconstitutional methods and direct-action campaigns on behalf of the language. His lecture provoked an immediate response and is perhaps best-known for providing the inspiration for the establishment of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (the Welsh Language Society) in August 1962.
Saunders Lewis, 'Tynged yr Iaith' (1962) [front cover, image 1 of 17]
Gwynfor Evans, 'The Political Broadcasts Ban in Wales' (Llanelly, 1955) [front cover, image 1 of 7]
  • Pamphlet entitled 'Cam-ffarmio Cymru' by Saunders Lewis, which was published by Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru (the Welsh Nationalist Party) in 1943. Saunders Lewis served as President of Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru between 1926 and 1939. In this pamphlet, Lewis outlines his proposals for a radical agricultural policy for Wales.
Saunders Lewis, 'Cam-ffarmio Cymru' (Caernarfon, 1943) [front cover, image 1 of 6]