Timeline of WCIA Digitised Archives, 1973-2023: Recording half a century of activism

Over 2022-23, WCIA Volunteers have been digitising materials from the Temple Archives on WCIA’s half a century of internationalist work from 1973 to today. These resources are all brought together in the table below, listed by year for ease of reference.

Collections Shortcuts:

Digitised archival collections curated on People’s Collection Wales:

Annual Reports Content Grid 1973-1988 – this spreadsheet spotlights the themes and summarises the content of WCIA’s Annual Reports over its first 15 years.

WCIA Albums on Flickr

Oral Histories on Youtube

WCIA’s early Annual Reports in the Temple Archives

WCIA’s Digitised Archives

Year Digitised Annual Reports Newsletters Other Notable Publications  Notable Wales & World Events
1968 UNA 1967-68 Annual Report  UNA Wales Newsletters Album 24 Oct 1968 UN Day Western Mail WCIA article UN Human Rights Year
1969 Man on the Moon
1970 1970 UNA Wales Annual Report
1971 Feb 1971 UNA Wales Newsletter – Welsh Centre for International Affairs
1972 1972 UNA Wales Annual Report
1973 WCIA Launch – Account of Opening Ceremony
WCIA Staff Roles at Founding
UN Information Centre for Wales – Publications List (Temple Library)
Britain joins EEC
1974 1974 WCIA Report 1974 Feb WCIA Newsletter – Opening of WCIA
1974 June WCIA Newsletter
UN International Population Year
1975 1975 WCIA Report WCIA Int Women’s Year Report UN International Year of Women;
Welsh Assmebly proposed @ Temple of Peace
1976 1976 WCIA Report
1977 1977 WCIA Report
1978 1978 WCIA Report
1979 1979 WCIA Report 1979 WCIA Newsletter Int’l Year of the Child International Year of Child;
Wales rejects Devolution Referendum 
1980 1980 WCIA Report 1980 Summer WCIA Newsletter Welsh Centre UN35 Appeal Wales Anti-Apartheid Movement
1981 1981 WCIA Report 1981 Summer WCIA Newsletter – World Food Day; 1981 Winter WCIA Newsletter – Duchess Visit Greenham Common CND Peace March + Camp
1982 1982 WCIA Report Wales EC on Human Rights Conference CND Cymru founded
1983 1983 WCIA Report 1983 Winter WCIA Newsletter – 10 years Old!; 1983 Summer WCIA Newsletter – Defence & Security
1984 1984 WCIA Report 1984 Summer WCIA Newletter Report on AO Level Development Education Syllabus; Gwent Ethiopia Conference; Bangor Ethiopia Conference Ethiopia Famine / Live Aid;
Miner’s Strikes
1985 1985 WCIA Report WCIA Standing Conference, Minutes Book 1969-1985 Dolen Cymru Lesotho link launched
1986 1986 WCIA Report 1986 UN Secretary General WCIA Address
1987 The Humane Race’ – WCIA 50th Anniversdary Appeal
1988 1988 WCIA Report Temple 50th Anniversary Booklet WCIA – The Way Ahead’ Consultants’ Report
Rights of the Child’ Conference
1988 Garden of Peace Plans – album; Workcamp Album
1989 1989 UNA IYS Exchange Programme Review 1989 Architects drawings WW1+WW2 Books of Remembrance Display; 1989 Temple of Peace Acoustics Report Fall of Berlin Wall
1990 1990 WCIA Report
1991 1991 WCIA Report Gulf War
1992 1992 WCIA Report EU Maastricht Treaty
1993 1993 Spring WCIA Newsletter – Future of Europe 1993 UN50 Anniversary Events Report
1994 1994 WCIA Report WCIA / UNICEF UN 50th Anniversary Year Appeal End of Apartheid
1995 1995 50th Anniversary UNA Wales – Short History WCIA / UNICEF 5 Continents Concert; WCIA / UNA Wales UN50 ‘Agenda for Peace’ Concert
1996 1996 WCIA Report
1997 1997 WCIA Report 1997 UNA Exchange Press Clippings Devolution Referendum ‘Yes for Wales’; Jubilee 2000 Birmingham G8
1998 1998 WCIA Report Alternative EU Summit, WCIA / Cynefin y Werin EU Summit in Cardiff
1999 1999 ESDGC Devolution Briefing WCIA / Cyfanfyd – Education for Sustainabel Development & Global Citizenship Welsh Assembly elected
2000 2000 ‘An International Agenda for the Assembly’ WCIA + Cynefin y Werin UN Millennium Development Goals
2001 2001 WCIA Report 2001 Cardiff & Vale Peace Festival
2001 CEWC DfID ESDGC Mini Grant Project Report
2002 2002 WCIA Summer Newsletter 2002 Pocket Book of Peace Fairtrade Wales campaign set up
2003 2003 WCIA Report 2003 Cardiff & Vale Peace Festival  Wales MDGs Task Force set up
2004 2004 CEWC Cymru Annual Report A Volunteer Peace Service for Wales’ – WCIA / Cynefin y Werin
2004 Cardiff & Vale Peace Festival
Tsunami Relief Appeal
2005 2005 International Manifesto – WCIA / Cynefin y Werin;
UNA Exchange Short History 2005 Sheila Smith
Make Poverty History campaign
2006 2006 World Schools Debating Championships Wales for Africa launched
2007 Gold Star / Wales Africa Community Links launch
2008
2009 Wales International Development Hub launch
2010 2010 April WCIA Newsletter ‘New Future for WCIA’ All Together’ – History of UNA Workcamps
Welsh Civil Society and the UN Millennium Development Goals
Size of Wales launched
2011 2011 May WCIA Newsletter ‘Wales Int’l Development Summit’
2012
2013 2013 Wales Africa Community Links Report IF Campaign
2014 Wales for Peace
2015 2015 WCIA Report Hub Cymru Africa
2016 2016 WCIA Report
2017 2017 WCIA Report
2018 2018 WCIA Report Temple80
2019 2019 WCIA Report
2020 2020 WCIA Report
2021 2021 WCIA Report
2022 2022 WCIA Report
2023
2024