Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1949-1990s (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
95 boxes (accruing)
Context area
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Administrative/Biographical history: Under Peter Preston's editorship different sequences of records were retained for the editor from other sections of the editor's office (executive editors, deputy editors, and managing editors). When the files were removed from the editor's office to alternative storage (first the mezzanine at 119 and later off-site storage), files were placed in sugar bags and given a single sequential 'Editor's Office files' number (some large items e.g. lever arch files, expanding legal wallets were given their own individual numbers in this sequence). As far as possible the original series have been restored and this is reflected in this catalogue.
The first managing editor, Ian Wright, was appointed in 1978.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office
Accruals
System of arrangement
GUA/6/1/1 Editor's records
GUA/6/1/2 Deputy editor's records
GUA/6/1/3 Executive editor's records
GUA/6/1/4 Managing editor's records
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Some files and parts of files contain confidential and personal information and are access restricted in line with the Data Protection Act and business confidentiality.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Access Status
Open(part)
