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- 1975-1991 (Creation)
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1 file
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Records relating to the employment of Geoffey Taylor at the Guardian as assistant editor and leader and Monday column writer, (1975-1991).
Includes correspondence with Peter Preston concerning Taylor's request for redundancy (1975), pay (1977-1989), arrangements for home working (1979), requests for the possibility of being relieved of duty editing, early retirement and working from home (1983), health (1985), interest in early retirement (1986), arrangements for the research and writing of Taylor's Guardian history (1987-1991), the relinquishing of his Monday Column (1989) and retirement (1991); staff changes forms (1978-1991) and correspondence with Alastair Hetherington (former Guardian editor) concerning Taylor's history of the Guardian (1987).
Records relating to Taylor's employment at the Guardian from 1946 to 1975 appear to have been lost in the move from 192 Gray's Inn Road to 119 Farringdon Road as the file contains a note stating: 'file lost in move'.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)
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