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- 29 January 1988 - 3 December 1990 (Creation)
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Minutes, reports, invitations, programmes, invoices and correspondence with attendees, IPI members and special guests concerning International Press Institute (IPI) seminars, conferences, lunches and dinners, 29 January 1988 - 3 December 1990.
Includes papers relating to the following IPI events:
Lunch with John Birt, deputy general BBC, 29 January 1988
'Journalism in the nineties' seminar, 26 February 1988
Lunch with Sir Nicholas Goodison, London stock exchange chairman, 30 June 1988
Seminar with Louis Blom-Cooper (chairman of the Press council), June 1988
Meeting of the Executive Board in New York, United States, [June 1988]
Reuters luncheon, November 1988
Annual dinner with Douglas Hurd, MP, 5 December 1988
Lunch with Lord Mackay of Clashfern, 30 January 1989
Lunch with Tom King, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 22 February 1989
Lunch with the Soviet Ambassador, Leonid M Zamyatin, 10 June 1988
Lunch with Tim Renton MP, 6 July 1989
Lunch with Roy Hattersley, MP, 2 November 1989
Board meeting in Budapest, Hungary, 16 - 18 November 1989
Lunch with David Mellor, MP, 30 November 1989
Annual dinner with Sir Geoffrey Howe, 4 December 1989
Lunch with Kenneth Baker, MP, 7 February 1990
Lunch with Christopher Patten, MP, 26 February 1990
Lunch with Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Governor of the Bank of England, 18 June 1990
Lunch with David Waddington, QC, MP, 10 July 1990
Lunch with Henry Catto, Ambassador of the United States of America, 17 July 1990
Association of British Editors and IPI seminar on the Calcutt proposals on privacy, 16 October 1990
Lunch with Marmaduke Hussey, BBC Chairman, 21 November 1990
Annual dinner with John Smith, MP, 3 December 1990
Also includes financial statements for the year ended 31 March 1988; list of members' dues and contributions, 30 June 1988 and an analysis of a MORI poll on public attitudes to the press, 16 October 1990
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)
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- Preston; Peter John (1938-2018); journalist and editor of the Guardian (Subject)
- International Press Institute (1950-); press organisation (Subject)
- Whitelaw; William Stephen Ian (1918-1999); Viscount; politician (Subject)
- Birt; John (1944-); Baron Birt; television executive (Subject)
- Goodison; Sir; Nicholas Proctor (1934-); chairman of Quilter Goodison & Co, knight (Subject)
- Blom-Cooper; Sir; Louis Jacques (1926-2018); senior barrister (Subject)
- Reuters Ltd (1865-); news agency (Subject)
- Hurd; Douglas Richard (1930 -); politician (Subject)
- King; Tom (1933-); Baron King of Bridgwater; politician (Subject)
- Renton; Timothy (1932-); Baron Renton of Mount Harry; politician (Subject)
- Hattersley; Roy Sydney George (1932-2026); politician and writer (Subject)
- Mellor; David John (1949-); politician, barrister and journalist (Subject)
- Baker; Lord; Kenneth Wilfred (1934-); Baker of Dorking, Baron of Ilford in the County of East Sussex; politician (Subject)
- Patten; Christopher Francis (1944-); Baron Patten of Barnes; politician (Subject)
- Leigh-Pemberton; Robert (1927-); Baron Kingsdown; lawyer and businesman (Subject)
- Smith; John (1938-1994); politician (Subject)
- Hussey; Lord; Marmaduke James (1923-2006); chairman of the BBC (Subject)
- Mackay; Lord; James Peter Hymers (1927-); Lord Mackay of Clashfern; politician and QC (Subject)
- Waddington; Lord; David Charles (1929-2017); Baron Waddington of Read; politician and QC (Subject)
- Howe; Sir; Richard Edward Geoffrey (1926-2015); Baron Howe of Aberavon; politician (Subject)