Identity area
Reference code
GUA/6/1/2/1/2/2
Title
General correspondence - B
Date(s)
- November 1981- September 1988 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 file
Context area
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Includes letters and copy letters offering articles for publications, making complaints about previous issues, criticisms of the Guardian's coverage of the Royal Family following the birth of Princess Beatrice of York in August 1988, references to general elections and to the case of civil servant, Sarah Tisdall who leaked Ministry of Defence documents to the Guardian. There is also a series of letters from Tony Benn MP concerning misleading articles and a letter from David Beresford relating to his book on the 1981 Irish hunger strike.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; David McKie and Peter Cole
Accruals
System of arrangement
Chronological
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Subject to access restrictions in line with the Data Protection Act.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Access Status
Open(part)
Closed until
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Cole; Peter; journalist and academic (Subject)
- McKie; David John (1935-); journalist (Subject)
- Benn; Anthony Neil Wedgwood (1925-2014); politician (Subject)
- Beresford; David (1947-2016); journalist and writer (Subject)
- Tisdall; Sarah; civil servant (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Status
Catalogued