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Memos, reports, readers' surveys and updates gathered by Natalie Bennett, editor of Guardian Weekly, during research for the 90th anniversary of the Guardian Weekly. Includes:

• Two page A4 memo from Patrick Ensor to Rhiannon Griffths in the advertising and planning department about the redesign of the Guardian Weekly and the changing editorial structure of the paper by adding a finance page. (c1993)
• Six page summary of Guardian Weekly Readers Survey conducted in 2000, detailing the key findings, demographic profile, readership and subscription patterns and reading motivations and preferences of the Guardian Weekly readers (7 September - 13 September 2000)
• One page Guardian Weekly Reader Survey for 2002, including demographic profile, purchaser comparisons, top occupations, readership and subscription patterns and reading motivations and preferences of Guardian Weekly reader (14 - 20 November 2002)
• Four page memo by Alan Rusbridger on expanding Guardian Weekly readership in North America (11 November 2003)
• 23 page full review of Guardian Weekly Reader Survey 2002, including statistical analysis of circulation figures, advertising rates, personal finance. Includes a breakdown of the readership on their health insurance choices, charitable giving and cultural tastes. Also includes details on distance learning offers (January - December 2002)
• 11 page Guardian Weekly Summary Research Report for October 2005 (September - October 2005)
• 16 page review of Guardian Weekly's US Edition for 2005 (May 2005)
• 6 page review of Guardian Weekly, US edition for 2004 (June - August 2004)
• Three page memo by Patrick Ensor regarding the redesign of the newspaper (April 2007)

9 bound notebooks and 2 spiral notebooks

This is the final version of the Guardian Weekly podcast forr 19 September 2007. Track listing:

00.00 Abbey International Ad.
00.20 Presenter Mark King introduces the Guardian Weekly's headlines.
02.10 International Institute of Strategic Studies publishes a review of Iran and terrorsm affecting the United Kingdom.
06.23 United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force is sent to Darfur under the command of Canadian general Romeo Dallaire.
09.44 John Dennis interviews Guardian financial editor Nils Pratley.
13.54 Jessica Cartner-Morley discusses dangerously thin models at London Fashion Week.
17.04 Guardian Weekly 'Letter' from Philip Briggs, British School teacher living in Rio de Janeiro.
20.20 Discussion on discovery of the Terracotta Army manufactured in the reign of China's first dynastic ruler.

The Guardian Weekly set up an international correspondence scheme in 1932. Those persons who participated lived in countries such as the United States, Austria, Germany, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

These two files of personal correspondence, including a number of postcards and photographs, were the result of participation in the scheme by Kathleen Drake of Brighouse, Yorkshire.
Creator: Drake, Kathleen; c1922 -

Two CDs and three MP3 files of recordings of the Guardian Weekly podcasts from the 19th and 26th September 2007. The podcasts are hosted by Mark King and produced by Guardian Weekly assistant editor Isobel Montgomery. The podcasts explore news from around the world on features about political, economic and cultural affairs. Each day also includes an interview with a British person overseas about their life abroad.

Guardian Weekly podcast rehearsal for the 19 September 2007 podcast. Includes:

00.00 Headlines: America's proxy war with Iran; Assessment of chance of success for international peace keeping force in Darfur; Cuban healthcare system gets first world results on a third world budget.
04.40 Advert for Abbey International.
12.20 International peace-keeping force in Darfur in detail.
15.42 Item on Northern Rock mortgage bank in UK.
20.11 Dangerously thin models at London Fashion Week with Guardian fashion editor Jessica Cartner-Morley.
24.14 Discovery of the Terracotta Army and underground government system created for the first Emperor of China.
29.55. 'Letter' from Philip Briggs on living in Rio de Janeiro and teaching at the British school.

Rehearsal for the 26 September 2007. Track listing:

01.28 Headline rehearsals including: massive demonstrations in Burma against country's rulers; Floods across a swathe of Africa; Interview with Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brasilia, on the eve of his 100th Birthday.
02.39 Abbey International ad.
03.00 Mark King further rehearsals for headlines.
05.45 Demonstrations in Burma over the country's rulers.
09.54 Iranian President Ahmadinejad is to address United Nations General Assembly in New York after lecturing at academic institutions.
15.56 Interview with NGO Peace One Day founder Jeremy Gilley on his activities to promote peace.
20.43 Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth and the Trade Union's agenda to extend rights to agency workers who are mostly migrants.
24.31 Item on whether Oxford and Cambridge Universities remain elite institutions.

Thirty four letters sent and received by Kathleen Drake as part of the Guardian Weekly's international correspondence scheme. Kathleen's outgoing letters are carbon copies of the originals or typescript transcriptions of postcards etc.

Correspondents include people based in the United States, Austria, Germany, Canada, Australia and elsewhere. Subjects covered include: America, New England, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, American Elections, baseball, apartment buildings, Prohibition, skating and sleighing, maple syrup, molasses, baked beans, walking in the Lake District , holidays in Blackpool, bicycling, learning to drive, Whit Sunday, Rush bearing, gardens, evening classes, clothes, the weather and Kathleen's engagement.

Of particular note is Kathleen's correspondence with Virginia Remington of Newtown Centre, Massachusetts, USA who paid a visit to Brighouse in the late 1930s. Both women were secretaries in their late teens / early 20s. The majority of correspondence in the file dates from 1932-33, but correspondence with Virginia dates up to 1936.

Twenty two letters sent between Kathleen Drake, from Brighouse, Yorkshire, England and Miss Virginia Remington of Newtown Centre, Massachusetts, USA, continuing their pre-war correspondence at GUW/1/1.

Subjects covered include: post war working conditions, housing, the cold weather, food scarcity, holidays, books, family matters and nylon stockings.

The archive is small and fragmented.It contains editorial notebooks; personal correspondence between readers; and the surveys, memos and reports of staff including Patrick Ensor,Natalie Bennett, Will Ricketts and Alan Rusbridger.

Administrative/Biographical history: The Guardian Weekly, the international edition of the Guardian, was launched a week after the July 1919 Treaty of Versailles concluded the peace agreement between Germany and the Allied powers that ended the first world war. The new paper was intended to extend the reach of the Manchester Guardian, particularly in the United States, and to present “what is best and most interesting in the Guardian, what is most distinctive and independent of time, in a compact form”. The first issues were created with re-used type already set for the daily paper. The Weekly’s initial reception was good, with the majority of sales in the United States.

The Weekly's early editors were typically correspondents who had returned to Manchester from distinguished foreign postings. In 1969, under the editorship of John Perkin, the Guardian Weekly first began to display pictures – often a 'chocolate box' English scene – on its front page. The paper took on a 12,000-strong subscription list from Le Monde's English edition when it folded in 1971, as well as four pages of Le Monde copy used to augment Guardian articles in the Weekly. In 1975, a content deal was also struck with the Washington Post. During Perkin's editorship the Weekly was able to boast Nelson Mandela, then incarcerated in Pollsmoor prison, as one of its readers. Mandela described the paper in his autobiography as a “window on the wider world”.

In 1993, Patrick Ensor took over as editor and oversaw the redesign of the Weekly, which then began to include copy from the Observer for the first time. During his editorship the Guardian Weekly offices also moved from Cheadle, South Manchester, to join the rest of the Guardian on London's Farringdon Road.

Under Ensor, huge shifts in technology changed the production of the paper. In 1991, Perkins had overseen the first transmission of pages to the Australian print site by modem, but Ensor, in London, saw a chance to leapfrog over the Guardian’s first bespoke computer system and employ Quark XPress (desktop publishing software which at that time was used mainly for magazine production). The newspaper, which had been half-broadsheet sized for a large part of its life, became a tabloid. When The Guardian became a 'Berliner' sized paper in 2005, the Guardian Weekly shrunk to a 'half-Berliner'.

Patrick Ensor died in 2007. By this time most subscribers to the Guardian Weekly enjoyed internet access to content. Natalie Bennett was appointed as Ensor’s successor, and her editorship coincided with the Guardian’s move to a digital-first publishing strategy. In 2007 a digital edition of the Weekly was created. An editor’s blog was added to the Weekly’s output, direct feedback was encouraged (not just through the letters page), and a presence on social media sites Facebook and Twitter came soon after. Under Bennett’s leadership the Weekly upped its coverage of environmental issues and the developing world, while de-emphasising its UK and US coverage.

Abby Deveney edited the Guardian Weekly from 2012 to 2017. Under her, the Weekly embraced long-form journalism, with a greater emphasis on insightful writing, deep analysis and lively features. The launch in 2011 of a Guardian US website edited from New York, followed two years later by a Sydney-based Australia digital presence increased the Weekly’s coverage opportunities in those key territories. In 2017, Britain, Australia, the US and Canada were the Weekly’s top markets, followed by New Zealand, France and Germany. With a following in more than 170 countries, the Weekly’s audience is spread around the world.

In October 2018, under the editorship of Will Dean, the Guardian Weekly was relaunched as a news magazine.