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Material collected by Eric Knott while at the Guardian. Includes editorial memoranda, internal correspondence, proofs and photographs.

Administrative/Biographical history: Eric Knott joined the Guardian in 1949 where he worked as subeditor, including as chief foreign subeditor and chief subeditor. He left the Guardian in 1987.

Contains memoranda from Alistair Hetherington circulated to the editorial team. The memos started on 8 February 1963 and were intially titled 'Weekly Information'. The title was later changed to 'Editorial News' to reflect the reduced frequency of distribution.

The memos provide a bulletin of internal news including staff changes, vacancies, newspaper style and content changes, extracts from readers letters, good news stories related to editorial team and other corporate information.

Also included is a memo titled 'Progress and Prospects, 1963-64' dated 1 January 1964 in which Alistair Hetherington reflects on poor newspaper sales in 1963 and changes occuring in 1964. These include expansion of the newspaper and Hetherington's relocation from Manchester to London.

A small number of other memos which focus on a specific issue such as staff changes or foreign correspondents are also included. The file also contains an announcement (and corrections) of the voluntary redundancy of London Editor Gerard Fay, dated 15 December 1966.

Contains internal correspondence, primarily comprising homorously annotated press clippings. Also includes some subbing related memorandum.

Contains a galley proof of an article on Moscow by Victor Zorza and a spoof proof titled 'The Election Graudina - Yesterday's News Tomorrow.'

Contains the following photographs:

• Six colour prints of the grave of Guardian co-founder Jeremiah Garnett in Sale cemetery, nd
• Three black and white prints of Eric Knott at the Guardian' Cross Street office in Manchester, c1964
• Three black and white photographs of staff in the Guardian' Cross Street office in Manchester, c1969-1970.