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Press cuttings of the articles written by Tom Baistow for the News Chronicle from 1949 until 1960.

It includes the press cuttings of the articles written under pseudonym, Andrew Lawson from 1956 until 1960.

The original press cuttings files were created by the library at the News Chronicle and taken by Tom Baistow on the closure of the newspaper.

Transcripts for print and radio written for the BBC by Tom Baistow. Also includes a file of Baistow's BBC radio contracts.

Only certain segments of this work have been dated, the section has an estimated date range of between 1971 and 1976, the unmarked pieces may have been produced before or after this time. There were originally four files in this section when the work was donated to the archive. These have since been resorted in order to move non-BBC copy to a separate section (ETB/8) and merge all BBC Copy into one file (ETB/6/2).

The work in this series can be grouped into four sections:

Transcripts for Women's Hour on BBC Radio 2, for which Baistow was a regular news commentator, written between 2 September 1971 and 3 May 1973. All are dated and are in chronological order.

News commentary transcripts written for the BBC World Service. These span from 1 May to 5 June 1972 and are also in chronological order.

Four transcripts for BBC Overseas, all part of the About Britain series, written between 7 October and 28 October 1977.

A selection of copy from Letter from London, presumably a BBC talk show aired on BBC World Service. All of these pieces are undated.

Contracts in the name of Tom Baistow, primarily for interviews and discussions on BBC radio shows but also for BBC television.

Programmes include Woman's Hour on Radio 4, Newsbeat on Radio 1, The World at One on Radio 4, and Nationwide, a current affairs show on BBC1.

Cuttings from various newspapers on bingo

Cuttings from various newspapers about press circulation

Cuttings from various newspapers about colour supplements in newspapers.

Cables written and received by Tom Baistow for and from the Daily Herald office in London as correspondent in the Congo, January - February 1961.

In addition there are copy for articles, identification cards and other correspondence.

These were kept by Tom Baistow in a folder titled 'Congo cables'.

Press cuttings of articles written by Tom Baistow for the Daily Herald from his work as correspondent in the Congo from January until February 1961.

In addition there are three press cuttings of articles written by Tom Baistow for The Spectator, News Chronicle and Daily Herald unrelated to the Congo crises.

These press cuttings were retained in a different file to general press cuttings by Tom Baistow.

Correspondence of Tom Baistow as NUJ father of the chapel. This correspondence reflects all the efforts that Tom Baistow made to analyse the difficult situation to prevent the closure of the News Chronicle and to help his colleagues to find other jobs.

It includes three lists of the members of the News Chronicles staff with their positions at the News Chronicles and their new jobs.