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File of correspondence relating to the employment of staff members and contributors to The Observer, with a surname beginning with A, some undated.

Primary correspondents are KP Obank and David Astor.

Staff and contributors involved include: Abu Abraham (cartoonist); Mark Abrahams; Ian Adie; Roger Alton; John Ardagh; John Arlott; Mark Arnold-Forster; Isaac Ascher; Stephen Ashley; Erich Auerbach (photographer).

Other correspondents include: Ronald Harker; Colin Legum; Peter Gibbings; George Seddon; John Pringle; John Thompson; Eric Newby; Roger Harrison; Bryn Campbell.

Some undated.

File of correspondence relating to the employment of staff members and contributors to The Observer, with a surname beginning with B. Primary correspondents include KP Obank and Peter Gibbings.

Staff and contributors involved include: Caroline Baker; Jeremy Banks; Frank Barber; DStP Barnard; William Belcher (illustrator); John Berger; Humphrey Berkeley; Ian Berry (photographer); Drusilla Beyfus; John Birks; Godfrey Blakeley; Tom Blau (photographer); Myrna Blumberg; Walter Bor; Arthur Bourne; Samuel Brittan; Denis Brogan; Tony Brooks; Bob Brooks; Ronald Bryden.

Other correspondents include: Desmond Goch; David Astor; Donald Trelford; Colin Legum; John Thompson; John Steel; Bryn Campbell; Roger Harrison.

Signed minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors of Guardian Newspapers Limited (GNL) from 21 November 1967 (first meeting) until 18 December 1974. Not indexed.
Meetings were held at 192 Grays Inn Road, London or 3 Cross Street, Manchester.

Present or attending the meetings are (in order of appearance): PW Gibbings; Alastair Hetherington; MGA Jack; HG Milner; GP Taylor; WH Thomas; JC Markwick; Stanley Porter; BLB Hutchings (Lovell, White & King); JJT Stephens (Lovell, White & King); FA Ravenscroft (Cooper Bros & Co); MA Anderson; JHM Kelvie; HC Thompson; JM Cole; RS Rix; NH Thompson; and HJ Abbiss.

The first meeting of the board of directors records the initial administration of the new company including: the incorporation of the company; appointment of directors and secretary; recording of the registered office of the company as 3 Cross Street, Manchester; recording of the company bank account to be opened; recording the common seal of the company (impressed into minutes); and the transfer of shares and the register of members.

Regular items discussed at the meetings include newspaper sales and promotions; advertisement sales; production (including Lancashire Colour Printers and newsprint supplies); the company's financial position and budget; editorial appointments; strategy and development.

Other items discussed include (with year of first recording):
Guardian Weekly (1967); Guardian Business Services (1967); impact of devaluation of pound sterling (1967); price increases (1968); acquisitions and shares; editorial strategy (spring 1968); investigation of colour printing (1968); content aimed at women (1968); new building at Deansgate, Manchester (1968); facsimile transmission (1968); Autumn Plans including staff and layout changes - supporting paper (July 1968); readership figures; facsimile production (1968); negotiations with NUJ/NPA (1968); young readers (1968); university exam results (1969); Film 'News Story' (1969); Saturday papers (1969); Guardian's 150th anniversary (1970); Northprint Ltd (1970); wholesalers dispute (1970); commercial radio (1971); European syndication (1971); group structure (1972); investigations into Guardian sharing The Observer's premises at Printing House Square, London (1972); Guardian Study Vacations (part of Guardian Business Services) (1972); typeface change (1973); Gemini News Service (1973); impact of Price Commission (1973); fuel supplies for distribution (1973); shortening working weeks (1973); London printing, contract with The Times (1973); Peter Preston's visit to USA to investigate new technology production (1974).

The minutes of two meetings with separate item numbering sequences are also filed in this volume:
29 December 1967: Extraordinary General Meeting of GNL, 3 Cross Street, Manchester, concerning the increasing of the capital of the company.
5 April 1973: Meeting of a sub-committee of GNL, 192 Grays Inn Road, London, concerning the proposal to purchase Gemini News Service.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Signed minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors of Guardian Newspapers Limited from 23 January 1975 until 29 November 1983. Meetings were held at 192 Gray's Inn Road until 26 August 1976 and were subsequently held at 119 Farringdon Road. Not indexed.

Present or attending the meetings are (in order of appearance): PW Gibbings (Chairman); GP Taylor; Alastair Hetherington; JM Cole; MGA Jack; JC Markwick; HJ Abbiss; RS Rix; S Porter; N Thompson; Peter Preston; Brian Jones; Ian S Ashcroft; DJ McKie; NW Butters; GW Thompson; J Dixey; A Keen.

Regular items discussed at the meetings include newspaper sales/circulation; advertisement sales; production; the company's financial position and budget; editorial and board appointments and resignations; promotions; strategy and development; negotiations with unions.

Other items discussed include (with year of first recording): London Printing (1975); wage awards (1976); the move to Farringdon Road (1976); Guardian Weekly (1978); Times Newspaper situation re Guardian printing in Gray's Inn Road (1978); Timehands/Imperial Chapel wage demands (1979); Guardian attitude to NPA (1979); 1980 Committee (1980); proposed printing of Guardian at the Observer (1981); expansion of classifieds (1983); computer development (1983)

The following papers are bound with the minutes:
Recommendations to the Board of the 1980 'Ad Hoc' Committee concerning how GNL should recommence negotiations with NGA/Imperial Chapel, 28 June 1982, paper filed with minutes of 1 July 1982.
Composing Room Agreement, 17 May 1983.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Signed minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors of Guardian Newspapers Limited from 24 January 1984 - 31 July 1989. Meetings were held at 119 Farringdon Road. Not indexed.

Present or attending the meetings are (in order of appearance): PW Gibbings; GP Taylor; JC Markwick; MGA Jack; Peter Preston; DJ McKie; J Dixey; IS Ashcroft; CA Dawood; CA Marland; LM Sanderson; HJ Roche; CW Szpac; F Platt; IW Wright; CBG Baker; JM Gordon; PJ Naismith; F Morris.

Regular items discussed at the meetings include newspaper sales/circulation; advertisement sales; production; the company's financial position and budget; editorial and board appointments and resignations; promotions; strategy and development; negotiations with NUJ.

Other items discussed include (with year of first recording): Datasolve (1984); Away Day - Charing Cross Hotel - supporting paper (1984); Guardian Press Centre (1985); Isle of Dogs printing (1985); bank account opened in Zimbabwe (1985); Manchester printing (1985); Portsmouth printing (1986); refurbishment of 119 Farringdon Road - establishment of project committee (1986); transitional printing (1987); printing of Observer at Guardian Press Centre (1987); 50 page paper (1988); European printing (1988); cover price (1988); Saturday edition (1988); and proposed purchase of shares in Unidad Editorial SA (1989).
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Includes correspondence from and concerning Chris Brasher, sports editor and journalist for the Observer.
Other correspondents include: Tristan Jones, Fred Tomlinson, John Pringle, KP Obank, WH Smart, David Astor, Michael Davie, Peter Gibbings, Clifford Makins, Bagenal Harvey (Brasher's agent), Roger Harrison, Donald Trelford, Brian Nicholson, Jess Watts.
Subjects covered include: Brasher's terms and conditions of employment; matters concerning the sports pages including advertisements, space, and production issues; the NUJ and non-journalist sports writers; the racing correspondent; a Loch Ness monster project; the Singlehanded Transatlantic race; reporting from sporting events including the Tokyo Olympics; orienteering; a Mount Everest expedition; Brasher's work for the BBC; the London Marathon; 'The Runner' magazine; copy taking.
Also includes: invitation to Brasher's wedding; details of collection for his wedding present; Denys W Tucker's comments on Loch Ness story; 'The Runner' feasibility study by Watts.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Includes letters and copy letters between Terry Kilmartin and Tynan on syndication rights, Tynan's reviews and articles, Tynan's work for the New Yorker.
Also includes correspondence with: Ken Obank, Colin Young and Lawrence Hammond of Curtis Brown Limited, David Astor, Hugh Massingham, Elaine Tynan, Penelope Bennett, Peter Gibbings, Michael Davie, and Kathleen Tynan; and Joyce Egginton, Richard Findlater, Truman Capote, Joseph P Jenkins, Roger Machell of Hamish Hamilton Ltd, Leonard Boudine, Arval A Morris, Herb Greer, Aaron R Frosch, Joseph Satten, and Estela D'Accurzio on Tynan's review of Capote's 'In Cold Blood'.
Also includes: photostats of a 'controversy' between Tynan and Eugene Ionescu; cuttings on the Capote controversy; a sworn affidavit by Frosch; copy of Capote's cheque to the Howard League for Penal Reform.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Terry Kilmartin

File of correspondence relating to the Guardian's shares (10%) in T Dillon & Co. Ltd. Includes an agreement made on the purchase of shares and memorandums on it's projected cash flow, and future expansion (1968) and correspondence relating to meetings of the Finance Committee.

Principal correspondents include Kenneth Searle (Managing Director of the Guardian, but also, until 1970, a director of Dillons); John Clay (appointed as K Searle's successor to the Dillons Board of Directors in 1970) and Peter Gibbings, all of the Guardian.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

Draft memorandum from editor Hetherington on the revised editorial space allocation within the newspaper, in place from 20 September 1971.

Correspondence file relating to Geoge Melly and his work as music reviewer, TV critic, columnist and film critic for the Observer.
Includes contracts for 1965, 1966,1969 anad 1970, letter concerning article suggestions and possible of publishing extracts from Melly's book on pop culture, salary increase letters, letters about role changes, letter of congratulation after 1971 award of critic of the year, letter about his move into the entertainment industry.
Correspondents include KP Obank, Richard Findlater, Peter Crookston, Roger Harrison and David Astor.