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Consists of a diary entry for the Spectator from 16 October detailing the funeral of the former Guardian editor Alastair Hetherington. The second half of the letter discusses journalistic ethics and whether it is acceptable for the press to send reporters to the relatives of people killed in accidents. He also briefly discusses Jack Straw's proposed Freedom of Information bill.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Alan Rusbridger

Records including invitations, menus, programmes and seating plans relating to events Alan Rusbridger attended or was invited to in 1999. Some items included notes and doodles by AR.

Events attended include industry award ceremonies, lunches and dinners and speaking engagements including WACL's (Women in Advertising and Communications Leadership) dinner, Scott Trust and GMG dinner, Thirty Club events, Guardian dinner (at Nuffield College, Oxford), London press Club annual luncheon, opening celebration of Royal Opera House, 10th anniversary of El Mundo newspaper, and the order of service for a celebration for the life of Alastair Hetherington.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Alan Rusbridger

Contains papers relating to the following speeches made by Alan Rusbridger in 2001:

1. 'Notes from David McKie's farewell speech, March 2001' [on McKie's retirement from The Guardian]. Typed transcript with handwritten annotations.*
2. 'Media Society', 22 May 2001. Speech on privacy, the Press Complaints Commission and libel laws. Typed transcript.
3. Alastair Hetherington Memorial Lecture, Stirling University, 7 November 2001. Draft and final copies of a speech on the press and politicians. Includes a copy titled 'For Video/Audio'.
4. 'Eamonn - the last few years', [2001]. Transcript of a speech to mark Eamonn McCabe stepping down as Guardian picture editor. Includes references to CP Scott's thoughts on photography and the first use of colour photography in the Guardian.
5. 'Newspapers, politicians - like dogs and lampposts?', LSE Media Seminar, 2001. Typed notes and programme brochure.
6. Unknown event, nd [c2001]. Typed notes for a speech given at a school. The notes cover foriegn reporting and domestic news coverage.
   Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Alan Rusbridger

Folder labelled 'Company Publicity' containing copies of correspondence, and meeting minutes with Cross-Courtnay Advertising (1949-1950), The London Press Exchange (1950-1964), and with SH Benson Ltd Advertising (1964-undated).

Contents include, report titled 'The Guardian as a Product', 30 April 1964, by The London Press Exchange, with comments by Kenneth Searle and Alastair Hetherington, and with reference made to newspaper contributors Neville Cardus and Alistair Cooke; 'A Report on the Advertising Covering the Election Period September/ October, 1964'; copies of advertising pulls published in The New Statesman, The Observer, Granta University Magazine, The Evening Standard, The Times Literary Supplement, The Times Educational Supplement and Advertisers Weekly, 5 September- 27 November 1964, with a printed 'Schedule of Advertising' (labelled appendix b), 'Tam Ratings' (appendix c), 'Press Releases' (appendix d) and 'Pamphlet' on From now Until Polling Day (appendix e); letter giving notice of a termination of the advertising arrangement made with The London Press Exchange, 3 July 1964, and letter confirming the services of SH Benson Ltd as a replacement, 16 July 1964; note on 'Guardian Promotion', made by Searle, 18 April 1963 and accompanying correspondence with Rex Hearn; arrangements for printing a 'Guardian Publicity Booklet', July 1964; section of correspondence labelled 'Notes used in discussions for the autumn 1963 campaign'; booklet entitled 'The Guardian 1963/4', concerning promotional plans; memo to the Guardian circulation department on 'Guardian Publicity and Promotion', 20 December 1962; report by The London Press Exchange titled 'Advertising Proposals 1962/1963'; note by WJ Lascelles, indicating that the contract made between the Guardian and The London Press Exchange should be severed, due to increased costs; papers concerning readership surveys, undertaken by Research Services Ltd; note to London Press Exchange on 'What does the Guardian offer of its own to the prospective reader?', by Hetherington, 5 March 1961; printed document titled 'London Printing, Progress Report', 8 March 1961; correspondence with the public, over specific advertising campaigns, 1959; survey on 'Cambridge 'Undergraduates, 1959' by Research Services Ltd; correspondence with The London Press Exchange on a report entitled 'The Mass Media and Social Class in Great Britain', September 1959; correspondence concerned with the advertising arrangement held with ABC television, 1959; general correspondence with The London Press Exchange concerning advertising campaigns and the use of straplines, 1957-1959; report titled 'Manchester Guardian, Advertising Proposals January- April 1955'; correspondence with the public concerning specific campaigns, 1952-1954, and correspondence with Cross-Courtenay Ltd. Advertising Agency, 1949-1950, including a table of press advertising for the Guardian, 19 March 1949- 21 May 1949.

Folder labelled 'Company Public Relations, 1960-65', containing miscellaneous correspondence, concerning company PR fuctions and organisation, and rearrangement of the marketing department, 31 October 1960- 7 January 1965, with some undated.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Picture Desk; London Picture Library

Correspondence between Peter Preston and Alastair Hetherington concerning a potential article for the Guardian, March 1993 and the Guardian's coverage of the death of Jo Grimond, October 1993.

Also includes a list of Alastair Hetherington's files and interview notes, August 1979 and Alastair Hetherington's subject file on Israel, June 1974 - May 1975. The Israel file contains correspondence concerning responses to a letters and copy about Israel and Palestine published in the Guardian, June 1974 - May 1975.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

Letter from Alastair Hetherington to LP Scott in California, mainly concerning talk between Hugh Gaitskell and Jo Grimond regarding a Labour-Liberal alliance. Also mentions Guardian circulation figures for October 1959, and a story that the Guardian had rejected adverts from East Germany, including an enclosed newspaper clipping
Creator: Scott; Laurence Preswich (1909-1983)

Captioned: Liberal conference, Brighton, by Peter Johns
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Picture Desk; London Picture Library

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