Includes signed and indexed minutes of: Directors' and Board meetings; Half-yearly, Annual, Extraordinary, and Ordinary General meetings; the Investment Committee.
Runs from Ordinary General Meeting, 10 January 1945, to Board meeting, 10 November 1955.
Also includes: special resolutions, meeting papers, reports.
Matters discussed include: accounts, salaries, the pension fund, share prices, manager's reports, the size and structure of the paper, staffing, circulation, accommodation, the Observer Foreign News Service, advertising, exhibitions.
Minutes signed by individuals including: Lord Astor, Arthur Mann, Mary Stocks, Dingle Foot, JE Berridge, John Thomson, RJ Butterworth.
Includes signed and (partially) indexed minutes of: Directors' and Board meetings; Annual and Extraordinary General meetings; the Investment and Sealing Committees.
Runs from Board meeting, 6 December 1955 to AGM, 17 July 1962.
Also includes: Pension Fund Committee signed resolutions; meeting papers.
Matters discussed include: appointing Board members and directors; printing arrangements and other production matters; circulation; manager's and editor's reports; exhibitions; the pension fund; the leasing and purchase of property and other accommodation matters; advertising and promotion; luncheon vouchers; the Western Independent; future prospects; Whitfeld & Newman Ltd; Mrs JL Garvin; cheque writing authority; television; life insurance; staff matters; the northern edition; the History of The Observer; relations with The Times; salaries and bonuses; legal actions; colour magazine supplements; foreign sales.
Minutes signed by individuals including: Mary Stocks, Sir Ifor Evans.
Records relating to the history of The Observer newspaper including the paper's foreign news service, and the 175th birthday of the paper. Records contain correspondence relating to archive enquiries, newspaper cuttings, a book extract, information relating to printing and advertising, retrospective architectural sketches of the Strand 1838-1840, photographs, a small booklet promoting The Observer (1906), research notes relating to the family history of William Innell Clement, and compiled chronological lists of the addresses and proprieters of The Observer. Material collected by Tristan Jones [1970s].
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Tristan Jones