Budgets, subject files, legal case files, trade union, external committee and personnel records created or maintained by the executive editor of the Guardian. Three executive editors of the Guardian are currently represented: John Ryan (c1972-1976), Kenneth Dodd (1976-1989) and Campbell Page (1989-1996).
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office;
Currently contains files relating to NUJ house and national agreements for 1976-1977 created and maintained by John Ryan.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; John Ryan
Correspondence, notes, minutes of meetings and draft agreements relating to the negotiation and implementation of the NUJ house agreement and freelance house and national agreements for 1976-1977.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; John Ryan
Correspondence, notes and minutes of meetings relating to the negotiation and implementation of the Guardian and NUJ house agreement and claim for the revision of the Newspaper Publishers Association (NPA) staff agreement, 10 November 1975 - 12 January 1977.
Correspondents and meeting attendees include: John Ryan, Robert Armstrong, Peter Preston, Mick Downing, Gerald Peter Taylor, Michael White, Roger Rix and Peter Hildrew.
Also contains draft copies and one signed copy of the NUJ house agreement operative from 1 July 1976 and a list of up-dating and contentious items in the NUJ claim for the revision of the NPA staff agreement, nd.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; John Ryan
Correspondence, notes, minutes of meetings and draft house agreements relating to the negotiation and implementation of the Guardian and NUJ freelance house and national agreements, 5 September 1975 - 11 January 1977.
Correspondents and meeting attendees include: John Ryan, Jim Markwick, Mick Downing, Peter Preston, Gerald Peter Taylor and representatives from the Newspaper Publishers Association.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; John Ryan
Internal correspondence concerning the Guardian gardening column, March 1973 - April 1990.
Subjects covered include: contributors' pay, [c1973]- April 1990; advertising, February 1973; contributors' terms and conditions, March 1978 - April 1990; style of copy, February 1979; page design, February 1979 and Derek Senior's retirement as Gardening editor, November 1982.
Correspondents include: John Ryan, John Cole, Derek Senior, Ken Dodd, John Brown and Christopher Lloyd.
Also contains copy about Derek Senior, nd.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Kenneth Dodd
Internal correspondence concerning the staff and management of the Guardian library, including: staff appointments, 1976-1977; library services, 1976-1977; staff progress, time keeping and discipline 1976-1981; staff pay, 1977-1981; the future of the Manchester library, 1976 and proposals for improving the library service, 1977.
Principle correspondents include: John Ryan, Ken Dodd, Ken Murphy, Nicholas Richmond and Helen Martin.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Kenneth Dodd
File of correspondence and notes of chapel meetings, inherited by Ken Dodd from his predecessor John Ryan, concerning negotiations between the Manchester Evening News (MEN) and National Union of Journalists (NUJ) for a new house agreement for 1976, April 1976 - July 1976.
Also contains a letter from Gerald Taylor to WL Smith of the MEN concerning NUJ affairs, July 1977.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Kenneth Dodd
Ken Dodd's correspondence with Guardian National Union of Journalists chapel officials and Guardian managerial and editorial staff concerning NUJ staff salary claims, grievances and house agreements, July 1976 - November 1989.
Correspondents include: Mick Downing, Peter Hildrew, Tom Sharratt, Robert Armstrong, Peter Preston, Ken Dodd, MG Bolton, Jim Markwick and Ian Wright.
Also contains correspondence between John Ryan (previous executive editor) and Robert Armstrong concerning advertising content in special reports and individual staff pay claims, April 1976 - July 1976 and NUJ guidelines on race reporting, October 1987.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Kenneth Dodd
Interview with John Ryan, journalist, later executive editor, for the Guardian. Conducted by Donald Wintersgill on 12 June 1998. Also includes a data sheet containing biographical details about the subject and information about the recording.
Summary contents of interview (with rough timings):
Disc 1:
Track 1
00.22 Became sub-editor of the Guardian in 1963 at age 23
00.42 Became deputy chief sub-editor
00.46 Assistant to Alastair Hetherington
01.26 Became executive editor when Alastair Hetherington left
02.30 Left the Guardian in 1976
03.34 Returned to journalism in 1991 with Thompson Foundation, running workshops in underprivileged countries
04.02 Laurence Scott and the financial troubles of 1969
09.18 Describes terms of severance packages
11.35 Alastair Hetherington's passion to save the Guardian
12.54 Discusses Gerard Fay
13.40 Discusses Bernard Ingham
15.45 Journalist unions vs. printing unions
17.30 Describes the ethos of the paper
19.10 Finds that subeditors are mostly forgotten
23.32 Paper divided in two after the London move
24.41 Speaks about how the paper was printed
27.18 How travel between London and Manchester affected the paper
32.50 Discusses Alastair Hetherington's character
39.33 Discusses Geoffrey Taylor
40.29 Mentions Brian Jones, who replaced John Putz
41.46 How the characters of those involved with the Guardian aided it
46.19 Relationship between Alastair Hetherington and Harold Wilson
49.33 Alastair Hetherington's hobbies
52.35 Refers to Iain Macleod's death
55.14 Contrast between Alastair Hetherington and Peter Preston