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Cuttings of each of the Guardian's leading articles with manuscript annotations of the author's initials, 7 March 1992 - 13 October 1992. Leading articles were published anonymously each day as the collective view of the newspaper. Researchers should note that leaders do not necessarily express the personal views of their writers.

The following leading articles have no author identified:
11 March 1992: Take a grim letter
14 March 1992: Passion and hope are only a start
16 March 1992: Straight principle
18 March 1992: Old flaws, new twists
25 April 1992: Making development a can-go area
1 May 1992: The torch that lights up despair
1 May 1992: Sitting for Mr Smith
1 May 1992: The pincers on Four
2 May 1992: What lies frozen beyond the frame
4 May 1992: High price of German unity
4 May 1992: Hard choices in health care
5 May 1992: A pattern of pain from the islands
5 May 1992: Berets for Bosnia
5 May 1992: Unbanning the debate
6 May 1992: One cut, and scope to be daring
6 May 1992: Blowing the system
6 May 1992: Look back in honesty
7 May 1992: Opening from the Pavillion end
7 May 1992: A nation of umpires
8 May 1992: Shush, it's probably still a secret
8 May 1992: Out of the rubble
8 May 1992: The Corey succession
9 May 1992: When the living is much less easy
16 May 1992: A temple to Progress, mostly unlet
24 July 1992: A Mellor tide, or a tiny trickle?
24 July 1992: The case for turning soft
24 July 1992: Responding to Rabin
28 July 1992: The order of the boot for Boutros?
28 July 1992: Justice and a better way
28 July 1992: The hump and the umpires
29 July 1992: The tide of despair is at our gates
29 July 1992: A Patten of chaos
29 July 1992: Who signed for VAT?
30 July 1992: Why is the roof still falling in
30 July 1992: Tragedy in parallel
30 July 1992: The halls of the brave
31 July 1992: Any old vision, any old bones?
31 July 1992: Drugging for gold
31 July 1992: The old man of the Wall
1 August 1992: Channel 4 and the real public interest
1 August 1992: What's left on the Left
3 August 1992: The ultimate Japanese model
3 August 1992: When the children die
4 August 1992: A strike as the iron grows cold
4 August 1992: Change or decay
4 August 1992: Have giro, will travel
5 August 1992: Fiddling whilst the children perish
5 August 1992: One age for bowing out?
5 August 1992: A moat and a note
6 August 1992: Ashworth: special in its squalor
6 August 1992: Peaces can be made
6 August 1992: Eldorado, Court 14
7 August 1992: Mr Smith and the Maarstricht medicine
7 August 1992: Busy doing nothing
7 August 1992: Circles and squarials
8 August 1992: The new world in grinding order
10 August 1992: Stop your beating about, Mr Bush
10 August 1992: A cosy cabinet of complacent chums
11 August 1992: Beyond the pall of simple brutality
11 August 1992: The way to intervene
11 August 1992: The next torch
12 August 1992: The peace duet and the harder questions
12 August 1992: Britain on auto-pilot
12 August 1992: Innocent, until guilty
13 August 1992: The great new bloc, and the building
13 August 1992: Bingham of the Rolls
13 August 1992: Right up Casey Street
14 August 1992:The rising of a dank despair
14 August 1992: No room in the in-tray
14 August 1992: The code of fairer cops
15 August 1992: Who has the idea beyond Houston?
17 August 1992: Sticky week for Major at the seaside
17 August 1992: Can Kabul square the political circle?
4 September 1992: Model prison
19 September 1992: There can't be a secret
3 October 1992: Hello again, Perot again
13 October 1992: The real piper and the real tune
13 October 1992: Ballots to bullets
13 October 1992: One for the birds

One, two or three leading articles are daily. On weekdays these appear as one or two columns on the left side of the page. The Saturday leading article (often only one article) appears across the top third of the page. The leading articles were published under the heading 'Comment' rather than the traditional heading 'The Guardian'.

The authors identified in this volume are (in alphabetical order):
JC - [John Cole] (22 September 1992)
MD - Malcolm Dean
JF - Jonathan Freedland
JG - [John Gittings]
VK - Vic Keegan
MK - Martin Kettle
DMcK - David McKie
MP - Melanie Phillips
PP - Peter Preston
MW - [Michael White]

From 9 October the cuttings have not been stuck onto pages, but are loose in the volume.
The back cover has become completely separated from the volume.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Includes photographs of:*
Cairncross, Francis
Camp, John
Cardus, Neville
Carey, Michael
Channon, Simon
Chalfont, Lord
Chapman, Brian
Chappell, Helen
Chippindale, Peter
Christmas, Linda
Clay, John
Clouston, Erlend
Clwyd-Roberts, Ann
Cohen, Adrienne
Cole, John
Coleman. Terry
Cook, Charles
Coote, Anna
Coyne, John
Crabtree, Tom
Crossland, Norman
Crowther, Brian
Crozier, Mary
Crozier, WP
Cunliffe, Tom with family
Cunningham, John
Creator: Manchester Guardian; Picture Desk; Manchester 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

Includes correspondence from and concerning Findlater.
Other correspondents include: David Astor; Michael Davie; Desmond Goch; John Pringle; Ken Obank; Trevor Huddleston; Laurie Gandar; Donald Trelford; Jeremy Hunt; Nigel Lloyd; James Mitchell; John Cole; Colin Smith; Roger Harrison; John Nuttall-Smith; Iain Lindsay-Smith; Colin Legum; Peter Crookston; Anthony Howard; Richard Burton (copies of old letters); Roly Bain.
Subjects covered include: Findlater's thoughts on The Observer's content and layout; Findlater's work for the paper; arts coverage including architecture, theatre, television, film, and books (including many details of books reviewed or not by The Observer); discussion of individual writers including Kenneth Tynan, Philip French, John Silverlight, Eric [Newby], and AJP Taylor; Findlater's book writing; women's pages; potential articles for the review section; Findlater's financial affairs, including his subscription for the Garrick Club; Findlater's health.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Includes correspondence from and concerning Frankland.
Other correspondents include: John Pringle; David Astor; John Thompson; William Millinship; Donald Trelford; Stephen Aris; John Cole.
Subjects covered include: Frankland's appointment at The Observer; his life as a foreign correspondent in Moscow, south-east Asia, Tokyo and Washington; his coverage of the Vietnam war; developments in the Philippines, the Soviet Union, China, the United States, and Rhodesia.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Includes correspondence from and concerning Harris.
Other correspondents include: David Astor; Fred Tomlinson; Tristan Jones; Donald Trelford; John Cole; Douglass Cater; Stanley Glazer; Roger Harrison; Bernard Donoughue; Swraj Paul; Geoffrey Lean; Russell Twisk; Anthony Howard; Lord Wiedenfeld; Anne Attlee.
Subjects covered include: Harris' terms and conditions at The Observer; his time as Washington correspondent including comments on Nora Beloff, Sebastian Haffner, and Alastair Buchan; The Observer's coverage of the Suez Crisis; Harris' role as Chief Interviewer, interviewing eminent persons; Lord Attlee; The Observer Mace debating competition and other Observer sponsored events; his appointment to The Observer board and board matters; Sir Robert Mayer; Observer books; Mary Soames; interviewing Ronald Reagan; the 1980 Astor-Goodman dinner; the Whitbread Essay Competition; Michael Sacher; Sir David Hunt; the Colour Magazine; Dean Rusk interviews; George McGhee's 'Envoy to the Middle World'; interviewing the Prince of Wales; the Metric Sense Campaign.
Also includes: paper on readers' views of The Observer, mid 1950s; memorandum of interview with Attlee by Harris; revisions by Harris of Observer hand-outs; Observer Foreign News Service pieces by Susan Donnell and Harris; transcript of interview with Governor [Jerry] Brown by Harris; copies of reviews of Harris' book on Attlee; copies of some of Harris' interviews with Prince Charles; documents on the Paddington-Heathrow rail link.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Includes correspondence from and concerning the Kilmartins.
Other correspondents include: Fred Tomlinson; David Astor; Arthur Koestler; Duncan Wilson; Richard Findlater; Philip Larkin; Roger Harrison; Donald Trelford; John Cole; Paul Johnson; John Nuttall-Smith; Nick Morrell; Michael Ratcliffe; Peter Heyworth; John Lucas; Anthony Howard; Brian Nicholson.
Subjects covered include: Terry Kilmartin's time in the Middle East; matters concerning The Observer's literary and arts pages and reviewers; Karl Miller; a 1963 visit to the United States by the Kilmartins; Gavin Young; AJP Taylor; Joanna Kilmartin's suggestions concerning European travel guides; Maurice Richardson; the Arvon Poetry Competition; Russell Davies; Conor Cruise O'Brien leaving The Observer; the Olivier theatre awards; Terry Kilmartin's farewell dinner in 1986.
Also includes: various cuttings from The Bookseller; cutting from The Tatler on Friday literary luncheons.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Includes correspondence from and concerning Lloyd.
Other correspondents include: Richard Hall; David Astor; Colin Legum; Peter Crookston; Uri Geller; Liz Balcon; Donald Trelford; Roger Harrison; John Cole; Desmond Balmer; David Bishop; William Millinship.
Subjects covered include: Lloyd editing The Observer magazine; the magazine content including a piece on child development; Lloyd's other roles on the paper including managing editor on the news desk; a proposed redesign, 1980; style and layout issues; the Nairobi Standard; the introduction of non-hot metal pages.
Also includes: report of London Broadcasting Programme 'Open Line' featuring Lloyd.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford