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Files, created and held by Peter Preston's office, concerning the International Press Institute, 1951-1992.

Includes: minutes of the meetings of the IPI British Executive Committee Core Committee, 1978-1992; IPI correspondence files, 1979-1989; records concerning IPI general assemblies, seminars and meetings, 1957-1992 and files of general IPI administration, 1951-1992.

Administrative/Biographical history: Peter Preston has been a member of the British Executive Committee of the IPI from c1978 and chairman from 1988. From 1995-1997 he was international chairman of the IPI.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

File of correspondence from the International Press Institute (IPI), created and held by Peter Preston, 2 August 1979 to 1 December 1980.

Correspondents include: Frank Rodgers (Chairman of the IPI British Executive Committee), Peter Galliner (IPI director) and William Whitelaw (MP).

Subjects covered include: IPI membership, August 1979 - November 1980; the Official Information Bill, August - December 1979; IPI Committee meetings and seminars, August 1979 - November 1980; the trial of journalist Salamat Ali in Pakistan, December 1979; meetings with government officials, August 1979 - March 1980; changes to the IPI constitution, January 1980; the election of IPI International Board members, February - April 1980 and IPI finances, April - December 1980.

Also includes notes of discussions between the IPI William Whitelaw, Home Secretary, March 1980 and un-named members of the British Government, August, November 1979; a report on the IPI British Executive Committee, nd, [March 1980]; discussion paper on police relations with the media in the 1980s, April 1980; IPI financial statements for the year ended 31 December 1979; list of members dues and contributions, December 1979 and June 1980 and IPI newsletter, July 1980.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

File of correspondence from the International Press Institute (IPI), created and held by Peter Preston, January - June 1984.

Correspondents include: Frank Rodgers (Chairman of the IPI British Executive Committee); Douglas Hurd (MP), Sir Zelman Cowen (MP) and the Press Association.

Subjects covered include: IPI dinners and seminars, January - June 1984; membership, January - May 1984; the Police and Criminal Evidence Bill, February - June 1984; the adminstration of the IPI Core Committee, March 1984; public access to official records, May 1984 and the Contempt of Court Act, June 1984.

Also includes IPI financial statements for the year ended 31 December 1983 and a list of IPI membership fees for 1983.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

File of correspondence from the International Press Institute (IPI), created and held by Peter Preston, July - December 1984.

Correspondents include: Frank Rodgers (Chairman of the IPI British Executive Committee) and Timothy Benn (UK Press Gazette).

Subjects covered include: IPI Committee membership, July - December 1984; administration of the IPI Core Committee, July 1984; redesign of the IPI British Executive logo, August 1984; IPI General Assemblies and Core Committee meetings, September - December 1984 and a complaint concerning an editorial article published in the UK Press Gazette about the IPI, October 1984.

Also includes IPI British Executive Committee member's address list, July 1984 and a paper by Hugo Young on journalism and telephone call logging, September 1984
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)
Creator: DS/UK/122

File of correspondence from the International Press Institute (IPI), created and held by Peter Preston, concerning legal issues affecting journalism and journalists, February 1984 - January 1988.

Correspondents include: Frank Rodgers (Chairman of the IPI British Executive Committee); Peter Preston and Colin Webb (editor, The Press Association Limited).

Subjects covered include: the impact of the Police and Criminal Evidence Bill on journalism, February 1984; the libel system and costs, May - December 1985; Peter Preston's appointment as chairman of the IPI British Executive Board and nomination to the IPI International Board, October 1987 and the award of a knighthood to Frank Rodgers, January 1988.

Also includes a draft questionnaire and covering letter concerning the cost of libel cases and responses from The Guardian, Financial Times, Reuters, LWT, Westminister Press, News Group newspapers (News of the World, The Sun and Sunday), Western Mail, Guardian, The Press Association Ltd, the Observer, Mirror Group Newspapers, Granada Television Limited and The Times, May - December 1985 and Peter Preston's IPI membership card valid until 31 December 1988.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

File of Peter Preston's International Press Institute (IPI) correspondence, December 1986 - August 1989.

Correspondents include: Peter Preston, Ian Yates (general manager, The Press Association), Terry Robinson (director, Lonrho), Lord Rothmere (Associsted Newspaper Holdings Plc), Sir Zelman Cowen (MP and Press Council chairman), Frank Rodgers (Chairman of the IPI British Executive Committee), Michael Heseltine (MP) and Alastair Stuart (IPI Secertary).

Subjects covered include: expenses, April 1988; the appointment of a full-time chairman to the Press Council; letter of protest and reply from Frank Rodgers, concerning the invitation to the Abassador of South Africa, Denis Worrall, to the IPI Annual dinner, December 1986 - January 1987; seminar arrangements, February 1987 - November 1988; the foundation of the Naji El-Ali fund to support the family of the cartoonist who was assasinated in London (July 1987) and the donation of prints of El-Ali's cartoons to Peter Preston, January - April 1989; membership and changes to members contact details, April - August 1989.

Also contains an advert sponsored by the IPI British Executive listing all the editors who endorsed a letter from Frank Rodgers urging the government to remove all references to journalists in the Police and Criminal Evidence Bill, April 1984; a leaflet on the British Executive of the IPI, May 1986 and three black and white prints of cartoons by Naji El-Ali donated to Peter Preston by Naji El-Ali's son, nd.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

Files, created and held by Peter Preston's office, concerning International Press Institute general assemblies, seminars, conferences, lunches and dinners, April 1957 - November 1992.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

Report on 'pressures within the press: industrial disputes and their settlement' prepared by the International Press Institute (IPI) Secretariat for the sixth IPI General Assembly held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 1957.

The report covers significant strikes from c1947 to c1957, disputes by workers and publishers and the settlement of disputes.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

Correspondence, reports and promotional material reating to the IPI General Assembly held in Zurich, Switzerland on 12 - 13 May 1975.

Also contains a report on press subsidies in Sweden by Olof Wahlgren, nd, [c1975]; correspondence between IPI members concerning press freedoms in western Europe, June 1975, political measures taken against the Peruvian press, nd, changes to membership catagories, October 1975, plans to move the IPI Secretariat from Zurich, February - March 1976 and preparations for the 1976 IPI conference in Costa Rica, July 1976 and IPI report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 1976.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

Transcript of proceedings and a report (17 December 1976) of the International Press Institute British Executive Edinburgh conference on 'Devolution and the Media in the UK' held on 12 November 1976.

The conference covers government plans for the establishment of national assemblies for Scotland and Wales, devolution and the political parties, devolution and the civil service and the media view on devolution.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)