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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

Signed minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors of Guardian Newspapers Limited from 24 January 1984 - 31 July 1989. Meetings were held at 119 Farringdon Road. Not indexed.

Present or attending the meetings are (in order of appearance): PW Gibbings; GP Taylor; JC Markwick; MGA Jack; Peter Preston; DJ McKie; J Dixey; IS Ashcroft; CA Dawood; CA Marland; LM Sanderson; HJ Roche; CW Szpac; F Platt; IW Wright; CBG Baker; JM Gordon; PJ Naismith; F Morris.

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 NUJ.

Other items discussed include (with year of first recording): Datasolve (1984); Away Day - Charing Cross Hotel - supporting paper (1984); Guardian Press Centre (1985); Isle of Dogs printing (1985); bank account opened in Zimbabwe (1985); Manchester printing (1985); Portsmouth printing (1986); refurbishment of 119 Farringdon Road - establishment of project committee (1986); transitional printing (1987); printing of Observer at Guardian Press Centre (1987); 50 page paper (1988); European printing (1988); cover price (1988); Saturday edition (1988); and proposed purchase of shares in Unidad Editorial SA (1989).
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Captioned: 'of Lloyds'

Correspondence and notes, predominantly internal, relating to the production of the Guardian, July 1979 - September 1989.

Correspondents include: Ken Dodd, John Dixey, Norman Butters, Ian Wright and Campbell Page.

Subjects covered include: negotiations with the National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel for a new agreement, July 1979 - March 1980; dark room staff and materials, January 1980; overtime pay, March 1980; Newspaper Publishers Association (NPA) flood contingency plans, May 1980; readers' complaints concerning the printing quality of the paper, December 1983 - January 1988; the appointment of production director, September 1984 and the responsibilities of system managers in placing advertisements, September 1989.

Also contains a list of London and Manchester based Guardian staff, August 1980.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Kenneth Dodd

Correspondence and notes, primarily internal, relating to the production of the Guardian, June 1978 - June 1986.

Correspondents include: Ian Wright, Michael McNay, Jean Stead, Peter Preston, John Dixey, Harry Roche, Frank Platt and Ken Dodd.

Subjects covered include: caption fonts, June 1978; motor-cycle coverage, June 1979 - November 1982; special page production, November 1979 - August 1980; leader page production, January 1980; staff pay, January 1980; new logos, October 1980; complaint concerning a Guardian article, November 1980; travel page layout, January 1981; WorldPaper, April 1982; positioning of the Guardian crossword and fees, May 1982 and February 1985; Guardian graphics, July 1983; differences in the printing quality of London and Manchester editions, February 1984 - March 1984; problems with colour nights June 1984; staff appointments and retirements, June 1984 - November 1984; new freelance fees, August 1984; production problems, November 1984 - August 1985; industrial action and the Chapel's house agreement, January 1985 - May 1985; the possibility of using Helvetica Black as a font for Agenda pages, April 1985; the possibility of having a third printing production in Manchester, October 1985 - November 1985 and printing quality in Manchester, May 1986 - June 1986.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Ian Wright

Records concerning Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT) agreements and Guardian editorial assistants pay and terms of employment, January 1983 -1992.

Includes: an anonymous letter concerning relations between copytakers and the chapel, January 1983; letter from Mike Pike concerning union committee representation, nd; a draft copy of the SOGAT supplementary house agreement concerning working conditions, hours and payments, March 1984; correspondence between John Dixey and members of the SOGAT chapel concerning the 1984 house agreement, March 1984; correspondence between Ken Dodd and Peter Yapp concerning library newspaper allowances, staff pay, hours and holiday pay, June 1987 - November 1988; letters from Peter Yapp and Mike Pike concerning staff pay, March 1988; lists of editorial secretary staff salaries and grades, 1990; draft blank contracts of employment, nd, [c1990] and a letter to Ian Wright from the Guardian multi trades chapel concerning the election of chapel officers, 1992.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Kenneth Dodd