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Cuttings of each of the Guardian's leading articles with manuscript annotations of the author's initials, 27 January 1990 - 3 October 1990. 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:
29 January 1990: Bar Wars in the Lords (stated as 'MD?')
13 February 1990: Old men obstruct
6 June 1990: Why the Lords just got it wrong
6 June 1990: Sometimes on Sunday
8 June 1990: The farce has some serious moments
22 June 1990: The heavy boots on a slippery slope
22 June 1990: The Kremlin coalition
24 July 1990: The video choice
28 August 1990: Correcting Mr Fallon
29 August 1990: But still, they got off quite lightly
29 August 1990: Game, set and licence
30 August 1990: The system at Fours, Sixes and Sevens
30 August 1990: Not all over again
31 August 1990: The real point is not the scoring
31 August 1990: Mining the right seam
31 August 1990: Yeltsin united
[2] September 1990: The brothers and a word in edgeways
[2] September 1990: Hostages to rigidity
3 September 1990: Impatience is a mortal enemy
22 September 1990: The scowl on the face of the panda (identified as JG in master series)
22 September 1990: Deeper shades of blue (identified as MD in the master series)

Generally three leading articles were published Tuesday - Friday, with two leading articles published on Saturday and Monday. They were published under the heading 'Comment' rather than the traditional heading 'The Guardian'.

The authors identified in this volume are (in alphabetical order):
MD - Malcolm Dean
JG - [John Gittings]
VK - Vic Keegan
MK - Martin Kettle
DMcK - David McKie
MP - [Melanie Phillips] (5 February 1990)
PP - Peter Preston
AR - Alan Rusbridger
DVdV - Dan Van der Vat
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Cuttings of each of the Guardian's leading articles with manuscript annotations of the author's initials, 15 June 1991 - 6 March 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:
20 June 1991: History and the pall of hindsight
20 June 1991: The war of Liverpool
20 June 1991: Getting colder
21 June 1991: Questions of too little, not too much
21 June 1991: In peace, together
21 June 1991: Orgreave revisited
22 June 1991: A march on the mild side
22 June 1991: Home is where the heart is
24 June 1991: Good day in the Field for Labour
24 June 1991: Stardust, seminars and Mr Sissons
12 July 1991: Iraq: a mess of mixed signals
12 July 1991: Two lines on the bomb
12 July 1991: Judging the judge
13 July 1991: This Plant has a lot of seedlings
13 July 1991: Cash and colleges
13 July 1991: A spectre, a feast
7 August 1991: The wonder of Willie (identified as 'AR?')
14 August 1991: The onward march of Paddy Ashdown
14 August 1991: A block on learning
14 August 1991: Oil be seeing you
15 August 1991: Success is a squeeze of a problem
15 August 1991: In time of disaster
15 August 1991: Beyond the babble
16 August 1991: July was a wicked month for pain
16 August 1991: A stinker of a sinking
16 August 1991: Forgetting's quite enough
17 August 1991: Keeping the screws on Saddam
17 August 1991: Tactics for taxation
19 August 1991: Regional planning for the nation
19 August 1991: Better inside than out
20 August 1991: The world after Mikhail Gorbachev
21 August 1991: Not what they had bargained for
21 August 1991: No cause for retreat
22 August 1991: A happy issue out of affliction
6 September 1991: It was tried before, and it failed
6 September 1991: The price of assent
6 September 1991: Going for gold
18 October 1991: On first inspection
21 November 1991: The real Pilgrim
27 December 1991: Mikhail Gorbachev and his legacy
29 January 1992: Casting the first stone
3 February 1992: What we have lost
12 February 1992: One rather unwise man
28 February 1992: The corpse still walks (identified as 'DMcK?')
6 March 1992: Abortions: the reasons are a revolution (identified as 'MD?')

Generally three leading articles were published Tuesday - Friday, with two leading articles published on Saturday and Monday. On Mondays and Saturdays the leading articles appeared as a column on the left side of the page. From Tuesday to Fridays they appeared as two columns on the left hand side 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):
MB - Madeleine Bunting
MD - Malcolm Dean
JG - [John Gittings]
VK - Vic Keegan
MK - Martin Kettle
DMcK - David McKie
DM - [David McKie]
MP - Melanie Phillips
PP - Peter Preston
AR - Alan Rusbridger
MW - [Michael White]
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

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

Cuttings of Martin Kettle's articles from the Guardian, 12 March 1990 - 24 May 1994. Includes his comment articles (published with his byline) and leading articles (published anonymously). Researchers should note that leaders do not necessarily express the personal views of their writers, but instead are written to express the newspaper's contemporary position on a current topic.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Cuttings of Martin Kettle's articles from the Guardian, 25 May 1994 - 25 November 1995. Includes his comment articles (published with his byline) and leading articles (published anonymously). Researchers should note that leaders do not necessarily express the personal views of their writers, but instead are written to express the newspaper's contemporary position on a current topic.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Cuttings of Martin Kettle's articles from the Guardian, 18 April 1997 - 2 August 1997. Includes his comment articles (published with his byline) and leading articles (published anonymously). Researchers should note that leaders do not necessarily express the personal views of their writers, but instead are written to express the newspaper's contemporary position on a current topic.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Cuttings of Martin Kettle's articles from the Guardian, 21 January 2003 - 31 May 2003. Includes his comment articles (published with his byline) and leading articles (published anonymously). Researchers should note that leaders do not necessarily express the personal views of their writers, but instead are written to express the newspaper's contemporary position on a current topic.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Cuttings of Martin Kettle's articles from the Guardian, 31 May 2003 - 5 November 2003. Includes his comment articles (published with his byline) and leading articles (published anonymously). Researchers should note that leaders do not necessarily express the personal views of their writers, but instead are written to express the newspaper's contemporary position on a current topic.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Cuttings of Martin Kettle's articles from the Guardian, 6 November 2003 - 7 April 2004. Includes his comment articles (published with his byline) and leading articles (published anonymously). Researchers should note that leaders do not necessarily express the personal views of their writers, but instead are written to express the newspaper's contemporary position on a current topic.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Records, primarily internal, concerning both European Review (ER)/Guardian Europe (GE) and Education Guardian (EG), March 1990 - August 1995.

Includes: correspondence concerning the creation of ER, March 1990 - April 1990 and EG, May 1990; lists of advertising revenue and staffing for ER and EG, June 1990; summaries of primary and secondary school teacher discussions on EG, July 1990; EG promotional plan, July 1990; lists of draft ER and EG editorial expenditure, July 1990; sample reader questionnaire concerning EG, November 1991 and correspondence concerning a partnership between GE and the Greek newspaper, Eleftherotipia, nd and the future of GE, August 1995.

Correspondents include: Ian Wright, Martin Kettle, Peter Preston, Dominique Jackson, Jim Markwick, Alan Rusbridger, Roger Alton and John Hooper.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Ian Wright