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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, 4 October 1990 - 14 June 1991. 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 October 1990: The case for a short, sharp shock
11 October 1990: America's dilemma
11 October 1990: A drop of the tough stuff
20 October 1990: By way of Beachy Head
20 October 1990: The end of an old song
22 October 1990: Heath keeps on the right lines
22 October 1990: Eastbourne's real message
24 October 1990: Benzir or bust
12 January 1991: The rights of writing
14 January 1991: Guidelines for the Experts
9 February 1991: Two streams joining
(Saturday 9 March 1991 is missing from this volume - but is in GUA/6/4/1/1/6)
4 April 1991: The odd genius out
9 April 1991: Europe's fight to find its voice (indistinguishable initials are crossed through)
9 April 1991: The new men at the zoo
10 April 1991: The haven and a long road to travel
10 April 1991: Spring in dark lanes
23 April 1991: Marry in haste, repent in the lander
23 April 1991: Marx meets Maggie
23 April 1991: Apathy on the Am
24 April 1991: Better than the poll tax, yes - but far from fair
24 April 1991: De Klerk on the fairway
24 April 1991: Health care at full stretch
25 April 1991: Half way to a saner system
25 April 1991: What piety won't stop
25 April 1991: Now make it a national bid
26 April 1991: Send this document back for shredding
26 April 1991: Long spoons obligatory
26 April 1991: Bearded like the guard
27 April 1991: A worse offense than the poll tax
27 April 1991: Racism on stony ground
29 April 1991: The medical balancing sheet
29 April 1991: Romancing those place names
30 April 1991: Forster, Butler and Straw
30 April 1991: A poor return for reform
30 April 1991: Crispy noodles
1 May 1991: A local gloss on a central question
1 May 1991: Sickening service

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 across the top third of the page until Tuesday 22 January 1991 from which date a two column format on the left hand side of the page is adopted. 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):
MD - Malcolm Dean
JG - [John Gittings]
VK - Vic Keegan
DMcK - David McKie
PP - Peter Preston
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

Interview with David Marquand, leader-writer for the Guardian. Conducted by Malcolm Dean on 31 January 2002. 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
01.06 Torn between academic work and journalism
01.58 Refused editorship of Isis, student paper at Oxford University
02.42 Year as a graduate student at St. Anthony's
02.56 Postgraduate year in America at the University of Berkley
03.19 Offered a summer job at the Guardian whilst still at St. Anthony's
04.42 Discusses summer job as a leader-writer in Manchester
05.36 Returned from America
05.40 Offered a job at the New Statesman but advised to return to the Guardian
06.09 Moved to Manchester to join the Guardian
06.42 Discusses the Guardian reporting on the Suez crisis
07.45 First impressions of the Guardian
08.15 Discusses sharing a room with Frank Edmead, leader-writer

10.10 Didn't have leader conferences at this time
10.50 Started work at 4pm, finished by 11pm
12.36 Discusses the standard format for writing 'bi-laterals'
12.56 Explains 'bi-laterals' - long, a two par, and a short
14.33 Deadline for submissions was 8pm
14.45 Remit was supposed to be foreign affairs
15.33 How Alastair Hetherington edited leader-writing
16.24 Generating article ideas and access to information
18.53 Relationship with other staff members

20.29 Significant stories during his time at the Guardian
22.20 Central Manchester was very bleak and quiet
23.13 Lived in Didsbury, where CP Scott and 'everybody lived'
23.40 Discusses the Cuban crisis
26.50 Guardian's position on Lib-Lab

30.08 Hugh Gaitskell's famous 'fight, fight, fight' speech in 1961
31.52 Another big issue at the time was the economy and common market
33.16 The removal of 'Manchester' from title and news on the front page
34.08 Anecdote: Guardian ran a front page story predicting the wrong 1959 election result
36.02 How the Guardian felt about the Tory Government
39.38 Guardian was like a graduate school
39.57 Employees were 'intellectually high class... some remarkable people'

40.12 Moved to London in Autumn 1961
40.38 Offer from the Observer to work one day a week
40.51 Bargained with Alastair to work at the Guardian two days a week
41.15 Discusses John Maddox, Bill Webb and Harold Griffiths
42.30 Remembers debates with Leonard Beaton
44.08 Discusses foreign coverage, America, Iceland, Paris
47.46 'It wasn't a subs paper it was a writers paper'
48.37 Alastair Hetherington and his writing style

52.14 Still no leader conferences in London
53.44 Offered a lectureship in 1962 and left the Guardian
54.41 Continued to write for the Guardian post 1962
54.56 Opinion of the Guardian today
55.27 How to pitch writing style for Guardian readers, writing for the elite

60.57 How politicians view and respond to the press

Track 2
Test

Reprise of Malcolm Dean's speech as Scott Trustee, 1994-2001. Recorded 11 December 2001.

Summary contents (with rough timings):

Track 1
01.15 Speech given as a toast to CP Scott at yearly Scott Trust dinner.

Track 2
01.01 Three out of four people he started with are still working for the Guardian- loyalty to the paper
02.35 A lot of caring for each other
03.03 Had three editors since he joined and disusses Alastair Hetherington
04.40 Famous story about Alastair lunching with David Steele and taking him to Beachy Head
05.24 Peter Preston democratised paper

Track 3
Test

Track 4
00.03 How Alan Rusbridger gives parties and promotes youth
01.10 Alan has senses of family history, the archive was his idea

Track 5
00.52 Many interesting ways of getting into the Guardian. Anecdote- David McKie's interview with John Cole
02.20 Malcolm's interview with John Cole and arguing over the Donovan report
02.54 Hugo Young said ideas were always accepted
03.30 Reputation of paper and how it always took the right stance on major issues
04.56 Values of the paper and respect as a writer
05.48 Importance of 'Head' - able to achieve change whilst holding on to continuity

Track 6
00:22 Incredible depth of knowledge stored in Guardian
01.52 Guardian canteen - a place to meet all kinds of people and writers
03.08 Began Society section 21 years ago
03.44 Likens a circus' high wire acts to the Guardian's editors
04.16 Libel suits- Police federation suit over Duncan Campbell article
07.30 Reads out what CP Scott said on 100th anniversary of paper on importance of character

Includes photographs of:
Dallman, Nick
Darling, Bill
Davis, William
Dawood, Caroline [Caroline Marland]
Dean, Malcolm*
de Bono, Edward
de Jongh, Nicholas
Dewhurst, Keith
Dixon, Michael
Dixon, Norman
Dobie, Laurence
Dodd, Chris
Drabble, Margaret
Driver, Christopher
Duffy, Hazel
Dunn, Alan
Dunn, Elisabeth
Dutton, TE
Creator: Manchester Guardian; Picture Desk; Manchester Picture Library