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General file concerning editorial content. Includes proposed ideas for articles, features and supplements.

Contains correspondence, memorandum and reports largely concerning: sports coverage; the property price index; the make-up of the newspaper; the British Press Awards 1985; travel pages; the property section; distribution of the Times; a profile of Armand Hammer; weekend articles; the position of the crossword; drugs in Britain; review schedules; novel serialisations; a home page; future features; recruitment editorials; a Mexico feature; editorial comparison between newspapers; editorial allocation; proposed articles; promotion; quizzes; biographies and memoirs; the Living section; the omission of world weather; April Fool's Day; New Year features; the editorial budget; new series; circulation; a book by Uri Geller; My Life in Pictures by Charlie Chaplin; layout; Sir Geoffrey Jackson; the Bonington expedition to Everest; Weidenfeld, publishers; Roy Jenkins; Averell Harriman memoirs; printing; biography of Ted Heath; Donald Wintersgill; the Observer house agreement with the National Union of Journalists (NUJ); law articles; the Sun; George Jackson interview; architectural features; advertisements; Ralph Nadar; motoring coverage; crossword compiler Ximenes.

Includes notes from editorial review meetings.

Primary correspondents include: Roger Harrison; Magnus Linklater; Donald Trelford; Nick Morrell; Ken Obank; John Nuttall-Smith; Richard Findlater.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison

Photographs, mostly related to the Sunday Times projects and staff, credited to other photographers (shown in brackets) or picturing Sally Soames. Including:

The Royal Show, Coventry - July 1963
Harold Wilson at an open air election meeting (2 prints) - 19 September 1964
Car racing track- 1964
'My car and I' for Observer Magazine - 1964-1965
Underwear shots (Michael Ward) (3 prints) - 11 December 1968
Athens (2 prints) - 1960s
Yom Kippur War: Golan Heights (2 prints) - 1973
With Mordechai Gur (2 prints) - 1975
Sunday Times Picture Desk Christmas Party (2 prints) - 1976
With Eve Arnold at Tory Conference (Chris Davies) - 1977
Ron Meekius' retirement lunch (3 prints) - 1977-1978
Tory Party Conference - 1978
'Wharton, Me, Frank + [Geremy] Scarf' - 1978
'Sally Soames RIP' with George Darker and Edwin Taylor (3 prints) - 1979
'Sunday Times comes back after suspension' (Michael Ward) - November 1979
Picture Desk Lunch - 1979
The Steel Strike, Sheerness with Frank Barratt and Roger Bamber (Brian Harris) - February 1980
New Picture Editor (2 prints) - June 1980
Labour Party Conference (Srdja Djukanovic & Don McPhee) (4 prints) - 1980
Christopher Angeloglou - April/May 1981
In Rome when the Pope was Shot - May 1981
Conservative Conference, Blackpool (Ashley -- of Financial Times) (2 prints) - 1981
Faulkland Island crisis cabinet meeting (Michael Ward) - 24 April 1982
With News Editor Tony Dawe - 1982
With Mike Cranmer at the Sunday Times (Duncan Baxter) (2 prints) - July 1983
Saturday in Hyde Park (Jane Bown) - July 1983
London Zoo (Michael Ward) (2 prints) - 14 September 1983
Grand Hotel Brighton (John Voos) - 1984
At the park (Duncan Baxter) - 1984
In hospital the day Hugo Young left (Michael Ward) (2 prints) - 1984
Sunday Times Picture Desk - September 1985
Jack Hallam Funeral (Michael Ward & Duncan Baxter) (4 prints) - 16 October 1986
General Election, Israel, with 'darling Mr. P' (2 prints) - c. 1986
Beverley Hills with Hammer and Crosland (5 prints) - 1987
The launch of 'Manpower' (4 prints) - 1987
'Obituary photo for Sally Soames' (Neil Libbert) - 1980s (1 print, and 1 copy negative)
With the Sunday Times drivers - nd
Portrait of Sally Soames by John Fielding (4 prints) - nd
Photographs of Sally and of two unknown men (packaged with Magan Broshi negs) (4 prints) - nd

& others
Creator: DS/UK/122