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Channel Four News
JHB/6/4/9 · File · 21 October 2009
Part of The Jane Bown Collection

Interview with Jane Bown at her home in Hampshire, and Luke Dodd in the archive store at the Guardian & Observer offices at Kings Place, coinciding with a retrospective exhibition at Kings Place. Both discuss Jane's technical approach, use of a window for lighting the eyes and face. Also mentions first Observer assignment of Bertrand Russell and portraits of Richard Harris, Lucian Freud and Princess Margaret.

Transmitted: 21/10/2009
Duration: 4 minutes, 48 seconds
Channel Four Television Corporation, 2009

Bown; Jane Hope (1925-2014); photographer
'Civil Disobedience'
ETB/10/6 · Item · early 1960s
Part of Papers of Tom Baistow

Depicts Bertrand Russell holding a flag reading 'Civil disobedience'. Part of Tom Baistow's personal collection.

Weisz; Victor (1913-1966); cartoonist known as 'Vicky'
OBS/6/7/1/1/18 · File · 1950-1960
Part of Records of The Observer newspaper

Includes letters, copy letters, telegrams, and submitted work on articles and reviews between Terry Kilmartin (and Jim Rose, David Astor and Ivor Brown) and individuals and organisations including: Kathleen Raine, Margaret Ramsay (including a letter from Eugene Ionescu), SK Ratcliffe, Terence Rattigan, Gordon Rattray Taylor, Cyril Ray, John Raymond, Henry B Raynor, Peter Rayner-Banham, Lord Rea, Herbert Read, Brian Reade, Michael Redgrave, Sir Carol Reed, Terence Reese, James Reeves, Charles Reid, Gerald Reitlinger, Anthony Rhodes, Hugh Richardson, Maurice L Richardson, John Rickett, Bruce Roberts, Alec Robertson, Bryan Robertson, Sir Dennis Robertson, RC Robertson-Glasgow, Lennox Robinson, WW Robson, Raymond Roden, RR Roe, Theodore Roethke, EJ Rogers, WR Rodgers, Giles Romilly, Ivan Roots, Alan Ross, Paul Rotha, Sir John Rothenstein, Royal Literary Fund, James D Rubadiri, Honorable Steven Runciman, Gordon Russell, Rt Hon Earl Russell, Hugh Ruttledge
Creator: The Observer Limited; Terry Kilmartin

General
AAB/2/1 · Sub-sub-fonds · 22 March 1956-5 October 1972
Part of Papers and artwork of Abu Abraham

General correspondence between Abu Abraham and the Observer Editor David Astor, philosopher Bertrand Russell, Christopher and Rosemary from Pemberton Publishing Company ltd., and personal friend Lidia N. Includes the formal job offer made to Abu by David Astor; a National Film Theatre Programme detailing the play 'No Arks' which Abu wrote the script for; and some notes on the play by Lidia N.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist

NBE/6 · File · 1947-1988
Part of Papers of Nora Beloff

Series of varied documents and pamphlets that include:
Foreign reports from The Economist Intelligence Unit, 1947-1948;
Programme from the ceremony for the inauguration of the President of the United States, 1949;
Transcript of WH Auden's inaugural lecture, 'Making, Knowing and Judging' at the University of Oxford, 1956;
Programme from the memorial service for Philip Hope-Wallace, 1979;
Programme and list of participants at the Aspen Institute Executive seminar, 1981;
An issue of the Encounter containing a memoir of Bertrand Russell written by Sidney Hook, March 1984;
Various articles relating to Valclav Havel, 1986-1987;
Pamphlet entitled, 'David Astor, Tributes by friends and colleagues on the occasion of his eightieth birthday', 5 March 1992;
Typescript of an article by Nora Beloff, 'La republique pure et dure' for the French magazine, Occident;
Typescript by Denis Healey entitled, 'Comments on "Beyond Nuclear Deterrence"';
Press cutting of a review of Denis Healey's book, 'The Time of my Life';
Typescript of a letter to the senate of Stanford University by Sidney Hook;
Typescript by Beloff of a chapter-by-chapter plan of an autobiography;
Documents relating to The Observer's pension fund.

Beloff; Nora (1919-1997); political reporter