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General correspondence - N
OBS/6/1/2/1/1/11 · File · 1982-1988
Part of Records of The Observer newspaper

Correspondence between Anthony Howard and a number of individuals and organisations including James Naughtie (BBC/Scotsman), Shiva Naipaul (staff), National Union of Journalists (NUJ), Paul Nathanson, The Nation (NY), The National Forum Trust, John Naughton, Ronald Neil (BBC), Netherlands Radio and Television, Baroness Julia Neuberger, Jill Neville, Max Nicholson (CB, CVO), and Benedict Nightingale.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Anthony Howard
Katharine Whitehorn
Katharine Whitehorn
OHP/100 · File · 8 August 2001
Part of Oral history project

Interview with Katharine Whitehorn, columnist for the Observer. Conducted by Sarah Ryle on 8 August 2001. Also includes a data sheet containing biographical details about the subject and information about the recording and notes made by Sarah Ryle.

Summary contents of interview (with rough timings):

Disc 1:
Track 1
00.20 Introduction
01.00 Introduction of a women's page at the Observer
02.00 Offered role whilst working at the Spectator on her own column. Initially turned down role.
02.35 Took up role of fashion writer
02.50 Had previously covered Paris fashion week for Picture Post
03.20 Decision to change direction of fashion section
04.50 Success of fashion section with readers
05.00 Upset of advertisers over her writing
05.40 *
06.25 Remembers Anne Scott James at the Daily Express
06.55 Strength of women's writing
08.20 Legacy of George Seddon
08.35 *

10.50 Older figures at the Observer
10.58 Remembers Terry Kilmartin's book reviews
11.25 Interest in reader traffic figures
11.30 Remembers departure of Women's editor, Beryl McAlhone
13.20 The Observer the first paper to go into sections
13.35 The Observer 'Daylight' section
14.10 Climate of intellectual discussion at the Observer
14.50 Lack of hierarchy and access to David Astor
17.00 Incident when writing economic coverage
17.59 *
18.30 Felt the personal intruded on the professional
19.30 Newspapers editors as managers
19.45 Remembers Tristan Jones

20.10 *
20.49 Husband, Gavin Lyall, working at the Sunday Times in 1960s
21.15 Lyall offered work at the Observer
21.30 Differences between the Observer and the Sunday Times
22.45 Discussion of Donald Trelford
23.44 Remembers Kenneth Obank and his determination to print Nikita Khruschev's speech denouncing Joseph Stalin
25.00 Departure of Astor
25.39 Grammar in the newspaper
26.35 How the Guardian viewed the Observer
26.44 Drinking at the Observer
27.30 Use of hotels and taxis when covering news stories
28.30 Astor years and uniqueness of the Observer at this time
29.10 Stand against self censorship
29.48 Simon Jenkins on self censorship whilst editor at the Times

30.00 Remembers Seddon
30.30 Brief stint in editing
31.15 Invited editors wives to lunch to measure their views of the women's page
33.45 Decision to stop working on the fashion column
34.20 Began her own general column
35.00 The history of women's journalism
36.00 Opinions on lifestyle columns
38.45 Felicity Green and the feminisation of Fleet Street
39.20 The place of women's pages in newspapers today

40.00 How women's pages dealt with personal effects of news
42.00 How she wanted to change fashion coverage to make it personal
43.00 Fashion today

Track 2
Test

Disc 2:
Track 1
00.25 Personalities at the Observer including Kate Trelford
02.00 Donald Trelford's relationship with Kate Trelford
04.00 Disapproval of city pages
05.25 Invited to dinner with Trelford and Lajos Lederer
07.10 *
07.55 Trelford's effect on the newspaper
08.30 Trelford's visit to Rhodesia
09.40 Failure of the midweek edition

10.10 Strength of the women's pages
10.35 Non-news features considered less important
11.15 Strength of the Guardian weekend magazine
11.35 Importance of women's input
15.00 The working week at a weekend newspaper
16.20 Takeover by the Guardian and its effect on the structure of the working week
16.40 Remembers Patrick O'Donovan and John Gale
17.40 John Naughton taking over Clive James as television critic
18.00 Her and Naughton leaving the newspaper
19.00 Dislike of actions of Jocelyn Targett

20.20 Opinion of Edie Riley on valedictory article headline
20.45 Response of Will Hutton to appointment of Roger Alton as editor
21.40 Joining Saga magazine after leaving the Observer
22.30 Observer circulation and the approach of Targett
24.00 Need for the Observer to stand by its core values
25.40 Visit to China with Margaret Thatcher
27.20 The future of the Observer
28.30 Remembers the ideas of Adrian Hamilton
29.00 The Observer as the contrary voice
29.40 The Observer stand against the private finance initiative

30.05 Socialising with Observer staff
31.20 Leaving parties including Gritta Weil leaving
32.15 Attempts of Anthony Howard to maintain the standards of the newspaper
32.40 Working from home

 Whitehorn; Katharine Elizabeth (1926-2021); columnist
Picture library files for personalities beginning with N
OBS/6/9/2/6/N · Sub-series · c1950-c2000
Part of Records of The Observer newspaper

Files of prints of the following individuals:

Box 1:
Nabokov, Vladimir (Includes set by Peter Keen)
Nadal, Raphael (not tennis player) - [Rafael Nadal]** (by David Sillitoe)
Nagano, Kent (By Dennis Thorpe)
Nagy, Phyllis
Nail, Jimmy
Naipaul, VS (Including sets by Peter Keen and John Reardon)
Nair, Devan (By Jane Bown)
Nairn, Ian (Staff)
Naish, Bronwen
Najibullah
Nally, Mike (Staff)
Namboodiripad, E.M. Sankaran (By Michael Peto)
Namier, Sir Louis
Napier, John
Napier-Bell, Simon
Napper, Alison (By Jane Bown)
Narayan, Jaya Prakash (By Jane Bown)
Narayan, R.K. (Including set by Jane Bown)
Narayan, Rajan (By Jane Bown)
Nardini, Daniela (By Andrew Testa)

Box 2
Narizzano, Silvio (By Eamonn McCabe)
Narromore (By Jane Bown)
Nasrin, Taslima
Nasseibeh, Sari
Nasser, Gamal Abdel (Including picture by Karsh)
Nathaniel
Nathen, Sarah (By Jane Bown)
Nation, Terry (by Frank Martin)
Naughtie, James (Staff)
Naughton, Bill (By Don McCullin)
Naughton, John
Navasky, Victor
Navrozov, Andrei (Guardian writer)
Nawiasky, Mechtild (Staff)
Naylor, Gloria
Naylor, Janet
Naylor, Jim
Naylor, Margot (Staff)
Nazareth, Isobel
Nazir-Ali, Michael (Dr.)
Njabuld, Ndebele
N'Dour, Youssou
Neagle, Anna (Including sets by Jane Bown and Peter Johns)
Neal, Gub
Neal, Gerry
Neame, Christopher
Neave, Airey
Neave, Rikki
Needham, John (Including set by Jane Bown)
Needham, Joseph (By Jane Bown)
Needham, Richard
Needham, Sabrena
Needle, Jan (By Dennis Thorpe)
Needler, Harold (By Colin Jones)
Neel, Alice (By Robert Maplethorpe)
Neeson, Liam
Negoda, Natalya
Negroponte, Nicholas
Nehru, Pandit (Including sets by Neil Libbert)
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Neil, Andrew (Including set by Jane Bown)
Neil, Hildegard
Neil, Lucy
Neil, Ron
Neill of Bladen, Lord (Q.C.)
Neizvestny, Ernst (By Ida Kar)
Nekrasov, Viktor
Nelligan, Kate (Including sets by Neil Libbert and Kenneth Saunders)
Nellist, Dave
Nelmes, Stanley
Nelson, Lord (By Jane Bown)
Nelson, Ralph
Nelson, Richard
Nelsson, Richard (Staff)
Nelsova, Zara
Nemeth, Miklos
Nemon, Oscar
Nepal, King and Queen of
Nerina, Nadia
Neruda, Pablo (By Chris Smith)
Nesbitt, Cathleen
Nesbitt, Robert (By Robin Laurence)
Nesin, Aziz
Nestor, Pam
Netanyahu, Benjamin
Netherlands, Royal Family of (Including sets by Jane Bown, David Newell Smith and Tony McGrath)
Neto, Augustinho
Nettleford, Rex (Prof.)
Neuberger, Julia (Including set by Jane Bown)

Box 3
Neudecker, Mariele
Neuhaus, Denise (By Jane Bown)
Neustatter, Angela
Neveux, Georges
Neville, Charles
Neville, Elizabeth (By Jane Bown)
Neville, John (Including sets by Jane Bown and Angus McBean)
Neville, Richard
Neville-Jones, Dame Pauline
Nevin, Charles (Staff)
New Kids On the Block Fans
Newby, Eric
Newby, P.H. (By Peter Johns)
Newell, Mike
Newell-Smith, David (Staff)
Newman, G.F.
Newman, Bishop Jeremiah
Newman, Kenneth (Sir) (Including Jane Bown)
Newman, Nanette (By Frank Martin)
Newman, Paul
Newman, Randy
Newman, Rob
Newman, Sidney (Including set by David Sims)
Newsam, Peter (Inclusing set by Jane Bown)
Newsome, Lloyd
Newton, Anthony
Newton, Eric (Staff)
Newton, Gordon (By Jane Bown)
Newton, Helmut (Including set by Nobby Clark)
Newton, Mike
Newton-John, Olivia (Including sets by Jane Bown and Tony McGrath)
Ngakone, Albertina (Dr.)
Ngo-Dinh-Nhu (By Jane Bown)
Nglow, Euan
Ngugi Wa Thiong o * (by Jane Bown, 1984)
Nguyen Khank, General
Nguyen Van Thieu, President
Niarchos, Stavros
Nicholl, Duncan
Nichol, Helen
Nichol, Jim
Nichol, Noleen
Nicholas, David
Nicholas, David
Nicholas, Jeremy (By Kenneth Saunders)
Nicholls, Patrick
Nichols, Dandy
Nichols, Grace
Nichols, Mike
Nichols, Peter
Nichols, Ross
Nicholson, Ben (By Bill Brandt)
Nicholson, Brian (Staff) (Including set by Jane Bown)
Nicholson, Sir Brian
Nicholson, Caroline (Staff)
Nicholson, Dido
Nicholson, Emma
Nicholson, Geoff (Staff)
Nicholson, Mavis (By Jane Bown)
Nicholson, Nigel (Including set by Jane Bown)
Nicholson, Norman (By Jane Bown)
Nicholson, Rosemary (By Jane Bown and Sue Adler)
Nicholson, William
Nicolls, Janet
Nicols, Maggie
Nicolson, Ben
Nicolson, Harold (Sir) (By Jane Bown and Howard Coster)
Nicolson, Nigel (By Jane Bown and Peter Johns)
Nickell, Rachel Jane

Box 4
Niesewand, Peter
Nightingale, Virginia
Nijinska, Romola
Nikolayev, Andrian (Major) (By Karsh)
Nittve, Lars
Nitze, Paul (Including set by Karsh)
Niven, David
Nixon, Donald (By Jane Bown)
Nixon, Kay (By Jane Bown)
Nixon, Vivian
Nils, Nobby
Nilsen, Dennis
Nilson, Anton
Nilsson, Birgit (Sets by Jane Bown, Peter Johns and Don Morley)
Nims, Jerry (Dr.)
Nin, Anais
Ninagowa, Yukio
Nisbet-Smith, D.
Nixon, Richard (Including set by Jane Bown and a Gibbard illustration)
Nkomo, Joshua (Including set by Jane Bown)
Nkosi, James (Lewis) (By Jane Bown)
Nkrumal, Kwame (Including set by Peter Keen)
Noakes, John
Noakes, Vivian
Noble, Adrian
Noiret, Philippe
Nolan, Anna (Set by Jane Bown)
Nolan, Lord
Nolan, Sydney
Nolte, Nick
Nond, Luigi (Set by Erich Auerbach)
Noon, Jeff (Set by Dennis Thorpe)
Nooteboom, Cees
Norden, Dennis
Norfolk, 16th Duke of (Set by Anthony Vincent and Eric Wadsworth)
Nordli, Odvar (Set by Jane Bown)
Norfolk, 17th Duke of (Sets by Jane Bown and Neil Libbert)
Norman, Sir Arthur (Including sets by Jane Bown and Tony McGrath)
Norman, Bary (Including set by Eamonn McCabe)
Norman, Frank
Norman, Howard (Set by Jane Bown)
Norman, Jessye (Including sets by Jane Bown, Peter Johns and Frank Martin)
Norman, Philip (Including set by Nobby Clark)
Norrington, Roger
Norris, Steven (Including sets by Antonio Olmos and Martin Argles)
Norrish, hilary (Set by Jane Bown)
Norstein, Yuri
North, Dick
North, Robert
Northern, Michael
Norton, Deborah (Set by Peter Johns)
Norton, Jim
Norton, Mary (Set by Angus McBean)
Norton-Taylor, Richard
Norwich, Lord John Julius (Including set by Jane Bown)
Norwood, Mandi
Nott, Sir John (Including set by Jane Bown)

Box 5:
Nott, Lady (Set by Jane Bown)
Nott, Kathleen (Staff)
Noutelle, Lawrence (Set by Jane Bown)
Novak, Kim (Set by Tom Smith)
Novell, Jean Christopher (Set by Jane Bown)
Ntshona, Winston
Nu, U (Including sets by Jane Bown and Tony McGrath)
Nugent, Lucy (Set by Jane Bown)
Nujoma, Sam
Numan, Garry
Numeiry, Gafar (Set by Jane Bown)
Nunn, Trevor (Including sets by Jane Bown, Nobby Clark and Don McPhee)
Nureyev, Rudolf (Including sets by Jane Bown, Peter Johns, Michael Peto, David Sim, Brian Seed, Colin Jones, Neil Libbert, Tony McGrath, Nobby Clark, John Reardon and Richard Mildenhall)
Nuriglia, R C
Nursaw, William (Staff)
Nyerere, Julius (Including sets by Jane Bown and Stuart Heydinger)
Nygh, Anna (Sets by Jane Bown and Nobby Clark)
Nyman, Michael
Nxumalo, Simon (Set by Frank Martin)
Nzo, Alfred
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