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Personal and professional papers of journalist and writer Hella Pick. Includes correspondence with friends, family and work colleagues, research for her books and articles, newspaper cuttings including her Guardian cuttings books and ephemera from travels and events attended.

Administrative/Biographical history: Born in Vienna, Austria to Jewish parents in 1927, Hella Pick came to the UK alone as a child refugee on the Kindertransport in March 1939. Later joined by her mother, after an initial period in London she spent most of her remainder of her childhood in the Lake District before going on to study at the London School of Economics (LSE).

Pick entered the world of journalism in 1958 as commercial editor for the London based weekly magazine, West Africa. In 1961, Pick joined the Guardian initially as a freelance journalist but was quickly appointed as UN correspondent, one of the first female diplomatic correspondents in the British media. It was the start of a long career as a foreign correspondent at the newspaper covering political events across the globe for the next 35 years.

Pick later published her own memoir 'Invisible Walls' in 2021, which was her third book following 'Guilty Victim - Austria from the Holocaust' (2000) and her biography on Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, 'A Life in Search of Justice' (1996).

She was awarded a CBE in 2000 for her work as a writer and journalist.

Includes original artwork which appeared in the Guardian and copies and cuttings of her work.

Administrative/Biographical history: Anne Morrow studied at the Hornsey College of Art and the Royal College of Art. She has worked on the Sunday Times Magazine, Scotland on Sunday, The Observer and the Independent. From 1988 to the late 1997, Morrow produced a range of black and white and colour illustrations for various sections of the Guardian including byline pictures, features pages, and Weekend Guardian columns. In addition to the newspapers, she has worked in television (Jackanory, Rainbow), advertising (Habitat, Mothercare, The Post Office) and publishing (Penguin, Oxford University Press, Octopus).

This collection contains original illustrations by Clifford Harper for the Guardian.

Administrative/Biographical history: Clifford Harper was an illustrator for a number of 1970s radical publications, including Undercurrents, Cienfuegos Press Anarchist Review and his self-published Class War Comix, before becoming a regular contributor to the Guardian. He contributed illustrations for the 'Country Diary' column, from November 1996. Harper provided illustrations for the 'Last word' column by philosopher AC Grayling, which appeared in the Guardian from September 1999 to May 2002. He was also a contributor to Readers Digest and the Radio Times. An exhibition of Harper's work, titled Graphic Anarchy, was shown in the Guardian Newsroom in April 2003.

Original wood cut prints produced for the Guardian's comment pages.

Administrative/Biographical history: Born in Paris, Daniel Pudles spent his childhood in Brazil and America before returning to France to study at the Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques. In 1993 Pudles moved to London to work as an illustrator for a number of publications including The Daily Telegraph and The Economist. He began contributing to the Guardian's Comment pages in 1999 and his pieces regularly accompanied George Monbiot's Tuesday articles. Whilst in London he won three first prizes for illustration at the National Art Library Illustration Awards as well as the Victoria and Albert Illustration Award in 1996, 2001 and 2004. Pudles currently lives and works in Brussels.

Five acrylic and ink on board illustrations for Guardian Comment pages.

Original artwork by Ian McNee for the Guardian Weekend supplement, which later became Weekend magazine. Also includes cuttings from Weekend featuring Ian McNee's artwork.

Administrative/Biographical history: Provided illustrations for the Guardian, mainly the Weekend supplement from 1991-97. Also contributed illustrations for Guardian Friday, Women's Page and Music. Also contributed editorial work for the Observer.

Children's book designer and illustrator for Usborne publishing 1990-2004. Freelance illustrations for Usborne 2004-2011

Collection of original artwork which featured alongside articles, predominantly in the Guardian, but also in other papers. Also includes a drawing for the exhibition at Kings Place in 2011.

Administrative/Biographical history: James A Sillavan (JAS) studied advertising at Manchester School of Art in the early 1970s. Returning to the UK after a year in Colombia he went into magazine design and ended up as a layout artist on the Daily Express. In 1991, Sillavan was offered the post of diary cartoonist on the Times. This was followed by a move to Paris in 1996 where Sillavan took up photography. Sillavan received his first Guardian commission in 1999, changed his 'sign off' to JAS and began cartooning again, providing the Guardian with two illustrations per week. In the years that followed, Sillavan’s cartoons accompanied hundreds of articles across various sections of the paper, most commonly the Education and Comment & Debate pages. As well as the Guardian, Sillavan’s work has appeared in numerous other papers including the Observer, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and the Economist.

The majority of the collection is comprised of original political cartoons that were published in the Guardian newspaper between the years 1969 and 1993. The collection contains other original material such as illustrations, caricatures, sketches and ideas' books. The ideas' books show how Gibbard created rough forms of images that would later become published political cartoons. There is also a large number of copies of work contained within this collection. These copies are in a variety of formats including photocopies, bromides, process prints and negatives.

Administrative/Biographical history: Leslie David Gibbard was born on 26 October 1945 in Kaiapoi, New Zealand. Gibbard started out on his career path in 1962 drawing cartoons, illustrations and caricatures for such newspapers as the Auckland Star, New Zealand Weekly News, Sunday News, Melbourne Herald and New Zealand Herald. It was at the New Zealand Herald that Gibbard was coached and greatly influenced by the political cartoonist Sir Gordon Minhinnick. Gibbard arrived in London on 1 June 1967 and got his first job as arts caricaturist and pocket cartoonist for the Sunday Telegraph (1967-1970). Soon he became the successor of Bill Papas, the political cartoonist of the Guardian (1969-1994). Gibbard is the Guardian's longest serving political cartoonist and the youngest to have started his career there at the age of 23. Gibbard contributed to a variety of other newspapers and magazines including the Daily Mirror, Daily Sketch, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Evening Standard and Time Out. He also worked as an animator for Richard Williams (1973-1975) and Ken Harris of Warner Brothers. Gibbard was involved in the animation of 'Beatrix Potter', 'Wind in the Willows', 'Famous Fred' and other such series for television. Gibbard produced his own animated political cartoon series for Granada TV's 'Reports Politics' entitled 'Newshound' (1976-1977). He has drawn weekly political cartoons for BBC's 'On The Record' (1988-1995), 'Newsnight' and Channel 4's 'A Week in Politics' (1982-1986). He was voted the BISFA Slide/Strip Artist of the Year 1980 and National Canine Defence League Dog Cartoonist of the Year in 1989. A collection of Gibbard's best works entitled 'Gibbard's Double Decade Omnibus' was published in 1991 by Bellew Publishing, London.

Original artwork which accompanied Monday Profile articles in the Guardian. Clarke created these caricatures through the manipulation of photographs.

Administrative/Biographical history: Peter Clarke joined the RAF at 16, but moved to working in Fleet Street following his discharge 6 years later. He started in an administrative role at the Daily Express found for him by an ex-pilot friend, but then moved on to the role of political cartoonist at the Daily Sketch and then Picture Editor at the Daily Mail. He joined Gemini News Service in the late 1960s, working all over Africa and became managing director of GeminiScan, the subsidiary company of Gemini which produced graphics for the news service. He left Gemini in 1980 and joined the Guardian where he stayed until the late 1990s. Clarke was known for his inventive artwork which combined pen and ink with technology - he was the first Guardian staffer to use the then unsophisticated graphics capabilities of Apple Macs. In 1988 he won the Cartoonist of the Year award.

The collection comprises original black and white ink and colour illustrations, one colour facsimile illustration and cuttings of works which appeared largely in the Guardian accompanying Comment and Analysis articles from 1992-2011.

Administrative/Biographical history: Peter Till, a British illustrator, began contributing to the Guardian c1994.

Born in Manchester in 1945, he read English Literature at Cambridge University. One of his drawings was bought by Oz magazine in 1969 and his work also appeared in Time Out, beginning his career in illustration. He has contributed illustrations to major publications both nationally and worldwide, including the Radio Times, the Times, the Sunday Times, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and to magazines in France, Holland, Germany, and Australia.

In 1991 the Royal Mail commissioned him to design postage stamps portraying eminent Englishmen such as Michael Faraday, the scientist. Till won a Victoria and Albert Museum runner up award for editorial illustration in 2005.