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Papers of, and relating to, Alastair Hetherington who worked for the Guardian from 1950 to 1975, and was editor between 1956 and 1975.

Hetherington's papers in this collection were retained separately from other records of his personal life and career, and demonstrate the breadth of his interests. The material concerning his work in establishing Die Welt newspaper at the end of the second world war illustrate his early journalism. Individual letters and photographs provide insights into his work at the Guardian and press cuttings, film and other items demonstrate his work outside of, and after, the Guardian. The memorials and tributes, retained by Sheila Hetherington and passed to the archive with these records, complete the picture of his life and work.

Collection consists of original illustrations some of which appeared in the Observer between 1948 and 1964. The illustrations are predominately simple line drawings and cartoons in indian ink. Also includes artwork and illustrations for other publications including the Daily Mail, Time & Tide and Tatler, as well as books and other printed material. Clippings, transparencies, facsimiles, sketch books and cuttings are also included and some personal papers.

Administrative/Biographical history: Haro Hodson was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 9 February 1923. He studied at Stroud School of Art in 1939. He was posted as an official war artist attached to GHQ New Delhi during the Second World War. His first published drawing appeared in 1941 in Lilliput. He studied English at Wadham College, Oxford and Bath Academy of Art, Corsham after the war. Some of his poems were published in the Observer and Adelphi during this time. He joined the Observer as an illustrator in 1948 and left in 1964. He has made contributions to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Punch, Tatler, Time & Tide, Harpers & Queen, New York Herald-Tribune and Daily Telegraph.
Creator: Hodson; Haro (1923-); cartoonist and illustrator

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.

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

Personal and professional papers of Hugo Young, British journalist and columnist and the Guardian's senior political commentator from 1984 to his death in 2003. Includes a series of notes of interviews and conversations conducted with significant individuals including politicians and senior civil servants, 1969-2003. Also includes personal and professional correspondence, research papers relating to two published books, 'One of Us' and 'This Blessed Plot', and papers relating to his role as chair of the Scott Trust.

Administrative/Biographical history: Born in Sheffield in 1938, Hugo Young was head boy at Ampleforth College in York and read law at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1961 he joined the Yorkshire Post in Leeds and in 1963, he spent a year as a Harkness fellow in the USA, followed by a year working as a congressional fellow.

After returning to the UK in 1965, Young joined The Sunday Times, becoming chief leader writer in his second year on the paper, a position which he kept until 1977. From 1973 to 1984, Young was also the paper's political editor, and established the Sunday column 'Inside politics'. From 1981 he additionally held the position of joint deputy editor. However, Young's relationship with the Sunday Times cooled when Rupert Murdoch took over the paper in 1981, and prompted Young to leave The Sunday Times for the Guardian in 1984.

Young continued to write a twice weekly political column for the Guardian until his death in 2003, and was widely acclaimed as one of the most influential figures in modern British journalism. Young was a strong proponent of Europe, and sharply expressed his disappointment with the British government's Europe-sceptical politics in his columns. Despite these differences, Young remained on good terms with British government officials, including Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher, a critical biography of whom, 'One of Us', he published in 1989.

From 1989 Young was the chairman of the Scott Trust, owner of the Guardian, and helped the paper through important developments, including the purchase of the Observer.

Young married twice. His first wife, Helen Mason, with whom he had three daughters and a son, died in 1989. Young married American artist Lucy Waring in 1990. He died on September 22, 2003 at the age of 64 after an arduous battle against cancer.
Creator: DS/UK/122

The collection consists of 5 boxes of orginal artwork drawn by Abu Abraham for the Observer, the Guardian, the Tribune and various Indian publications. The collection also includes 1 further box containing newspaper cuttings of Abu's work, correspondence, photographs, articles and publications.

Administrative/Biographical history: The son of a lawyer, Abu was born Attupurathu Mathew Abraham into a Syrian Christian family in Tiruvalla, India, on 11 June 1924. He studied English, French and Mathematics at University College, Trivandrum, and graduated in 1945. He later moved to Mumbai (formerly Bombay) where he became a reporter for the Bombay Chronicle, drawing cartoons in his spare time for Blitz magazine and political journal Bharat. In 1951 he moved north again to New Delhi, where he joined the satirical English language journal Shankar's Weekly to work as a cartoonist and caricaturist. Two years later, he met political cartoonist Fred Joss, who encouraged him to try his luck in London. Abraham arrived in London in 1953 and within a few days, Malcolm Muggeridge, then editor of Punch, had bought one of his cartoons for seven guineas. In spring 1956 Michael Foot, future leader of the Labour party but then editor of the left-wing weekly Tribune, published two of his cartoons. Two days later, David Astor asked Abu to become the Observer's first-ever staff political cartoonist. He signed an agreement shortly afterwards and took his first cartoon to his new editor for approval on Friday 6 April. Astor requested that Abraham sign his cartoons as 'Abu' instead of 'Abraham', since 'any Abraham in Europe would be taken as a Jew and all cartoons would take on a slant for no reason.' The signature 'Abu' thus appeared on his first Observer cartoon on Sunday 8 April 1956 and Abu used this pseudonym for the rest of his career.

By July 1966, Abu was becoming increasingly unhappy with the change in the paper's stance on the Middle East and in September of that year, accepted an offer to move to the Guardian. Here he learnt to draw much faster and simplified his style to pocket cartoons. In 1969 he returned to India and began working as a political cartoonist on the Indian Express in Delhi. He left here in 1981 and chose instead to turn freelance, and in 1988, returned to his home state of Kerla where he continued to draw and write until his death in Thiruvananthapurum, India, on 1 December 2002.

Original artwork by Krauze for the Guardian Comment pages.

Administrative/Biographical history: Polish born illustrator, poster maker, cartoonist and painter who has contributed regularly to the Guardian since 1989.