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Correspondence, reports, meeting notes and memorandum concerning the specification and introduction of the Guardian Atex system operation.

Includes background reports by the New Technology Working Party: Visit to Birmingham Post and Mail (March 1986); Visit to Perscombinatie, Amsterdam (March 1986); Visit to International Herald Tribune, Paris (March 1986); Draft first specifications of editorial requirements for electronic system (March 1986); Second draft specifications of editorial requriements for electronic system (March 1986); Visit to three major American newspaper computer installations (February 1986).
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

Papers concerning the Guardian Press Centre (printworks) on the Isle of Dogs.

Papers predominately concerning the purchase and development of the site to become the Press Centre and purchase of equipment for installation in the same, 1984-1985. A memo from Peter Preston to Heads of Department summarises the Guardian's existing production process and potential impacts of new technology (4 October 1984). Additional papers concerning the Press Centre's operations,1988-1991.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

Internal and external correspondence concerning the Guardian's language style, layout and typography.

Internal correspondence has often been produced using the Guardian's new editorial input system.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

Memoirs written by former members of staff to record the memories of those who have worked for either the Guardian or the Observer.

Staff include Guardian photographer Robert Smithies, award-winning Observer food writer Paul Levy and Betty Jerman, who wrote a Guardian fashion column under the name Clair Wilson in the 1950s.

Topics covered include their interviews to join the papers, the effect of the advancement in technology on newspapers and the coverage of foreign affairs with memoirs from Northern Ireland correspondent Hugo Davenport and foreign correspondent Hella Pick.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Original file title: Press: Newspapers: Guardian: 150th Anniversary
Includes cuttings relating to Manchester town hall reception; David Ayerst book; nostalgia for Cross Street; highest sales record; Manchester exhibition and a quartersize reproduction of pages from the anniversary issues of the Guardian, May 5 and 6, 1971
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Library department, London

Original neg sleeves numbered 6-7. Set 1: 3A- Dr Ramsety, Harford Thomas, Lawrence Scott. 5A- plus Mrs Lawerence. Scott. 9A- Willy Brandt, Alastair Hetherington, Lawerence Scott. 13A- Brandt & Heath. 19A - Brandt & Heath with Lawerence Scott & Alastair Hetherington. 22A - Wedgewood Benn with Mr & Mrs Alastair Hetherington. 23A- Lawerence Scott & Willy Brandt. Set 2: 4A- Alastair Hetherington & wife with Wedgewood Benn. 8A- Lawerence Scott and Willy Brandt

File 1/2 contains predominantly hand written draft articles for The Guardian by Clyde Sanger. The file also includes typed articles, clippings, a list of Sanger's Guardian articles January to August 1977 and correspondence concerning writing for the Guardian and Guardian Weekly.

File 2/2 contains Clyde Sanger's clippings as Guardian Canada correspondent from 1973-77.

File 1/2 titled 'Guardian Sept 1979-80' predominantly contains Clyde Sanger's hand written draft articles as The Guardian's Canada correspondent. Also includes correspondence with the newspaper and some short-hand notes.

File 2/2 contains Clyde Sanger's clippings as The Guardian's Canada correspondent, October 1979 - December 1980. Also includes clippings from August 1977.

File 1/2 titled 'Guardian 1981' predominantly contains Clyde Sanger's hand written draft articles as The Guardian's Canada correspondent. Also includes correspondence with the newspaper.

File 2/2 titled 'Guardian clippings 1981' contains Clyde Sanger's clippings as The Guardian's Canada correspondent, 1981.