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Including Simon Winchester.

Notes, press releases, papers and correspondence concerning the IPI reaction to the progression of the Contempt of Court Bill through the House of Lords, November 1980 - 20 February 1981.

Includes photocopies of annotated Hansard reports following the reading of the Bill in the House of Lords, December 1980.

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

Records relating to the 27th General Assembly of the International Press Institute (IPI) held in Canberra, Australia, 7 - 9 March 1978.

Includes a directors report of IPI activities, conferences and membership from June 1977 to March 1978; transcript of the opening speech by Peter Galliner (IPI director), 7 March 1978 and resolutions on Indonesia, South Africa and Latin America, nd, [March 1978].

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

Administrative records relating to the British Executive Committee of the IPI, October 1985 - June 1990, created and maintained by Peter Preston, as chairman of the IPI British Executive Committee, 1988-1990.

The file is mainly comprised of Preston's correspondence with editors and broadcasting executives concerning IPI subscriptions and membership of the IPI Core Committee, January 1988 - June 1990.

Also contains: copies of correspondence with the IPI Secretariat concerning subscription payments and IPI income and expenditure, October 1985 - November 1987; records concerning the Guardian's corporate subscription to the IPI, 1986-1989; photocopies of the British Executive's income and expenditure accounts, 1987 and 1988; membership lists of the IPI British Executive Committee, 9 May 1988 -[c1989]; a letter from Peter Preston to Peter Galliner (IPI director) concerning the jailing of a Guardian stringer in South Africa for not revealing his sources, March 1991; a letter from John Major (as Secretary of State) concerning arrangements for attending an IPI lunch, 14 September 1989 and a copy of the IPI constitution, June 1984.

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

Invitations, programmes, guest lists, invoices, correspondence with attendees, Committee members, speakers and special guests relating to International Press Institute (IPI) British Executive Committee lunches and dinners, 7 February 1991 - 11 November 1992.

Includes records relating to the following IPI lunches and dinners:

Lord McGregor of Durris, 7 February [1991]
Lord Alexander of Weedon, QC, 27 March 1991
Tom King, MP, Secretary of State for Defence, 18 June 1991
Michael Heseltine, MP, Secretary of State for the Environment, 26 June 1991
Paddy Ashdown, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, 8 July 1991
Sir Robin Butler, Head of the Home Civil Service, 6 November 1991
George Russell, Chairman of the Independent Television Commission, 12 February 1992
Raymond Seitz, Ambassador of the United States, 26 February 1992
Charles Anson, Press Secretary to the Queen, 10 July 1992
Sir Leon Brittain, Vice-President, Commission of European Communities, 5 June 1992
Sir David Mellor, MP, Secretary of State for National Heritage, 22 June 1992
Sir Hugh Annesley, Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, 30 September 1992
Tony Blair, MP, shadow Home Secretary, 11 November 1992

Also contains a list of special guests at IPI meetings from 5 December 1988 to 30 September 199 and invitations, guest lists, correspondence with attendees and guest speakers and typed notes by Finlay Marshall of the Press Association concerning the IPI seminar on the future of the D Notice system in the post Cold War world held in London on 23 September 1992.

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

Records relating to the International Press Institute (IPI) conference at the London School of Economics (LSE) to discuss the state of the press and broadcasting freedom in the United Kingdom, held at the London School of Economics on 21 April 1989, March - April, 1989.

Includes correspondence with IPI members, attendees and speakers concerning arrangements for the conference; press releases announcing the conference; guests lists; registration slips and lists of speakers and attendees.

Correspondents include: Lord Hailsham (politician); Max Hastings (editor, Daily Telegraph); Andrew Neil (editor, Sunday Times); Stewart Purvis (ITN); David MacCormick (Newsnight); Dr Albert Scharf (president, European Broadcasting Union); David Owen (MP) and John Tusa (BBC) and Donald Trelford (editor, The Observer).

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

Records relating to the International Press Institute (IPI) British Executive Committee conference on 'terrorism and the media' held on 10 November 1977, May - December 1977.

Includes newspaper cuttings; correspondence with speakers, attendees and Home Office officials concerning arrangements for the conference; programmes; invitation lists; report (marked 'not for publication') and a questionnaire on terrorism completed by Windsor Clarke (IPI secretary).

Also includes a report (marked 'not for publication') on the IPI conference on 'European terrorism and the media' held on 9 November 1978, nd, [December 1978].

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

Records relating to conferences held by the International Press Institute British Executive, 18 January 1977 - 29 October 1980.

Includes a list of attendees at an unknown IPI conference held on 18 January 1977; report of the one day conference on 'race and the media', 9 May 1977; attendance list, agenda, report and case studies from the 'terrorism and the media', conference, 10 November 1977; preliminary programme, booking form, guest lists, case studies, report and invoices for the 'European terrorism and the media' conference, 9 November 1978; preliminary programme, booking form, attendance list and lists of costs for the one day conference on 'the free flow of information - practical issues for editors', 30 May 1979; a Press Association special reporting paper on the Sunday Times Thalidomide contempt case, 31 May 1979; invitation lists and a report (marked 'not for publication') of the conference on 'police relations with the media' held on 22 April 1980 and an admission card, conference papers, summary of the findings from the all media survey of journalists training, provisional programme and invitation list for the 'editorial training in the eighties' conference held on 29 October 1980.

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

Donald Trelford's subject file on the International Press Institute Congress in May 1995 in Seoul.

Includes a conference agenda and papers, various IPI reports, issues of the IPI's monthly magazine, typescripts of speeches by conference attendees, typescript of an address by Trelford, and photos of Donald Trelford at the congress.

Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford