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Depicts Guardian Weekly staff including Joan Leach.

Creator: Manchester Guardian; Picture Desk; Manchester Picture Library

One printed email, nd, from Will Ricketts concerning a proposal to establish a Guardian Weekly PDF subscriber service.

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Jane Glentworth

Memos, reports, readers' surveys and updates gathered by Natalie Bennett, editor of Guardian Weekly, during research for the 90th anniversary of the Guardian Weekly. Includes:

• Two page A4 memo from Patrick Ensor to Rhiannon Griffths in the advertising and planning department about the redesign of the Guardian Weekly and the changing editorial structure of the paper by adding a finance page. (c1993)
• Six page summary of Guardian Weekly Readers Survey conducted in 2000, detailing the key findings, demographic profile, readership and subscription patterns and reading motivations and preferences of the Guardian Weekly readers (7 September - 13 September 2000)
• One page Guardian Weekly Reader Survey for 2002, including demographic profile, purchaser comparisons, top occupations, readership and subscription patterns and reading motivations and preferences of Guardian Weekly reader (14 - 20 November 2002)
• Four page memo by Alan Rusbridger on expanding Guardian Weekly readership in North America (11 November 2003)
• 23 page full review of Guardian Weekly Reader Survey 2002, including statistical analysis of circulation figures, advertising rates, personal finance. Includes a breakdown of the readership on their health insurance choices, charitable giving and cultural tastes. Also includes details on distance learning offers (January - December 2002)
• 11 page Guardian Weekly Summary Research Report for October 2005 (September - October 2005)
• 16 page review of Guardian Weekly's US Edition for 2005 (May 2005)
• 6 page review of Guardian Weekly, US edition for 2004 (June - August 2004)
• Three page memo by Patrick Ensor regarding the redesign of the newspaper (April 2007)

9 bound notebooks and 2 spiral notebooks

This is the final version of the Guardian Weekly podcast forr 19 September 2007. Track listing:

00.00 Abbey International Ad.
00.20 Presenter Mark King introduces the Guardian Weekly's headlines.
02.10 International Institute of Strategic Studies publishes a review of Iran and terrorsm affecting the United Kingdom.
06.23 United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force is sent to Darfur under the command of Canadian general Romeo Dallaire.
09.44 John Dennis interviews Guardian financial editor Nils Pratley.
13.54 Jessica Cartner-Morley discusses dangerously thin models at London Fashion Week.
17.04 Guardian Weekly 'Letter' from Philip Briggs, British School teacher living in Rio de Janeiro.
20.20 Discussion on discovery of the Terracotta Army manufactured in the reign of China's first dynastic ruler.

The Guardian Weekly set up an international correspondence scheme in 1932. Those persons who participated lived in countries such as the United States, Austria, Germany, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

These two files of personal correspondence, including a number of postcards and photographs, were the result of participation in the scheme by Kathleen Drake of Brighouse, Yorkshire.

Creator: Drake, Kathleen; c1922 -

Newspapers collected by John Perkins in his position as editor of the Guardian Weekly:

The Guardian Weekly, December 27 1969, headline 'The world in 1969'
The Guardian Weekly, December 5 1970, front page Velaquez portrait of Juan de Pareja
The Guardian Weekly, December 26 1970, headline '1970 - the year of the flood'
The Guardian Weekly, August 19 1990, headline 'Forces build up to counter Saddam'
The Guardian Weekly, August 26 1990, headline 'Saddam forms a human shield of Western hostages'
The Guardian Weekly, August 12 1990, headline 'Saddam's only option is to escalate'

Two sets of black and white negatives and one set of colour negatives. Includes pictures of staff at work, and CP Scott artefacts now in the archive (ink pot and intray)

Two CDs and three MP3 files of recordings of the Guardian Weekly podcasts from the 19th and 26th September 2007. The podcasts are hosted by Mark King and produced by Guardian Weekly assistant editor Isobel Montgomery. The podcasts explore news from around the world on features about political, economic and cultural affairs. Each day also includes an interview with a British person overseas about their life abroad.

Guardian Weekly podcast rehearsal for the 19 September 2007 podcast. Includes:

00.00 Headlines: America's proxy war with Iran; Assessment of chance of success for international peace keeping force in Darfur; Cuban healthcare system gets first world results on a third world budget.
04.40 Advert for Abbey International.
12.20 International peace-keeping force in Darfur in detail.
15.42 Item on Northern Rock mortgage bank in UK.
20.11 Dangerously thin models at London Fashion Week with Guardian fashion editor Jessica Cartner-Morley.
24.14 Discovery of the Terracotta Army and underground government system created for the first Emperor of China.
29.55. 'Letter' from Philip Briggs on living in Rio de Janeiro and teaching at the British school.