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Photographic prints of Denis Thorpe's work from 1950 including photographs taken in a personal capacity, and work produced for the Daily Mail (1957-74) and the Guardian (1974-96). Also includes examples of Denis's freelance work for the Guardian, 1996-2000.

Administrative/Biographical history: Denis Thorpe initially aspired to become a reporter having been praised for some of his writing whilst at school. He joined the Mansfield Reporter as junior journalist in 1948, his job responsibilities mostly assisting the photographer. After National Service he rejoined the Mansfield Reporter as photographer. He then worked for the Northampton Chronicle & Echo (1954-55), the Lincolnshire Echo (1955), Birmingham Gazette & Dispatch (1955-57) before joining the Daily Mail in 1957. He joined the Guardian on the 12 August 1974, where he stayed for over 22 years. The Guardian encouraged his work and allowed him to explore new methods and to become adept in all genres of photography. Thorpe retired in April 1996 but continues to take photographs and give talks. An exhibition of photographs from his book 'Photographs 1950-2000' was displayed in the Guardian Newsroom from the 7 May-25 June 2004.

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.

Records relating to the Guardian Media Group plc, owner of the Guardian and the Observer newspapers. The company was founded as Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited (MGEN); and has also been known as Guardian and Manchester Evening News Limited (GMEN Ltd) and Guardian and Manchester Evening News plc (GMEN plc) before being renamed Guardian Media Group (GMG) in 1993.
Prior to the formation of Guardian Newspapers Ltd in 1967, the Guardian editor reported directly into Guardian and Manchester Evening News plc (and its predecessor names) and therefore records relating to the Guardian can be found here as well as in the main Guardian collection (GUA).

Administrative/Biographical history: Guardian Media Group (GMG) is a multimedia business. Its core business is Guardian News & Media (GNM), which publishes the Guardian and the Observer newspapers and the theguardian.com website. It also holds a diverse portfolio of investments to help support GNM's journalism. The Group has been wholly owned by the Scott Trust since 1936.

The company was established in 1924 as the Manchester Guardian and Evening News Ltd (MGEN Ltd) when CP Scott, the owner and editor of the Manchester Guardian, purchased the Manchester Evening News from Russel Allen. The company was renamed Guardian and Manchester Evening News Ltd (GMEN Ltd) in 1973; and it became a plc in 1982 (GMEN plc). In November 1993 it changed its names to Guardian Media Group plc (GMG).
Creator: Guardian Media Group plc, 1907-; newspaper proprietor
Creator: The Guardian, 1821-

The collection consists of notebooks, correspondence and files of cuttings, drafts articles and reports created and maintained throughout his long career from the late 1950s to 2010. The collection represents a large body of his work on Africa, Canada, South America, the UN, the Commonwealth, and press freedom. The titles given to notebooks and files are those originally given by Clyde Sanger, except where indicated by square brackets.

Names of countires, regions and territories in the catalogue descriptions have been taken from the original source material.

Administrative/Biographical history: Clyde Sanger (1928-2022) was a journalist and author who wrote prolifically over the last six decades on African and Canadian politics, the Commonwealth, international development, and the environment.

In his early career, Clyde was a reporter for the Staffordshire Evening Sentinel, London Evening News and Daily Mail. He moved to Africa in 1957 where he edited the political and economic magazine The Central African Examiner in Southern Rhodesia. He left the Examiner in 1959 to join the Guardian, where he became the paper's first Africa correspondent in 1960. Whilst working in Africa between 1957 and 1965 he reported on a range of social, economic and political news and befriended nationalist leaders including Joshua Nkomo, Kenneth Kaunda and Ndsbaningi Sithole.

Since moving to North America in 1965 Clyde worked as UN correspondent and Canada correspondent for the Guardian, Parliamentary reporter for the Globe and Mail and Canada correspondent for the Economist. He also served as a Governor of NewsConcern International Foundation, Director of Information for The Commonwealth Secretariat, Director of Communications for the North-South Institute, and Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Carleton University.

His books include: Central African Emergency (1960). The Kenya General Election of 1963 (1864), Half a Loaf: Canada's semi-role among developing countries (1969), Stitches in Time: the Commonwealth in world politics (1983) and Malcolm MacDonald: bringing an end to empire (1995).

Original cartoons and caricatures by David Low for the Manchester Guardian.

Administrative/Biographical history: Low was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 7 April 1891. In 1902 he was appointed as political cartoonist at the Spectator in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 1911 he moved to the Bulletin in Sydney, Australia.

He travelled to London to join the Star in 1919 and later worked for the Evening Standard (1927-50) and the Daily Herald (1950-53). He Joined the Manchester Guardian in 1953 and continued to work for the paper until shortly before his death in 1963.

Mainly contains sketchbooks and pocket cartoons which appeared in the Guardian between 1996 and 2005. Also includes artwork for other publications including the Spectator, Private Eye, Broadcast Magazine and Computer Weekly and drawings relating to Austin's creative projects such as 'Merrie England' and a Y2K book.

Administrative/Biographical history: David Austin was born in in Lavendon, Buckinghamshire in 1935, the elder of two children of Jack and Toni Austin. The family moved near to Southend-on-Sea soon after his birth and David attended Southend High School for Boys. He went on to study Chemistry at Leicester University and spent his National Service in the RAF. His first job was as an industrial chemist but he resigned in 1966 to re-train as a teacher and went on to work in two primary schools in London. In 1970 he began to draw the 'Hom Sap' cartoon strip for Private Eye which ran for 35 years and he became a full-time cartoonist in 1976, having resigned as a teacher in 1974. He founded a comic magazine called 'Duck Soup' with cartoonists Kipper Williams and Tom Johnston in 1978 and later worked for Today, Mail on Sunday, The Spectator and Daily Telegraph before moving to the Guardian in 1990. At the Guardian he produced a daily front-page pocket cartoon and later an additional drawing for the letters page. His last cartoon for the Guardian was published on 28 October 2005.
Creator: Austin; David (1935-2005); cartoonist