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Collection contains a daily account of his work as a Guardian foreign reporter during the 2003 Iraq War.

Administrative/Biographical history: Foreign correspondent for the Guardian, from 1990 until 2005.

Educated at Edinburgh University. Whilst studying he had his first short story published in the New Edinburgh Review. Became a reporter on the Northampton Chronicle & Echo in 1985 after graduating from City University's journalism school in London. Joined The Scotsman newspaper as a reporter three years later. His first novel was published in 1989.

Joined the Guardian as a freelance journalist writing from Ukraine in November 1990. Between 1991 and 1999 he reported for the Guardian from the former USSR. Between 1999 and 2005 he held successive roles at including religious affairs editor, science correspondent, features writer and foreign correspondent from 2001 until 2005.

Guardian reporter in Kuwait and Iraq during the 2003 Iraq War. Awarded foreign reporter of the year in 2004 at the British Press Awards for his reporting from Iraq and about Guatanamo Bay.

Left the Guardian in May 2006 to write fiction full time. He is the author of two collections of short stories and four novels. Contributing editor for the London Review of Books.

Letters from CP Scott to John (later Lord) Simon and from Simon to his mother and father, November 1896 - December 1897.

Administrative/Biographical history: 1st Viscount John Allsebrook Simon was born in in Manchester on 28 February 1873. He attended Wadham College, Oxford, where he was president of the Union in 1896 and elected as a fellow of All Souls in 1897. He also briefly held a position as a leader writer for the Guardian under CP Scott in 1896. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1899, but regarded the bar as a stepping stone into politics. In 1906 he was elected as Liberal member of Parliament for Walthamstow, a seat he held until 1918. Falling out of favor with Lloyd George he lost his seat in 1918, but was again elected to represent Spen Valley in 1922, a seat he held until 1940.
During his political career he held various positions, including Chairman of the Indian statutory commission, Foreign Secretary (1931-1935), and worked in the Home Office and the Chancellorship of the Exchequer. In 1930 he founded and led the Liberal National Party (later National Liberals).
He married twice, first to Ethel Mary Venables (d.1902) in 1899 and later to Kathleen Harvey (d. 1955) in 1917. By his first marriage he had one son and two daughters. He died in London on 11 January 1954.

The collection comprises one letter from John Beavan (Lord Ardwick), then director of Manchester Guardian and Evening News Ltd, to Miss Lena Chivers (later Jeger), then employed in the Russian Section of the Ministry of Defence. Beavan offers Chivers feedback on her writing and offers advice in order to help her decide whether she should attempt a career in journalism after the war.

Administrative/Biographical history: Lena Jeger, Baroness Jeger (nee Chivers) was a British politician and journalist. Born in Gloucestershire in 1915, she joined the civil service in 1936, working first in Customs and Excise and then the Ministry of Information. In 1951 Jeger began writing for the Manchester Guardian before leaving to become an MP for Holborn and St Pancras South in 1953 following the death of the incumbent, her husband Dr Santo Jeger. She lost the seat in 1959, but regained it in 1964 and retained it until 1979. She served as a member of the consultative assembly of the Council of Europe and became UK delegate to the status of women commission of the UN in 1967. She was a member of the Labour party's National Executive Committee from 1968 to 1980, becoming the party's chair in 1979. In 1979 she was also made a peer. She resumed writing for the Manchester Guardian in 1964, and continued to contribute profile pieces and obituaries to the Guardian until 2003. Lena Jeger died on 26 February 2007.
Creator: Beavan, John Cowburn (1910-1994) Baron Ardwick, journalist

The collection is divided into three sections:

Papers created and accumulated by Neville Cardus and passed on to his friend Else Mayer-Lismann, relating chiefly to his work.

Papers created and accumulated by Else Mayer-Lismann, relating both to Cardus and to her own work as an opera critic, and passed on to Donald Wright (who was editing a book of Cardus' work).

Papers relating to Cardus created and accumulated by Donald Wright in the course of his book research.

Administrative/Biographical history: Sir Neville Cardus, former cricket and music correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, established a reputation as one of the foremost critics of his generation during his time at the newspaper

Born in Manchester and chiefly self-educated, Cardus got a job as music critic to the Daily Citizen in 1913, while also contributing to various musical journals and, between 1912 and 1916, working as cricket coach at Shrewsbury School. He joined the Manchester Guardian in 1917, writing mainly descriptive articles to leaders and assisting music critic Samuel Langford. He wrote his first cricket article for the Guardian under the by-line 'Cricketer' in 1919 and became the paper's regular cricket correspondent thereafter. Following Langford's death in 1927, Cardus became The Guardian's chief music critic and held both posts simultaneously until 1940.

During the 1940s, Cardus write for The Herald and The Sydney Morning Herald in Australia and for the Sunday Times in London. From 1951 he was London music critic for The Manchester Guardian, and he continued to write occasional music and cricket articles for The Guardian throughout the 1950s and 60s. He was awarded a CBE in 1964 and knighted in 1967. He received a Special Press Award from the IPC in 1970.

He married Edith Honorine King in 1921. She died in 1968.

Published books include: Autobiography, A Cricketer's Book, 1921; Days in the Sun, 1924; The Summer Game, 1929; ed., Musical Criticisms of Samuel Langford, 1929; Cricket, 1930; Good Days, 1934; Australian Summer; Ten Composers, 1945 (trans. into Swedish, 1947, into Japanese, 1964); Autobiography, 1947; Second Innings: More Autobiography, 1950; Cricket All the Year, 1952; ed., Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Book, 1954; Close of Play, 1956; Talking of Music, 1957; A Composer's XI, 1958 (German trans. 1961); Komponisten und Dirigenten (German trans.), 1959; Sir Thomas Beecham: A Portrait, 1961; The Playfair Cardus, 1963; Gustav Mahler: His Mind and his Music, Vol. I, 1965; The Delights of Music, 1966; (with John Arlott) The Noblest Game, 196 and Full Score, 1970. Posthumous publications: Cardus on Cricket, 1977; A Fourth Innings with Cardus, 1981.

Oral history projects undertaken to record the memories of staff who have worked for either the Guardian or the Observer.

Includes oral history interviews undertaken between 1998-2002 as part of the project to create the Guardian and Observer Archive Visitor Centre; interviews conducted with Guardian staff who covered the March 2003 invasion of Iraq and interviews with staff in the Guardian's bicentenary year, 2021.

Staff interviewed include editorial staff such as journalists and photographers, as well as production and administrative staff. Production staff interviewed include a printer, compositors and a designer. Administrative staff include secretaries, a marketing manager, librarians and head of workplace, whilst journalists interviewed include correspondents covering war, health, politics, film and television, data, visuals and technology.

Topics covered include the Guardian's move from Manchester offices to production in London, the launch of the Guardian's women's page, changes in ownership of the Observer newspaper, covering the 2003 Iraq War, digital first publishing and the bicentenary of the Guardian.

Recordings between 1998-2012 were originally recorded on minidisc or audio cassette, and later transferred to CD, these oral history recordings are now available to researchers via the GNM Digital Repository. All recording from 2012 onwards were created and are held digitally.

Many of the recordings between 1998-2003 include a data cover sheet completed at the time of the interview which contains biographical details about the subject and information about the recording.
Creator: Guardian News & Media Ltd (2006-)
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited (1967-2006)