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Observer with colour magazine advertisement poster bearing the tagline Britain's Health: Life and Death Decisions.

This cartoon depicts Harold Wilson spinning a spanner around ready to throw it as people nearby run away scared. [Likely that the cartoon refers to the idiom 'to put a spanner in the works'.]

Illustration originally accompanying an article titled 'Britain's spiked welcome mat' by Jennifer Monahan arguing against Britain's treatment of asylum-seekers and relating interviews with detainees on hunger strike, which appeared in the 19 March 1994 edition of the Guardian. The drawing depicts three suitcases each with a barred window like that of a prison, each with a disconsolate looking chap staring listlessly out. Includes newspaper cutting.

Three copies of a colour advert with sound advertising The Observer's guide to European cities - a travel supplement produced with British Airways:

a. The advert features a man sitting in an armchair reading the Rome supplement, with the floor tilting as if his living room were an aeroplane experiencing turbulence.

Commentary (male): "This week The Observer Magazine and British Airways launch their insiders' guide to European cities: a series of unique insights into eight great cities by people who know them well, and our first destination is Rome."

Advert can be found on the same VHS and mp4 file as version (b). It starts at 00.08 on the mp4 file.

b. Duplicate of versions (a) and (c). It can be found on the same VHS and mp4 file as version (a). The advert starts at 00.34 on the mp4 file.

c. Duplicate of versions (a) and (b). The advert starts at 00.36 on the 'historical reel' mp4 file.

Duration: 25 seconds.
Creator: The Observer Limited, 1917-1993
Creator: J. Walter Thompson Company Limited, 1878-2005

With chairman of Rank Organisation, Sir John Davies. At Royal Lancaster Hotel, London.