Five acrylic and ink on board illustrations for Guardian Comment pages.
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Personal and professional papers of Hugo Young, British journalist and columnist and the Guardian's senior political commentator from 1984 to his death in 2003. Includes a series of notes of interviews and conversations conducted with significant individuals including politicians and senior civil servants, 1969-2003. Also includes personal and professional correspondence, research papers relating to two published books, 'One of Us' and 'This Blessed Plot', and papers relating to his role as chair of the Scott Trust.
Administrative/Biographical history: Born in Sheffield in 1938, Hugo Young was head boy at Ampleforth College in York and read law at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1961 he joined the Yorkshire Post in Leeds and in 1963, he spent a year as a Harkness fellow in the USA, followed by a year working as a congressional fellow.
After returning to the UK in 1965, Young joined The Sunday Times, becoming chief leader writer in his second year on the paper, a position which he kept until 1977. From 1973 to 1984, Young was also the paper's political editor, and established the Sunday column 'Inside politics'. From 1981 he additionally held the position of joint deputy editor. However, Young's relationship with the Sunday Times cooled when Rupert Murdoch took over the paper in 1981, and prompted Young to leave The Sunday Times for the Guardian in 1984.
Young continued to write a twice weekly political column for the Guardian until his death in 2003, and was widely acclaimed as one of the most influential figures in modern British journalism. Young was a strong proponent of Europe, and sharply expressed his disappointment with the British government's Europe-sceptical politics in his columns. Despite these differences, Young remained on good terms with British government officials, including Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher, a critical biography of whom, 'One of Us', he published in 1989.
From 1989 Young was the chairman of the Scott Trust, owner of the Guardian, and helped the paper through important developments, including the purchase of the Observer.
Young married twice. His first wife, Helen Mason, with whom he had three daughters and a son, died in 1989. Young married American artist Lucy Waring in 1990. He died on September 22, 2003 at the age of 64 after an arduous battle against cancer.
Creator: DS/UK/122
Books and other published or public issued material providing context and analysis to the history of the Guardian and The Observer. As well as publications directly related to the histories of the papers and individuals associated with them, this collection also includes books relating to the history and development of journalism in general, as well as modern reference material.
Contains records relating to the administrative running and establishment of the company, legal agreements with UK television companies, proposals for potential productions and publicity and research material relating to individual productions. Also includes copies of broadcast productions of the Observer Film Company.
Administrative/Biographical history: The Observer Film Company was established in October 1988, primarily as a result of negotiations between television producer Kimi Zabihyan, freelance journalist Andrew Drummond and The Observer's then-editor Donald Trelford for the establishment of an independent factual film production company with financial backing from the Observer.
The first documentary to be produced by the company, 'Lord of the Golden Triangle', an expose on the Burmese drug baron Khun Sa, was broadcast on ITV on the 12th July 1989. This was co-produced between Drummond and Zabihyan, who had previously been a producer at Picture Partnership Productions. Zabihyan produced most of the company's productions.
The company continued to produce programmes for all the major UK television companies, including the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV, until 1995. Over 30 productions were made in the first four years of the company's existence, covering UK domestic issues and many of the main issues of interest in international journalism from the time. These included various productions on the sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, investigations in China and El Salvador, various productions on the Soviet Union (including an interview with Andrei Gromyko, conducted just a few months before his death), gang culture in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica and an investigation into the testing of chemical and biological weapons by the MoD on unsuspecting British soldiers.
The company became part of Guardian Newspapers Ltd when the Observer was acquired by Guardian Media Group in 1993, continuing to operate under the same name. The Observer Film Company was wound-up in December 1995.
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)
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.
Sin títuloCollection includes a letter from Norman Martinelli describing his time working at the Guardian, in particular his involvement with the Guardian cricket club, 1961-1987. Also contains artefacts relating to the Guardian Cricket Club such as ties, scarves and handkerchief, photographs, and other related papers.
Administrative/Biographical history: Norman Martinelli joined the Guardian in 1961 and worked in the production department as a compositor. He retired in 1987. Martinelli, with his wife, June, were founding members of the Guardian staff Cricket Club.
The Guardian Cricket Club was founded in 1968 following the arrangement of a cricket match between the editorial and production personnel at the newspaper. The cricket club grounds were at Gunnersbury Park, London. The first presidents of the club were Neville Cardus and John Arlott.
The Guardian Cricket Club toured India in 1974 and later toured the west coast of America and Sri Lanka in 1981.
Creator: Martinelli; Norman; (-2005); compositor
Collection consists of original illustrations of topical events, and cartoons and caricatures of famous individuals. Some of the artwork appeared in The Guardian between 1997 and 2009. Also includes other original pieces.
Administrative/Biographical history: Nicola Jennings was brought up in Somerset, and attended St Mary's School, Ascot. Her further education took her to Taunton Art School, 1976-1977, and Wimbledon School of Art, 1977-1980, where she studied theatre design. Nicola spent several years working backstage in theatre and illustrating books before joining The London Daily News in 1987 as a caricaturist. Five months later she moved to the Daily Mirror where she drew caricatures for the television pages until 1996. She also worked for the Sunday Times during this period. Nicola has worked for The Observer since 1990, and The Guardian since 1991, as well as Prospect magazine. Her work has also appeared in numerous other publications and television works including Channel 4's A Week in Politics (1995-1997), and BBC 2's Midnight Hour (1994). She has also provided illustrations for Quentin Bett's ''50 People Who Buggered Up Britain' and 'Bog Standard Britain'. Nicola won Caricaturist of the Year 2008. She creates her illustrations using dip pen and ink on paper. An archive of her cartoons which have been featured in The Guardian is available on The Guardian website.
Creator: Jennings, Nicola (1958-); caricaturist, cartoonist and illustrator
Records of the Observer newspaper, mainly dating from 1920s onwards. Includes: board minutes and papers; correspondence and subject files of managing directors; financial papers; staff files; correspondence and papers of Observer editors David Astor and Donald Trelford; picture desk prints and negatives; printing, circulation and distribution statements and television adverts.
Few documents relating to the Observer's early years are known to have survived and the majority of those that have survived remain within private collections. For example, the archive of JL Garvin (editor of the Observer 1908 - 1942) is held by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas.
Administrative/Biographical history: As befits the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, the history of the Observer is a volatile and varied one. The paper was founded in 1791 by WS Bourne on the simple premise that "the establishment of a Sunday newspaper would obtain him a rapid fortune"; within three years Bourne found himself £1,600 in debt. Though early editions of advertisements for the paper promised a paper "Unbiased by Prejudice - Uninfluenced by Party...Whose Principal is Independence", Bourne attempted to cut his losses and sell the title to the government. They declined.
In its first century, the Observer was in varying degrees a scurrilous gossip sheet, government propaganda rag and provocative thorn-in-the-side of the establishment. Throughout the nineteenth century, however, the paper's character changed and came to reflect the more sober morality of the age.
In 1820 proprietor William Innell Clement defied a government ban on reporting proceedings against the Cato Street conspirators, refused to appear in court and left a £500 fine unpaid. This victory for the freedom of the press became characteristic of the paper in future years, and was typical of the Observer as it developed a reputation for serious coverage of politics and literature.
Some glamour was restored to the title by Frederick Beer, who installed his wife Rachel (Siegfried Sassoon's aunt) as editor in 1891. Under her control the paper achieved one of its greatest exclusives: the admission by Count Esterhazy that he had forged the letters that condemned innocent Jewish officer Captain Dreyfus to Devil's Island. The story provoked an international outcry and led to the release and pardon of Dreyfus and court martial of Esterhazy. She was a remarkable woman - not content with running one national newspaper, she managed to combine editing the Observer with the same job at the Sunday Times.
When the Observer entered the twentieth century, the paper was owned for a brief time by Lord Northcliffe, who appointed JL Garvin to the editorship. Garvin was a maverick Tory who contrived to edit the paper almost exclusively via a special telephone line installed between the newspaper office and his luxurious house in Beaconsfield.
It was not until 1948 that the paper became genuinely free from political allegiance, when David Astor was made proprietor and editor. Astor turned the paper into a trust-owned non-party publication and helped to establish its reputation as the voice of post-war liberal Britain. During this period many famous writers were on the staff, including George Orwell, Conor Cruise O'Brien, and more infamously Kim Philby.
Between 1977 and 1993 the paper was owned by two large international companies, first Atlantic Richfield and then 'Tiny' Rowland's company Lonrho. A controversial period in the paper's history reached its climax with the bitter battle between Rowland and Mohamed Al Fayed for control of the department store Harrods. When the Department of Trade and Industry published a damning report into the conduct of Mr Fayed, editor Donald Trelford took the momentous decision to print a midweek edition of the paper.
The birth of the Independent and subsequently its sister title The Independent on Sunday increased the pressure on the Observer in what was an already crowded Sunday broadsheet market, and when it became clear that the paper was for sale a merger between the two Sunday titles was mooted. Faced with the acquisition of a natural ally by a major competitor, the Guardian Media Group acquired the Observer in 1993. As a result the Observer has been able to maintain its editorial independence, ensuring the continuation of the paper's long-standing tradition of liberal politics and independent journalism.
The Observer has continued its reputation for setting, rather than following the news agenda, breaking stories including exposing the cash-for-access scandal dubbed Lobbygate, and leading the way in covering of issues like GM foods and cloning.
Roger Alton, editor 1998-2007, defined the paper's stance in the context of a long and varied history: "The Observer is Britain's oldest Sunday newspaper and it has been making mischief, poking its nose where it shouldn't and reporting the best in arts, culture, politics, sport, business and skulduggery for over two hundred years. We aim to keep it that way and maintain its position as Britain's most exciting Sunday newspaper."
On 8 January 2006 The Observer relaunched in a Berliner format becoming the UK's only full colour Sunday newspaper, and in 2007 The Observer was named national newspaper of the year at the British Press Awards.
In January 2008 John Mulholland was appointed editor of the Observer, replacing Roger Alton who had edited the paper since 1998. At the end of 2008 The Observer moved from its home in Herbal Hill, Farringdon, to new offices shared with the Guardian in King's Cross.
Creator: Publishers of The Observer Limited, fl.1907-1910
Creator: The Observer Limited, 1917-1993
Creator: Guardian News & Media Limited, 1967-
Clare in the Community original artwork and accompanying items by Harry Venning for the Guardian.
Administrative/Biographical history: Harry Venning is a British cartoonist, illustrator and comedy writer. He has contributed regularly to the Guardian since 1996 in the form of the Clare in the Community cartoon strip which appears in the Society pages and which since 2004 has also been made into a programme for BBC Radio 4. Venning's other work has appeared in the Mail On Sunday, the Sunday Telegraph, the Independent, the Sunday Times, The Stage and the Radio Times, as well as publications in Canada, Switzerland, South Africa and New Zealand and in numerous books. Venning currently lives and works in Brighton.
Creator: Venning; Harry: illustrator