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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

Collection includes papers relating to the Scott Trust, personal correspondence, photographs, publications and newspaper cuttings, and other items such as material relating to the Guardian centenary dinner, the passport of JR Scott and death certificates for CP Scott and ET Scott.

Administrative/Biographical history: LP Scott, son of JR Scott, was born in Manchester, and educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge. His first job was as sub-editor with the Financial News, followed by positions as personal assistant to the general manager of the News Chronicle, and circulation manager of the Star. He joined the Manchester Guardian and Evening News as editor in 1943. He acted as chairman from April 1949 to November 1973, and as managing director from September 1947 to October 1967. When Guardian Newspapers Limited (GNL) was established in 1967, he was appointed chairman.

Memoirs written by former members of staff to record the memories of those who have worked for either the Guardian or the Observer.

Staff include Guardian photographer Robert Smithies, award-winning Observer food writer Paul Levy and Betty Jerman, who wrote a Guardian fashion column under the name Clair Wilson in the 1950s.

Topics covered include their interviews to join the papers, the effect of the advancement in technology on newspapers and the coverage of foreign affairs with memoirs from Northern Ireland correspondent Hugo Davenport and foreign correspondent Hella Pick.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

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.

Records collected by John Perkin in his role as editor of Guardian Weekly. This includes a written memoir, notes and reports issued to Guardian staff, newspaper cuttings, ephemera relating to Guardian anniversaries and events and a photograph.

Administrative/Biographical history: John Sydney Perkin was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire in 1929. He was educated at King's School in Macclesfield and won a state scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was tutored by CS Lewis.

He trained as a journalist with Westminster Press, first at Barrow-in-Furness and then at the daily Yorkshire Observer in Bradford. In 1955 he joined the Manchester Guardian's foreign desk. In 1969 he was appointed editor of the Guardian Weekly. He retired as editor of the Weekly in 1993 but continued to work as Guardian crossword editor until c1996.