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Photographs of Tom Stuttard
TST · Fondo · c1930-1950

Administrative/Biographical history: Tom Stuttard joined the Manchester Guardian & Evening News in 1925 and worked for both papers until 1948 when he began working exclusively for the Guardian. He worked for the paper for 46 years (1925-1971), for most of that time as chief photographer. He worked under seven editors in total including CP Scott whom he photographed in the 1920s. He also took an iconic photograph of Neville Chamberlain post Munich. He retired from the Guardian on 14 August 1971.

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Papers of Vita Sackville-West
VSW · Fondo · 1956-1958

Collection consists of manuscript notebook containing drafts of Vita's 'In the Garden' articles. Also a file containing related correspondence and literature about plants

Administrative/Biographical history: Vita Sackville-West, only daughter of Victoria and Lionel Sackville-West, was born on 9 March 1892 at Knole in Kent. Vita spent much of her young life in Paris, contributing to her fluent knowledge of French. Between 1906 and 1910 Vita wrote eight novels and several plays, some of which were in French, and she continued writing throughout her life. In 1910 Vita met politician Harold George Nicholson and they married in 1913, they had two sons, Benedict and Nigel. Vita and Harold led an unconventional marriage and both were to have many passionate affairs with members of the same sex, however their marriage remained strong. Vita wrote in many genres and her numerous works include 'All Passion Spent', 1931; 'Pepita', 1937; 'A Joy of Gardening: A Selection for Americans', 1958; 'Knole and the Sackvilles', 1922; 'Passenger to Teheran', 1926'; 'In Your Garden', 1951. In 1947 Vita began a weekly column in The Observer called 'In Your Garden', where she was able to write about her keen knowledge of horticulture, and experiences from her garden at her Sissinghurst Castle. Vita wrote her gardening column for 15 years, and continued to write until her death in 1962.
Creator: Sackville-West, Vita (1892-1962); gardening correspondent

William Papas Collection
WEP · Fondo · 1959-1970

A collection of original political cartoons and cartoon strips (featuring Papas' alter-ego, Theodore the mouse), letters, sketches and newspaper cuttings, including five drawings on the six day war and a notebook containing sketches and other material. There is also some production material (brass plates and glass plate negatives).

Administrative/Biographical history: William (Bill) Elias Papas first moved to England in 1946, studying at Beckenham Art School, Bromley, before travelling around Europe. He returned to South Africa in 1949, where his first cartoon was published by the Cape Times. He also freelanced for the Johannesburg Star, Drum, and other publications. On returning to England in 1959, he joined the Manchester Guardian, and produced his first political cartoon for the paper. He was runner up in the Kate Greenaway Medal awards for childrens book illustration in 1967. After leaving the Guardian in 1970, he moved to the US in 1984. He married Aroon McConnell in 1954. They had three children, but the marriage was dissolved in 1968. He then married Tessa Pares in 1970.
Creator: Papas, William Elias (1927-2000) cartoonist

Papers of William Harman
WHA · Fondo · 1930-2001

Documents that relate to William Harman. They include a photograph, material for the Argus Press (printer of the Observer) and recollections written by Harman c2001.

Administrative/Biographical history: William (Bill) Harman joined the Argus Press Ltd, printers of the Observer, as a messenger in 1928 aged 14. He was trained as a compositor and became an overseer on The Observer composing floor. Harman served as a driver during the second world war and returned to work thereafter. He left the Observer in 1980.

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Photographs by Walter Doughty
WHD · Fondo · 1909-1932

Glass plate negatives, lantern slides and prints for photographs taken by Walter Doughty during the first 24 years of his Manchester Guardian career.

Administrative/Biographical history: Walter Doughty was born on the 22 August 1876 in Stalybridge. Doughty joined the Manchester Guardian in 1908 as the paper's first staff photographer and continued to work occasionally for the paper and the Manchester Evening News after his retirement in 1949. He was an innovative photojournalist; he was the first newspaperman to photograph the city of Manchester from the air in 1919 when the Manchester Corporation opened its first municipal aerodrome. It is also believed he covered the civil war in Ireland for the paper in 1922 with a camera he either made himself, or had custom built for his use. Part of his obituary from The Guardian, 29 May 1958, reads 'In the files of the office his pictures throughout the Edwardian and Georgian eras would make a fine illustrated history of the North of England from the last 50 years', making him the first in a strong line of Manchester-based Guardian photographers who would continue in this tradition, amongst them Tom Stuttard, Robert Smithies, Don McPhee and Denis Thorpe. He died at his Alderley Edge home on 27 March 1958.

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Papers of Richard Boston
RBO · Fondo · 1949-2010

The collection encompasses Richard Boston's life from his early education in the 1950s, to art college and university, to teaching abroad and his various posts at publications including Peace News, New Society and the Times Literary Supplement. Includes documents relating to his position as Guardian feature writer and his famous beer column, transcripts and research for various books, his editorial positions at Vole and Quarto, and standing as a European Parliamentary member. Also large volumes of correspondence, research documents, manuscripts and cuttings.

Administrative/Biographical history: Richard Boston, an English author and journalist, was renowned for approaching his work with a sense of fun and humour.

Educated at Stowe School, he went on to Regent Polytechnic to study art, then to read English at King's College, Cambridge, gaining an MA before going abroad to teach.

Richard's work in journalism initially saw him joining the staff of Peace News, followed by the position of books editor of New Society. He was also employed by the Times Literary Supplement, and wrote regularly for The Guardian as a columnist and feature writer. One of his most famous achievements was his weekly Guardian column on beer, where he pursued a campaign against big brewers and keg beer, whilst promoting the importance of small real-ale brewers. Together with the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) his campaign was a success. In 1977 he set up and edited The Vole, a country magazine regarding threats to the environment, which raised issues ahead of its time including sustainability and greenhouse gases. Vole lasted until 1981. He also took over editorship of the monthly literary magazine Quarto in 1979. In 1994 stood as member of European parliament, for the Boston Tea Party.

Published books include biographies The Admirable Urquhart (1975), and Osbert: a Portrait of Osbert Lancaster (1989) as well as further books The Press we Deserve (ed. 1969), An Anatomy of Laughter (1974), Beer and Skittles (1976), Baldness Be My Friend (1977), The Little Green Book (1979), CO Jone's Compendium of Practical Jokes (1982), and Starkness At Noon (1997).
Creator: Boston, Richard (1938-2006); journalist

Papers of Richard Scott
RFS · Fondo · 1910-2002

The papers of Richard Scott include: a series of memoirs written by Richard Scott covering subjects such as Charles Prestwich Scott, Edward Taylor Scott, Richard Scott's work as a Guardian journalist and The Scott Trust; a series of photographs showing CP Scott and his staff, the Scott family at Christmas and CP Scott's funeral; a series of documents and correspondence relating to the management of the Guardian and The Scott Trust; a series of printed works including the Manchester Guardian centenary number, the centenary edition of the Guardian Weekly, Winston Churchill's book 'The World Crisis, 1911-1914' containing a letter of dedication to CP Scott, and the CP Scott memorial number; and portraits of Edward Taylor Scott and Laurence Prestwich Scott.

Administrative/Biographical history: Richard Scott, journalist and chairman of the Scott Trust, held a series of senior editorial posts on the Guardian newspaper.

The son of Edward Taylor Scott and grandson of Charles Prestwich Scott, both former editors of the Guardian newspaper. Educated at Gresham School, Norfolk and Christ’s College, Cambridge. After leaving school he began his career with the Legal Nations Union in London, writing brochures, pamphlets and memoranda for members. Following this he spent a year working for The Spectator before working for the British Council and the Foreign Office in the news department.

He first contributed to the Guardian in 1947. As diplomatic correspondent Richard Scott was involved in the Guardian’s reporting of the Suez crisis. He moved to America, as Washington correspondent, in 1963.

A member of the Scott Trust from 1948-1984 and chairman from 1956-1984. As a member of the Scott Trust he was involved in guiding the Guardian through a financial crisis and possible merger with The Times in the 1960s.

He was the last member of the Scott family to hold senior office in the paper.

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Records of Richard Fry
RHF · Fondo · 1920-2000

Notes, articles, cuttings and related papers of Richard Fry.

Papers relating to his work as the Guardian's financial editor, 1939-1965 concern Fry's first visit to USA in 1947 and the Manchester Guardian Survey of Industry, Trade and Finance, 1946-c1958 instigated by Fry in 1946.

Papers relating to his freelance work include articles for the Guardian, The Times, National Provident Bank Review and The Banker; speeches and lectures by Fry; and independent visits to USA in 1977 and 1979.

Administrative/Biographical history: Richard Fry (née Freund) was born in Berlin on 23 September 1900. He studied at Heidelberg and Berlin Universities where his economic professor, Walter Sowbart, encouraged him to take up journalism. Fry worked as a foreign political correspondent in Rome for a German publishing group, 1924-1925 before moving to London the following year, where he married Katherine Maritz two weeks before the Great Crash of 1929. On the day that Hitler came to power in 1933 Fry was dismissed by his German employers.

Fry was unemployed for much of the 1930s but in this time he wrote two highly prophetic books 'Zero Hour' and 'Watch Czechoslovakia' and formally took British nationality. 'Zero Hour' in particular was widely acclaimed and is thought to be a significant reason for Fry's inclusion on the 1940 Nazi blacklist.

Fry became financial editor of the Guardian in 1939, a temporary appointment intended to cover staff war service that was made permanent at the end of the second world war, and he stayed with the Guardian until his retirement in 1965. With the Guardian Fry visited the United States of America for the first time in 1947 and introduced the Manchester Guardian Annual Industrial Survey from 1946.

Fry was awarded the CBE in 1965 for services to journalism. He spent the first ten years of his retirement writing for The Banker and visiting world financial centres on a regular basis. He continued to write and give lectures up to his 90th year. Richard Fry died in 2002.
Creator: Fry, Richard Henry CBE (1900-2002); journalist

Photographs and papers of Sally Soames
SSO · Fondo · c1959-2004

This collection holds portrait and photo-journalistic work produced by Sally Soames between 1959 and 2004. It also contains correspondence and other papers relating to her projects, publications and activities.

Administrative/Biographical history: Sally Soames was born in London and has lived there all her life. Her first assignments were for the Observer in 1963 and she then went on to freelance for the Guardian, the New York Times, The Observer and various TV and film companies in the UK and the US. She joined the staff of The Sunday Times in 1968 and remained there until she retired in June 2000. Her books include Manpower (1987) and Writers (1995).

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Artwork of Posy Simmonds
PSI · Fondo · 1977 - 2004

Contains original artwork and copies of Posy Simmond's drawings for the Guardian, 1977-2004, including 'The Silent Three' comic strip which ran from 1977 to 1987. Also includes a number of drawings which appeared in the Observer and Harper's New York.

Administrative/Biographical history: Rosemary Elizabeth (Posy) Simmonds was born in Berkshire in 1945. She was educated at Queen Anne's School, Caversham and went on to study art at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris and Central School of Art and Design, London. From 1969 she worked for The Sun on a daily cartoon entitled 'Bear'. She first began work for the Guardian in 1972, initially producing illustrations for a range of articles. In 1977 she began her weekly comic strip 'The Silent Three' for the Guardian's Women's page which ran for 10 years. From 1987 Posy Simmonds concentrated on writing and illustrating children's books although she still contributed some illustrations to the paper, and returned in 1992 with a weekly comic strip featuring J D Crouch which ran for a year. In the late 1990s she drew the 'Gemma Bovery' series for the paper which was published as a graphic novel in 1999. From November 2002 to December 2004 she worked on the 'Literary Life' series which appeared in the Saturday Review section of the Guardian, and from September 2005 - December 2006 on 'Tamara Drewe'. In 2002 she was awarded an MBE for services to the newspaper industry.

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