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Scrapbooks of Mildred Spackman
MSP · Fonds · c1908-1959

The two volumes include a collection of published clippings written by Spackman for newspapers such as 'Nursing Times', 'Morning Post', 'Manchester Guardian' and 'The Times'. The subject matter of clippings ranges from informing readers of new devices and household tips (Manchester Guardian), ways to look after disabled people in the home (Nursing Times) and humorous observations (Morning Post). Also included within each volume are correspondence with editors of these papers and records of the payment she received for her contributions.

The first volume dates from 1908-29 and the second volume dates from 1929 to 1959.

Administrative/Biographical history: Mildred Spackman was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire and worked as journalist for a number of newspapers from c1908-1944. Newspapers included; Nursing Times; Morning Post; Manchester Guardian; The Manchester Courier; The Queen: The Lady's Newspaper; Ladies Companion; and The Times.

 Spackman; Mildred Lucie (fl. 1908-1944); Journalist
The Don McPhee Collection
DMC · Fonds · 1970s - 2000

The collection holds a near complete set of portrait and photo-journalistic work produced by Don McPhee between c1970-2000. It also contains Index, cuttings and work books relating to aspects of McPhee's photographic practice. Where possible the collection has been catalogued to reflect McPhee's original system of arrangement.
Cataloguing is ongoing, please contact the archivist for more details on the collection.

Administrative/Biographical history: Don McPhee was a Guardian staff photographer based in Manchester. He began contributing to the paper in 1968 and joined staff in 1971 on retirement of Tom Stuttard. His extensive photojournalistic output includes series on miners' strikes, pensioners, Belfast riots, British agriculture, South African and United States presidential election campaigns. His portraiture work includes; Nelson Mandela, Jesse Jackson, Margaret Thatcher, Neil Kinnock and Enoch Powell. A Guardian photography enthusiast, McPhee conducted intitial research with Denis Thorpe on the '100 Years of Guardian Photography' project. Also discovered original glass plate negatives by the Guardian's first photographer Walter Doughty whilst cleaning out an old staff darkroom (see WHD). He said of his work 'You Have What I Saw'. Worked predominantly in black and white (but later with colour) using plate cameras, 120 square format film, 35mm film and digital formats. Received an Honorary degree from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2000. Solo exhibitions include; 'The View From Manchester', Manchester Art Gallery (2005), 'Don McPhee: Photographer', Guardian Newsroom (2008) and 'You Have What I Saw', Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool (2011). Group exhibitions include 'A Long Exposure: 100 Years of Guardian Photography', The Lowry, Manchester (2008-9). Publications include 'Don McPhee: Photographer' (2008), The Guardian.

 McPhee; Don (1945-2007); photographer
The Jane Bown Collection
The Jane Bown Collection
JHB · Fonds · c1940-2010

The collection holds a near complete set of portrait and photo-journalistic work produced by Jane Bown between 1947-2008. It also contains personal papers, work books, correspondence, diaries and artefacts relating to all aspects of Bown's photographic practice.

Administrative/Biographical history: Jane Bown was born in Dorset and educated at William Gibbs School, Faversham. She became a chart corrector for the WRNS, (1944-46) before studying photography at Guildford School of Art, Surrey from 1946-50. She joined the Observer in January 1949 and her first published work for the paper (a portrait of Bertrand Russell) was printed the same month. From 1964 to 1967 she worked in colour for the newly launched Observer Colour Magazine but disliked it and returned to working predominantly in black and white. Her extensive photojournalism output includes series on gypsies, Greenham Common evictions, and in 2002, the Glastonbury Festival. Her sitters include Queen Elizabeth II, Jean Cocteau, Samuel Beckett, Woody Allen, John Betjeman, Jayne Mansfield and the Beatles. Exhibitions include 'The Gentle Eye', National Portrait Gallery, London (1980-1); 'Rock: 1963-2003', The Newsroom, London (2003), 'Unknown Bown', The Newsroom (2007). Group shows include 'How We Are - Photographing Britain, Tate Britain, London, (2007). Publications include 'The Gentle Eye' (1980), 'Women of Consequence' (1986), 'Men of Consequence' (1987), 'The Singular Cat' (1988), 'Pillars of the Church' (1991), 'Faces: The Creative process Behind Great Portraits (2000), 'Rock: 1963-2003' (2003) and 'Unknown Bown' (2007). Jane died at home in Hampshire in 2014.

 Bown; Jane Hope (1925-2014); photographer
The Tom Jenkins Collection
TJE · Fonds · 1988-2004

This collection contains a near complete set of photojournalistic work produced by Tom Jenkins between 1988 and 2004.

Administrative/Biographical history: Tom Jenkins was born in 1968 in Kent. Between 1987 and 1989 he studied on the two-year diploma course in documentary photography under David Hurn and Daniel Meadows at Newport Gwent College of Higher Education and then became a freelance photographer for agency Allsport and the newspapers The Independent and Sunday Telegraph. He became a Guardian photographer in 1990 under picture editor Eamonn McCabe and since 1993 he has also been an Observer photographer.

In 1990 he was awarded the Young Press Photographer of the Year and in April 2003 he was awarded the Sport for All Picture of the Year prize at the British Sports Journalism awards for his photograph of schoolgirls in Sheffield playing tag rugby at Twickenham before the England v South Africa test in autumn 2002. Other major awards include: Sports Journalism Awards (SJA) Sports Photographer of the Year (2003, 2004); SJA Sports Portfolio of the Year (2004, 2011); SJA Specialist Sports Portfolio of the Year (2003); SJA Sports News Picture (2004); SJA Sports News Picture (2004); Rugby Photographer of the Year (2003); What the Papers Say Photograph of the Year (2004); British Press Awards Sports Photographer of the Year (2003, 2005, 2006); Barclays Photographer of the Season (2008/9); Press Photographers Year Olympic Single Picture (2009); Barclays Shot of the Season (2011/12); Press Photographers Year Olympic Portfolio (2009); Press Photographers Year Sports Portfolio (2009) and Picture Editors' Guild Awards Sports Photographer of the Year (2015).

In 2012 the book 'In the Moment - The Sports Photography of Tom Jenkins' was published to coincide with the London Olympic Games and supported by a solo exhibition at Kings Place, London and Northumbria University, Newcastle.

 Jenkins; Tom (1968-); photographer
William Papas Collection
William Papas Collection
WEP · Fonds · 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