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Notebook, written mostly in shorthand, containing notes on: [the Summit Conference of Independent African States, held at Addis Ababa from 22-25 May 1963] including references to civil rights protests in Birmingham Alabama in the United States, African unity and cooperation between African countries, apartheid in South Africa and the creation of union of African states.

Names featured include: [Milton] Obote, Martin Luther King, Sékou Touré, Julius [Nyerere], [Habib] Bourguiba, [Ahmadou] Ahidjo, [Kwame] Nkrumah, [Fulbert] Youlou, [Jomo] Kenyatta, President Duvalier, [Léopold Sédar] Senghor, [Oginga] Odinga, [Abubakar Tafawa] Balewa and [Gamal Abdel] Nasser.

Transcribed in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archive's Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The pdf transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.

Notebook, written mostly in longhand with some shorthand, containing notes on: the civil rights movement in Alabama and Mississippi including the 1966 Alabama gubernatorial election campaign, Voting Rights Act (1965) and Meredith March Against Fear, June 1966; Guyana's independence from the United Kingdom; UN Security Council discussions on the Vietnam war, nuclear power, UK policy in Southern Rhodesia, peaceful use of outer space, Central American unity, UN forces in Cyprus and UN membership; and Canada including provinces, industry, environment, health services, tourism, religion and education.

Names mentioned include: GW [George Wallace], MLK [Martin Luther King], Carl Elliott, Lurleen Wallace, [John Malcolm] Patterson, [Richmond] Flowers, U Thant, [Lester] Pearson, Lord Russell Brain, C. Max Lane, Michael Harrington, [Simon] Kapwepwe, [Harold] Wilson, Eirene White, [Simeon] Adebo, [Hugh Foot] Baron Caradon, [Nikolai] Fedorenko, U Thant, Dr Ralph Abernathy, William Fitzpatrick, Kwame Ture (born Stokely Carmichael), [JTF] Iyalla, [Jesse] Jackson, [Dick] Gregory, [James] Meredith, SDJr [Sammy Davis Jr], Lyndon B. Johnson, Whitney Young, Andy Young and [Floyd] McKissick.

Transcribed by Lauraine Newcombe and another volunteer in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archive’s Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The PDF transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.

File of correspondence relating to Anglia Television's commercial interests in Television Broadcasts Limited, Hong Kong.

Includes correspondence relating to LP Scott's visits to Hong Kong in 1968; tables of performance targets and advertising rates (1968), and correspondence concerning the post of General Manager.

Other shareholders in Television Broadcasts Ltd. and correspondents include, Aubrey Buxton of Anglia Television, Howard Thomas of Thames Television and Sig. Mickelson of Time Life in New York.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

Includes correspondence from and concerning Anothony Howard.
Other correspondents include: David Astor; [Patrick] O'Donovan; Walter Lippmann; [Michael] Davie; William Millinship; KP Obank; Donald Trelford; Edward Mace; Paul Levy; Mark Boxer; Roger Harrison; David Mlinaric; Ann Barr; Trevor Grove; Alan Johnstone; Nicolas Morrell.
Subjects covered include: Howard's role as Washington correspondent; Astor's trips to the United States; Howard's journalism following his return from the US including his time on the New Statesman; the NUJ; Howard's editorship of The Listener; Howard's tenure as deputy editor of The Observer including discussion of individual journalists/contributors such as Mary Holland and many matters of policy and newspaper content including the colour magazine; Howard's departure from The Observer.
Also includes: cutting from the Daily Mail on Howard moving from The Listener to The Observer; 'obituary' piece by Roy Hattersley on Howard leaving The Listener; cutting from The Spectator on Howard clearing his Observer desk.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Includes correspondence from and concerning Sampson.
Other correspondents include: David Astor; Jeremy Hunt; KP Obank; Bill Millinship; Pat Ferguson; Donald Trelford; Pat Kavanagh; John Cole; Conor Cruise O'Brien; Trevor Grove; Anthony Howard; Kenneth [Harris].
Subjects covered include: Observer rights in and serialisation of Sampson's work; the six-day war; Sampson's coverage of US affairs including Watergate; oil production; The Observer Foreign News Service (Servob); trade unions; arms to South Africa.
Also includes: copy of the Sunday Times magazine (30 October 1979) including article by Sampson; two editions of the Sampson Letter (1984).
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford