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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.

Selection of newspaper cuttings of Gemini News Service articles relating to America.

Subjects covered include: race and civil rights, 1993-97; demographics, 1992; global spread of AIDS and HIV, 1995; youth crime, 1993; education, 1992; agriculture in Latin America, 1994; Latin American art and culture, 1994; American left, 1994; presidential elections, 1992; Bill Clinton, 1992; George Bush, 1992; television, 1992; trade, 1990-1993; foreign policy, 1992-1993; chemical weapons, [1995]; environment, 1992; tax evasion, 1991; Third World economic reform, 1992; UN, 1991; Hawaiian sovereignty, 1993; Guatemalan Nobel Prize winner, 1992; torture during El Salvador's civil war (1980-1992), 1993; female Peruvian guerillas, 1991; cocaine trade in Bolivia, 1991; Cuba and Fidel Castro, 1992; Australian Aboriginal art, 1990; Europe, 1990-1992; Bosnian conflict, 1993; Israel, 1991; Iraq threat, 1990; Gulf war, 1991; American Indians, 1992; Columbus, 1990-1991 and Cecil Rhodes (colonial adventurer).

Photographs selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to Argentina.
GP162 Argentina - Relatives of those who "Disappeared" during the military government's "dirty war" against leftists. Photograph by Frank Nowikowski
GP163 Argentina - Argentinian Services Chief: Lt.Gen. Roberto Viola, Commander-in-Chief of the Argentinian Army and member of the ruling military Junta. Camera Press (Pucciano) London
GP164 Argentina - Argentine author Daniel Moyano. By Jose Eduardo Lamarca
GP165 An Argentine Gaucho (South American cowboy)
GP166 Argentina - Evita Peron in a Cabinet meeting in Buenos Aires.
GP167 Argentina - Evita Peron in a Cabinet meeting in Buenos Aires
GP168 Argentina - New President Hector Jose Campora, 1973
GP169 Argentina - Buenos Aires' clock tower
GP486 Argentina - John G Phillimore, managing director of Baring Brothers and Co. Ltd. and leader of a British Trade mission, speaking with Mike Robinson, chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Argentina and managing director of the Anglo-Argentine Iron Co. [1969]

Selection of newspaper cuttings of Gemini News Service articles relating to Argentina.
Subjects covered include: the Catholic church, 1996; elections, 1994; economics, 1990-1994; Falkland Islands, 1993; British relations, 1990-1995; corruption, 1990-1994; crime, 1990; vigilantes, 1990; missing children, 1991; the military, 1996; indigenous peoples, 1993; football, 1995; marriage of President Carlos Menem, 1990; Nazi war criminals, 1993; Greenpeace, 1992; exports of wild birds, 1991-1992; animal rights, 1991; Antarctic fossils, 1992; Expo '92, 1990 and the murderer Alfredo Astiz, 1990.

Notebook, written mostly in longhand with some shorthand, containing notes on Robert Kennedy's visit to BA [Buenos Aires], Argentina in November 1965; Argentinian politics; labour movement, industry, economy and politics in Chile in 1965; and agrarian reform in Chile, 1968.

Names mentioned include: Bobby Kennedy [Robert Kennedy], [Arturo] Frondizi, [Pascual] Pistarini, [Juan Carlos] Onganía, Pedro Gugliemetti, [Eduardo] Frei [Montalva], Jose Musalem [Saffie], Hugo Trivelli, Fernando Ochagavía Valdés, George Lowe, Patricio Aylwin and Edward Korry.

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.

Photocopies of British and Argentinean newspaper articles relating to the imprisonment and release of journalists Ian Mather, Simon Winchester and photographer Tony Prime, who were arrested on suspicion of espionage by Argentine authorities in April 1982 during the Falklands War. Includes an article written by Simon Winchester on his experiences for his newspaper the Sunday Times.

Majority of material in English, but some material in Spanish.

Notebook, written mostly in longhand, containing notes on BG [British Guiana, now Guyana] including: the economy; aid from the USA; politics; independence and decolonisation; education; land settlement; and the Booker Group and sugar refining. Also contains brief notes on European immigration into Canada from late 18th century.

Names mentioned include: Arthur Lewis, Forbes Burnham, Gavin Kennard, [Anthony] Tasker, [Cheddi] Jagan, [Eric] Williams, Milton Gregg, Richard Luyt, [Anthony] Greenwood, Brindley Benn and [Ralph] Grey.

Pitman shorthand content from this notebook was 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.

Photographs selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to Bolivia.
GP290 Gathering of Mothers' Clubs members at Cochabmba. By Deyton Johnson
GP291 Bolivian woman crouching by a pile of boxed and cartoned food.
GP649 2 colour photographs of Bolivian child footballers. (The second photograph is a replica of the first).

Photographs selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to Brazil.
GP650 A sawmill near the Rio Negro above Manaus in the Amazon Basin
GP1243 Brazil team manager Claudio Coutinho. Photograph by Ian Swift.
GP1244 Zico top scorer in Brazilian football in the past two years. Roberto Rivelino, one of Brazil's most experienced players. Pictures by Ian Swift.

Selection of newspaper cuttings of Gemini News Service articles relating to Brazil.

Subjects covered include: the murder of Chico Mendes, 1990; economic disaster, 1992; the earth summit, 1992; racism, 1992; poverty, 1992; indigenous settlements in the Amazon, 1992; economic recovery 1995-1996 and Thalidomide, 1996.