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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.

Embedded text reads: "Grivas certainly has a plan for us to settle down together in peace and quiet ... "
Depicts two Cypriots having shot each other with their souls sitting on their dead bodies.

Photographs selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to Cyprus.
GP903 John Tidmarsh interviewing an RAF pilot
GP904 President Kyprianou of Cyprus with UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash in Nicosia

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

Subjects covered include: a divided Cyprus attempts for reunion, 1991-1999; meeting of Commonwealth leaders in Cyprus, 1993 and a row over British bases in Cyprus, 1993.

Correspondence with newspapers and news agencies; lists of local contacts and travel reports relating to Derek Ingram's (Gemini editor), promotional visits to the Caribbean, India, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Malta, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, following the launch of Gemini News Service in January 1967, 1967-1968.

Correspondence with newspapers and news agencies; lists of local contacts; itineraries and travel reports relating to Derek Ingram's (Gemini editor), promotional visits to Iran, Thailand, Lebanon, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan and European countries, including The Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Greece, Italy and Cyprus, 1969-1972.

Depicts two British soldiers and one gentlemen sitting on a rocket in Cyprus while a priest from the Greek orthodox catholic church and a young boy walk away waving banners labelled 'Enosis' [union].

Correspondence concerning subscriptions and potential subscriptions and country reports to and from Gemini News Service produced by newspapers, NGOs, Cyprus High Commission and press agencies from Cyprus (1966-1991), including: Cyprus High Commission, The Cyprus Weekly, Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation and Cyprus Government Public Information Office,

Embedded text reads: Three wise men of Cyprus went to sea in a barrel. If the barrel be stronger the story may be longer.
Depicts Anthony Eden in a barrel with a gentlemen from Turkey and one from Greece floating in high sea.