Fonds MEM - Guardian & Observer staff memoirs

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MEM

Title

Guardian & Observer staff memoirs

Date(s)

  • 1997-2002 (Creation)

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Fonds

Extent and medium

24 items

Context area

Archival history

Collected as part of a project by the Guardian and the Observer to gather material for the archive.

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Scope and content

Memoirs written by former members of staff to record the memories of those who have worked for either the Guardian or the Observer.

Staff include Guardian photographer Robert Smithies, award-winning Observer food writer Paul Levy and Betty Jerman, who wrote a Guardian fashion column under the name Clair Wilson in the 1950s.

Topics covered include their interviews to join the papers, the effect of the advancement in technology on newspapers and the coverage of foreign affairs with memoirs from Northern Ireland correspondent Hugo Davenport and foreign correspondent Hella Pick.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

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Alphabetical by author

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Some parts of the collection remain closed where the author has requested

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      Oral history recordings with Guardian and Observer staff - ref. OHP

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      Catalogued

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