Identity area
Reference code
OBS/1/1/1/2
Title
Minute book
Date(s)
- 1945-1955 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 volume
Context area
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Includes signed and indexed minutes of: Directors' and Board meetings; Half-yearly, Annual, Extraordinary, and Ordinary General meetings; the Investment Committee.
Runs from Ordinary General Meeting, 10 January 1945, to Board meeting, 10 November 1955.
Also includes: special resolutions, meeting papers, reports.
Matters discussed include: accounts, salaries, the pension fund, share prices, manager's reports, the size and structure of the paper, staffing, circulation, accommodation, the Observer Foreign News Service, advertising, exhibitions.
Minutes signed by individuals including: Lord Astor, Arthur Mann, Mary Stocks, Dingle Foot, JE Berridge, John Thomson, RJ Butterworth.
Accruals
System of arrangement
Chronological
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright: Guardian News & Media
Language of material
Script of material
Access Status
Open
Closed until
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Astor; Waldorf (1879-1952); 2nd Viscount Astor; owner of The Observer (Subject)
- Mann; Arthur Henry (1876-1972); newspaper editor, trustee of the Observer (Subject)
- Foot; Sir; Dingle Mackintosh (1905-1978); knight, lawyer, and politician (Subject)
- Thomson; John; trustee of the Observer (Subject)
- Berridge; John E (fl.1953); general manager (Subject)
- Butterworth; RJ; trustee of the Observer (Subject)
- Stocks; Mary Danvers (1891-1975); trustee of the Observer (Subject)
- The Observer Limited (1917-1993); newspaper publisher (Subject)
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Status
Catalogued