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- 1926-1987 (Creation)
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Records from the Managing Director's Office.
These records contain management records, subject files and correspondence from the office of Roger Harrison. He inherited some correspondence files from his predecessor, Tristan Jones, who in turn inherited files from John Berridge.
These records do not include those of Brian Nicholson, joint Managing Director with Roger Harrison, although there is material written by and to Nicholson in preparation for meetings, or filed as part of the correspondence.
The management records only contain material from Roger Harrison's office and do not include any minutes, agenda or notes from the office of Tristan Jones.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison
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Some of this material may be closed for Data Protection reasons.
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- Harrison; Desmond Roger Wingate (1933-); managing director and chief executive of The Observer (Subject)
- Jones; Tristan (1913-1990); managing director of The Observer (Subject)
- Nicholson; Brian Thomas Graves (1930-); journalist and managing director of the Observer (Subject)
- Berridge; John E (fl.1953); general manager (Subject)