Identity area
Reference code
OBS/4/1/1/1
Title
A - general
Date(s)
- c1960-1967 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 file
Context area
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
File of correspondence relating to the employment of staff members and contributors to The Observer, with a surname beginning with A, some undated.
Primary correspondents are KP Obank and David Astor.
Staff and contributors involved include: Abu Abraham (cartoonist); Mark Abrahams; Ian Adie; Roger Alton; John Ardagh; John Arlott; Mark Arnold-Forster; Isaac Ascher; Stephen Ashley; Erich Auerbach (photographer).
Other correspondents include: Ronald Harker; Colin Legum; Peter Gibbings; George Seddon; John Pringle; John Thompson; Eric Newby; Roger Harrison; Bryn Campbell.
Accruals
System of arrangement
Alphabetical
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Material concerning financial and personal affairs for living individuals closed
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Access Status
Open(part)
Closed until
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Notes area
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Place access points
Name access points
- Obank; Kenneth Pounds (1915-1991); managing editor of the Observer (Subject)
- Abraham; Attupurathu Mathew (1924-2002); cartoonist (Subject)
- Astor; Hon; Francis David Langhorne (1912-2001); editor of The Observer (Subject)
- Alton; Roger; editor of the Observer (Subject)
- Seddon; George Fober (1911-1991); journalist and gardener (Subject)
- Gibbings; Sir; Peter Walter (1929-2021); chairman of the Guardian and Manchester Evening News plc (Subject)
- Pringle; John Martin Douglas (1912-1999); journalist (Subject)
- Thompson; John Brian (1928-2017); journalist (Subject)
- Arlott; John Leslie Thomas (1914-1991); sports journalist (Subject)
- Arnold Forster; Mark (1920-1981); journalist (Subject)
- Campbell; Bryn ([1933-]); photographer and Observer picture editor (Subject)
- Ashley; Stephen; graphic designer (Subject)
- Auerbach; Erich (1911-1977); photographer (Subject)
- Harker; Ronald E (1909-); journalist (Subject)
- Abrahams; Mark; photographer (Subject)
- Adie; WAC; academic (Subject)
- Ardagh; John Anthony C (1928-2008); journalist (Subject)
- Ascher; Isaac (1930-); political sociologist (Subject)
- Legum; Colin (1919-2003); journalist (Subject)
- Newby; George Eric (1919-2006); travel writer (Subject)
- Harrison; Desmond Roger Wingate (1933-); managing director and chief executive of The Observer (Subject)
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Description control area
Status
Catalogued