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OBS/4/1/1/181
Title
Colin Legum
Date(s)
- 1966-1981 (Creation)
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1 file
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Correspondence file relating to Colin Legum and his work as a commonwealth and latterly political correspondent for the Observer.
Includes contract, annual salary increase letters, letters of complaint from Colin Legum about how little of his work went into the newspaper, and correspondence surrounding his early retirement.
Correspondents include William Millinship, Ken Obank, Donald Trelford and David Astor.
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- Legum; Colin (1919-2003); journalist (Subject)
- Millinship; William Henry George (1929-2010); journalist and managing editor of the Observer (Subject)
- Obank; Kenneth Pounds (1915-1991); managing editor of the Observer (Subject)
- Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer (Subject)
- Astor; Hon; Francis David Langhorne (1912-2001); editor of The Observer (Subject)
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