Prints by Guardian/Observer photographers.

Box 1
Saharan Republic: Polisario
Saint Kitts
Saint Lucia
Saints
Salt
Salvador: Politics (Civil War [Refugees])
Salvador: Politics (Protests And Demonstrations Abroad)
Salvation Army
Samaritans
San Serriffe
Saudi Arabia: Riyadh
Saudi Arabia: Defence
Scaffolding
Science
Science: Cloning
Scientology
Scooters And Lambrettas
Scotland: Aberdeen
Scotland: Agriculture
Scotland: Airdrie
Scotland: Argyll

Box 2
Scotland: Berwick-Upon-Tweed
Scotland: Drumbuie
Scotland: Dundee
Scotland: Edinburgh
Scotland: General
Scotland: Glasgow
Scotland: Glasgow (Clydebank)
Scotland: Glasgow (Exhibition Centre)
Scotland: Glasgow (Gorbals)
Scotland: Glasgow (Pictures By Don McPhee)

Box 3
Scotland: Genfeshie
Scotland: Glasgow (Govan)
Scotland: Glasgow (Housing)
Scotland: Glasgow (Underground)
Scotland: Glasgow (Urban Squalor)
Scotland: Highlands
Scotland: Industry
Scotland: Inverness-shire
Scotland: Islands (Arran)
Scotland: Islands (Barra [Outer Hebrides])
Scotland: Islands (Eigg)
Scotland: Islands (General)
Scotland: Islands (Gigha)
Scotland: Islands (Harris)
Scotland: Islands (Iona)

Box 4
Scotland: Islands (Islay)
Scotland: Islands (Lewis)
Scotland: Islands (Mull)
Scotland: Islands (Orkney)
Scotland: Islands (Shetlands [Foula])
Scotland: Islands (Shetlands [General])
Scotland: Islands (Shetlands [Lerwick])
Scotland: Islands (Shetlands [Scalloway])
Scotland: Islands (Skye)
Scotland: Islands (Uist [North And South])
Scotland: Islands (Vattersay [Outer Hebrides])
Scotland: Kelso
Scotland: Livingston New Town
Scotland: Loch Lomond
Scotland: Loch Ness
Scotland: Mull Of Kintyre
Scotland: Nationalism
Scotland: Paisley
Scotland: Perthshire
Scotland: Religion
Scotland: Ross And Cromarty
Scotland: Scoraig Peninsula
Scrap Metal And Totters

Box 5
Seamen
Sea Scouts And Cadets
Security: General
Security: Private Security
Serbia: General
Serbia: Kosovo
Sewage: Plants
Sewage: Sewers
Sewing Machines
Sex
Sex Education
Sexual Harassment
Sexual Offences
Sexual Offences: Child Abuse

Box 6
Sexual Offences: Child Abuse (Leicester Children's Home)
Shaving
Shipbuilding: Barrow
Shipbuilding: Belfast
Shipbuilding: Birkenhead
Shipbuilding: Clydeside
Shipbuilding: Clydeside (Govan)
Shipbuilding: Clydeside (Scott Lithgow)
Shipbuilding: Clydeside (UCS)
Shipbuilding: General
Shipbuilding: Labour (Strikes And Protests)
Shipbuilding: Southampton (Vosper Thornycroft)
Shipbuilding: Swan Hunter
Shipbuilding: Swan Hunter (large prints)
Shipbuilding: Tyne And Wear

Box 7
Shipping: Containers
Shipping: Ferries (Cross-Channel)
Shipping: Ferries (General)
Shipping: Ferries (Humber)
Shipping: Ferries (Isle Of Man)
Shipping: Ferries (Mersey)
Ships: Barges
Ships: Cargo Vessels
Ships: Cargo Vessels (Crail)
Ships: General
Ships: Historic (HMS Belfast)
Ships: Historic (Cutty Sark)
Ships: Historic (Discovery)
Ships: Historic (General)
Ships: Historic (Golden Hind)
Ships: Historic (Mary Rose)
Ships: Historic (SS Great Britain)

Box 8
Shipping: Navigation
Ships: Historic (Princess Alice)
Ships: Historic (Titanic)
Ships: Historic (Trireme)
Ships: Historic (Victory)
Ships: Ice Breakers
Ships: Junks
Ships: Lifeboats
Ships: Liners (Brittania [Royal Yacht])
Ships: Liners (Canberra)
Ships: Liners (France)
Ships: Liners (General)
Ships: Liners (Oriana)
Ships: Liners (Queen Elizabeth II)
Ships: Liners (Queen Mary)
Ships: Liners (Royal Princess)
Ships: Liners (Winston Churchill)
Ships: Ocean Defender
Ships: Paddle Steamers
Ships: Sailing Ships
Ships: Sailing Ships (Sir Winston Churchill)
Ships: Shipwrecks
Ships: Survey Vessels

Box 9
Ships: Tankers
Shops: Arcades
Shops: Argos
Shops: Body Shop
Shops: Boutiques
Shops: Burtons
Shops: Butchers
Shops: Cash And Carry
Shops: Chemists
Shops: Clothes
Shops: Conran
Shops: Co-ops
Shops: Department Stores (BHS)
Shops: Department Stores (Debenham's)
Shops: Department Stores (Fortnum And Mason)
Shops: Department Stores (General)
Shops: Department Stores (Harrod's)
Shops: Department Stores (Harvey Nichols)
Shops: Department Stores (John Lewis)
Shops: Department Stores (Marks And Spencer's)

Box 10
Shops: Department Stores (Selfridges)
Shops: Department Stores (Window Dressing)
Shops: Department Stores (Woolworths)
Shops: DIY Centres
Shops: Electrical (Dixons)
Shops: Electrical (General)
Shops: Fishmongers
Shops: General (1)
Shops: General (2)
Shops: Greengrocers
Shops: Habitat
Shops: Heals
Shops: Historic

Box 11
Shops: Hypermarkets
Shops: Ikea
Shops: Laura Ashley
Shops: Liberty
Shops: MFI
Shops: Newsagents
Shops: Next
Shops: Off-Licenses
Shops: Record Shops
Shops: Sales
Shops: Shoe Shops
Shops: Shopping Precincts (General)
Shops: Shopping Precincts (Lakeside, Thurrock)
Shops: Shopping Precincts (Metro Centre, Gateshead)

Box 12
Shops: Shopping
Shops: Sunday Trading
Shops: Supermarkets (Asda)
Shops: Supermarkets (General)
Shops: Supermarkets (Kwik Save)
Shops: Supermarkets (Safeway)
Shops: Supermarkets (Sainsbury's)
Shops: Supermarkets (Somerfield)
Shops: Supermarkets (Tesco)
Shops: Supermarkets (Trollies)
Shops: Supermarkets (Waitrose)
Shops: Tailors
Shops: Toy Shops
Shops: Village Shops

Box 13
Silage
Silk And Silkworms
Silver And Silverware
Skeletons
Skinheads
Slate
Sleeping
Small People
Smuggling
Snails
Social Democratic And Liberal Party
Social Democratic Party (1981-1983)
Social Democratic Party (1984-)
Social Democratic Party (Conferences [1981-1983])
Social Democratic Party (Conferences [1984-])
Social Security
Social Services: Community Centres
Social Services: General
Social Services: Voluntary Helpers

Box 14
Social Services: Social Workers
Societies
Solar Energy
Somalia: War With Ethiopia
Space Exploration: Europe (General)
Space Exploration: Great Britain
Space Exploration: United States (Apollo [General])
Space Exploration: United States (Space Shuttle [1980-])
Space Exploration: United States (Space Shuttle [Challenger Disaster {1986}])
Space Exploration: USSR (Cosmonauts)
Spain: Barcelona
Spain: Bullfighting
Spain: Defence
Spain: Food And Drink
Spain: General
Spain: Industry
Spain: Immigrants
Spain: Labour (Strikes And Demonstrations)
Spain: Madrid
Spain: Madrid (Pictures By Martin Argles)
Spain: Politics
Spain: Politics (Basques)

Box 15
Spain: Politics (Protests And Demonstrations [Falangist])
Spain: Politics (Protests And Demonstrations [General])
Spain: Travel (Costa Brava)
Spain: Travel (Costa Del Sol)
Spain: Travel (General)
Spain: Travel (Ibiza)
Spain: Travel (Majorca-Palma)
Spain: Travel (Majorca)
Spain: Travel (Malaga)
Spain: Travel (Menorca [Pictures By Don McPhee])
Spain: Travel (Seville)
Spain: Politics (Civil War)
Spectacles
Spiders
Spiritualism
Sri Lanka: General
Sri Lanka: Politics (Tamils)
Sri Lanka: Politics (Tamils [Protests And Demonstrations])
Sri Lanka: Politics (Tamils [Refugees {Great Britain}])
Staircases
Stalkers
Statues: Great Britain
Statues: London (General)
Statues: London (Kensington Gardens)

Box 16
Statues: London (Trafalgar Square)
Statues: London (Trafalgar Square [Nelson's Column])
Statues: London (Whitehall)
Statues: Renovation
Steel Industry: General
Steel Industry: Steelworks (Consett)
Steel Industry: Steelworks (Corby)
Steel Industry: Steelworks (East Moors)
Steel Industry: Steelworks (Ebbw Vale)
Steel Industry: Steelworks (Gartcosh)
Steel Industry: Steelworks (General)
Steel Industry: Steelworks (Llanwern)
Steel Industry: Steelworks (Manchester Steel)
Steel Industry: Steelworks (Port Talbot)
Steel Industry: Steelworks (Ravenscraig)
Steel Industry: Steelworks (Redcar)
Steel Industry: Steelworks (Scunthorpe)
Steel Industry: Steelworks (Sheldon)
Steel Industry: Steelworks (Shotton)
Steel Industry: Steelworks (Strikes And Protests)
Steel Industry: Steelworks (Workington)
Stonehenge

Box 17
Stonemasons
Streaking
Street Traders
Stress
Strikes
Striptease: Male Strippers
Submarines
Submersibles
Sudan: Famine
Sugar
Sugar: Refineries
Suicides
Sundials
Supernatural
Sweden: General
Swimming Pools
Switzerland: General
Switzerland: Geneva
Switzerland: Skiing
Switzerland: Travel (General)
Swords
Syria: Politics (Protests And Demonstrations)
Creator: The Guardian; Picture Desk; London Picture Library

GP1029 - 1032 - Ruth Massey's photos-f Hol Hol Refugee camp
GP1033 - Hol Hol refugee camp, Djibouti Republic - Amadou Valien and Omar Waberi God. Photo by Ruth Massey
GP1034 - No future for him: Malnourished child, Horn of Africa

Photograph selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to General Disasters.
GP129 Ethiopia. The seven distinct phases of growth and development of locusts displayed with a ruler, ending at the large 'gregarious stage' that devour crops. 6970/A/29 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP130 Pakistan. Young locusts on the march in the sand. 'When this ban of hoppers matures it will join other bans to form a swarm. When this happens they are ready and capable of migrating thousands of miles and all the nations of the Locust Belt are in trouble'. 4865/9 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP131 Morocco. 'This is what it looked like when the desert locusts in their mulit-millions hit morocco at the start of the great plague of 1954-62. Experts believe that this particular ocust swarm migrated from the Horn of Africa all the way across the continent'. Locusts flying through streets. 1066/1 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP132 Tunisia. 'Locusts swarms like this one were a familiar and terrifying sight throughout the Magreb countries during the catastrophic plague of 1954-62'. A man standing in the middle of a giant plague of locusts. 1066/10 written on the back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP133 Sudan. A locust being measured by a worker in a laboratory of Khartoum in the Sudan. Such laboratory study is the basic and necessary detective work of anti-locust control campaigns. 6870/A/7 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP134 Ethiopia. 'Two Ethiopian anti-locust field workers perpare dead locusts for transport to the main laboratory in Asmara for study. Measurements of the insects wings and other body parts are taken regularly because they tell the experts much about a swarm's breeding density and place of origin'. United Nations truck in the background. 6870/G/5A written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP135 Algeria. 'In Algeria's Wadi In Debirene and anti-locust field inspector is about to catch a mature desert locust for study'. He is using a giant net in the desert. 5869/E/17 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP136 Ethiopia. 'Piles of dead locusts in the Ethiopian highlands. This swarm was sprayed with Dieldrin by air for four weeks and wiped out entirely. But not before the locusts had left whole areas in a shamble'. 6870/A/4 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP137 Somalia. 'A nomad walks through a medium thick swarm of desert locusts along Somalia's northern coast'. In the desert. 6870/14 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP138 'Sparse rain, poor land, antiquated tools, such as seen here in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), keep most African farm families at the subsistence level, where a crop failure can mean hunger and even starvation. Three men dig in the dry dirt with trowel-like tools. B. on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP139 'The village of KK Nallur, India is linked with Shincliffe, near Durham. During June and July the monsoon winds damage the thatched roofs. Every year extensive repairs must be carried out before the second monsoon in August and September'. Here two women and two men are repairing a house with logs and other building supplies. Black and white photo.
GP140 'Millions of hecatres of arable land are lost each year to "desertification" - including erosion, loss of topsoil from flooding, ad over-grazing by animals. These windbreaks in Tunisia battle the creeping desert'. Three people setting up the plant windbreakers using shovels and other tools, to try and hold off the sand. D. written on the back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.

Selection of newspaper cuttings of Gemini News Service articles relating to Canada.

Subjects covered include: the Gulf War, 1990; referendum on Quebec Independence, 1989-1997; racism, 1994-1997; killings in Somalia, 1994; new Prime Minister, 1993; campaign for better rights and living conditions for Native Americans, 1990-1991 and Brian Mulroney re-elected as Prime Minister, 1998.

Includes Embassies and High Commissions for:

Antigua and Barbuda
Egypt
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Cambodia
Canada
Eastern Caribbean States
Chile
Cuba
Denmark
Fiji
Germany
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iraq
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Korea
Laos
Lebanon
Liberia
Luxembourg
Malawi
Malaysia
Mauritius
Mexico
Morocco
Mozambique
Nepal
Nicaragua
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Tanzania
Thailand
Tonga
Tunisia
Turkey
United Arab Republic
United States
Vietnam
Zimbabwe

Notebook, written mostly in longhand with some shorthand, containing notes on: land scheme funding; the Northern Frontier District of Kenya (NFD); the Somali community in Kenya; and female education in Maragoli, Kenya.

Names featured include: [Michael] Blundell and [Peter] Okondo.

Transcribed in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archives' Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The pdf transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.

Notebook, written mostly in shorthand, containing notes on: [a radio conference with Jomo Kenyatta] discussing constitutional talks on Kenya, Kenyan independence, property rights and equal rights for all citizens; and the NFD (Northern Frontier District of Kenya) including borders and territories, population, independence, development and secession.

Names featured include: JK [Jomo Kenyatta], [Paul] Ngei, Chief Abdi Ogli, Chief Farah, Ali Hersi, Maalim Stamboul, Jomo Kenyatta, Tom Mboya and [Ronald] Ngala.

Transcribed in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archives' Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The pdf transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.

Notebook, written in longhand, containing lists of expenses and work and payments.

The notebook also contains a small newspaper cutting from June 27 titled "Somalia 'looking for scapegoat".

Notebook, written mostly in shorthand, containing notes on: the condition of agriculture in kenya; education and training in Kenya including funding; voting and the CLA [Central Legislative Assembly]; women's rights including lack of education and training opportunities and roles in independence and nation building [in Kenya and Tanganyika?]; politics in Tanganyika including calls for independence, TANU and TFL; and the military in Tanganyika. The notebook also contains brief references to Nyasaland, SR [Southern Rhodesia] and NR [Nothern Rhodesia].

Names featured include: Laurie Campbell, [AM] Webb, [Tom] Mboya, [Ronald] Ngala, Mrs Abwao, Mrs Penwall, Mrs Kiano, [Jacob] Namfua, JN [Julius Nyerere], George Ivan-Smith, [Oscar] Kambona and Sir Ernest [Vaisey].

Transcribed by Christine Watkins in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archives' Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The pdf transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.

Notebook, written mostly in longhand with some shorthand, containing notes on: the [1963] Kenyan general election, new constitution for Kenya and self government; Jomo Kenyatta and Winston Field on Kenyan independence; Ruark's book [Uhuru]; university education in East Africa; Kenya's North Eastern provinces of Garissa and Wajir; Rome conference; the NPPPP (Northern Province People's Progressive Party); Mogadishu; development plans in [Kenya's North Eastern Provinces] and settlers in S Kinangop.

Names featured include: JK [Jomo Kenyatta]; Winston Field, [Robert] Ruark, [H] Slade, [Kenneth] Matiba, Julius Nyerere, Luyimbazi Zake, de Bunsen and [Robert Winser].

Transcribed in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archive’s Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The pdf transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.