Includes cuttings by Clyde Sanger and others, notes, press releases, interview transcripts and reports concerning the 1980 Zimbabwe election and Robert Mugabe's first months in office.

Notebook, written mostly in longhand with some shorthand, containing notes on: the civil rights movement in Alabama and Mississippi including the 1966 Alabama gubernatorial election campaign, Voting Rights Act (1965) and Meredith March Against Fear, June 1966; Guyana's independence from the United Kingdom; UN Security Council discussions on the Vietnam war, nuclear power, UK policy in Southern Rhodesia, peaceful use of outer space, Central American unity, UN forces in Cyprus and UN membership; and Canada including provinces, industry, environment, health services, tourism, religion and education.

Names mentioned include: GW [George Wallace], MLK [Martin Luther King], Carl Elliott, Lurleen Wallace, [John Malcolm] Patterson, [Richmond] Flowers, U Thant, [Lester] Pearson, Lord Russell Brain, C. Max Lane, Michael Harrington, [Simon] Kapwepwe, [Harold] Wilson, Eirene White, [Simeon] Adebo, [Hugh Foot] Baron Caradon, [Nikolai] Fedorenko, U Thant, Dr Ralph Abernathy, William Fitzpatrick, Kwame Ture (born Stokely Carmichael), [JTF] Iyalla, [Jesse] Jackson, [Dick] Gregory, [James] Meredith, SDJr [Sammy Davis Jr], Lyndon B. Johnson, Whitney Young, Andy Young and [Floyd] McKissick.

Transcribed by Lauraine Newcombe and another volunteer 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.

Contains correspondence and memos concerning practical arrangements for the Board meetings of The Observer Limited, 1976-1987. The memos include information about attendees, itineraries, the arrangement of working dinners, circulation of Board papers and the time, date and location of meetings.

The file also includes a copy of 'The Press and The People', the 22nd annual report of the Press Council, which contains a chapter on the structure of the Observer newspaper, 1975.

The file does not include any Board papers of minutes.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison

Original telex articles, with annotations and corrections, written by Derek Ingram for Gemini News Service, reporting on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Lusaka, Zambia, August 1979.

Also contains an open letter to British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher concerning the failure of the British government to decolonize Southern Rhodesia, nd, [August 1979].

Includes papers, articles and clippings by Clyde Sanger and others concerning Rhodesia [now part of Zimbabwe].

Also includes minutes of commonwealth meetings and correspondence concerning funds for the training of African journalists, photocopies of papers concerning a Canadian delegation to the UN and the Rhodesian economy.

Notebook, written mostly in longhand with some shorthand, containing notes on: political, traditional customs and elections in Botswana; secondary and primary education in Botswana; economy and development in Botswana; biographical information on Philip Matante; discussions on decolonisation, majority rule and UDI in Rhodesia; and the OAU (Organisation of African Unity) and the Republic of the Congo.

Names featured include: Seretse [Khama], Philip Matante, [Arthur] Bottomley, Sebastian Chale, [Cristophe] Gbenye and [Moïse] Tshombe.

Transcribed by Sylvia Stirling 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.

Contains bound copies of Board meeting documents for 30 January, 30 April, 19 June, 5 November 1984; interim reports to the Board; dates of Board meetings for 1985; statement for release on 24 April by the Independent Directors concerning article by Donald Trelford on Zimbabwe and subsequent dispute.

Includes copies of circulated items for the meetings: minutes of previous Board meetings; minutes of Sealing Committee meetings; Chief Executive's reports; managers' reports; editorial reports; production, circulation, cash flow and advertising reports; trading results.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison

Notebook, written mostly in shorthand, containing notes including: questions concerning the Federation [Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland also known as CAF, the Central African Federation]; discussions on secession and the Federation; notes from Federal Assembly meetings including discussions on of the Federation and failure of the British Government in Northern Rhodesia; the Loan Council; the Power Surcharge Development Fund; African nationalism in Northern Rhodesia; and Barotseland and CAF.

Names featured include: Sir Roy [Welensky], [Hastings] Banda, [Edgar] Whitehead, [Kenneth] Kaunda, Winston Field, Lord Home, Sir Donald Macintyre, Sir Hugh Foot, [Iain] Macleod, [Jomo] Kenyatta, Adlai [Stevenson] and Ian Smith.

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 the OAU [Organisation of African Unity] summit held in Cairo, Egypt in July 1964 including: attendees; committees; Southern Rhodesia; South Africa; Angola; unity between African states; change of government in the Republic of the Congo; and West Germany and Tanzania.

Names featured include: [Abubakar Tafawa] Balewa, [Ayo] Adebanjo, [Jonas] Savimbi, Moïse Tshombe, [Kwame] Nkrumah and [Milton] Obote.

Transcribed by Gill Stoker 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.

Includes letters from students [presumably] taught by Clyde Sanger. Also includes articles by Clyde Sanger on journalism training in Zimbabwe.