| Description | Cuttings of each of the Guardian's leading articles with manuscript annotations of the author's initials, 21 August 1987 - 22 December 1987.
The following leading articles have no author identified:
*new: 21 August 1987: Glib theories will not ease suffering
*new: 21 August 1987: Watchicng for Nigel's signals
*new: 21 August 1987: Layers of agreement
*new: 25 August 1987: Self-restraint preferable to legislation (identified as DMell?)
*new: 25 August 1987: But here it need not happen (identified as DS?)
*new: 11 December 1987: The almighty fall of the dollar
*new 11 December 1987: Zero and the Europe option
*new: 11 December 1987: A source of bleak conflict
Generally three leading articles were published Tuesday - Friday (across the top third of the page), with two leading articles published on Saturday and Monday (in a column on the left side of the page). Leading articles were published anonymously each day as the collective view of the newspaper. Researchers should note that leaders do not necessarily express the personal views of their writers. They were published under the heading 'Comment' rather than the traditional heading 'The Guardian'.
The authors identified in this volume are (in alphabetical order):
PC - Peter Cole
JG - John Gittings
DG - David Gow
DMcK/DM - David McKie
VK - Vic Keegan
MK - Martin Kettle
PP - Peter Preston
GDT - [Geoffry Taylor]
DvdV/DV - Dan van der Vat |