| Description | Cuttings of each of the Guardian's leading articles with manuscript annotations of the author's initials, 14 June 1993 - 17 June 1994. 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.
The following leading articles have no author identified:
*new: 22 July 1993: The real chapter, and the dream one
*new: 22 July 1993: A high tide of trade
*new: 22 July 1993: Taken at the flood
*new: 24 July 1993: The last vote, the last gasp
*new: 26 July 1993: The fight is on the record
*new: 26 July 1993: Clean hands, costing lives
*new: 29 July 1993: Stealing a march on the burglars
*new: 29 July 1993: Rescuing Europe
*new: 29 July 1993: Lord Howe's denials
*new: 30 July 1993: The chaos at the core of the ERM
*new: 30 July 1993: Alone, with a lawyer
*new: 30 July 1993: Ivan the enigmatic
*new: 31 July 1993: The boy stood on a burning deck
*new: 31 July 1993: From cracks to chasms
*new: 2 August 1993: Time to make the best of a bad job in Bosnia
*new: 2 August 1993: Calling the Civil Service to account
*new: 3 August 1993: Time to take on the world's spectators
*new: 3 August 1993: Eating bumble pie
*new: 3 August 1993: When violence soars
*new: 4 August 1993: A time for justice, not for violence
*new: 4 August 1993: Licence to fail
*new: 4 August 1993: Enough is enough
*new: 7 August 1993: In dire need of some family planning
*new: 7 August 1993: Smaller may be more beautiful
*new: 7 August 1993: Labour as the party of sound finance
*new: 20 August 1993: Paying for the battle of the bulge
*new: 20 August 1993: All's flexible but the franc
*new: 20 August 1993: Tilting at eyesores
*new: 21 August 1993: An ugly map, a brutal peace
*new: 21 August 1993: November strip poker
*new: 25 August 1993: The money to put the victim first
*new: 29 September 1993: The Sukhumi conundrum
*new: 29 September 1993: Fleeing the flag
*new: 5 October 1993: Can the tanks bring freedom?
*new: 14 October 1993: Making a secret of fading eurphoria
*new: 14 October 1993: Hard facts, soft drugs
*new: 14 October 1993: Only a game, isn't it?
*new: 22 October 1993: Mark well the signals
*new: 15 November 1993: Needing to make a free trade mark
*new: 15 November 1993: Close your eyes and think of China
*new: 22 November 1993: Back to the real basics
*new: 8 December 1993: Gatt: the movie
*new: 21 January 1994: The Busby trinity
*new: 22 January 1994: The great question of staying or going
*new: 22 January 1994: The sense of consent
*new: 24 January 1994: Bad tax and good timing
*new: 24 January 1994: Lightening the burden
*new: 5 February 1994: Clinton's special bitter
*new: 5 February 1994: Now fax is facts
*new: 7 February 1994: Letting the Serbs know we still care
*new: 7 February 1994: A mantle in pieces
*new: 9 February 1994: Choices, secrets and the public good
*new: 9 February 1994: No crumbs for the poor
*new: 9 February 1994: The Harrods factor
*new: 12 February 1994: Whitehall must not escape Scott-free
*new: 7 March 1994: Radiation and the guinea pigs
*new: 10 March 1994: A larger hole and a bigger bump
*new: 10 March 1994: The truth about the truth
*new: 10 March 1994: Bought him, got her free
*new: 26 April 1994: A date with a united destiny
*new: 26 April 1994: Freedom for the Post
*new: 26 April 1994: All froth and fiddle
*new: 7 May 1994: The earth moves, and keeps on moving
Generally two leading articles were published on Mondays, three from Tueday to Friday and one on Saturday. From Monday to Friday the leading articles appear in column format on the left hand side of the page, under the heading 'The Guardian: comment' with the address '119 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3ER' and the date. On Saturdays the leading article appears across the top third of the page, under the heading ''The Leader Page, The Guardian' with the date.
The binding on this volume has completely dissolved.
The authors identified in this volume are (in alphabetical order):
MB - Madeleine Bunting
MD - Malcolm Dean
JG - [John Gittings]
VK - Vic Keegan
MK - Martin Kettle
DMcK/DMc - David McKie
HP - Hella Pick
PP - Peter Preston
AR - Alan Rusbridger |