| Level | Item |
| Ref No | GUA/6/4/1/2/8 |
| Title | Cuttings book |
| Date | March 1992 - October 1992 |
| Extent | 1 volume |
| Creator Name | Guardian Newspapers Limited |
| Description | Cuttings of each of the Guardian's leading articles with manuscript annotations of the author's initials, 7 March 1992 - 13 October 1992. 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:
11 March 1992: Take a grim letter
14 March 1992: Passion and hope are only a start
16 March 1992: Straight principle
18 March 1992: Old flaws, new twists
25 April 1992: Making development a can-go area
1 May 1992: The torch that lights up despair
1 May 1992: Sitting for Mr Smith
1 May 1992: The pincers on Four
2 May 1992: What lies frozen beyond the frame
4 May 1992: High price of German unity
4 May 1992: Hard choices in health care
5 May 1992: A pattern of pain from the islands
5 May 1992: Berets for Bosnia
5 May 1992: Unbanning the debate
6 May 1992: One cut, and scope to be daring
6 May 1992: Blowing the system
6 May 1992: Look back in honesty
7 May 1992: Opening from the Pavillion end
7 May 1992: A nation of umpires
8 May 1992: Shush, it's probably still a secret
8 May 1992: Out of the rubble
8 May 1992: The Corey succession
9 May 1992: When the living is much less easy
16 May 1992: A temple to Progress, mostly unlet
24 July 1992: A Mellor tide, or a tiny trickle?
24 July 1992: The case for turning soft
24 July 1992: Responding to Rabin
28 July 1992: The order of the boot for Boutros?
28 July 1992: Justice and a better way
28 July 1992: The hump and the umpires
29 July 1992: The tide of despair is at our gates
29 July 1992: A Patten of chaos
29 July 1992: Who signed for VAT?
30 July 1992: Why is the roof still falling in
30 July 1992: Tragedy in parallel
30 July 1992: The halls of the brave
31 July 1992: Any old vision, any old bones?
31 July 1992: Drugging for gold
31 July 1992: The old man of the Wall
1 August 1992: Channel 4 and the real public interest
1 August 1992: What's left on the Left
3 August 1992: The ultimate Japanese model
3 August 1992: When the children die
4 August 1992: A strike as the iron grows cold
4 August 1992: Change or decay
4 August 1992: Have giro, will travel
5 August 1992: Fiddling whilst the children perish
5 August 1992: One age for bowing out?
5 August 1992: A moat and a note
6 August 1992: Ashworth: special in its squalor
6 August 1992: Peaces can be made
6 August 1992: Eldorado, Court 14
7 August 1992: Mr Smith and the Maarstricht medicine
7 August 1992: Busy doing nothing
7 August 1992: Circles and squarials
8 August 1992: The new world in grinding order
10 August 1992: Stop your beating about, Mr Bush
10 August 1992: A cosy cabinet of complacent chums
11 August 1992: Beyond the pall of simple brutality
11 August 1992: The way to intervene
11 August 1992: The next torch
12 August 1992: The peace duet and the harder questions
12 August 1992: Britain on auto-pilot
12 August 1992: Innocent, until guilty
13 August 1992: The great new bloc, and the building
13 August 1992: Bingham of the Rolls
13 August 1992: Right up Casey Street
14 August 1992:The rising of a dank despair
14 August 1992: No room in the in-tray
14 August 1992: The code of fairer cops
15 August 1992: Who has the idea beyond Houston?
17 August 1992: Sticky week for Major at the seaside
17 August 1992: Can Kabul square the political circle?
4 September 1992: Model prison
19 September 1992: There can't be a secret
3 October 1992: Hello again, Perot again
13 October 1992: The real piper and the real tune
13 October 1992: Ballots to bullets
13 October 1992: One for the birds
One, two or three leading articles are daily. On weekdays these appear as one or two columns on the left side of the page. The Saturday leading article (often only one article) appears across the top third of the page. The leading articles were published under the heading 'Comment' rather than the traditional heading 'The Guardian'.
The authors identified in this volume are (in alphabetical order):
JC - [John Cole] (22 September 1992)
MD - Malcolm Dean
JF - Jonathan Freedland
JG - [John Gittings]
VK - Vic Keegan
MK - Martin Kettle
DMcK - David McKie
MP - Melanie Phillips
PP - Peter Preston
MW - [Michael White]
From 9 October the cuttings have not been stuck onto pages, but are loose in the volume.
The back cover has become completely separated from the volume. |
| System Of Arrangement | Chronological |
| Access Status | Open |
| Format | Printed document |
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