| Description | Cuttings of each of the Guardian's leading articles with manuscript annotations of the author's initials, 18 August 1988 - 3 December 1988.
*new: 19 August 1988: Spring 20 years on
*new: 1 December 1988: Mr Hurd and a few little things
*new: 1 December 1988: No can Likud
*new: 1 December 1988: Top of the board
*new: 2 December 1988: Too many tangles in the grid
*new: 2 December 1988: Plea and sympathy
*new: 2 December 1988: Rhodes ending?
*new: 3 December 1988: Blue eyes and adrk foreboding
*new: 3 December 1988: A matter of life and law
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
MD - Malcolm Dean
PF - Peter Fiddick
RG - Richard Gow
VK - Vic Keegan
DMcK/DM - David McKie
MP/MPhil/Mel - Melanie Phillips
PP - Peter Preston
DVdV - Dan Van der Vat |