Journalist's notebooks of Neal Ascherson.
Scope and Contents
The notebooks and engagement diaries cover Ascherson's career as correspondent for the Manchester Guardian (1956-57), The Scotsman (1959-60), Observer (1960-1975 and 1979-1990), and The Independent on Sunday (1990-1998), as well as his later career as a writer and academic. They contain descriptive notes relating to his research and reporting on international and home politics and affairs. From 1987, the notebooks also contain detailed personal diary entries.
Ascherson's time as Scottish politics correspondent for the Observer (1975-1979) is represented here by an edited version of his 'Devolution Diaries' for 1977.
Dates
- Creation: 1957-2013
Creator
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Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
0.60 Linear metres (6 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 2015 and 2017, by Neal Ascherson, London.
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland
- Date
- 01 12 2015
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Descriptive Rules
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
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