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    Guardian News & Media Archive

    The archive collects and preserves original records capturing the stories behind the Guardian and the Observer. Every effort has been made to locate the copyright owners of images on these pages. If you have further information concerning any images, please email us

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  • An advert for the Guardian’s centenary issue in 1921.

    Guardian history

  • Guardian printers creating a flong, c1960s

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    The GNM Archive is owned by The Guardian Foundation, a charity that promotes press freedom and access to journalism. Find out more about our work and exhibitions, and how you can get involved.

The big picture

  • People await news on the General Strike in Piccadilly Gardens Manchester, 5 May 1926.

    Newspapers in the General Strike 1926

    In May 1926, the print unions were called to join the General Strike, effectively silencing the press. This resource from the GNM Archive, published 10 years ago to mark the 90th anniversary, looks at how newspapers and printers were central to the strike and the Guardian’s response, which included setting up its own company union
  • Page from Les Gibbard's sketchbook, 11-13 March 1981. Gibbard started work at the Guardian in 1969 at the age of 23 and continued as political cartoonist until 2004 before reappearing in the comment pages in 2003. This book is one of a series running from 1979-1992 acquired by the GNM Archive in 2005 as part of the Gibbard collection that also includes more than 2500 original cartoons. GNM Archive ref: LDG/4/2/4

    Guardian and Observer cartoonists: archive teaching resources

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  • Photographs of Manchester Guardian staff taken for the centenary of the newspaper in 1921 including in the back row Miss Madeline Linford. Photograph believed to be by Guardian staff photographer, Walter Doughty. Prints scanned from Centenary album GNM Archive ref: GUA/6/9/1/11/1/1.

    Pioneering Guardian and Observer women journalists: archive teaching resources

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  • Destroyed memory boards from a PC used to inspect data provided by Edward Snowden to the Guardian. The computers were destroyed using a variety of power tools at Kings Place on 20 July 2013 at the the instruction of the UK government. (GNM Archive ref: GUA/12/5/1/8/4)

    Guardian archive artefacts: from orchestral triangles to smashed up hard drives

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  • Central bank (where crown jewels were kept), Tehran c1979.

    Iran 1979: a time of revolution – in pictures

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Our collections

  • Detail of an Observer minute book from the Guardian News & Media Acrhive.

    Corporate archive collections

  • GNM Archive - William Papas

    Personal archive collections

  • Peter Preston's records in the GNM Archive relating to the handling of the press and the enquiries that followed the Falklands War, December 1977 - September 1986. GNM Archive ref: GUA/6/1/1/1/2/2/8

    Archive teaching resource
    The Falklands war in the GNM Archive

  • "Our proposals are no longer on the table" Used in The Guardian 21 May 1982 GNM Archive Ref: LDG/1/29/5

    Collections in focus
    Les Gibbard and the Falklands war

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