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PRESS 1938-42
TC 60: 3 boxes
BOX 1: ANALYSIS OF PRESS 1938-40
60/1/A: Analysis of weekly and monthly political journals, Feb 1938
Typed/handwritten analysis
Copies of: The Labour Woman, Labour Research, Peace, Labour, The Socialist Vanguard, Controversy
60/1/B: Newspaper counts, August-September 1939
Handwritten/typed observations and counts of papers sold, London (LT, AH, JA, KB)
60/1/C: Media extracts, August-December 1939
Typed extracts from newspapers, weekly and monthly journals and radio broadcasts (TH)
Handwritten notes (TH)
60/1/D: Headline analysis 1939-40
Handwritten/typed analysis of newspaper headlines (CP, HN)
Typed memo from (TH) to Mary Adams
Handwritten notes on "The Press on Dakar" (JSF)
Typed notes on press stories (TH)
BOX 2 : NEWSPAPER PLACARDS AND OTHER MATERIAL 1940-42
60/2/A: Miscellaneous reports 1940
Typed preliminary report on "Newsletters" 2.3.40 (BW)
Typed notes from PEP Report on the "Distribution of Newspaper Space" 3.4.40 (SH)
Typed report "Parliament and the Press" 10.4.40
Typed synopsis of pamphlet on "The Prestige of the Press" 5.8.40 (RF)
Typed report "Is the Press Opinion Forming ?" 8.5.40 (SH)
60/2/B: Letters sent from the public to national newspapers 1940-41, 1944
Typed letter to Daily Mirror from M-O re letters sent into Herbert Morrison, 2 cuttings from Daily Mirror, April 1940
Typed analysis of letters sent into The Star 's Advisory Bureau April 1940 (BW)
Typed correspondence, observations and cuttings re Sunday Express questionnaire, April 1940 (TH, BW)
Typed analysis of Picture Post letters "Plan for Britain", 22.4.41 (DS)
Typed analysis (1 page) of Reveille letters, 17.6.44
60/2/C: Newspaper placards/posters 1940
Typed copy of questionnaire
Handwritten/typed observations and questionnaire replies March-August 1940, London (BW, NM, DH, SS, MD, LE, CP, TH, CF, HN, HP)
2 handwritten reports from voluntary observers
Typed report "Newsagents and the War", Romford 4.5.40 (NM)
Typed memo on Newspaper Placards, 16.5.40 (M-O)
Typed note on Press Poster incident, 19.6.40 (M-O)
Handwritten analysis notes
Typed report "The Discontinuance of Evening Placards", June 1940 (M-O)
Article "The Poster Passes" The Star, 28.5.40
60/2/D: Newspaper Placards 1942
Typed instructions to observers, 31.3.42
Handwritten/typed observations, London, March-November (EG, PJ, RC, LB, CM, DH, MS)
60/2/E: Public Meetings on the Freedom of the Press 1942
Handwritten report on Press Freedom Meeting, Central Hall, Westminster, 11.4.42 (EG)
Typed report on Freedom of the Press meeting, London, 7.5.42 (PJ)
Typed and handwritten copy of report on Daily Express, Centre of Public Opinion, 24.5.42 (MS)
BOX 3 : MISCELLANEOUS PRESS-CUTTINGS AND NEWSPAPERS 1939-42
60/3/A: Press-cuttings re early events in the Second World War, December 1939-January 1940
60/3/B: Press-cuttings, June 1940
60/3/C-D: Press-cuttings, June 1940 (22.6.40)
(Miscellaneous newspapers filed at the bottom of the box, 1940-42)