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Diary entries for a three month work stay with his family in South Africa.

These entries cover personal matters such as a search for a house and schools as well as impressions of the country, the people, food and signs of the apartheid system. The work entries relate to David Owen’s (Foreign Secretary) trip to South Africa in which he spearheaded international efforts to address apartheid and minority rule in Southern Africa. His most notable regional initiative during this period was the joint Anglo-American plan, which laid the groundwork for the eventual independence of Rhodesia and Namibia.

Includes a black and white passport photograph of John Simpson.

Contents list on the inside front cover reads:

(1) starting in Johannesburg, - budget

(2) Dr David Owen’s trip to Dar-Maputo

(3 Cape Town, Johannesburg, Lusaka and Salisbury

(4) R.F. [Rhodesian Front] meeting of congress

(5) Big 5 meeting on SWA with John Vorster

Contents list on the inside front cover reads:

(1) Cape Town – Big 5 and John Vorster

(2) Johannesburg – Pik Botha by-election and Anglo-American mines

(3) Maputo – UN Conference on South Africa

(4) Johannesburg – Young’s visit

(5) Salisbury – US-UK officials in Rhodesia

(6) Salisbury - Angolan attempted Coup

Contents list on the inside front cover reads:

(1) Soweto anniversary

(2) shooting of 2 white men in Johannesburg

(3) march on Johannesburg; Soweto riots

(4) trials of 12 black ANC [African National Congress] members and Breyten Breytenbach in Pretoria

(5) Salisbury –
visit of Graham and Low
Sitholt arrival
Rhodesian economy
Smith doorstep interview
Rhodesian budget
Rustling story
Bishop Muzorewa

Contents list on the inside front cover reads:

(1) Soweto 10 and Moltlana int.

(2) Dip. correspondence

(3) Strydon in Soweto

(4) C.T. – Modderdam shanties cleared

(5) Brandfort – Winnie Mandela

(6) Pik Botha in Bloemfontein

(7) Old Umtali massacre

(8) David Owen trip No. 2 – Luska, Johannesburg, and Salisbury

Contents list on the inside front cover reads:

Includes:

(1) Carver-Chand visit to Salisbury (1-6 Nov)

(2) Election feature (1-12 Nov)

(3) Biko inquest (14 Nov –)

(4) murder of Dr Robert van Schalkwyk Smit and his wife Jean-Cora, on 22 Nov

(5) Carlton bomb

(6) Smith agrees to majority rule (25-27 Nov)

(7) election in South Africa (28 Nov – 1 Dec)

(8) Biko inquest result (2 Dec)

(9) Internal settlement talks (9-12 Dec)

(10) London trip

Contents list on the inside front cover reads:

(1) buffalo-hunting (Chiredzi)

(2) British Ambassador SA speech (Johannesburg)

(3) death of Steve Biko: Rachidi press conference

(4) Donals Woods speech

(5) service of commemoration, Soweto

(6) John Vorster’s election announcement

(7) Funeral of Biko (KWT)

(8) filming of “Wild Geese”, Tshipise

(9) rioting in Swaziland

(10) black university piece

(11) clampdown on “world “ etc

(12) interview with Mrs Wendy Woods

(13) John Vorster's speech at Alberton

(14) Steve Biko’s post mortem

(15) S.A. hospitals

Notes and reports on violence in South Africa including the murder of four people on a farm near Hartley and political negotiations to find a way to ease the tensions.

Negotiations over European economic and political relations.

Contents list on the inside front cover reads:

(1) Saudi lorry driver

(2) Byron Hove’s return

(3) Sir Neil Cameron

(4) Prince George of Denmark background

(5) Falkland Islands

(6) China v USSR

(7) Sithole, KK in London

(8) Zaire invasion

(9) USSR Baptists

(10) Zaire – Paris meeting

(11) Jimmy Carter’s Annapolis speech [American President, 1971-75]

Contains notes and reports on:

(1) Zaire economy

(2) Moscow trip – détente, USSR-China relations, Olympic games [held in Moscow in 1980]

(4) James Callaghan [British Prime Minister , 1976-79] and David Owen at fourth G7 economic summit, held between 16 and 17 July 1978, in Bonn, West Germany

Contents list on the inside front cover reads:

(1) Iraq expels British diplomats

(2) Muzorewa visits London

(3) Iraqi Palestinians versus P.L.O. [Palestine Liberation Organisation]

(4) Yugoslavia

Contains notes and reports on:

(1) Iran

(2) oil supplies and British oil companies

(3) James Callaghan’s [British Prime Minister] meeting with Kenneth Kaunda [President of Zambia]

(4) South African economy and possible sanctions

(5) China

Contains notes and reports on Iran and events which eventually lead to the Revolution of 1979.

Largely contains notes and reports on the Iranian revolution including him travelling back from Paris to Tehran with the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini.

With additional notes on Libya and oil supply.

There is a sticker with an image of Ruhollah Khomeini on the front cover.

Contents list on the inside front cover reads:

(1) Queen’s Gulf tour

(2) Britain’s EEC contribution

(3) EEC Summit, Paris

(4) Murder of British Ambassador to Holland

(5) CAP / EEC budget

There are also notes about negotiations between America and Russia which led to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II) treaty, signed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in Vienna on 18 June 1979

Contains notes and reports on:

(1) Libya and the introduction of its Jamahiriya (state of the masses) governance structure

(2) G7 summit in Tokyo

(3) negotiations between America and Russia which led to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II) treaty, signed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in Vienna on 18 June 1979

(4) energy supply

Contents list on the inside front cover reads:

(1) Foreign Office briefings on Rhodesia

(2) Foreign Office briefings on Vietnam

(3) South African Finance Minister in London

(4) Muzorewa in London

(5) Salisbury trip (18 Jul – 28 Jul)

(6) Lusaka trip (28 Jul – 8 Aug)

Contents list on the inside front cover reads:

(1) Non-Aligned in Cuba

(2) East Germany’s 30th anniversary

Contents list on the inside front cover reads:

(1) Chairman Hua Guofeng’s visit to Britain

(2) Moscow – October Revolution celebrations

While reporting from Northern Iraq in the 2003 Iraq war, John Simpson was injured in a friendly fire incident when a U.S. warplane bombed the convoy of American and Kurdish forces he was with. The attack was caught on film: a member of Simpson's crew was killed and he himself was left deaf in one ear.

John Simpson was one of the first reporters to enter Afghanistan in 2001 disguising himself by wearing a burqa.

John Simpson wore this when he was working undercover in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe.

Originally in a box file containing:

(1) A file covering his time as BBC Political Editor, file dates: 22 August 1980 – 20 October 1981

It includes:

(i) letters about internal politics between different sections of BBC News

(ii) a letter of resignation over the fact that he had authorised a story predicting that James Callaghan would step down as leader of the Labour Party but that he would not be doing so, 15 Oct 1980

(iii) feedback on reports on the 9 o’clock News and ‘Yesterday in Parliament’

(iv) fan mail asking for signed photos and also letters complaining about some aspect of his reporting such as referring to the leaders of the SDP as ‘the gang of three’

(v) letters informing his manager about the upcoming publishing date for his novel ‘Moscow Requiem’

(vi) a handwritten article for the Spectator called ‘The Myth of Innocence’

(2) BBC Appointments Diary 1983

(3) address book of contacts arranged under country headings

(4) organisational chart for BBC News

(5) Mulberry Planner:

(i) handwritten notes from March 1988 to 31 August 1988

(ii) diary entries from 11 April 1988 to 24 April 1988 [rest of the pages are blank]

File contains the following index:

Arms control, summit preview
Hillsborough agreement
Geneva Summit
General
EEC Summit, Luxembourg
Paris (Bokassa, UNESCO, Xmas)
General
Nigerian foreign minister’s visit
Libyan confrontation with U.S.
Soviet briefing, disarmament
Channel Tunnel agreement
Jimmy Carter in London
FO briefing on Iran
Bahai briefing
Shcharansky exchange
French elections
Qadafy confronts US
Benazir Bhutto visits Bradford
French Guillaume, French Agriculture Minister
US bombs Libya
Waldheim election in Austria

File containing:

(1) typed ‘General conclusions’ after a three month trip travelling in Afghanistan

(2) selected contacts for covering Afghan Affairs produced by the American Centre in Peshwar (revised Sept 1987 and revised 25 Jan 1989)

(3) map of Afghanistan and photocopies of maps of regions

(4) (4) photocopy of photos and names of some political figures

(5) summaries on Afghan Resistance Factions

(6) a ‘Whose who’ of resistance leaders

(7) a list of artillery and who is likely to have it

(8) photocopies of articles about Afghanistan and the Soviet withdrawal

(9) Afghan tapes transcripts

(10) photocopies of Simpson’s notebooks on his trip to Afghanistan

Notebook called 'The Collapse of Marxism-Leninism in Eastern Europe and China'.

Notebook containing notes on the Panorama programme: Romania: the last revolution of 1989.

Notebook for a documentary on Czechoslovakia called ‘Czech-Mate’,

This was a 50 minute documentary produced shortly after the historic 1989 Velvet Revolution, capturing the monumental fall of communism in Czechoslovakia.

(1) Notes for a documentary on the International Committee of the Red Cross, September 1997.

‘Crossing the Lines’, was a BBC documentary series broadcast in May 1998 that examined the history, neutrality, and controversial decisions of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

(2) Notebook containing notes on the I.C.R.C.