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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.

Covers:

(1) issues discussed at the Rambouillet Summit which was organised by the French President Valéry Giscard d'Hosting including economic interdependence

(2) the Beilen and Amsterdam hostage crises. South Moluccan youths in the Netherlands hijacked a passenger train near Beilen and seized the Indonesian Consulate in Amsterdam. Four people died before the captors surrendered

(3) international economic negotiations

(4) Defence

Notes on India.

Contents list on the first page reads:

(1) London, Jerusalem, and Cairo

(2) Amman

Notes on interviews with people about the situation in Itaq.

Notes on the situation in Amman and Jerusalem.

Included loose are:

(1) a postcard from Fink’s Bar, King George Avenue, Jerusalem
(2) a leaflet with the slogan ‘You can tell a man by the company he keep. Arafat and his blood brothers’

Notebook describing the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales in London on 6 September 1997. Contains some loose sheets including a timetable for the procession and service.

Notes on the French elections.

Notebook called 'Former Yugoslavia'.

Contents list on the inside front cover reads:

Includes:

(1) Lancaster House talks end

(2) Russians invade Afghanistan

(3) Carrington visits Turkey / Oman [Sir Peter Carrington, British Foreign Secretary]

(4) Saudi Arabia / Pakistan / India

Includes:

(1) Prime Ministers Questions

(2) Chancellor Kohl [Chancellor of West Germany]

(3) Ariel Shanon [as the Israeli Minister of Defence he directed the 1982 Lebanon War

(4) arrival in Britain of the first US ground-launched cruise missiles, 14 November 1983

(5) Poland

(6) Romania

(7) EEC and Britain’s budget refund

(8) Israeli settlements in the West Bank

Notes, questions, and drafts of reports on various foreign affairs including:

(1) sovereignty of the Falkland Islands

(2) elections to the European Parliament

(3) The Fontainebleau Summit in June at which Margaret Thatcher secured a British budgetary rebate

(4) hijacking of Air France plane to Tehran

(5) Northern Ireland

(6) 40th anniversary of the liberation of Paris and the D Day Landings

Contents list on the inside front cover reads:

(1) European Parliament election, West Germany

(2) World Economic Summit, London

(3) European Parliamentary elections 2

Contents list on the inside front cover reads:

(1) anarchists in Venice

(2) Verdun ceremony

(3) Paris – Raúl Alfonsin visit [President of Argentina, 1983 – 1989]

(4) François Mitterrand in London [President of France, 1981-1985]

(5) Nicaragua

(6) Paris – Mrs Thatcher’s visit

Notes, questions, and drafts of reports on various foreign affairs including:

(1) Mikhail Gorbachev’s visit to Britain [last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the country's dissolution in 1991

(2) Chile

(3) negotiations between the USA and the Soviet Union to ease Cold War tensions (George Schultz, the US Secretary of State and Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs)

(4) British / German relations

(5) notes on the book Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi, a non-fiction biographical book by investigative journalist Bob Woodward detailing the meteoric rise and tragic drug-related death of comedian and Saturday Night Live star John Belushi at the age 33

(6) the murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher and the breakdown of diplomatic relations between Britain and Libya

Includes notes on:

(1) Rudolph Hess in Spandau prison [Nazi war criminal] and Nazi Germany under Hitler

(2) hostile relations between the USA and Nicaragua

(3) trade talks involving George Schultz [USA Secretary of State]

(4) U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s visit to West Germany, Spain, France, and Portugal for the G7 summit and VE-Day anniversary

(5) five pages of quotes mainly from Shakespeare

(6) Andrei Gromyko’s [Soviet Foreign Minister] visit to Vienna to attend the 30th-anniversary celebrations of the 1955 Austrian State Treaty. During the visit, he held talks with George Shultz

Contents list on the inside front cover reads:

Includes:

(1) Milan summit

(2) Hitler diaries trial ends

(3) Luxembourg

(4) Geoffrey Howe’s [British Foreign Secretary, 1983-1989] visit to Lagos

(5) expulsion of Soviet Diplomats

(6) Bahamas

Contents list on the inside front cover reads:

(1) China notes

(2) Madrid EC summit, 26 June 1989

(3) George Bush visit to Budapest, 11-13 July 1989

(4) G-7 summit, Paris 13 July 1989

Notebook containing notes and reports on:

(1) Hungary, 21-24 Nov 1999

(2) Pakistan, 25-26 Nov 1999

(3) Afghanistan, 26 Nov - 4 Dec

(4) Christmas Island / Millennium Island, 3 Dec 1999

(5), San Francisco / Seattle, Jan 2000

(6) Germany, Feb 2000

Includes loose:
(1) 2 page report by Simpson on the future of BBC news and whether it should become more like News 24 and News Online
(2) Hope-X Overview from NASDA

Notebook containing notes and reports on:

(1) Opening of the trial of Saddam Hussein, Oct 2005

(2) violence in France, Nov 2005

(3) interviews with Philippe Douste-Blazy, French Foreign minister, Nov 2005

(4) Baghdad: trial continues, Nov-Dec 2005

(5) BBC Iraq poll, Dec 2005

(6) Iraqi parliamentary elections, Dece 2005

Notebook containing notes and reports on:

(1) Peru, 29 May - 4 Jun

(2) Belgrade, 22-23 Jul

(3) Beijing, 2-6 Aug

(4) Kabul, 15-30 Sept

(5) Samuel Franklin Cody centenary, 1-16 Oct. In 1908 he achieved the first official, powered, sustained flight in Great Britain at Farnborough. He survived a crash at the end of that historic 27-second flight. He was John Simpson's great grandfather.

Notebook containing notes and reports on:

(1) Afghan Presidential election, 15-24 Aug

(2) anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, 8-14 Sept

(3) anniversary of the Chinese Revolution, 25 Sept-1 Oct

(4) Prague (Czech Republic), Oct 2010

(5) Kabul (Afghanistan), Nov 2010

(6) Bucharest (Romania), Dec

(7) Kabul (Afghanistan), Jan 2010

(8) Iraq, Mar 2010

(9) Chongqing (China), Apr 2010

(10) Kampala (Uganda), May 2011

(11) Seoul (South Korea), May 2011

(12) Islamabad and Peshawar (Pakistan), Jun 2011

Notebook containing notes and draft reports on:

(1) François Hollande [French President, 2012-2017] at King's College, London, 29 February

(2) Iranian election, 2 March

(3) Moscow, 4 March

(4) massacre in southern Afghanistan by the Americans, 12 March

(5) Bo Xilai deposed

(6) Argentina, March

(7) Kabul, Afghanistan, September

(8) Erbil and Halabjeh, Iraq, October

Contents on the first page reads:

(1) China / US election, Nov 2012

(2) Hong Kong, Nov 2012

(3) creating Editor's programme, Nov 2012

(4) South Africa - ANC vote, Dec 2012

(5) establishing 'Editors', Jan 2013

(6) Tripoli - 'Panorama' recce, Jan 2013

(7) setting up 'Editors', Feb 2013

(8) 10th anniversary of Iraq invasion, Feb 2013

(9) Baghdad - 'Eds' and 10.00, Mar 2013

Notebooks containing notes, questions, and draft reports on:

(1) China

(2) Syria and Bashar Hafez al-Assad [President of Syria, 2000 - overthrow in 2024]

(3) Beirut for 'The Editors' [TV programme]

(4) investigation into how Yasser Arafat was murdered [possible poisoning by polonium]

(5) Beijing, China

(6) funeral of Nelson Mandela

(7) Passendale and the First World War

(7) Kabul, Afghanistan

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

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) Falklands crisis

(2) Montevideo etc