Subseries 3 - John Simpson: Journalist Notebooks - 1990s

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MCPP/JS/1/3

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John Simpson: Journalist Notebooks - 1990s

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  • 1990-1999 (Creation)

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71 volumes, paper

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Name of creator

Simpson, John Cody Fidler (1944-present), journalist, foreign correspondent and Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
(9 August 1944 - present)

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71 notebooks in which John Simpson wrote questions and answers, notes on briefings, and interviews covering domestic and foreign policy. The subject areas covered are:

East German elections
Moscow
Iraq
Romania
Iran
Soviet Union
Gulf crisis
Baghdad
German reunification
Downfall of Mrs Thatcher and the Conservative leadership election
Amman
Jerusalem
Middle east peace talks
India
UNCED summit
Colombia
Peru
Central Asia
Maastricht Treaty
Siege of Sarajevo
Cuba
French elections
Russian referendum
Angola
Israel, West Bank, Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan
South African elections
Yasser Arafat's return
Anniversaries of the 1989 revolutions
Mexico
Former Yugoslavia
Somalia
China
Iranian elections
Albania, Belarus, France, Britain, USA
Funeral of Princess Diana
Turkey
Japan
Hong Kong

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Please note that the notebooks may be closed due to Data Protection considerations

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