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Add MS 88930
- Record Id:
- 032-000264550
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000264550
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x000060
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88930
- Title:
- Salman Rushdie campaign archive
- Scope & Content:
-
Correspondence, meeting minutes, press releases, notes, press cuttings, publications and other papers relating to the Salman Rushdie campaign group, which sought to raise public and political awareness of Rushdie's situation as he lived under a fatwa placed upon him by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on 14th February 1989.
The archive includes petitions, statements and letters pledging support to Rushdie and papers relating to the work of the International Committee for the Defence of Salman Rushdie and his Publishers.
Members of the campaign group included Caroline Michel, Matthew Evans (now Lord Evans), Richard and Ruth Rogers, Melvyn Bragg, Claire Peplow, Sara Rance and Salman Rushdie.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-000264550", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 88930: Salman Rushdie campaign archive" },{ "id" : "036-000341219", "parent" : "032-000264550", "text" : "Add MS 88930/1: Salman Rushdie campaign correspondence" },{ "id" : "037-000341283", "parent" : "036-000341219", "text" : "Add MS 88930/1/1-7: Incoming correspondence" },{ "id" : "038-000341287", "parent" : "037-000341283", "text" : "Add MS 88930/1/1-4: General correspondence" },{ "id" : "040-000341288", "parent" : "038-000341287", "text" : "Add MS 88930/1/1: General correspondence - September-October 1991" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000341293", "parent" : "038-000341287", "text" : "Add MS 88930/1/2: General correspondence - November 1991" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000341305", "parent" : "038-000341287", "text" : "Add MS 88930/1/3: General correspondence - December 1991- February 1992" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000341313", "parent" : "038-000341287", "text" : "Add MS 88930/1/4: General correspondence - undated" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000341286", "parent" : "037-000341283", "text" : "Add MS 88930/1/6: Letters from MPs" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000373721", "parent" : "037-000341283", "text" : "Add MS 88930/1/5: Dutch correspondence" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000373722", "parent" : "037-000341283", "text" : "Add MS 88930/1/7: Petitions of support for Salman Rushdie" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "037-000341284", "parent" : "036-000341219", "text" : "Add MS 88930/1/8-10: Outgoing correspondence" },{ "id" : "040-000373919", "parent" : "037-000341284", "text" : "Add MS 88930/1/8: General outgoing correspondence" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "038-000373923", "parent" : "037-000341284", "text" : "Add MS 88930/1/9-10: London International Literary Festival" },{ "id" : "040-000373924", "parent" : "038-000373923", "text" : "Add MS 88930/1/9: London International Literary Festival correspondence" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000374065", "parent" : "038-000373923", "text" : "Add MS 88930/1/10: London International Literary Festival" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "036-000374328", "parent" : "032-000264550", "text" : "Add MS 88930/2: Salman Rushdie campaign papers" },{ "id" : "037-000374360", "parent" : "036-000374328", "text" : "Add MS 88930/2/1-4: Campaign meeting minutes, agendas and notes" },{ "id" : "040-000374335", "parent" : "037-000374360", "text" : "Add MS 88930/2/1: Campaign meeting minutes, agendas and notes" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000374349", "parent" : "037-000374360", "text" : "Add MS 88930/2/2: Campaign meeting minutes, agendas and notes" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000374350", "parent" : "037-000374360", "text" : "Add MS 88930/2/3: Campaign meeting minutes, agendas and notes" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000374362", "parent" : "037-000374360", "text" : "Add MS 88930/2/4: Campaign meeting minutes, agendas and notes" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000374386", "parent" : "036-000374328", "text" : "Add MS 88930/2/5: International Committee for the Defence of Salman Rushdie and his Publishers" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000374390", "parent" : "036-000374328", "text" : "Add MS 88930/2/6: Salman Rushdie campaign speeches" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000374401", "parent" : "032-000264550", "text" : "Add MS 88930/4: Salman Rushdie campaign publications" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-000374402", "parent" : "032-000264550", "text" : "Add MS 88930/3: Salman Rushdie campaign press cuttings" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000264550
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 88930/1 : Salman Rushdie campaign correspondence
Add MS 88930/2 : Salman Rushdie campaign papers
Add MS 88930/4 : Salman Rushdie campaign publications
Add MS 88930/3 : Salman Rushdie campaign press cuttings
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- 032-000264550
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 18 folders
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Czech
Dutch
English
French
German
Italian - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1989
- End Date:
- 1992
- Date Range:
- 1 Jan 1989-23 Feb 1992
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former Internal References:
- Dep 10166
- Source of Acquisition:
- Presented by Lord and Lady Evans on 25 September 2003.
- Appraisal:
- A blank notebook and a set of empty gift bags originally included with papers now in Add MS 88930/2/4 have not been retained.
- Arrangement:
- British Library arrangement.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Rushdie, Ahmed Salman, Knight, novelist and essayist, b 1947
- Related Material:
-
The Salman Rushdie archive can be found at MARBL (Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library) at Emory University in Atlanta.