Anthony Sampson Project

Following on from the Bodleian’s 2011 Seminar Series: Authorship, Memory & Manuscripts and the information session of 14 February 2011, where archivists Chrissie Webb and Catherine Parker spoke about the papers of Anthony Sampson (1926-2004), herewith some details of the Sampson Project which is now complete.

Reproduced by kind permission of Methuen Publishing Ltd.

The Sampson Project catalogued the archive of Anthony Sampson, a journalist and writer. The collection reflects Sampson’s interests in South Africa and the anti-apartheid movement, politics, business and publishing, with a list of correspondents including some of the most famous names in 20th-century Britain and elsewhere.

Anthony Sampson (1926-2004) was an influential writer and journalist. He began his career in journalism in South Africa in 1951, editing the black magazine, Drum. There he met Nelson Mandela as the ANC was preparing for its Defiance Campaign against apartheid. On his return to England in 1955 he joined the Observer and published his first book, Drum: A Venture into the New Africa (1956). The work for which he is probably best known, Anatomy of Britain, an investigation of the workings of power in Britain, published in 1962, was an immediate success and was updated five times between 1965 and 2004. > More

> Catalogue of the papers of Anthony Sampson, c.1930-2011

> Selected images of the Sampson papers

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