1980s Documents
Archive documents, including minutes of internal BBC meetings, provide a unique view of the issues of the day and how they were covered.
Effect of BBC Coverage
Minutes, Managing Director TV meeting, November 1980.
Hunger Strikes
BBC Northern Ireland Advisory Council Minutes, November 1980
Radio Foyle Damaged
Radio Foyle damaged by bomb blast - BBC Northern Ireland Advisory Council Minutes, June 1980
An International Story
An International Story - Controller's Report - BBC Northern Ireland Advisory Council Minutes, June 1981
What Price Free Speech?
Richard Francis, Director, News and Current Affairs, BBC 1982.
Real Lives
BBC Northern Ireland Broadcasting Council Minutes, September 1985.
Board of Governors
BBC Board of Governors Meeting, July 1985
Editorial Independence
John Conway, Editor News and Current Affairs, BBC Northern Ireland. Report to Broadcasting Council Northern Ireland Minutes, January 1988.
NIO Video
Controller's nine points not for showing the NIO Video, January 1988.
BBC News Principles
BBC Broadcasting Council Northern Ireland Minutes, March 1988.
Gibraltar Killings
Spotlight on Gibraltar Killings - BBC Broadcasting Council Northern Ireland Minutes, May 1988.
The Broadcasting Ban
Broadcasting Council Northern Ireland Minutes, October 1988.
Reporting Violence
Lessons from Northern Ireland - A speech given by James Hawthorne Controller, BBCNI to the Edinburgh International radio Festival at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, 21st August 1981.
Television - the evil eye?
A speech given by Richard Francis, Director News and Current Affairs, BBC to the Royal Television Society in London, Tuesday 14th July 1981.
Tip-toeing in the Minefield
A University of Ulster Convocation Lecture given by Dr Colin Morris, Controller BBC Northern Ireland 1988.
Election Coverage
Broadcasting Council Northern Ireland Minutes, January 1986.
Broadcasting Ban
Practicality and Effect - Broadcasting Council Northern Ireland Minutes, October 1988.
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