Transcripts of interview with Baronness Brenda Dean and Bill O'Neill; revised versions of 'Copy Out!'

In July 2010 Baroness Brenda Dean and Bill O’Neill met for a discussion and recorded interview at a hotel in Heathrow. This collection consists of transcripts of the discussion and two photographs. The original recordings are held at the Bishopsgate Institute as digital files and these copies were deposited for access.

Additional digital and updated versions of 'Copy Out!', Bill O'Neill's memoirs were deposited in 2018 at Acc.1256.

Bill O'Neill worked for News International and was the chief negotiator on behalf of Rupert Murdoch in the dispute with the print unions over the move from Fleet St. to Wapping in 1985-1986. Brenda Dean became the General Secretary of SOGAT in 1984.

This collection is available to researchers by appointment at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. See https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/using/

Link to full catalogue: https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/WAP

Copyright remains with the participants. For details contact Bishopsgate Institute.

A copy of Bill O'Neill's memoirs 'Copy Out' is held in the searchroom and updated versions are held digitally. The papers of Baroness Dean are held in MRC as well as the papers of Billy Osborne, FoC and a participant in the dispute. Other Wapping dispute papers are held in other collections.