Series[UMA-SRE-20170028] HONORIS CAUSA AND RECOGNITIONAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2017002800037Scope and ContentContains: Minutes, papers and correspondence of the June 20 Group, established as an informal discussion group of writers and intellectuals by Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser "to stem the rising tide of Thatcherite brutalism" by uniting the Left. The first meeting was held on 20 June 1988 at the Pinter home and Greer was a founder member. Pinter and Fraser left the group, 27/4/1989, but the group continued be convened by Penny Mortimer, usually meeting at the Groucho Club. The folder contains minutes to 23/10/1991 which appears to have been the last meeting and the group appears to have been wound up in mid 1992, following the 1992 election, which returned the Thatcher government. During its existence meetings were addressed by eminent speakers on a range of issues. Topics of discussion included Charter 88, an anti Thatcher manifesto; Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses; censorship; civil liberties; the Gulf War; the international Left; the environment; the British Labour Party. Folder includes press clippings on the group and its direction. Correspondents: Germaine Greer; Quita Mould (for Germaine Greer); Penny Mortimer; Harold Pinter; Antonia Fraser; John Mortimer; Tony Flower; Neil Kinnock, Leader of the Opposition; Subjects: Thatcherism; Censorship; Human rights; Great Britain--Politics and government; Labour Party (Great Britain); Persian Gulf War (1991)Access StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2017.0028 Unit 0003
Greer, Germaine, June 20 Group (23 April 1988-11 May 1992), [UMA-ITE-2017002800037]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 16/04/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/441017
