Editing Jeffrey Archer (section)

==Early career==
After leaving Oxford, Archer continued as a charity fundraiser, initially working for the National Birthday Trust,<ref name=Blackhurst>{{cite news|last1=Blackhurst|first1=Chris|title=Archer's fall: His was a life built on fiction. But in the final chapter, the facts caught up with him|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/archers-fall-his-was-a-life-built-on-fiction-but-in-the-final-chapter-the-facts-caught-up-with-him-9245305.html|access-date=22 December 2015|work=The Independent|date=19 July 2001|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223080220/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/archers-fall-his-was-a-life-built-on-fiction-but-in-the-final-chapter-the-facts-caught-up-with-him-9245305.html|archive-date=23 December 2015}}</ref> a medical charity that promoted safe childbirth, before joining the [[United Nations Association UK|United Nations Association]] (UNA) as its chief fundraiser. The then chairman of the UNA, [[Humphry Berkeley]], alleged that there were numerous discrepancies in Archer's expense claims while he worked at the UNA.<ref name="Kelso"/><ref name=Watkins>{{cite news|last1=Watkins|first1=Alan|title=A charming fraud. Without the charm|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/alan-watkins/alan-watkins-a-charming-fraud-without-the-charm-9215780.html|access-date=22 December 2015|work=The Telegraph|date=21 July 2001|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223072147/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/alan-watkins/alan-watkins-a-charming-fraud-without-the-charm-9215780.html|archive-date=23 December 2015}}</ref>

Around this time, Archer began a career in politics, serving as a Conservative councillor for [[Havering (electoral division)|Havering]] on the [[Greater London Council]] (1967–1970).<ref name=Jeffrey/>

Archer set up his own fundraising and public relations company, Arrow Enterprises, in 1969.<ref name=theindependent>{{cite news|last1=Boggan|first1=Steve|last2=Lashmar|first2=Paul|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-accused-jeffrey-archer-the-accusation-perjury-and-a-highly-suspicious-coincidence-698984.html|title=The accused: Jeffrey Archer. The accusation: Perjury (and a highly suspicious coincidence)|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=27 September 2000|access-date=9 December 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220180607/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-accused-jeffrey-archer-the-accusation-perjury-and-a-highly-suspicious-coincidence-698984.html|archive-date=20 December 2013}}</ref> That same year he opened an art gallery, the Archer Gallery, in [[Mayfair]]. The gallery specialised in modern art, including pieces by the sculptor and painter [[Leon Underwood]]. The gallery ultimately lost money, however, and Archer sold it two years later.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.famousauthors.org/jeffrey-archer|title=Famous Authors: Jeffrey Archer|publisher=famousauthors.org|access-date=9 December 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140212222820/http://www.famousauthors.org/jeffrey-archer|archive-date=12 February 2014}}</ref>