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| Date | Type | Value | Author/Source | Title |
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| 03 Jun 26 Th |  |
Key | Commentary (Daily Telegraph & BBC) | Obituary: Thatcher [Sir Denis] (1915-2003) |
| 03 Jun 27 Fr | |
Key | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | MT & DT: “Denis - a sound judge of men who chose a great woman” (Bill Deedes tribute) |
| 82 May 31 Mo | |
Key | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Falklands: Reagan phone call to Thatcher (urges ceasefire) |
| 75 Apr 9 We | |
Major | Thatcher memoirs | Cold War: Early meeting with Ronald Reagan [memoirs extract] |
| 82 Apr 2 Fr | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Falklands: Argentina invades the Falklands [memoirs extract] |
| 82 Apr 24 Sa | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Falklands: A crisis in the War Cabinet and the recapture of South Georgia [memoirs extract] |
| 82 May 2 Su | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Falklands: Decision to sink the Belgrano [memoirs extract] |
| 83 Sep 8 Th | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Cold War: Chequers Seminar on future of the Soviet Union [memoirs extract] |
| 83 Sep 29 Th | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting in Washington (record of conversation) [memoirs extract] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Grenada: Thatcher letter to Reagan ("deeply disturbed" at US plans) [memoirs extract] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Northern Ireland: The Brighton Bomb [memoirs extract] |
| 84 Dec 16 Su | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Cold War: The Gorbachevs visit Chequers [memoirs extract] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting at Camp David (account of conversation) [memoirs extract] |
| 90 Nov 20 Tu | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Falling from power: Hearing the result of the first ballot [memoirs extract] |
| 90 Nov 22 Th | |
Key | Thatcher memoirs | Falling from power: Cabinet overboard [memoirs extract] |
| 11 Jun 22 We |  |
Major | Agar (Jon) | MT: Jon Agar "Thatcher, Scientist" [study of MT’s scientific career & approach to science policy] |
| 80 Feb 22 Fr | |
Major | Archive (Hayek MSS) | Conservatism: Eric Heffer speech ("Tory leaders are no hypocrites, Mr Heffer says") [clash between "wets" and "dries"] |
| 07 Feb 21 We | |
Minor | Archive (Sir George Young) | MT: “Margaret Thatcher statue unveiled” (Sir George Young’s blog entry) |
| 82 Mar 11 Th | |
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: "Carlton Club celebrates with Thatcher as star" (MT unveils a portrait of herself at the Carlton Club) [released 2013] |
| 06 Mar 16 Th | |
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | IEA Seminar (25th anniversary of 1981 budget) [Andrew Alexander, Terry Burns, David Laws, Stephen Nickell, Michael Oliver & Geoffrey Wood] |
| 80 Jul 15 Tu | |
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Defence Open Government Document 80/23 ("The Future UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Force") [acquiring Trident] |
| 07 Sep 12 We | |
Major | Charles Powell | MT: Interview with Charles Powell (MT’s policy on Europe, East & West) |
| 98 Oct 1 Th | |
Minor | Collins (Christopher) | Editorial policy of site: Preface to Complete Public Statements of Margaret Thatcher, 1945-90 on CD-ROM (Oxford University Press, 1998) |
| 78 Jul 11 Tu | |
Major | Commentary ( The Times ) | EMS: “Treasury points out faults in ‘hurried’ currency proposals” (“sceptical to the point of contempt”) |
| 06 Aug 29 Tu | |
Trivial | Commentary (BBC) | MT: "Maggie rated best Prime Minister of 20th Century" (by BBC History Magazine ) |
| 79 May 4 Fr | |
Key | Commentary (Ronnie Millar memoirs) | General Election: “A View From The Wings” (how MT was persuaded to use St Francis’s prayer on the steps of Downing Street) |
| 04 Nov 6 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (ABC News & MSNBC) | Obituary: Reagan [Ronald] (ABC & MSNBC coverage of MT's role at funeral) |
| 90 Aug 3 Fr | |
Minor | Commentary (Boulder Daily Camera) | US: "Durgin recalls Margaret Thatcher's visit to Boulder" [2012 account of a 90 minute stop at National Center for Atmospheric Research] |
| 08 Apr 15 Tu | |
Minor | Commentary (Daily Mail) | Hailsham diary: "Night the PM was nearly kidnapped by Scottish students" (Alec Douglas-Home talked them out of it) |
| 88 Sep 21 We | |
Major | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | Europe: “Thatcher signals fight to stop EEC superstate” (Bruges speech) |
| 88 Sep 21 We | |
Major | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | Europe: “Riding roughshod over Continental hypocrisy” (Bruce Anderson on Bruges speech) |
| 88 Sep 22 Th | |
Major | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | Europe: “Untimely offensive” (leading article on Bruges speech) |
| 05 Oct 12 We | |
Major | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | MT at 80: “The mellowing of Margaret Thatcher” (Charles Moore profile) |
| 06 Mar 15 We | |
Major | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | Economy: "How 364 economists got it totally wrong" (25th anniversary of 1981 budget) |
| 08 Apr 14 Mo | |
Minor | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | Hailsham diary: "How Alec Douglas-Home foiled student kidnappers with beer" (1964 security breach) |
| 07 Feb 8 Th | |
Minor | Commentary (RAF News) | Cold War: “Freezing temperatures as Cold War Exhibition opens” [MT at RAF Cosford] |
| 93 Oct 3 Su | |
Key | Commentary (Scotland on Sunday) | Leadership elections: “Thatcher: The Inside Story” (George Younger’s recollections of 1989-90) |
| 86 Nov 16 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Cold War: "Thatcher wins Reagan pledge to sell Trident" (Camp David meeting) |
| 89 Nov 26 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Cold War: "Thatcher stands firm on boat people" (MT & Bush reported clash at Camp David) |
| 90 Aug 5 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Gulf War: "Rape of the Gulf" ( Insight account of Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) |
| 96 Sep 22 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Cold War: “Germany? Maggie was absolutely right” (Norman Stone on 1990 Chequers Germany seminar) |
| 05 Nov 20 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Falklands: “The Sphinx and the curious case of the Iron Lady’s H-bomb” (memoirs of Mitterrand’s psychoanalyst) |
| 06 Jan 1 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Conservatism: “Blair is fading away to a dubious place in history” (Portillo compares Blair & MT) |
| 06 Jan 29 Su | |
Minor | Commentary (Sunday Times) | MT: "Maxwell tried to get Thatcher to bail him out" (1990 MT meeting with Robert Maxwell) |
| 06 Mar 12 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Economy: "How Maggie beat the experts" (25th anniversary of 1981 budget) |
| 07 Sep 16 Su | |
Minor | Commentary (Sunday Times) | MT: “Tories must learn the lady is for turning to their advantage” (MT visits Gordon Brown at No.10) |
| 07 Sep 16 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | MT: “Rudy Giuliani mocks Hillary claim to be Iron Lady” (MT role in US presidential election) |
| 07 Nov 18 Su | |
Minor | Commentary (Sunday Times) | MT: “Saying adieu to their riotous past” (Sarkozy faces a ‘Thatcher moment’) |
| 08 Mar 8 Sa | |
Minor | Commentary (Sunday Times) | MT: "Baroness Thatcher expected to leave hospital today" (health scare) |
| 08 Mar 9 Su | |
Minor | Commentary (Sunday Times) | MT: Revived Margaret Thatcher leaves hospital (spend night in St. Thomas’s) |
| 09 Apr 5 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Northern Ireland: “Was Gerry Adams complicit over hunger strikes?” (newly released British documents) |
| 09 Apr 12 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Northern Ireland: “Why Adams sticks to his Maze myth” (newly released British documents) |
| 82 Sep 26 Su | |
Minor | Commentary (The Observer) | China: Clive James articles ("Mrs T. in China") [account of MT's visits to China & Hong Kong] |
| 81 Mar 13 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Sun) | Budget: "'Cabinet Men Warn on Budget" (7 rebel ministers) [Whitelaw, Carrington, Pym, Prior, Walker, Gilmour & Soames] |
| 07 Sep 29 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (The Sun) | Europe: “Be bold and let people decide” (MT message calling for referendum on EU Treaty) |
| 74 Jun 24 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Sir Keith Joseph says choice is to go down with socialism or prosper in a rational economy” (KJ speech at Upminster) |
| 74 Aug 9 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Another call from Sir Keith to free industry” (KJ speech at Leith) |
| 74 Sep 6 Fr | |
Key | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Sir Keith Joseph blames full employment policies for inflation” (Peter Jay on KJ speech at Preston - “Inflation is Caused by Governments”) |
| 74 Sep 6 Fr | |
Key | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “The Sharp Shock of Truth” (leading article on KJ speech at Preston) |
| 74 Oct 16 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "Tories must look before they leap into line behind a new leader" (Bernard Levin) [Conservative leadership candidates] |
| 74 Oct 21 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Sir Keith Joseph denies bid for Tory leadership as critics mount attack ” (KJ speech at Edgbaston) |
| 74 Oct 21 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “The Public Morality” (leading article on KJ speech at Edgbaston) |
| 77 May 9 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "The liberal teacher who turned his back on old age to lead world" (Seldon profile of Hayek) ["a liberal of the British classical tradition"] |
| 77 Jul 21 Th | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Trade union immunity under the law" (Hayek letter) [revoke privileges granted by Trade Disputes Act, 1906] |
| 77 Aug 2 Tu | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Trade union privileges" (Hayek letter) ["The trade unions, being politically sacrosanct, have been allowed to destroy the British economy"] |
| 77 Aug 20 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Trade union privileges" (Hayek letter) ["The trouble is that British trade unions refuse to accept the law which applies to everybody else"] |
| 77 Sep 14 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Tory leader denies split in party over closed shop" [Joseph-Prior spat over Grunwick] |
| 80 Feb 12 Tu | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "The balance between individual and state" (Gilmour's Cambridge Lecture) [Hayek's annotated copy] |
| 80 Feb 26 Tu | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: Leading Article "The Road to Hyper-Inflation is paved with good intentions" (Hayek's annotated copy) ["shoot-out at the Downing Street corral"] |
| 80 Mar 3 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Monetarism: a reply to the critics" (Friedman article) |
| 80 Mar 5 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Monetarism and hyper-inflation" (Hayek letter) |
| 80 Mar 18 Tu | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Free market" (Hayek letter defending Friedman) |
| 80 Mar 26 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "How to deal with inflation" (Hayek article) |
| 80 Mar 29 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Professor urges Chancellor to balance Budget now" (Hayek at IEA lunch) [wants "referendum to rescind every single [union] privilege"] |
| 80 May 7 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Steel: "Threatened revolt over steel chief collapses" (meeting between Joseph and Conservative backbench committee regarding Ian MacGregor appointment) |
| 80 May 31 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Testing time for monetarism" (Hayek letter) |
| 80 Jun 6 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “New moves over the Falklands” (Argentine Economy Minister meets MT & other British ministers) |
| 80 Jun 13 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "A testing time for monetarism" (Hayek letter) |
| 80 Nov 12 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "The Hayek cure: bigger and better bankruptcies" (Hayek interview) ["my hopes of Britain saving herself have shrunk a little"] |
| 80 Nov 18 Tu | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Minister’s visit to consult Falklands people” (Nick Ridley & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 24 Mo | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Argentine anger over Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 26 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Transfer of Falklands sovereignty proposed” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 27 Th | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Lord Carrington says Britain will honour wishes of Falklanders” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 28 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Britain puts forward four options on Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 28 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “An Option For The Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) [Third Leading Article] |
| 80 Dec 1 Mo | |
Key | Commentary (The Times) | Conservativsm: “Lord Vaizey’s change of party” (announces conversion from Labour to Conservative) |
| 80 Dec 1 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Abuse of union power 'main cause of jobless'" (Hayek paper for IEA) [unions "cannot understand they are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs"] |
| 80 Dec 3 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Commons is united by suspicion of Ridley intentions on Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) [minister badly mauled in Commons] |
| 81 Mar 5 Th | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Communists heckle Mrs Thatcher in church" (St Lawrence Jewry speech) [MT: "you see why I fight these people"] |
| 81 Mar 10 Tu | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Economists criticize Government" (Hayek & Friedman on BBC Panorama ) [blaming wets] |
| 81 Mar 11 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: Editorial: “The Chancellor’s Conundrum” ("appears to go on digging the hole still deeper") |
| 81 Mar 16 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Advice and consent" (Hayek letter) [does not act as an adviser "on particular decisions"] |
| 81 Apr 4 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Beating inflation key to recovery" (Hayek letter on the 364 economists) ["lost generation of British economists ... panicky mob"] |
| 81 Apr 4 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Beating inflation key to recovery" (Harris letter on the 364 economists) ["charge sheet of those responsible for ... economic decline"] |
| 81 Sep 15 Tu | |
Key | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Three Cabinet ministers sacked" (reshuffle) [purging the wets] |
| 81 Oct 7 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Heath blast at Thatcher's 'dreary path'" (Manchester speech) [MT rebuts] |
| 81 Oct 7 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Pathfinder for a Young Pretender" (leader on Heath's Manchester speech) [his views discounted] |
| 81 Oct 8 Th | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Invitation that did not come" (Heath letter correcting leader) [never invited to join MT's team] |
| 81 Oct 9 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "The Troubled Ranks of Tuscany" (leader on Changing Gear ) [party in "the early stages of demoralisation"] |
| 81 Oct 10 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Mrs Thatcher can't expect blind loyalty" (Chris Patten article) ["truth ... lies somewhere in the middle"] |
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