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67 Feb 20 Mo	Press	Major	Scott-Smith (Giles)	US visit: Giles Scott-Smith article on MT's 1967 US tour (20 Feb-31 Mar)
74 Oct 16 We	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Conservatism: "Tories must look before they leap into line behind a new leader" (Bernard Levin) [Conservative leadership candidates]
75 Apr 9 We	Press	Major	Thatcher memoirs	Cold War: Early meeting with Ronald Reagan [memoirs extract]
80 Feb 22 Fr	Press	Major	Archive (Hayek MSS)	Conservatism: Eric Heffer speech ("Tory leaders are no hypocrites, Mr Heffer says") [clash between "wets" and "dries"]
80 May 7 We	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Steel: "Threatened revolt over steel chief collapses" (meeting between Joseph and Conservative backbench committee regarding Ian MacGregor appointment)
80 Dec 1 Mo	Press	Key	Commentary (The Times)	Conservativsm: “Lord Vaizey’s change of party” (announces conversion from Labour to Conservative)
81 Mar 5 Th	Press	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	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Budget: "Economists criticize Government" (Hayek & Friedman on BBC Panorama ) [blaming wets]
81 Mar 10 Tu	Press	Key	Thatcher memoirs	Economy: The 1981 budget [memoirs extract]
81 Mar 12 Th	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Budget: "Chancellor Under Savage Attack from All Quarters" [response to Budget] [released 2012]
81 Mar 13 Fr	Press	Major	Commentary (The Sun)	Budget: "'Cabinet Men Warn on Budget" (7 rebel ministers) [Whitelaw, Carrington, Pym, Prior, Walker, Gilmour & Soames]
81 Mar 16 Mo	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Budget: "Advice and consent" (Hayek letter) [does not act as an adviser "on particular decisions"]
81 Sep 15 Tu	Press	Key	Commentary (The Times)	Conservative Party: "Three Cabinet ministers sacked" (reshuffle) [purging the wets]
81 Oct 13 Tu	Press	Minor	Commentary (The Times)	Conservative Party: "'Blue Chips' to aid party in Croydon" (all 14 to visit) [demonstration of loyalty]
81 Oct 15 Th	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Economy: "Impassioned plea by Heath gets short shrift from Tories" (attacks government at party conference)
81 Nov 19 Th	Press	Minor	Commentary (The Times)	MT: "Thatcher drops a few names" (lunchtime speech in Bonn goes wrong) [officials cause her embarrassment]
81 Nov 28 Sa	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	SDP: "Heath hints he might join a Tory-SDP coalition" ("There might be invitations ... which might be acceptable")
81 Dec 3 Th	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Conservative Party: "Heath scorns the 'pretence' of monetarism" (speech) [no intellectual basis]
81 Dec 7 Mo	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	SDP-Liberal Alliance: "Steel tells of talks with troubled senior Tories" (dissident Conservatives including junior ministers) [plus Gilmour attack]
81 Dec 9 We	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Economy: "Howe attacked from all sides" (debate on Autumn Statement) [14 Conservative abstentions]
82 Mar 11 Th	Press	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]
82 Mar 21 Su	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	“Whitelaw faces sack over crime” [difficult week ahead; MPs believe he will eventually be fired due to row over rising crime rates in Britain]
82 Mar 24 We	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	“Victorious Whitelaw gains his reward” [PM's endorsement of Whitelaw record in face of party criticism]
82 Mar 28 Su	Press	Major	Commentary (The Sunday Times)	“Wily Willie” [critics won over]
82 Apr 7 We	Press	Major	Archive (Haig MSS)	Falklands: Reuters reports (1159Z) ("Falklands Mediation") [British officials ruled out US mediation unless Argentine troops withdrew first] [this copy released Mar 1993]
82 Apr 8 Th	Press	Minor	Archive (Haig MSS)	Falklands: USICA news summary (Haig Mission) ["key to any US role in Falklands"] [this copy released Mar 1993]
82 Apr 12 Mo	Press	Major	Commentary (the Sun)	Falklands: "Peace is in the air" ("Argentina will pull out in Haig plan")
82 Apr 12 Mo	Press	Major	Archive (Haig MSS)	Falklands: "Argentines Taking a Pessimistic View on Falklands Crisis" (transcript of New York Times article based on briefing from Buenos Aires) ["This article read in London on 4/12/82 almost had AMH (Haig) abandon efforts & blame the Argentines for the failure"] [this copy released Mar 1993]
82 Apr 12 Mo	Press	Major	Commentary (UPI)	Falklands: "Haig presses diplomatic shuttle on Falklands crisis" (c1745Z) (account of Haig's day in London; proposals developed in Buenos Aires)
82 Apr 13 Tu	Press	Major	Commentary (The Sun)	Falklands: "No Deal!" [talks collapse after 11 hours of talks; "Britain's 'No deal' answer"] [this copy released 2013]
82 Jun 1 Tu	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	“Foot sides with Pym on British commitment” [speech at Cooperative Congress]
82 Sep 26 Su	Press	Minor	Commentary (The Observer)	China: Clive James articles ("Mrs T. in China") [account of MT's visits to China & Hong Kong]
82 Dec 16 Th	Press	Major	Shultz (George)	Cold War: The “Special Relationship” (Shultz memoirs)
83 Apr 4 Mo	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Reshuffle: “Shadow of the axe over Whitelaw and Pym” (inspired post-election reshuffle speculation)
83 Jul 8 Fr	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Economic policy: "Spending cuts hit NHS and defence" ["package of £500m in expenditure cuts in the current financial year"]
83 Sep 8 Th	Press	Key	Thatcher memoirs	Cold War: Chequers Seminar on future of the Soviet Union [memoirs extract]
83 Sep 12 Mo	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Economic policy: "Lawson seeks public debate on spending" ["the Treasury must lead a more open debate on the prospects for public spending and taxation"]
83 Sep 29 Th	Press	Key	Thatcher memoirs	Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting in Washington (record of conversation) [memoirs extract]
83 Oct 6 Th	Press	Key	Commentary (The Times)	Cecil Parkinson: "'Parkinson admits love affair" (Parkinson admits relationship with Sarah Keays)
83 Oct 10 Mo	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Cecil Parkinson: "Chance of Parkinson survival dwindles" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays)
83 Oct 11 Tu	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Cecil Parkinson: "Parkinson's affair cost him Foreign Secretary's post" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays)
83 Oct 25 Tu	Press	Major	Shultz (George)	Cold War: US disappointment at MT’s line over Grenada (Shultz memoirs)
84 Jan 14 Sa	Press	Minor	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: "Scargill in clash on impact of ban" [Scargill and MacGregor disagree on effects of overtime ban]
84 Apr 5 Th	Press	Major	Commentary Financial Times)	MT: “Thatcher considers MSC chairman for Downing Street role” (David Young) [“suggestion of strengthening the Prime Minister’s office has [been] revived … following criticisms within the Conservative Party”]
84 Apr 10 Tu	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Thatcher endorses police conduct in miners’ dispute” [Thatcher praises police]
84 May 2 We	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Media: “Sherman view on loyalties” [“better for an adviser to face political death than ‘to be drawn into competition in courtiership and sycophancy’”] [annotated text released 2014]
84 May 11 Fr	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Scargill dispute halts paper” [editions of Daily Expressed not published due to inter-union dispute]
84 May 11 Fr	Press	Minor	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: "Scargill dispute halts paper" [quarrel between journalist unions stops Express going to print]
84 May 12 Sa	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Thatcher prepared for long strike” [MT emphasizes to conference long strike plans, rejects 8 week claims]
84 May 13 Su	Press	Major	Commentary (The Sun)	Coal: “Punch up at pit rally” [arrests made at rally]
84 May 15 Tu	Press	Minor	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: "20,000 in miners' protest march" [strikers gather in Mansfield for a mass demonstration]
84 May 18 Fr	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Thatcher defends decision of NCB to import coke” [Defends NCB importing 175,000 tonnes of coal from US]
84 May 30 We	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Thatcher had secret plan to handle strike” [Government had plans for strike three years ago]
84 Jun 1 Fr	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Thatcher sees no early settlement” [Thatcher sees no prospect of settlement; insists she will not intervene]
84 Jun 20 We	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Thatcher refuses to yield over Orgreave mob” [criticises mob violence at Orgreave]
84 Jul 9 Mo	Press	Major	Commentary (The Sun)	Coal: “Is Arthur cracking up” [Ian MacGregor said he is worried about Scargill’s mental health]
84 Jul 14 Sa	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “NUM faces more legal action” [NUM faces legal action over plans to introduce “courts” for rebel action]
84 Jul 15 Su	Press	Major	Commentary (Sunday Times)	Coal: "What drives Arthur Scargill?" [Andrew Stephen probes Scargill's background and philosophy]
84 Jul 20 Fr	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Thatcher makes Falklands link - Attack on enemy within” [coverage of “enemy within&rdquo speech]
84 Jul 30 Mo	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Unions seek TUC campaign to defeat Thatcher” [industrial action campaign proposed to bring down government]
84 Aug 3 Fr	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Thatcher softens tone on mines” [PM sees no reason for strike continuing; inflation expected to reduce once ended]
84 Aug 3 Fr	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Thatcher postpones Far East trip to tackle strike crisis” [PM postpones trip]
84 Aug 9 Th	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Union coordinated picket violence, says police chief” [police blames NUM for violence]
84 Sep 9 Su	Press	Major	Commentary (The News of the World)	Coal: "David Owen: We cannot cave in to Scargill"
84 Sep 20 Th	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Thatcher would let coal strike last a year or longer” [government prepared for long strike]
84 Sep 28 Fr	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Labour offers new peace fomula to end coal strike” [Labour peace initiative]
84 Oct 2 Tu	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: "Scargill wins support for attacks on 'state violence against miners'" [Scargill attacks the policing of NUM pickets, while Eric Hammond is booed for criticising the lack of an NUM ballot before the strike]
84 Oct 12 Fr	Press	Key	Thatcher memoirs	Northern Ireland: The Brighton Bomb [memoirs extract]
84 Oct 12 Fr	Press	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Brighton Bomb: “To Kill the Cabinet” (“The story behind the Grand Hotel bombing”) [Brighton Evening Argus 40 page supplement]
84 Oct 13 Sa	Press	Major	Commentary (Financial Times)	Brighton Bomb: (“IRA bomb kills 3 at Brighton”) [“A sombre closing of Tory ranks”]
84 Oct 18 Th	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Thatcher “no surrender” message on miners” [PM insists will not surrender]
84 Oct 24 We	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Thatcher riled by hit list talk” [MT annoyed by Kinnock asking whether she had a hit list of pits to close]
84 Nov 15 Th	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Give miners their say, Labour urges Scargill” [Labour front-bench support for consulting NUM members]
84 Nov 16 Fr	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Kinnock's “lack of guts” attacked by Thatcher” [MT criticises Kinnock]
84 Nov 27 Tu	Press	Major	Commentary (The Sun)	Coal: “Scargill “the tyrant who hates democracy ”” [Thatcher and Brittan link Scargill with terrorists]
84 Dec 1 Sa	Press	Major	Commentary (The Sun)	Coal: “Scargill: we are deeply shocked” [Scargill shocked over killing of taxi driver; dissociates union with violence]
84 Dec 16 Su	Press	Key	Thatcher memoirs	Cold War: The Gorbachevs visit Chequers [memoirs extract]
84 Dec 22 Sa	Press	Key	Shultz (George)	Cold War: MT’s visit to Camp David (Shultz memoirs)
84 Dec 22 Sa	Press	Key	Thatcher memoirs	Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting at Camp David (account of conversation) [memoirs extract]
85 Jan 4 Fr	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “NCB confident of big return soon; Churches put pits plan to Thatcher” [NCB expect number of working and striking miners to balance out soon; Welsh churches write to MT]
85 Jan 8 Tu	Press	Major	Commentary (The Sun)	Coal: “The amazing family trees of Arthur and Maggie” [Scargill descended from nobility, Thatcher from labourers]
85 Jan 23 We	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Coal board presses for talks as Thatcher and Kinnock clash on pit strike” [negotiations break down]
85 Jan 25 Fr	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Thatcher demands straight answer on pit closures” [MT insists on Scargill’s surrender]
85 Jan 25 Fr	Press	Major	Commentary (The Sun)	Coal: “Maggie moves in for the kill” [“We want Scargill’s guarantee in writing”]
85 Jan 25 Fr	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Oxford: “Oxford dons split over award to Thatcher” (statements for & against in University Gazette )
85 Jan 26 Sa	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “NUM and coal board agree on “talks about talks”” [talks to continue]
85 Jan 31 Th	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Oxford: “Oxford rejection of Thatcher ‘spiteful’” (Soames & Gummer write to Noble)
85 Feb 2 Sa	Press	Major	Commentary (The Sun)	Coal: “NUM hints at “no deal”return ” [Scargill hints of possibility of end without deal]
85 Feb 2 Sa	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Oxford: “Implications of Oxford’s snub to Mrs Thatcher” (letters from Radice, Horne, Peele, Hayter, Dashwood & Opie)
85 Feb 8 Fr	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “NACODS agreement not in jeopardy” [MT insists NACODS/NCB agreement not at risk]
85 Feb 11 Mo	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Pit leaders accused of return to Luddism” [stron criticism of Scargill by Conservative chairman]
85 Feb 19 Tu	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Thatcher and TUC meet over 'gap'” [NCB insists there is a large gap in negotiations]
85 Mar 4 Mo	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Where Arthur doesn’t box clever” [Atkinson article]
85 Mar 4 Mo	Press	Major	Commentary (The Sun)	Coal: “Face of defeat” [Scargill caves in]
85 Mar 14 Th	Press	Major	Commentary (The Sun)	Cold War: “Mrs T meets Mr G!” (“One hour of talking opens way for US”) [Chernenko funeral]
85 Sep 3 Tu	Press	Major	Commentary (Sun)	Reshuffle: “Why I had to switch Leon, by Maggie” (not a demotion)
85 Oct 21 Mo	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	South Africa: “Thatcher refuses to budge over sanctions” [arguments at Nassau CHOGM]
85 Oct 22 Tu	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	South Africa: Summit accord on apartheid hailed as key step [outcome of Nassau CHOGM]
85 Dec 18 We	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Westland: “Heseltine throws down gauntlet on Westland deal” (“Brittan accused by critics of ‘misleading Commons’”) [Haviland & Bevins articles]
85 Dec 20 Fr	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Westland: “European bid fuels Westland battle” (European consortium plan to be published today)

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