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78 May 3 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 202nd Meeting [agenda only]
78 May 4 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Adam Ridley on government spending plans)
78 May 8 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 203rd Meeting (manifesto discussion)
78 May 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Callaghan minute to Healey (consider wider role for SDRs as reserve currency) [declassified 2008]
78 May 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Crime: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (proposed KJ speech on press freedom) [encloses Bruce-Gardyne draft]
78 May 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (CPS)	Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies AGM minutes (third meeting) [purely formal]
78 May 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management Committee minutes (meeting) [Liberty Bookshop, KJ unemployment initiative, student seminars, publications]
78 May 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Italy: MT telegram to Italian PM Andreotti (murder of Aldo Moro) ["deeply shocked … share your grief and your resolve to continue the battle against terrorism"] [released 2003]
78 May 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (IEA MSS)	Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (thanks for Harris' piece on unemployment)
78 May 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 204th Meeting
78 May 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Italy: Italian PM Andreotti letter to MT (murder of Aldo Moro) ["sincere thanks for sharing in our grief"] [released 2003]
78 May 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Civil service: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (Leslie Chapman book) [could save hundreds of millions by third year of your government]
78 May 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 205th Meeting (manifesto discussion)
78 May 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Couzens note for No.10 on EMS (secret meetings in Paris with French & Germans) [declassified 2008]
78 May 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Press: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (attacks on MT) [“always ready ... to speak in your defence”]
78 May 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 206th Meeting
78 May 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	KJ Committee: Minutes of Meeting
78 May 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: MT letter to Du Cann (MPs' and Ministers' pay) [released 2010]
78 May 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Bonn Summit (David Owen minute to PM urges protectionism) [declassified 2008]
78 May 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Schulmann to Couzens (summary of Paris talks) [declassified 2008]
78 May 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	General Election: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (regional manifestoes) [“distance yourself”]
78 May 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 207th Meeting
78 May 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Strikes: George Cardona report to MT (inconclusive investigation of Ridley Report leak)
78 May 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: MT to Thorneycroft (Wolfson to replace Patten as LC Secretary)
78 May 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Strikes: “Tory views on unions embarrass leaders” (leak of Ridley Report)
78 May 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Bonn Summit (Hunt note on meeting of Sherpas) [declassified 2008]
78 May 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Couzens note for No.10 on EMS (secret meetings in Washington with French & Germans) [declassified 2008]
78 May 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Hayek MSS)	Conservatism: Arthur Seldon letter to Hayek ("Hobhouse Lecture") ["I am glad you were critical of the Conservatives. They need fortifying intellectually..."]
78 May 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: MT to The Times (Wolfson replacing Patten)
78 May 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Supply Days)
78 Jun 1 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Parliament: Parliamentary Private Secretaries list (names by department) [released 2017]
78 Jun 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Sherman memorandum to MT (“Stand by to Repel Coalition - Press-gangs”) [danger Callaghan might force Tories into coalition]
78 Jun 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Sherman letter to MT (seeks meeting) [“to discuss certain implications of the witch-hunt, and what could be done”]
78 Jun 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe speech in Kirtlington
78 Jun 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Hayek MSS)	Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Times (support for MT in Conservative party disagreements) ["The world belongs to the courageous and not to the timid"]
78 Jun 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Stowe minute for PM on EMS (suggests bringing Foreign Secretary into the loop) [declassified 2008]
78 Jun 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Sherman memorandum for Sir Keith Joseph (possible arrangement with Enoch Powell) [“Britain and the EEC - The Flood Street Declaration”]
78 Jun 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Sherman memorandum to Sir Keith Joseph (dinner with Enoch Powell) [“misgivings” about possible modus vivendi]
78 Jun 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 208th Meeting
78 Jun 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	General Election: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (Jimmy Goldsmith) [“would like to help in any way he can”]
78 Jun 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Civil service: Sir Keith Joseph to Chris Patten (Leslie Chapman book) [MT seeks CRD examples of wasteful public spending]
78 Jun 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	General Election: MT to Sir Keith Joseph (regional manifestoes) [agrees to distance, but would like to see them]
78 Jun 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Civil service: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (ways to reduce size of civil service) [outcome of talks with Ken Baker & David Howell]
78 Jun 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe statement (Bank rate increased to 10 per cent)
78 Jun 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Steering Committee: Minutes of 57th Meeting
78 Jun 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 209th Meeting
78 Jun 15 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Steering Committee: Paper circulated (dates of future meetings)
78 Jun 17 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Stowe minute for PM on EMS (case for British taking initiative at Finance Council) [declassified 2008]
78 Jun 18 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Strategy: Lawson to MT (pin Government to "Labour's Programme")
78 Jun 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Couzens note for No.10 on EMS (secret meetings in Paris with French & Germans) [declassified 2008]
78 Jun 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management Committee minutes (meeting) [KJ unemployment speech, bookshop, Conservative Conference fringe, publications, MT election speeches]
78 Jun 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Speeches: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (proposed draft speeches) [Eldon Griffiths, Letwins, Utley, Bruce-Gardyne]
78 Jun 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Energy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (possible sale of BNOC) [Tom King wants to keep options open]
78 Jun 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 210th Meeting
78 Jun 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Heseltine "Rates")
78 Jun 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: UKE Paris to FCO (prospects for Giscard-Schmidt meeting in Hamburg) [declassified 2008]
78 Jun 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Chancellor note to PM (Treasury briefing papers for EMS seminar) [declassified 2008]
78 Jun 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (urges September meeting in midlands or north) [another Selsdon]
78 Jun 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	No.10: Adam Ridley minute to MT ("Meeting 26th June 1978") [structure of the administration, action before and after coming to power] [released 2010]
78 Jun 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Strategy: MT to Lawson (agrees about "Labour's Programme")
78 Jun 25 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: UKE Paris to FCO (reports of Giscard-Schmidt meeting in Hamburg) [declassified 2008]
78 Jun 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Bonn Summit (Callaghan-Carter meeting - record of conversation on G7) [extract only] [declassified 2008]
78 Jun 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Sherman memorandum to MT (future ‘philosophical’ speeches) [MT to go no further with social democratic heritage speech]
78 Jun 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Steering Committee: Minutes of 58th Meeting
78 Jun 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Adam Ridley note for Keith Joseph (money supply)
78 Jun 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Nick Ridley on Nationalised Industry policy)
78 Jun 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Prior on youth employment)
78 Jun 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Couzens to No.10 (briefing on Giscard-Schmidt meeting in Hamburg) [declassified 2008]
78 Jun 28 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Speech: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (Malcolm Fraser speech) [useful on world economy]
78 Jun 28 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Speech: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (possible leak to Financial Times on regional policy) [no leak - Ken Clarke saw them]
78 Jun 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Heseltine "Sale of Council Houses")
78 Jun 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Steering Committee: Paper circulated (Kenneth Clarke on regional policy)
78 Jun 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	G7: Bonn Summit (Hunt note on summit timetable) [declassified 2008]
78 Jun 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Bonn Summit (Hunt note on meeting of Sherpas, with draft communique) [declassified 2008]
78 Jun 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: No. 10 briefing for Callaghan (preparing for Bremen European Council) [declassified 2008]
78 Jun 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 212th Meeting
78 Jun 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Adam Ridley paper ("Red Socialism")
78 Jul 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: No.10 Seminar on EMS (preparing for Bremen European Council) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Callaghan notes on briefing for No.10 Seminar on EMS (preparing for Bremen European Council) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Callaghan-Jenkins meeting (preparing for Bremen European Council) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Steering Committee: Minutes of 59th Meeting [nationalised industries & regional policy]
78 Jul 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Foreign Secretary Minute to Chancellor (UK net budget contribution to EC) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Carter Library)	G7: Bonn Summit (Carter letter to Schmidt - multilateral trade negotiations) [declassified 1998]
78 Jul 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Treasury briefing for Callaghan (preparing for Bremen European Council) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Labour: Sir Keith Joseph to Thorneycroft (Labour’s Programme 1976) [Lawson suggests treat it as their real programme]
78 Jul 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 213rd Meeting
78 Jul 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Referendum Policy Group - Report) [403K]
78 Jul 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (European Council)	EMS: Bremen European Council record of conversation (Session 1) [procès-verbal - official French text]
78 Jul 6 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (future meetings)
78 Jul 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Bremen European Council record of conversation (Session 1) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Bremen European Council record of conversation (Callaghan meeting with Giscard & Schmidt) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Bremen European Council record of conversation (after dinner meeting) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Bremen European Council record of conversation (Session 2) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (European Council)	EMS: Bremen European Council record of conversation (Session 2) [procès-verbal - official French text]
78 Jul 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Carter Library)	G7: Bonn Summit (Schmidt phone call to Carter announcing EMS) [declassified 2000]
78 Jul 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Bremen European Council (statement by German Presidency on EMS) [extract] [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (Nick Ridley & Howe concept of Enterprise Zones) [hopes to include in manifesto]
78 Jul 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Sir Keith Joseph to all Shadow ministers (wind up policy work) [planning for October election]
78 Jul 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Record of conversation (Atkins-Michael Cocks) [1922 Executive Committee proposals on MPs' pay] [released 2010]
78 Jul 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (European Council)	EC: EC President Helmut Schmidt's aide-memoire of Bremen European Council (summary of conclusions) [text in French]
78 Jul 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Treasury off-the-record press briefing on EMS (“not the greatest thing since sliced bread”) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Elections: BBC Director-General Trethowan letter to MT (General Election TV debate or other television programme) ["I am writing to you and the Prime Minister in identical terms to invite you to appear together in one or more special television programmes during the General Election"] [released 2010]
78 Jul 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 214th Meeting
78 Jul 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Couzens to No.10 (briefing on David Blake article attributing scepticism to Treasury) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Public spending & external relations: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (forwards Blaker Report) [MT loath to cut BBC Overseas Services]
78 Jul 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 215th Meeting
78 Jul 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Bonn Summit (Hunt minute for Callaghan on summit prospects) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Benn paper for cabinet (“Britain, Germany and the proposed EMS”) [extract] [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Bonn Summit (final British briefing meeting) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 15 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Bonn Summit (Schmidt-Callaghan bilateral) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 15 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Callaghan-Schmidt meeting (EMS) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 16 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Bonn Summit (Session 1) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 16 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Bonn Summit (Session 2) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 16 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Bonn Summit (Sessions 1 & 2 - Callaghan notes) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 16 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Bonn Summit (Heads of Government Dinner) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Bonn Summit (quadripartite meeting of Foreign Ministers) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Bonn Summit (Session 3) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Bonn Summit (Session 4) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Bonn Summit (Callaghan bilaterals) [declassified 2008]
78 Jul 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Lawson to MT (danger of pre-election dividend increases)
78 Jul 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 216th Meeting (manifesto discussion)
78 Jul 19 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Lawson to MT (denies Conservative economic plans will increase unemployment)
78 Jul 20 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Speeches: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (proposed draft speeches) [progress report]
78 Jul 20 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Sherman memorandum to MT (‘Disinformation’ and ways of combatting it) [Conservative machine briefing against you]
78 Jul 20 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Sherman memorandum to CPS Management Board (“CPS’s Long-term Publishing Programme”) [goals]
78 Jul 20 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: MT letter to Sir Ian Trethowan (BBC urges General Election TV debate with PM) [asks for detail] [released 2003]
78 Jul 20 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT ("Enterprise Zones")
78 Jul 24 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Energy: Michael Portillo to Adam Ridley (policy towards BNOC) [MT comments colliding with Tom King’s]
78 Jul 25 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Sir Keith Joseph to Ian Percival (thanks) [papers submitted]
78 Jul 25 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management Committee minutes (meeting) [Conservative Conference fringe, publications, bookshop, student seminars, KJ unemployment speech]
78 Jul 26 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Hayek MSS)	Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Times (response to Mr. William Wallace) [democratic and authoritarian rule]
78 Jul 26 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: 1922 Committee note ("Government Defeats on the Floor: 1977/78") [released 2010]
78 Jul 26 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: House of Commons record of conversation (MT-1922 Committee Executive) [strategy for forthcoming election] [released 2010]
78 Jul 26 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 217th Meeting
78 Jul 27 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Hayek MSS)	Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Times (Callaghan's remarks on inflation) ["sometimes one wonders whether [politicians] are not deceiving themselves by using language which they do not understand"]
78 Jul 28 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Fowler "Toll Crossings")
78 Jul 31 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Energy: Adam Ridley to MT (policy towards BNOC) [queries policy after her Sun interview]
78 Jul 31 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Energy: Adam Butler to Sir Keith Joseph (policy towards BNOC) [MT does not want it sold in its entirety]
78 Jul 31 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 218th Meeting (manifesto discussion)
78 Jul 31 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Adam Ridley note for MT (Conservative stance on BNOC)
78 Aug 1 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Keith Joseph to Nigel Wingate (policy towards small businesses) [no commitment to appoint a specific minister for]
78 Aug 3 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Housing: Sir Keith Joseph to Angus Maude (decision not to publish a paper on housing before October election) [policy on land still needs to be announced]
78 Aug 4 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	CRD: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (wishes to discuss next director of CRD) [Sykes to replace Patten?]
78 Aug 6 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EMS: Sir Keith Joseph to John Nott (Sigmund Warburg urges joining EMS negotiations) [“killing it from within if need be”]
78 Aug 8 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Thorneycroft meeting with BBC (BBC urges General Election TV debate with PM) [sees problems] [released 2003]
78 Aug 8 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Elections: Minute of meeting of Conservative Central Office Executive (MT-Thorneycroft and others) [General Election arrangements] [released 2010]
78 Aug 10 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Housing: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (Hugh Rossi work on land policy) [still needs to be announced]
78 Aug 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Heritage: Adam Butler note for MT (comments from Keith Joseph) [agreement to publicise the policy]
78 Aug 21 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (encloses his lecture on Conditions for Fuller Employment ) [read in advance by Jim Prior]
78 Aug 23 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Patten minute to MT ("The Future of the Research Department") [released 2010]
78 Aug 25 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS)	MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (seeing Evita ) [“if they can do that without any ideals ...”]
78 Aug 25 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (CIA)	Belize/Cold War: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable (Guatemala-UK negotiations) ["unexpectedly reasonable" approach from Guatemalan side] [declassified 2007]
78 Aug 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Housing: Sir Keith Joseph to Michael Heseltine (suggestion regarding Hugh Rossi work on land policy) [useful to incorporate]
78 Aug 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Thorneycroft (encloses speech drafts) [Labour creating unemployment]
78 Aug 30 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Conservative Party Manifesto for 1978 General Election - 2nd draft) [1,436K]
78 Sep 1 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Franklin memorandum for Hunt (EMS situation report) [declassified 2008]
78 Sep 4 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 219th Meeting (manifesto discussion)
78 Sep 5 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to Sir Keith Joseph (EMS meeting)
78 Sep 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	General Election: Lawson to MT (make more of an issue of GCE abolition)
78 Sep 7 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to Lord Thorneycroft (election press conferences)
78 Sep 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management Committee minutes (meeting) [Conservative Conference fringe, KJ unemployment speech, publications, bookshop, student seminars, funds]
78 Sep 14 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Wicks memorandum for PM (ministerial momentum building in favour of UK joining EMS) [declassified 2008]
78 Sep 15 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Carter Library)	Belize/Cold War: White House Situation Room memo for David Aaron ("Noon Notes") ["Fidel Castro has assembled a small military force of 125-150 Cubans in Belize"] [declassified Jan 2005]
78 Sep 16 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: UKE Bonn to FCO (Schmidt-Giscard talks in Aachen) [declassified 2008]
78 Sep 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Callaghan-Healey phone call (EMS) [declassified 2008]
78 Sep 21 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (fishing industry) [request from Grimsby that MT should make statement on]
78 Sep 22 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Regions: Sir Keith Joseph to Adam Butler (suggested minister for the north west) [Oulton Wade suggestion but not viable]
78 Sep 23 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe speech in Great Bookham (pay policy "sanctions")
78 Sep 26 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies “Special Meeting” minutes [future of CPS - funds, strategy]
78 Sep 28 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Gordon Reece note (tax credit remark misreported)
78 Sep 28 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (CRD on Bingham Report [Rhodesia])
78 Sep 30 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS) , Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Davies "Rhodesia")
78 Sep 30 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Davies "Rhodesia")
78 Oct 3 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Hayek MSS)	Conservatism: Lawson letter to Hayek (thanks for Hayek's compliments about Lawson's article in The Times ) ["There is no-one from whom such a letter could have been more welcome"]
78 Oct 4 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 220th Meeting (Rhodesia discussion - extended minute)
78 Oct 8 Su	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Conservative 1922 Committee membership list ("1922 Committee") [election results] [released 2010]
78 Oct 9 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Strikes: Sir Keith Joseph to Sir Geoffrey Howe (supplementary benefits for strikers) [MT now agrees group to reconsider issue]
78 Oct 9 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (Sam Brittan’s views) [set out monetary policy goals & allow others to draw pay implications]
78 Oct 10 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Cabinet Committee meeting on EMS (GEN136(78) 5th) (decision not to join) [declassified 2008]
78 Oct 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Local government: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (Irwin Bellow) [defer announcement of his advisory appointment]
78 Oct 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Sherman memorandum to Gerry Frost (success of meeting at Conservative Conference fringe) [plans for next year]
78 Oct 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Strategy: Lawson to MT (importance of her faith & resolve)
78 Oct 23 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EMS: Adam Ridley note on EMS (briefing for Conservative shadows stressing political nature of proposals)
78 Oct 24 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management Committee minutes (meeting) [Conservative Conference fringe, KJ unemployment speech, publications, student seminars, Black Papers]
78 Oct 25 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (burglay at his home) [no sensitive papers taken]
78 Oct 25 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EMS: Meeting of Shadows (Conservative view of European Monetary System) [deciding what to advise MT]
78 Oct 27 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Vaizey MSS)	Conservatism: MT to John Vaizey (glad he is ready for further talks about joining the Conservative Party)
78 Oct 30 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Ronnie Millar to MT (right approach between now & election) [stress failure of pay policy while giving Ted his dignity]
78 Oct 30 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EMS: Lawson note for MT ("The European Monetary System")
78 Oct 31 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Bank of England memo for PM (“EMS & the choice for the UK”) [declassified 2008]
78 Oct 31 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EMS: Lawson note ("France & the EMS")
78 Oct 31 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 221st Meeting
78 Oct 31 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EMS: Sir Geoffrey Howe letter to MT ("European Monetary System") [Conservative line]
78 Nov 1 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to Jim Prior (trade unions)
78 Nov 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: UKE Rome to FCO (frank account of Schmidt-Andreotti talks in Rome on EMS) [declassified 2008]
78 Nov 2 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (future meeting)
78 Nov 3 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Callaghan-Jenkins meeting (EMS & other EC issues) [declassified 2008]
78 Nov 8 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of Meeting
78 Nov 14 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management Committee minutes (meeting) [Conservative Conference fringe, funds, publications, student seminars, FEE, editors]
78 Nov 14 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Monetary Policy: Howe minute to Members of the Leader's Consultative Committee ("EMS") [introductory briefing] [released 2010]
78 Nov 15 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of Meeting (attitude to European Monetary System)
78 Nov 15 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Press release (Pym appointed to replace Davies)
78 Nov 16 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bundesbank)	EMS: President of the Bundesbank to Chancellor Schmidt (seeks assurances on operation of EMS) [declassified 2008]
78 Nov 16 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (future meetings)
78 Nov 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Jim Prior (Richard O’Brien reaction to Conditions for Fuller Employment ) [doubts as to role of MSC]
78 Nov 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Sherman memorandum to MT (“Reserve Army of Advisers”) [nothing to add to earlier memos]
78 Nov 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (pay policy "sanctions")
78 Nov 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Fowler on abolition of Vehicle Excise Duty)
78 Nov 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Oppenheim "Weights & Measures Bill")
78 Nov 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EMS: Adam Ridley note on EMS (government planning to join EMS but not exchange rate mechanism)
78 Nov 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Callaghan-Andreotti meeting (preparing for Brussels European Council ) [extract] [declassified 2008]
78 Nov 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Monetary Policy: MT letter to Boardman of British Chambers of Commerce (EMS) ["We too welcome any prospect of greater stability in the international currency system, although we would hesitate to be quite as final as your members"] [released 2010]
78 Nov 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of Meeting [agenda only]
78 Nov 26 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Callaghan-Schmidt phone call (EMS, economy, Guadeloupe) [declassified 2008]
78 Nov 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (vehicle excise duty & indirect tax increases)
78 Nov 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Lawson to Nott (Government sanctions against Ford)
78 Nov 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of Meeting
78 Nov 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Steering Committee: Paper circulated (CRD on civil service dispersal)
78 Nov 30 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Bundesbank)	EMS: Bundesbank Council meeting with Chancellor Schmidt (assurances on operation of EMS) [declassified 2008]
78 Nov 30 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (Frank MacFadzean) [wants an executive not an advisory role]
78 Dec 4 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EMS: Adam Ridley note on EMS (information from sources in Brussels)
78 Dec 4 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Brussels European Council record of conversation (opening lunch) [declassified 2008]
78 Dec 4 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Brussels European Council record of conversation (Session 1) [declassified 2008]
78 Dec 4 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Brussels European Council record of conversation (dinner) [declassified 2008]
78 Dec 4 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Brussels European Council record of conversation (after dinner) [declassified 2008]
78 Dec 4 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Brussels European Council (draft speaking note for PM - Britain not joining ERM) [declassified 2008]
78 Dec 4 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (IEA MSS)	Conservatism: Milton Friedman letter to Ralph Harris (plans for visit to the UK) ["Whether [MT] really has the capacities that Britain so badly needs at this time, I must confess, seems to me still a very open question..."]
78 Dec 4 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Steering Committee: Minutes of 60th Meeting
78 Dec 4 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Prior to MT (dispersal of civil servants)
78 Dec 5 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Brussels European Council record of conversation (Session 2) [declassified 2008]
78 Dec 5 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Brussels European Council (Callaghan notes on British objectives) [declassified 2008]
78 Dec 5 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EMS: Brussels European Council (Callaghan notes on Session 2) [declassified 2008]
78 Dec 5 Tu	Declassified documents	Trivial	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (suggests term for Quango members) [“Quangaroos”]
78 Dec 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	MT: Peter Utley to David [Wolfson] (plea to reform MT’s approach to speechwriting) [travails of a speechwriter]
78 Dec 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	MT: Peter Utley to David [Wolfson] (plea to reform MT’s approach to speechwriting) [travails of a speechwriter]
78 Dec 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Monetary Policy: Statement by Howe and Pym ("The Brussels Summit") [criticism of Callaghan's approach to EMS and CAP] [released 2010]
78 Dec 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of Meeting
78 Dec 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Atkins to MT (Rhodesia & European Elections)
78 Dec 7 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (state of the civil service)
78 Dec 11 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Sherman memorandum to MT (“Our Exposed Flank: Free Collective Bargaining - October-November 1978”) [drafting of conference speech]
78 Dec 11 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (James Meade critical of unions)
78 Dec 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Bonn Summit (Hunt minute of meeting to review follow-through & preparations for next summit) [declassified 2008]
78 Dec 13 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EMS: Adam Ridley note on EMS (Italian & Irish positions)
78 Dec 13 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of Meeting
78 Dec 14 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management Committee minutes (meeting) [student seminars, publications, study groups, “social market economy”, funds]
78 Dec 21 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (Howe suggests I chair a Merseyside ‘Task Force’) [MT: “I am very much AGAINST the idea”]
78 Dec 22 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (Patrick Minford)
78 Dec 26 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (George Thomas MSS)	Parliament: MT to George Thomas (Parliament “seldom touches the nation’s deepest needs”)
78 Dec 28 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Councillor Jones (private interest in British Steel Bilston plant) [Conservative approach]
78 Dec 29 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (thanks for meeting; defence) [released 2007]
79 Jan 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Trivial	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: Note for MT (“Mayo Clinic Diet”) [“Diet for two weeks only”] [released 2010]
79 Jan 2 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Oppenheim "Competition Policy")
79 Jan 2 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Rawlinson on libel & Official Secrets Act reform)
79 Jan 3 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Hayek MSS)	Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Economist (comment on remark by Harold Macmillan) ["How uninformed does Mr. Harold Macmillan wish to appear...?"]
79 Jan 3 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Europe: FCO letter to UKA Rome (“The IEPG: Italy and Trillateralism”) [difficulties in European equipment cooperation] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Jan 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Rowlands minute to Owen ("Falkland Islands: Anglo/Argentine Negotiations in Geneva from 18-20 December") [account of talks] [declassified 2012]
79 Jan 7 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Ted Rowlands MP-Falklands Councillors) [Southern Thule incident, maritime co-operation with Argentia, internal Falklands matters] [declassified 2012]
79 Jan 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: HM Ambassador to Italy despatch ("Italy: Annual Review for 1978") [murder of Moro, 'courageous' decision to join EMS, two popes] [declassified 2009]
79 Jan 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Atkins "Supply Day subjects")
79 Jan 11 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italy and the Guadeloupe meeting”) [Italian concerns over a “four power directorate”] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Jan 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Guadeloupe Quadripartite meeting (Callaghan minute approving follow-up action) [declassified 2008]
79 Jan 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Hayek MSS)	Conservatism: Hayek letter to William Rees-Mogg (article offered to The Times )
79 Jan 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Oppenheim to MT (Supply day debates)
79 Jan 13 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Port Stanley to FCO ("Minister's Meeting with Falkland Island Councillors: Draft Agreement on Scientific Activity in the Dependencies") [proposed agreement "met with a negative response"] [declassified 2012]
79 Jan 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Guadeloupe Quadripartite meeting (Hunt account to Canadian High Commissioner) [declassified 2008]
79 Jan 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Steering Committee: Minutes of 61st Meeting (Commons debate on industrial situation)
79 Jan 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Guadeloupe Quadripartite meeting (Peter Jay conversation with US Secretary of State) [declassified 2008]
79 Jan 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: MT's notes for her Commons speech (offer to HMG) [391K]
79 Jan 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 228th Meeting
79 Jan 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKA Rome letter to FCO (“Italian exclusion from quadripartite and other small groups”) [damage it does; need to take Italian resentment seriously] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Jan 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Trivial	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: Patrick Hutber letter to MT (plans for Glyndebourne Festival Opera) ["The public begins to see how right you have consistently been!"] [released 2010]
79 Jan 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Chris Patten to Sir Keith Joseph (proposed “Waste of the week” campaign) [plans]
79 Jan 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Trivial	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT letter to Patrick Hutber (plans for Glyndebourne Festival Opera) [MT would like to attend Fidelio] [released 2010]
79 Jan 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti government looking increasingly insecure] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Jan 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Steering Committee: Minutes of 62nd Meeting
79 Jan 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: Italian Ambassador to London speaking notes (Guadeloupe meeting) [protest at Italian exclusion from summit] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Jan 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (CIA)	South America: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable ("Peru: Relations with Neighbors") ["hardening stance ... new truculence"; Peru expels Chilean envoy and warns Ecuador] [declassified Jul 2004]
79 Jan 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: FCO telegram to UKE Rome (“Guadeloupe summit: Italian reactions”) [Italian Ambassador protests at exclusion] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Jan 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 229th Meeting
79 Jan 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Jim Prior (story that mathematical economists were no help to Callaghan on unemployment) [we have more positive ideas]
79 Jan 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti likely to resign next week] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Jan 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: FCO telegram to UKE Rome (“Guadeloupe summit: Italian reactions”) [Italian démarche & bout de papier] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Jan 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (encloses draft speech on unions) [depth of change needed above & beyond legal framework]
79 Jan 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to John Moore (proposed “Waste of the week” campaign) [asks for help]
79 Jan 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Lawson to MT (Philip Haddon-Cave as special adviser)
79 Jan 29 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 230th Meeting
79 Jan 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	No.10: Ryder note to MT ("The Secretary to the Cabinet") [candidates to succeed Hunt as Cabinet Secretary] [released 2010]
79 Jan 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: CBI Situation Report ("Winter of Discontent")
79 Jan 31 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management Committee minutes (meeting) [bookshop, student seminars, publications, study groups, Conservative Conference fringe]
79 Jan 31 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: FCO letter to UKE Rome (“Italian exclusion from quadripartite and other small groups”) [Andreotti remains annoyed; unavoidable problem] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Jan 31 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 231st Meeting
79 Feb 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“Gromyko’s visit to Rome: 22/26 January”) [Italian briefing on visit] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Feb 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Steering Committee: Paper circulated (Oppenheim on competition policy)
79 Feb 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: FCO minute (“Grey Areas and Modernization of Theatre Nuclear Force (TNF)”) [Italian ambassador fishing on the subject] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Feb 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Europe: FCO minute (“Albania”) [Italians say Albanians wish to resume diplomatic relations with UK] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Feb 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Europe: FCO internal minute (‘Malta’) [Italian ambassador’s criticism of British position, delivered in "characteristic waspish vein"] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Feb 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Communist withdrawal, Andreotti resignation] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Feb 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Trade Unions: Keith Joseph talk given to the Bow Group ("Solving the Union Problem is the Key to Britain's Recovery") [released 2010]
79 Feb 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Steering Committee: Minutes of 63rd Meeting
79 Feb 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (relations with the City)
79 Feb 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Steering Committee: Note for the record (devolution referendum broadcasts)
79 Feb 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	No.10: Record of conversation (MT-Joseph-Howell-Wolfson-Adam Ridley) [plans for organisation of No.10 on MT's election] [released 2010]
79 Feb 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 232nd Meeting
79 Feb 8 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (visit to US) [requests brief leave of absence]
79 Feb 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Civil service: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (ways to reduce size of civil service) [Derek Rayner willing to work for us]
79 Feb 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti attempting to form another govermment, in negotiations] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Feb 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (PAYE refunds for strikers)
79 Feb 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Hailsham on law reform)
79 Feb 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Europe: FCO brief (“Brief for the Italian ambassador’s call on the PUS, 1 February”) [line to take on Modernization of Theatre Nuclear Force] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Feb 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Europe: FCO brief (“Ambassador Ducci’s call on the PUS”) [line to take on Modernization of Theatre Nuclear Force; Malta; Albanian gold reserves; Andreotti expected to resign today] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Feb 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Europe: John Stanley note for MT (Eurocrat salaries) [MT: “They are paid MUCH too much”] [released 2010]
79 Feb 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EC: Stanley note to MT (salary grades of European Parliament) [MT: "They are paid too much - from our* taxpayers' money"] [released 2010]*
79 Feb 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Lawson to MT (election speech module)
79 Feb 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Rossi "Leasehold Reform")
79 Feb 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Younger MSS)	Strikes: George Younger to MT (case for reviewing Authority of Government Policy Group report)
79 Feb 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 233rd Meeting
79 Feb 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to John Nott (exchange control)
79 Feb 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti’s attempts to form a government ground to a halt] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Feb 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Sir Geoffrey Howe (Nott fears monetary squeeze on industry) [but must not revise targets downwards]
79 Feb 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 234th Meeting
79 Feb 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Lawson to Howe (abolition of exchange control)
79 Feb 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Lawson to Howe (warns against easing monetary policy)
79 Feb 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Younger MSS)	Strikes: MT to George Younger (rejects reconvening Authority of Government Policy Group)
79 Feb 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti has given up attempt to form government] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Feb 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Washington letter to FCO (“US/Italy”) [leak of US paper criticising Italian security services] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Feb 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Lawson to Howe (necessity of reducing money PSBR)
79 Feb 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome minute (“Political situation”) [DC journalist talks of La Malfa, Andreotti, Craxi] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Feb 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to John Nott (Bank sympathise with exchange control abolition)
79 Feb 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“PSDI views on the political situation”) [conversation with Party Secretary, Pietro Longo] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Feb 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: FCO internal minute (“Quadripartite meeting of political directors, Wednesday 26 February”) [reasons for PCI intransigence, likely strategy] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Feb 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome minute to FCO (“Guadeloupe etc”) [transcript of interview with Federal Chancellor] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Feb 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome minute (“Italian political situation”) [deadlock - PCI insisting on participation in new government, DC refusing] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Feb 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Steering Committee: Paper circulated (Maude cover note to manifesto drafts)
79 Mar 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“Lockheed bribes trial”) [political impact of the verdict] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Mar 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [La Malfa gives up attempt to form government; stalemate continues] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Mar 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Paris letter to FCO (“Italian reaction to the Guadeloupe summit”) [French “not at all disturbed”] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Mar 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 235th Meeting
79 Mar 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Steering Committee: Minutes of 64th Meeting (manifesto drafting)
79 Mar 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Richard Ryder to Dundas Hamilton (links with the City)
79 Mar 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Adam Ridley note (Bank of England & gilts market)
79 Mar 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Austin Pearce of Esso Petroleum letter to MT (Exxon Chairman Clifton Garvin request a meeting with MT) [declassified 2010]
79 Mar 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 236th Meeting
79 Mar 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Carter Library)	Belize/Cold War: White House Situation Room memo for David Aaron ("Additional Information Items") ["Cuba feels Belize is a doorway for the infiltration of Cuban communism into Central America"] [declassified Jun 2009]
79 Mar 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (Bank of England & gilts market)
79 Mar 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti accepts mandate "without reservation" to form new government] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Mar 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (again urges "Enterprise Zones")
79 Mar 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Owen minute to Callaghan ("Falkland Islands: Anglo/Argentine Negotiations") [account of talks] [declassified 2012]
79 Mar 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome minute (“Malta/Italy”) [Italians asked to remove military mission from Malta] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Mar 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Sherman MSS)	Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management Committee minutes (meeting) [student seminars, Conservative Conference fringe, study groups, funds]
79 Mar 14 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	No.10: Alison Ward letter to Peter Morrison MP (invitation to holiday with your family on Islay) [MT’s “need for a proper holiday”] [released 2010]
79 Mar 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: No.10 letter to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [Callaghan accepts Owen's advice on handling next round of Falklands talks] [declassified 2012]
79 Mar 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 237th Meeting
79 Mar 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Sir Geoffrey Howe (draft speech on spending cuts) [you, MT, Thorneycroft think it “unnecessary & unwise”]
79 Mar 15 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	No.10: MT letter to Lady Redcliffe-Maud (Oxford College Gaudy) [“I STILL have not heard anything from Somerville”] [released 2010]
79 Mar 15 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [potential composition of parliamentary majorities] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Mar 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [widespread assumption Andreotti will fail to win vote of confidence, new elections will follow] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Mar 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (Commons amendment)
79 Mar 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Peyton on Green Pound)
79 Mar 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Sindall note ("Falklands: File Note") ["no prospect of selling any Falklands settlement to Parliament or the Islanders given their present view of the dispute with Argentina"] [declassified 2012]
79 Mar 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (public sector pay)
79 Mar 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: MT to Sir Geoffrey Howe (Bank of England & gilts market)
79 Mar 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Negotiations on the Falkland Islands in New York (21-23 March 1979) [declassified 2012]
79 Mar 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti presented names of three party government to Pertini] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Mar 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 238th Meeting
79 Mar 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Commonwealth: Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal letter to Callaghan (Lusaka Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) [subjects for discussion] [declassified 2009]
79 Mar 22 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [list of Andreotti’s new ministers] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Mar 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram to FCO (2232Z) ("Anglo-Argentine Talks on the Falkland Islands: New York 21-23 March") ["cordial, difficult, but on the whole successful"] [declassified 2012]
79 Mar 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome letter to Treasury (“Scandal at the Bank of Italy”) [arrest of Deputy Director-General] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Mar 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (tax credits)
79 Mar 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Elections: David Cox of London Weekend Television letter to MT (General Election TV debate) [two debates proposed between MT and Callaghan] [released 2010]
79 Mar 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Trivial	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: Felicity Hindson letter to MT (Somerville College Centenary Gaudy) ["It really would not be at all to our liking if the College were just to fete the prominent Socialist members"] [released 2010]
79 Mar 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian Political Situation”) [timetable for presentation of Andreotti’s new government] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Mar 28 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 239th Meeting (Government defeated on confidence motion)
79 Mar 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKHC Malta letter to FCO (Italy-Malta relations) [withdrawal of Italian mission] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Mar 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Vaizey MSS)	Conservatism: MT to John Vaizey (leave announcement of his move to Tories till after election)
79 Mar 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Stowe note to Atkins (Leader of the Opposition and colleagues consultation with senior officials in Departments) [released 2010]
79 Mar 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Thorneycroft letter to MT ("Central Office after the General Election") [released 2010]
79 Mar 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Carter Library)	US: NSC memo for Brzezinski ("Additional Information Items") [Conservative Party foreign policy] [declassified 2005]
79 Mar 31 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Henderson (Sir Nicholas)	Economy: The Henderson Despatch (British decline, causes & consequences) [leaked 1979; declassified 2006]
79 Apr 1 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Transition to power: Adam Ridley note for MT (“Shadow Contacts with the Civil Service before the Election”) [MT keeping close control over] [released 2010]
79 Apr 1 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Transition to power: Adam Ridley note for MT (record of meeting on advisers) [plans for council of economic advisers, etc] [released 2010]
79 Apr 1 Su	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	No.10: Stowe note to Ryder ("Visitors to 10, 11 and 12 Downing Street") [Doorkeeper should be informed of visitors] [released 2010]
79 Apr 1 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Adam Ridley note to MT ("Meeting at Flood Street April 1st 1979") [issues raised at planning meeting for actions to take on gaining power] [released 2010]
79 Apr 1 Su	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome letter to HM Treasury (“Scandal at the Bank of Italy”) [government reaction “sharp”] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Apr 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	No.10: MT note to Shadow Cabinet Members (meetings between Shadow Cabinet members and Permanent Secretaries) [MT must be informed prior to such meetings] [released 2010]
79 Apr 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: MT letter to Callaghan (Northern Ireland) [Callaghan's proposal for Government/Shadow Cabinet 'conversation'] [released 2010]
79 Apr 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (MT to Shadows on contacts with civil service)
79 Apr 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (need to put Labour on defensive over unions)
79 Apr 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Steering Committee: Paper circulated (CRD on public sector pay)
79 Apr 3 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: MT letter to David Cox (rejects General Election TV debate with PM) [“We are not electing a President, we are choosing a government”] [released 2003]
79 Apr 3 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Elections: George Gardiner MP letter to MT (proposed General Election TV debate with Callaghan) ["Yes, you must accept the idea. Indeed, you must appear eager"] [released 2010]
79 Apr 3 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti government defeated in the Senate, Andreotti resigned, Parliament dissolved] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Apr 4 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Sir Geoffrey Howe (has approached David Laidler) [“very flattered” at thought of working with us - will leave option open]
79 Apr 4 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Transition to power: Caroline Stephens note for staff (arrival of positive vetting forms) [“Sir Ian Bancroft is doing us a favour”] [released 2010]
79 Apr 4 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	No.10: Stowe letter to MT (forthcoming retirement of the Archbishop of Canterbury) [briefing] [released 2010]
79 Apr 4 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 240th Meeting [agenda only]
79 Apr 4 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (CRD "Public Sector Pay") [270K]
79 Apr 5 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	No.10: Hunt letter to MT (the Cabinet Office) [background briefing] [released 2010]
79 Apr 5 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: FCO internal minute (“Guadeloupe summit: Italian reactions”) [Italian allegations of Gaullist practices] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Apr 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: No.10 letter to MT ("The Prime Minister's Office") [brief account of organisation and functioning of No.10] [declassified Aug 2013]
79 Apr 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: Canadian Embassy Rome telegram to Canadian Department of External Affairs (“Italian Elections - background & prospects”) [Andreotti Government 'Hari-Kiri'] [declassified 2009]
79 Apr 10 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	No.10: Hunt minute to MT ("EEC: Supervision of United Kingdom Policy") [background briefing on role of European Secretariat in the Cabinet Office] [released 2010]
79 Apr 11 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (IEA MSS)	Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (letter of thanks for Harris' review of Douglas Hurd's book) ["I passed it on to Margaret for use in her material"]
79 Apr 11 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Hayek MSS)	Conservatism: Ryder letter to Hayek (MT thanks Hayek for his sending her a copy of Law, Legislation and Liberty , Volume 3)
79 Apr 11 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian Political Situation”) [elections scheduled for June] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Apr 11 We	Declassified documents	Key	Conservative Party	Conservative General Election Manifesto 1979
79 Apr 12 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Hayek MSS)	Conservatism: Arthur Seldon letter to Hayek (notes on New Statesman , The Economist and The Spectator responses to IEA papers) ["Christopher Hitchens wanted to meet you..."]
79 Apr 12 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Ryder note to MT (Scottish Conservative Party Conference) [cancelled due to General Election; MT asks for it to be reinstated] [released 2010]
79 Apr 12 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKHC Malta letter to FCO (“Malta’s foreign relations”) [talks with France, Italy] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Apr 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Transition to power: Richard Ryder note for MT (meeting with Douglas Hurd) [thoughts on running No.10] [released 2010]
79 Apr 19 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Carter Library)	Cold War: NSC memo for David Aaron ("Noon Notes") [UK electoral campaign and SALT] [declassified 2008]
79 Apr 19 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome letter to HM Treasury (“Scandal at the Bank of Italy”) [account of events] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Apr 19 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“Italo-Cuban relations”) [Italians have cultivated close relations with the Cubans] [declassified Dec 2009]
79 Apr 26 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Elections: Townson of Thames Television letter to Gordon Reece (proposed General Election TV debate between MT and Callaghan) ["it would be a historic piece of broadcasting"] [released 2010]
79 Apr 30 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKA Rome despatch to FCO (“Fourth and Fifth Andreotti Governments, March 1979 to March 1979”) [Communists pulled down government for internal reasons, PSI still 'mesmerised' by PCI, have "not yet lived up to the promise of their 1978 Congress in Turin"] [declassified 2009]
79 Apr 30 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: FCO minute (“Fourth and Fifth Andreotti Governments, March 1979 to March 1979”) ["The DC/PCI arrangements failed fundamentally because Signor Andreotti never saw them as more than a stop-gap"] [declassified 2009]
79 May 1 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: Bancroft minute to No.10 (machinery of government) [covering note for papers on possible merger of departments] [declassified Aug 2013]
79 May 1 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	No.10: Chart of organisation of Prime Minister's Private Office (organisation of No.10) [released 2010]
79 May 1 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT note to Todd, Derek Howe and Ryder (conditions for interviews) [released 2010]
79 May 1 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Prime Minister/No.10: Stowe minute ("Notes for a New Prime Minister") [matters requiring PM's early attention after election] [released 2010]
79 May 2 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Parsons record of conversation (Parsons-Martinez de Hoz: the Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012]
79 May 2 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Transition to power: Richard Ryder note for MT (meeting with Ken Stowe) [handover of power] [released 2010]
79 May 2 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Transition to power: CRD note for MT (“European Election” - draft manifesto) [MT says give to “whoever is Foreign Secretary”] [released 2010]
79 May 2 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit by the Taoiseach: 10 May 1979") [Lynch would like to meet new PM] [declassified 2009]
79 May 2 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Hunt minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [initial advice to new PM] [declassified 2009]
79 May 2 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Elections: Conservative Research Department letter to MT ("European Election") [note about draft manifesto] [released 2010]
79 May 3 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to FCO ("Visit by the Taoiseach: 10 May 1979") [appropriate for new PM to offer Lynch a short courtesy call] [declassified 2009]
79 May 3 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	No.10: Summary of the General Post sent to No.10 (Beginning 3 May-12 May 1979) [released 2010]
79 May 3 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Elections: Minutes of meeting of Conservative Central Office (European Elections) [plans for campaign] [released 2010]
79 May 3 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Carter Library)	Cold War: NSC memo for Brzezinski ("Additional Information Items") [MT election victory predicted; foreign policy consequences] [declassified 2008]
79 May 3 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]

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