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Date range: 11 Feb 1975 – 3 May 1979. Document type: Declassified documents.

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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]

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