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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)

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