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Info only 78 Sep 5 Tu Chronology Major [Chronology] Callaghan teased TUC about election dates ("waiting at the church")
Info only 78 Sep 7 Th Chronology Key [Chronology] Callaghan surprise broadcast: no autumn General Election
Info only 78 Sep 21 Th Chronology Major [Chronology] Ford strike: settled 2 Nov over 5 per cent limit
Info only 78 Oct 2 Mo Chronology Major [Chronology] Labour Conference (ended 6 Oct): rejected pay policy
Info only 78 Oct 10 Tu Chronology Major [Chronology] Conservative Conference (till 14 Oct): disputes over pay policy
Info only 78 Nov 8 We Chronology Major [Chronology] HC: 114 Conservatives defied the whip (Rhodesian sanctions)
Info only 78 Nov 15 We Chronology Major [Chronology] Reshuffle: Pym replaced John Davies as shadow Foreign Secretary
Info only 78 Nov 27 Mo Chronology Major [Chronology] MT met Ronald Reagan for the second time (or possibly the third)
Info only 78 Nov 28 Tu Chronology Major [Chronology] Government announced sanctions against Ford for breaching pay policy
Info only 78 Dec 12 Tu Chronology Major [Chronology] Public sector unions rejected Stage 3
Info only 78 Dec 13 We Chronology Major [Chronology] HC: Government defeated on Ford sanctions
Info only 79 Jan 3 We Chronology Key [Chronology] Lorry drivers’ strike began; "Winter of Discontent" peaking
Info only 79 Jan 10 We Chronology Key [Chronology] Callaghan's return from Guadelope Summit: "Crisis, What Crisis?" ( Sun )
Info only 79 Jan 16 Tu Chronology Major [Chronology] Iran: Shah fled the country; Khomeini returned from exile, 2 Feb
Info only 79 Jan 22 Mo Chronology Major [Chronology] 1m local authority workers’ "Day of Action"
Info only 79 Feb 23 Fr Chronology Major [Chronology] Government-TUC "Concordat"
Info only 79 Mar 1 Th Chronology Key [Chronology] Interest rates reduced 1 per cent, from 14 to 13 per cent
Info only 79 Mar 1 Th Chronology Major [Chronology] Devolution referendums: devolution defeated
Info only 79 Mar 13 Tu Chronology Major [Chronology] EMS came into operation
Info only 79 Mar 22 Th Chronology Major [Chronology] Assassination of British Ambassador to the Netherlands, Sir Richard Sykes (IRA acknowledged responsibility in 1980)

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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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