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79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Review of contingency planning") [Whitelaw paper] [declassified Dec 2011]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands") [enclosing advance copy of Carrington paper for OD] [declassified 2012]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Biffen memo circulated to Cabinet - C(79) 42 (Public Expenditure 1981-82 to 1983-84: Outstanding Issues) [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Prior memo circulated to Cabinet - C(79) 43 (Industrial Relations Legislation) [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Trade Unions: Prior minute to MT (Leggatt report) [declassified 2010]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Economic Prospects") [declassified 2010]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Le Cheminant minute to Lankester ("Strategy for Coal") [declassified 2010]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Howell and Biffen memo circulated to E Committee - E(79) 50 (Strategy for the Coal Industry) [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Howell memo circulated to E Committee - E(79) 51 (Gas Pricing and British Gas Financial Target) [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Carrington memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(79) 31 (Falkland Islands) [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Atkins memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(79) 32 (Political Progress in Northern Ireland) [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Germany: Hunt minute to Alexander ("Anglo-German Consultations: 31st October") [draft agenda, UK and German objectives] [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Pym minute to MT ("Defence Expenditure in the PESC Period") [Pym expresses concern that UK Government will be seen to miss NATO target on Defence expenditure] [declassified 2010]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Zimbabwe: MT letter to President Kaunda of Zambia ("Rhodesia") [reply to Kaunda's message on Constitutional Conference] [released 2010]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: MT notes for Conservative Party Conference speech ("Thoughts on the Moral Case") [released 2010]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: MT draft passage for Conservative Party Conference speech ("Public Expenditure") [released 2010]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: MT draft passage for Conservative Party Conference speech ("The First Few Months") ["winning an election is a fine thing, but it is only the prologue to the vital business of Government"] [released 2010]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: MT draft passage for Conservative Party Conference speech ("Thoughts on the Moral Case") ["our views on the way a government should run the economy can be described as "libertarian""] [released 2010]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Text of MT's speech to the Conservative Party Conference ("Party Conference Speech - Blackpool - 12 October 1979") [released 2010]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands") [draft paper for OD Committee on the Falklands; heavily annotated by MT] [declassified 2012]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Health: Jenkin minute to MT ("Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body: Supplement to the Ninth Report") [declassified 2011]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: Pliatzky minute to No.10 (“Non-departmental public bodies”) [progress report on review] [declassified 2010]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	Speech to Conservative Party Conference
79 Oct 12 Fr	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Minor	Margaret Thatcher	Interview for "Talking Newspaper" (newspaper for the blind)
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Alexander note to MT (messages from the South African Government and Muzorewa) [MT: "the Conference is dragging on"] [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: South African Embassy letter to FCO (Constitutional Conference) ["the South African Government is profoundly disturbed at the latest turn of events"] [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Muzorewa letter to Carrington (Constitutional Conference) [expression of concern over delays] [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: President Tolbert of Liberia letter to MT (Constitutional Conference) [concerns about potential breakdown of talks] [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
79 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2010]

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