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81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: UKE Rome telegram 398 to FCO (1615Z) ("End of IRA Hunger Strikes: Italian press reactions") [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 347 to FCO (1450Z) ("Mr Prior's Statement") [Haughey response regarding changes in administration of Maze prison] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: Gow minute to MT ("Jim Prior's Statement on Northern Ireland Prisons") [Gow's proposed amendments, in line with Powell's thinking; MT approves statement without amendments] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Fishing Industry: Humphrey Atkins letter to Peter Walker ("European Community: Fisheries") [advice concerning legal challenge against powers of EC Commission] [released Dec 2014]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Alan Walters notes (Heath speech) [“The easiest way to see that Heath’s vicious circle is a piece of preposterous nonsense is to reverse it”] [released 2017]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("North Sea oil pricing policy") [working group report] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Walters MSS)	Economy: Alan Walters diary (divisions) [Heath speech was awful “but obscured by Sadat assassination”; Vinson worried about high interest rates - “same mistake as 1980”] [released 2012]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Howe personal telegram to MT (Heath speech) ["we all think it right not to raise the temperature"] [released 2012]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Walters personal telegram to MT ("Note by Alan Walters on the Heath speech") [detailed critique] [released 2012]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (IEA MSS)	Conservatism: Friedman letter to Ralph Harris (MT's cabinet reshuffle and Reagan) ["I was glad to see the changes which Mrs. Thatcher made in her Cabinet; maybe that will do some good"]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: CRD briefing document by David Nicholson ("Conservative Strategy to the SDP") ["We can no longer pretend to ignore the SDP"] [released 2012]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Egypt: MT messages to Vice-President Mubarak of Egpyt and others (assassination of President Sadat) [shock and condolences] [released 2012]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Hoskyns minute to Scholar ("Prime Minister's Conference Speech") [Hoskyns commissions input from Departments for MT's speech] [released 2012]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Preparation for Anglo-Irish Summit") [UK Ambassador to Dublin meets with Taoiseach Fitzgerald] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Commonwealth: Prime Minister Seaga of Jamaica letter to MT (thanks for luncheon at Melbourne Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) [released 2013]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Privatisation: Lawson minute to MT ("MMC Report on Gas Appliances") [next steps on privatisation of British Gas appliance retailing: response to Oppenheim] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Vereker minute to Scholar ("Request From the Nationalised Industries Chairmen's Group to See the Prime Minister") [Nationalised Industry board members' pay] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Commonwealth: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Mugabe of Zimbabwe) [Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Melbourne: situation in Zimbabwe, UK aid to Zimbabwe, Zimbabwean students in the UK] [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Commonwealth: Ingham minute to MT ("Press Conference") [Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Melbourne] [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Pay: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (public sector pay: monitoring report) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Mugabe of Zimbabwe) [internal situation, aid, fees for overseas students studying in the UK] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Alan Haselhurst letter to MT (Government’s attitude in Stansted planning inquiry) [declassified 2014]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Pakistan: UKE Islamabad telegram to UKDEL Melbourne (“Prime Minister’s visit to Pakistan: meeting with President Zia”) [likely agenda & attendance] [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Major	Margaret Thatcher	Speech at Monash University (1981 Sir Robert Menzies Lecture)
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2012]

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