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81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1800Z) ("East-West Trade Controls") (NSC 0023) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Spt 2004]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Netherlands Government crisis") [resignation of Prime Minister van Agt] [declassified July 2017]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Trade Unions: Howe letter to Tebbit (“Industrial Relations legislation”) [backs proposals to allow employers to suspend non-striking employees during strike] [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Economy: "Thatcher faces growing rift in Cabinet" (Tebbit speech - father "didn't riot. He got on his bike, & looked for work")
81 Oct 16 Fr	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Economy: "Monetarists warn wets: stop playing with fire" (Lawson & Walters speeches)
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: MT notes for conference speech ("Virtue of a nation") [personal drafts, notes, briefing material] [released 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: MT notes for conference speech (draft) [unemployment] [released 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: MT notes for conference speech ("Draft 2") ["what is wrong with modern society is not material deprivation but disorientation"] [released 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Robbie-Browne Clayton of the CRD letter to MT (warns that the CRD is in a mess) ["I feel it is my duty to warn you of the problems you will face over the next two years of your Government with the [CRD] as it is today"] [released 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Egypt: President Mubarak of Egypt message to MT (assassination of Sadat) [thanks for condolences] [released 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Sherman draft for MT's Party Conference speech (the "centre ground") [released 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Sherman draft for MT's Party Conference speech ("Economic 1") [released 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Sherman draft for MT's Party Conference speech ("The Errant Centre") ["We must bring the centre of British politics back to where it belongs"] [released 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Walters draft for MT's Party Conference speech (the economy, dealing with the problems left behind by Labour) [released 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	US: FCO to No.10 ("Possible Visit by President Reagan to Europe") [MT might wish to remind Reagan of his invitation to visit Britain] [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (Armstrong's visit to Dublin) [account of meeting with Taoiseach Fitzgerald] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Canada: UK High Commission Ottawa to FCO ("Canadian Constitution: Contingency Planning") [patriation of the Canadian Constitution] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar ("Miners' Pay") [New Earnings Survey figures to show that miners' pay settlement last year less generous than originally appeared; could cause difficulties for ongoing miners' pay negotiations] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Nott minute to MT (Nott does not accept proposed public expenditure plans for defence) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	North-South: Chancellor Schmidt letter to MT (Cancun summit) [Schmidt unable to attend] [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Vatican: Paisley letter to MT (British Council of Protestant Christian Churches protests Papal visit to the UK) [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Economic Policy and Public Expenditure (C(81) 50 and 51)") [comments on Chancellor of the Exchequer's paper] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Hailsham letter to MT (comments on Chancellor of the Exchequer's paper on future economic policy and public spending) [comments on Chancellor of the Exchequer's paper] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Privatisation: Howell minute to MT ("National Freight Company Limited") [agreement reached on sale of NFC Ltd] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Germany: Armstrong minute to Alexander ("Anglo-German Consultations") [arrangements; MT: "I don't understand all the fuss. I don't even want a plenary"] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Armstrong minute to MT ("Reorganisation of the Central Departments") [abolition of the CSD] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Bancroft minute to MT ("Future of the Central Departments") [abolition of the CSD; draft Parliamentary statement] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Department of Industry letter to No.10 ("BL Pay Dispute") [update on pay dispute] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (“Information Technology Year 1982: message from the Prime Minister”) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Baker letter to Whitelaw (“Information Technology Year 1982: demonstration projects”) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: No.10 minute to MT (“Gas appliances”) [gas industry legislation] [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Transport: Howell PS letter to No.10 (British rail pay and finances) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	Speech at Conservative Party Conference (plus address to overflow meeting)
81 Oct 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr	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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