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Text 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 868 to FCO (0104Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 869 to FCO (0121Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1921 to FCO (0425Z) ("Falklands") [Henderson spells out US views on what to do next: "I am conscious of a gap between the mood in London and opinion here"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0530Z) (0630, 27 May) [amended Irish draft adopted as Resolution 505] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Appointments: No.10 press release (Lord Glenarthur appointed Lord in Waiting) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 press notice ("New Zealand frigate") [acceptance of offer to make frigate temporarily available] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Francis Pym and Casper Weinberger interviews for Thames TV TV Eye ("Falklands: Do they stay British?")
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to Coles ("Request by ARD") [West German TV channel requests interview with MT] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Press Major Commentary (The Times) “Pym affirms faith in EEC” [Commons speech]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 45th (0830Z) (Political and Military Issues) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: FCO note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 44 (International Reaction to the Argentine Invasion of the Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 58 (Argentine Territorial Waters) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("Falklands: OD(SA) on 28th May") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of meeting of the Information Group on the Falklands (0900Z) [media and related issues] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Beaconsfield by-election note (Tony Blair stands) [released 2013]
Text 82 May 27 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Letter to Lord Cullen (resignation)
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT message to President Lopez Portillo of Mexico (the Falklands conflict) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT message to President Lopez Portillo of Mexico (reply to Lopez Portillo's expression of concern) ["all our efforts have come to nothing because of Argentine obduracy"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Eric Ogden MP ("Falkland Islands Governments' representation in London") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Lawson minute to MT (“ESI industrial wage negotiations”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Heseltine minute to MT (pay and additional capital expenditure) [public sector pay] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Pattison minute to MT ("NHS Pay") [report on Fowler's House of Commons announcement] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Mount minute to MT ("The Financing of Education") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Fowler minute to MT (Rayner proposals on unemployment benefits) [MT: “very disappointing. We are delaying an important change”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Appointments: Jenkin minute to MT (appointment of a speech-writer) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Japan: Prime Minister Suzuki of Japan message to MT (opening up of the Japanese market) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howell PS letter to No.10 (British Rail) [strike] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howell record of conversation (“The railways”) [Howell, Peter Parker, Bob Reid, Clifford Rose] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: PS Pym letter to No.10 (MT, Howe “Reply to President Reagan’s message on Versailles and Bonn summits”) [MT anxious to get wording right - “Our aim must be to reaffirm the unity of the Alliance”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Department of Environment letter to No.10 (copy of Sports minister's Commons speech: "Government Policy on Sporting Contacts with Argentina as it Affects Participation in the World Cup") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ministry of Defence minute ("Radio Atlantico del Sur: Summary of Programme No.9/10 - 27/28 May 1982") [news - MT Commons statement, Haig, start of papal visit to Britain; separate items (diplomatic, military situation; Buenos Aires situation from French press), popular features; reception] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("Teachers: London Allowances") [advises against acceptance of arbitration body's recommendations on 1981 allowances until outcome of arbitration for 1982 allowances for teachers in England & Wales] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Pym PS (Chancellor of the Exchquer's speech to the Netherland-British Chamber of Commerce) [text: welcomes ongoing trade links but highlights his concerns about EC budget & CAP issues] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Lord Cockfield letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("British Airways: sale of International Aeradio Ltd") ["IAL... needs new money.... I do not think we should provide it... The question of disposal is essentially... for the BA Board... I would expect to be consulted... clearly important that there is no avoidable criticism"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Lord Cockfield letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (standards in international trade) [“promoting the quality and international competitiveness of British goods”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Neil Marten letter to Howell (“Rail wagons for Kenya”) [British Rail keen to obtain contract] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to South Atlantic Presentation Unit (Falklands: Security Council Resolution 505; Participation in the World Cup) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Luxembourg letter to No.10 (Exocet missiles: suggestion for displacing the centre of a radar target) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Michel Debré letter to UK Ambassador Paris ("À propos des Malouines") [expresses approval and admiration for British policy] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Glover letter for Coles ("The Falkland Islands") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sir Frank Cooper PS minute ("Notes of actions arising from PUS's meeting of 27 May 1982") [ten points] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Luxembourg telegram 167 to FCO (0920Z) ("Falkland Islands: Arms Sales") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS Geneva telegram 275 to FCO (0930Z) ("Lieutenant Glover: Telecon Hart/Hulse") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 30th (0930Z) (Falkland Islands, Defence White Paper, Iran-Iraq War, NHS Industrial Action) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Agenda for MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 61st Meeting/82 (0945Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 61st Meeting/82 (1000Z) (Operation Corporate - intelligence, own forces, public relations, actions and decisions required, Atlantic Conveyor, rules of engagement) [declassified Aug 2017]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's day, Cabinet, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], Falklands, Materiel aid, Diplomacy) ["we were poised for a thrust towards Port Stanley once our supplies and equipment had been landed"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1100Z) (MT-Whitelaw-Nott-Pym-Jopling) ["Falkland Islands Review"] [declassified 2012]
Text 82 May 27 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs (1415-1430Z)

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