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Text 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) China: Pym PS letter to John Coles (invitation to Zhao Ziyang) [unlikely to take up invitation in near future, but normal to extend invitation] [released 2017]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO ("Non Aligned meeting, Nicosia 15-17 July") [condemnation of Israeli actions & US 'complicity'; call for UN intervention] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT letter to President Nyerere (Israeli aggression in Lebanon) ["I share your concern"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT letter to President Zia-ul-Haq (Israeli aggression in Lebanon) ["I fully share your alarm"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Sir Austin Bide to MT (intellectual property rights & international patents) [paper outlining his concerns for UK interests; supporting documents note MT's rejection of draft reply & her request for futher information from Sir Austin and to meet with him] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("CHOGM 1983: Weekend Retreat in Goa") [Heads of Government meeting: FCO advice in response to MT doubts about propriety of attending the retreat in light of India's 'seizure' of Goa from Portugal in 1961] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: MT letter to Ramphal (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in New Delhi in 1983) [confirms attendance in principle; hopes for shorter meeting than previously] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: Message to Mr Trudeau") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Goodall minute for MT ("Future Measures against Argentina") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter for President Jayewardene of Sri Lanka (Falklands conflict & the Non-Aligned Movement) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter for Prime Minister Price of Belize (Victory in the Falklands) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Pym telegram to UKE Berne ("Return of Argentine POWs") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 letter to Whitelaw PS (future of the Inner London Education Authority) [MT "believes that the right solution would be to allow local authorities to opt out of the ILEA... [she] would like this solution to be considered further"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Office of the Secretary of Defense) Falklands: Weinberger memorandum to President Reagan ("Military Lessons from the Falklands") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: MT letter to Sir Vivian Fuchs (Antarctic Resources Policy Conference) ["My I...say how impressed I have been with the manner in which British Antarctic Survey personnel...conducted themselves in some very difficult times"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Armstrong minute to MT ("Frederick Forsyth's Proposed Book about the Falklands") [issues to consider] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 letter to MOD ("Possible Breaches of International Law: Plastic Mines") [MT agrees that publicity should focus on "Argentine irresponsibility rather than alleged contravention of or disregard for any specific agreement"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Mount minute to MT ("Renewing the Values of Society: Your 20 July Meeting") [suggested handling of the meeting] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Gregson briefing for MT ("Annual Review of Special Employment Measures (E(82)58)") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Prior minute to MT ("Annual Review of Special Employment Measures") ["I am disappointed that Norman has not felt able to propose a more ambitious approach"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Gow note to MT ("Northern Ireland Boundaries") [case for increasing number of Northern Ireland seats] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Gow notes ("Home Affairs Committee") [Whitelaw statements on police, immigration and Queen's bodyguard, Michael Trestrail] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to President Jayewardene of Sri Lanka (thanks for support during Falklands crisis, and in working to moderate policy of the Non-Aligned Movement) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT letter to President Nyerere of Tanzania (Israel-Lebanon conflict) ["[Israeli] self-defence is no justification for the invasion of a neighbouring country's territory"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter Prime Minister Price of Belize (thanks for message of congratulations and for support during Falklands crisis) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT letter President Zia of Pakistan (Israel-Lebanon conflict) ["I fully share your alarm at the tragic events in the Lebanon"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Sir Vivian Fuchs (thanks for letter about the Falklands crisis) [MT has no objection to Fuchs' attending conference at Chilean station in the Antarctic] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Pym minute to MT ("Falkland Islands: Compensation for Civilian Losses") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Flesher minute to MT ("Response to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee's Report on Efficiency and Effectiveness in the Civil Service") [Civil Service reform] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine minute to MT ("Response to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee's Report on Efficiency and Effectiveness in the Civil Service") [Civil Service reform] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine minute to MT ("Management Systems for Whitehall") [Civil Service reform] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Young minute to MT ("Revision of the Civil Service Order in Council, 1978; The Diplomatic Service Order, 1964; And the Civil Service Commission General Regulations, 1978") [Civil Service reform] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Oil Burn During a Rail Strike") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Liaison Committee - Diary for 1982") [presentation of Government policy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Liaison Committee - Circulation of Press Releases") [presentation of Government policy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Boys-Smith letter to Whitmore (Prior’s comments on the Falklands) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Weinberger memorandum to Reagan ("Military Lessons from the Falklands") [declassified 2000]
Text 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Bank thought market needed steadying; PM preoccupied with security matters][released 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Funding and Interest Rates”) [half point cut soon, resist temptation to overfund] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKREP Brussels to FCO (“Ministerial Political Cooperation Meeting: 19 July, Middle East”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: FCO letter to No.10 (Article 73(e) of the UN Charter) [self-governing status] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Jenkin letter to Biffen (“Nissan visit”) [Investment in the UK] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Policy Unit minute to MT (“The local government impasse”) [argument against abolishing GLC] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Rate Support Grant settlement 1983-84”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lawson (“Electricity pricing”) [Cooper Lybrand report] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 minute to MT (“Telecommunications statement”) [drafting & delivery of White Paper and accompanying Commons statement] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howell minute to MT (“The railways”) [industrial dispute] [declassified 2012]
Info only 82 Jul 19 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher TV Broadcast for tribute to King Hussein

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