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Text 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Nott letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (Contracting out public sector functions) [Defence progress report] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 3755 to FCO (1431Z) ("OAS/Falklands") [Organization of American States: "The Argentine Foreign Minister thanked the U.S. for joining in support of Argentina... low-key... debate... theme of inter-American reconciliation"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French arms for Argentina") ["We are naturally disappointed that deliveries have been resumed... [but] it is for each country to decide its own policy on arms sales"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (Pay Brief) ["position in mid-November"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lawson ("Nationalised industry pay") ["what happens in the public trading sector in the coming months will to a very large extent determine what happens in the pay round this winter. We must bring all the influence we can to bear on negotiations"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3754 to FCO (0025Z) ("1983 Economic Summit") ["Mitterrand... angry... because he felt that the Americans had treated him cavalierly by announcing.. the Summit [dates, without consulting him]"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT ("Wider parental choice") [Keith Joseph paper] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (Wider parental choice) [summary of Keith Joseph paper] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walker minute to MT (EC restrictions of exports to the Soviet Union) [consternation about "illegal" French trade agreement with Soviet Union & wider issue of France's lack of cooperation in EC affairs] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("CPRS work programme") [CPRS papers; Policy Unit minute identifying shortcomings of the CPRS] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("CPRS study of the Unions") [advice on how to respond to CPRS proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Brittan letter to Lawson (external financing of the electricity supply industry & financial targets) [details & arrangements] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 647 to UKE Paris (1530Z) ("AM39S for Argentina") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram to UKE Paris ("French Arms for Argentina") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department telegram to All American Republic Diplomatic Posts, USE London & USMIS New York ("OASGA - Falklands Resolution Passed") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Jenkin minute to MT ("INMOS") [case for ongoing Govt financial support] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler minute to MT ("Debate on the 5 Per Cent Unemployment Benefit Abatement") [Government's position: options] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler) ["Abatement of Unemployment Benefit": Parliamentary Debate on 22 November: tactical options] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: FCO telegram 213 to Certain Missions and Dependent Territories (1300Z) ("Afghanistan: The Interview with Kuzichkin") [Soviet defector: "The Russians are now bogged down in a war which they cannot win and cannot abandon"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("The Brezhnev Succession") [FCO analysis of Andropov's first two weeks in office & biographical information] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Boddy minute to Parkinson (speech by Jim Mortimer on Labour's policy focus for next 12-18 months) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Sir Arthur Bryant (thanks for the dedication in the introduction to your book, "Spirit of England") ["I agree that history has become far too specialised. A book like your own is a rare event to-day"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT letter to Sir John Russell (thanks for approving comments on MT's Guildhall speech) ["we must make sure that understandable hope at the change of leadership in the Soviet Union does not encourage wishful thinking"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nott minute to MT ("Official Despatch on the Falklands Operation") [draft despatch by Admiral Fieldhouse] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Mount minute to MT ("Draft Green Paper on Trade Union Democracy") [comments on Green Paper: strike ballots] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Appointments: Lawson minute to MT (appointment of Lynda Rouse as special adviser) [MT: "I neither had nor needed an adviser when I was head of a department and I have always regarded the request as a sign of weakness"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: Stephens note to MOD (MT already committed to SAS dinner) ["I hope that the Ministry of Defence will not be unhappy with this decision"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington record of conversations (Alan Walters visiting Donald Regan, Beryl Sprinkel, Paul Volcker, Mark Leland, Stephen Axilrod, AIE staff) [monetary policy; interest rates; independence of the Fed] [declassified 2014]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 note to MT (proposal of brithday greetings for Indira Gandhi) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Pym telegram to Youde (“Future of Hong Kong”) [“we fully understand that opinion in Hong Kong… is becoming restive”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Jenkin PS letter to Biffen PS (“Steel: Parliamentary statement on 22 November”) [EC talks on global steel industry crisis] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Security: Whitelaw PS letter to No.10 (“Lord Bridge’s report on Trestrail”) [review of vetting procedures] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO (“Vice President Bush’s visit”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Whitelaw minute to MT (“Immigration rules: husbands and fiances”) [controversy over legislation to address marriages of convenience] [declassified 2016]
CD only 82 Nov 19 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Remarks visiting Cornwall (French supplying Exocets to Argentina)
CD only 82 Nov 19 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech to Cornish Conservatives
PDF 82 Nov 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions including US report) [declassified 2012]
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