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82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: Rayner Unit minute to No.10 ("Discontinuing the Rayner Line") ['Times' article] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: MT letter to Baroness Young (Management and Peresonnel Office: 1st anniversary) ["I greatly enjoyed meeting... staff... at the party"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (resignation of Lord Rayner as Head of Rayner Unit) [press notice; MT letter to Rayner; announcement] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Central Policy Review Staff record of conversation ("INMOS - Technological Edge and Competitiveness") [PT Davies, Barron, Petritz, Heightley] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Malcolm Fraser message to MT (Fraser's illness) [thanks for kind thoughts] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	China: Jenkin minute to MT ("Guangdong Nuclear Project") [report on discussions with Li Peng] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: John Coles minute to MT ("Mr. James Grant") [MT reverses her decision not to meet with Executive Director of UNICEF] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("European Council, Copenhagen") [full briefing] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Pym PS briefing to No.10 ("European Council: Poland") [Copenhagen, 3/4 December] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister of Denmark (European Council, 3/4 December) [agenda] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Ingham briefing for MT ("European Council") [Copenhagen, 3/4 December: press] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("European Council comunity relations with other industrialised countries") [Copenhagen, 3/4 December] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: The Hague telegram to FCO ("European Council 3/4 December") [Copenhagen] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Lord Cockfield PS briefing to No.10 ("European Council: Community relations with other industrialised countries") [Copenhagen, 3/4 December] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Lord Cockfield PS briefing to No.10 ("European Council: protectionist and Treaty infringements") [Copenhagen, 3/4 December] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Spain: MT message to Prime Minister González ("Spain/Gibraltar") [reserved congratulations; Gibraltar] [declassified Jul 2016]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gibraltar: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Opening to pedestrians of frontier with Gibraltar") [analysis/advice] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: Solicitor General letter to MT ("Scrutiny of New Powers of Entry") [reaction to Cabinet Office amendment to proposal for transfer of responsibilities to Home Office] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Scrutiny of New Powers of Entry") [background to amended proposal to transfer responsibilities from Solicitor General to Home Office] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Family Policy Group: Home Office paper on crime) ["I would endorse the paper's pessimism... we should abandon the notion that sentencing is somehow about affecting behaviour and return to the idea that it is first about the punishment fitting the crime, and second about protecting society"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lawson, Jenkin, Younger, Brittan) [electricity prices for industry: conclusions from Central Policy Review Staff report] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: Jenkin minute to MT ("BSC future strategy") ["I attach a paper describing the current outlook for the BSC and the guidance I believe we should give them"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO ("Visit of Arab League Delegation to London") [PLO] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: Heseltine letter to David Clark MP ("Enterprise Zones") [South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough application rejection] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Regional Policy: Younger letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Additional Enterprise Zones") ["I would like to keep open the possibility of designating a further new zone in Scotland"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Pym PS letter to No.10 (proposed sale of Hunter aircraft) [potential commercial & political consequences of withdrawing from deal] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Department of Employment press release ("Youth Training role for Chambers of Commerce says Employment Minister") ["Training is not just a matter for government"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 51st (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC, Northern Ireland, Economic Affairs, Industrial Affairs, Cable Systems) [declassified 2012]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Australia: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia letter to MT (thanks for message of sympathy regarding recent illness) [released 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EC: MT letter to Prime Minister Schlueter of Denmark (arrangements for Copenhagen European Council meeting and common fisheries policy) [released 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Religion: MT letter to Sir John Gilmour (MT must decline invitation to attend General Assembly of the Church of Scotland) [danger that MT's presence will be "presented as having a political motive"] [released 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Hong Kong: MT letter to Governor of Hong Kong, Edward Youde (MT gives Youde discretion to brief unofficial members of Hong Kong Councils) [released 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 ("Official Despatch on the Falklands Operation") [Fieldhouse's response to MT's comments on draft despatch] [declassified 2012]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Sparrow minute to MT (RAF purchase of aerial tankers from British Airways) [declassified 2012]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	General Election: Garner minute to Parkinson ("Timing For a Possible General Election") [released 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 40, 1982 Series ("Labour's "Programme for Recovery"") [released 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 27 to FCO (“Mr Prior’s visit to the United States”) [declassified 2012]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: NIO Establishment Division minute to Flesher (“Visits to Northern Ireland by the Prime Minister - Codeword”) [Operation Piston] [declassified December 2014]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Walters MSS)	Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM upset by Barclays saying they wanted an increase in rates][released 2012]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Pym, Lord Belstead, Lord MacLehose, Haddon-Cave, Alan Donald) [“Record of a Meeting Held at 10 Downing Street at 1800 hours on Thursday 2 December 1982”] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: MT letter to Youde (briefing of Unofficials) [future of Hong Kong] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [diplomatic tension] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: No.10 letter to Pym PS (“Argentine military operations”) [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Major	Margaret Thatcher	House of Commons PQs
82 Dec 2 Th	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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