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Text 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Argentina: Enders memorandum for Shultz (“Presidential Certification of Argentina”) ["we should move soon", after UK elections - military "will remain the principal arbiter of Argentine politics, a bastion of anti-Communism"; "important US objective is to prevent hostilities between Argentina and Britain in the Falklands"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Jenkin minute to MT ("British Technology Group") [MT: "I don't think we have got BTG right yet. Indeed I doubt whether any such group of people can really comprehend & foresee the potential of various research"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("Rolls-Royce Limited") [loss for 1982 worse than forecast] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("British Policy in the Antarctic: Minerals") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield PS letter to No.10 (Aviation: US Grand Jury Investigation) [draft MT letter of intervention to Reagan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Chair of British Caledonian letter to MT (Aviation: US Grand Jury Investigation) [plea for MT's personal intervention] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Lord Cockfield letter to Pym ("The United Nations Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences") [action to safeguard competition when UK accedes to the Code] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howell PS letter to No.10 ("Hastings-Tonbridge Rail Service") ["You asked to see the base papers on which my Secretary of State had reached his conclusion"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Brittan minute to MT (“Public expenditure survey 1983”) [draft guidelines] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Monitoring Report: Public Trading Sector") [latest position on public sector pay negotiations: Post Office; British Telecom; British Rail; British Steel] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [Alan Walters' attendance at meeting of Personal Representatives] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Wider parental choice") [summary of, and advice on, Keith Joseph options] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Wider parental choice") [summary of, and advice on, Keith Joseph options] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Lawson PS letter to No.10 (North Sea oil prices & Nigeria) ["Lawson will seek [Yamani's] help in presenting these proposals as a helpful step towards stabilising the market"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: Pym PS letter to Heseltine PS ("Gibraltar") [House of Assembly resolution on the closure of the Naval Dockyard; proposed reply] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Brittan letter to King ("Select Committees: Departmental Memorandum on Main Estimates") [Committee requests to Departments for memoranda: "we should cooperate"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen letter to MT ("Report from the Select Committee on Standing Orders (Revision) 1982-3") [MP salary forfeitures when suspended from Parliament; sub-committee on nationalised industries] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 letter to Fowler PS ("Unemployment measures: rules about suitable employment") [follow-up to Fowler minute of 18 February] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 letter to Fowler PS ("Unemployment measures and family support issues") [follow-up to Fowler minute of 18 February] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 letter to Tebbit PS ("Unemployment measures: workfare") [follow-up to Tebbit minute of 9 February] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The future of ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority: "We are recommending Joint Boards for other services following the disappearance of the GLC... it would be much easier to follow the same logical pattern for education"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Nuclear Defence Policy - MISC 7(83) 3rd Meeting (Basing of United States Cruise Missiles, Policing of Demonstrations at Military Bases) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Pym note circulated to Cabinet - C(83) 8 (White Paper: Developments in the European Community - July-December 1982) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Extract of speech delivered by Douglas Wass on leaving HMT (Treasury silver) ["in my determination to keep the Treasury silver in the Treasury I gave instructions that during your [i.e. MT's] visit] it was to be kept out of sight"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Gow minute to MT ("Alfred Sherman") [problems with Sherman and the Centre for Policy Studies] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Gow minute to MT ("Meeting at Chequers on Thursday 7th April 1983") ["You are not right in saying that we have not consulted you about the procedure for drawing up the manifesto"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Industry: Owen minute to Scholar ("Cutlers' Feast Speech") [Sheffield speech themes] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Illustrated London News") [briefing for interview] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Wall Street Journal") [briefing for interview] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Security: Stephens note to MT (history of Special Branch and briefing for Centenary Ball) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Italy: MT letter to Prime Minister Fanfani of Italy (plans for Round Table discussion on productivity and technological innovation) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Science: MT letter to Sir Alec Merrison (thanks for letter) ["You are quite right - the Americans should join Cern"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Rickett minute to MT (“NCB Chairmanship: Statement”) [“The Opposition attempted to manufacture outrage”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lawson PS to No.10 (HC statement on appointment of MacGregor at NCB chairman) [encloses text] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (“British Aerospace results”) [background notes, notes for Questions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (current weakness of sterling) [let the exchange rate take the strain in run-up to election] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [press enquiries] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 note to Cabinet Office (“The Future of Hong Kong”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Santiago telegram to FCO (“UK/Chile cooperation during the Falklands war”) [sinking of the Belgrano] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Pym PS letter to No.10 (“Falklands: Argentine next of kin visit”) [potential unauthorised landing] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 (Extension of the Falkland Islands territorial sea) [paper] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ingham minute to MT (“Liaison committee”) [forthcoming events] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Mar 28 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Interview for Illustrated London News
PDF 83 Mar 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions including US report) [declassified 2013]
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