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83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Pym, Heseltine, Jenkin, Brittan) [procurement: BAe vs. US contract] [declassified 2013]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	International economic policy: Walters minute to No.10 (“International financial scene: Brazil”) [the risks of interbank deposits] [declassified 2013]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Pym) ["Stuttgart": European Council, 17-19 June] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Monitoring Report: Public Trading Sector") [latest position on pay settlement negotiations] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Preparation for Williamsburg") ["adequate financial flows to the third world"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries ("Williamsburg Economic Summit: 28-30 May 1983") ["list of briefs to be prepared"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Timex") ["background note... on the latest developments"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Sale of Tornado") [Geoffrey Pattie, Papandreou, Zakolikos: record of discussion: "clear that the Greeks want Tornado, for reasons including its European provenance"; MT concerned about having not yet received letter from Papandreou referred to in the telegram] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: MT letter to Prime Minister Fanfani (EH101 helicopter project) ["I hope... you will be able to use your personal influence... to ensure that sufficient funds are made available... If this could be done in Italy... [UK] would be prepared to do the same"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: MT letter to Lord Plowden (Top Salaries Review Body reports) ["the Government has decided to postpone decisions... until after the election. I am most grateful to you and your colleagues for... these reports"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: Francis Pym minute to MT ("Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe") [main advances on modest commitments on human rights, conference on disarmament, American resistance to text] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: Pym PS minute to John Coles ("CSCE") [issues concerning proposed Madrid text on human rights, armaments] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 519 to FCO (0555Z) ("Human Rights") [Pravda article by Chair of Official Soviet Peace Committee: criticism of UK record following by plea by Rifkind in Parliament for release of Soviet citizen convicted of espionage] [declassified Dec 2018]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (pay and charges of the Armed Forces) [acceptance of Twelfth Report recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Jenkin letter to Lawson (“Energy Conservation”) [proposal for establishing a unified budget] [declassified 2014]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	General Election: Adam Ridley note to Gow (notes for MT's Manifesto launch press conference) [released 2013]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	General Election: Provisional election campaign programme for MT (18th-30th May) [released 2013]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	General Election: CRD briefing ("The Conservative Manifesto 1983") [Conservative manifesto analysis] [released 2013]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	General Election: CRD briefing ("The Conservative Manifesto 1983") [Conservative manifesto analysis] [MT's annotated copy] [released 2013]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	General Election: Cropper note ("Conservative Manifesto Commitments") [released 2013]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	General Election: Gaisman note (names to be added to the list of speech helpers) [released 2013]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	General Election: MT letter to Iain Sproat (MT unable to visit Scottish borders region due to start of General Election campaign) [MT removes references to Michael Foot from the letter: "Please keep out all reference to Labour personalities - we fight on policies"] [released 2013]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Italy: MT letter to Prime Minister Fanfani of Italy (UK-Italian industrial collaboration) [EH101 helicopter project] [released 2013]
83 May 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	US: Alan Walters minute to MT (“Williamsburg: The thematic paper (revised) 12 May 1983”) [exchange rates & intervention; a new Bretton Woods; aid/IMF] [declassified 2014]
83 May 17 Tu	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Major	Margaret Thatcher	Speech to Conservative Central Office staff
83 May 17 Tu	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Minor	Margaret Thatcher	Remarks on postponement of Stuttgart European Council

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