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81 Nov 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Couzens letter to Scholar ("Guildhall Speech") [thoughts on content of the speech] [released 2012] |
|
81 Nov 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Walters minute to MT ("NIC and NIS - The Chancellor's Proposals of 12 November") [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Nov 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Treasury minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Treasury weekly economic brief") [MT's Parliamentary Question Time briefing now to be circulated more widely] [declassified Dec 2010] |
|
81 Nov 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Michael Jopling minute to Ian Gow (letter from Stephen Dorrell) [“rather disturbing” criticisms of government’s economic strategy] [released 2017] |
|
81 Nov 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Peter Cropper record of meeting ("Conservative Party Finance Committee - 17 November") [analysis of the UK's current economic position by Professor Dahrendorf] [released 2012] |
|
81 Nov 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Schmidt) [world economic situation, EC trade and industrial policy, European Council Agenda, EMS, EC Budget, aid, Canadian constitution, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Middle East, inner German relations, UN, defence] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Nov 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("National Insurance Contributions") [proposed increase to NI Contribution] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Nov 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Fringe Benefits") [taxing car benefits] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Nov 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Treasury record of discussion (Chancellor of the Exchequer, FRG Federal Minister of Economics, Kenneth Couzens) [co-ordination of economic policy within EU; EU relations with US & Japan; proposed insurance directive; EU budget] [declassified Dec 2010] |
|
81 Nov 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Parkinson (Lord Hailsham's speech to the Oxford University Conservative Association) ["not for the first time... press coverage of the speech has been quite inadequate"] [declassified Dec 2010] |
|
81 Nov 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Scholar minute to MT ("Papers on NIC and NIS") [MT's concern about wide circulation of papers on Budget issues] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Nov 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Tebbit minute to MT (proposed increase in National Insurance Contribution) [Tebbit accepts Chancellor of the Exchequer's proposal] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Nov 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Walters minute to Scholar ("National Insurance Contributions") [clarification of position on Chancellor of the Exchequer's proposal] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Nov 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (“Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Federal Republic”) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Nov 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (“Record of a plenary discussion between British and West German ministers”) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Nov 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 briefing to MT (“Check list of points for the Prime Minister to raise during tête-à-tête with Chancellor Schmidt”) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Nov 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Chairing a meeting of NEDC") [National Economic Development Council: proposed date for next meeting] [declassified Dec 2010] |
|
81 Nov 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Whitelaw ("Economic briefing") ["important to ensure that all of us are kept in touch with the progress of our economic policies"] [declassified Dec 2010] |
|
81 Nov 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Fowler-Brittan) ["Social Security Expenditure and National Insurance contributions"] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Nov 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 minute: Policy Unit to Igham ("Monetary targets and the recovery") ["a major presentational difficulty"] [declassified Dec 2010] |
|
81 Nov 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Benefits in Kind - Free Petrol") [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Nov 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: "Gang of 25" letter to Chief Whip (collective protest against government economic policy) [will vote against any measures "which deflate aggregate demand"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Nov 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: HMT letter to No.10 ("European Council: Economic and Social Situation") [London European Council: brief] [declassified 2014] |
|
81 Nov 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Armstrong briefing for MT ("National Insurance Contributions") [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Nov 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("National Insurance Contribution") [proposed increases] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Nov 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Treasury internal minute ("National Institute Review") ["situation report on the UK economy"] [declassified Dec 2010] |
|
81 Nov 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: London European Council draft speaking notes and Conclusions [annotated by MT] [declassified 2014] |
|
81 Nov 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (European Union) |
EC: London European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
|
81 Nov 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Employment: Tebbit PS briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s meeting with a delegation from the Jobs for Youth campaign”) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Nov 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Treasury minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Treasury weekly economic brief") [declassified Dec 2010] |
|
81 Nov 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 minute: Policy Unit to Ingham ("Speaking notes for Ministers") ["the real gap is on non-economic issues"] [declassified Dec 2010] |
|
81 Nov 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Jeffrey Sterling (hopeful signs) [hopes for earlier impact on unemployment than in the past] [released 2012] |
|
81 Nov 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Sterling (economic recovery) [released 2012] |
|
81 Nov 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Employment: No.10 record of conversation (MT-delegation from Jobs For Youth Campaign) [unemployment] [released 2013] |
|
81 Nov 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gibraltar: Carrington minute to MT (“Gibraltar” ) [closure of naval dockyard] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Nov 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Employment: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Michael Alison, delegates from ‘Jobs for Youth’ campaign) [“macro economic background” fails to appease delegates] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Brazil: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Foreign Minister of Brazil, Guerreiro) [Brazilian internal affairs, bilateral relations] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Dec 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government machinery: Tebbit letter to Walker ("Proposed Merger of Family Expenditure Survey and National Food Survey") ["My main concern... is that confidence in the retail prices index must not be jeopardised... Accordingly I do not propose to authorise the merger"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
81 Dec 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Derek Howe minute (Heath speech) [“It is the paralysis of Western leadership which is the disturbing factor today in the whole of this world situation”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Dec 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute: Vereker to Hoskyns ("The mini budget and the strategy") ["Chancellor's statement... overwhelming impression was of a technical package consisting chiefly of bad news... criticism could have been deflected by different presentation"] [declassified Dec 2010] |
|
81 Dec 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Lord President minute to No.10 (Pay Bargaining: Guidance for Ministers) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Hoskyns minute to MT ("A Strategy for the next five years") [urges he head a PM's department, also CPRS & CRD] [released 2012] |
|
81 Dec 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Hoskyns note ("A Strategy for the Next 5 Years") [remark directed at MT: "You don't really believe in strategic planning work and I think we are all deluding ourselves if we now try to make a fresh start as if you do"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Dec 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (agenda for NEDC meeting to be chaired by MT) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Rates: Heseltine letter to Brittan (“Green Paper on domestic rates”) [proposed amendments] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Text of Conservative Party Political Broadcast (Chancellor of the Exchequer: "we're just beginning to see the first signs of success") [released 2012] |
|
81 Dec 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: No.10 letter to HMT ("Budget Papers") [MT's concerns about Budget security] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Government Machinery: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“National Standards and International Trade”) [Departmental demarcation hindering progress] [declassified 2014] |
|
81 Dec 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Energy: Walters minute to Coles (“… the case for exporting gas”) [“Europeans… have turned to the Soviet Union for supplies”] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 12 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Press Summary for the PM (winter weather and transport problems, economy, public sector pay, Chapman Pincher) ["Express feature your Christmas card to GLC's Livingstone - "just crackers""] [released 2012] |
|
81 Dec 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Rates: Heseltine minute to MT (“Local Government Finance Bill/ statement on Green Paper on alternatives to domestic rates”) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Treasury briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Sir S. Warburg and Dr. Guth, Friday, 18 December”) [global economy] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Wall Street Journal clipping ("Patron of the Pound: Bank of England Plays Wide-Ranging Role, Gets Wide Criticism") [MT's criticisms of the BoE discussed] [released 2012] |
|
81 Dec 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Employment: MT letter to Les Huckfield MP (Jobs Express and Lobby of Parliament on Monday, 30th November) [economic recovery key to creating jobs] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 3848 to FCO (0230Z) (“The US recession and President Reagan’s economic recovery programme”) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Press Summary for the PM (unrest and repression of Solidarity in Poland, GLC and London Transport, strikes, industry, economy, Labour party strife) [released 2012] |
|
81 Dec 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury and Civil Service Committee Report (“The Government’s Economic Policy: Autumn Review”) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Siegmund Warburg, Dr. Wilfried Guth) [global economy; Warburg urges MT to join EMS] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 19 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Press Summary for the PM (unrest in and repression of Solidarity in Poland, unions and pay, economy, GLC and London Transport, industry) [released 2012] |
|
81 Dec 20 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Strategy: Hoskyns et al - Westwell Report (“Stepping Stones to 1989”) [draft of report] [released 2012] |
|
81 Dec 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute ("Getting the Government's Economic Message Across") [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Approach to the Budget") [preparation for the Budget; MT concerned about potential leaks] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: MT to Archie Hamilton (thanks) [“I valued our talk”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Dec 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Privy Council’s Office minute to Home Secretary’s Office (“Economic Guidance for Ministers Over The New Year”) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Lord Carrington ("IMF: 1981 Article IV consultations") ["UK annual consultations with the IMF... central recommendation was that we should persevere with our efforts to bring down inflation"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
81 Dec 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government machinery: Director of CPRS minute to MT ("CPRS programme of work for 1982") ["You asked that I should suggest a programme... that would enable us to contribute to the development of Government strategy for the next five years"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
81 Dec 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: HMT letter to No.10 (activities and achievements in 1981 and 1982 outlook) [information for MT's New Year broadcasts] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 31 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: FCO to UKE Brussels ("Informal Meeting of Political and Economics Directors on Poland - Economic Subjects") [report on meeting] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Dec 31 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gibraltar: No.10 letter to TGWU (Gibraltar Naval dockyard) [“alternative ways to support the economy”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 2 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham minute to MT ("BBC Radio 4 - World This Weekend") [briefing for interview; MT's aim should be "to dispel the gloom and accentuate the positive"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Jan 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Strategy: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Strategy Meeting: Tuesday 5 January") [summary of Westwell weekend discussion: "Stepping Stones to 1986" (Gow's copy)] [released 2013] |
|
82 Jan 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Strategy Meeting: Tuesday 5 January") [economic strategy: the Westwell Report] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Ingham note for the record ("NEDC") [National Economic Development Council meeting: Geoffrey Howe, Len Murray & others: TUC request for a Treasury forecasts paper] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
82 Jan 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Gow note to MT ("Ralph Harris") [text of Harris' speech on unemployment to the House of Lords] [released 2012] |
|
82 Jan 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT ("M1, M3 and the Monetary Myths of Mr. Heath") [released 2013] |
|
82 Jan 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: UKE Washington telegram 37 to FCO (0056Z) (“Schmidt/Reagan meeting: Poland”) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 7 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham minute to MT ("World This Weekend") [briefing for interview with BBC's Gordon Clough] [released 2013] |
|
82 Jan 7 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham minute to MT ("World This Weekend") [further briefing for interview] [released 2013] |
|
82 Jan 8 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: No.10 letter to Private Secretaries (improving presentation of Government policies) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 8 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury Minute (“Bull Points”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Geoffrey Howe to Michael Latham (government policy) [“I remain as committed to getting interest rates down as I was at the time of the last Budget”] [released 2017] |
|
82 Jan 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury record of conversation to No.10 (Note of the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s discussions at Chevening) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hungary: Home Office record of conversation (Hungarian FM’s call on Home Secretary) [importance of political dialogue with Hungary] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Jan 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Employment: No.10 letter to Department of Employment (Tebbit to attend European Management Forum's symposium in Davos) [MT comments that other Ministers must fill in for Tebbit on "major television and radio programmes on the unemployment figures"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Jan 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Walters minute ("Agenda for Meeting to be Held at 3.30pm on Wednesday, 13 January 1982") [monetary policy strategy and EMS] [released 2013] |
|
82 Jan 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 1, 1982 Series ("Economic Policy in the Industrial Countries") [released 2013] |
|
82 Jan 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Gaffin minute to MT ("Salford/Manchester Visit: Media") [briefing] [released 2013] |
|
82 Jan 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Lady Young PS ("TSRB: economic evidence") [Top Salaries Review Body: draft submission] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Jan 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Delors) [Japan, US, EC issues] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Opinion Polls: Britto note ("Public Opinion Background Note 96") [weekly survey note; Glasgow Hillhead by-election] [released 2013] |
|
82 Jan 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Ingham minute to MT ("Getting the Government's Economic Message Across") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Cabinet: 28 January") [MT: "I am very worried about this paper. I believe the way it is phrased will arouse maximum opposition and it will be difficult to get Cabinet's wholehearted support"] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: NEDC letter to No.10 ("Economic Progress Report") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Pym-Brittan-Parkinson) [improving presentation of economic policy] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Pym, Brittan, Parkinson) [presentation of economic policy] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Jan 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Energy: Lawson minute to MT (“Oil depletion policy: production cuts”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Governor of the Bank of England) [Distillers bid for Bank of Scotland] [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Jan 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Cancun Follow-up: Global Negotiations, Namibia-Angola, Government Crisis in Sudan, Polish Debt Negotiations with the Private Banks, Moroccan Counselor Guedira Meeting") [declassified 2016] |
|
82 Jan 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: John Sparrow letter to MT (economic advice and analysis) [1982 Budget, taxation, PSBR, potential miners' strike, Monopolies Commission, industry] [released 2013] |
|
82 Jan 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Kemp minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Cabinet 28 January - Economic Strategy - Brief") [brief for Chancellor of the Exchequer's Cabinet presentation] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Northern Ireland: NIOM(82) 1st (note of meeting: security, Unionist delegation to US, political situation, Anglo-Irish matters) [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Jan 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO (“Poland: NAC Meeting on 23 January”) [overview of the current situation in Poland] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: Coles minute to MT (“Visit of Dr. Kohl”) [briefing attached] [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Jan 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lord Carrington (“US economic policy and the Alliance”) [concerns about US budget deficit] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Department of Industry briefing for MT (the UK Information Technology industry) [briefing for National Economic Development Council meeting] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
82 Jan 24 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Opinion Polls: Britto note ("Public Opinion Background Note 97") [weekly survey note] [released 2013] |
|
82 Jan 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Hurd letter to Len Murray ("Cancun Summit: International Meeting for Cooperation and Development") [response to TUC criticism of outcomes] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
82 Jan 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Cabinet: 28 January") [Cabinet paper on Budget and economic strategy] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Scottish Office briefing for MT (meeting with Younger and Hamish Gray) [closure of Invergordon smelter] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 1 (Economic Strategy) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham press digest and diary for MT (rail strike, pay and trade unions, economy, EC, Pope's visit, rape, industry, education, welfare, Northern Ireland, SDP, Poland) [released 2013] |
|
82 Jan 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Armstrong minute to Scholar ("Presentation of Economic Policy: Questions of Procedure") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Ingham minute to No.10 (“Presentation of economic policy: question of procedure”) [“I stress the importance of clearance… with No.10”] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Jan 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Pay: Armstrong minute to MT (“1982 Pay Offer to the Non-industrial Civil Service”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“US interest rates”) [concerns about US budget deficit] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Ingham minute to Scholar ("Presentation of Economic Policy: Question of Procedure") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Economic Strategy (C(82) 1)") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Ibbs minute to MT ("Economic Strategy (C(82)1)") [comments on Chancellor of the Exchequer's paper: tax cuts] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Northern Ireland: Whitmore minute to Boys-Smith (economy, security, political situation) [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Jan 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Northern Ireland: Whitmore minute to Boys-Smith (economy, security, political situation) [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Jan 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: Lord Carrington minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“US economic policy and the Alliance”) [“increasing strain… between the United States and Europe”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 3rd (Parliamentary Affairs, Poland, Ireland, EC, Industrial Affairs, Economic Strategy) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Confidential Annex to Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 3rd (Economic Strategy, 1982 Budget) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jan 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Treasury briefing for MT ("NEDC, 3 February: Steering Brief") [National Economic Development Council: Chairman's brief] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
82 Jan 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("NEDC, 3 February: Steering Brief") [National Economic Development Council: inward investment; the electronics industry; small firms] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
82 Jan 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Terry Burns letter to MT (thanks for invitation to attend Cabinet) ["It was very helpful to gain such a clear understanding of the range of opinions of Ministers..."] [released 2013] |
|
82 Jan 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: MT letter to President Reagan (Allied response to the repression in Poland) [“deep concern… divisions within the alliance… could advance Soviet interests”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Armstrong minute to Whitmore (leak of Chancellor of the Exchequer's paper on economic strategy) [Economist article] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: HMT letter to No.10 ("Budget Papers") [avoiding a leak of the 1982 Budget plans] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Mount minute to MT ("Speeches 1983") [proposed themes for upcoming speeches] [released 2013] |
|
82 Feb 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchquer, Ridley, Sir Raymond Pennock, Sir Terence Beckett & others) [CBI: Budget representations] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Feb 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("NEDC: ASLEF Dispute") [National Economic Development Council: line to take with Len Murray on rail dispute] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
82 Feb 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS minute to No.10 ("Overseas Investment and Capital Flows: NEDC(82)9") [National Economic Development Council: MT request for clarification of the subject] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
82 Feb 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: No.11 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-CBI) ["CBI Budget Representations"] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Economy: Alan Walters diary (economy) [PM nervous over M1 figures; difficulties at PMQs over miserable economic prospects ][released 2012] |
|
82 Feb 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO (“Polish Foreign Policy”) [Polish government press statement] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: Minister for Trade minute to Carrington (“Poland: Termination of Anglo-Soviet Maritime Agreement”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury letter to No.10 (“OECD economic outlook”) [“deep concern about the failure to inform us of changes to the [unemployment figures] forecast”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Governor of the Bank of England) [monetary and exchange rate policy] [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Feb 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (measures to boost the construction industry) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Germany: Chancellor Schmidt letter to MT (German economic initiative) ["With this package of measures the Federal Government is taking account of structural changes in the world economy"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Feb 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public Expenditure: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Long-Term Public Expenditure Prospects") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO (“Poland: The Economy”) [agriculture, industry, economic reform] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 385 to FCO (0039Z) (“United States: budget for FY83”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 6 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: Chancellor Schmidt message to MT (German fiscal package) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 letter to Jeremy Pope (Government assistance for the small firms sector) [response to Pope's clarification of his comments at recent National Econonomic Development Council meeting & his plea for extension of scheme] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
82 Feb 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Raymond Pennock, Sir Terence Beckett) [CBI: Budget representations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Feb 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Liaison Committee") [presentation of Government policy] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Walters minute to MT ("Budget") [oil price revisions, National Insurance surcharge reduction, political considerations] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham minute to Whitmore ("Brian Connell Interview") [transcript of portion of interview dealing with the Budget] [released 2013] |
|
82 Feb 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Minutes of Liaison Committee meeting - 10 February 1982 (MT-Pym-Parkinson-Younger-Brittan-Tebbit-Wakeham-Cropper-Ingham-Ward) [presentation of Government policy] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter (Michael Grylls study group) [“their ideas have not turned out to be so brilliant as to attract us”] [released 2017] |
|
82 Feb 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: MT letter to North Cumbria and Lanarkshire Textile Workers Association (recession in the British textile industry) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Caroline Stephens note to MT (Capital Structure of Industry in Europe) [paper gone astray] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
82 Feb 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: UKE Washington telegram 450 to FCO (0400Z) (“Poland: Economic Measures against the Soviet Union”) [a decision to send a “grand embassy” to European capitals] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Younger letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (thoughts on the Budget in relation to Scotland) [need for special industrial assistance for areas suffering particular difficulties] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Overseas aid: Jenkin letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Aid Trade Programme”) [associated benefits for UK trade and employment] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 13 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Monetary Policy: Walters draft note ("Agenda for Meeting to be Held at 3.30PM on Wednesday, 13 January 1982") [monetary policy and strategy] [released 2013] |
|
82 Feb 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Germany: MT letter to Chancellor Schmidt (German economic initiative) ["I share your belief in the need for lower interest rates and your emphasis on the budgetary discipline this requires"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Feb 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public Expenditure: Armstrong minute to Whitmore (long-term public expenditure prospects) ["We must assume that the...exercise...and very probably its conclusions, will become public knowledge"] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Department of Industry briefing for MT (MT meeting with Robert Kilroy-Silk) [factory closures in constituency] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Nott PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (evidence to the Armed Forces Pay Review Body) ["Government... wishes to stress the continuing importance of achieving realistic pay settlements in the public sector"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
82 Feb 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Fowler letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1982 Budget") [National Insurance surcharge, tobacco and alcohol, private hospital development, help for the most vulnerable] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Walker minute to MT ("Memorandum on a Conservative Strategy for the Next Two Years") ["The Conservative party faces grimmer prospects than at any time since the end of the second world war" "potential for an electoral disaster"; Walker outlines a 'Wet' strategy] [released 2013] |
|
82 Feb 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public Expenditure: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Long Term Public Expenditure Prospects") [emphasises "the need for quite radical solutions in the social security, health and education fields"] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Hayek MSS) |
Conservatism: Hayek letter to Arthur Seldon (essay by Professor Herbert Gjersch on present depression) ["I wish I could explain the central points as clearly as he has succeeded in doing"] |
|
82 Feb 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Thames TV Eye") [arrangements for interview with Llew Gardner] [released 2013] |
|
82 Feb 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: MT letter to Freidrich von Hayek (MT glad to see Hayek at Walter Salomon's dinner) [success of the Chilean economy; reform in the UK must be slower given the need for "a high degree of consent"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Feb 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (“Presentation of Economic Policy: Questions of Procedure”) [MT seeks redrafting of guidance on radio and television interviews] [released Dec 2014] |
|
82 Feb 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Forthcoming Budget") [update on progress] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Jenkin letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1982 Budget") [loan guarantee and business start-up schemes] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Walters minute to MT ("Budget") [PSBR and tax reductions, national insurance and income tax thresholds, political considerations] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 539 to FCO (0105Z) (“President Reagan’s press conference 18 February: the economy”) [“not yet out of the woods”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: HMT letter to No.10 ("Share Incentives Schemes") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Lankester note to MT ("Budget Arithmetic!") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
EC: Prime Minister Joergensen of Denmark letter to MT (Germany's economic programme) ["In Denmark, too, the Government has given serious attention to the question of increased economic activity in Europe with the aim of combatting unemployment"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Feb 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Brian Connell Interview") [briefing for interview: "an opportunity to rally an essentially friendly readership to your cause"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Feb 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: IMF UK Delegate to FCO (IMF discussion of UK economy) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Inland Revenue letter to HMT ("International Tax Avoidance: Sunday Express Article 21 February 1982") [MT: "Chancellor. I am very worried about these proposals..."] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: No.10 record of conversation (“Lunch with Dr. Arthur Burns on Monday 22 February 1982”) [“criticism of the Administration’s fiscal and monetary policies was likely to be counter-productive”; MT subsequently cut para from EEF speech] [released Dec 2014] |
|
82 Feb 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: No.10 briefing (“Lunch with Dr. Arthur Burns on Monday 22 February 1982”) [“criticism of the Administration’s fiscal and monetary policies was likely to be counter-productive”] [released Dec 2014] |
|
82 Feb 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: No.10 record of conversation (meeting with Dr Arthur Burns) [issues in monetary policy, including credit creation outside the banking system] [released Dec 2014] |
|
82 Feb 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Presentation of Economic Policy: Questions of Procedure”) [MT’s “wish to give more encouragement to Ministers to take every opportunity… through radio and television programmes”] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Feb 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 587 to FCO (0040Z) (“US economy: the political context, the economic outlook and the role of the Federal reserve”) [“a messy fight is in prospect”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Forthcoming Budget - Fiscal Proposals") [update] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Ingham minute to MT ("Budget Presentation") ["the Chancellor needs...to stamp his dominance on the occasion at the very outset or very early on"] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Walters minute to MT ("Price of Oil and the Budget") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: George RP letter to Wolfson (Inland Revenue draft legislation on international tax avoidance) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Mortgage Interest Relief Ceiling") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Minutes of Liaison Committee meeting - 24 February 1982 (MT-Pym-Parkinson-Younger-Brittan-Tebbit-Wakeham-Cropper-Ingham-Lilley-Ward) [presentation of Government policy] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Heseltine letter to Brittan ("National Insurance Surcharge") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: No.10 letter to HMT (outcome of Budget discussions between MT and Chancellor of the Exchequer) [monetary policy, fiscal stance, duties, National Insurance surcharge, personal taxes, energy prices, mortgage interest relief ceiling] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Walters minute to No.10 ("Share Incentive Schemes") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Long-Term Public Expenditure Prospects"] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Hugh Clover Minute "Week Ahead" (EC Budget, Economy Falkland Islands talks) [released 2013] |
|
82 Feb 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Brittan letter to Heseltine ("The National Insurance Surcharge and the Rate Support Grant") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("North Sea Fiscal Regime") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Walters minute to MT ("Kenneth Fleet Article 21 February 1982, Sunday Express") [international tax avoidance; concerns in the City of London] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 652 to FCO (0110Z) (“US budget deficits”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Feb 27 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Fowler letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Tax Relief on NI Contributions Paid by the Self-Employed") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Budget, Economy, Trade Unions) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Edwards letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (industry in Wales) [need for regional aid] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1982 Budget") [Heseltine supports Jenkin's proposals on loan guarantee and business start-up schemes] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: No.10 letter to HMT ("North Sea Fiscal Regime") [MT's comments on Chancellor's minute of 26 February] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Sport, Economy, Trade Unions) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Heseltine letter to Brittan ("National Insurance Surcharge and Rate Support Grant") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [consequences of BNOC's oil price reduction] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: No.10 letter to HMT ("International Tax Avoidance: Sunday Express Article, 21 February") [MT "very worried indeed about these proposals" and the "uncertainty and suspicion" they have caused in the City] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Sport, Economy, Trade Unions) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to MT ("The Budget") [update] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Lord President's Office record of conversation (MT-Lord President's Liaison Committee) [law and order, economic presentation, budget presentation] [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Minutes of Liaison Committee meeting - 3 March 1982 (MT-Pym-Whitelaw-Parkinson-Younger-Brittan-Tebbit-Wakeham-Cropper-Ingham-Lilley-True-Ward) [presentation of Government policy] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 8, 1982 Series ("Background to the Budget") [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Economy, Budget, Unemployment, Trade Unions) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: MT comments on Fifth Draft of the Budget Speech ("I have one overwhelming impression of this speech - it is so detailed that the general shape and purpose of the overall budget is lost") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Cabinet Secretary minute to MT (Versailles economic summit) [MT notes the need to discuss her concerns] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 737 to FCO (2144Z) (“US business opinions about President Reagan’s FY83 budget proposals”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Economy, Industrial Problems, Trade Unions) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Alan Cummins Minute for MT ("Week Ahead") (Economy, Budget, Pay Negotiations, Trade Unions) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Fowler letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Supplementary Benefit Heating Additions") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Budget - The Reduction in NIS and the Public Sector") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO (“Poland”) [internal situation, martial law, detainees, resumption of dialogue, te party, te economy] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 6 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Economy, Budget, Industry, Pay, Transport) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 6 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: HMT letter to No.10 ("Budget Speech: Final Draft") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 7 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Economy, Budget, Industrial Problems) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 7 Su |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Economy, Budget, Pay, Industrial Problems) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (need to uprate supplementary benefit heating additions) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: MT letter to Danish Prime Minister Jorgensen (European economic situation) [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Mar 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public Expenditure: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Long-Term Public Expenditure Prospects") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Economy, Budget, Pay, Trade Unions) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Hansard |
Economy: 1982 Budget (Howe 4) |
|
82 Mar 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 9th (Death of Lord Butler, The Budget) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Gow minute to MT ("Finance Committee - Tuesday 9th March 1982") [Chancellor of the Exhchequer talk on Budget to Conservative Finance Committee] [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Budget: HMT brief on 1982 Budget ("Budget Key Points") [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Japan: Prime Minister Suzuki of Japan letter to MT (global economic situation) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Budget: Walters notes ("Cabinet on Budget 1982") [views of Ministers on the Budget] [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Economy, Pay, Industry, Transport) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Whitmore minute to MT ("The Budget and the CBI") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Lord President's Office record of conversation (MT-Lord President's Liaison Committee) [budget presentation] [released 2013] |
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82 Mar 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Minutes of Liaison Committee meeting - 10 March 1982 (MT-Pym-Parkinson-Cropper-Ingham-Ward) [presentation of Government policy: the Budget] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 9, 1982 Series ("The 1982 Budget") [released 2013] |
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82 Mar 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 813 to FCO (0045Z) (“Buckley mission”: credits to USSR) [conversation between Nicholas Henderson & James Buckley] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Trident, Budget, Economy, Industry) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Trident, Budget, Economy, Trade Unions, Pay) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Hugh Clover Minute for MT ("Week Ahead") (Economy, Pay Negotiations) [released 2013] |
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82 Mar 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Hungary: Bank of England record of Deputy Governor’s phone conversation (“Hungary”) [financial crisis; wants US to declare it different from rest of Eastern bloc] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: UKE Bonn to FCO ("Press Reactions to the British Budget") [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Cabinet Office minute for MT (“Public Expenditure Survey 1982: Guidelines”) [Gregson comment on Brittan paper] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Keith Joseph letter to Leon Brittan (“Draft Paper for Expenditure Steering Group - Education”) [Strongly negative response from MT] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Alan Walters minute for MT (“Public Expenditure Survey 1982: Guidelines”) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 5 to FCO (“United States monthly economic report for February 1982”) [“budget proposals are unlikely to pass Congress”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 14 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Opinion Polls: Britto note ("Public Opinion Background Note 104") [weekly survey note; Glasgow Hillhead by-election; economy and the Budget] [released 2013] |
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82 Mar 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: HMT letter to No.10 (market reactions to the Budget) ["The overall tone has been very positive"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: Armstrong minute to No.10 (his conversation with Herr Lahnstein in Bonn: Anglo-German consultations) [declassified 2014] |
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82 Mar 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 225 to FCO (1810Z) (“Anglo-German summit: the mood in the FRG”) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Anglo-German summit - 19 March 1982”) [briefing] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Government Machinery: Jenkin minute to MT (“Responsibility for Standards”) [request for meeting to discuss] [declassified 2014] |
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82 Mar 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Haig memorandum for President Reagan ("Immediate Critical Choices in Foreign Policy") ["You must very soon decide how the United States will respond to Soviet-inspired proxy adventurism"; argues for the "imposition of a blockade [of Cuba] if necessary ... use force to carry out the blockade if we must"] [published 2022] |
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82 Mar 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hungary: Governor of the Bank of England letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (‘Hungary’) [Hungarian financial crisis; seeks HMG guarantee for further central bank support] [declassified 2014] |
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82 Mar 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Cabinet Secretary minute for No.10 (“Public Expenditure Survey 1982”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: No.10 minute for Treasury (“Long Term Public Expenditure Prospects”) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: PS Carrington minute to No.10 (“Preparations for the Versailles Economic Summit”) [MT: “I wonder if the Summit is worthwhile”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Sir Siegmund Warburg) [MT forced to decline 80th birthday invitation] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Hungary: Bank of England record of phone conversation between Deputy Governor and Treasury (“Hungary”) [seeks government guarantee; warned as to US view] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Transport Secretary letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Long Term Public Expenditure Prospects”) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Ingham minute to Cabinet Secretary (“Economic Summit - Media”) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: FCO telegram 1 to UKE Washington (“OECD WP3 meeting, Paris”) [record of conversation] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: Treasury letter to No.10 (“Anglo-German consultations: EC-Japan relations”) [Anglo-German summit] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Aerospace: No.10 note to MT (British Aerospace run down) [“These closures will involve 1,200 redundancies”] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Mar 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: FCO letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Chancellor Schmidt: East/West economic relations”) [Anglo-German summit] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Law and Order, Economy, European Community) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: Treasury record of conversation (Howe-FRG Finance Minister Matthofer) [UK and German economies, world economic questions, Turkey, European Monetary System, EC Mandate] [declassified 2014] |
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82 Mar 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Northern Ireland: NIOM(82) 2nd meeting (note of meeting on situation) [security; political; the economy; Kincora] [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Mar 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (“Note of a meeting between the Prime Minister and Chancellor Schmidt”) [Anglo-German summit] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (“Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany”) [Anglo-German summit] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (“Note of a discussion over lunch at Chequers”) [Anglo-German summit] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (“Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany”) [Anglo-German summit] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Opinion Polls: Britto note ("Public Opinion Background Note 105") [weekly survey note; the Budget; Glasgow Hillhead by-election] [released 2013] |
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82 Mar 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Law and Order, Sport, Economy) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 21 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Law and Order, Ireland, Hillhead Election, Economy) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Law and Order, Crime, Transport, Hillhead Election) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Walters note to Gow ("Comments on Economics of 'The Times'") ["Here is a little note on what I think is wrong with the economics of The Times"] [released 2013] |
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82 Mar 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
EC: Prime Minister Martens of Belgium letter to MT (suggested agenda for European Council meeting) [economic situation, relations with US and Japan, EC budget, Poland, Afghanistan, Middle East] [released 2013] |
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82 Mar 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Jack Straw MP letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (apparent inaccuracies in Budget speech) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Aerospace: Nott PS letter to No.10 (British Aerospace run down) [“seem likely to blame the closures on a reducing defence workload for their Aircraft Group”] [declassified 2014] |
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82 Mar 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Hungary: Bank of England record of conversation (“Mackworth-Young’s message from Moscow”) [Soviet State Bank admits hard currency problems; felt threatened by US] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Energy: MT letter to Gordon Wilson MP (world oil prices) ["[we] will all benefit from lower oil prices through the consequent reduction in inflation and increase in real income"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Mar 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
No.10: Ibbs minute to MT (observations on overall strategy in light of two years as Head of CPRS) [economic policy, the miners, employment, education and training, public sector, Japan] [released 2013] |
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82 Mar 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Ibbs minute to MT (reflections on economic policy and strategy) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Minutes of Liaison Committee meeting - 24 March 1982 (1100Z) (MT-Pym-Parkinson-Younger-Brittan-Wakeham-Stanley-Cropper-Ingham-Lilley-True-Hutt-Ward) [presentation of Government policy] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Benefits in Kind - Cars and Petrol") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hungary: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Governor of the Bank of England (‘Hungary’) [in principle accepts HMG guarantee, but MT sees no need] [declassified 2014] |
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82 Mar 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Cabinet Secretary minute for MT (Public Expenditure Survey 1982: Guidelines) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Treasury letter to No.10 (Public Expenditure Survey 1982: Guidelines) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: HMT brief for European Council, Brussels, 29/30 March 1982 - EHG(B)(82)3 (Economic and Social Situation) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Leon Brittan minute for MT (“Public Expenditure Survey 1982”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Leon Brittan letter to John Nott (“1982 Public Expenditure Survey”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
EC: MT message to Prime Minister Martens of Belgium (1300Z) (agenda for European Council meeting) [MT's comments on proposed agenda] [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Hungary: Bank of England record of phone conversation between Deputy Governor and Treasury (“Hungary”) [Couzens suggests Bank takes part of the risk] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Jack Straw MP (‘The Right Approach’) [“Since you released your letter to the press, I shall similarly release this reply”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 28 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 1013 to FCO (0110Z) (“President Reagan, Congress and the economy”) [“at loggerheads and… at a standstill”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Law and Order, Falkland Islands, El Salvador, Economy) [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 1014 to FCO (1725Z) (“Visit of Mr Prior”) [suggestions for] [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Mar 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
EC: Draft speaking notes for MT at European Council Dinner ("The Community's External Relations") [released 2013] |
|
82 Mar 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Hungary: Bank of England record of conversation between Deputy Governor, IMF and UK Ambassador in Washington (“Hungary”) [US attitude disturbing] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Armstrong-Personal Representatives of other European heads of state) ["Preparations for the Versailles Summit"] [released 2013] |
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82 Mar 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Hungary: Bank of England record (“Hungary: The Governor’s phone conversations with Pöhl, Leutwiler & Kerr”) [Bank will go ahead even without government guarantee] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Hungary: Bank of England record of conversation between Deputy Governor & Leutwiler (“Hungary”) [full authorisation of BIS faciility now waiting on UK; US attitude] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Hungary: Bank of England record of conversation between Deputy Governor & Loehnis (“Hungary”) [commercial banks disappointed at scale of BIS help] [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Mar 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Hungary: Bank of England record of conversation between Deputy Governor & UKE Washington (“Hungary”) [US decision not to oppose Hungarian IMF membership or BIS rescue] [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Mar 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Hungary: Bank of England record of conversation between Governor & Sir Jeremy Morse (“Hungary”) [clearing bankers briefed on BIS operation] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Michael Heseltine letter to MT (“Public Expenditure Survey 1982”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Peter Carrington minute for Leon Brittan (“1982 Public Expenditure Survey”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Keith Joseph letter to Leon Brittan (“Public Expenditure Survey 1982”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Scholar minute for MT (“Statement on the Defence Estimates 1982”) [Public Expenditure Survey 1982 - cash planning] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Peter Walker letter to Leon Brittan (“Public Expenditure Survey 1982”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Employment: No.10 minute to MT (“CPRS interim report on unemployment”) [“Alan Walters dissenting”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 1054 to FCO (0305Z) (“President Reagan’s press conference”) [defense of economic policy] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Hungary: Bank of England record of conversation between Deputy Governor & Loehnis (“Hungary”) [Henderson “very pessimistic about the possibilities of muzzling Weinberger”] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hungary: Treasury letter to Bank of England (‘Hungary’) [records BOE decision to participate in BIS rescue without HMG guarantee] [declassified 2014] |
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82 Mar 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Norman Fowler letter to Leon Brittan (“Public Expenditure Survey 1982”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: George Younger letter to Leon Brittan (“Public Expenditure Survey 1982”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Mar 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Cabinet Secretary minute for MT (“Cabinet: Public Expenditure Survey 1982”) [“Public expenditure as a % of GDP has been rising steadily since 1979”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Apr 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: No.10 letter to Treasury (Public Expenditure Survey 1982) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Apr 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: FCO minute to Cabinet Secretary (“Summit meetings”) [procedural] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Apr 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Walters letter to Couzens (“Versailles Summit, 3-6 June 1982; a macro-economic assessment”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: HMT Background Economic Briefing ("Ministerial Statements") [extracts from speeches and interviews following the Budget] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Apr 3 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (freezing of Argentine financial assets) ["unavoidable risk" of reputational damage to City, but will "in present circumstances be widely understood"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 4 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Law and order, unemployment, unions and pay) [released 2013] |
|
82 Apr 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (?0700Z) (Week Ahead; Falklands, US support, resignations, public borrowing, unions and pay) ["Press generally baying for Lord Carrington's blood ... his friends say he is thinking of resigning"] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO minute for Armstrong ("Falkland Islands: Economic Measures") [amendment to minute sent this morning; pressure of time] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Apr 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Ingham MSS) |
Press Office: Note to Press Officers ("Possible Economic and Trade Sanctions Against Argentina") [HMG "considering a wide range of options including diplomatic and economic measures"] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (East-West economic relations) [sanctions against USSR potentially affecting UK companies] [released 2013] |
|
82 Apr 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Middleton and Alexander note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 2 (Economic and Financial Relations with Argentina) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Middleton and Alexander note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 3 (Falkland Islands: Economic Measures Against Argentina) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Apr 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Walters note to MT ("The Gilt Market") [fall in gilt edged securities is a vote of confidence in MT: "It reflects a fear that you may lose control of the Government"] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands, international support, mediation, economic sanctions) [released 2013] |
|
82 Apr 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands/EC: UKE The Hague telegram 80 to FCO (1750Z) (“Economic measures against Argentina”) [van Agt: "The Dutch had often claimed to be Britain's best friend in Europe. Now was the time to show that the claim was well-founded"] [declassified Jul 2015] |
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82 Apr 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: Jenkin minute to MT (“US visit - March 22 - April 22, 1982”) [trade mission] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Apr 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 10 (Financial Restriction on Argentina) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Keith Joseph letter to Leon Brittan (“Draft Paper for Expenditure Steering Group - Education”) [Public Expenditure Survey 1982 - cash planning] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Apr 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Jenkins PS Treasury minute to No.10 (Treasury model for testing effects of adjustments to economic policy or behaviour) [“economic success must depend above all on what industry and work people do, rather than on what Government does”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Apr 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Fowler letter to Brittan ("Reduction in National Insurance Surcharge: Local Government Implications") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Apr 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (1400Z) (MT-John Sparrow) [unemployment, economy] [declassified 2011] |
|
82 Apr 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Jenkin minute to MT (“BL’s future structure”) [restructuring and privatisation] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Apr 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Leon Brittan letter to Keith Joseph (“Draft Paper for Expenditure Steering Group - Education”) [Public Expenditure Survey 1982 - cash planning] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Apr 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: FCO note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 24 (Argentina: Economic Retaliation against the United Kingdom) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Apr 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Apr 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary policy: Bank of England record of Deputy Governor’s conversations during Budapest G30 (‘Hungary’) [Kadar & Fekete reassuring bankers; World Outlook] [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Apr 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: UK Ambassador to Bonn, Jock Taylor, letter to Coles (US Ambassador to Bonn, Arthur Burns, expresses admiration for MT) [Burns: "Great Britain's Lady is showing courage in a discouraged world"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Apr 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cameroon: No.10 record of conversation (1100Z) (MT-President Ahidjo of Cameroon) [bilateral relations, world economy, Africa, Falklands] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Apr 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government Machinery: No.10 record of conversation (afternoon) (MT, Howe, Jenkin, Cockfield) [“National Standards and Departmental Responsibility”] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Apr 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham press digest for MT (1445Z) (Press Digest and Diary) [Falklands: Pym's visit to Washington] [released 2013] |
|
82 Apr 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic policy: Liverpool Research Group press release (“Quarterly Economic Bulletin”) [Scholar:“very encouraging analysis…growth forecasts highly optimistic”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Apr 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Security: Central Statistical Office letter to Department of Industry ("Index of Production - monthly statistics") [advance copies: security considerations] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
82 Apr 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Ingham MSS) |
Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's day, Pym Visit, Argentine propaganda, OAS, Air cover, Economy) ["We would certainly expect the US to apply pressure on Argentine if the talks broke down"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Apr 25 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Fowler letter to Brittan ("Reduction in NI Surcharge: Local Government Implications") [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Apr 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Cabinet Secretary minute to No.10 (“European Community representation at the Versailles economic summit”) [protocol and international monetary system] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Willie Whitelaw minute to Patrick Jenkin (Radio Frequency Review) [picture that has emerged is gloomy] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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82 Apr 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Ingham MSS) |
Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's day, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], South Georgia, OAS, Du Cann, Negotiation, Brits in Argentina, US atttitude, HM Queen) ["we thought the South Georgia action would strengthen our negotiating position"] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Ingham MSS) |
Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1515Z) (Cabinet, Urgency, Negotiations, Pressure, Haig, MoD announcements) ["We could not rule out future military action before or during negotiations"] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Reagan letter to MT (cooperation on economic issues) [George Shultz to travel to London] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Northern Ireland: CRD briefing (“The Government’s White Paper: A Framework on Devolution”) [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Apr 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Ingham MSS) |
Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (Answers of Interest [in Parliament], Falklands, Cabinet) ["there certainly had been no British casualties reported"] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Ingham MSS) |
Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (EC, Falkland Islands, Second Lobby [statement by UN Secretary-General]) ["the UN had been unable to secure compliance with its own mandatory resolution"] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 16, 1982 Series ("Industrial") [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Ian Gow minute to Michael Grylls (“Study Group on Bank Lending”) [problem of corporate industrial financing] [released 2017] |
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82 Apr 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: FCO note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 35 (Argentina: Threat to British Economic Interests in Other South American Countries: Developments 23 to 29 April) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Governor of the Bank of England) (0900Z) [Falklands impact - situation better than might have been expected, but fragile, "could deteriorate rapidly in the event of dramatic, and not immediately successful, action in the Falklands"] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Apr 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Cabinet Secretary minute to No.10 (“Versailles Economic Summit: meeting of personal representatives: 24-25 April”) [procedure and agendas] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic policy: Treasury bulletin (“Background economic briefing - ministerial statements”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 May 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Reagan (1015Z) (preparation for G7 summit) [visit of George Shultz] [released 2013] |
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82 May 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: HMT letter to FCO ("Financial Restrictions on the Argentine") [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Text of party political broadcast (2000Z) (Heseltine broadcast for local elections) [released 2013] |
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82 May 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Ingham MSS) |
Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's day, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], All party talks, Falkland Islands) ["People were forgetting who fired the first shot"] [released 2013] |
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82 May 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 letter to FCO (letter from President Reagan: Versailles and Bonn Summits; START talks) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 May 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: Treasury briefing for MT and Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Meetings with Mr Regan and Mr Shultz”) [need to discuss new US budget package including social security and tax cuts, US deficit] [declassified 2014] |
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82 May 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 May 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Cabinet Secretary minute to No.10 (“Versailles Economic Summit”) [MT: “The whole summit has become a circus”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Reagan letter to MT (US priorities for G7 and NATO summits) [economic issues, East-West relations, arms control, Poland, Afghanistan] [released 2013] |
|
82 May 8 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Washington telegram 1660 to FCO London (2048Z) (“US attitudes in the run-up to the Versailles summit”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 May 9 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: No.10 record of conversation (1030Z) (MT, George Shultz) [US deficit, trade, international monetary framework] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 May 9 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Washington telegram 1683 to FCO (2210Z) (“President Reagan on East-West relations and nuclear weapons”) [“future relations with the Soviet Union”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Walters note to MT ("Messel's Weekly Economic Monitor'") [Walters points to evidence of the City's confidence in MT; City concerns about Falklands crisis] [released 2013] |
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82 May 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: PS Pym letter to No.10 (“Political discussion at the economic summit”) [MT doubtful about why a second preparatory meeting is necessary] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 May 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Walters minute for Whitmore ("An Economic Solution for the Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 May 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: McMahon record of conversation (McMahon-Wass, Ryrie) [George Shultz's recent visit to Chequers - US concern at bureaucratisation of summit; Treasury opposition to a free trade initiative at the summit] [declassified 2013] |
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82 May 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore (problems with proposed attendance of Alan Walters at meetings of E(DL)) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 May 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: FCO note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 42 (The Falklands Crisis: Economic Retaliation Against the UK by Argentina and other South American States) [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Cecil Parkinson minute to Ian Gow (“Alternatives to Domestic Rates”) [party supports reform but does not want total abolition of rating system] [released 2017] |
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82 May 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: UKE Paris 487 to FCO (1630Z) (“Franco-British Relations”) [the internal scene, the economy, foreign policy, the Falklands, Community issues, Versailles Summit, bilateral relations] [declassified 2014] |
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82 May 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 40 (Argentina: Economic Impact of the Falklands Crisis) [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: FCO briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s Meetings with President Mitterrand and M. Mauroy”) [declassified 2014] |
|
82 May 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Government Machinery: Lord Cockfield letter to Jenkin (speech to the British Standards Society on new policy initiative) [declassified 2014] |
|
82 May 15 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
G7: NSC memcon (1615Z) (Reagan-Shultz-Regan-Stoessel & NSC staff) [report on Shultz's European trip; prospects for upcoming Versailles G7] [published 2022] |
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82 May 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Science and Technology: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“PM’s reception for IT: BT, and the Post Office”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 May 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Government Machinery: Tebbit letter to Lord Cockfield (“Standards”) [Health & Safety] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 May 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 May 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
New Zealand: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Mr. Muldoon to London Wednesday 19 May 1982") [Falklands, bilateral relations, sporting contacts, air services, trade, defence, east/west relations, MFO, Iran/Iraq] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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82 May 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Australia: Pym PS minute to John Coles ("Visit of Australian Foreign Minister") [opportunity to thank them for their Falklands support; Tony Street initiative] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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82 May 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Cabinet Secretary minute to MT (“Versailles Economic Summit”) [pre-meeting of personal representatives] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 May 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Department of Industry briefing for MT (MT meeting with Albert Booth) [factory closure in constituency] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 May 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Whitmore minute to Armstrong (problems with proposed attendance of Alan Walters at meetings of E(DL)) [Walters withdraws request to attend] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: FCO note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 41 (Argentina: EC Economic Measures) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 May 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“The world economic outlook and the Versailles summit”) [“widespread expectation that the world economic environment will remain difficult”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 letter to FCO (“Versailles economic summit: bilateral meetings”) [MT wants bilaterals with Reagan, Schmidt and Trudeau] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: FCO letter to No.10 (“Versailles Summit”) [message from the Prime Minister of Australia] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 May 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia letter to MT ("Australian Initiatives on Stimulating World Trade and Economic Recovery") [proposals for Versailles summit] [released 2013] |
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82 May 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: Treasury record of conversation (Howe-Count Lambsdorff) [Community issues: budget, CAP, economic sanctions against Argentine, insurance; Summit issues: Japan, export credit] [declassified 2014] |
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82 May 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Australia: Pym PS minute to John Coles ("Call by Australian Foreign Minister on the Prime Minister, 25 May") [international economic issues, east-west issues, Falklands, sterling borrowing] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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82 May 23 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Ingham MSS) |
Press Office: Press Digest (Falklands, economy, unions/pay, politics) [released 2013] |
|
82 May 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 May 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Bob Hormats US Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs telegram 1041 to Cabinet Secretary (0900Z) (“Versailles summit: credits for Soviet Union”) [candidly… the reaction here to… France’s bilateral protocol with the Soviet Union… has been one of extreme disappointment”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Pym memorandum circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 57 (Falkland Islands: The Scope for the Development of the Economy) [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (1515Z) (“Record of conversation between the Prime Minister and the Australian Foreign Minister at 1615 hours on 25 May 1982 at the House of Commons”) [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Australia: No. 10 record of conversation (1515Z) (MT-Street) [disarmament, economic stagnation, Japanese trade] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
82 May 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (1700Z) (MT, Howe “Versailles Summit”) [opposing views on advising US of potential need to increase tax to reduce its deficit] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 58 (Argentine Territorial Waters) [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: PS Pym letter to No.10 (MT, Howe “Reply to President Reagan’s message on Versailles and Bonn summits”) [MT anxious to get wording right - “Our aim must be to reaffirm the unity of the Alliance”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Pym PS (Chancellor of the Exchquer's speech to the Netherland-British Chamber of Commerce) [text: welcomes ongoing trade links but highlights his concerns about EC budget & CAP issues] [declassified July 2017] |
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82 May 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: MT message to Reagan (agenda for G7 and NATO summits) [economic situation, trade, East-West relations, Iran-Iraq war, Arab-Israeli conflict, arms control] [released 2013] |
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82 May 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Paris 551 to FCO (0915Z) (“Buckley meeting on credits for USSR: Paris May 27”) [“No agreed solution but options will be set out for political decision at Versailles”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (1345Z) (MT, Lamont, Albert Booth) [factory closure in constituency] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: FCO telegram 1083 to UKE Washington (1730Z) (“Future of the Falklands”) [“we are consulting no-one else [but Reagan] in this way”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 29 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Rome to FCO (1100Z) (“Versailles economic summit/Anglo-Italian bilateral”) [“They expressed their solidarity with us and asked for our understanding”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Ingham minute to MT ("Association of American Correspondents - Dinner") [briefing for MT] [released 2013] |
|
82 Jun 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 letter to FCO (“Falklands: other territorial disputes”) [“serious implications… for other territorial disputes”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: Walters briefs for MT ("Deficit and Interest Rates") [MT's talks with Reagan] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Alan Walters minute to MT (Versailles summit meetings) [US tax rates] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Alan Walters to Cabinet Secretary (“Versailles summit meetings”) [unhappy at being omitted from invitation lists] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 1978 to FCO (2145Z) ("President Reagan's Visit to Europe") [assessment of the significance of Reagan's forthcoming visit] [released 2013] |
|
82 Jun 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Washington telegram 1976 to FCO (2155Z) (“Versailles summit: latest US positions”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Alan Walters briefing to No.10 (“briefing note for the Prime Minister on the United States deficit and interest rates”) [“omission of the issue of taxes… seems to me to be an absolute sticking point [for the Chancellor]”] |
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82 Jun 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Cabinet Office letter to FCO (“Falklands: briefing for Versailles summit”) [request for briefing] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: FCO telegram 1104 to UKE Washington (1735Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with the US ambassador on 2 June: East/West credits and John Brown”) [“reasonable prospects for a settlement of the issue at Versailles”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Ingham note to MT (“Reagan Talks tomorrow”) [“it will be most important to agree with the Americans what is to be said afterwards”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: MT to Malcolm Fraser (“Versailles economic summit and Mr Fraser’s initiative on protectionism”) [acknowledgement and assurance proposals will be discussed at Versailles] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: FCO briefing for Versailles G7 (“Falklands: other territorial disputes”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: FCO briefing for Versailles G7 (“Versailles summit: Prime Minister’s meeting with President Reagan on 4 June”) [”main purpose of the bilateral meeting… will be to discuss the Falklands“] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: FCO briefing for Versailles G7 (“Versailles economic summit: bilateral meetings”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: FCO briefing for Versailles G7 (“Falklands: briefing for Versailles summits”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: FCO letter to No.10 (“Lt Commander Astiz”) [French seeking quid pro quo] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: FCO letter to No.10 (“East/West economic relations”) [US stance on export credit and existing contracts for Soviet Union] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Treasury briefing for Versailles G7 (“Versailles economic summit: update on summit economies”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“President Reagan and the US budget debate”) ["I am sorry to go on about this"; urges MT to intercede with Reagan, to get interest rates down] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("President Reagan and the US Budget Debate") [Howe urges MT to press Reagan on US budget deficit] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: PS Cockfield letter to No.10 (“Versailles summit/export credit consensus”) [“real risk that the Consensus will disintegrate”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Aerospace: BAe Works Convener letter to MT (Hawk Sidewinder programme) [MoD support requested] [declassified 2014] |
|
82 Jun 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7/Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1630Z) (Versailles summit “Initial conversation between President Mitterrand and the Prime Minister”) [Mitterrand foresaw "ineluctable logical process" following invasion, ending with recapture of Port Stanley; he hoped after that "a new logic of events would be launched"] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: MT speech (Versailles economic summit) [stability as the key to economic recovery] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (evening after 1800Z) (Heads of Delegation “Falklands”) [Versailles economic summit] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 5 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Armstrong handwritten record of conversation (0745Z) (“Versailles summit. First plenary session. 5. vi. 82. 9.45a.m.”) [world economy] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 5 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: MT notes (0745Z) (first session of Versailles summit) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 5 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Cabinet Office record of conversation (0745Z) (Versailles economic summit: first plenary session) [MT “inflation as a policy for curing unemployment was not acceptable: it would be a positively immoral policy”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 5 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Donald Regan MSS) |
G7: US Treasury Secretary record of conversation (0755Z) (Session 1) [Donald Regan personal notes] |
|
82 Jun 5 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Lord Bridges minute to FCO (“Global Negotiations”) [“must make clear integrity of the IMF, World Bank and GATT”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 5 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: MH Jay record of conversation to Lord Bridges (“US draft communiqué language on East West economic relations”) [quadripartite political directors meeting - US/French disagreement on credit restraint] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 5 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Draft communiqué (“draft communiqué language on East West economic relations”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 5 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Donald Regan MSS) |
G7: US Treasury Secretary press briefing (1027-1227Z) (following Session 1) [East-West decisions made] |
|
82 Jun 5 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Donald Regan MSS) |
G7: US Treasury Secretary record of conversation (1230Z) (Session 2) [Donald Regan personal notes] |
|
82 Jun 5 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (1640Z) (“record of a meeting held between the Prime Minister and Chancellor Schmidt at the Grand Trianon, Versailles, on Saturday, 5 June 1982 at 1840 hours”) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 5 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (1730Z) (“Conversation between the Prime Minister and Mr Trudeau”) [Versailles economic summit] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 5 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (1845Z) (Heads of Delegation “Saturday evening 5 June 1982”) [Versailles economic summit] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 5 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 596 to FCO (1055Z) ("Versailles Summit: French Press Comment") [press accounts of Reagan-MT bilateral relied on advance briefing to suggest he intended to "preach moderation", only Le Figaro noted that the President did not in fact speak on such lines] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Jun 6 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Ingham minute to MT (Versailles economic summit: closing statements to media) [UN [Falklands] vote] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 6 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Ingham minute to MT (“Reagan and British media”) [Versailles economic summit; Falklands] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 6 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Donald Regan MSS) |
G7: US Treasury Secretary record of conversation (0730-1305Z) (Sessions 3-4) [Donald Regan personal notes] |
|
82 Jun 6 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Armstrong handwritten record of conversation (0745Z) (Versailles economic summit: third plenary session) [wording of draft declaration] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 6 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (0745Z) (“Third plenary sesson”) [Versailles economic summit] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 6 Su |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Donald Regan MSS) |
G7: TV Interview for ABC with US Treasury Secretary (1305-1345Z) [“we accomplished everything we wanted”] |
|
82 Jun 6 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Versailles economic summit draft declaration (“Declaration of the seven Heads of State and Government and representatives of the European communities”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Jun 6 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Cabinet Office to No.10: Versailles economic summit draft declaration (“North-South language for the declaration”) [MT “the text must make clear the integrity of the IMF, the World Bank and GATT”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 6 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Donald Regan MSS) |
G7: US Treasury Secretary notes (communiqué drafts) [East/West; Declaration of the Seven; North/South; International Monetary Undertakings] [declassified 2010] |
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82 Jun 6 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Press release (“Statement made by heads of State and Government following the economic summit in Versailles”) [“shocked by the news reaching us from Lebanon”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 6 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands/Italy: No.10 record of conversation (1745Z) (“Meeting between the Prime Minister and Signor Spadolini”) [“Italian support for Britain on the Falkland Islands”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 6 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UK Delegation, Versailles G7 to FCO (1810Z) (“Declaration of the seven heads of State and Government and representatives of the European communities”) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Personal and confidential”) [“clear warning” that support from other G7 members could not be counted on for a prolonged war against Argentina] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Department of Trade minute to No.10 ("Future Economic Development of the Falkland Islands") [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Jun 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 22, 1982 Series ("The Strength of the British Economy") [released 2013] |
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82 Jun 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: FCO telegram 123 to various missions (1700Z) (“Versailles economic summit”) [“this guidance describes the outcome of the Versailles summit”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: FCO note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 48 (The Cost to Our Supporters of Economic Measures Against Argentina) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Donald Regan MSS) |
G7: US Treasury Secretary Donald Regan article for Wall Street Journal (“Was the summit a success?”) [“By any measurement we have to say - yes”] |
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82 Jun 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012] |