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| Date | Category |
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Value | Author/Source | Title |
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| 82 Apr 2 Fr | Press |
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Key | Thatcher memoirs | Falklands: Argentina invades the Falklands [memoirs extract] |
| 82 Apr 24 Sa | Press |
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Key | Thatcher memoirs | Falklands: A crisis in the War Cabinet and the recapture of South Georgia [memoirs extract] |
| 82 May 2 Su | Press |
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Key | Thatcher memoirs | Falklands: Decision to sink the Belgrano [memoirs extract] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Press |
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Key | Thatcher memoirs | Northern Ireland: The Brighton Bomb [memoirs extract] |
| 84 Dec 16 Su | Press |
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Key | Thatcher memoirs | Cold War: The Gorbachevs visit Chequers [memoirs extract] |
| 90 Nov 20 Tu | Press |
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Key | Thatcher memoirs | Falling from power: Hearing the result of the first ballot [memoirs extract] |
| 90 Nov 22 Th | Press |
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Key | Thatcher memoirs | Falling from power: Cabinet overboard [memoirs extract] |
| 83 Sep 8 Th | Press |
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Key | Thatcher memoirs | Cold War: Chequers Seminar on future of the Soviet Union [memoirs extract] |
| 03 Jun 26 Th | Press |
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Key | Commentary (Daily Telegraph & BBC) | Obituary: Thatcher [Sir Denis] (1915-2003) |
| 75 Apr 9 We | Press |
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Major | Thatcher memoirs | Cold War: Early meeting with Ronald Reagan [memoirs extract] |
| 82 May 31 Mo | Press |
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Key | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Falklands: Reagan phone call to Thatcher (urges ceasefire) |
| 04 Nov 14 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Slimeballs always hate a strong woman” (Julie Burchill) |
| 03 Jun 27 Fr | Press |
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Key | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | MT & DT: “Denis - a sound judge of men who chose a great woman” (Bill Deedes tribute) |
| 05 Oct 10 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT at 80: “‘You’re not invited’, Thatcher tells Cameron and Clarke” (80th birthday party) |
| 05 Oct 12 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | MT at 80: “The mellowing of Margaret Thatcher” (Charles Moore profile) |
| 05 Oct 14 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT at 80: “The ultimate Eighties revival night” (80th birthday party) |
| 05 Oct 20 Th | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT at 80: “Thatcher and Gorbachev take a short stroll down memory lane” (meeting in London) |
| 98 Oct 1 Th | Press |
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Minor | Collins (Christopher) | Editorial policy of site: Preface to Complete Public Statements of Margaret Thatcher, 1945-90 on CD-ROM (Oxford University Press, 1998) |
| 88 Jun 1 We | Press |
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Major | Shultz (George) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Shultz memoirs) |
| 86 Oct 12 Su | Press |
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Key | Shultz (George) | Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Shultz memoirs) |
| 87 Dec 10 Th | Press |
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Major | Shultz (George) | Cold War: Washington (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Shultz memoirs) |
| 05 Nov 3 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cold War: “Thatcher plotted to block German unity, says Kohl” (Kohl memoirs published) |
| 05 Nov 4 Fr | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Northern Ireland: “McCartney sisters boycott awards to avoid Thatcher” (Irish Republican protest) |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Press |
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Major | Shultz (George) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Shultz memoirs) |
| 82 Dec 16 Th | Press |
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Major | Shultz (George) | Cold War: The “Special Relationship” (Shultz memoirs) |
| 84 Nov 3 Sa | Press |
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Major | Shultz (George) | Cold War: Meeting MT at Mrs Gandhi’s funeral (Shultz memoirs) |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | Press |
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Major | Shultz (George) | Cold War: US disappointment at MT’s line over Grenada (Shultz memoirs) |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Press |
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Key | Shultz (George) | Cold War: MT’s visit to Camp David (Shultz memoirs) |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Press |
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Key | Shultz (George) | Cold War: US bombing of Libya (Shultz memoirs) |
| 89 Jan 19 Th | Press |
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Major | Shultz (George) | Cold War: Understanding Ronald Reagan (Shultz memoirs) |
| 83 Mar 23 We | Press |
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Major | Shultz (George) | Cold War: Reagan’s Star Wars initiative (Shultz memoirs) |
| 05 Nov 19 Sa | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Lonely Black looks in vain for friends in need” (US fraud charges) |
| 05 Nov 20 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Falklands: “The Sphinx and the curious case of the Iron Lady’s H-bomb” (memoirs of Mitterrand’s psychoanalyst) |
| 05 Nov 12 Sa | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Glamour and talent of the lord of the photos” (tribute to Patrick, Lord Lichfield) |
| 05 Oct 3 Mo | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Lady Thatcher embroiled in US corruption probe” (Tom DeLay) |
| 05 Jun 17 Fr | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT & Reagan: “Old friends united by one man” (MT sees Nancy Reagan) |
| 05 Nov 26 Sa | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “‘Bush Oysters’ and nature’s call prove route to a nation’s heart” (Carol Thatcher on “I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!”) |
| 05 Dec 8 Th | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Baroness Thatcher ‘comfortable’” (dizzy spell) |
| 05 Dec 6 Tu | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Thatcher takes jungle seat with yet another landslide victory” (Carol Thatcher wins “I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!”) |
| 05 Dec 9 Fr | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Thatcher leaves hospital, feels ‘fine’” (health scare) |
| 06 Feb 16 Th | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "Overlooked back home, Thatcher's legacy seeks haven in the US" (Conservatives rebuild relations with Republicans) |
| 06 Mar 12 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Economy: "How Maggie beat the experts" (25th anniversary of 1981 budget) |
| 06 Mar 13 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "It was bold, it was brutal, but who was proved right in 1981?" (25th anniversary of 1981 budget) |
| 06 Jan 6 Fr | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "Grandees rally to Thatcher" (direction of policy under David Cameron) |
| 06 Mar 11 Sa | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: "Gratitude and much respect at end of journey to redemption" (death of John Profumo) |
| 06 Jan 29 Su | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (Sunday Times) | MT: "Maxwell tried to get Thatcher to bail him out" (1990 MT meeting with Robert Maxwell) |
| 06 Jan 31 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "Win centre ground or failure is inevitable, Tories told" (David Cameron Demos speech) |
| 06 Feb 8 We | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Foreign policy: "Has the Foreign Office had its day?" (Churchill College seminar) |
| 06 Mar 15 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | Economy: "How 364 economists got it totally wrong" (25th anniversary of 1981 budget) |
| 81 Mar 10 Tu | Press |
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Key | Thatcher memoirs | Economy: The 1981 budget [memoirs extract] |
| 06 Mar 28 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Weinberger [Caspar] (1917-2006) [long-time US friend & ally of MT] |
| 06 Apr 6 Th | Press |
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Major | Rumsfeld (Donald) | Obituary: Weinberger [Caspar] (Donald Rumsfeld Eulogy) |
| 90 Aug 2 Th | Press |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Gulf War: Visiting Aspen [memoirs extract] |
| 90 Aug 6 Mo | Press |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Gulf War: Bush-Thatcher meeting in Washington [memoirs extract] |
| 90 Aug 26 Su | Press |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Gulf War: Bush-Thatcher phone conversation (no time to go wobbly) [memoirs extract] |
| 90 Sep 30 Su | Press |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Gulf War: MT-Bush meeting in New York [memoirs extract] |
| 90 Nov 9 Fr | Press |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Gulf War: MT meeting with Jim Baker (reinforcing British deployment) [memoirs extract] |
| 90 Nov 23 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falling from power: "America astonished by fall of loyal ally" (reaction from Reagan & Bush) |
| 89 Dec 6 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Leadership election: "Victory with just a dent" (MT defeats Meyer) |
| 89 Dec 6 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cold War: "Bush moves swiftly to deny 'snub' over EC" (Bush calls MT) |
| 89 Dec 6 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Leadership election: "Clear-cut win as 314 vote for Thatcher" (MT defeats Meyer) |
| 89 Nov 25 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cold War: "Cold war 'will last until 2000'" (MT-Bush meeting at Camp David) |
| 89 Nov 26 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Cold War: "Thatcher stands firm on boat people" (MT & Bush reported clash at Camp David) |
| 90 Aug 3 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Gulf War: "Thatcher urges UN to act tough" (MT in Aspen) |
| 90 Aug 5 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Gulf War: "Rape of the Gulf" (Insight account of Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) |
| 05 Jul 17 Su | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Heath [Edward] (1916-2005) [Prime Minister 1970-74] |
| 86 Nov 17 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cold War: "Thatcher talks fail to bridge chasm" & "Reagan tells Thatcher Soviet-US deal would not affect UK deterrent" (Camp David meeting) |
| 86 Nov 16 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Cold War: "Thatcher wins Reagan pledge to sell Trident" (Camp David meeting) |
| 04 Nov 6 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (ABC News & MSNBC) | Obituary: Reagan [Ronald] (ABC & MSNBC coverage of MT's role at funeral) |
| 06 Jun 13 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Haughey [Charles] (1925-2006) [former Irish Taoiseach] |
| 06 Jul 31 Mo | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “BBC to ban repeats of Ross versus Cameron” (controversial interview comments on MT) |
| 06 May 22 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: “Cameron draws line under Thatcher policies” (‘General Well-Being’ versus GDP) |
| 06 Aug 8 Tu | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Thatcher state funeral plan denied” (‘no such plans’) |
| 06 Aug 28 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | South Africa: "Cameron disowns Thatcher's policy on apartheid" (ANC not terrorists) |
| 06 Aug 29 Tu | Press |
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Trivial | Commentary (BBC) | MT: "Maggie rated best Prime Minister of 20th Century" (by BBC History Magazine ) |
| 06 Aug 26 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Sherman [Sir Alfred] (1919-2006) [key 1970s advisor to MT] |
| 06 Aug 31 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Sherman [Sir Alfred] (appreciation by Bruce Anderson) |
| 06 Aug 30 We | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Monro [Hector] (1922-2006) [Scottish Conservative stalwart] |
| 05 Dec 28 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Exorcise these Tory ghosts” (expunging Thatcherite rhetoric) |
| 06 Jan 1 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Conservatism: “Blair is fading away to a dubious place in history” (Portillo compares Blair & MT) |
| 06 Jan 2 Mo | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Cameron breaks with Thatcherite past in about-turn over health policy” (drops patient passport) |
| 06 Sep 12 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Foreign policy: “Cameron and Thatcher divided over ‘slavish’ special relationship” (Cameron speech & MT 9/11 statement) |
| 06 Oct 2 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “We can never return to the policies of the Thatcher era, says Cameron” (Cameron party conference speech) |
| 06 Oct 30 Mo | Press |
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Trivial | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Maggie, the born queen of the desert” (Carol Thatcher has 24 per cent Middle Eastern DNA) |
| 06 Oct 19 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Harris [Lord Ralph] (1924-2006) |
| 06 Nov 16 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Friedman [Milton] (1912-2006) |
| 06 Dec 11 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Chile: “General Pinochet, 91, dies awaiting trial for murder” (MT “greatly saddened” by his death) |
| 07 Jan 27 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Channon [Paul] (1935-2007) [Trade & Industry Secretary 1986-89] |
| 07 Jan 8 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Cockfield [Arthur] (1916-2007) [Conservative tax expert & European Commissioner 1985-89] |
| 06 Nov 22 We | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Peyton [John] (1919-2006) [1975 Conservative leadership candidate] |
| 05 Oct 11 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Seldon [Arthur] (1916-2005) [free market thinker & IEA co-founder] |
| 07 Feb 22 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Iron Lady returns, this time in bronze” (MT statue unveiled in House of Commons) |
| 07 Aug 17 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Deedes [Bill] (1913-2007) [Conservative minister, journalist and Thatcher family friend] |
| 07 Aug 14 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Biffen [John] (1930-2007) [Conservative cabinet minister, 1979-87] |
| 07 Sep 5 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Revealed: Thatcher’s unlikely admirer” (Gordon Brown press conference) |
| 07 Sep 14 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Iron Lady on the doorstep as Tories launch a doorstopper” (MT visits Gordon Brown at No.10) |
| 07 Sep 16 Su | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (Sunday Times) | MT: “Tories must learn the lady is for turning to their advantage” (MT visits Gordon Brown at No.10) |
| 07 Sep 16 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | MT: “Rudy Giuliani mocks Hillary claim to be Iron Lady” (MT role in US presidential election) |
| 07 Sep 21 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Gilmour [Sir Ian] (1926-2007) [prominent Conservative critic of MT] |
| 96 Sep 22 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Cold War: “Germany? Maggie was absolutely right” (Norman Stone on 1990 Chequers Germany seminar) |
| 07 Sep 12 We | Press |
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Major | Powell (Lord) Charles | MT: Interview with Charles Powell (MT’s policy on Europe, East & West) |
| 07 Sep 26 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Tebbit hits out at Tories and names Brown as Thatcher’s natural heir” (General Election speculation) |
| 07 Sep 29 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Sun) | Europe: “Be bold and let people decide” (MT message calling for referendum on EU Treaty) |
| 07 Nov 18 Su | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (Sunday Times) | MT: “Saying adieu to their riotous past” (Sarkozy faces a ‘Thatcher moment’) |
| 07 Oct 28 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “US dismissed Margaret Thatcher as suburban matron who would never win power” (State Department files) |
| 08 Mar 9 Su | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (Sunday Times) | MT: Revived Margaret Thatcher leaves hospital (spend night in St. Thomas’s) |
| 08 Apr 14 Mo | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | Hailsham diary: "How Alec Douglas-Home foiled student kidnappers with beer" (1964 security breach) |
| 08 Mar 7 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Pym [Francis] (1922-2008) [Conservative Foreign Secretary 1982-83] |
| 08 Apr 6 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “The real Lady Thatcher” (extract from Ferdinand Mount’s memoirs) |
| 08 Jun 7 Sa | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “My fair Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher’s Long Walk to Finchley” [BBC4 drama about MT in the 1950s] |
| 08 Feb 27 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Buckley [William F., Jr.] (1925-2008) [leading American conservative] |
| 04 Jun 5 Sa | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Reagan [Ronald] (1911-2004) [US President 1981-89] |
| 74 Oct 16 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "Tories must look before they leap into line behind a new leader" (Bernard Levin) [Conservative leadership candidates] |
| 08 Jun 20 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "Margaret Thatcher: the early promise" (Matthew Parris) [MT as revealed in Times Archive] |
| 08 Mar 8 Sa | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (Sunday Times) | MT: "Baroness Thatcher expected to leave hospital today" (health scare) |
| 08 Aug 25 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Margaret Thatcher's struggle with dementia revealed in daughter's memoir” [Carol Thatcher book serialised] |
| 07 Feb 8 Th | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (RAF News) | Cold War: “Freezing temperatures as Cold War Exhibition opens” [MT at RAF Cosford] |
| 08 Sep 5 Fr | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “This is Alaska’s Margaret Thatcher” [Sarah Palin selected as Republican Vice-Presidential nominee] |
| 03 Jan 26 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Younger [George] (1931-2003) [Scottish Secretary 1979-86, Defence Secretary 1986-89] |
| 07 Feb 21 We | Press |
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Minor | Archive (Sir George Young) | MT: “Margaret Thatcher statue unveiled” (Sir George Young’s blog entry) |
| 93 Oct 3 Su | Press |
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Key | Commentary (Scotland on Sunday) | Leadership elections: “Thatcher: The Inside Story” (George Younger’s recollections of 1989-90) |
| 78 Jul 11 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary ( The Times ) | EMS: “Treasury points out faults in ‘hurried’ currency proposals” (“sceptical to the point of contempt”) |
| 79 May 4 Fr | Press |
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Key | Commentary (Ronnie Millar memoirs) | General Election: “A View From The Wings” (how MT was persuaded to use St Francis’s prayer on the steps of Downing Street) |
| 09 Apr 5 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Northern Ireland: “Was Gerry Adams complicit over hunger strikes?” (newly released British documents) |
| 09 Apr 12 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Northern Ireland: “Why Adams sticks to his Maze myth” (newly released British documents) |
| 80 Dec 1 Mo | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Conservativsm: “Lord Vaizey’s change of party” (announces conversion from Labour to Conservative) |
| 74 Jun 24 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Sir Keith Joseph says choice is to go down with socialism or prosper in a rational economy” (KJ speech at Upminster) |
| 74 Aug 9 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Another call from Sir Keith to free industry” (KJ speech at Leith) |
| 09 Sep 11 Fr | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | German unification: “Thatcher told Gorbachev Britain did not want German unification” (documents from Gorbachev Archive) [“Britain & Western Europe are not interested in the unification of Germany”] |
| 80 Jun 6 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “New moves over the Falklands” (Argentine Economy Minister meets MT & other British ministers) |
| 80 Nov 18 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Minister’s visit to consult Falklands people” (Nick Ridley & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 24 Mo | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Argentine anger over Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 26 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Transfer of Falklands sovereignty proposed” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 27 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Lord Carrington says Britain will honour wishes of Falklanders” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 28 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Britain puts forward four options on Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 28 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “An Option For The Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) [Third Leading Article] |
| 80 Dec 3 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Commons is united by suspicion of Ridley intentions on Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) [minister badly mauled in Commons] |
| 91 Mar 14 Th | Press |
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Minor | Newton (Helmut) | MT: Helmut Newton Autobiography (extract) [portrait of MT taken at Anaheim] |
| 81 Mar 11 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: Editorial: “The Chancellor’s Conundrum” ("appears to go on digging the hole still deeper") |
| 06 Mar 16 Th | Press |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | IEA Seminar (25th anniversary of 1981 budget) [Andrew Alexander, Terry Burns, David Laws, Stephen Nickell, Michael Oliver & Geoffrey Wood] |
| 81 Nov 28 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | SDP: "Heath hints he might join a Tory-SDP coalition" ("There might be invitations ... which might be acceptable") |
| 81 Dec 8 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "A Tory warning from the last ditch" (Chris Patten article) [give cabinet the benefit of the doubt "one last time ... some signs of change"] |
| 81 Dec 8 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Tory 'wets' set for rebellion on economy" (Gilmour Group) [around a dozen likely to abstain on Autumn Statement] |
| 81 Mar 5 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Communists heckle Mrs Thatcher in church" (St Lawrence Jewry speech) [MT: "you see why I fight these people"] |
| 81 Dec 7 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | SDP-Liberal Alliance: "Steel tells of talks with troubled senior Tories" (dissident Conservatives including junior ministers) [plus Gilmour attack] |
| 81 Sep 15 Tu | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Three Cabinet ministers sacked" (reshuffle) [purging the wets] |
| 81 Dec 12 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Why Howe should heed that lorry rumble" (Geoffrey Smith article) [threat to Howe's survival] |
| 81 Dec 10 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "The Kamikaze Tory Rebels" (Ronald Butt article) [firing arrows into backs of their own side] |
| 81 Oct 13 Tu | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "'Blue Chips' to aid party in Croydon" (all 14 to visit) [demonstration of loyalty] |
| 80 Mar 3 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Monetarism: a reply to the critics" (Friedman article) |
| 80 Mar 5 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Monetarism and hyper-inflation" (Hayek letter) |
| 80 Mar 18 Tu | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Free market" (Hayek letter defending Friedman) |
| 80 Mar 26 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "How to deal with inflation" (Hayek article) |
| 80 Mar 29 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Professor urges Chancellor to balance Budget now" (Hayek at IEA lunch) [wants "referendum to rescind every single [union] privilege"] |
| 80 May 31 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Testing time for monetarism" (Hayek letter) |
| 80 Jun 13 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "A testing time for monetarism" (Hayek letter) |
| 81 Mar 10 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Economists criticize Government" (Hayek & Friedman on BBC Panorama ) [blaming wets] |
| 81 Apr 4 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Beating inflation key to recovery" (Hayek letter on the 364 economists) ["lost generation of British economists ... panicky mob"] |
| 81 Apr 4 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Beating inflation key to recovery" (Harris letter on the 364 economists) ["charge sheet of those responsible for ... economic decline"] |
| 80 Nov 12 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "The Hayek cure: bigger and better bankruptcies" (Hayek interview) ["my hopes of Britain saving herself have shrunk a little"] |
| 81 Mar 16 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Advice and consent" (Hayek letter) [does not act as an adviser "on particular decisions"] |
| 80 Dec 1 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Abuse of union power 'main cause of jobless'" (Hayek paper for IEA) [unions "cannot understand they are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs"] |
| 12 Feb 6 Mo | Press |
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Major | Moore (Charles) | Conservatism: Margaret Thatcher & Capitalism (2012 Adam Smith Lecture) |
| 77 May 9 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "The liberal teacher who turned his back on old age to lead world" (Seldon profile of Hayek) ["a liberal of the British classical tradition"] |
| 77 Jul 21 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Trade union immunity under the law" (Hayek letter) [revoke privileges granted by Trade Disputes Act, 1906] |
| 77 Aug 2 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Trade union privileges" (Hayek letter) ["The trade unions, being politically sacrosanct, have been allowed to destroy the British economy"] |
| 77 Aug 20 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Trade union privileges" (Hayek letter) ["The trouble is that British trade unions refuse to accept the law which applies to everybody else"] |
| 80 May 7 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Steel: "Threatened revolt over steel chief collapses" (meeting between Joseph and Conservative backbench committee regarding Ian MacGregor appointment) |
| 82 Mar 11 Th | Press |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: "Carlton Club celebrates with Thatcher as star" (MT unveils a portrait of herself at the Carlton Club) [released 2013] |
| 90 Aug 3 Fr | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (Boulder Daily Camera) | US: "Durgin recalls Margaret Thatcher's visit to Boulder" [2012 account of a 90 minute stop at National Center for Atmospheric Research] |
| 94 Mar 1 Tu | Press |
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Major | Sir Brian Harrison | MT: “Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals” |
| 83 Sep 29 Th | Press |
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Key | Thatcher memoirs | Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting in Washington (record of conversation) [memoirs extract] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Press |
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Key | Thatcher memoirs | Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting at Camp David (account of conversation) [memoirs extract] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | Press |
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Key | Thatcher memoirs | Grenada: Thatcher letter to Reagan ("deeply disturbed" at US plans) [memoirs extract] |
| 85 Oct 21 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | South Africa: “Thatcher refuses to budge over sanctions” [arguments at Nassau CHOGM] |
| 85 Oct 22 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | South Africa: Summit accord on apartheid hailed as key step [outcome of Nassau CHOGM] |
| 86 Jan 28 Tu | Press |
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Major | Her Majesty's Government | Green Paper on Local Government Finance ("Paying for Local Government") [origins of Community Charge] |
| 67 Feb 20 Mo | Press |
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Major | Scott-Smith (Giles) | US visit: Giles Scott-Smith article on MT's 1967 US tour (20 Feb-31 Mar) |
| 08 Apr 15 Tu | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (Daily Mail) | Hailsham diary: "Night the PM was nearly kidnapped by Scottish students" (Alec Douglas-Home talked them out of it) |
| 77 Sep 14 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Tory leader denies split in party over closed shop" [Joseph-Prior spat over Grunwick] |
| 88 Sep 21 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | Europe: “Thatcher signals fight to stop EEC superstate” (Bruges speech) |
| 88 Sep 21 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | Europe/Bruges speech: “Riding roughshod over Continental hypocrisy” (Bruce Anderson on Bruges speech) |
| 88 Sep 22 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | Europe/Bruges speech: “Untimely offensive” (leading article on Bruges speech) |
| 74 Sep 6 Fr | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Sir Keith Joseph blames full employment policies for inflation” (Peter Jay on KJ speech at Preston - “Inflation is Caused by Governments”) |
| 74 Sep 6 Fr | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “The Sharp Shock of Truth” (leading article on KJ speech at Preston) |
| 74 Oct 21 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Sir Keith Joseph denies bid for Tory leadership as critics mount attack ” (KJ speech at Edgbaston) |
| 74 Oct 21 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “The Public Morality” (leading article on KJ speech at Edgbaston) |
| 11 Jun 14 Tu | Press |
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Major | Weiss (Antonio) | MT: Antonio Weiss "The Religious Mind of Mrs Thatcher" [study of MT’s personal religion] |
| 11 Jun 22 We | Press |
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Major | Agar (Jon) | MT: Jon Agar "Thatcher, Scientist" [study of MT’s scientific career & approach to science policy] |
| 80 Jul 15 Tu | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Defence Open Government Document 80/23 ("The Future UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Force") [acquiring Trident] |
| 12 Jan 17 Tu | Press |
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Major | Needham (Duncan) | Economy: "Fentiman Road: Drawing the Conservative fiscal policy threads together in 1978" [study of Conservative economic planning in Opposition] |
| 81 Oct 15 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Impassioned plea by Heath gets short shrift from Tories" (attacks government at party conference) |
| 81 Oct 15 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Chancellor launches onslaught on 'union irresponsibility'" (Howe clashes with Heath) |
| 81 Oct 16 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Thatcher faces growing rift in Cabinet" (Tebbit speech - father "didn't riot. He got on his bike, & looked for work") |
| 81 Oct 16 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Monetarists warn wets: stop playing with fire" (Lawson & Walters speeches) |
| 81 Oct 7 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Heath blast at Thatcher's 'dreary path'" (Manchester speech) [MT rebuts] |
| 81 Oct 7 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Pathfinder for a Young Pretender" (leader on Heath's Manchester speech) [his views discounted] |
| 81 Oct 8 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Invitation that did not come" (Heath letter correcting leader) [never invited to join MT's team] |
| 81 Oct 9 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "The Troubled Ranks of Tuscany" (leader on Changing Gear ) [party in "the early stages of demoralisation"] |
| 81 Oct 10 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Mrs Thatcher can't expect blind loyalty" (Chris Patten article) ["truth ... lies somewhere in the middle"] |
| 81 Nov 19 Th | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: "Thatcher drops a few names" (lunchtime speech in Bonn goes wrong) [officials cause her embarrassment] |
| 81 Dec 9 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Howe attacked from all sides" (debate on Autumn Statement) [14 Conservative abstentions] |
| 81 Mar 13 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Sun) | Budget: "'Cabinet Men Warn on Budget" (7 rebel ministers) [Whitelaw, Carrington, Pym, Prior, Walker, Gilmour & Soames] |
| 81 Dec 3 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Heath scorns the 'pretence' of monetarism" (speech) [no intellectual basis] |
| 80 Feb 26 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: Leading Article "The Road to Hyper-Inflation is paved with good intentions" (Hayek's annotated copy) ["shoot-out at the Downing Street corral"] |
| 80 Feb 12 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "The balance between individual and state" (Gilmour's Cambridge Lecture) [Hayek's annotated copy] |
| 80 Feb 22 Fr | Press |
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Major | Archive (Hayek MSS) | Conservatism: Eric Heffer speech ("Tory leaders are no hypocrites, Mr Heffer says") [clash between "wets" and "dries"] |
| 82 Sep 26 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary Sunday Times | East Asia: "A new Mrs Thatcher rises in the East" [Hugo Young article] |
| 82 Sep 26 Su | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Observer) | China: Clive James articles ("Mrs T. in China") [account of MT's visits to China & Hong Kong] |
| 81 Mar 24 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Mr Lawson attacks gloom mongers" [defence of 1981 Budget] |
| 81 Sep 15 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Lawson - Backing with gusto for monetarism" [Lawson enters the Cabinet] |
| 81 Oct 21 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Energy: "How high-speed Lawson stirred up Energy" [privatisation of energy industry] |
| 82 Jan 28 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Lawson attacks reflation lobby" ["resistance to the mounting pressure for a reflationary Budget"] |
| 82 Dec 6 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Energy: "Lawson to reject claims of 'too high' electricity costs" ["energy minister backs pricing policies"] |
| 82 Aug 26 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Energy: "Mr Lawson's great oil gamble" ["renewed accusations that he is disposing of valuable national assets on the cheap"] |
| 83 Jun 13 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "The ministerial changes" [details of new appointments, inc. Lawson as Chancellor] |
| 83 Jun 13 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "The rise of a natural pugilist" ["the problems facing Nigel Lawson at the Treasury"] |
| 83 Jul 4 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Lawson says jobs are plentiful" ["there are many jobs... available to be done at a particular wage"] |
| 83 Jul 5 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Lawson pushes new-look NEDC to concentrate on specific issues" |
| 83 Jul 5 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Tory backbenchers warn Government against cuts in jobless benefit" ["failure to uprate unemployment benefit in line with prices would be strongly opposed"] |
| 83 Jul 7 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Lawson demanding £500m cut in public spending" ["emergency plan for swingeing cuts"] |
| 83 Jul 8 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Spending cuts hit NHS and defence" ["package of £500m in expenditure cuts in the current financial year"] |
| 83 Jul 11 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Battle in Cabinet likely as Lawson plans more cuts" ["strong opposition is certain"] |
| 83 Jul 20 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Lawson hints at tax cuts in return for spending curbs" |
| 83 Jul 21 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Taking the strain for annual tug of war" ["The start of the annual battle between the Treasury and spending ministries"] |
| 83 Aug 13 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Lawson ready for revolt on dole cut" |
| 83 Sep 29 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Our policies working - Lawson" [Washington speech "to extol the virtues of the Government's economic strategy"] |
| 83 Sep 12 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Lawson's spending cuts warning" ["no sacred cows exempted from public spending cuts"] |
| 83 Sep 12 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Lawson seeks public debate on spending" ["the Treasury must lead a more open debate on the prospects for public spending and taxation"] |
| 83 Oct 21 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Chancellor allows no respite in struggle against inflation" ["unswerving determination to reduce inflation further"] |
| 81 Mar 24 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Dry" [brief biography of Lawson] |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Press |
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Major | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Budget: Wolfson minute to MT (comments on MT-Howe meeting) ["professional incompetence ... self-delusion ... Criminal Liability"] [released 2011] |
| 81 Jan 14 We | Press |
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Major | Archive (Bank of England) | Economic policy: Dow minute for Governor (Wass meeting) ["despairing worry at the developing recession and the growing unemployment ... kickback if civil servants started to try to tell Ministers about politics"] [declassified 2011] |
| 83 Jul 15 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary ( The Times ) | Economic policy: "BMA accuses Lawson of 'fiddling the books'" [accused of making arbitrary calculation of overspend and consequent cut] |
| 83 Apr 4 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Reshuffle: “Shadow of the axe over Whitelaw and Pym” (inspired post-election reshuffle speculation) |
| 83 Oct 6 Th | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "'Parkinson admits love affair" (Parkinson admits relationship with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 7 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Love affair puts Parkinson's future in doubt" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 8 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Parkinson given ovation at dinner" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 9 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "An affair of the party" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 9 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Illicit love's survival game" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 9 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Top Tories tell Thatcher: sack Parkinson" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 10 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Chance of Parkinson survival dwindles" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 11 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Parkinson's affair cost him Foreign Secretary's post" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 12 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Miss Keays 'nearly the Bermondsey candidate'" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 12 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Diary: Parkinson show" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) ["Don't sack Cecil" banner flown over Blackpool] |
| 83 Oct 12 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Trustworthiness as touchstone in public office" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) [letters page] |
| 83 Oct 13 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Moral values in the Parkinson affair" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) [letters page] |
| 83 Oct 14 Fr | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "I implored him to tell Thatcher" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) [Keays interview] |
| 83 Oct 14 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Parkinson given a warm reception" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) [Conservative Party Conference] |
| 83 Oct 15 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Countdown to resignation as Parkinson's affair undermined polls success" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 15 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Keays statement forces Parkinson's resignation" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 15 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Press lays siege to house" (Parkinson's resignation follow revelations about his affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 15 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Tasks that face new man in job" (Parkinson's replacement as Trade and Industry Secretary following revelations about his affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 15 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Thatcher protégé who missed stardom" (Parkinson's resignation following revelations about his affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 15 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Younger tipped for Trade takeover" (Parkinson's replacement as Trade and Industry Secretary following his resignation) |
| 83 Oct 16 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Exclusive" (response of Parkinson's family to Keays' accusations) |
| 83 Oct 16 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Parkinson: A Tale of Three Women" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 17 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Thatcher's key role on Parkinson marriage" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Jun 13 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Reshuffle: "Tory MPs doubt justice of Pym's dismissal" (response to Pym's dismissal as Foreign Secretary) |
| 84 Feb 4 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Hungary: “True Blue on the Danube” (MT visit) |
| 84 Feb 4 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Hungary: “Kadar’s road from traitor to hero” (MT visit) |
| 84 Feb 4 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Hungary: “Thatcher issues urgent plea on arms” (MT visit) |
| 83 Nov 15 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Hungary: “Hungary visit for Thatcher” (MT announces visit in Guildhall speech) |
| 83 Sep 14 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Hungary: “Sir Geoffrey on three-day visit to Hungary” (Howe visit) |
| 83 Sep 14 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Hungary: “Hungary’s Way” (Howe right not to cancel visit after Korean shootdown) |
| 84 Feb 3 Fr | Press |
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Major | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Speech by Hungarian Prime Minister (Gyorgy Lázár) |
| 08 May 1 Th | Press |
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Major | Cartledge (Sir Bryan) | Cold War: Interview with Sir Bryan Cartledge (Private Secretary to PM, 1977-79; UK Ambassador to Hungary, 1980-83; to Moscow, 1985-88) |
| 07 Mar 19 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence) | Cold War: CIA intelligence monograph (“A Cold War Conundrum: The 1983 Soviet War Scare”) [origins and scope of Operation RYAN] |
| 05 Mar 24 Th | Press |
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Major | Unwin (Peter) | Cold War: Interview with Peter Unwin (UK Ambassador to Hungary, 1983-86; to Copenhagen, 1986-89; Deputy Sec-Gen Commonwealth, 1989-93) |
| 88 May 25 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Sterling policy: "Lawson pledges sterling stability" [inflation, sterling stability, EMS support] |
| 88 May 25 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Sterling policy: "Lawson pledges sterling stability" [inflation, sterling stability, EMS support] test |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Press |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: “To Kill the Cabinet” (“The story behind the Grand Hotel bombing”) [Brighton Evening Argus 40 page supplement] |
| 14 Sep 15 Mo | Press |
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Major | Lankester (Tim) | Budget: “The 1981 Budget: how did it come about?” (budget-making Jan-Mar 1981) |
| 14 Sep 15 Mo | Press |
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Major | Collins (Christopher) | Budget: “The Origins of the Budget in 1980” (pre-history of the 1981 budget in events of Jul-Dec 1980) |
| 84 Oct 2 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Belgrano: there was no alternative” (Lewin article) [“In war, opportunities must be taken while they exist; there may not be a second chance”] |
| 84 Oct 13 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Financial Times) | Brighton Bomb: (“IRA bomb kills 3 at Brighton”) [“A sombre closing of Tory ranks”] |
| 84 Oct 14 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Brighton Bomb: (“Intelligence warnings that were ignored”) [“Police told of possible attack”] |
| 84 Feb 21 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Financial Times) | MT: “Tories increasingly critical of Thatcher’s inner circle” (“backbench unease over ‘remoteness’ of Downing Street”) |
| 84 Apr 5 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary Financial Times) | MT: “Thatcher considers MSC chairman for Downing Street role” (David Young) [“suggestion of strengthening the Prime Minister’s office has [been] revived … following criticisms within the Conservative Party”] |
| 84 May 2 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Media: “Sherman view on loyalties” [“better for an adviser to face political death than ‘to be drawn into competition in courtiership and sycophancy’”] [annotated text released 2014] |
| 14 Dec 5 Fr | Press |
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Major | Bastien (Frédéric) | Canada: Frédéric Bastien “Thatcher’s Green Light” (extract from The Battle of London ) [study of the patriation of Canadian constitution] [published 2014] |
| 85 Dec 18 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Westland: “Heseltine throws down gauntlet on Westland deal” (“Brittan accused by critics of ‘misleading Commons’”) [Haviland & Bevins articles] |
| 85 Dec 16 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Westland: “Westland deal backed by cabinet” (board decision for Sikorksky deal “has the Government’s full endorsement and support”) |
| 85 Dec 17 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Westland: “Brittan says ploy on Westland was overruled” (Commons statement) |
| 85 Dec 17 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Westland: “Heseltine brushes aside resignation questions” (press conference in his MOD office) |
| 85 Dec 16 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Westland: “Battle on the Westland front” (Rodney Cowton explains the Heseltine-Brittan clash) |
| 85 Dec 17 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Westland: “A blur of blades” (second leader) |
| 85 Dec 19 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Westland: “MPs support Heseltine in Westland campaign” (“Rescue deal signed with Sikorsky”) |
| 85 Dec 20 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Westland: “European bid fuels Westland battle” (European consortium plan to be published today) |
| 85 Dec 14 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Westland: “Westland rejects Heseltine package” (board in “head-on conflict with its principal customer”) |
| 85 Dec 3 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Westland: “Westland likely to cut 750 jobs as Heseltine pushes rescue” (board “not enthusiastic ” about European grouping) |
| 85 Dec 21 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Westland: “Rival bid for Westland ‘vindicates Heseltine’” (European rescue terms published) |
| 85 Dec 29 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Westland: “Heseltine pressures Thatcher on Westland ” (circulates cabinet memo urging government express preference for European package) |
| 85 Dec 23 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Westland: “Heseltine scents victory over Westland rescue” (Brittan “faces Cabinet isolation on the issue”) |
| 85 Dec 27 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sun) | Westland: “‘Tarzan’ swings it in war over copter firm” (MT said to be irritated at Brittan’s attitude) |
| 85 Dec 20 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sun) | Westland: “Has Tarzan fallen out of his tree?” (profile) |
| 85 Dec 31 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Daily Mail) | Westland: “Heseltine is ready to quit” |
| 85 Dec 29 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sunday Express) | Westland: “Maggie fury over Heseltine” (“in a mood last night to sack him”; Gordon Reece role) |
| 85 Dec 17 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Daily Mail) | Westland: “Defiant Heseltine puts job at risk” (“collision course” with MT) |
| 85 Dec 20 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Daily Mail) | Westland: “Premier orders Heseltine to shut up” (“Cabinet backs Westland rescue by US firm”) |
| 85 Dec 27 Fr | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Westland: Press Association tape (developments) [new European move; bribery claim by Teddy Taylor] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 15 Fr | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands/Belgrano: BBC Radio Interview with Sir Ewen Broadbent (Ponting prosecution) [exact course of events at MOD] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 26 Th | Press |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Westland: Press Association tape (Heseltine cancels holiday) [needed at home] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Jan 19 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Financial Times) | City: “Gower urges sweeping new powers to supervise City” [publication of report] |
| 85 Dec 20 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | City: “Brittan acts to block further City scandals” [Financial Services Bill published] |
| 85 Dec 20 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | City: “Sense for the City” [First Leader - Financial Services Bill published] |
| 85 Dec 21 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | City: “City doubts that SRO system will work” [response to publication of Financial Services Bill] |
| 85 Dec 18 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | City: “Unclean Air” [First Leader - “some deeply worrying discords in the tone of public life”; Sedgmore allegations] |
| 85 Dec 20 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | City: “Lloyd’s interests ‘a viper’s nest’” [Brian Sedgemore in Commons debate] |
| 85 Jan 25 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Oxford: “Oxford dons split over award to Thatcher” (statements for & against in University Gazette ) |
| 85 Jan 28 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Oxford: “Degree for Mrs Thatcher” (letter of support from Lord Beloff) |
| 85 Jan 29 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Oxford: “Degree for Mrs Thatcher” (letter of support from Lord Goodman) |
| 85 Jan 30 We | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Oxford: “Oxford votes to snub Thatcher” (Congregation rejects honorary degree 738:319) |
| 85 Jan 30 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Oxford: “Sale of Honours” (Leading article attacking Oxford decision to refuse MT honorary degree) |
| 85 Jan 31 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Oxford: “Oxford rejection of Thatcher ‘spiteful’” (Soames & Gummer write to Noble) |
| 85 Jan 31 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Labour: “Why this censure makes no sense” (Ronald Butt on Labour motion) |
| 85 Feb 1 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Oxford: “Oxford University’s rebuff to the Prime Minister” (letters from Percival, Noble, Oppenheimer, Pulzer, Reed, Crick, Orr-Ewing ) |
| 85 Feb 2 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Oxford: “Implications of Oxford’s snub to Mrs Thatcher” (letters from Radice, Horne, Peele, Hayter, Dashwood & Opie) |
| 85 Feb 1 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Oxford: “Does Oxford speak for the nation?” (David Watt column) |
| 85 Sep 3 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sun) | Reshuffle: “Why I had to switch Leon, by Maggie” (not a demotion) |
| 85 Sep 3 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Financial Times) | Reshuffle: “Brittan, a minister with mind of his own” (profile) |
| 85 Sep 3 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Times) | Reshuffle: “Young and Clarke join forces to cut dole queues” (“Hurd takes over from Brittan in Government reshuffle”) |
| 85 Mar 14 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Sun) | Cold War: “Mrs T meets Mr G!” (“One hour of talking opens way for US”) [Chernenko funeral] |
| 85 Jan 30 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Oxford: “Fellows who are anti-female” (refusal of honorary degree “the badge of her radicalism, and some of us at Oxford salute her for it”) [article by Nicholas Shrimpton] |
| 84 Aug 14 Tu | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Press tape story (Galvin incident) [Prior takes responsibility for mistakes] |
| 85 Sep 24 Tu | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: Press agency report (“Liverpool Strike Cancelled”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Sep 18 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: “Fund raiser returns to Tory HQ” [McAlpine feud wtih Gummer] |
| 01 Feb 26 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Gulf War: "We should have finished job, says Thatcher" (tenth anniversary of liberating Kuwait) [MT & John Major speak at British Embassy in Kuwait City] |
| 89 Jun 5 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | China: "Thatcher tells of Britain's shock over the bloodbath" (statements by party leaders) ["Thousand feared dead as tanks crush heroic resistance"] |
| 16 Nov 3 Th | Press |
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Major | Bermant (Azriel) | Middle East: Azriel Bermant "Thatcher's Diplomatic Initiative" (chapter 7 of Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East ) [1983-85] |
| 84 Nov 1 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Conservative Newsline) | Brighton bomb: “We Will Never Bow To Terrorism” (MT “demonstrated once again her tremendous qualities of leadership”) |
| 81 Oct 20 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Elections: “Distant encounters of the Heath kind” (Heath campaigining for Conseravtives in Croydon by-election) |
| 81 Oct 20 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: “A Hard winter” (Cabinet divisions over public spending plans) |
| 81 Oct 20 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: “Rumblings of revolt among Tory dissidents” (meetings of wets to discucss how to put pressure on MT) |
| 81 Nov 19 Th | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: "Thatcher drops a few names" (lunchtime speech in Bonn goes wrong) [officials cause her embarrassment] |
| 87 Nov 28 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “No slowing Mrs Thatcher” [feels faint at Buckingham Palace] |
| 92 Mar 17 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | "The lady sails proudly away" [MT's final appearance in the House of Commons; tidying the despatch box] |
| 88 Sep 25 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Europe/Bruges speech: “Non! to the 'nightmare'” (news in focus) |
| 88 Sep 22 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | Europe/Bruges speech: “Furore ignored as 'roughing-up' of EEC goes on” (Comparison with de Gaulle not an insult, says Thatcher) |
| 88 Sep 21 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Europe/Bruges speech: “Thatcher hits at 'Identikit' European union” (Delors' dream of a superstate scorned) |
| 88 Sep 22 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Europe/Bruges speech: “Europe fears battle ahead with Thatcher” ('Nightmare' of central control under attack) |
| 83 Jul 20 We | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Department of Education & Science press release ("Education Secretary comments on HMI report") [quotes & copy of report] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 81 Oct 21 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary ( The Times ) | Economy: “Cabinet fails to agree cuts in public spending” [majority resist £5,000 cuts] |
| 14 Mar 12 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Le Monde) | Coal: "The strike which changed the United Kingdom" (30 year assessment of 1984-85 strike) |
| 84 Nov 22 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Bad Review" [Ramsgate bomb threats & allegations Scargill KGB agent] |
| 84 Nov 17 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Kinnock to appear with Scargill" |
| 84 Mar 30 Fr | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill's pension fund policy" [Scargill defends pensions policy in the high court] |
| 84 Feb 4 Sa | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill and Murray in clash on pay" [Scargill rejects potential for pay settlement] |
| 84 Mar 16 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "A bitter war to lose" [report on dispute over pit closures] |
| 84 Mar 27 Tu | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Miners' pension fund 'hazarded by Scargill'" [Scargill in court over NUM pension investments] |
| 84 Mar 27 Tu | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "The advocate without a wig was Mr Scargill" [Scargill defends pension policy. Miners wanted to buy the Daily Mirror and Theakstons Brewery] |
| 84 Jan 14 Sa | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill in clash on impact of ban" [Scargill and MacGregor disagree on effects of overtime ban] |
| 84 Mar 31 Sa | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill challenged on pensions" [Scargill defends stance on NUM pension investments] |
| 84 Apr 5 Th | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Russian journalist coy about Scargill 'class war' interview" [Scargill accused of calling coal strike 'class war'] |
| 84 Apr 7 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Secret ballot hope doomed if Scargill plays it by the book" [Scargill could block a ballot on a technicality] |
| 84 Apr 22 Su | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill to control 'fight to the finish'" [Scargill takes personal control, NUM conference rejects ballots] |
| 84 Apr 29 Su | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Time to tighten the knot - Scargill'" [Scargill urges moderates in Notts and Lancs to join strike] |
| 84 Dec 31 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal "Prime Minister makes a resolution to break Scargill's Power in NUM" |
| 84 Dec 15 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill fined for obstruction" |
| 84 Dec 14 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill claims arrest a plot" [obstruction arrest at mass picket] |
| 84 Dec 8 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Support by Heffer for Scargill Call" |
| 84 Dec 5 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill makes heartland cash plea" |
| 84 Nov 26 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Attack victims to seek new rules - new rules to oust Scargill" |
| 84 Dec 2 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill on the ropes" [position as leader of NUM threatened] |
| 84 Nov 22 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "'Scargill only wants conflict', Walker says" |
| 84 Nov 12 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Times' use of picture is upheld" Scargill appeared in photograph apparently performing a Nazi salute |
| 84 Nov 4 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill did discuss Libyan cash" discussion of Libyan government donation to NUM |
| 84 Nov 4 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (News of the World) | Coal: "Scargill in 'six-hour talk with Libyans" discussion of Libyan government donation to NUM |
| 84 Nov 1 Th | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Not for pruning" [rose to be named after Scargill] |
| 84 Nov 1 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "From Arthur with love" [House of Lords question over Scargill USSR trip] |
| 84 Oct 14 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | Coal: "Scargill urged strike in '83" [High Court hears that Scargill had tried to order an unlawful nationwide strike without a ballot in 1983] |
| 84 Oct 11 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Miners undeterred by fines on Scargill and Union" [NUM reaffirms that they believe strike is official, despite High Court ruling to the contrary] |
| 84 Oct 10 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Judgement day for Scargill" [contempt of court charges and Labour MPs declaration of support] |
| 84 Oct 9 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "King Arthur's real crime" ["Mr Scargill is above the law"] |
| 84 Oct 8 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill 'must obey Courts'" [Attorney General predicts punishment of Scargill for contempt of court] |
| 84 Oct 7 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | Coal: "Glory to the tales of Arthur" [Scargill upstages Kinnock at Labour Party conference] |
| 84 Oct 21 Su | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Sunday Telegraph) | Coal: "Cat food for Scargill" [tin of cat food thrown at Scargill in Sunderland] |
| 84 Oct 5 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Judge adjourns hearing but Scargill remains defiant" [Scargill continues not to attend his court hearing for contempt] |
| 84 Oct 3 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Daily Mirror) | Coal: "Scargill defiant on jail threat" [Scargill promises to ignore contempt writ] |
| 84 Oct 2 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill wins support for attacks on 'state violence against miners'" [Scargill attacks the policing of NUM pickets, while Eric Hammond is booed for criticising the lack of an NUM ballot before the strike] |
| 84 Oct 3 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Writ scope pass probe" [Labour Party investigation into how private investigator infiltrated Winter Gardens to serve writ to Scargill] |
| 84 Oct 2 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "High Court writ served on Scargill [contempt writ served] |
| 84 Sep 18 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill is a 'tyrant' over ballot" [John Gummer calls for ballot before strike] |
| 84 Sep 18 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill says £1,000 fine paid without his authority" [Scargill denies sanctioning payment of contempt of court fine] |
| 84 Sep 10 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Kinnock traces Scargill 'errors'" [Kinnock attacks Scargill for "destroying the coal industry" and for holding two unsuccessful ballots in 1982 and 1983] |
| 84 Sep 9 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | Coal: " 'Miners are fully aware of the forces massed against them' " [Scargill emphasises determination to force government to back down over strike] |
| 84 Sep 9 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The News of the World) | Coal: "David Owen: We cannot cave in to Scargill" |
| 84 Aug 31 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "A strike for Britain's future" [Scargill argues that pit closures "ignore Britain's energy requirements"] |
| 84 Aug 28 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill attacks TV pit strike coverage" |
| 84 Aug 26 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | Coal: "Scargill to TUC: don't betray me" [Scargill condemns "scab" labourers, while some "large and moderate" unions offer support to the NUM] |
| 84 May 11 Fr | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill dispute halts paper" [quarrel between journalist unions stops Express going to print] |
| 84 May 15 Tu | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "20,000 in miners' protest march" [strikers gather in Mansfield for a mass demonstration] |
| 84 May 27 Su | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Coal: "Scargill: has to rest" [a horoscope for Scargill] |
| 84 Jun 11 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Compromise ruled out by Scargill" [Scargill will accept nothing but total victory] |
| 84 Jun 20 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Total blockade call as miners move against steel plants" [NUM call on transport unions to blockade steelworks] |
| 84 Jun 23 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill at head of the funeral" [Scargill leads 8000 miners at Joe Green's funeral] |
| 84 Jun 29 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "'Star chamber' move could split miners" [Scargill pursues new power to expel uncooperative pits from NUM] |
| 84 Jun 26 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "'My greatest day" [Scargill interview by New Left Review on memories of Saltley] |
| 83 Jul 5 Tu | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "'Pit leaders seek backing for big pay increase" [Scargill: “A fightback … will inevitably take place outside rather than inside Parliament”] |
| 84 Jul 5 Th | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill as star of micro game" [company launches computer game featuring Scargill] |
| 84 Jul 12 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Scargill denounces 'blatant state interference' in miners' strike" [Scargill accuses state organs of anti-union conspiracy] |
| 84 Jul 8 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Coal: "Scargill sticks out for total victory" [amid NCB talks, Scargill declares "we are going to win"] |
| 84 Jul 15 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Coal: "What drives Arthur Scargill?" [Andrew Stephen probes Scargill's background and philosophy] |
| 84 Aug 8 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Figured out" [top Scargill researcher quits] |
| 84 Aug 9 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Pitted fruit" [NUM begged not to accept illegal LSE SU donation] |
| 84 Aug 11 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Strike 'enforced by mobs'" [Walker says NUM are paying mobs to stop workers] |
| 84 Aug 12 Su | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Coal: "Trials of a star-crossed trio" [horoscopes of MacGregor, Thatcher and Scargill] |
| 84 Aug 19 Su | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Coal: "Scargill intimidates TUC - MacGregor" [NCB head says Scargill using pickets to coerce other unions] |
| 84 Aug 26 Su | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (News of the World) | Coal: "Scargill hit by an egg at demo" |
| 84 Aug 22 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: "Mr Scargill and the TUC" [TUC worries about impact of coal strike on union movement] |
| 84 Jul 20 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: Peter Walker article for The Times (“Scargill’s challenge to us all”) [“contempt for parliamentary democracy and desire to seize power”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Mar 6 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “56,000 miners to strike over closure of pits” [Yorkshire miners on strike over closure of two pits] |
| 84 Mar 7 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Coal strike threat spreads as NCB insists on closures; ” Scots join Yorkshire protest [prospect of strike spreading in domino effect] |
| 84 Mar 8 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Miners may resort to flying pickets” [Upcoming NUM conference] |
| 84 Mar 8 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Closures affect old pit areas; Coal output rising as productivity falls” [Brunt of closures will affect old mining areas; large rise in coal output at coal face since 1976] |
| 84 Mar 9 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Miners’ leaders will back all areas that strike.” [miner’s leaders officially back strike] |
| 84 Mar 10 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Strike likely to halt half of Britain's mines” [Strike looks likely to spread] |
| 84 Mar 13 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Coal strike: Walker not to intervene” [Secretary of State for Energy not to intervene] |
| 84 Mar 13 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Militant picketing spreads coal strike to 100 pits; Scuffles as illegal protesters close Nottinghamshire mine” [More than half of coal industry's labour force on strike; flying picket closes Nottinghamshire mine] |
| 84 Mar 15 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Flying pickets defy High Court and return to the pits” [Yorkshire picketers continue action in Nottinghamshire] |
| 84 Mar 15 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Brittan condemns mob rule by miner on miner” [Home Secretary declares police have a duty to ensure non-strikers can go to work] |
| 84 Mar 16 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Moderates dampen left-wing hopes of all-out pit strike; miners united by picket's death” [Hopes of national strike blasted by moderate vote; death of flying picket member] |
| 84 Mar 19 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Police set to match pickets man for man” [8000 officers mobilised; cost 500,000 pounds a day] |
| 84 Mar 20 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Have the miners been nailed?” [“Control of the flying pickets could be a benchmark in curbing industrial disputes”] |
| 84 Mar 20 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Official strike called” [Derbyshire calls strike; Skinner blames police presence] |
| 84 Mar 20 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Time for a ballot” [The Times calls for a national ballot] |
| 84 Mar 23 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “6,000 moderates ordered to join pit strike” [6000 Lancashire miners called out on strike; 80 percent of industry at standstill] |
| 85 Feb 26 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Reticent Scargill arrives in Moscow” [Scargill talks with Soviet officials; refuses to say how much money donated] |
| 84 Mar 27 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Miners’ pension fund &ldquohazarded by Scargill”; Pits dispute begin to affect industry; pickets' hide and seek with police” [Scargill imprudent in pension investments; dwindling supply of coke shuts steel works, flying pickets frustrated by police road checks] |
| 84 Mar 27 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NUM leaders in moderate Midlands call out 13,000 men on strike” [Coalfield leaders call out strike despite vote against action] |
| 84 Mar 28 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Chaos as miners choke motorway with 5mph crawl” [Miners do motorway protest] |
| 84 Mar 28 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NUM moderates vote to force national meeting” [moderates vote to force recall of NUM executive] |
| 84 Mar 31 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Labour is accused of “big lie” over police” [Home Secretary accuses Labour of shaking public confidence in the role of law and the police] |
| 84 Apr 2 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Unions at the abyss” (Which side will crack first in the miners’ dispute? Paul Routledge reports) |
| 84 Apr 3 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Sharp exchanges in Commons over ballot on miners’ dispute; PCs on pit duty can earn £500; Royal visits likely to go ahead despite unrest in pits” [Walker condemns lack of national ballot; police at picket line can earn 500 pounds a week overtime; Royal visit to powerplants going ahead] |
| 84 Apr 4 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Notts miners may yield to pickets; Scargill denial” [Nottingham union leaders tell moderates not to cross picket lines from Yorkshire; Scargill denies telling Mocow newspaper strike was the start of a class war] |
| 84 Apr 5 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Notts ready to reject strike; “riot police” condemned by staff union” [Nottingham delegates to reject executive call not to cross picket lines; use of riot police criticised by police union] |
| 84 Apr 6 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill’s strategy suffers blow in steel and pit votes; Commons set for mines debate” [Nottingham delegates reject executive's call; Commons to debate policing] |
| 84 Apr 7 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Police deny any phone taps on NUM officials” [Home Secretary denies hone hacking] |
| 84 Apr 9 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Pit militants back rival strategy to relaunch dispute” [NUM leaders seek special delegate conference rather than national ballot] |
| 84 Apr 10 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Emergency debate on police operation” [House of Commons to debate police action] |
| 84 Apr 10 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher endorses police conduct in miners’ dispute” [Thatcher praises police] |
| 84 Apr 13 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Miners expected to change the rules to get all-out strike” [NUM executive rejects calls for ballot; reduces voting majority necessary] |
| 84 Apr 17 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Rotting coal stock claims denied” [NCB denies claims coal stocks wasting on ground] |
| 84 Apr 18 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher ready to tackle total pit shutdown” [Government prepared contingency plans for national strike] |
| 84 Apr 18 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scottish pledge to strike for miners” [Scottish union leaders pledge a 24 hour unlawful stoppage] |
| 84 Apr 25 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill spurns MacGregor offer on closures” [Scargill rejects compromise] |
| 84 Apr 26 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Ronald Butt: With friends like Scargill” [Butt article] |
| 84 Apr 26 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Power station coal stocks likely to last into autumn; Labour levy planned to aid the miners” [expected life of coal stocks lengthened; Labour Party calls on members to fund strike fund] |
| 84 Apr 27 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Unease over Labour levy for miners” [Unease within Labour Party over subsidies] |
| 84 Apr 28 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Powell critical of archbishop backing miners.” [Enoch Powell accuses Archbishop of York of hatespeech “religious bankruptcy&rdquo] |
| 84 Apr 28 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “The company they keep” [Leader comment] |
| 84 May 2 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Rivals clash as 6,000 rebel pitmen jeer union chiefs” [Clash between working strikers and area leaders] |
| 84 May 2 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Letters to the editor” [Letters from archbishop of York and Ian Gow] |
| 84 May 3 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Flying policemen versus flying pickets” [Police flown in from Hampshire] |
| 84 May 4 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Convoys of coal beat the pickets” [Coal convoys getting through pickets] |
| 84 May 7 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill says only 8 weeks’ coal left” |
| 84 May 9 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “1,500 fail to halt coal lorries at Hunterston” [Clash with strikers and mounted police] |
| 84 May 11 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Police preparing clampdown on pit violence” [Police considering limits on picket numbers after violence] |
| 84 Jun 12 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Pit package promises higher pay and output for job cuts” [NCB prepares new plan] |
| 84 May 12 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher prepared for long strike” [MT emphasizes to conference long strike plans, rejects 8 week claims] |
| 84 May 14 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “SDP backs working miners” [SDP critical of miners use of intimidation] |
| 84 May 15 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Walker resists pressure to call coal leaders together” [many months of coal stocks, rejects negotiations] |
| 84 May 17 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill’s wife on picket charge” [Scargill’s wife banned from picketing] |
| 84 May 18 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Police teams to fight intimidation of working miners” [teams of detectives being formed] |
| 84 May 18 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher defends decision of NCB to import coke” [Defends NCB importing 175,000 tonnes of coal from US] |
| 84 May 19 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Unions must obey law, Kinnock says” [Criticised Thatcher for intervention; unionists should not scorn legality] |
| 84 May 19 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Whose Plan For Coal?” [Editorial] |
| 84 May 21 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Pit strikers would vote to return now, mines survey indicates” [pithead polls tend towards end to strike] |
| 84 May 23 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill to meet coal board” [leader and NCB to meet for first time since strike began] |
| 84 May 26 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Notts miners win right-to-work orders from court” [High court confirms workers cannot be instructed to strike by their union] |
| 84 May 29 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Coal board aims at turning talks into all-out peace drive” [Two sides prepare for negotiations] |
| 84 May 30 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher had secret plan to handle strike” [Government had plans for strike three years ago] |
| 84 May 31 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill’s arrest and pit riot shatter peace hope” [hopes for settlement fade with violence; Scargill arrested] |
| 84 Jun 1 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher sees no early settlement” [Thatcher sees no prospect of settlement; insists she will not intervene] |
| 84 Jun 4 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Unions angry over Government’s strike vote scheme” [anger over intent to tighten law on strike ballots] |
| 84 Jun 7 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “The myths mined by Mr Scargill” [Ronald Butt article] |
| 84 Jun 15 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “One in 3 defiant says NCB” [limited return to work by striking miners; one in three still working however] |
| 84 Jun 18 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Steelmen to defy Scargill threat” [Steel unions to reject cutting down coal supplies] |
| 84 Jun 20 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher refuses to yield over Orgreave mob” [criticises mob violence at Orgreave] |
| 84 Jun 22 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “MacGregor in “no victory” warning to NUM” [insists NUM will not win in letter delivered to 178,000 miners] |
| 84 Jun 23 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Government backs MacGregor tactic” [government gives public support to attempt to break strike] |
| 84 Jun 25 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Pits strike hits growth forecast” [strike reduced GDP growth] |
| 84 Jun 28 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Steelmen defy Scargill” [Llanwern steel workers reject Scargill call to halt protection] |
| 84 Jun 30 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “No accord between NUM and steelmen” [no agreement on coal supplies to steelworks] |
| 84 Jul 2 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Ministers step up attacks on pit violence” [government condemns intimidation] |
| 84 Jul 3 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Steel unions snub miners and pledge to keep up output; Coal Board says 2,000 men volunteer for redundancy” [Steel unions reject sympathetic action; 2000 accept redundancy] |
| 84 Jul 4 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Lorry drivers defy union advice” [lorry drivers ignore calls to strike] |
| 84 Jul 4 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NCB advert in Times” [How the miners have been misled (part 1)] |
| 84 Jul 5 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NCB advert in Times” [How the miners have been misled (part 2)] |
| 84 Jul 5 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Benn told: stop licking Scargill’s boots” [Benn questioned in Commons over support for Scargill and not steel leader] |
| 84 Jul 6 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Help the miners beat Scargill” [David Hart article] |
| 84 Jul 6 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NCB advert in Times” [How the miners have been misled (part 3)] |
| 84 Jul 7 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NCB advert in Times” [How the miners have been misled (part 4)] |
| 84 Jul 10 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Dock strike starts today as pit talks fail again; MacGregor in appeal to NUM” [Dock strike over supply of coal; appeal to accept settlement] |
| 84 Jul 14 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NUM faces more legal action” [NUM faces legal action over plans to introduce “courts” for rebel action] |
| 84 Jul 16 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Coal board dismay over talks” [dismay over militant tone during negotiations] |
| 84 Jul 17 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Crisis talks bring in 14 ministers” [MISC 101 secret meeting] |
| 84 Jul 18 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NCB closes ranks on “final offer” to miners” [NCB supports MacGregor's no surrender policy] |
| 84 Jul 20 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher makes Falklands link - Attack on enemy within” [coverage of “enemy within&rdquo speech] |
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