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Value | Author/Source | Title |
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| 85 Mar 31 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | Coal: “Why Scargill vetoed ballot” [Scargill admits national ballot would have been lost] |
| 85 Mar 29 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Pit victory claimed by Scargill” [strike had politicised thousands of young men and women] |
| 85 Mar 6 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Arthur the grand old duke of York” [Scargill marches up hill with men returning to work] |
| 85 Mar 10 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | Coal: “Scargill still miners' choice ” [poll shows Scargill would win re-election] |
| 85 Mar 5 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill may face re-election” [legal process started to force Scargill to face re-election] |
| 84 Sep 22 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Bishop of Durham says MacGregor should be replaced” [criticises MacGregor] |
| 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] |
| 86 May 28 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cold War: “US scraps subs for Salt treaty” [Reagan “warned Moscow he will no longer abide by the limit of the Salt 2 treaty if the Russians continue to violate it”] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 82 May 14 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Crisis puts Cabinet unity under strain” [MT “seen by her admirers and her opponents, both inside and outside the Conservative Party, as being at odds with the majority of her Cabinet”] |
| 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] |
| 87 Nov 17 Tu | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Department of the Environment News Release ("Domestic Rates to be abolished in most areas of England in 1990") [Ridley written answer to Jeff Rooker] [declassified Feb 2018] |
| 88 Dec 15 Th | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Department of the Environment press release ("Most households to pay less with the Community Charge") [60 percent will pay less than under rates, Gummer tells Commons] |
| 86 Oct 30 Th | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: Philips and Drew Economic Unit press release ("Sterling Threat to Chancellor's Tax Hopes") [can Lawson get away with a pre-election tax-cutting Budget] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Nov 13 Th | Press |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: Morgan Stanley press release ("An Opportunity in Gilts") [UK bond market looks attractive] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Oct 19 Th | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 Press Office (cuttings faxed to PM's team in Kuala Lumpur) [Walters, EMS] [these copies declassified Jul 2018] |
| 89 Oct 20 Fr | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 Press Office (cuttings faxed to PM's team in Kuala Lumpur) [Lawson, Howe in Commons; Walters, EMS] [these copies declassified Jul 2018] |
| 89 Oct 21 Sa | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 Press Office (cuttings faxed to PM's team in Kuala Lumpur) [Walters, EMS] [these copies declassified Jul 2018] |
| 89 Oct 22 Su | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 Press Office (cuttings faxed to PM's team in Kuala Lumpur) [Sunday press on Lawson and Walters, EMS] [these copies declassified Jul 2018] |
| 82 Mar 3 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Guardian) | Falklands: "Threat of Action on Falkland Islands" (Buenos Aires statement following New York talks) |
| 88 Nov 1 Tu | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Treasury press release ("Autumn Statement: Public Expenditure Plans") [outturn tables] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Nov 1 Tu | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Treasury press release ("Economic Prospects for 1989") [outturn tables] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 86 Apr 9 We | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Conservative Party political broadcast [what would Britain be like under Labour or the Alliance] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Sep 3 We | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Social Democratic Party political broadcast [pensions, arts funding] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 87 Apr 30 Th | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: SDP Liberal Alliance political broadcast [unemployment, crime, health] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 87 May 20 We | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: SDP Liberal Alliance political broadcast [unemployment, pensions, crime, health] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 87 May 28 Th | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: SDP Liberal Alliance political broadcast [education, teachers] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 87 Apr 29 We | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Labour Party political broadcast [education, health, pensions] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 87 May 28 Th | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Labour Party political broadcast [health service] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 88 May 5 Th | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Labour Party political broadcast [health service] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Labour Party political broadcast [Labour agenda for national recovery] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 86 Dec 3 We | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Labour Party political broadcast [nuclear missiles] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 87 Jul 29 We | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Liberal Party political broadcast [by-election victories] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 88 Dec 14 We | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Liberal Democrats political broadcast [unemployment] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 82 Jul 7 We | Press |
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Trivial | Archive (Bank of England) | Monetary Policy: Press Association report ("Police Smash Forgery Racket") [suitcases of forged £20 notes found in gold-coloured Rolls-Royce stopped in Old Kent Road] [this copy released 2013] |
| 90 Nov 16 Fr | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: IBA press release ("Merger between BSB and Sky") [breach of BSB's programme contract] [declassified Dec 2017] |
| 88 Dec 13 Tu | Press |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Home Office press release ("Independent Television Levy") [proposed increase] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 82 Oct 11 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “'H' always led from the front" ("Pride of VC's Widow”) [award of two Falklands VCs announced] |
| 82 Oct 8 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Two Falkland VCs to be awarded" (awards to Colonel H. Jones and a Royal Marine NCO) [to be announced Monday] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “We Are All Falklanders Now” [leading article urging Carrington's resignation] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Press |
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Major | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Press Office: No.10 press notice (Ministerial Appointments) [Pym as Foreign Secretary, Biffen as Lord President, taskforce sets sail] [released 2013] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Press |
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Major | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Press Office: No.10 note of BBC Today ("Today summary April 5") [main news items; "Mrs Thatcher not looking for any resignations at present"] [released 2013] |
| 82 Apr 1 Th | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Sir Ronald Bell, QC, MP” [memorial service] |
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