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PDF 74 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hailsham MSS) Hung Parliament: Hailsham diary (support for a "National Government" approach at Grillions)
PDF 74 Jun 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (CPS) Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management Committee minutes (fourth meeting) [KJ speeches, functions, themes]
PDF 74 Jun 28 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Ralph Harris letter to Keith Joseph (attacks his ruling out denationalization) ["blinkered vision"]
PDF 74 Jul 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (agrees on denationalization) ["strong grounds for your complaints ... strong wish of several subscribers that we should be realistic"]
PDF 74 Jul 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph draft prospectus ("Centre for Policy Studies") ["We shall seek to change the climate of opinion ... but we shall be realistic"]
PDF 74 Jul 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (CPS) Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management Committee minutes (fifth meeting) [goals, studies, themes, etc]
PDF 74 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Conservative Party) Steering Committee: Minutes of 13th Meeting (discusses inflation & unemployment)
PDF 74 Jul 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (CPS) Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management Committee minutes (sixth meeting) [input, output, media, etc]
PDF 74 Aug 8 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (update - CPS in existence but not yet active) ["steeping myself in Hayek"]
PDF 74 Aug 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Laidler MSS) Housing: MT to Professor David Laidler (electoral constraints on Conservative policy) [not backsliding]
PDF 74 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CPS) Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management Committee minutes (eighth meeting) [input, output, credo, fundraising, advisory council]
PDF 74 Oct 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Sherman MSS) Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management prospectus (outline of goals & methods) [“The Centre will state the case for a social market economy”]
PDF 74 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Sherman MSS) Conservatism: Joseph memorandum to CPS colleagues (Public Education programme) [media, disputations, talks, speeches/articles]
PDF 74 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (CPS) Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management Committee minutes (ninth meeting) [staff, finance, educating disputants, credo, advisory council, etc]
PDF 74 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Hailsham MSS) Parliamentary tactics: Hailsham diary (party's need for "constant & robust" opposition)
PDF 74 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph to Hayek (thanks for praise of Preston speech) ["most grateful for your blessing"]
PDF 74 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hailsham MSS) Conservative Party: Hailsham diary (Enoch Powell urges they forgive one another) [handshake at Cathedral]
PDF 74 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT’s party Curriculum Vitae
PDF 74 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hailsham MSS) Conservative Party: Hailsham diary (argument at All Souls over Keith Joseph's Edgbaston speech)
PDF 74 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hailsham MSS) Constitution: Hailsham diary (David Stirling wants a written constitution)
PDF 74 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Conservative leadership: Hailsham diary (close allies discuss Heath's future)
PDF 74 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CPS) Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management Committee minutes (tenth meeting) [launch, staff, advisory council, fundraising, research, education etc]
PDF 74 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Sherman MSS) Conservatism: Sherman memorandum to CPS colleagues (Credo) [“we should be better off without a credo”]
PDF 74 Dec 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Party rules on leadership elections ("Procedure for the Selection of the Leader of the Conservative Party") [released 2010]
PDF 74 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Conservative Party) Steering Committee: Circulated Paper (Joseph “Prospects for economic policy”)
PDF 74 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Conservative Party) Steering Committee: Minutes of 18th Meeting (discusses Joseph paper on economic prospects)
PDF 74 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Paris European Summit record of conversation (Session 1) [declassified 2005]
PDF 74 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Paris European Summit record of conversation (Session 2) [declassified 2005]
PDF 74 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Paris European Summit record of conversation (lunch) [declassified 2005]
PDF 74 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive of European Integration, University of Pittsburgh EC: Paris European Summit final communiqué
PDF 74 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Paris European Summit Presidency Conclusions [declassified 2005]
PDF 74 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Post-Paris European Summit Briefing for Cabinet [declassified 2005]
PDF 74 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Cabinet (Wilson report on Paris European Summit) [declassified 2005]
PDF 74 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Winston Churchill MP letter to Harold Wilson (House Guest of Lord Kagan, Victor Lessiovsky, claimed to be KGB agent) [declassified 2011]
PDF 74 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: UK Embassy Paris Despatch on Paris European Summit [declassified 2005]
PDF 75 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ford Library) Cold War: Kissinger conversation with President Ford (“Britain is a tragedy”) [declassified ?1984]
PDF 75 Jan 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Taxation: MT to G.D. Leaney (Capital Transfer Tax) [“I have pledged a future Conservative administration to repeal the Capital Transfer Tax”] [released 2017]
PDF 75 Feb 3 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Vaizey MSS) Conservatism: MT to John Vaizey (senses a "yearning to get things right again among people of many political views")
PDF 75 Feb 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ford Library) Conservative Party: State Department note on MT defeat of Heath (surprising) [declassified ?1984]
PDF 75 Feb 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Hailsham MSS) Conservative leadership: Hailsham letter to MT (congratulations & assurance of loyalty)
PDF 75 Feb 11 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative leadership election: MT’s notes on handling Ted Heath
PDF 75 Feb 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ford Library) Conservative Party: State Department note on MT victory over Whitelaw (surprising) [declassified ?1984]
PDF 75 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Carrington to MT (contratulations on election as leader)
PDF 75 Feb 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Cold War: US Embassy in London to State Department (“Margaret Thatcher: Some First Impressions”) [declassified 2006]
PDF 75 Feb 16 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Conservative leadership: MT letter to Hailsham (warm thanks) [realises magnitude of her task]
PDF 75 Feb 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Younger MSS) Scotland: MT to George Younger (in need of advice about Scotland and ready to take it)
PDF 75 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hailsham MSS) Middle East: Hailsham letter to MT (should he join Conservative Friends of Israel?)
PDF 75 Feb 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (lack of party liaison with business) [duplicating campaigns against Industry Bill]
PDF 75 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (agreed points) [Alan Walters, Irwin Bellow, John Bondsworth]
PDF 75 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Vaizey MSS) Conservatism: MT to John Vaizey (thanks for congratulations & offer of help)
PDF 75 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT to Sir Keith Joseph (lack of party liaison with business) [duplicating campaigns against Industry Bill]
PDF 75 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 51st Meeting
PDF 75 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: British Embassy in Jordan to FCO (MT connections to Israel) [declassified 2005]
PDF 75 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (Ralph Bateman) [meeting arranged with MT]
PDF 75 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Oppenheim on Prices Bill)
PDF 75 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (chairmanship of key policy group) [Economic & Social Strategy Group]
PDF 75 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: FCO to British Embassy in Jordan (MT connections to Israel) [declassified 2005]
PDF 75 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 52nd Meeting
PDF 75 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Adam Ridley note for MT (Bank of England)
PDF 75 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) EC: FCO brief on renegotiation (preparing for Dublin European Council) [declassified 2006]
PDF 75 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) EC: FCO steering brief (preparing for Dublin European Summit) [declassified 2006]
PDF 75 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Cabinet (pre-Dublin European Council discussion of EEC renegotiation) [declassified 2006]
PDF 75 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Joseph "Policy-Making, 1975")
PDF 75 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Dublin European Council record of conversation (Session 1) [declassified 2006]
PDF 75 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Dublin European Council record of conversation (Session 2) [declassified 2006]
PDF 75 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Dublin European Council record of conversation (Session 3) [declassified 2006]
PDF 75 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 53rd Meeting
PDF 75 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (European Council) EC: Dublin European Council Presidency Conclusions
PDF 75 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Keith Joseph note (inflation meeting)
PDF 75 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Cabinet (post-Dublin European Council discussion of EEC renegotiation) [declassified 2006]
PDF 75 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: George Younger to MT (Scottish Conservatives will unite behind you)
PDF 75 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Cabinet (post-Dublin European Council discussion of EEC renegotiation) [declassified 2006]
PDF 75 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Raison on local government)
PDF 75 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Cabinet (post-Dublin European Council discussion of EEC renegotiation) [declassified 2006]
PDF 75 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Note for chairman (Patten)
PDF 75 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Note for chairman (James Douglas)
PDF 75 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (Governor Bank of England & Hayek) [meetings with both via IEA]
PDF 75 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (ministerial workloads)
PDF 75 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (invitation to speak in Bavaria) [Otto von Hapsburg]
PDF 75 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (thanks for recent help) [MT chairman of his fan club]
PDF 75 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 55th Meeting
PDF 75 Apr 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies prospectus ("Objectives & Style") [countering "Socialistic & dirigiste ideas"]
PDF 75 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Joseph "Notes towards the definition of policy") [464K]
PDF 75 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (CRD on VAT & the Arts)
PDF 75 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Higgins on insurance industry)
PDF 75 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 56th Meeting [agenda only]
PDF 75 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hailsham MSS) Conservative policy: Hailsham diary (Carrington calls Joseph paper a "recipe for defeat")
PDF 75 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Hailsham MSS) Conservative policy: Hailsham diary (Shadow Cabinet squabbles over Keith Joseph paper)
PDF 75 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 57th Meeting
PDF 75 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Arthur Seldon to Hayek (differences between his approach & Friedman's) [common ground on labour market reform and monetary policy not being enough to fix unemployment]
PDF 75 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Martin Wassell letter to Ralph Harris (thanks for invitation to Political Economy Club dinner) ["I enjoyed Tuesday night but was thoroughly depressed by the prospects we discussed"]
PDF 75 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Hailsham MSS) Europe: Hailsham diary (MT says do not share platform with Jeremy Thorpe)
PDF 75 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Sherman MSS) Conservatism: Sherman memorandum to Sir Keith Joseph (“Note on the Functions & Financing of the Centre”) [case for maintaining CPS]
PDF 75 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ford Library) Economy: Alan Greenspan note for President Ford (Britain as a warning to the US) [?unclassified]
PDF 75 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Minutes of 31st Meeting
PDF 75 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (fall of Saigon) ["a dark day ... somehow the shadows seem to have lengthened"] [released 2003]
PDF 75 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 60th Meeting
PDF 75 Apr 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Minutes of 32nd Meeting
PDF 75 May 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Visit to US: FCO letter to UKE Washington (MT’s plans to visit US in September) [declassified 2006]
PDF 75 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Whitelaw on devolution)

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