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Category |
Type | Value | Author/Source | Title |
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| 80 Jun 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | Cold War: Brzezinski Weekly Report for Carter (success of his European trip a “vindication” of Administration strategy) [declassified 1998] |
| 76 May 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Minute of Thatcher-Callaghan meeting (withdrawal of Spearhead Battalion) [declassified 2006] |
| 76 Jun 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | House of Commons: Minute of Thatcher-Callaghan meeting (pairing incident) [declassified 2006] |
| 76 Jul 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Europe & Devolution: Minute of Thatcher-Callaghan meeting (EC Commissionership & direct elections; devolution bill procedure) [declassified 2006] |
| 76 Sep 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | India & Pakistan: FCO minute (MT reservations about visiting India & dismay at probable absence of press coverage) [declassified 2006] |
| 76 Sep 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | India & Pakistan: FCO to British High Commission in New Delhi (MT perhaps susceptible to ‘a fair amount of gentle guidance’) [declassified 2006] |
| 76 Aug 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | India & Pakistan: British High Commission New Delhi to FCO (asks how to answer MT questions about immigration) [declassified 2006] |
| 76 Sep 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | India & Pakistan: British High Commission New Delhi to FCO (Mrs Gandhi praises MT’s directness) [declassified 2006] |
| 76 Sep 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | India & Pakistan: Minute of meeting at British High Commission (MT’s response to briefing by immigration officials) [declassified 2006] |
| 76 Sep 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | India & Pakistan: UK Embassy Islamabad to FCO (MT’s visit to Pakistan & dinner with the Bhuttos) [declassified 2006] |
| 76 Sep 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | India & Pakistan: UK Embassy Islamabad to FCO (MT’s two days in Pakistan) [declassified 2006] |
| 76 Sep 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | India & Pakistan: Note by British High Commissioner (MT’s call on Indian Minister of External Affairs) [declassified 2006] |
| 76 Aug 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | India & Pakistan: FCO notes for meeting with MT (‘defensive’ brief on immigration) [declassified 2006] |
| 76 Aug 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | India & Pakistan: FCO minute (MT decides British officials should not attend her meetings with Heads of Government) [declassified 2006] |
| 76 Aug 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | India & Pakistan: FCO to No.10 (asks clearance to help prepare MT visit) [declassified 2006] |
| 81 Jul 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (Siberian gas pipeline) (NSC 0016) [declassified 2004] |
| 81 Jul 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Weinberger paper (“US policy on the West Siberian pipeline”) [declassified 2004] |
| 81 Jul 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Haig paper (“Control on Exports to the Soviet Union”) [declassified 2004] |
| 81 Jul 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Casey paper (“CIA Memorandum on Siberian pipeline”) [declassified 2004] |
| 81 Jul 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Allen briefing (President’s notes for NSC meeting on Siberian gas pipeline) [declassified 2004] |
| 81 Dec 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Perle memorandum for National Security Adviser (Siberian gas pipeline) [declassified 2004] |
| 78 Dec 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (George Thomas MSS) | Parliament: MT to George Thomas (Parliament “seldom touches the nation’s deepest needs”) |
| 81 Oct 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (Siberian gas pipeline) (NSC 0023) [declassified 2004] |
| 75 Nov 15 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Rambouillet Summit (Session 1) [declassified 2006] |
| 75 Nov 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Rambouillet Summit (Session 2) [declassified 2006] |
| 75 Nov 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Rambouillet Summit (Session 3) [declassified 2006] |
| 75 Nov 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Rambouillet Summit (Session 4) [declassified 2006] |
| 75 Nov 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Rambouillet Summit (Session 5) [declassified 2006] |
| 75 Nov 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: British statement on import controls at Rambouillet G7 (reserves right to introduce selective controls) |
| 75 Nov 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Post-summit statement to the press by British Prime Minister (Harold Wilson) |
| 75 Nov 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Ford Library) | G7: Post-summit statement to the press by US President (Gerald Ford) |
| 75 Nov 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: UK Embassy in Washington to FCO (reaction to Rambouillet summit in the US press) [unclassified] |
| 75 Nov 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Rambouillet G7 Communique (“The Rambouillet Declaration”) |
| 75 Nov 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: UK Embassy Paris to FCO (“Rambouillet: the French View”) [declassified 2006] |
| 76 Feb 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: FCO to UK Embassy Paris (“The Economic Summit Conference at Rambouillet”) [declassified 2006] |
| 75 Nov 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: Ken Stowe to J.P. Dutet (British PM urges French Finance Minister report G7 to EEC Finance Ministers) [declassified 2006] |
| 79 Mar 31 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Henderson (Sir Nicholas) | Economy: The Henderson Despatch (British decline, causes & consequences) [leaked 1979; declassified 2006] |
| 81 Nov 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Lenz memo for Allen (NSC leaning towards Haig rather than Weinberger on Poland) [declassified 2004] |
| 81 Dec 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: National Security Council minutes (Poland) (NSC 0034) [Reagan calls European leaders “chicken littles … let our Allies know ... we have long memories”] [declassified 2004] |
| 75 Jul 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: “Private Memorandum on International Concertation of Economic Action” (Helmut Schmidt proposals) [declassified 2006] |
| 75 Jul 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: French record of Helsinki Quadripartite Lunch (proposal for a ‘Sommet Monitaire’) [declassified 2006] |
| 75 Aug 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Wilson-Healey meeting on proposed economic summit (record of conversation) [declassified 2006] |
| 87 Nov 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Reagan letter to Thatcher (concern at US deficit) [declassified 2007] |
| 83 May 28 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Thatcher-Reagan meeting at Williamsburg (extract from record on US deficit) [declassified 2007] |
| 81 Oct 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: CIA paper for NSC (“Possible Allied Response to US Strategy on the Pipeline”) [declassified 2004] |
| 81 Dec 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC briefing for President Reagan (responses to martial law in Poland) [declassified 2004] |
| 76 Nov 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Thatcher telegram to President-elect Carter (wishing him “strength and success”) |
| 80 Jan 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Warsaw to FCO (1979 Annual Report on Poland) [declassified 2007] |
| 81 Jan 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Warsaw to FCO (1980 Annual Report on Poland) [declassified 2007] |
| 81 Dec 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Warsaw to FCO (1981 Annual Report on Poland) [declassified 2007] |
| 82 Dec 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Warsaw to FCO (1982 Annual Report on Poland) [declassified 2007] |
| 83 Dec 31 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Warsaw to FCO (1983 Annual Report on Poland) [declassified 2007] |
| 84 Dec 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Warsaw to FCO (1984 Annual Report on Poland) [declassified 2007] |
| 86 Jan 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Warsaw to FCO (1985 Annual Report on Poland) [declassified 2007] |
| 87 Jan 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Warsaw to FCO (1986 Annual Report on Poland) [declassified 2007] |
| 88 Jan 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Warsaw to FCO (1987 Annual Report on Poland) [declassified 2007] |
| 89 Jan 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Warsaw to FCO (1988 Annual Report on Poland) [declassified 2007] |
| 90 Jan 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Warsaw to FCO (1989 Annual Report on Poland) [declassified 2007] |
| 91 Jan 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Warsaw to FCO (1990 Annual Report on Poland) [declassified 2007] |
| 79 Dec 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in East Berlin to FCO (1979 Annual Report on GDR) [declassified 2007] |
| 80 Dec 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in East Berlin to FCO (1980 Annual Report on GDR) [declassified 2007] |
| 82 Jan 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in East Berlin to FCO (1981 Annual Report on GDR) [declassified 2007] |
| 83 Jan 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in East Berlin to FCO (1982 Annual Report on GDR) [declassified 2007] |
| 84 Jan 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in East Berlin to FCO (1983 Annual Report on GDR) [declassified 2007] |
| 85 Jan 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in East Berlin to FCO (1984 Annual Report on GDR) [declassified 2007] |
| 86 Jan 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in East Berlin to FCO (1985 Annual Report on GDR) [declassified 2007] |
| 87 Jan 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in East Berlin to FCO (1986 Annual Report on GDR) [declassified 2007] |
| 87 Jan 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in East Berlin to FCO (1987 Annual Report on GDR) [declassified 2007] |
| 89 Jan 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in East Berlin to FCO (1988 Annual Report on GDR) [declassified 2007] |
| 90 Jan 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in East Berlin to FCO (1989 Annual Report on GDR) [declassified 2007] |
| 89 Nov 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Kohl phones Thatcher) [translation] |
| 89 Nov 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Thatcher letter to Gorbachev is helpful) [translation] |
| 89 Nov 18 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Kohl at European Council finds MT cool) [translation] |
| 89 Nov 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Bush & MT praise Kohl’s handling of events in GDR) [translation] |
| 89 Dec 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Germans think MT playing for time at NATO summit) [translation] |
| 89 Dec 9 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT cooperating constructively on EMU despite her reservations) [translation] |
| 90 Jan 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Kohl angry at MT’s criticisms in Wall Street Journal interview) [translation] |
| 90 Jan 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT concern at Bush proposal to reduce US forces in Europe) [translation] |
| 90 Feb 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Charles Powell explains MT’s point of view on German unification) [translation] |
| 90 Feb 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Kohl-MT phone conversation in which she accepted unification) [translation] |
| 90 Mar 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT welcomes agreement on German-Polish frontier) [translation] |
| 90 Mar 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Kohl angry at MT interview but welcomes her efforts to create a good climate between them) [translation] |
| 90 Mar 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Kohl-MT talks at No.10) [translation] |
| 90 Apr 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Kohl at peace with MT, a “tremendous fighter & a splendid woman”) [translation] |
| 90 Apr 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT makes helpful comments on NATO) [translation] |
| 90 Apr 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT & Bush make helpful comments at Bermuda) [translation] |
| 90 Apr 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT letter on her talks with Bush in Bermuda) [translation] |
| 90 Jun 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT talks with Gorbachev in Moscow bring no new insights) [translation] |
| 90 Jun 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (British account of MT talks with Gorbachev in Moscow) [translation] |
| 90 Jun 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT letter to Kohl on talks with Gorbachev in Moscow) [translation] |
| 90 Jun 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT has “big problems” with US draft of NATO declaration) [translation] |
| 90 Jul 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT speech to NATO Summit in London) [translation] |
| 90 Jul 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT at Houston G7 on need to introduce market economy into USSR) [translation] |
| 90 Jul 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT congratulates Kohl on outcome of his visit to Gorbachev) [translation] |
| 90 Mar 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Cabinet Office) | Cold War: Charles Powell letter to Timothy Garton-Ash (agenda for Chequers German seminar) [declassified 2007] |
| 90 Mar 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Cabinet Office) | Cold War: Chequers Seminar on Germany (“Summary Record”) [declassified 2007] |
| 80 Jan 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1979 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007] |
| 81 Jan 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1980 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007] |
| 81 Dec 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1981 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007] |
| 83 Jan 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1982 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007] |
| 83 Dec 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1983 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007] |
| 85 Jan 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1984 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007] |
| 86 Jan 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1985 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007] |
| 87 Jan 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1986 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007] |
| 88 Jan 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1987 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007] |
| 89 Jan 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1988 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007] |
| 90 Jan 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1989 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007] |
| 91 Jan 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1990 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007] |
| 83 Sep 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: FCO preparation for “Chequers Strategy Meetings” (seminar on USSR) [declassified 2007] |
| 83 Sep 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: Heseltine minute to PM for Chequers seminar on USSR (“Britain and Arms Control”) [declassified 2007] |
| 75 Feb 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: US Embassy in London to State Department (“Margaret Thatcher: Some First Impressions”) [declassified 2006] |
| 83 Sep 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: Bullard note on Chequers Soviet seminar (expects no drastic change of course by Soviets) [declassified 2007] |
| 83 Sep 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: Howe minute to PM on Chequers Soviet seminar (“Strategy Meetings on Foreign Affairs & Defence”) [declassified 2007] |
| 83 Sep 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: Broomfield minute on Chequers Soviet seminar (FCO view of papers by academics) [declassified 2007] |
| 83 Sep 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: Manning minute on Chequers Soviet seminar (FCO view of papers by academics) [declassified 2007] |
| 83 Sep 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: Chequers Soviet seminar (minute of meeting) [declassified 2007] |
| 75 Nov 15 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Ford Library) | G7: Rambouillet Summit (Session 1) [US record] [declassified 2004] |
| 75 Nov 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Ford Library) | G7: Rambouillet Summit (Session 2) [US record] [declassified 2004] |
| 75 Nov 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Ford Library) | G7: Rambouillet Summit (Session 3) [US record] [declassified 2004] |
| 75 Nov 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Ford Library) | G7: Rambouillet Summit (Session 5) [US record] [declassified 2004] |
| 76 Jun 27 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Ford Library) | G7: Puerto Rico Summit (Session 1) [US record] [declassified 2003] |
| 76 Jun 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Ford Library) | G7: Puerto Rico Summit (Sessions 2 & 3) [US record] [declassified 2003] |
| 74 Jan 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | General Election: Hailsham diary (Carrington makes case for immediate election) [coded diary] |
| 71 Mar 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | MT: Hailsham diary ("bad day for Margaret T") [coded diary] |
| 71 Feb 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Economy: Hailsham diary (nationalisation of Rolls-Royce) [coded diary] |
| 74 Mar 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | General Election: Hailsham diary (Jeremy Thorpe asks questions) [coded diary] |
| 74 Jan 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | General Election: Hailsham letter to Carrington (opposes early poll) |
| 71 Mar 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Northern Ireland: Hailsham diary (Ulster PM resigns) [coded diary with translation] |
| 72 Feb 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Miners' strike: Hailsham diary (government's hand forced) [coded diary with translation] |
| 72 Mar 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Northern Ireland: Hailsham diary (Cabinet divided over direct rule) [coded diary with translation] |
| 74 Feb 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | General Election: Hailsham diary (Cabinet all want poll because miners struck) |
| 74 Feb 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | General Election: Hailsham diary (dissolution announced) |
| 74 Feb 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | General Election: Hailsham diary (rumour that Powell would stand against Heath in Bexley) |
| 74 Mar 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | General Election: Hailsham diary (MT & Keith Joseph oppose deal with Liberals) |
| 74 Mar 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Hung Parliament: Hailsham diary (tactics) |
| 74 Mar 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Hung Parliament: Hailsham diary (tactics) |
| 74 Jun 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Hung Parliament: Hailsham diary (support for a "National Government" approach at Grillions) |
| 74 Oct 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Parliamentary tactics: Hailsham diary (party's need for "constant & robust" opposition) |
| 74 Oct 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Conservative Party: Hailsham diary (Enoch Powell urges they forgive one another) [handshake at Cathedral] |
| 74 Nov 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Conservative Party: Hailsham diary (argument at All Souls over Keith Joseph's Edgbaston speech) |
| 74 Nov 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Constitution: Hailsham diary (David Stirling wants a written constitution) |
| 74 Nov 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Conservative leadership: Hailsham diary (close allies discuss Heath's future) |
| 75 Feb 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Conservative leadership: Hailsham letter to MT (congratulations & assurance of loyalty) |
| 75 Feb 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Conservative leadership: MT letter to Hailsham (warm thanks) [realises magnitude of her task] |
| 75 Feb 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Middle East: Hailsham letter to MT (should he join Conservative Friends of Israel?) |
| 75 Apr 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Conservative policy: Hailsham diary (Carrington calls Joseph paper a "recipe for defeat") |
| 74 Mar 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Hung Parliament: Hailsham memorandum for Heath (constitutional situation) |
| 74 Mar 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | General Election: Hailsham diary (note of failed negotiations with Liberals) |
| 72 Feb 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Miners' strike: Cabinet minutes (government's hand forced) [CM (72) 8th Conclusions] |
| 72 Mar 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Cabinet minutes (discussion of direct rule) [CM (72) 13th Conclusions] |
| 75 Apr 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Conservative policy: Hailsham diary (Shadow Cabinet squabbles over Keith Joseph paper) |
| 75 Apr 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Europe: Hailsham diary (MT says do not share platform with Jeremy Thorpe) |
| 75 May 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Europe: Hailsham diary (shares platform with Jeremy Thorpe) |
| 75 May 31 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Europe: Hailsham diary (shares platform with Jeremy Thorpe again) |
| 75 Jun 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Europe: Hailsham diary (disquiet over Du Cann speech) |
| 75 Jul 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Heath: Hailsham letter to MT (coalition risks) |
| 75 Jul 27 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Heath: MT letter to Hailsham (coalition risks) |
| 75 Jul 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Heath: Hailsham letter to Heath (political situation) |
| 75 Jul 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Heath: Hailsham letter to MT (danger of Wilson recruiting Heath) |
| 75 Sep 6 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Heath: Hailsham diary (Heath playing cards close to chest) |
| 75 Oct 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | MT: MT letter to Hailsham (praises his book) |
| 75 Oct 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | MT: Hailsham diary (MT speech a "deserved triumph") |
| 75 Oct 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Conservative Party: Hailsham diary (Carrington says Conservative peers disgruntled) |
| 75 Nov 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Constitution: Hailsham paper (case for fundamental constitutional reform to check "tyranny of the Commons") |
| 75 Nov 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Constitution: Hailsham diary (argued for written constitution in Shadow Cabinet) |
| 75 Nov 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Constitution: Hailsham diary (Queen's Speech discussed in Shadow Cabinet) |
| 75 Dec 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Heath: Hailsham diary (Aldington agrees Heath should be given Shadow Cabinet role) |
| 76 Jan 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Heath: Hailsham diary (Heath says MT no good) ["I am much better and I ought to be there still"] |
| 76 Feb 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (Prior-MT tension) |
| 76 Mar 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | House of Lords: Hailsham diary (MT wants free vote on Goodman amendment) |
| 76 Mar 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (Wilson resigns & KJ urges protesting Brezhnev visit) |
| 76 Mar 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Labour: Hailsham diary (conversations with Foot & Wilson) |
| 76 Jun 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary ("slightly hysterical" discussion of immigration) |
| 76 Oct 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Labour: Hailsham diary (Brian Walden offers support to bring down government) [coded entry with translation] |
| 76 Oct 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | MT: Hailsham diary (MT's speech) ["a bit corny but did the trick I think"] |
| 76 Oct 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (Maudling scandal) |
| 76 Nov 20 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Conservative Party: Hailsham diary (criticism of Keith Joseph) ["You wear too much sackcloth"] |
| 76 Nov 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | House of Lords: Hailsham diary (legislative tactics during 1975/76 session) |
| 75 Feb 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Carrington to MT (contratulations on election as leader) |
| 76 Dec 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Labour: Hailsham diary (Richard Crossman) |
| 76 Dec 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Conservative Party: Hailsham diary (stories of Churchill during WW2) |
| 76 Dec 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (threatens to resign over devolution) [likely to go "if the Scots went"] |
| 76 Dec 12 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham letter to Angus Maude (devolution) [still thinks of resigning] |
| 76 Dec 18 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (devolution) [decides against resigning] |
| 76 Dec 19 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (devolution) [tells MT he will not resign but criticises "absence of real leadership"] |
| 77 Jan 9 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Conservative Party: Hailsham diary (chat with Alec Home) [1964 kidnap attempt] |
| 77 Jan 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | House of Lords: Hailsham diary (against Lords reform short of elected Senate) ["no more tinkering"] |
| 77 Feb 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (backed Pym over devolution) |
| 77 Mar 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | MT: Hailsham diary (Plowdens critical of MT approach to industry & of Keith Joseph) ["a silly man & always wrong"] |
| 76 Mar 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO (account of MT visit to Israel) ["By any criteria ... a real success"] |
| 76 Mar 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO (account of MT meeting with PM Rabin) ["Mrs Thatcher's personality ... produced remarkable results"] |
| 76 Jan 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: FCO minute (arrangements for MT visit to Israel) [her PPS's views] |
| 77 Mar 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (discussion of Lib-Lab Pact) ["they all pretend to think a good thing"] |
| 77 Mar 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (discussion of confidence motion) [case for General Election "(n)ot very well rec(eive)d"] |
| 77 Mar 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | MT: Hailsham diary (discussion with Peter Carrington) [serious doubts about MT & Keith Joseph] |
| 77 May 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | MT: MT letter to Hailsham (thanks for help with Loyal Address) [Queen's Silver Jubilee] |
| 77 May 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (meeting discussing devolution) |
| 77 Sep 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Conservative Party: Hailsham letter to Keith Joseph (unsent - disapproves his attack on Lord Scarman) [Grunwick] |
| 77 Sep 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Conservative Party: Hailsham diary (shows MT his unsent letter to Keith Joseph) [Grunwick] |
| 77 Oct 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Conservative Party: Hailsham diary (discusses Keith Joseph with Whitelaw & Carrington) ["an albatross ... (m)ay bring us down ... attracts barmies"] |
| 77 Nov 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (devolution meeting) [MT moving towards federalism with England a single unit] |
| 77 Nov 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Enoch Powell: Hailsham diary (Carrington tells rumour Powell will lead National Front) ["Oh I DO hope it's true"] |
| 77 Nov 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (Queen's Speech entirely devolution) |
| 78 Mar 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Enoch Powell: Hailsham diary (Powell makes speeches on a full bladder) ["perversity"] |
| 78 Mar 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Constitution: MT letter to Hailsham (thanks for copy of his book) |
| 78 Apr 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Jeremy Thorpe: Hailsham diary (Peter Rawlinson withdrawal from Norman Scott case) |
| 68 Feb 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Economy: MT letter to Hailsham (steel) |
| 59 Dec 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Private Member's Bill: Evelyn Sharp minute (meeting MT) ["she would be content with any Bill that meant a real advance"] |
| 59 Dec 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Private Member's Bill: Henry Brooke paper for Home Affairs Committee (recommends government draft MT's Bill) ["something of a problem"] |
| 60 Jan 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Private Member's Bill: Official minute of meeting (MT rough on parliamentary draftsman) [holds "low opinion of local authorities, their members and officials"] |
| 60 Jan 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Private Member's Bill: MT to Sir Keith Joseph (drafting the bill) ["I have made one or two suggestions"] |
| 60 Jan 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Private Member's Bill: Evelyn Sharp minute for Minister (MT meets draftsman) ["extremely unsatisfactory discussion"] |
| 60 Jan 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Private Member's Bill: MT letter to other MPs (asks for support on Second Reading) |
| 60 Jan 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Private Member's Bill: Brooke meeting with Local Authority Associations (MT's Bill) [Brooke "in no way responsible for it"] |
| 60 Jan 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Private Member's Bill: Pearce minute (adjournment debate on trade union issue) |
| 60 Feb 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Private Member's Bill: MT notes for her maiden speech |
| 60 Feb 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Private Member's Bill: Cabinet Legislation Committee (government line on Second Reading) |
| 60 Mar 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Private Member's Bill: Pearce minute (possible amendment to Bill) [removal of council committees from scope] |
| 60 Apr 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Private Member's Bill: Brooke minute (possible amendment to Bill) [removal of council committees from scope] |
| 60 Apr 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Private Member's Bill: Brooke minute (possible amendment) [MT seems agreeable & Deedes says otherwise Bill will be lost] |
| 76 Jan 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Note of meeting (devolution) [conclusions as to Conservative approach] |
| 76 Nov 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham to MT (unsent letter on devolution) [Conservatives should not oppose 2R] |
| 77 Jan 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | House of Lords: MT to Hailsham (policy committee on Lords Reform) [Conservative alternative to outright abolition] |
| 77 Mar 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Government proposals on devolution (Select Committee?) [not yet put to Cabinet] |
| 76 Nov 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (discussion of shipbuilding & dock bills) [coded diary] |
| 75 Feb 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (lack of party liaison with business) [duplicating campaigns against Industry Bill] |
| 75 Feb 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (agreed points) [Alan Walters, Irwin Bellow, John Bondsworth] |
| 75 Feb 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: MT to Sir Keith Joseph (lack of party liaison with business) [duplicating campaigns against Industry Bill] |
| 75 Mar 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (chairmanship of key policy group) [Economic & Social Strategy Group] |
| 75 Mar 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Europe: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (invitation to speak in Bavaria) [Otto von Hapsburg] |
| 75 Jul 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (meeting with Val Duncan & others) [economy, party funding & electoral reform] |
| 75 Aug 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: MT to Sir Keith Joseph (meeting with Val Duncan & others) [economy, party funding & electoral reform] |
| 75 Sep 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Airey Neave (MT's diary) [set aside time for MT to have long leisurely chats with senior colleagues] |
| 75 Sep 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Sir Val Duncan (presentation for businessmen on electoral reform) |
| 75 Nov 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Angus Maude (presentation for businessmen on electoral reform) |
| 76 Jan 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (Sir Arnold Hall praises Michael Heseltine) [fight against nationalisation bill] |
| 76 Feb 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: MT to Sir Keith Joseph (Sir Arnold Hall praises Michael Heseltine) [fight against nationalisation bill] |
| 76 Mar 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Willie Whitelaw (John Kenneth Galbraith to get 13-part series on BBC) [need to respond] |
| 76 Apr 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (points made by the Letwins over dinner) |
| 76 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: MT to Sir Keith Joseph (thanks for points made by the Letwins over dinner) |
| 76 Apr 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (Peter Jay proposes Currency Commission) ["if and when the sterling crisis comes"] |
| 76 May 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to various colleagues (draft) [case against incomes policy] |
| 76 Jul 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Jim Prior (anticipates political strikes) ["we should condemn them"] |
| 76 Jul 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Sir Geoffrey Howe (US economist on Healey) [plans massive nationalisation] |
| 76 Jul 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (themes for speeches) [cut government share of GNP to 40 per cent in two Parliaments] |
| 76 Jul 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: MT to Sir Keith Joseph (thanks for themes for speeches) [still need shorthand phrases] |
| 76 Jul 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (conversation with Siegmund Warburg) [blames Treasury for post-war British economic performance] |
| 76 Jul 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Angus Maude (suggestion for The Right Approach ) [add paragraph on vocational training] |
| 76 Sep 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Michael Heseltine (Sir Arnold Hall warns against committing to denationalise aircraft industry) ["would only renew uncertainties, etc"] |
| 76 Sep 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Willie Whitelaw (Galbraith BBC series) [vital need to respond] |
| 84 Mar 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Middle East: National Security Planning Group meeting minute (possible Iranian victory) [declassified 2005] |
| 51 Nov 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Conservative Party) | 1949-59 (candidate): Beryl Cook report on Margaret Roberts ["an amazing young woman ... quite outstanding"] |
| 76 Sep 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to Sir Keith Joseph (aircraft nationalisation) [Arnold Hall’s advice chimes with Ridley’s] |
| 76 Sep 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to Sir Keith Joseph (Galbraith BBC series) [urges Friedman or Ralph Harris respond] |
| 76 Sep 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Europe: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (European Commissioner) [Aubrey Jones volunteers his own name] |
| 76 Oct 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Europe: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (European monetary union) [Aubrey Jones volunteers his views] |
| 76 Oct 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Sir Geoffrey Howe (well-wisher suggests we abolish Price Commission) [strengthen Monopolies Commission] |
| 77 Jan 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT to Dr Max Gammon (British university position for Vladimir Bukovsky) [Bukovsky confirms her worst fears about USSR] |
| 77 Feb 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (conversation with Government Chief Scientist) [MT unimpressed] |
| 77 May 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (offer of help from Jim Ball) [monetary economist at London Business School] |
| 77 May 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Human rights: Sir Keith Joseph to John Davies (meeting between MT & Amnesty) [liaison to be appointed] |
| 77 May 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (proposes new Shadow Cabinet policy documents) ["Right Approach to the Economy" mooted] |
| 77 May 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Jim Prior (conversation with union leader, John Lyons) ["in general terms a monetarist"] |
| 77 Jul 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Civil Service: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (conversation with Sir John Hunt) [inquires about paying key advisers more than officials] |
| 77 Sep 4 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph statement on Grunwick (attacked by David Steel) [McCarthyite techniques] |
| 77 Sep 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (letter to David Orr) [seconding Norman Strauss to work on Stepping Stones] |
| 77 Sep 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: MT to Sir David Orr (thanks) [seconding Norman Strauss to work on Stepping Stones] |
| 77 Sep 18 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Civil Service: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (letter from Sir John Hunt) [use of special advisers in government] |
| 77 Sep 18 Su | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Labour: Sir Keith Joseph to Tom Hooson (suggested election slogans) [Margaret or Marx] |
| 82 Jun 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Ronald Reagan & Margaret Thatcher | Conversation during press shoot (US civil war; boom microphones; the Falklands) |
| 75 Sep 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Strikes: Authority of Government Policy Group - Minutes of 1st Meeting |
| 75 Oct 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Strikes: Authority of Government Policy Group - Minutes of 2nd Meeting |
| 75 Nov 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Strikes: Authority of Government Policy Group - Minutes of 3rd Meeting [Jim Prior - government machinery] |
| 75 Nov 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Strikes: Authority of Government Policy Group - Minutes of 4th Meeting [Lewis Allan - electricity supply] |
| 75 Dec 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Strikes: Authority of Government Policy Group - Minutes of 5th Meeting [H.F. Cotterell - water supply] |
| 75 Dec 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Strikes: Authority of Government Policy Group - Minutes of 6th Meeting |
| 76 Jan 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Strikes: Authority of Government Policy Group - Minutes of 7th Meeting [Owen Francis - electricity supply] |
| 76 Feb 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Strikes: Authority of Government Policy Group - Minutes of 8th Meeting [Brian Clegg - gas supply] |
| 76 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Strikes: Authority of Government Policy Group - Minutes of 9th Meeting [Philip Chappell - ports] |
| 76 Mar 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Strikes: Authority of Government Policy Group - Minutes of 10th Meeting [H.B. Greenborough - oil supply] |
| 76 Jul 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Strikes: Authority of Government Policy Group - Minutes of 11th Meeting |
| 76 Jul 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Strikes: Authority of Government Policy Group - Minutes of 12th Meeting [Lord Armstrong - intelligence, propaganda] |
| 76 Oct 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Strikes: Authority of Government Policy Group - Minutes of 13th Meeting [Sir Antony Part - government machinery] |
| 76 Nov 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Strikes: Authority of Government Policy Group - Minutes of 14th Meeting [Sir Conrad Heron - industrial relations] |
| 77 Jan 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Strikes: Authority of Government Policy Group - Minutes of 15th Meeting [Sir Campbell Adamson - industrial relations] |
| 77 Jun 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Strikes: Authority of Government Policy Group - Final Report |
| 78 Apr 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Strikes: “Mrs Thatcher warned in secret report of defeat in confrontation with unions” (leak of Carrington Report - Authority of Government Policy Group) |
| 78 Apr 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Strikes: “Tory consternation over leak of party report on unions” (leak of Carrington Report) |
| 78 May 27 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Strikes: “Tory views on unions embarrass leaders” (leak of Ridley Report) |
| 75 Feb 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Scotland: MT to George Younger (in need of advice about Scotland and ready to take it) |
| 75 Jul 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: David Howell to MT (suggests reform of No.10 machinery) |
| 75 Aug 2 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: MT to David Howell (wants to talk over suggested reform of No.10 machinery) |
| 75 Sep 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: David Howell to MT (Herbert Agar) |
| 76 Feb 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: David Howell to MT (Themes) |
| 76 Feb 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: MT to David Howell (Themes) |
| 77 May 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: David Howell to Sir Keith Joseph (attacking waste and over-government) |
| 77 Oct 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: David Howell to Sir Geoffrey Howe (Conservatives should urge relaxing of exchange controls) |
| 78 Jan 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: David Howell to MT (material for Maude Group on Themes) |
| 75 Mar 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Scotland: George Younger to MT (Scottish Conservatives will unite behind you) |
| 75 Oct 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Economy: MT to George Younger (make no commitments involving net spending increase) |
| 76 Jan 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 91st Meeting |
| 75 Oct 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Michael Heseltine on Industrial Policy) |
| 75 Nov 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Willie Whitelaw on Devolution Study Group) |
| 75 Dec 14 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Adam Ridley CRD note on Chrysler rescue) |
| 75 Dec 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (CRD draft evidence to committee on public funding of political parties) |
| 89 Dec 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Younger MSS) | Leadership election: George Younger’s “Post Mortem Meeting Notes” (MT campaign team’s secret discussion) |
| 89 Dec 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Younger MSS) | Leadership election: George Younger’s “Report and Recommendations” (conclusions from leadership campaign) [“The result is not as good as the figures”] |
| 89 Dec 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Leadership election: MT to George Younger (thanks for help in leadership campaign) [“the result would have been different had you not been in charge”] |
| 90 Jan 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Leadership election: MT to George Younger (encloses inscribed silver cup) |
| 90 Dec 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Younger MSS) | Leadership election: MT to George Younger (thanks for help & advice) [“What has happened is now in the past”] |
| 02 Nov 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | MT: MT to George Younger (thinking of him in his illness) [“we made a difference”] |
| 02 Nov 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | MT: George Younger to MT (thanks - & reflections on 1984-85 miners’ strike) |
| 79 Feb 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Strikes: George Younger to MT (case for reviewing Authority of Government Policy Group report) |
| 79 Feb 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Younger MSS) | Strikes: MT to George Younger (rejects reconvening Authority of Government Policy Group) |
| 82 Mar 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Hansard | Economy: 1982 Budget (Howe 4) |
| 87 Mar 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Hansard | Economy: 1987 Budget (Lawson 4) |
| 88 Mar 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Hansard | Economy: 1988 Budget (Lawson 5) |
| 78 Jul 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Session 1) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Session 2) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Heads of Government Dinner) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Session 3) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Session 4) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Callaghan bilaterals) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Sessions 1 & 2 - Callaghan notes) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 15 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Schmidt-Callaghan bilateral) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (quadripartite meeting of Foreign Ministers) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (final British briefing meeting) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Hunt minute for Callaghan on summit prospects) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jun 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Hunt note on summit timetable) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jun 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Hunt note on meeting of Sherpas, with draft communique) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 May 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Hunt note on meeting of Sherpas) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 May 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (David Owen minute to PM urges protectionism) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | G7: Bonn Summit (Schmidt phone call to Carter announcing EMS) [declassified 2000] |
| 78 Jul 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | G7: Bonn Summit (Carter letter to Schmidt - multilateral trade negotiations) [declassified 1998] |
| 78 Jan 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Carter Library) | G7: Bonn Summit (Schmidt letter to Carter letter - date of next summit) [declassified 1996] |
| 78 Mar 12 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Note of Schmidt-Callaghan private dinner - EMS) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Mar 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Stowe minute for Callaghan - handling of EMS approach) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Mar 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Hunt minute for Callaghan - concerting action in run-up to July) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Mar 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Note of seminar on UK summit initiative) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Mar 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Callaghan letter to Carter - UK initiative) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Mar 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (UK paper for Carter - Five Points initiative) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Mar 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Carter-Callaghan meeting in Washington - record of conversation) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Ministerial Meeting on EMS proposal [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 8 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Note of Callaghan-Schmidt-Giscard breakfast meeting on EMS) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 8 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | G7: Bonn Summit (Henry Owen report to Carter - discussions in Bonn) [declassified 1996] |
| 78 Apr 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | G7: Bonn Summit (Carter letter to Schmidt - following up Henry Owen discussions in Bonn) [declassified 1998] |
| 78 Mar 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | G7: Bonn Summit (Carter letter to Schmidt - urges Five Points) [declassified 1998] |
| 78 Apr 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Callaghan note of EMS discussion at Copenhagen European Council (breakfast with Schmidt & Giscard) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Callaghan-Carter phone call on EMS proposals) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (McMahon note of conversation with Karl Otto Pöhl - Giscard wants UK to join EMS) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Note of meeting on EMS proposal - German disillusion with the US) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jun 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Callaghan-Carter meeting - record of conversation on G7) [extract only] [declassified 2008] |
| 76 Jun 27 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Puerto Rico Summit (Session 1) [declassified 2007] |
| 76 Jun 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Puerto Rico Summit (Session 2) [declassified 2007] |
| 76 Jun 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Puerto Rico Summit (Session 3 ) [declassified 2007] |
| 76 Jun 27 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Puerto Rico Summit (Ford-Callaghan bilateral) [declassified 2007] |
| 76 Jun 27 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Puerto Rico Summit (Callaghan meeting with Italian Foreign Ministry official) [predicts Communist Government within five years] [declassified 2007] |
| 77 May 7 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: London Summit (Session 1) [declassified 2008] |
| 77 May 7 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: London Summit (Session 2) [declassified 2008] |
| 77 May 8 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: London Summit (Session 3) [declassified 2008] |
| 77 May 8 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: London Summit (Session 4) [declassified 2008] |
| 77 May 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: London Summit (Callaghan note of quadripartite meeting) [declassified 2008] |
| 77 Feb 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Callaghan-Giscard phone call on proposed economic summit (the four & the seven) [declassified 2008] |
| 77 Mar 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: German ‘non-paper’ for G7 participants (“Points for the Summit Meeting”) [declassified 2008] |
| 77 Mar 16 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Callaghan-Schmidt phone call on proposed economic summit (German tension with Carter) [declassified 2008] |
| 77 Jan 13 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Callaghan-Carter phone call on proposed economic summit (Mondale visit) [declassified 2008] |
| 77 Jan 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: Hunt minute for No.10 (“Preparations for an Economic Summit”) [declassified 2008] |
| 77 Jan 27 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: Callaghan-Mondale record of conversation (proposed economic summit) [declassified 2008] |
| 77 Mar 16 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Callaghan-Giscard phone call on proposed economic summit (Carter Administration positions) [declassified 2008] |
| 77 Mar 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Rome European Council record of conversation over dinner (argument about Community representation at G7) [declassified 2008] |
| 77 Feb 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: Carter letter to Callaghan (Henry Owen appointed Sherpa) [declassified 2008] |
| 77 Feb 12 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Carter letter to Callaghan (favours a London G7 with quadripartite meeting & EEC representation) [declassified 2008] |
| 77 Feb 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Callaghan letter to Carter (London G7 preparations) [declassified 2008] |
| 77 Feb 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: Carter letter to Callaghan (London G7) [declassified 2008] |
| 77 Mar 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: Callaghan letter to Carter (London G7 preparations) [declassified 2008] |
| 77 Mar 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Callaghan letter to Carter (London G7 preparations) [declassified 2008] |
| 76 Jun 30 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Callaghan-Schmidt record of conversation (economic summitry) [declassified 2007] |
| 76 Jul 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Callaghan-Giscard phone call (economic summitry) [declassified 2007] |
| 76 Jun 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Callaghan-Giscard record of conversation (economic summitry) [declassified 2007] |
| 76 Jun 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Puerto Rico G7 (Hunt minute to Callaghan on sherpa meeting) [declassified 2007] |
| 76 Jun 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Ford letter to Callaghan (preparations for Puerto Rico summit) [declassified 2007] |
| 76 Jun 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Puerto Rico G7 (Wright minute to Callaghan - objections by smaller European countries) [declassified 2007] |
| 76 May 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Ford letter to Callaghan (urges another economic summit) [declassified 2007] |
| 76 May 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: Callaghan letter to Ford (happy to see his emissary on economic summit) [declassified 2007] |
| 76 May 30 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Ford letter to Callaghan (announcement of economic summit) [declassified 2007] |
| 76 May 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Ford letter to Callaghan (text of summit announcement) [declassified 2007] |
| 76 Jun 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Callaghan letter to Ford (economic summit announcement) [declassified 2007] |
| 76 Jun 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: Ford letter to Callaghan (text of summit announcement) [declassified 2007] |
| 76 Jun 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: Callaghan reply to Ford (economic summit announcement) [declassified 2007] |
| 76 Jun 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: Callaghan letter to Ford (Hunt to be UK Sherpa) [declassified 2007] |
| 75 Jul 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: UKE Paris to FCO (Giscard urging a summit) [declassified 2006] |
| 79 Jan 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Guadeloupe Quadripartite meeting (Hunt account to Canadian High Commissioner) [declassified 2008] |
| 79 Jan 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Guadeloupe Quadripartite meeting (Peter Jay conversation with US Secretary of State) [declassified 2008] |
| 79 Jan 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Guadeloupe Quadripartite meeting (Callaghan minute approving follow-up action) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Dec 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Bonn Summit (Hunt minute of meeting to review follow-through & preparations for next summit) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Couzens note after EMS breakfast meeting (further questions for PM to ask) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 6 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Briefing for Callaghan’s EMS breakfast meeting (working of the snake, reserve pooling, etc) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Giscard-Callaghan phone call (breakfast meeting agreed) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Jenkins memorandum for European Council (plans for next four months) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Callaghan note of EMS discussion (at Copenhagen European Council ?dinner) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Schmidt note of remarks on EMS (at Copenhagen European Council ?dinner) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: No.10 Seminar on EMS (preparing for Bremen European Council) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Callaghan notes on briefing for No.10 Seminar on EMS (preparing for Bremen European Council) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Callaghan-Jenkins meeting (preparing for Bremen European Council) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Treasury briefing for Callaghan (preparing for Bremen European Council) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jun 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: No. 10 briefing for Callaghan (preparing for Bremen European Council) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 6 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Bremen European Council record of conversation (after dinner meeting) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 6 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Bremen European Council record of conversation (Session 1) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Bremen European Council record of conversation (Session 2) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 6 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (European Council) | EMS: Bremen European Council record of conversation (Session 1) [procès-verbal - official French text] |
| 78 Jul 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (European Council) | EMS: Bremen European Council record of conversation (Session 2) [procès-verbal - official French text] |
| 78 Jul 6 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Bremen European Council record of conversation (Callaghan meeting with Giscard & Schmidt) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jun 22 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: UKE Paris to FCO (prospects for Giscard-Schmidt meeting in Hamburg) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jun 25 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: UKE Paris to FCO (reports of Giscard-Schmidt meeting in Hamburg) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jun 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Couzens to No.10 (briefing on Giscard-Schmidt meeting in Hamburg) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Couzens to No.10 (briefing on David Blake article attributing scepticism to Treasury) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Nov 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Bundesbank) | EMS: President of the Bundesbank to Chancellor Schmidt (seeks assurances on operation of EMS) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Nov 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Bundesbank) | EMS: Bundesbank Council meeting with Chancellor Schmidt (assurances on operation of EMS) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Oct 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | EMS: Adam Ridley note on EMS (briefing for Conservative shadows stressing political nature of proposals) |
| 78 Nov 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | EMS: Adam Ridley note on EMS (government planning to join EMS but not exchange rate mechanism) |
| 78 Dec 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | EMS: Adam Ridley note on EMS (information from sources in Brussels) |
| 78 Dec 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | EMS: Adam Ridley note on EMS (Italian & Irish positions) |
| 78 Dec 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Brussels European Council record of conversation (opening lunch) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Dec 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Brussels European Council record of conversation (Session 1) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Dec 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Brussels European Council record of conversation (dinner) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Dec 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Brussels European Council record of conversation (after dinner) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Dec 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Brussels European Council record of conversation (Session 2) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Dec 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Brussels European Council (draft speaking note for PM - Britain not joining ERM) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Nov 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Callaghan-Andreotti meeting (preparing for Brussels European Council ) [extract] [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Nov 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Callaghan-Jenkins meeting (EMS & other EC issues) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Nov 26 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Callaghan-Schmidt phone call (EMS, economy, Guadeloupe) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Nov 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: UKE Rome to FCO (frank account of Schmidt-Andreotti talks in Rome on EMS) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Oct 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Bank of England memo for PM (“EMS & the choice for the UK”) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Sep 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Callaghan-Healey phone call (EMS) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Sep 16 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: UKE Bonn to FCO (Schmidt-Giscard talks in Aachen) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Sep 14 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Wicks memorandum for PM (ministerial momentum building in favour of UK joining EMS) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Sep 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Franklin memorandum for Hunt (EMS situation report) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 15 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Callaghan-Schmidt meeting (EMS) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Benn paper for cabinet (“Britain, Germany and the proposed EMS”) [extract] [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Bremen European Council (statement by German Presidency on EMS) [extract] [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Foreign Secretary Minute to Chancellor (UK net budget contribution to EC) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jun 22 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Chancellor note to PM (Treasury briefing papers for EMS seminar) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jun 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Couzens note for No.10 on EMS (secret meetings in Paris with French & Germans) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 May 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Couzens note for No.10 on EMS (secret meetings in Washington with French & Germans) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 May 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Couzens note for No.10 on EMS (secret meetings in Paris with French & Germans) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Dec 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Brussels European Council (Callaghan notes on British objectives) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jun 17 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Stowe minute for PM on EMS (case for British taking initiative at Finance Council) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Dec 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Brussels European Council (Callaghan notes on Session 2) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jul 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Treasury off-the-record press briefing on EMS (“not the greatest thing since sliced bread”) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 May 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Schulmann to Couzens (summary of Paris talks) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Jun 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Stowe minute for PM on EMS (suggests bringing Foreign Secretary into the loop) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 May 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Callaghan minute to Healey (consider wider role for SDRs as reserve currency) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Stowe letter to Treasury (PM wishes to go slowly) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 26 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Stowe telegram to UKE Washington (Callaghan call to Carter on 17 April) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 26 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Couzens note for No.10 on EMS (secret meeting with French) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Callaghan-Schmidt meeting (relations with US) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 23 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Callaghan-Schmidt meeting (EMS discussion in presence of central bank chiefs) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Stowe minute for PM (difficulty extracting detail on German plans) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Couzens note for No.10 on EMS (secret meeting with Germans) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Apr 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: UKE Bonn to FCO (state of Anglo-German relations) [declassified 2008] |
| 73 Mar 1 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Heath-Brandt meeting (possible EC joint float) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 1 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Heath-Brandt meeting - resumed (possible EC joint float) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Heath-Brandt meeting (possible EC joint float) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 1 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Derek Mitchell note on “Common float” (questions about possible EC joint float) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 1 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Heath telegram to Chancellor of the Exchequer (discussions on possible EC joint float) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Feb 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Brandt-Heath phone call (possible EC joint float) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Feb 10 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Brandt-Heath phone call (possible EC joint float) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Feb 10 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Ministerial Meeting on currency crisis (possible EC joint float) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Feb 11 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Barber-Schmidt phone call (possible EC joint float) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Feb 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: UKE Paris to Treasury (French sceptical about reserve pooling) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Feb 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: No.10 to UK Ambassador in Washington (Heath “thinking big” on European monetary arrangements) [declassified 2004] |
| 78 Oct 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EMS: Cabinet Committee meeting on EMS (GEN136(78) 5th) (decision not to join) [declassified 2008] |
| 73 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Ministerial Meeting on possible joint float (UK favours in principle) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Ministerial Meeting on possible joint float (Germans drawing back a little) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Heath-Brandt meeting (possible EC joint float) [extract] [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Nixon letter to Heath (attacks European unilateralism in currency crisis) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 4 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: UKE Washington to FCO (Brandt letter to Nixon, 2 Mar - currency crisis) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 4 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Heath letter to Nixon (defends EC line in currency crisis) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 4 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Ministerial Meeting on possible joint float (British terms decided) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 4 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Nixon letter to Heath (thanks for swift response) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Heath letter to Brandt (“great decisions” needed on European monetary affairs) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Brandt letter to Heath (UK position “not without its problems”) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 11 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Schmidt-Barber meeting (Germany “could not possibly accept” UK conditions on joint float) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 11 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: UKE Bonn to FCO (Pöhl explains West German reservations) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Armstrong minute for Heath (meetings in Brussels) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Heath minute for Chancellor of the Exchequer (future policy for sterling) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Ministerial meeting on future policy for sterling (decison to plan for rejoining snake) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for Heath (shadowing snake) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Heath letter to Brandt (hopes for monetary advance later on) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for Heath (Germans did not live up to expectations) [declassified 2004] |
| 73 Mar 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for Heath (shadowing snake begins) [declassified 2004] |
| 85 Sep 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: President Reagan letter to President P.W. Botha (explains US measures) [declassified 1999] |
| 78 May 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Strikes: George Cardona report to MT (inconclusive investigation of Ridley Report leak) |
| 71 Oct 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Conservative Party: Chief Whip letter to PM (“Ministerial Changes”) [reshuffle recommendations] [declassified 2002] |
| 72 Sep 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Conservative Party: Chief Whip letter to PM (list of junior figures) [reshuffle recommendations] [declassified 2002] |
| 72 Sep 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Conservative Party: Chief Whip letter to PM (key offices) [reshuffle recommendations] [declassified 2002] |
| 72 Oct 29 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Conservative Party: Sir Antony Part note for Sir William Armstrong (MT as possible Minister for Fair Trading) [frank view of her relations with colleagues, etc] [declassified 2002] |
| 72 Nov 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Conservative Party: Chief Whip note to PM (MT as possible Minister of Trade) [reshuffle recommendations] [declassified 2002] |
| 72 Nov 5 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Conservative Party: No.10 Press Office “Note for Editors” (Howe appointed Minister of Trade) [reshuffle] [declassified 2002] |
| 73 Jun 24 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Conservative Party: Chief Whip note to PM (MT would like to leave Education but not go to Health) [reshuffle recommendations] [declassified 2002] |
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