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PDF 79 Jan 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to William Rees-Mogg (article offered to The Times )
PDF 79 Jan 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Oppenheim to MT (Supply day debates)
PDF 79 Jan 13 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Port Stanley to FCO ("Minister's Meeting with Falkland Island Councillors: Draft Agreement on Scientific Activity in the Dependencies") [proposed agreement "met with a negative response"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jan 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Guadeloupe Quadripartite meeting (Hunt account to Canadian High Commissioner) [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 Jan 15 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Minutes of 61st Meeting (Commons debate on industrial situation)
PDF 79 Jan 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Guadeloupe Quadripartite meeting (Peter Jay conversation with US Secretary of State) [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 Jan 16 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT's notes for her Commons speech (offer to HMG) [391K]
PDF 79 Jan 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 228th Meeting
PDF 79 Jan 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKA Rome letter to FCO (“Italian exclusion from quadripartite and other small groups”) [damage it does; need to take Italian resentment seriously] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Jan 19 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Patrick Hutber letter to MT (plans for Glyndebourne Festival Opera) ["The public begins to see how right you have consistently been!"] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Jan 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Chris Patten to Sir Keith Joseph (proposed “Waste of the week” campaign) [plans]
PDF 79 Jan 22 Mo Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Patrick Hutber (plans for Glyndebourne Festival Opera) [MT would like to attend Fidelio] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Jan 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti government looking increasingly insecure] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Jan 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Minutes of 62nd Meeting
PDF 79 Jan 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Italian Ambassador to London speaking notes (Guadeloupe meeting) [protest at Italian exclusion from summit] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Jan 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) South America: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable ("Peru: Relations with Neighbors") ["hardening stance ... new truculence"; Peru expels Chilean envoy and warns Ecuador] [declassified Jul 2004]
PDF 79 Jan 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO telegram to UKE Rome (“Guadeloupe summit: Italian reactions”) [Italian Ambassador protests at exclusion] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Jan 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 229th Meeting
PDF 79 Jan 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Jim Prior (story that mathematical economists were no help to Callaghan on unemployment) [we have more positive ideas]
PDF 79 Jan 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti likely to resign next week] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Jan 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO telegram to UKE Rome (“Guadeloupe summit: Italian reactions”) [Italian démarche & bout de papier] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Jan 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (encloses draft speech on unions) [depth of change needed above & beyond legal framework]
PDF 79 Jan 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to John Moore (proposed “Waste of the week” campaign) [asks for help]
PDF 79 Jan 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Lawson to MT (Philip Haddon-Cave as special adviser)
PDF 79 Jan 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 230th Meeting
PDF 79 Jan 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Ryder note to MT ("The Secretary to the Cabinet") [candidates to succeed Hunt as Cabinet Secretary] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Jan 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: CBI Situation Report ("Winter of Discontent")
PDF 79 Jan 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Sherman MSS) Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management Committee minutes (meeting) [bookshop, student seminars, publications, study groups, Conservative Conference fringe]
PDF 79 Jan 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO letter to UKE Rome (“Italian exclusion from quadripartite and other small groups”) [Andreotti remains annoyed; unavoidable problem] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Jan 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 231st Meeting
PDF 79 Feb 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“Gromyko’s visit to Rome: 22/26 January”) [Italian briefing on visit] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Paper circulated (Oppenheim on competition policy)
PDF 79 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO minute (“Grey Areas and Modernization of Theatre Nuclear Force (TNF)”) [Italian ambassador fishing on the subject] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Europe: FCO minute (“Albania”) [Italians say Albanians wish to resume diplomatic relations with UK] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Europe: FCO internal minute (‘Malta’) [Italian ambassador’s criticism of British position, delivered in "characteristic waspish vein"] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Communist withdrawal, Andreotti resignation] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Trade Unions: Keith Joseph talk given to the Bow Group ("Solving the Union Problem is the Key to Britain's Recovery") [released 2010]
PDF 79 Feb 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Minutes of 63rd Meeting
PDF 79 Feb 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (relations with the City)
PDF 79 Feb 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Note for the record (devolution referendum broadcasts)
PDF 79 Feb 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Record of conversation (MT-Joseph-Howell-Wolfson-Adam Ridley) [plans for organisation of No.10 on MT's election] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Feb 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 232nd Meeting
PDF 79 Feb 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (visit to US) [requests brief leave of absence]
PDF 79 Feb 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Civil service: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (ways to reduce size of civil service) [Derek Rayner willing to work for us]
PDF 79 Feb 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti attempting to form another govermment, in negotiations] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (PAYE refunds for strikers)
PDF 79 Feb 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Hailsham on law reform)
PDF 79 Feb 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Europe: FCO brief (“Brief for the Italian ambassador’s call on the PUS, 1 February”) [line to take on Modernization of Theatre Nuclear Force] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Europe: FCO brief (“Ambassador Ducci’s call on the PUS”) [line to take on Modernization of Theatre Nuclear Force; Malta; Albanian gold reserves; Andreotti expected to resign today] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: John Stanley note for MT (Eurocrat salaries) [MT: “They are paid MUCH too much”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Feb 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Stanley note to MT (salary grades of European Parliament) [MT: "They are paid too much - from our taxpayers' money"] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Feb 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Lawson to MT (election speech module)
PDF 79 Feb 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Rossi "Leasehold Reform")
PDF 79 Feb 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Younger MSS) Strikes: George Younger to MT (case for reviewing Authority of Government Policy Group report)
PDF 79 Feb 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 233rd Meeting
PDF 79 Feb 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to John Nott (exchange control)
PDF 79 Feb 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti’s attempts to form a government ground to a halt] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Sir Geoffrey Howe (Nott fears monetary squeeze on industry) [but must not revise targets downwards]
PDF 79 Feb 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 234th Meeting
PDF 79 Feb 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Lawson to Howe (abolition of exchange control)
PDF 79 Feb 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Lawson to Howe (warns against easing monetary policy)
PDF 79 Feb 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Younger MSS) Strikes: MT to George Younger (rejects reconvening Authority of Government Policy Group)
PDF 79 Feb 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti has given up attempt to form government] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Washington letter to FCO (“US/Italy”) [leak of US paper criticising Italian security services] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Lawson to Howe (necessity of reducing money PSBR)
PDF 79 Feb 23 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome minute (“Political situation”) [DC journalist talks of La Malfa, Andreotti, Craxi] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 23 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to John Nott (Bank sympathise with exchange control abolition)
PDF 79 Feb 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“PSDI views on the political situation”) [conversation with Party Secretary, Pietro Longo] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO internal minute (“Quadripartite meeting of political directors, Wednesday 26 February”) [reasons for PCI intransigence, likely strategy] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome minute to FCO (“Guadeloupe etc”) [transcript of interview with Federal Chancellor] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome minute (“Italian political situation”) [deadlock - PCI insisting on participation in new government, DC refusing] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Paper circulated (Maude cover note to manifesto drafts)
PDF 79 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“Lockheed bribes trial”) [political impact of the verdict] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [La Malfa gives up attempt to form government; stalemate continues] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Paris letter to FCO (“Italian reaction to the Guadeloupe summit”) [French “not at all disturbed”] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 235th Meeting
PDF 79 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Minutes of 64th Meeting (manifesto drafting)
PDF 79 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Richard Ryder to Dundas Hamilton (links with the City)
PDF 79 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Adam Ridley note (Bank of England & gilts market)
PDF 79 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Austin Pearce of Esso Petroleum letter to MT (Exxon Chairman Clifton Garvin request a meeting with MT) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 236th Meeting
PDF 79 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Belize/Cold War: White House Situation Room memo for David Aaron ("Additional Information Items") ["Cuba feels Belize is a doorway for the infiltration of Cuban communism into Central America"] [declassified Jun 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (Bank of England & gilts market)
PDF 79 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti accepts mandate "without reservation" to form new government] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (again urges "Enterprise Zones")
PDF 79 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Owen minute to Callaghan ("Falkland Islands: Anglo/Argentine Negotiations") [account of talks] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome minute (“Malta/Italy”) [Italians asked to remove military mission from Malta] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Sherman MSS) Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management Committee minutes (meeting) [student seminars, Conservative Conference fringe, study groups, funds]
PDF 79 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Alison Ward letter to Peter Morrison MP (invitation to holiday with your family on Islay) [MT’s “need for a proper holiday”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 letter to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [Callaghan accepts Owen's advice on handling next round of Falklands talks] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 237th Meeting
PDF 79 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Sir Geoffrey Howe (draft speech on spending cuts) [you, MT, Thorneycroft think it “unnecessary & unwise”]
PDF 79 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: MT letter to Lady Redcliffe-Maud (Oxford College Gaudy) [“I STILL have not heard anything from Somerville”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [potential composition of parliamentary majorities] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [widespread assumption Andreotti will fail to win vote of confidence, new elections will follow] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (Commons amendment)
PDF 79 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Peyton on Green Pound)
PDF 79 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sindall note ("Falklands: File Note") ["no prospect of selling any Falklands settlement to Parliament or the Islanders given their present view of the dispute with Argentina"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (public sector pay)
PDF 79 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT to Sir Geoffrey Howe (Bank of England & gilts market)
PDF 79 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Negotiations on the Falkland Islands in New York (21-23 March 1979) [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti presented names of three party government to Pertini] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 238th Meeting
PDF 79 Mar 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal letter to Callaghan (Lusaka Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) [subjects for discussion] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 22 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [list of Andreotti’s new ministers] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram to FCO (2232Z) ("Anglo-Argentine Talks on the Falkland Islands: New York 21-23 March") ["cordial, difficult, but on the whole successful"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Mar 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to Treasury (“Scandal at the Bank of Italy”) [arrest of Deputy Director-General] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (tax credits)
PDF 79 Mar 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Elections: David Cox of London Weekend Television letter to MT (General Election TV debate) [two debates proposed between MT and Callaghan] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Mar 27 Tu Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Felicity Hindson letter to MT (Somerville College Centenary Gaudy) ["It really would not be at all to our liking if the College were just to fete the prominent Socialist members"] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian Political Situation”) [timetable for presentation of Andreotti’s new government] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 239th Meeting (Government defeated on confidence motion)
PDF 79 Mar 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKHC Malta letter to FCO (Italy-Malta relations) [withdrawal of Italian mission] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Vaizey MSS) Conservatism: MT to John Vaizey (leave announcement of his move to Tories till after election)
PDF 79 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Stowe note to Atkins (Leader of the Opposition and colleagues consultation with senior officials in Departments) [released 2010]
PDF 79 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Thorneycroft letter to MT ("Central Office after the General Election") [released 2010]
PDF 79 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) US: NSC memo for Brzezinski ("Additional Information Items") [Conservative Party foreign policy] [declassified 2005]
PDF 79 Mar 31 Sa Declassified documents Key Henderson (Sir Nicholas) Economy: The Henderson Despatch (British decline, causes & consequences) [leaked 1979; declassified 2006]
PDF 79 Apr 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: Adam Ridley note for MT (“Shadow Contacts with the Civil Service before the Election”) [MT keeping close control over] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Apr 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: Adam Ridley note for MT (record of meeting on advisers) [plans for council of economic advisers, etc] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Apr 1 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Stowe note to Ryder ("Visitors to 10, 11 and 12 Downing Street") [Doorkeeper should be informed of visitors] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Apr 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Adam Ridley note to MT ("Meeting at Flood Street April 1st 1979") [issues raised at planning meeting for actions to take on gaining power] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Apr 1 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to HM Treasury (“Scandal at the Bank of Italy”) [government reaction “sharp”] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: MT note to Shadow Cabinet Members (meetings between Shadow Cabinet members and Permanent Secretaries) [MT must be informed prior to such meetings] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT letter to Callaghan (Northern Ireland) [Callaghan's proposal for Government/Shadow Cabinet 'conversation'] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (MT to Shadows on contacts with civil service)
PDF 79 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (need to put Labour on defensive over unions)
PDF 79 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Steering Committee: Paper circulated (CRD on public sector pay)
PDF 79 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: MT letter to David Cox (rejects General Election TV debate with PM) [“We are not electing a President, we are choosing a government”] [released 2003]
PDF 79 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Elections: George Gardiner MP letter to MT (proposed General Election TV debate with Callaghan) ["Yes, you must accept the idea. Indeed, you must appear eager"] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti government defeated in the Senate, Andreotti resigned, Parliament dissolved] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Sir Geoffrey Howe (has approached David Laidler) [“very flattered” at thought of working with us - will leave option open]
PDF 79 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: Caroline Stephens note for staff (arrival of positive vetting forms) [“Sir Ian Bancroft is doing us a favour”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Stowe letter to MT (forthcoming retirement of the Archbishop of Canterbury) [briefing] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 240th Meeting [agenda only]
PDF 79 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (CRD "Public Sector Pay") [270K]
PDF 79 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Hunt letter to MT (the Cabinet Office) [background briefing] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO internal minute (“Guadeloupe summit: Italian reactions”) [Italian allegations of Gaullist practices] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 letter to MT ("The Prime Minister's Office") [brief account of organisation and functioning of No.10] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Canadian Embassy Rome telegram to Canadian Department of External Affairs (“Italian Elections - background & prospects”) [Andreotti Government 'Hari-Kiri'] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Hunt minute to MT ("EEC: Supervision of United Kingdom Policy") [background briefing on role of European Secretariat in the Cabinet Office] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (letter of thanks for Harris' review of Douglas Hurd's book) ["I passed it on to Margaret for use in her material"]
PDF 79 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Ryder letter to Hayek (MT thanks Hayek for his sending her a copy of Law, Legislation and Liberty , Volume 3)
PDF 79 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian Political Situation”) [elections scheduled for June] [declassified Dec 2009]
Text 79 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Key Conservative Party Conservative General Election Manifesto 1979
PDF 79 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Arthur Seldon letter to Hayek (notes on New Statesman , The Economist and The Spectator responses to IEA papers) ["Christopher Hitchens wanted to meet you..."]
PDF 79 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Ryder note to MT (Scottish Conservative Party Conference) [cancelled due to General Election; MT asks for it to be reinstated] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKHC Malta letter to FCO (“Malta’s foreign relations”) [talks with France, Italy] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: Richard Ryder note for MT (meeting with Douglas Hurd) [thoughts on running No.10] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: NSC memo for David Aaron ("Noon Notes") [UK electoral campaign and SALT] [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to HM Treasury (“Scandal at the Bank of Italy”) [account of events] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“Italo-Cuban relations”) [Italians have cultivated close relations with the Cubans] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Elections: Townson of Thames Television letter to Gordon Reece (proposed General Election TV debate between MT and Callaghan) ["it would be a historic piece of broadcasting"] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Apr 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKA Rome despatch to FCO (“Fourth and Fifth Andreotti Governments, March 1979 to March 1979”) [Communists pulled down government for internal reasons, PSI still 'mesmerised' by PCI, have "not yet lived up to the promise of their 1978 Congress in Turin"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO minute (“Fourth and Fifth Andreotti Governments, March 1979 to March 1979”) ["The DC/PCI arrangements failed fundamentally because Signor Andreotti never saw them as more than a stop-gap"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Bancroft minute to No.10 (machinery of government) [covering note for papers on possible merger of departments] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 May 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Chart of organisation of Prime Minister's Private Office (organisation of No.10) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 1 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT note to Todd, Derek Howe and Ryder (conditions for interviews) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Prime Minister/No.10: Stowe minute ("Notes for a New Prime Minister") [matters requiring PM's early attention after election] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Parsons record of conversation (Parsons-Martinez de Hoz: the Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 2 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: Richard Ryder note for MT (meeting with Ken Stowe) [handover of power] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 2 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: CRD note for MT (“European Election” - draft manifesto) [MT says give to “whoever is Foreign Secretary”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit by the Taoiseach: 10 May 1979") [Lynch would like to meet new PM] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hunt minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [initial advice to new PM] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Elections: Conservative Research Department letter to MT ("European Election") [note about draft manifesto] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to FCO ("Visit by the Taoiseach: 10 May 1979") [appropriate for new PM to offer Lynch a short courtesy call] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Summary of the General Post sent to No.10 (Beginning 3 May-12 May 1979) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Elections: Minutes of meeting of Conservative Central Office (European Elections) [plans for campaign] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: NSC memo for Brzezinski ("Additional Information Items") [MT election victory predicted; foreign policy consequences] [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 May 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
Text 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Cabinet Secretary incoming brief for new PM ("House of Commons Procedure: Open Government: Official Secrets") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 989 to FCO (2226Z) ("The Outlook for U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policy") [analysis; Presidential & Congressional elections] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Cabinet Secretary incoming brief for new PM ("East-West relations") [top copy annotated by MT; other foreign policy and defence briefing] declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Bancroft minute to No.10 ("Submissions for the Prime Minister") [briefing on Special Advisers; ministerial travel; official residences; public appointments] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Draft remarks on becoming Prime Minister (St Francis's prayer)
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: MT draft (St Francis’s Prayer) [“moving & beautiful song of St Francis”] [released 2015]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Aide-memoire for St.Francis prayer ("Where there is discord ...")
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (Energy, EC, East/West, etc) [master copy of whole briefing set][declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“Summary and Timetable of Urgent Economic Issues”) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“The Budget”) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“Pay and Cash Limits”) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary's incoming brief for new PM ("European issues") [challenge & opportunity] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary's incoming brief for new PM ("European issues") [as annotated by MT] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary's incoming brief for new PM ("Energy Issues") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary incoming brief for MT ('Rhodesia') [MT: "I agree we need care but a little courage is necessary too"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: MT notes for cabinet-making (near final copy?) [Heseltine refuses Energy; alternative names for other jobs, etc] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) US: NSC memo for Carter (congratulatory call to MT to end talk of rift) [declassified 2000]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: President Carter phone call to MT (congratulations on election result) [“tremendous personal victory for you”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: Michael Cole letter to MT (hopes to conduct first interview with her as PM) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Treasury briefing for Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Overall Economic Outlook: Note by the Central Unit") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Central Policy Review Staff paper ("The Economy of the United Kingdom - Problems, Constraints, Opportunities") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) General Election: William Lithgow letters to MT & Denis Thatcher (congratulations on election victory) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Cartledge minute to MT ("Chancellor Schmidt's Visit: 10/11 May") [arrangements and draft programme] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Cartledge minute to MT ("Guest List for your Dinner for Chancellor Schmidt") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute to No.10 ("Administrative Plan for the Visit of the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, His Excellency Herr Helmut Schmidt...") [arrangements and programme] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Hunt minute to MT ("Meeting with Chancellor Schmidt") [MT: "there are really too many" of these kinds of visits] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Elections: Joan Varley note on election results ("Local Government Election Results 4th May 1979 as at 17.30") [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Hunt briefing for MT ("Teachers' Pay") [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Hunt briefing for MT ("Comprehensive Test Ban") [MT: "Am very unhappy and suspicious about this"] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Hunt briefing for MT ("Strategic Arms Limitation Talks") [MT: "I am less complacent [about supposed positive benefits of SALT II] - but will do nothing and say nothing to undermine the authority of the President"] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Bancroft minute to Stowe ("Special Advisors") [rules for appointment of special advisors] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Austin Pearce of Esso Petroleum letter to MT (congratulations on election victory, and planned meeting with Clifton Garvin of Exxon) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) US: NSC memo for Brzezinski ("Evening Report") [response to MT's election victory] [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) US: Brzezinksi minute to Carter ("Information") [MT's election victory] [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary's incoming brief for new PM ("Questions of Procedure for Ministers") [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ministers: Sanders note to MT ("Ministerial Travel") [issuance of rules on Ministerial travel; MT: "I really think the whole thing is far too detailed"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Douglas Hague letter to MT ("Exchange Control") [argues for relaxation of exchange controls] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England letters (from Governor of the Bank of England to Chancellor of the Exchequer) [domestic monetary policy, exchange rate, etc.] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, President Carter) [congratulates MT on becoming PM, "tremendous personal victory for you"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Britain and the EC") [Taoiseach unsympathetic to British budget complaints] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (forwards letter from Muzorewa) [asks advice on response] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 minute for MT (attaches Muzorewa letter) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2010]
Text 79 May 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 5 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) General Election: MT to Ronnie Millar (letter of thanks) [“I could not have done it without you”]
PDF 79 May 5 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Hoskyns MSS) General Election: MT to John Hoskyns (letter of thanks) ['invaluable' contribution over past two years, "a new dimension to the way ... the Party thinks and operates"]
PDF 79 May 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Hunt minute to MT (industrial relations legislation) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Hunt minute to MT ("Chancellor Schmidt's Visit") [British nuclear deterrent, NATO, Turkey] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Trade Unions: Hunt briefing for MT (industrial relations) [initial briefing] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Bangladesh: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Zia of Bangladesh) [congratulations on MT's election, Lusaka CHOGM] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Teddy Taylor letter to MT (reflections on Scottish political scene and the election result) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 5 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Bulletin (messages of congratulations) [press told of Carter call] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (response to Muzorewa letter) [declassified 2009]
Text 79 May 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Lankester minute to MT ("Doctors' and Dentists' Pay") [letters from British Medical Association and British Dentral Association regarding Report of Review Body on pay] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Israel: Prime Minister Begin of Israel letter to MT (congratulations on MT's election) [Egypt-Israel peace treaty] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 6 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to US Ambassador to UK Kingman Brewster (thanks for message of congratulations) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 6 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to King Hussein of Jordan (thanks for message of congratulations) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 6 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Taoiseach Lynch (thanks for message of congratulations) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 6 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Prime Minister Martens of Belgium (thanks for message of congratulations) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 6 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Richard Nixon (thanks for message of congratulations) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Hunt minute to MT ("Cabinet Committees") [recommendations for main Cabinet standing Committees; MT: "Please keep the committees down at the start. They have a tendency to grow anyway"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England note (Beverly) [Governor’s contacts with new government] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Bulletin (Rhodesia - line on message from Bishop Muzorewa) [claims of an envoy to Rhodesia “pure speculation”] [released 2010]
Text 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: No.10 briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Tuesday 8 May") ["Points to Make": Cabinet Government; Administration/reducing waste; Cabinet Committees; the Queen's Speech; Ministerial procedure; press interviews; "We must be absolutely clear about our philosophy and strategy. All the pressures will be aimed at diverting us from it... We must stick to our guns"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Note for the Record (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer meeting) [Budget, etc] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Nott minute to MT ("Queen's Speech: Abolition of the Price Commission") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Henry Ford II letter to MT (congratulations on election) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 letter to FCO ("Chancellor Schmidt's Visit, 10/11 May 1979") [MT's comments on arrangements for visit] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Hunt minute to MT (appointment of Derek Rayner to head review into promotion of efficiency and elimination of waste in Government departments) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Hunt minute to MT (briefing notes for meeting with Derek Rayner) [Rayner "should be a hatchetman"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Cardinal Hume (appointment of Ministers to Northern Ireland Office) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Hunt minute to MT ("Teachers' Pay") [response to MT's comments] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Prime Minister Andreotti of Italy (thanks for message of congratulations) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Prime Minister Joergensen of Denmark (thanks for message of congratulations) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Henry Kissinger (thanks for message of congratulations) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Prime Minister Gandhi of India (thanks for message of congratulations) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Chancellor Schmidt (thanks for message of congratulations) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada (thanks for message of congratulations) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) US: Vance minute to Carter (Vance meets with Carrington) [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("Questions of Procedure for Ministers") [MT's comments on Hunt's draft 'Procedure' document] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Bulletin (Schmidt visit to London) [visit programme] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Brasilia letter to FCO (“Visit of the Italian Foreign Minister to Brazil”) [Italian elections, Braziilan attitudes on Latin America] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 letter to Jopling PS (“Appointment of Parliamentary Private Secretaries”) [PPS appointments 1979] [declassified 2012]
Text 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Department of Trade letter to No.10 (allocation of ministerial responsibilities) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Kenya: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Eric Penn, Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office letter to MT ("State Visit of the President of Kenya: Arrival - Tuesday, 12th June 1979") [invitation to meet President Moi with the Queen] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Police: Whitelaw minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Police Pay") [implementation of pay award in line with Edmund-Davies Committee recommendation, to honour Election pledge] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Police: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Cabinet Ministers) ["Police Pay": announcement; Armed Services; Rate Support Grant] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("Pay and cash limits") [financial waste in the public sector] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 minute for MT (briefing from Hunt and Bancroft) [partial copies] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Cabinet, Queen’s Speech, Budget Date, Moving to No.10) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cabinet: Ken Stowe minute to MT (list of newly-appointed Cabinet Committees) [membership & remit] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cabinet: Ken Stowe minute to MT (“Cabinet Tuesday 8 May: Points to Make”) [“there must be no leaks, and no gossip”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tokyo Summit (Hunt briefing on advance planning) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Cardona note (public expenditure plans in opposition) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Minute to MT ("Extract from Informal Cabinet Meeting 8 May 1978, 2:30pm") [delay to abolition of Price Commission] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Lankester minute to MT ("Future of the Price Commission") [abolition of the price commission] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Lankester minute to Cabinet Office ("Energy Issues") [MT's comments on Hunt's briefing] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Lankester minute to Department of Energy (priority energy issues) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Hunt note circulated to E Committee - E(79) 1 (Committee Composition and Terms of Reference) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Hunt note circulated to OD Committee - OD(79) 1 (Committee Composition and Terms of Reference) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Stowe minute to Bancroft ("A Freeze on Manpower") [Civil Service recruitment freeze] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Cartledge note to MT ("Chancellor Schmidt's Visit: Your Speech After Dinner on 10 May") [MT: Draft speech "is excellent"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 to FCO ("Chancellor Schmidt's Visit, 10/11 May: Briefs") [MT's comments on briefs] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("New British Government: Irish Press Reactions") [press reactions "cautious and restrained"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cardinal Hume letter to MT (letter of congratulations and request for meeting) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Hunt minute to MT ("Teachers' Pay") [comment on Clegg Commission] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: National Association of Head Teachers letter to MT (teachers' pay negotiations) [appeal to MT to "break the impasse" in pay negotiations] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Comprehensive Test Ban") [MT's comments on Cabinet Office paper] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("SALT") [MT's comments on Cabinet Office paper] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Stowe minute to No.10 political staff ("Access to papers") [arrangements for submission of papers to MT] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Derek Howe minute to MT (Director of Information job description) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: List of No.10 Staff for Ryder ("10 Downing Street Staff At May 1979") [includes Adam Ridley, Michael Portillo] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Archbishop of Canterbury, Donald Coggan (thanks for message of congratulations) ["I love the prayer of St Francis, and it seemed so right"] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Carter (thanks for message of congratulations) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Lankester minute to Cabinet Office ("Pay and Cash Limits") [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Stowe minute to Hunt (MT's thoughts on terms of reference and membership of Cabinet standing Committees) [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Stowe minute to MT (terms of reference and membership of Cabinet standing Committees: summary) [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - CC(79) 1 (Draft Queen’s Speech) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“The Italian political situation one month before the General Election”) ["little hope that the election will result in a stronger government"; polls show DC gaining, PCI losing a few points] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Royal family: No.10 internal minute (“Audiences”) [MT audiences with Queen] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ian Gilmour-Foreign Secretary) [EC budget] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (MT comments on Hunt's incoming brief) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: Muzorewa letter to MT (assurance of support) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2010]
Text 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ministers: Nicholas Edwards letter to MT (Ministerial conflicts of interests) [Lloyds] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Police: No.10 briefing for MT ("Cabinet") [record of conclusions reached at informal meeting of Cabinet Minister's in advance of MT's first formal Cabinet meeting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet") [lines to take "about mutual trust between colleagues and also between Ministers and their senior Advisers: and additionally... about diaries"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: Ken Stowe minute for MT (establishment of Policy Unit under John Hoskyns) [“help to keep the strategy clear”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: Gordon Reece minute for Richard Ryder (favours merchandising) [MT: “NO permission to be given at all on any goods of any kind”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: Gordon Reece minute for Caroline Stephens (MT’s first major tv interview as PM) [suggests should be after Queen’s Speech] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: President Carter letter to MT (SALT II agreement to be announced) [would value help with Senate ratification] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Adam Ridley minute to MT ("Economic Strategy") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Queen's Speech - Abolition of the Price Commission") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Lankester minute to MT (letter to MT from Deputy Chairman of the Price Commission, Leslie Pincott) [Pincott "expresses concern at reports that the Price Commission may be abolished"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Hunt minute to MT ("Standing Commission") [Clegg Commission on pay comparability] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("The Nationalised Industries: Notes for Ministers") [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("Freeze on Manpower") [Civil Service recruitment freeze] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Cartledge to MT ("Chancellor Schmidt's Visit 10-11 May") [arrangements for visit] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Goodchild note to MT ("Dinner for Chancellor Schmidt: Thursday, 10 May") [MT comments on seating plan] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Hunt minute to MT ("Visit of Chancellor Schmidt: EEC Budget") [briefing of proposed solution to budget problem] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Rayner letter to MT (accepts invitation to become an adviser) ["I shall do my utmost to bring about the changes that are needed"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit by the Taoiseach: 10 May") [brief for MT] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: HMT letter to No.10 (problems inherited by the Chancellor of the Exchequer from previous government) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: British Council of Churches letter to MT (request for meeting) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Devolution: Unsigned note to MT ("Scotland Act and Wales Act") [proposed repeal] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Germany: Chancellor Schmidt of Germany letter to MT (30th anniversary of the end of the Berlin blockade) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Berrill minute to Hunt ("Teachers' Pay") [urges against use of Clegg Commission to settle pay dispute] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Carlisle minute to MT (paper on teachers' pay) [pay negotiation and teachers' unions industrial action] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Hunt briefing for MT ("Teachers' Pay") [pay negotiation, Clegg Commission and arbitration] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Adam Ridley minute to Lankester ("Teachers' Pay") [comments on Carlisle's minute to MT] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Walden minute to MOD ("SALT") [MT's comments on draft press release] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Stowe minute to MT ("No.10 Policy Unit") [briefing note and announcement at Cabinet] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Elections: Minutes of meeting at the Foreign Office (Gilmour-Thorneycroft-Hurd and others) [European Election Campaign] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Chief Rabbi Jakobovits (thanks for message of congratulations) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Pattison minute to MT ("Special Advisors") [memorandum on appointment of special advisors] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: NSC memo for Brzezinski ("Evening Report") [interagency meeting at the State Department on foreign policy of MT's government] [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: Hunt briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Police and Armed Forces Pay") [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England note (Beverly) [Governor’s agenda for meeting with Chancellor of the Exchequer] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Political Staff, Government’s Programme, Moving to No.10, Budget Date) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Bulletin (Schmidt visit) [likely topics for talks & press arrangements] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Appointments: Chief Whip record of conversation (“The Great and the Good”) [appointments to Quangos] [released 2017]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: Vance-Brown memo to Carter (urging TNF modernization) [declassified 1997]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Hunt briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Foreign Affairs and Community Affairs") [procedures for EC business] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2010]
Text 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jack Lynch) [Northern Ireland; economic matters] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Department of Energy - Ministers and Private Secretaries") [allocation of ministerial responsibilities] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Home Office letter to No.10 (allocation of ministerial responsibilities) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Scottish Office letter to No.10 (allocation of ministerial responsibilities) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ministers: Keith Joseph minute to MT (Ministerial conflicts of interests) [Keith Joseph: Chair of Center for Policy Studies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ure briefing for Ridley ("Falkland Islands") [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (weekly report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (immediate monetary prospect) [monetary growth at top of range] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: Ronnie Millar letter to MT (congratulations) [“At least three Parliaments’ worth of work to do”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: Lankester minute to MT (Announcement of the Budget Date) [MT: “as soon as possible”] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Adam Ridley note for MT (public expenditure decisions in opposition) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Joseph minute to MT (abolition of the Price Commission) [Joseph favours immediate abolition] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Nott memo circulated to E Committee - E(79) 2 (Future of the Price Commission) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Jenkin note circulated to E Committee - E(79) 3 (Report on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Gilmour memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(79) 2 (Gilbert Islands Independence) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(79) 1st (freeze on Civil Service manpower) [extract with MT's annotations] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Hunt minute to Cartledge ("Fisheries") [briefing for talks with Chancellor Schmidt] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: MT speaking notes for discussion with Chancellor Schmidt ("First Session of Talks with Chancellor Schmidt") [Anglo/German relations, EEC, defence, Turkey, plans for Plenary Session] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Agriculture minute to No.10 ("UK and German Interests in the Common Agricultural Policy") [briefing for talks with Chancellor Schmidt] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Schmidt) [first session of discussion] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Iran Internal Situation") [political developments] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Lynch) [Northern Ireland, economic issues] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Thorneycroft letter to MT (candidates for Vice Chairmen for the Conservative Party) [Thorneycroft suggests Charles Morrison, MT objects] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Nationalised Industries: Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (Government policy towards the nationalised industries) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym minute to MT ("The Defence Budget and Cash Limit") [meeting of NATO defence ministers] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 letter to Department of Education ("Teachers' Pay") [MT's comments on Carlisle's minute of 9th May] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger minute to MT ("Teachers' Pay") [comments on Carlisle's minute of 9th May] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Prime Minister Fraser of Australia (thanks for message of congratulations) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Prior minute to MT (appointment of Rob Shepherd as special advisor) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ure minute for Nick Ridley ("Falkland Islands") [background briefing on Falklands dispute] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Hunt minute to MT ("Questions of Procedure for Ministers") [Cabinet Committees] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Pym-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Jenkin) ["Armed Forces Pay"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(79) 1st (Government Business, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Queen’s Speech, Collective Responsibility) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Cabinet, Armed Forces’ Pay, Cabinet Committees, David Wolfson) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Bulletin (Irish PM Lynch courtesy call on MT) [Lynch’s statement went “slightly further than we would have wished”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 minute to MT (meeting with Yue-Kong Pao) [MT “Fit him in”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe:No.10 minute for MT (Carrington wants early meeting of OD) [MT agrees] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (proposes Duff visit Rhodesia) [MT agrees] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2010]
Text 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Heseltine minute to MT (sale of Council houses) [Ministerial consent to local authorities to offer increased discounts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Department of Education and Science letter to No.10 ("Allocation of Responsibilities to Ministers") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: FCO letter to No.10 ("Ministerial Responsibilities in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office") [allocation among ministers below Foreign Secretary] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: MOD letter to No.10 ("Ministry of Defence - Ministers' Private Secretaries") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Parsons minute to Ridley's PS ("The Falkland Islands") [sceptical of leaseback, in light of Arab-Israeli experience, "tidy solutions" do not always exist] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Notes for move to flat at No.10 (list of items) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: MT letter to Milton Friedman (thanks for congratulations) [“The battle has now begun”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for MT ("Public Expenditure") ["early report on the seriousness of the situation"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Hunt draft briefing for Ministers ("Pay and Cash Limits") [MT: "Discussion on this paper in Cabinet would be futile..."] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Hunt briefing for MT ("Future of the Price Commission (E(79) 2)...") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Carrington memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(79) 3 (Rhodesia) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Wall letter to Cartledge ("Overseas Visits by the Prime Minister") [FCO advises MT to visit Australia] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine minute to MT ("Manpower") [local government manpower reductions] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Freeze on Civil Service Manpower") [draft paper by Soames, annotations by MT] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Schmidt) [Plenary Session] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Schmidt) [partial record of Plenary Session, nuclear matters] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Transcript of MT/Schmidt press conference ("Press Conference on 11 May 1979 given by Prime Minister Mrs. Thatcher & Chancellor Schmidt") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Text of MT speech for Chancellor Schmidt ("The Prime Minister's Luncheon For The Federal German Chancellor and his Delegation, Friday 11 May 1979") [relections on meetings] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.11 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-FRG Minister of Finance) [economic issues, EEC budget, Turkey] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 minute to FCO ("Prime Minister's Dicussions with Chancellor Schmidt on 10 May: Fisheries") [details of meeting] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Maureen Harris, secretary to Rayner, letter to Stowe (second copy of Rayner's acceptance letter) [Stowe: "This procedure does not commend itself to me as an example of efficiency and avoiding waste!"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Meeting Between the Prime Minister and Mr Lynch: Press Reaction") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Heseltine minute to MT ("Manpower") [staffing restraint in local government] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (defence expenditure) [some increase required, but decisions should not be rushed] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Stephens note to MT ("European Elections") [MT: "I shall have no recess at all"] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Commonwealth: Prime Minister Pindling of the Bahamas letter to MT (invitation to 250th Anniversary of Parliament in the Bahamas) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Biffen minute to MT ("The Defence Budget and Cash Limit: NATO Meeting") [Pym should not commit himself to a precise level of defence spending] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Hunt minute to MT ("Defence Budget and Cash Limit") [meeting of NATO defence ministers] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Hunt briefing for MT ("Economic Strategy Committee: Teachers' Pay") [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO record of conversation (Carrington-FRG Minister of Foreign Affairs Genscher) [SALT, MBFR, TNF] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1081 to No.10 (2052Z) ("SALT") [US Administration anxious about HMG position on SALT II] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Carrington minute to MT ("SALT: The Government's Public Response") [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Hunt minute to MT ("SALT") [HMG's public position on SALT II] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD letter to No.10 ("Comprehensive Test Ban (CTB)") [views of MOD officials] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Kenneth Stacey (Chequers) ["I wish to avail myself of my right under the Deed of Settlement...to occupy and use Chequers"] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Fishing: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Schmidt) [fisheries] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Hall minute for Nick Ridley ("Falkland Islands") [options for future policy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) US: Carter letter to MT (congratulations on election victory; SALT II; Toyko G7) [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ministers: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Ministerial Travel") [rules on Ministerial travel simplified; MT: "Excellent - it was worth while being "difficult"!"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Secretary Note circulated to Cabinet - CC(79) 2 (Queen’s Speech) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Howe & Prior memo circulated to Cabinet - CC(79) 3 (Standing Commission on Pay Comparability) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Governor of the Bank of England letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Policy towards Exchange Control”) [urges “early and substantial move towards relaxation”] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Littler & Bank of England) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: President Carter letter to MT (foreign policy issues) [renewed congratulations; SALT II & Middle East] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Vile minute to Cartledge ("European Issues") [Bonn, Barcelona Conventions] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: Cabinet Secretary briefing for MT (OD discussion of Rhodesia) [next steps] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2010]
Text 79 May 12 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT's programme at Scottish Conservative Party Conference (Perth Conference, 1979) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 12 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Carter Library) US: Brzezinski memo for Carter (Thatcher no longer "the dogmatic lady" who visited in 1977) [declassified 2000]
Text 79 May 13 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: President Carter letter to MT (SALT II; South Africa; Middle East; energy) [kicking off discussions] [released 2010]
Text 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ministers: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Ministerial conflicts of interests) [Lord Soames: European Commissioner salary] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Police: Lord Soames letter to Whitelaw (Ministry of Defence Police pay) [consideration of pay & allowances to MoD and Transport police on a par with regular police force] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Royal family: Atkins PS letter to No.10 ("Visit to Northern Ireland by Princess Alexandra") [Red Cross presentation; RUC Book of Remembrance unveiling; security concerns] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym-Apel meeting in Brussels (record of conversation) [including theatre nuclear forces] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Hailsham minute to MT ("Price Commission") [cabinet procedure] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Prior minute to MT (industrial relations legislation) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Economic Strategy - E (79) 1st (Price Commission, Teachers' Pay) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Defence and Oversea Policy Committee - OD(79) 1st (Rhodesia, SALT, EEC Matters) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cartledge minute to MT ("Meeting with President Gisard D'Estaing") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Central Office letter to Ryder (announcements of new appointments in the Conservative Party Organisation) [MT: "We must first consult with Prof. Hugh Thomas"] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lankester minute to MT ("Teachers' Pay - Arrangements for Arbitration") [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 minute to FCO ("SALT II: The Government's Public Reaction") [MT comments on Carrington's minute] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Nick Ridley (MT no longer able to attend Economic Dining Club Dinners) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: MT letter to Austin Pearce of Esso Petroleum (thanks for message of congratulations, meeting with Clifton Garvin of Exxon) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nick Ridley minute to Ure ("Falkland Islands") [Ridley's comments on options for future policy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Hunt minute to Stowe (membership of Cabinet Committees: Paymaster General) [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Biffen memo circulated to Cabinet - C(79) 4 (Public Expenditure: Scope for Cuts) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (House Business, Resignation Honours, MP’s Pay, Policy Unit Appointment) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Bulletin (Cabinet Committee meetings & composition) [“this Government may want more rather than less secrecy” about them] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Civil Service Department letter to Treasury (“Special Advisers”) [categories, appointment procedures, pay and conditions of service] [declassified 2014]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Boyd) [receives his report] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2010]
Text 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 (allocation of ministerial responsibilities: Lord President's Office and Civil Service Department) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Beijing telegram 450 to FCO (0845Z) ("Sino/Soviet Relations") [report on Chinese memo to Soviets, proposing negotiations] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: George Hall minute to Parsons ("Falkland Islands") [response to his doubts about leaseback] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Note for the Record (MT-Adam Ridley meeting) [Budget] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: President Carter letter to MT (safety of Iranian Jews) [join me in demanding] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT letter to President Carter (SALT II; CTB; Turkey; South Africa; Middle East; G7; Vietnamese Boat People) [pre-Tokyo discussions] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UK Delegation NATO to FCO (account of Eurogroup ministerial meeting) [“TNF Modernisation/Grey Areas”] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Pattison minute to Hoskyns (overall economic strategy) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Lankester minute to MT ("Meeting of NEDC on 6 June") [MT will not attend] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO ("Federal Chancellor's Visit to London: German Media Reactions") ["The overwhelming consensus is that the meeting between the two heads of government was a success"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Industrial policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prior) [extension of Mortimer's term as Chairman of ACAS] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (appointment of Michael Portillo as special advisor) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Zimbabwe: Vance minute to Carter (MT and Rhodesia) [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Biffen memo circulated to Cabinet - C(79) 5 (Cash Limits) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Prior memo circulated to Cabinet - C(79) 6 (The Way Forward on Pay) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Soames memo circulated to Cabinet - C(79) 7 (The Adjustment of Cash Limits to Take Account of Civil Service Pay Settlements) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Rhodesia, Legislation, Hanging, Price Commission) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Fowler minute to MT (Inquiry into heavy lorries and the environment) [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 40 to FCO (“Monthly economic report for the United States”) [“still great uncertainty”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Sino-British relations”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 minute for MT (Drinkwater's separate report) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2010]
Text 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Department of Transport letter to No.10 (allocation of ministerial responsibilities) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Kenya: Cartledge minute to MT ("State Visit by President Moi of Kenya") [suggested arrangements for 13 June] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires airgram to the State Department ("The Malvinas (Falkland) Islands: A Political and Social Review") [predicts negotiations will eventually secure the islands for Argentina and end "Britain's admittedly anachronistic colonial rule"] [published 2015]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Ridley, officials) ["it would be a mistake for the new Government to hedge or prevaricate further with the Argentines who knew we had been doing so in the past"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ure minute to Ridley's PS ("Falklands/Antarctic Resources") [oil & fishing] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Note for the Record (MT-Treasury Ministers & Officials meeting on public spending) [Treasury approach “not nearly tough enough”] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Colin Peterson minute to PM & Stowe (“Cars at No.10”) [“We have a problem about replacing our cars”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Treasury note for Chief Secretary ("Proposals on Public Expenditure") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Hunt briefing for MT ("Cash Limits") ["fatal ... to take brave decisions now, only to run away from them later"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Hunt briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure: Scope for Cuts" ) ["dreadful inheritance"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Hunt briefing for MT ("The Way Forward on Pay (C(79) 6)") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howell minute to MT (main energy issues) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Hunt briefing for MT ("Standing Commission on Pay Comparability (C(79) 3)") [Clegg Commission] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Lankester minute to MT ("Visit of Henry Ford") [declassified 2009]

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