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Value | Author/Source | Title |
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| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (tea party between the First Ladies) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (dinner table talk) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (impromptu dinner toasts) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 5th Session [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Apr 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Haig telegram to Reagan (negotiations) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Apr 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Rentschler telegram to McFarlane (negotiations) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Apr 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Reagan telegram to Haig (negotiations) [declassified 1999] |
| 82 Apr 18 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Haig telegram to Clark (negotiations) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Apr 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Haig telegram to Pym (negotiations) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Apr 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Haig telegram to Pym (Argentine terms) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 6th Session [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (tea party between First Ladies) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (dinner table talk) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (closing conversation) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Apr 18 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Haig to Thatcher (Pakistan/Afghanistan) [declassified 2000] |
| 89 May 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Reagan article | Ronald Reagan: Margaret Thatcher & the Revival of the West: Her Real Legacy [external link] |
| 85 Nov 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan report to meeting of NATO Leaders (Geneva Summit) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Jul 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSA brief for Reagan letter to MT (John Brown & Polish sanctions) [declassified 2000] |
| 90 Jan 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Margaret Thatcher interviewed about Ronald Reagan [released 2002] |
| 83 Dec 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Thatcher letter to Reagan (resuming US arms sales to Argentina) [summary declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Economy: Reagan letter to Thatcher (& briefing) (civil aviation) [declassified 2000] |
| 90 Apr 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: US Ambassador (London) telegram to President Bush (British hopes for Thatcher-Bush Bermuda meeting) [declassified 1997] [external link] |
| 90 Apr 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: US Embassy (Bonn) telegram to Secretary of State (German Government reaction to Thatcher visit) [declassified 1997] [external link] |
| 88 Jul 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Middle East: US Embassy (London) to Secretary of State (UK reaction to US shooting down Iranian Airbus) [declassified 1996] [external link] |
| 85 Feb 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Economy: Reagan letter to Thatcher (environment - London G7 follow-up) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Jan 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Economy: Thatcher letter to Reagan (environment - London G7 follow-up) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Nov 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Middle East: Thatcher letter to Reagan (Lebanon) [summary declassified 2000] |
| 89 Dec 9 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | Europe: Strasbourg European Council (Presidency Conclusions) [external link] |
| 90 Apr 28 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | Europe: Dublin European Council (Presidency Conclusions) [external link] |
| 90 Jun 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | Europe: Dublin European Council (Presidency Conclusions) [external link] |
| 88 Dec 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | Europe: Rhodes European Council (Presidency Conclusions) [external link] |
| 88 Jun 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | Europe: Hanover European Council (Presidency Conclusions) [external link] |
| 88 Feb 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | Europe: Brussels European Council (Presidency Conclusions) [external link] |
| 88 Sep 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (US State Dept) | Chile: US Embassy (London) to State Department (British irritation at US line on arms sales to Chile) [declassified 2000] [external link] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands/Chile: US State Department Report on resuming arms sales to Chile & Argentina [declassified 1999] [external link] |
| 82 May 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands/Chile: Haig telegram to US Embassy (Santiago) (certifying Chile for arms sales) [declassified 2000] [external link] |
| 88 Jul 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Chile: US Ambassador (London) to Secretary of State (UK toughening on Pinochet?) [declassified 2000] [external link] |
| 84 Dec 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Northern Ireland: NSC note on Shultz Evening Report (British urge revision of US/UK extradition treaty) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Northern Ireland: US State Department briefing on Doherty case (US extradition rules) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Aug 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (thanks for photo with Churchill portrait) [unclassified] |
| 83 Sep 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Ambassador (London) to Secretary of State (British hopes for Thatcher US visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Treasury briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Sep 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Ambassador (London) to Secretary of State (extraterritoriality) [declassified 2000] |
| 91 Mar 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Hansard | Economy: 1991 Budget (Lamont 1) [external link] |
| 92 Mar 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Hansard | Economy: 1992 Budget (Lamont 2) [external link] |
| 82 Jun 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Americas Watch paper (Argentine government human rights abuse during Falklands War) [released 2002] |
| 84 Dec 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US State Department brief (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Dec 4 Su | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: US State Dept brief (resuming US arms sales to Argentina) [declassified 2002] [external link] |
| 82 Jul 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: US Embassy (Buenos Aires) to State Dept (US-Argentina relations) [declassified 2002] [external link] |
| 82 Jun 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Reagan Public Papers | Cold War: Reagan speech to the Houses of Parliament [external link] |
| 87 Feb 22 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (G7) | Economy: Statement of G6 Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors ("the Louvre Accord") |
| 85 Sep 22 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (G7) | Economy: Announcement of [G5] Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors (the Plaza Agreement) |
| 84 Dec 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Economy: Secretary Shultz's Evening Report (extract on civil aviation) [declassified 2000] |
| 87 Dec 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan call to Kohl (reporting Washington Summit) (record of conversation) [declassified 2000] |
| 87 Dec 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan call to Mitterrand (reporting Washington Summit) (record of conversation) [declassified 2000] |
| 76 Oct 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Conservative Party | The Right Approach (Conservative policy statement) |
| 90 Apr 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (NSA) | Middle East: US Ambassador (London) telegram to Secretary of State Baker (Iraqi supergun affair) [declassified 1993] |
| 79 Jun 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Hansard | Economy: 1979 Budget (Howe 1) |
| 80 Mar 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Hansard | Economy: 1980 Budget (Howe 2) |
| 83 Mar 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Hansard | Economy: 1983 Budget (Howe 5) |
| 84 Mar 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Lawson (Nigel) | Economy: 1984 Budget (Lawson 1) (Hansard) |
| 85 Mar 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Lawson (Nigel) | Economy: 1985 Budget (Lawson 2) (Hansard) |
| 86 Mar 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Hansard | Economy: 1986 Budget (Lawson 3) |
| 80 Aug 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Lawson (Nigel) | Economy: The New Conservatism (Lecture to the Bow Group) |
| 81 Jan 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Lawson (Nigel) | Economy: Thatcherism in Practice: A Progress Report (Speech to Zurich Society of Economics) |
| 88 Jun 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Lawson (Nigel) | Economy: Tax Reform (The Government's Record) (CPC pamphlet) |
| 89 Oct 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Lawson (Nigel) | Economy: Resignation speech (Hansard) |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Henderson (Sir Nicholas) diary | Cold War: Sir Nicholas Henderson diary (MT nervous about coming Washington visit) |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Henderson (Sir Nicholas) diary | Cold War: Sir Nicholas Henderson diary (MT visit to Washington) |
| 87 Dec 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Washington (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000] |
| 87 Dec 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Washington (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (one-on-one meeting) [declassified 2000] |
| 87 Dec 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Washington (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000] |
| 87 Dec 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Washington (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (working lunch) [declassified 2000] |
| 88 Apr 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Colin Powell meeting with Soviet Ambassador to the US (Dubinin) [declassified 2000] |
| 88 May 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan meeting with Finnish President (Koivisto) [declassified 2000] |
| 79 Dec 23 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Henderson (Sir Nicholas) diary | US: Sir Nicholas Henderson diary (MT visit to Washington) |
| 88 May 29 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000] |
| 88 May 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000] |
| 88 May 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Reagan visit to Danilov Monastery) [declassified 2000] |
| 88 May 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000] |
| 88 Jun 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000] |
| 88 May 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (2nd Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting) [declassified 2000] |
| 88 Dec 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: New York (Reagan-Gorbachev) Meeting (Governors Island) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Oct 12 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th session [declassified 2000; second version] |
| 85 Mar 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (affirms “personal commitment ... to serious negotiations”) |
| 85 Mar 24 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Gorbachev to Reagan (declares “positive attitude to ... a personal meeting ”) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Mar 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Shultz note on Gorbachev letter (helpful) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Apr 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (value of “political meetings” in building trust) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Apr 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (obstacles to trust) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 May 11 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (trade) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Jun 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Gorbachev to Reagan (stock reply to 30 April Reagan letter) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Jul 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: McFarlane briefing for President Reagan (Gorbachev 10 June letter) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Jun 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Gorbachev to Reagan (SALT II) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Oct 12 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Gorbachev to Reagan (maintain usual diplomatic channels) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Oct 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (regional conflicts) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Oct 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (nuclear arms) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (channels of communication) [declassified 2000] |
| 79 Jun 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | Europe: Strasbourg European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
| 79 Nov 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | Europe: Dublin European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
| 90 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Bush & Scowcroft memoir | Gulf War: MT letter to George Bush ("we should go sooner rather than later") [excerpt] |
| 79 Apr 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Conservative Party | Conservative General Election Manifesto 1979 |
| 73 Sep 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Selsdon Group | Conservatism: The Selsdon Manifesto (free market group) |
| 75 Nov 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Ford Library) | G7: Post-summit statement to the press by US President (Gerald Ford) |
| 75 Nov 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Rambouillet G7 Communique (“The Rambouillet Declaration”) |
| 87 Nov 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Reagan letter to Thatcher (concern at US deficit) [declassified 2007] |
| 83 May 28 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Thatcher-Reagan meeting at Williamsburg (extract from record on US deficit) [declassified 2007] |
| 89 Nov 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Kohl phones Thatcher) [translation] |
| 89 Nov 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Thatcher letter to Gorbachev is helpful) [translation] |
| 89 Nov 18 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Kohl at European Council finds MT cool) [translation] |
| 89 Nov 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Bush & MT praise Kohl’s handling of events in GDR) [translation] |
| 89 Dec 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Germans think MT playing for time at NATO summit) [translation] |
| 89 Dec 9 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT cooperating constructively on EMU despite her reservations) [translation] |
| 90 Jan 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Kohl angry at MT’s criticisms in Wall Street Journal interview) [translation] |
| 90 Jan 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT concern at Bush proposal to reduce US forces in Europe) [translation] |
| 90 Feb 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Charles Powell explains MT’s point of view on German unification) [translation] |
| 90 Feb 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Kohl-MT phone conversation in which she accepted unification) [translation] |
| 90 Mar 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT welcomes agreement on German-Polish frontier) [translation] |
| 90 Mar 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Kohl angry at MT interview but welcomes her efforts to create a good climate between them) [translation] |
| 90 Mar 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Kohl-MT talks at No.10) [translation] |
| 90 Apr 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Kohl at peace with MT, a “tremendous fighter & a splendid woman”) [translation] |
| 90 Apr 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT makes helpful comments on NATO) [translation] |
| 90 Apr 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT & Bush make helpful comments at Bermuda) [translation] |
| 90 Apr 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT letter on her talks with Bush in Bermuda) [translation] |
| 90 Jun 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT talks with Gorbachev in Moscow bring no new insights) [translation] |
| 90 Jun 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (British account of MT talks with Gorbachev in Moscow) [translation] |
| 90 Jun 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT letter to Kohl on talks with Gorbachev in Moscow) [translation] |
| 90 Jun 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT has “big problems” with US draft of NATO declaration) [translation] |
| 90 Jul 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT speech to NATO Summit in London) [translation] |
| 90 Jul 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT at Houston G7 on need to introduce market economy into USSR) [translation] |
| 90 Jul 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Horst Teltschik diary | Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (MT congratulates Kohl on outcome of his visit to Gorbachev) [translation] |
| 78 Apr 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Strikes: “Mrs Thatcher warned in secret report of defeat in confrontation with unions” (leak of Carrington Report - Authority of Government Policy Group) |
| 78 Apr 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Strikes: “Tory consternation over leak of party report on unions” (leak of Carrington Report) |
| 78 May 27 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Strikes: “Tory views on unions embarrass leaders” (leak of Ridley Report) |
| 82 Mar 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Hansard | Economy: 1982 Budget (Howe 4) |
| 87 Mar 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Hansard | Economy: 1987 Budget (Lawson 4) |
| 88 Mar 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Hansard | Economy: 1988 Budget (Lawson 5) |
| 78 Nov 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Bundesbank) | EMS: President of the Bundesbank to Chancellor Schmidt (seeks assurances on operation of EMS) [declassified 2008] |
| 78 Nov 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Bundesbank) | EMS: Bundesbank Council meeting with Chancellor Schmidt (assurances on operation of EMS) [declassified 2008] |
| 85 Sep 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: President Reagan letter to President P.W. Botha (explains US measures) [declassified 1999] |
| 86 Jun 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (NSA) | South Africa: Ringdahl email to Poindexter (next steps on South Africa) [declassified 1994 or 1995] |
| 87 Jan 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (NSA) | Iran-Iraq War: NSC email thread (US reaction to Iranian military gains) [declassified 1994 or 1995] |
| 86 Mar 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (NSA) | IranContra: McFarlane email to Oliver North (acquiring British Blowpipe missiles from third parties) [declassified 1994 or 1995] |
| 81 Jul 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Northern Ireland Office) | Northern Ireland: MT meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary (record of conversation) [authorises communication with PIRA over hunger strikes] [declassified 2009] |
| 81 Jul 18 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Northern Ireland Office) | Northern Ireland: MT meeting/phone exchange with Northern Ireland officials & Secretary of State (record of conversations) [decision not to take further initiative on hunger strikes] [declassified 2009] |
| 81 Jul 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Northern Ireland Office) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 Downing Street (hunger strikes) [PIRA left in no doubt government’s public statements represent true position] [declassified 2009] |
| 89 Sep 23 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (National Security Archive) | Cold War: MT conversation with Mikhail Gorbachev (extract from Soviet memcon in Gorbachev Archive) [“Britain & Western Europe are not interested in the unification of Germany”] |
| 89 Apr 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (National Security Archive) | Cold War: Politburo discussion of MT-Gorbachev meeting (document from Gorbachev Archive) [“I like the independence of Thatcher”] |
| 81 Apr 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (Howe discerns signs of upturn) ["affable and jokey ... easing relations with the colleagues too"] |
| 81 Apr 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (ministerial frustration) ["more than just Norman Lamont and Cecil Parkinson who are - openly - pissed off"] |
| 81 Mar 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (Reece warns MT to be ready) [Macmillan, Thorneycroft and du Cann will tell you to stand down in the summer] |
| 81 Mar 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (lunch with the Thatchers) ["she needed a boost to her morale"] |
| 81 Mar 15 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (press reaction to budget) [dailies ok but "Observer and Sunday Times have gone stark staring berserk"] |
| 81 Mar 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (Cabinet reaction to budget) [Prior strongly attacks but with little support] |
| 81 Mar 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (ministerial disaffection) [open criticism of MT] |
| 81 Mar 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (drafting "ultimatum letter" to MT) ["just to clear our minds"] |
| 81 Feb 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (" very good" budget meeting with MT) [case for 'overkill'] |
| 81 Feb 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (Niehans seminar on sterling) |
| 81 Feb 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (budget discussion) [MT & Howe rejecting draconian budget as "not on politically"] |
| 81 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (MT cancels budget meeting) [spent evening "discussing how to bring her to her senses"] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (MT excluding Policy Unit from meetings) ["I am now virtually certain I'll be gone in months or even weeks"] |
| 81 Feb 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (budget meeting forgotten by MT) [secret army of advisers working to make it happen] |
| 79 May 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (sterling) ["Clashed again with Margaret over need for a lower pound"] |
| 80 Mar 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (sterling) ["PM's growing concern over high £"; incomes policy in the air] |
| 81 Jan 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (Niehans seminar) [monetary base over-squeezed - urges saying £ should not rise above $2.15] |
| 81 Jan 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Monetary policy: Hoskyns diary (with MT at Chequers) [MT thought it would be "fatal error" to admit monetary policy too tight] |
| 80 Nov 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Monetary policy: Hoskyns diary (discussion of Wass’s “Policy Options” paper) [most MT would accept was 2 per cent MLR cut - Wass "quite dubious" about it unless tough public spending measures too] |
| 80 Apr 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | EC: Luxembourg European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
| 81 Jun 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | EC: Luxembourg European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
| 82 Mar 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | EC: Brussels European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
| 82 Jun 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | EC: Brussels European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
| 83 Mar 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | EC: Brussels European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
| 84 Jun 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | EC: Fontainebleau European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
| 85 Mar 30 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | EC: Brussels European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
| 85 Dec 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | EC: Luxembourg European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
| 78 Dec 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Sherman MSS) | MT: Peter Utley to David [Wolfson] (plea to reform MT’s approach to speechwriting) [travails of a speechwriter] |
| 77 Jan 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (IEA MSS) | Conservatism: MT letter to Ralph Harris (letter of congratulations on successes of IEA) ["At times it must have seemed like bashing your head against a brick wall but [history will] judge you in better perspective"] |
| 80 Dec 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Commentary ( The Times ) | Conservatism: Article from The Times ("Abuse of union power 'main cause of jobless'") [Hayek on need for trade union reform] |
| 82 Jul 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Commentary ( The Times ) | Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Times ("Thatcher's Economics") [published version of Hayek's response to Julian Critchley] |
| 83 Feb 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Commentary ( The Times ) | Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Times ("Holding the Falklands") [Britain justified in attack on Argentina] |
| 82 Apr 17 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Jonathan Warrender account of lunch at Chequers ["the impressions both the Thatchers made that day remain vivid"] [released 2013] |
| 81 Jan 17 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Monetary policy: Hoskyns diary (Chequers meeting) [discussion of “PSBR crisis”] |
| 84 Jun 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Sir John Coles MSS) | MT: Appreciation of Margaret Thatcher (contemporary recollection by Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs) [released 2014] |
| 82 Jul 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Treasury letter to No.10 (“Public Expenditure Survey And Net Contributions To European Community”) [“The point which particularly concerns the Chancellor is the risk that the actual figures for 1983-84 and the later years could be much worse than the survey report figures”] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jan 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Walters MSS) | Alan Walters diary (1981) [whole year transcribed as a single document] [released 2013] |
| 82 Dec 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Law of the Sea: MT letter to Prime Minister of New Zealand (UN Law of the Sea Convention) [“we find unacceptable the deep sea mining provisions”] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Gibraltar: FCO letter to Southern European Department (“Spain/Gibraltar”) [Spain agrees date for implementation of Lisbon agreement] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Dec 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Gibraltar: UKE Gibraltar to FCO (“Visit of Sir Joshua Hassan”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jul 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Government machinery: Rayner PS minute to No.10 (“Scrutiny programme 1982: Department of the Environment”) [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Jun 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | EC: Fontainebleau European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
| 84 Jun 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Trade Unions: Redwood paper for MT [What could be done about unreasonable Trade Union power] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Feb 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [article in Financial Times - travesty of advice; PM furious] [released 2012] |
| 81 Feb 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [prepares “facing disaster” manuscript; PSBR rising] [released 2012] |
| 81 Feb 22 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [MT “very uncertain of herself”; did not want to discuss budget and had not read paper] [released 2012] |
| 81 Feb 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Niehans seminar - none disagreed with analysis] [released 2012] |
| 81 Feb 15 Su | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [spoke to Kaletski on telephone] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Walters annoyed; Gow did not stop talk - “probably MT’s paranoia about Press”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [“Douglas Wass said I wanted to take out even more - another £1 Bn - I said yes!”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [“shambles of govt”; ”genuine confusion, especially Lamont, about where we were going”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Meal at Nuffield college, met Peter Shore] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [“Civil Servant Strike - rain soaked picket lines at 10”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget speech) [“Budget speech - all hell breaks loose, the wets are up in arms - we’ll have a hot summer!”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [sent Howe congratulatory note on budget; he was very pleased; “it WAS very courageous”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Discussed budget strategy with Hoskyns] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [364 economists write to The Times] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [budget leak; petrol tax revolts continues - “really rather silly”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Walters not invited to meeting; Burns claimed credit for budget switch; “Am I in the dog house?”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (public spending) [ICL discussions - “Keith got away with it”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [MT “irate about Niehans - thought it would be used to kill GH”; argued “but she would not yield”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 21 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (MT) [“Discussed PM’s diary - hopeless”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (public spending) [lunch with CBI man & Wolfson] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (nationalised industries) [Howe criticises Walters’ suggestions for BT financing] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [failing to face reality, no strategic thinking - “we have to persuade MT all the disasters were avoidable”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railway Electrification) [Electrification Review] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (MT) [PM becoming “Mercantilist” on energy prices, asking about MBC] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railway Electrification) [Railway Electrification; Prior defence of wage councils awful] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Energy pricing) [PM shouts at Walters, but seems to be moving in right direction] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (lunch with Burns) [MLR rate cut, rail strike postponed, wage councils] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [CPRS do not want to adopt Walters methods; memo to PM on British Rail] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 11 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [good article in Spectator responding to 364 economists] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 12 Su | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (events) [reports of Brixton riots, Sherman dinner] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (railways) [PM commits herself to present size of passenger network “quite stupidly”; lunch with Scott - “appears to be genuine idiot”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railways) [committee on railways] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (union reform) [Howe & Hoskyns plan “to get TU reform going without Jim Prior getting upset”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [lunch with Congdon - keen on controlling interest rates] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [discussions with Howe over M3] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Howe criticises Walters’ suggestions for BT financing] [released 2012] |
| 81 May 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [day’s engagements][released 2012] |
| 81 May 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [Wolfson talked about 2 billion pound gas pipeline - Walters suggests private leasing arrangement][released 2012] |
| 81 May 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Salomon visit “bank profit tax is retrospective and immoral”][released 2012] |
| 81 May 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [French economists awful but Salin good][released 2012] |
| 81 May 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Dicks-Mireaux met in Aix, does not trust strategy][released 2012] |
| 81 May 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railway Electrification) [CPRS meeting - revising everything downward; “all my conjectures were correct”][released 2012] |
| 81 May 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [gives lecture to “very unresponsive lot of civil servants"][released 2012] |
| 81 May 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Chequers - argued about Monetary Base Control][released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [preparing letter to Chancellor][released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [failing to face reality, no strategic thinking - “we have to persuade MT all the disasters were avoidable”][released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railway electrification) [electrification on line by line basis; suspects preparing fall back position.][released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [commends Minford article; signs of recovery in all industries. Employment subsidies “promote systematic unemployment”][released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM handled economic strategy meeting brilliantly. Prior an idiot. Fletcher crazy.][released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 21 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [briefed PM on unemployment debate. PM very confused][released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Bank of England meeting; disagreements with Britton on exchange rates][released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM worried about debate; rumours Walters will leave due to lack of progress on Monetary Base Control; PM rude about Miller and Hoskyns’ speech][released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM “slaughtered” Foot in debate][released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Walters tired from tension; Howe wants to help with British Leyland, tells him about youth subsidy plans][released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Lawson enlists Walters to help attack health service spending][released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM opposes Howe’s plans on tax evasion, is sympathetic to small tax dodgers. Wood insists inflation will balloon][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Lunch meeting; very keen on getting interest rate down][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Griffiths still predicting rapid inflation due to M3 expansion; Walters disagrees][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [developing objections to Prior’s packages][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [finished memo on Employment; “PM liked my approach to Employment much better than Jim Prior’s”][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Harold Rose defensive on Scott report][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [redoing piece on Youth Opportunities programme; Prior’s ideas linked to press; more riots][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 12 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Read Graham criticises Youth Opportunities Programme][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Brittan keen on package; opposes recruiting youths in Liverpool to clean up city post-riots][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [paper leaked to Guardian; PM complains press is against her][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [All of committee thought Walters scheme excellent, except Jim Prior and Peter Walker][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 19 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [meeting with Gow and Joseph; anxious about SDP; Joseph clearly represents views to PM][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [arguing with MT over British Gas pipeline; “will drop it gently”][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [little structure in meeting, Jim Prior makes impassioned speech][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Committee adopts scheme][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 26 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Keith Joseph phones about speech, makes usual arguments][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Whitelaw says Brixton is where “Enoch is right”. Foot degenerates in debate][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Hoskyns “very worried about PM - bad way she talks behind men’s backs etc”. Must be told to “mend her ways”][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Howell accepts depletion policy is nonsense; says Energy department is against it][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM very confused about interest rate and money supply bands][released 2012] |
| 81 Aug 1 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Thorneycroft and Pym attacking Howe; great pressure to increase spending and reduce fuel prices][released 2012] |
| 81 Aug 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [advises Hosykns on PESC][released 2012] |
| 81 Aug 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [BR unwilling to train 200 soldiers to operate trains][released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (union reform) [Howe and Hoskyns planning to to get Trade Union reform without Prior][released 2012] |
| 81 Aug 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM tells Walters to rest][released 2012] |
| 81 Aug 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [thinks Heseltine's article on riots “quite dreadful”; thinks Heseltine trying to get PM on his side against treasury][released 2012] |
| 81 Aug 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM “very shaken - realizes she has to change - V. tired and needed holiday”][released 2012] |
| 81 Aug 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Reshuffle being discussed][released 2012] |
| 81 Aug 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [must win British Gas pipeline argument][released 2012] |
| 81 Sep 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [PM has cold feet over pipeline; “thinks it is like steel industry”][released 2012] |
| 81 Sep 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [Bank of Scotland finance for pipeline, but wants guarantee][released 2012] |
| 81 Sep 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [“Seems that Howell must be fired - but what to do with him.” Wolfson desires alternative to pipeline][released 2012] |
| 81 Sep 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [pipeline deliberations][released 2012] |
| 81 Sep 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Wolfson suspects it be beter politically if Howell publically changed his mind][released 2012] |
| 81 Sep 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [dreadful PM meeting on trade; MT complains of “beastly French”. Howell retreating on economic arguments][released 2012] |
| 81 Sep 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [pipeline decision went well; “waffle from Carrington”. Howell persuades PM to delay press release][released 2012] |
| 81 Sep 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Alarmed at interest rate rise][released 2012] |
| 81 Sep 13 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Prior lets it be known he would not accept Northern Ireland office][released 2012] |
| 81 Sep 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Prior “taken to task by Whitelaw for being disloyal and holding a pistol to PM’s head”][released 2012] |
| 81 Sep 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [CPRS paper on pay “not good”][released 2012] |
| 81 Sep 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [interest rate rise, worried about Sept/Oct due to VAT refunds][released 2012] |
| 81 Sep 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM likes Walters speech; did not like Lawson’s draft][released 2012] |
| 81 Sep 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Blackpool speech) [PM finding it difficult to reconcile election promises of low taxes with present reality][released 2012] |
| 81 Sep 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Blackpool speech) [finishing Blackpool speech difficult; unemployment at near 3 million][released 2012] |
| 81 Sep 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Gardyne agitated about expansion of bank credit; Walters argues there had been no effect on house price or the stock market][released 2012] |
| 81 Sep 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Walters argues abolishing planning controls would give housing boom. Rumours PM to be deposed.][released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [had to dodge pointed questons at address; angry at interest rates rise - “many bankruptcies yet public sector gets away with it”][released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Sherman’s fears of importing US depression due to high interest rates; Walters urges to wait and see][released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Pepper-Sprinkel afraid people will keep money and not move into stock markets; we should not join EMS][released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Economic forecasts) [Sure 16 percent interest rate is too high][released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [PM discusses speech; justified over pipeline][released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM chasing Walters for help with speech][released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Question Time sucessful][released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [cabinet meeting on public expenditure][released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Cabinet meeting misrepresented in media; Memo on need for precise PSBR][released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Memo to PM to repeal Exchange Control Act 1947; Hosykns thinks wages to fall should be first aim][released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [increase in interest rates too high; employment meeting - need to get price of labour down and increase sweatshops][released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 25 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Gilmour argues most of cabinet are against MT’s economic strategy][released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [need for legislation to stop takeovers; memo to PM. British Leyland needs closure. Hoskyns and Wolfson thinking of putting pressure on MT][released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Hoskyns and Wolfson frustrated; MT’s tactics are awful][released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [censure debate - MT adequate performance, Powell strong. British Leyland moves to strike, government must not relent][released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [E-committee. need to start new steps on monetary control][released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [reflections on monetary reform][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [E-Committee on Local Authority. PM caught Walters for “speechwriting chaos”.][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (YOP) [Youth Opportunities Programme; Walters, Hoskyns and Wolfson’s opposition][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (YOP) [Youth Opportunities Programme; Walters, Hoskyns and Wolfson’s opposition][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM agrees to monetary reform; PM speech good opening parliament][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Local Authority rates) [referendum on local authority rates; cabinet members views][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Brittan agrees to get off M3 and give ER some role][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Ian Gow upset about the prospect of deunionisation of Northern Ireland][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [E-committee vote on Trade Union reform only just passes][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [lunch with PM; talks with Middleton and Burns; Canada Club Dinner][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [large oposition to Chancellor’s bank merger legislation. MT likes speech draft][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [MT “getting more and more scattered”. Lamont worried over unemployment. Carrington talking about resigning over aid][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 14 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Denis Thatcher opposed to free trade with Japan. MT reading Peel][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 15 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM irate with Walters. Bacon and eggs for supper.][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [finished speech with PM; “she accepted my arguments and said flattering things”. Yorkshiremen very anti-YOP.][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [speech went well; talks with Howe][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [expects rates to come down][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM “getting neurotic about budget”; fall in M1][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [disagreements over MTFS with Burns][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 28 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [dinner at Chequers; PM seeing strategy for SDP needed][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 29 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Denis Thatcher falls asleep. Talks with PM over ban on Bank takeovers][released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM desires 2 dollar exchange rate. Memo to PM to look at M1][released 2012] |
| 81 Dec 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Hoskyns to stay on. Wolfson can not see budget papers. PM sees memo on interest rates][released 2012] |
| 81 Dec 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [suspects Howe wil not reduce interest rates][released 2012] |
| 81 Dec 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [clear PM not that interested in strategy][released 2012] |
| 81 Dec 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Hoskyns and Wolfson “both very fed up with her”. Walters not invited to Chancellor’s meeting][released 2012] |
| 81 Dec 6 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [MT phones up about interest rate paper][released 2012] |
| 81 Dec 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [note to PM on dangers of 2 dollar rate. Talked to Hoskyns and Wolfson about Walters being next Governor of Bank of England][released 2012] |
| 81 Dec 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Sherman complaining about Governor’s words in press][released 2012] |
| 81 Dec 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM and Jenkin want quota on Nissan; Walters opposes. Howe criticises PM about indexed gilts][released 2012] |
| 81 Dec 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [dreadful meeting with Chancellor about MTFS][released 2012] |
| 81 Dec 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [“PM stupid”. Problems with Youth Opportunity Programme.][released 2012] |
| 81 Dec 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [memo pointing out we cannot suppress reports of bad performance of M3. “Will I be fired?”][released 2012] |
| 81 Dec 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Middleton says pound strong][released 2012] |
| 81 Dec 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [notes on MTFS. MT row with Ian MacGregor][released 2012] |
| 81 Dec 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [note for PM on redundancy payments in Universities - suggests freezing incomes for 3 years. Complaints Howe has to approve everything][released 2012] |
| 81 Dec 19 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [“PM now convinced that M3 is no good”][released 2012] |
| 81 Dec 20 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM muses she would have asked Roy Jenkins to be Chancellor of the Exchequer][released 2012] |
| 81 Jul 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [employment meeting; Prior’s spending will ruin stratey][released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM annoyed at leaks; “pounced on Soames”. Nott gave confusing account of Defence plans][released 2012] |
| 82 Jul 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Local government: King letter to Brittan (Local authority overspending 1982-83) [exempting urban programme expenditure] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Mar 22 Su | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (relations with Howe) [Howe’s wife annoyed Walters is in No.10 and not under Howe] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railway Electrification) [“Railway Electrication is a dreadful mess”; Howe upset by Hoskyns letter] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railway Electrification) [Foster opposes electrification plan for BR; “ploy by Posner to bounce it through Cabinet”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (CBI) [Beckett “still all gloom & disaster”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (CSO, Railway Electrification) [many doubts on electrification] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (British Rail) [BR meeting - “Little or no substantive work”; plans locked up in vault] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget, BAA, BT) [possibility of privatising BAA; meeting with Howe; 364 economists letter] [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Treasury) [Wolfson & Walters agree “we must attack the Treasury position”; Lawson worried about Wass & “latent Keynesianism”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (MT) [“PM very bossy - she would be much more effective if she was more relaxed”; writes Howe “explaining why Keynes was useful now!”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 4 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (weekend) [Gorman visit; Walters tired] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget; exchange rate) [Bray tried to induce Walters to criticise exchange rate; told Anderson budget was right] [released 2012] |
| 81 Apr 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (public spending) [US programme to reduce public spending; “everyone’s ox is gored”] [released 2012] |
| 81 May 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (exchange rate) [Emmanuel Kaye wants a 1931-style devaluation] [released 2012] |
| 81 May 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (election strategy, bduget) [election strategy meeting; Massey Ferguson boss congratulates Walters on budget] [released 2012] |
| 81 May 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Middleton says Wass & Ryrie opposed £1b extra tax in budget; Brittan and Howe agreed with their view that “you must not put interest rates down if you had to put them up again!!”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (exchange rate; new interest rate regime) [saw PM over fall in pound; measures seem to be working well on interest rates] [released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (monetary policy) [Pepper “thinks we are pushing the bank as fast as is humanly possible”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (exchange rate) [pound falling below $2; MT being advised some intervention worthwhile; AAW advises against but she relents; Cabinet divided on Civil Serice pay rise] [released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 6 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (exchange rate) [preparing memo for PM; Treasury paper on NSO & sterling appreciatiion] [released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (exchange rate) [Harold Lever wants to manage exchange rate as he did under Wilson] [released 2012] |
| 81 Jun 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (monetary reform, spending) [Bauer thinks spending out of control - Walters finds no counter-argument; Sparrow thinks monetary reform going ok] [released 2012] |
| 81 Sep 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (divisions) [Norman Strauss criticises Pym & Thorneycroft on TV; should resign] [released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (divisions) [Heath speech was awful “but obscured by Sadat assassination”; Vinson worried about high interest rates - “same mistake as 1980”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 11 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (MT) [PM requested Walters to produce more intellectual basis for policy] [released 2012] |
| 81 Oct 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (spending) [target “implies all sorts of rosy assumptions”] [released 2012] |
| 81 Nov 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Employment: Treasury letter to No.10 (“MSC estimate of cost of unemployment”) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jul 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Local government: Heseltine letter to Brittan (British Waterways Board) [“fundamental restructuring”] [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Jul 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: Lord Gowrie letter to Jenkin (“Draft response to Select Committee on Education, Science and the Arts on GLC/MCC abolition”) [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Oct 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Poland: UKMIS Geneva telegram to FCO (“The Red Cross and Poland”) [imposition of martial law in Poland] [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Jun 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 (“Meeting with Irish Ambassador: 18 June 1984”) [Irish willingness to make constitutional amendments] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jun 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Taylor letter to Butler (Danny Morrison’s possible election to European Parliament) [“the NIO have drawn attention to the risk of widening support for PIRA if we were seen to obstruct his duties”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jun 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Dr FitzGerald’s Visit to London on 27 June”) [Taoiseach’s “wish that Anglo-Irish relations should not become an object of party controversy in the United Kingdom”] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Jan 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Dinner at Poons][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM “deeply worried and offended” about secret strategy meeting that she was not told about; PM says CPRS must be run by businessmen][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM agreed with Bauer report; Joseph suggests Walters as governor of BoE; Vinson desires interest rates down][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Interest rates) [Fforde desires interest rate reduction; Walters angry left out of discussions on interest rates][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [Walters disagreements with BoE governor; PM intent of removing Howe after budget][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 9 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Governor desires to extent beyond mid-83][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 10 Su | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Tea with Salomon][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM charmed by governor; British Steel developments][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [MMC report “a disaster”; Ravenscraig developments; McMahon will not move][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Interest rates) [Mark Thatcher’s disappearance; Governor committed to reducing interest rates][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [MT receives flowers from No.10 staff; Havers said Carrington would make an excellent PM; MT enquires about interest rates;][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Quiet day; Sherman annoyed about BoE][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 16 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Bought suit][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Saatchi’s shares plummet on rumours Tories drop them; exchange rate up, band 1 down][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [PM intent on reducing interest rates; PM wants to issue unrestricted index gilts][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Unemployment) [PM keen on working on unemployment][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM angry about the “nanny” attitude to Bank Mortgage lending; PM keen that indexation would bind her successors - Howe disagrees, but Walters notes Chile; Harrington advises aboliton of wage councils][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 23 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Sherman wants to know about inflationary depression][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 24 Su | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Salomon phoned][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Walters criticises Burns speech on M1 planned growth; PM annoyed too][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Middleton thinks Burns has gone over the top; Tebbit’s wage council plans rejected][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (MTFS) [Sterling appreciates; Middleton disappointed at MTFS meeting][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [cabinet meeting - policy confirmed; everyone in favour of NIS reduction][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [Middleton gets Howe to agree to reduce interest rates][released 2012] |
| 82 Jan 30 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Paddie stops runaway black][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (PSBR) [Howe asks Walters for his PSBR position; Walters said would settle for 9; PM confused about TUC Treasury papers][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (economy) [PM nervous over M1 figures; difficulties at PMQs over miserable economic prospects ][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Salomon “hysterical about CPS meeting”; Drummond says Walters has effect on policy][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Governor anxious to get ER target band][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM considers preventing Laker collapse, Waker thinks “stupid”][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 7 Su | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Walters and Minford agree on 2 Rooker Wise][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [criticises CPR paper][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Walters annoyed at budget meeting plan to give impetus to employment][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Walters writes to PM opposing NIS reduction; Britain’s situation better than Ireland][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [talks with Joseph over subsidies; PM “exploded” over Prior suggestions to fund DeLorean][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [potential oil price fall; “piddling around” with excise duties to reduce RPI; ministers desire more creation of jobs][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Talks with Chancellor on budget; Governor desires Exchange Rate target][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [possible contracting of hospital cleaning; alarm at expansion of bank lending; resilience of markets][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Budget meeting; draft MTFS discussion; government not going to give way on ASLEF][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PSBR forecasts; “Europe will pay for US defence spending by high interest rates”][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (MTFS) [MFTS meeting; Note to PM on budget arithmetic][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM insists on housing tax relief or will fire Howe; Walters desires stamp duty abolished][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [sends PM a memo suggesting oil prices will fall more than anyone thinks; PM got cold feet on ASLEF][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Howe very fed up; Hoskyns says Walters should take over policy unit][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM apparently accepts stamp duty; french import barriers; talks to PM on budget ][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 27 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM wants to issue unrestricted IGs][released 2012] |
| 82 Feb 28 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Jenkins thinks ASLEF will come back to strike][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Criticises Thomas to MT; PM thinks oil taxes too high][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM agrees to put petrol tax up; drafting budget speech][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [oil price fall has limited effect on exchange rates; Bauer is anxious to keep Walters in Britain][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM annoyed at Invergordon leak; does not fall for Young’s crooked figures][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Scholar wants to legislate on upstream loans; Small’s reservations about CPRS unemployment study][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 7 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [budget speech draft comments][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [reviewed budget speech; E-Committee on Invergordon][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Sherman contracted to write book; planned attack on tax][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [favourable reactions to budget; dispute with Caircross over PSBR][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM realises those in the middle ranges of income are worse off; advantages of private roads][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Ibbs worried about CPRS][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [warns PM on exchange rate movement][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [E-committee on British Telecom meeting; Lunch with Lawson][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [phoned Eddie George on indexed gilts; lunch with Hoskyns and Stoney][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Fowler under pressure to make reduction in benefits; Walters fears Bank of England will kill indexed gilts issue][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [unemployment study - “pretty dreafdul state”; very worried about indexed gilts][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 20 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [Saw Frank Hahn; said economists in Brazil and Israel do not worry about unemployment][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [inaccuracies of unemployment report; Hoskyns agrees with Walters on BA report][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Invergordon developments][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [“sinister suggestions” of positive discrimination in civil service][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [TRRL racket; worried about gilts][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [writes note to PM disagreeing with CPRS report; Griffiths says Walters should be Governor][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 28 Su | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [wife gets job][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [“Considering attack on funding policy and Deficit/GDP”][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [talks with Pepper; Sprinkel worried about interest rate expansion][released 2012] |
| 82 Mar 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Campbell has hostility to Whitelaw][released 2012] |
| 82 Apr 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM opposes indexed gilts conversion][released 2012] |
| 82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Too late for gilts conversion; “Falklands fiasco upsetting everything”;][released 2012] |
| 82 Apr 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Westwell report][released 2012] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [“everyone upset” over Carrington resignation] [released 2012] |
| 82 Apr 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [memo to PM saying do not defend the Exchange rate; sends PM memo seeking peaceful resolution of Falklands crisis - “this jingo mood will pass”][released 2012] |
| 82 Apr 17 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Philadelphia society][released 2012] |
| 82 Apr 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [back from Sri Lanka, nothing much except Falklands][released 2012] |
| 82 Apr 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [talks with Pym; memo to PM on indexed pensions; splendid performance on Panorama][released 2012] |
| 82 Apr 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [forgot Rose’s birthday; note on indexed pensions][released 2012] |
| 82 Apr 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [War cabinet - ”PM loves the forces“][released 2012] |
| 82 Apr 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [dreadful report by DofT; US coming down on Britain’s side in Falklands dispute][released 2012] |
| 82 May 2 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [Hogg article on unemployment; Keegan referred to Walters as not wanting to emerge from depression][released 2012] |
| 82 May 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [at home][released 2012] |
| 82 May 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [money supply figures better than forecast; channel link][released 2012] |
| 82 May 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [Sheffield sinking; possible peaceful Falklands solution][released 2012] |
| 82 May 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Prior trying to stop abolition of wage councils; Invergordon bailout][released 2012] |
| 82 May 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM meeting on economic summit][released 2012] |
| 82 May 9 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [questions of next Governor; Walters compensation scheme for Falklands rejected by Howe][released 2012] |
| 82 May 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [Walters pushes his Falklands resolution proposal; BBC anti-british bias on Falklands - “PM very upset ... why pay our money to have BBC subverted against us”][released 2012] |
| 82 May 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [Walters continues to push his Falklands solution][released 2012] |
| 82 May 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [Whitmore “probably decided to kill” Falklands paper; need to get interest rates down][released 2012] |
| 82 May 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [limited progress in accepting Walters’s Falklands solution][released 2012] |
| 82 May 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Markets behaving well][released 2012] |
| 82 May 15 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [argues with Salomon on capital punishment][released 2012] |
| 82 May 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Lunch at hotel][released 2012] |
| 82 May 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Guardian fiction that BA is to come under direct control of PM][released 2012] |
| 82 May 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [DofT paper suggesting to sell Sealink to an American “of Mafia origins”][released 2012] |
| 82 May 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [Whitmore says too late for Falklands paper; memo to PM on wage councils][released 2012] |
| 82 May 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (pensions) [“Stupid reply” from Chancellor about indexed pensions][released 2012] |
| 82 May 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Minford confirmed results of high marginal tax rates and replacement ratios][released 2012] |
| 82 May 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [something must be done over National Loans Fund][released 2012] |
| 82 May 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [unable to go to E(DL); “Disaster in the South Atlantic seems imminent”] [released 2012] |
| 82 May 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [“Disaster indeed - but not yet reported”; critical issue of rail strike][released 2012] |
| 82 May 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM desires reduction in federal spending; Walters angry he was not invited to summit meeting; PM looked in good form][released 2012] |
| 82 May 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Walters trying to stop MT and Howe from goading Reagan][released 2012] |
| 82 May 29 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [Opera; fall of Goose Green][released 2012] |
| 82 May 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Trivial | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Sunbathed][released 2012] |
| 82 Jun 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [wrote note for PM on tax increase issue for Reagan; lunch with “stupid” Silk who believes expansionism will reduce unemployment][released 2012] |
| 82 Jun 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (taxation) [Couzens desires to recommend PM to nudge Reagan towards tax increases][released 2012] |
| 82 Jun 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [Reagan visit briefing for PM; MT has “silly ideas” about development of Falklands with tourism][released 2012] |
| 82 Jun 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [US abstains in UN vote; interest rates][released 2012] |
| 82 Jun 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [Jenkins desires Khaki election; BR electrification][released 2012] |
| 82 Jun 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary [lunch with Reagan][released 2012] |
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