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78 Oct 30 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Ronnie Millar to MT (right approach between now & election) [stress failure of pay policy while giving Ted his dignity]
78 Oct 30 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EMS: Lawson note for MT ("The European Monetary System")
78 Oct 31 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EMS: Sir Geoffrey Howe letter to MT ("European Monetary System") [Conservative line]
78 Nov 15 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of Meeting (attitude to European Monetary System)
78 Nov 30 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Bundesbank)	EMS: Bundesbank Council meeting with Chancellor Schmidt (assurances on operation of EMS) [declassified 2008]
79 Jan 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Steering Committee: Minutes of 61st Meeting (Commons debate on industrial situation)
79 Jan 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: MT's notes for her Commons speech (offer to HMG) [391K]
79 Feb 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to John Nott (Bank sympathise with exchange control abolition)
79 Mar 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Steering Committee: Minutes of 64th Meeting (manifesto drafting)
79 Mar 28 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 239th Meeting (Government defeated on confidence motion)
79 Mar 31 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Henderson (Sir Nicholas)	Economy: The Henderson Despatch (British decline, causes & consequences) [leaked 1979; declassified 2006]
79 Apr 11 We	Declassified documents	Key	Conservative Party	Conservative General Election Manifesto 1979
79 May 2 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Transition to power: Richard Ryder note for MT (meeting with Ken Stowe) [handover of power] [released 2010]
79 May 4 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	General Election: Draft remarks on becoming Prime Minister (St Francis's prayer)
79 May 4 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	General Election: MT draft (St Francis’s Prayer) [“moving & beautiful song of St Francis”] [released 2015]
79 May 4 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	General Election: Aide-memoire for St.Francis prayer ("Where there is discord ...")
79 May 4 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (Energy, EC, East/West, etc) [master copy of whole briefing set][declassified 2009]
79 May 4 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“Summary and Timetable of Urgent Economic Issues”) [declassified 2009]
79 May 4 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“The Budget”) [declassified 2009]
79 May 4 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“Pay and Cash Limits”) [declassified 2009]
79 May 4 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary incoming brief for MT ('Rhodesia') [MT: "I agree we need care but a little courage is necessary too"] [declassified 2009]
79 May 4 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Transition to power: MT notes for cabinet-making (near final copy?) [Heseltine refuses Energy; alternative names for other jobs, etc] [released 2010]
79 May 5 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS)	General Election: MT to Ronnie Millar (letter of thanks) [“I could not have done it without you”]
79 May 5 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Hoskyns MSS)	General Election: MT to John Hoskyns (letter of thanks) ['invaluable' contribution over past two years, "a new dimension to the way ... the Party thinks and operates"]
79 May 9 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Carter Library)	Cold War: Vance-Brown memo to Carter (urging TNF modernization) [declassified 1997]
79 May 10 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Transition to power: Ronnie Millar letter to MT (congratulations) [“At least three Parliaments’ worth of work to do”] [released 2010]
79 May 12 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Carter Library)	US: Brzezinski memo for Carter (Thatcher no longer "the dogmatic lady" who visited in 1977) [declassified 2000]
79 May 17 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Transition to power: MT letter to Daily Mail editor David English (thanks for congratulations) [“You have been a wonderful friend in recent years ... I hope I will not let you down”] [released 2010]
79 May 24 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Transition to power: MT letter to Sun editor Larry Lamb (thanks for congratulations) [“your encouragement meant so much”] [released 2010]
79 May 30 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Europe: Ronne Millar draft Party Election Broadcast (European Elections) [MT: “This is NOT a script for me”] [released 2010]
79 Jun 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Hansard	Economy: 1979 Budget (Howe 1)
79 Jun 20 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	EC: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The European Monetary System") [economic considerations should have primacy in UK decision] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 24 Su	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Housing: MT note for Chancellor of the Exchequer (mortgage rate) [MT concerned at press reports mortgage rates may go up in a few days; "This MUST NOT happen"] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 Jun 24 Su	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Monetary policy: MT note to Chancellor of the Exchequer (press reports possible increase in mortgage rates) [“This MUST NOT happen” - if necessary cap by subsidy] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 26 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: MT meeting with Soviet PM Kosygin (record of conversation) [stop-over in Moscow en route to Tokyo] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 4 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Monetary policy: MT meeting with ministers (record of conversation) [mortgage rates - possible subsidy] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Zimbabwe/Rhodesia PM Bishop Muzorewa) [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 21 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Nicholas Ridley, Falkland Island Councillors) [taxation, agriculture, oil industry, nationality, cooperation with Argentina] [declassified 2012]
79 Aug 5 Su	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Commonwealth: MT notebook (conversation at Lusaka CHOGM retreat) [case for British initiative on Rhodesia] [released 2010]
79 Aug 15 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington) [Carrington regards success in constitutional conference as "virtually inconceivable"] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	US: President Carter letter to MT (Mountbatten) [“tragic death”] [released 2010]
79 Aug 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Lawson minute to Howe ("Economic and Financial Situation Report") ["strong £ is the biggest thing we have going for us"] [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	US: MT letter to President Carter (Mountbatten) [“brutal and senseless murder”] [released 2010]
79 Sep 20 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [Carrington's copy] [declassified 2012]
79 Sep 20 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [MT comments on leaseback scheme: "I could not possibly agree to the line the Foreign Secretary is proposing"] [declassified 2012]
79 Oct 3 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: MT notes for conference speech (“Thoughts on the Moral Case I”) [“There is no such thing as a collective conscience ...”] [released 2010]
79 Oct 3 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: MT notes for conference speech (“The First Few Months”) [“Not just actions but attitudes”] [released 2010]
79 Oct 31 We	Declassified documents	Key		EC: Donald Maitland minute to Foreign Secretary (state of EC-UK relations) ["the mood is sober, if not sombre"] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (HM Treasury)	Monetary policy: Hall minute to Howe ("Monetary Policy") [MT "profoundly unhappy"; interest rates not working, new mechanisms needed] [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	US: President Carter phone call to MT & Giscard (Iran) [asks UK to reduce its diplomatic presence in Iran] [released 2010]

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