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90 Oct 8 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Interest rates reduced by one per cent, from 15 to 14 per cent |
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81 Mar 11 We | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Interest rates reduced 2 per cent, from 14 to 12 per cent |
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80 Nov 25 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Interest rates reduced 2 per cent, from 16 to 14 per cent |
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80 Jul 3 Th | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Interest rates reduced 1 per cent, from 17 to 16 per cent |
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79 Nov 15 Th | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Interest rates increased 3 per cent, from 14 to 17 per cent (all time high); gilt strike |
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79 Jun 13 We | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Interest rates increased 2 per cent, from 12 to 14 per cent |
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79 Apr 5 Th | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Interest rates reduced 1 per cent, from 13 to 12 per cent |
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79 Mar 1 Th | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Interest rates reduced 1 per cent, from 14 to 13 per cent |
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91 Dec 9 Mo | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Maastricht European Council (ended 10 Dec) |
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88 Sep 20 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | MT addressed the College of Europe (the "Bruges Speech") |
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80 Dec 2 Tu | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: HC statement by Nick Ridley on leaseback - mauled by MPs |
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80 Nov 22 Sa | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: Ridley's second visit, urging leaseback - mixed reception (ended 29 Nov) |
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79 Jul 20 Fr | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: Ridley's first visit, floats leaseback (ended 26 Jul) |
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80 Sep 10 We | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: Ridley secret meeting with Argentinians to explore leaseback (ended 11 Sep) |
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82 Mar 19 Fr | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: illegal Argentine landing on South Georgia detected by BAS; London informed 20 Mar |
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82 May 2 Su | Chronology | ★★★★ | [Chronology] | Falklands: General Belgrano torpedoed by HMS Conqueror (1857Z); cruiser sank with 321 dead |
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36 Jul 6 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Grantham Journal) | 1925-43 (Grantham): Alfred Roberts address as Rotary President ("a manacled age") |
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84 Dec 22 Sa | Multimedia | ★★★★ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | White House photos: MT visiting Reagan at Camp David (2) |
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80 Sep 25 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bank of England) | Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Ryrie & McMahon) [Wass, Ryrie & Burns urge public sector pay freeze] [declassified 2011] |
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80 Sep 28 Su | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bank of England) | Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to Chancellor ("Reducing the exchange rate: inflow controls & other options") [inflow controls offering cover] [declassified 2011] |
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80 Nov 20 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bank of England) | Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Governor of the Bank of England) [declassified 2011] |
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80 Sep 19 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bank of England) | Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Governor phone call to Lankester) ["uncomfortable meeting ... the Governor should not be alarmed about it"] [declassified 2011] |
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80 Oct 21 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bank of England) | Monetary Policy: McMahon minute for Governor (“The Roll-over and policy generally: tomorrow’s meeting with the Chancellor”) [“the exchange rate now cries out for action”] [declassified 2011] |
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80 Oct 27 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bank of England) | Monetary Policy: McMahon minute for Governor (“Policy and the exchange rate”) [“The level of the exchange rate is now clearly intolerable ”] [declassified 2011] |
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80 Sep 23 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bank of England) | Monetary Policy: Lavelle draft paper (“Inflow controls and other options for reducing the exchange rate”) [pros and cons] [declassified 2011] |
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80 Sep 18 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bank of England) | Monetary Policy: McMahon minute for Governor (“The Bank’s position on monetary policy”) [“The PM has told us that she would like to have the exchange rate lower”] [declassified 2011] |
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83 May 6 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bank of England) | Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Governor of the Bank of England, Trade Secretary) [Stock Exchange and the Restrictive Practices Court - agreed to drop case in return for reform] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Jun 23 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bank of England) | Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Governor of the Bank of England, Trade and Industry Secretary) [Stock Exchange case and the Restrictive Practices Court - confirms 6 May decision to withdraw the case in return for reforms] [declassified 2013] |
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79 Apr 27 Fr | Multimedia | ★★★★ | Archive (BBC) | TV Interview for BBC Campaign ’79 |
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85 Aug 8 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Management minutes (“Real Lives”) [Chairman clashes with Director-General; DG's statement revised] [released 2015] |
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85 Aug 5 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Management minutes (“Real Lives”) [Milne: Real Lives "had to hit the air if this place is to run properly"] [released 2015] |
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73 Mar 5 Mo | Multimedia | ★★★★ | Archive (BBC) | TV Interview for BBC1 Val meets the VIPs (too inexperienced to be Prime Minister) |
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78 Nov 30 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bundesbank) | EMS: Bundesbank Council meeting with Chancellor Schmidt (assurances on operation of EMS) [declassified 2008] |
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89 Dec 3 Su | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bush Library) | Cold War: Bush-Kohl meeting record [memcon] (German unification) [declassified] [105K scan] |
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90 Aug 3 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bush Library) | Gulf War: National Security Council minutes on Persian Gulf ["It's fortunate that Mrs Thatcher is at Aspen"] [declassified 2000] |
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90 Aug 5 Su | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bush Library) | Gulf War: National Security Council minutes [covert options; UN; Saudi Arabia] [declassified2000] |
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90 Nov 9 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bush Library) | Gulf War: Jim Baker note for President Bush (meeting MT & Hurd) [declassified 1999] |
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90 Nov 28 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bush Library) | Resignation: President Bush letter to MT (regrets) ["your wisdom and determination"] [declassified 2012] |
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90 Aug 2 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bush Library) | Gulf War: National Security Council minutes on Persian Gulf [uncertain response] [declassified 2012] |
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90 Aug 4 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bush Library) | Gulf War: National Security Council minutes on Persian Gulf [military options] [declassified 2000] |
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90 Aug 4 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Bush Library) | Gulf War: White House record of phone conversation (President Bush-Saudi King Fahd) [Bush: "We need your view on a US force presence [in Saudi Arabia]"; Fahd: "We think we have a few days to coordinate, to make a tight, successful plan"] [declassified Aug 2009] |
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90 Mar 19 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Cabinet Office) | Cold War: Charles Powell letter to Timothy Garton-Ash (agenda for Chequers German seminar) [declassified 2007] |
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90 Mar 24 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Cabinet Office) | Cold War: Chequers Seminar on Germany (“Summary Record”) [declassified 2007] |
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86 Jan 9 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Cabinet Office) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 1st (extract on Westland affair) [Heseltine resigns] [declassified 2010] |
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90 Jan 20 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Cabinet Office) | German unification: No.10 memorandum of conversation (MT & President Mitterrand) [prospect of unification had turned them into "the 'bad' Germans they used to be"] [declassified 2010] |
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79 May 12 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Carter Library) | US: Brzezinski memo for Carter (Thatcher no longer "the dogmatic lady" who visited in 1977) [declassified 2000] |
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79 Dec 28 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Carter Library) | US: President Carter phone call to MT (Soviet invasion of Afghanistan) [declassified 1996] |
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79 Dec 28 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Carter Library) | Cold War: Carter phone call to Giscard (Soviet invasion of Afghanistan) [declassified 1996] |
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79 Dec 28 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Carter Library) | Cold War: Carter phone call to Schmidt (Soviet invasion of Afghanistan) [declassified 1996] |
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79 May 9 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Carter Library) | Cold War: Vance-Brown memo to Carter (urging TNF modernization) [declassified 1997] |
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80 Jan 29 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Carter Library) | Cold War: Carter note (British & European reaction to Afghanistan invasion “very weak”) [unclassified] |
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79 Dec 29 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Carter Library) | Cold War: Brezhnev letter to Carter (defending Afghanistan invasion) [declassified 1995] |
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80 Oct 23 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Carter Library) | Cold War: SCC meeting on “Polish Contingencies” [declassified 2000] |
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52 Jun 12 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Conservative Party) | 1949-59 (candidate): Beryl Cook to John Hare ("without exception the best woman candidate I have known") |
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56 Mar 14 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Conservative Party) | 1949-59 (candidate): Donald Kaberry Interview with MT (wishes to return to list) |
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83 Sep 8 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (FCO) | Cold War: Chequers Soviet seminar (minute of meeting) [declassified 2007] |
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88 Sep 1 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (FCO) | Europe: Stephen Wall minute (Geoffrey Howe’s criticisms of No.10 draft of MT Bruges speech) [“plain & fundamental errors”] |
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88 Sep 6 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (FCO) | Europe: John Kerr to Patrick Wright (state of play on MT Bruges speech) [CDP “reasonably responsive” to view that too controversial a speech would meet rebuttals] |
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88 Sep 14 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (FCO) | Europe: Charles Powell to FCO (MT Bruges speech) [final draft - “PM now broadly content with it”] |
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88 Sep 16 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (FCO) | Europe: John Kerr (FCO) note for Patrick Wright (MT Bruges speech) [“looks as if our damage limitation exercise is headed for success”] |
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84 Jun 26 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (FCO) | EC budget: FCO record of conversation (“informal record” of Fontainebleau European Council) [settlement of British budget question] [declassified 2008] |
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75 Sep 18 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Ford Library) | Cold War: White House memcon (President Ford, Brent Scowcroft, MT) [declassified 2004] |
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39 Jan 26 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Grantham Journal) | 1925-43 (Grantham): Alfred Roberts Rotary address (Chamberlain's "will intent on peace") |
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52 May 21 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Grantham Journal) | Early life Photo of Alfred Roberts laying down his robes as Alderman (voted out by Labour) |
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72 Feb 18 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Miners' strike: Hailsham diary (government's hand forced) [coded diary with translation] |
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74 Mar 1 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | General Election: Hailsham diary (MT & Keith Joseph oppose deal with Liberals) |
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74 Nov 12 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Conservative leadership: Hailsham diary (close allies discuss Heath's future) |
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75 Feb 16 Su | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Conservative leadership: MT letter to Hailsham (warm thanks) [realises magnitude of her task] |
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74 Mar 4 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | General Election: Hailsham diary (note of failed negotiations with Liberals) |
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75 Apr 11 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Conservative policy: Hailsham diary (Shadow Cabinet squabbles over Keith Joseph paper) |
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75 Jul 21 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Heath: Hailsham letter to MT (coalition risks) |
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75 Jul 27 Su | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Heath: MT letter to Hailsham (coalition risks) |
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75 Jul 29 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Heath: Hailsham letter to MT (danger of Wilson recruiting Heath) |
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76 Jan 20 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Heath: Hailsham diary (Heath says MT no good) ["I am much better and I ought to be there still"] |
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76 Oct 1 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Labour: Hailsham diary (Brian Walden offers support to bring down government) [coded entry with translation] |
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76 Nov 20 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Conservative Party: Hailsham diary (criticism of Keith Joseph) ["You wear too much sackcloth"] |
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76 Dec 8 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (threatens to resign over devolution) [likely to go "if the Scots went"] |
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76 Dec 12 Su | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham letter to Angus Maude (devolution) [still thinks of resigning] |
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77 Mar 29 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | MT: Hailsham diary (discussion with Peter Carrington) [serious doubts about MT & Keith Joseph] |
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77 Nov 1 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hailsham MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (devolution meeting) [MT moving towards federalism with England a single unit] |
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74 Oct 28 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hayek MSS) | Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph to Hayek (thanks for praise of Preston speech) ["most grateful for your blessing"] |
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80 Dec 16 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Cockfield minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
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80 Dec 17 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Biffen minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
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80 Dec 17 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Cropper minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
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80 Dec 17 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Lawson minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
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80 Dec 17 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Rees minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
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80 Dec 18 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Adam Ridley minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Budget Questionnaire") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
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80 Dec 18 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Wiggins minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot responses from HMT ministers and advisors] [declassified 2012] |
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80 Dec 22 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Cardona minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
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81 Feb 16 Mo | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (HM Treasury) | Monetary Policy: Middleton minute for Chancellor (“Niehans”) [analysis of his report] [declassified 2012] |
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81 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (HM Treasury) | Monetary Policy: Lawson minute for Chancellor (“Niehans”) [Middleton critique “wholly valid”] [declassified 2012] |
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79 Nov 8 Th | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (HM Treasury) | Monetary policy: Hall minute to Howe ("Monetary Policy") [MT "profoundly unhappy"; interest rates not working, new mechanisms needed] [declassified 2013] |
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80 Mar 4 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (HM Treasury) | Monetary Policy: Biffen minute for Chancellor (“Medium Term Financial Strategy”) [minutes disagreement, copied to MT & Wass] [declassified 2013] |
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80 Jul 9 We | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (HM Treasury) | Monetary Policy: Biffen minute for Chancellor (“Incomes, Inflation & Unemployment”) [“there really is not much difference in substance between us”] [declassified 2013] |
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93 Dec 21 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (HM Treasury) | EMS: Treasury minute (“The ERM Project”) [lengthy analysis of decision to join & policy during membership] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005] |
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81 Mar 20 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | 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] |
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81 Mar 10 Tu | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (Cabinet reaction to budget) [Prior strongly attacks but with little support] |
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81 Feb 13 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Economy: Hoskyns diary (budget discussion) [MT & Howe rejecting draconian budget as "not on politically"] |
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81 Jan 17 Sa | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Monetary policy: Hoskyns diary (Chequers meeting) [discussion of “PSBR crisis”] |
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76 Aug 6 Fr | Declassified documents | ★★★★ | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph notes (goals) ["internal note by KJ"] |
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