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PDF 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT message to Reagan (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) [UK "dismayed" by Reagan's message: "A vote by the United States for the resolution would be received here with incomprehension"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan message to MT (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) [Reagan argues for keeping open possibility of "a solution by negotiations sometime in the future"] [released 2013]
Text 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Reagan letter to Thatcher (defends US stance at UN) [declassified 2000]
Audio 82 Nov 3 We Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio]
Text 82 Nov 3 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Debate on Address]
PDF 82 Nov 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: President Reagan message to MT (vote on UN resolution) ["I realise that our understanding of these events is indeed quite different"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT message to President Reagan (vote on UN resolution) ["an American decision to support Argentina against Britain"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT message to Reagan (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) ["The British people would see your vote for this resolution as an American decision to...support a dictatorship against the home of democracy"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Reagan message to MT (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) ["I realize that our understanding of these events is indeed quite different"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Ian Gow minute for MT (“Nicholas Ridley”) [“wonders whether you are displeased with him because of the Falklands matter”; if not in cabinet after next election wants EC Commissionership] [released 2017]
PDF 82 Dec 29 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (Carrington testifies - 2nd time) ["I take it that I am the only person who is being criticised"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 29 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Carrington) [Franks "pretty wintery" in recall testimony; "very unfair" if he was the only person criticised by name] [declassified 2013]
Audio 83 Jan 18 Tu Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Falkland Islands (Franks Report)] [audio]
PDF 83 Jan 18 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT's annotated text of the Franks Report ("Falkland Islands Review") [released 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 18 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key UK State Paper Falklands: Falkland Islands Review ("the Franks Report")
Text 83 Jan 18 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC Stmnt: [Falkland Islands (Franks Report)]
PDF 83 Jan 19 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Franks) [final sentence narrowly related to Junta decision to invade on 2 April] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Jan 25 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Falkland Islands (Franks Report)]
PDF 83 Apr 3 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [personal account of her conduct of the war, handwritten text interleaved with transcript] [released 2015]
PDF 83 Apr 3 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [1992 photocopy of text] [released 2015]
PDF 83 Apr 3 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [1992 photocopy of text] [released 2015]
Audio 83 Apr 5 Tu Multimedia Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [podcast - episode 1] [released 2015]
PDF 83 Apr 22 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [defence sales, Argentina, French-German defence cooperation, cooperation with the US, East-West economic relations] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 May 18 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher General Election Press Conference launching manifesto
Text 83 May 20 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher General Election Press Conference (the economy)
Text 83 May 23 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech in Cardiff
Text 83 May 24 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for BBC1 Nationwide (On the Spot)
PDF 83 Sep 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan) [first meeting: Lebanon, East/West, arms control, KAL007, INF, Belize, US supply of arms to Argentina] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Sep 29 Th Press Key Thatcher memoirs Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting in Washington (record of conversation) [memoirs extract]
Text 83 Sep 29 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech at the Winston Chuchill Foundation Award dinner
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [Anglo-French Summit: East-West relations, arms control, Allied cooperation, Falkland Islands, Middle East, EC issues, British-French bilateral relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [European Community issues, UN Resolution on the Falkland Islands] [declassified 2014]
Text 83 Nov 4 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Interview for Daily Mail (Grenada, Cruise)
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [East-West relations, US foreign policy, Middle East, Grenada, Allied cooperation, arms supplies for Argentina] [declassified 2015]
Text 83 Dec 7 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: Reagan letter to Thatcher (resuming US arms sales to Argentina) [declassified 2000]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("First Thoughts") ["I take a bleak view of the international scene" - annotated by MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("First thoughts") ["I take a bleak view of the international scene"] [released 2014]
Text 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Sir John Coles MSS) MT: Appreciation of Margaret Thatcher (contemporary recollection by Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs) [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("Meeting with the Prime Minister 20 July" - UK foreign policy overview) [MT: "May I have a spare copy for the flat to ponder on from time to time"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 19 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: MT notes for 1922 speech (including transcript) ["enemy within"] [released 2014]
Text 84 Jul 19 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech to 1922 Committee ("the enemy within")
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [tete a tete: German domestic scene, UK economy, international economic questions, East-West relations, SDI, commemoration of the 40th anniversary of VE Day, Falklands-Argentina] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Political Cooperation") [draft agreement for MT to give privately to Kohl at Chequers; MT approves, with amendments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Secretary for Defense Weinberger) [Strategic Defence Initiative, Mobile Subscriber Equipment, Fylingdales, arms control, Falklands] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 2 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for Yorkshire Television Woman to Woman
Audio 86 Apr 16 We Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [US bombing of Libya] [audio]
Text 86 Apr 16 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [US bombing of Libya]
Text 86 Nov 15 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Press Conference after Camp David talks (nuclear weapons and arms control)
PDF 87 Mar 30 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [tête-à-tête] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Sep 30 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Bush, General Scowcroft, Charles Powell; James Baker in part) ["The Gulf Crisis: the Military Option"] [declassified Jul 2017]
Video 90 Nov 22 Th Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government] [film]
Text 90 Nov 22 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Confidence in Her Majesty's Government]
Text 04 Jun 5 Sa Press Key Commentary (The Times) Obituary: Reagan [Ronald] (1911-2004) [US President 1981-89]

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