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79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Bernard Ingham minute to Tim Lankester ("TV Licence, etc.") [possibility of advertising on the BBC] [declassified Dec 2014]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Monetary Prospect”) [October monetary figures “worse than disappointing”] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary policy: Note for the Record (MT meeting with Chancellor - record of conversation) [possible MLR increase] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Cabinet Office letter to Treasury ("Public Expenditure to 1983-84") {MT wants Chief Secretary to circulate bilateral results to Cabinet] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Cabinet Office letter to Treasury ("Public Expenditure White Paper") [MT wants less precise figures for later years] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [economic assumptions & forecasts] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Howell minute to MT ("BP/BNOC Negotiations") [agreement in principle] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [economic strategy and forecasts] [declassified 2010]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prior) ["Hunterston"] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Iran: UKE Washington telegram 3551 to FCO (2325Z) ("Tehran Embassies") [US response to embassy invasion; handing back of British embassy] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial policy: Department of Industry letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Talk with Sir Kenneth Keith on Tuesday 6 November 1979") [briefing note] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Defence and Oversea Policy Committee - OD(79) 12th (Rhodesia, Export Credits for South Africa, Northern Ireland, Reductions in BBC External Services) [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Indonesia: FCO letter to No.10 ("State Visit by President Suharto: Call on the Prime Minister by the Indonesian Ambassador") [briefs for MT's meeting with the Ambassador] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Situation in Iran") [occupation of the US Embassy, rumour of attack on British Embassy] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: MT letter to Paisley (proposal of meeting between MT, Paisley, Molyneaux and Fitt) [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	No.10: Summary of the General Post sent to No.10 (Week Beginning 5 November 1979) [released 2010]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Poland: MT letter to Prime Minister Jaroszewicz of Poland (Anglo-Polish relations) [responds to Jaroszewicz's letter; Blaker to visit Poland for talks] [released 2010]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Proceedings of the Lancaster House Constitutional Conference - CC(79) 58 (Twenty-Sixth Plenary Session) [declassified 2010]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (HM Treasury)	Economic policy: Rawlinson minute to Howe ("Meeting with the Prime Minister: Form of Public Expenditure White Paper") [addendum to brief for meeting] [declassified 2013]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [proposed cuts] [declassified 2011]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [possibilities for avoiding proposed cuts] [declassified 2011]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [FCO support for BBC Capital Expenditure Programme] [declassified 2011]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Lobby Briefing (BBC External Services, immigration, Northern Ireland, gas prices) [no retreat on BBC cuts - “the disposition of the Government was not to revise its decisions”] [released 2010]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Bulletin (Premier Hua’s visit) [PM invited to China] [released 2010]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary Policy: Laidler letter to Pepper (MBC) [declassified 2010]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Treasury ministers & Governor of the Bank of England) ["Money Supply Figures"] [declassified 2010]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: No.10 minute to Leo Pliatzky (Manpower Services Commission) [review of non-departmental public bodies] [declassified 2010]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: No.10 minute to MT (“Reform of the House of Lords”) [arguments for how to proceed] [declassified 2012]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Scotland: No.10 letter to Scottish Office (Dr. W. G. Jack complaint against Scottish Milk Marketing Board) [MT: “our offices have made a thorough mess of things”] [declassified 2012]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: Nott minute to MT (British-Soviet Joint Commission) [Cecil Parkinson report on trade visit] [declassified 2012]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: Peter Walker letter to Treasury (EC Budget forecasts) [favours assumption of 1&#37 VAT] [declassified 2010]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Alexander note to MT (signs of strain within the Patriotic Front delegation to the Constitutional Conference) [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: President Shagari of Nigeria letter to MT (preparations for elections and ceasefire arrangements) [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2010]

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