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Text 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Duggan minute to Harding ("Argentine Threat to the Falkland Islands: draft JIC Assessment") [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (weekly report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Lankester minute for MT (arrangements for meeting tomorrow) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor) [MLR increase debated, not agreed; urgent need to find new methods of controlling credit creation] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: Gordon Reece minute for Richard Ryder (recommends PM go on tv) [“Nothing happened”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC (79) 20th (Rhodesia, EC, Public Spending, News Presentation, etc) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economy: Armstrong letter to Lankester (presentation of public expenditure figures in later years) [no point in a meeting just now] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howell minute to MT ("BNOC") [proposals for the future of BNOC] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Welsh Office letter to Department of Industry (closure of Shotton steelworks) [speaking notes for House of Commons statement] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Joseph ("Nationalised Industries' External Financing Limits") [Howe's correspondence with Francis Tombs] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iran: FCO letter to No.10 ("Iran") [update on situation at UK and US embassies in Tehran] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 note of telephone conversation (Sanders-Paisley) [Paisley refuses to meet MT with Molyneaux and Fitt] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3623 to FCO (2346Z) ("Arms for RUC") [suggested next steps and pressuring the US Government] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Gow minute to MT ("E.E.C. Budget Contribution") [Early Day Motion in support of MT's position on EEC Budget] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Zimbabwe: MT letter to King Hassan of Morocco ("Rhodesia") [update on progress of negotiations] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Costa Rica: MT letter to President Carazo Odio of Costa Rica (establishment of University for Peace) [MT supports peace initiative] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 minute for MT (letter of complaint from Stock Exchange chairman) [MT: “Alas - I shall have to [reply]”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Accounts Commission for Local Government") [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor) [Chancellor’s copy, as circulated in HMT] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Howe note to Private Secretary (further thoughts on last night’s meeting with Governor) [declassified 2013]
PDF 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]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Economic policy: Lawson minute to Biffen ("Public Expenditure 1981-82 - 1983-84: C(79)54") [bad outcome to spending round] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Economic policy: Bailey minute to Lawson ("Public Expenditure - Later Years") [rebuttal] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Economic policy: Rawlinson minute to Howe ("Public Expenditure Proposals for 1981-82 to 1982-83") [further cuts needed to achieve tax & interest rate objectives] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Bridgeman minute to Howe ("Monetary Policy") ["rapid first draft" paper for MT] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (HM Treasury) Monetary policy: Note to Chancellor ("Pepper again") [rumour that MT had been holding down MLR; critical of Bank of England] [declassified 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: BBC Chairman Michael Swann letter to MT (thanks for meeting) [apologises for leak about meeting, ITV pay rise, cuts to BBC External Services, Pete Murray and BBC objectivity] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Pattison minute to MT (follow-up to MT's meeting with BBC Chairman Michael Swann) [BBC Panorama story on IRA at Carrickmore; cuts to BBC External Services] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Treasury note for record (Beverly on Chancellor of the Exchequer’s meeting with PM) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: McMahon note for Governors of the Bank of England (on meeting with PM) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Rhodesia Bill, gas prices, Rolls-Royce, Chinese dissidents’ letter) [released 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Bulletin (Giscard visit) [programme, participants] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Allan note of Financial Secretary meeting (Euromarket controls) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England note for the record (Balfour) [G4 discussions of monetary policy] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Treasury note (Hall for Chancellor of the Exchequer etc.) [PM on the levers not working] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Monetary Review Committee Nov Financial Report [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(79) 20th (Public Expenditure, Nationalised Industries, Rolls-Royce, News Presentation, etc) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Younger PS letter to No.10 (Massey Ferguson) [closure of Kilmarnock factory] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Scotland: MT letter to Dr. W. G. Jack (complaint against Scottish Milk Marketing Board) [MT apologises for handling of complaint] [declassified 2012]
Text 79 Nov 8 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Kaunda of Zambia) ["President Kaunda's Visit"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 8 Th 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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