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79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Contingency planning: use of volunteers and Central Press Unit") [papers by Whitelaw & Angus Maude respectively] [declassified Dec 2011]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Rights of entry to business premises") [review of Inspectorates commissioned in response to recent publication by National Federation of Self Employed and Small Businesses; Howe concerned that Treasury scrutiny of Customs & Excise/Inland Revenue powers will be conflated with the wider review] [declassified Dec 2011]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Trade Unions: Lankester letter to Prior's PS (responding to Lords' ruling on MacShane) [PM favours broader statement] [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Lankester minute to MT ("Meeting With Mr. Geoffrey Chandler") [meeting with NEDO director general] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Howell note ("Implications of Changes in the World Oil Market") [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Miners' Pay") [coal] [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Coal Pay Negotiations") [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Defence and Oversea Policy Committee - OD(79) 13th (Rhodesia, Bingham Report, Future UK Defence Policy) [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Situation in Iran") [voting on draft constitution] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social Services: Prior minute to MT ("Strikers and Supplementary Benefit") [warning about possible Trade Union response] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Elections: Ryder minute to MT ("The Boundary Commission") [state of play] [released 2010]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	No.10: Summary of the General Post sent to No.10 (Week Beginning 3 December 1979) [released 2010]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Soviet Union: MT letter to Brezhnev (nuclear weapons) ["there is a growing disparity in long range theatre nuclear capabilities, which adds to the existing imbalance in conventional forces"] [released 2010]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Trivial	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: Membership list for House of Commons club [released 2010]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT-GLC Leader Horace Cutler) [GLC Budget strategy] [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Carter Library)	EC: NSC memo for Brzezinksi ("Evening Report") [MT to visit US; EC Budget negotiations] [declassified 2008]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Carter Library)	Middle East: Brzezinksi minute to Carter ("Daily Report") ["Thatcher Government - Middle East views"] [declassified 2005]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (milk prices) ["strength of feeling" building up "as a result of our decision not to increase milk prices in October"] [declassified 2011]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Pym minute to MT ("Long Range Theatre Nuclear Force Modernisation") [attitudes within NATO, UK-based missiles] [declassified 2011]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Dublin European Council, sick pay, alcohol taxes, civil service manpower cuts) [UK contribution to European Budget “our own money”] [released 2010]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Terrorism: MoD minute to No.10 (“Exercise ‘Smoked Salmon’”) [“exercises designed to test counter-terrorist contingency arrangements for use in any incident involving off-shore oil or gas installations”] [released Dec 2014]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Netherlands: UKE The Hague to FCO (“Visit of The Netherlands Prime Minister: 6 December”) [Netherlands political scene, TNF modernisation, socio-economic policies - possible fall of government] [declassified 2014]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“Third London Airport”) [development of Stansted] [declassified 2014]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Pym minute to MT (“The strategic deterrent”) [Polaris successor: “Trident is clearly the best buy”] [declassified 2013]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	China: Carrington PS letter to Pym PS (“Defence sales to China: Cymbeline radar”) [notification to COCOM] [declassified 2013]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Major	Margaret Thatcher	House of Commons Statement: [Dublin European Council]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("The PM's meeting with the Commonwealth Secretary-General: Rhodesia") [briefing for] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("The Prime Minister's Meeting with the Commonwealth Secretary-General: Rhodesia") [advice for forthcoming meeting] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia: Message to New Zealand Prime Minister") [appreciation for support] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia: Message to New Zealand Prime Minister") [MT advised to send letter of thanks to Muldoon] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 3 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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