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81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Religion: Ian Gow minute to MT (“Dinner to Commemorate 220th Anniversary of the Board of Deputies of British Jews”) [MT should be there on her own rather than with other party leaders] [released 2017]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Local government: Ian Gow minute to Robyn Maxwell-Hyslop (“Rates and Rate Support Grant”) [fear that disaster is approaching] [released 2017]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Spain: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Change of Spanish Prime Minister") ["at least a week's delay... Suárez' removal, even if it proves temporary, has undoubtedly precipitated a major crisis... in the stability of Spain's still fragile institutions"] [declassified Jul 2016]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Economic summit: Aid study") [MT approves paper for circulation] [declassified Dec 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Committee of London Clearing Bankers) [MT concerns about lending & debt; "short-term prospects for industry, recent monetary developments, monetary control... windfall tax proposal" & Sir Jeremy Morse paper presenting "The Arguments Against a Special Tax on Bank Profits"] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: Director of Central Statistical Office minute to Departmental Heads of Statistics Divisions ("Sir Derek Rayner's Review of Government Statistical Services") [preparation of progress report on response to Rayner recommendations & follow-up] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: Director of Central Statistical Office letter to Home Office ("Sir Derek Rayner's Review of Government Statistical Services") [response to, and implemetation of, Rayner Report recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Korean President's Visit, Polish Contingency Planning and Allied Consultations, Soviet Grain Embargo, Meeting with Reverend Jesse Jackson, Justice Clark") [declassified 2016]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Egypt: MT letter to Chairman of British Wastewater Limited (Cairo Wastewater Project) [congratulates Lord Selsdon on securing contract, and confirms UK government aid] [released Jul 2018]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Egypt: MT message to President Sadat (death of Egyptian Defence Minister) (1245Z) [commiserations following General Badawi's death, and that of 13 other military commanders, in helicopter crash] [released Jul 2018]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Treasury minute (ministerial meeting) ["Monetary Target & Monetary Control"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary policy: Lawson minute for Chancellor ("Minimum Lending Rate") [cut before budget "a very risky course indeed"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Monetary policy: Lawson minute for Chancellor ("The Money Supply Target") [separate monetary & fiscal targets perhaps better than £M3] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Middleton minute for Chancellor ("Minimum Lending Rate") ["very risky" to cut before budget] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Ryrie minute for Chancellor ("Minimum Lending Rate") [exchange rate should be an influence whatever the public stance] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Canadian PM)	Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“Strategic Questions Relating to the Constitution”) [short-term stance/image & summary of work being done by officials] [declassified 2013]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO to UKE Buenos Aires ("Overflight") [message to Argentine Foreign Ministry expressing concern over Argentine military overflight of South Georgia] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	US: Reagan letter to MT (congratulations on MT's speech to the Pilgrim's Dinner) [concern for "democracy and liberty" is "the essence of the special relationship"] [released 2012]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT letter to the Reverend Norman White (Ellesborough Church, Buckinghamshire) [thanks for Christmas card; "I derive much comfort from worshipping in Ellesborough Church"] [released 2012]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT letter to William Montagu (EC's proposed ban on the use of certain substances in domestic animals) ["I hope that you...will continue to keep up pressure directly on MAFF"] [released 2012]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: MT letter to Ron Brown MP (response to Brown's letter) ["I have no intention of inviting Mr. Babrak Karmal to London"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Canada: FCO record of conversation (Carrington-Pym-Nick Ridley) [patriation of the Canadian constitution] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Edwards minute to MT ("Coal") [Edwards "perturbed" that unions will receive details of pit closures before the Government] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Howell minute to MT (nationalised industry financing) [comments on Chancellor of the Exchequer's paper] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Steel: Armstrong briefing for MT ("British Steel Corporation: Corporate Plan (E(81) 11, 13 and 14)") [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Steel: Hoskyns minute to MT ("BSC: Thinking the Unthinkable") [need for 'real decisions' on future of British Steel Corporation] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Steel: Ibbs minute to Lankester ("British Steel Corporation") [deciding on closures] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industry: A.J. Stocks, Chief Executive of Liverpool City Council letter to MT (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [requests that MT meets a delegation of representatives] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industry: W. H. Easton, Clerk and Treasurer of Maghull Town Council letter to MT ("Announced Closure of the Tate & Lyle sugar Refinery, Liverpool") [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industry: MT letter to Earl Jellicoe (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) ["I share your regret that this has become necessary and that as a result employment prospects will have become even more difficult in Liverpool"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Nott minute to MT ("Trident: Public Attitudes") ["we are losing the defence/deterrence argument at present"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Polish Situation") ["The measure of agreement reached between the Government and Solidarity is much more a victory for the latter than the former"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Jim Spicer MP letter to Gow ("Maritime Defence - The Cape Route") [request for meeting with MT] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: FCO minute to No.10 (“Proposed Visits to UK by Australian Ministers”) [declassified 2014]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (HM Treasury)	Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Rees-Cockfield-officials) ["Direct Personal Taxation"] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (HM Treasury)	Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Rees-Cockfield-officials) [indirect taxation] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Pay: Hailsham minute to MT ("Top Salaries Review Body: Senior Public Servants") [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industry: HMT letter to No.10 (NEDC meeting: TUC likely to attack Government policies) [dealing with the TUC] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Taxation: Baker minute to MT ("Future of International Computers Limited") [computerisation of PAYE] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Pay: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Scott Report") [index-linked pensions] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industry: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Pennock and Beckett of the CBI) [CBI's medium term strategy for industry, TUC's strategy for recovery, CBI budget representations, CBI trends survey, Labour EEC policy, nationalised industries] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (the special relationship) [declassified 1997]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Education: Conservative Research Department (“The Education Bill 1981 (Special Educational Needs) brief for the second reading on Monday February 2nd”) [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	India: Department of Trade briefing to No.10 (“Meeting with Dr. Chanana, Indian Minister of State for Industry”) [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	India: Department of Industry letter to No.10 (draft reply from the Prime Minister to the letter of 23rd January 1981 from Sir John Buckley) [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	USA: President Reagan letter to MT (MT speech to the Pilgrims’ Dinner) [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Major	Margaret Thatcher	TV Interview for Dutch TV (Channel Nos Panoramiek)
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2011]

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