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Text 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Nott minute to MT (“A Review of NATO”) [objectives] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Mexico: Special Emissary, Talks with Italian Foreign Minister, Japanese Ambassador Okawara's Call") [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mauritius: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ramgoolam, Luce, Ringadoo, Harold Walker & others) [Communist domestic political opposition; sugar trade; UK aid loan; Diego Garcia] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cold War: MT letter to John Eades (Yuri Orlov) [British members of CERN Council will raise Orlov's case] [declassified Feb 2016]
Text 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Niehans seminar - none disagreed with analysis] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer draft cabinet paper ("1981 Public Expenditure Survey") [move to cash planning] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Walters, Hoskyns & Wolfson minute to MT ("Budget Strategy") [danger of Treasury 'underkill'] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("VAT on Imports") [strongly opposes] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Italy/US: White House record of conversation (Reagan-Foreign Minister Colombo) [expressions of mutual regard; TNF; Italy as a "difficult democracy"] [declassified 2006]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Middleton minute for Chancellor (interest rates & the exchange rate) [difficulty of bringing exchange rate into the reckoning] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Defence and Oversea Policy Committee - OD(81) 2nd (Poland, Belize, Tornado Export Sales) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UK Ambassador to Buenos Aires letter to Fearn ("The Beagle Channel") [Galtieri's views on Argentine dispute with Chile] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT message to the Conservative Group For Europe's Annual Conference [released 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Lankester minute to Walters ("Georgetown University Speech") [Walters' draft for MT's speech and comments] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lord Brookeborough-Lord Moyola-Atkins) [situation in Northern Ireland, Ian Paisley] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Dail P Q's on Possible Defence Pact") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: David Ginsburg MP letter to MT (patriation of the Canadian Constitution) [BBC French service is not beamed to Canada; should be used to explain HMG's position to Canadians] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Canadian High Commissioner to the UK, Jean Wadds letter to MT (patriation of the Canadian Constitution) [Province of Manitoba Court of Appeal finds Canadian government's proposals constitutional] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Lord President's Office letter to No.10 ("Civil Service Numbers: 1 January 1981") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("The Effect of Rising Unemployment on Civil Service Manpower") [plans to downsize Civil Service "are now in real danger of being blown off course by the prospective further rises in unemployment"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Armstrong minute to Lankester ("Salaries of Nationalised Industry Board Members") [comments on Soames' proposals] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Steel: Lankester minute to MT (report on phone call from Derek Norton of Hadfields steel) ["He said that Hadfields were being crucified by unfair competition from BSC"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands/EC: Armstrong minute to MT ("Community Affairs") [MT to feed back on meeting with Prime Minister Van Agt of the Netherlands] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: Leader of Merseyside County Council, Neville Goldrein, letter to MT (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [requests meeting with MT] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: Robert Parry MP letter to MT (closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [again requests meeting with MT] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Pym letter to Heseltine (Heseltine proposes general enabling legislation on privatisation) [Pym opposes: complicated, controversial, and it "would create a highly undesirable precedent for future Administrations of different persuasions from our own"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: FCO to UKE Warsaw ("Poland") [call by Polish Ambassador on FCO: "He said that [Polish Foreign Minister] Czyrek believed that Poland had now entered the stage of anarchisation"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Labour Party: David Watkins MP letter to MT (request for meeting to discuss closure of Consett Steel Works and other closures) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 6th (MPs' Pay and Pensions, Social Security, Canada, Zimbabwe, Poland, Iran, EC) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Bank of England draft announcement (decision to reduce the Minimum Lending Rate) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: HMT minute to Peretz and Lawson ("Intervention in January 1981") [Bank of England's intervention tactics] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Mitchell minute to Lawson ("Intervention in January 1981") [monthly report on Bank of England's intervention tactics] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Defence: Lord Zuckerman letter to MT (neutron bombs) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Nott minute to MT ("Defence Sales") [strategy for increasing defence exports] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Whitmore minute to MT ("Defence Sales") [Nott's minute on strategy for increasing defence exports] [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Economy: Hoskyns diary (Niehans seminar on sterling)
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Money Markets Weekly Report (report from Money Markets Division on a week of market activity) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Money Market Operations siince November 24 1980 (report from Money Markets Division on a difficult day in the market) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Walker letter to Carrington (“Exports of flour to the USSR”) [US embargo] [declassified 2012]
Text 81 Feb 12 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
Text 81 Feb 12 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech at dinner for Prime Minister of Mauritius (Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam)
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th 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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