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Text 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Nott) [“Future Defence Policy”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Douglas Wass, Sir Ian Bancroft, Sir Derek Rayner, David Wolfson) ["Internal audit and financial control"] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("British/Saudi relations: Goose Pimples") [satirical play: managing risk to UK/Saudi relations; postmortem of Prince Abdulaziz bin Faisal] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Soviet Communication on Lebanon, International Airline Service Difficulties, Ceausescu on Relations with the Soviets and Third World") [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Peru: Manuel Ulloa Elias message to MT (visit to London) ["a wonderful opportunity to reinforce the traditional ties our countries have had"] [declassified Jan 2014]
Text 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [day’s engagements][released 2012]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UK Ambassador to Buenos Aires letter to Fearn ("Falkland Islands Dispute") [stresses importance of leaseback plan and laments intransigence of Islanders: "If I go to the Islands I can at least wake councillors up by making their flesh creep with expert advice about potential Argentine frightfulness"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Bob Cryer MP (MT responds to a forwarded letter from young constituent) ["I can quite understand her disappointment at school swimming lessons being stopped. But I am sure Hannah will understand that we cannot always afford all the things we should like to have"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [Taoiseach Haughey's statement on Sands' death] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 1395 to FCO (2100Z) ("Northern Ireland Hunger Strike") [Ted Kennedy's statement on Sands' death] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Governor Carey of New York message to Carrington (Bobby Sands' hunger strike) ["I appeal to you to use your stature and influence in the Cabinet to halt this widening tragedy"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Prior letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Employment and Training Bill - Enterprise Zones") [industrial training boards] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: UKE Rome to FCO ("Secretary of State's Meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister") [patriation of the Canadian Constitution: Carrington meets with Mark MacGuigan] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Duguid minute to Lankester ("Civil Service Pay") [terms of reference for longer-term inquiry into Civil Service pay] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Department of Transport letter to No.10 (engineers on strike at DVLC at Swansea) [MT: "We can't stand idly by for much longer"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 letter to Lord President's Office (accelerated promotion and premature retirement of Civil Servants) [MT's views on correspondence between colleagues] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("White Paper: Efficiency in the Civil Service") [first draft] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Robert Clark, Chairman of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration) [Doctors' and Dentists' Pay] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Cabinet Discussions of Macro-Economic Policy") [Hoskyns supports more Cabinet discussion of macro-economic policy] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Belize: Governor Belmopan to FCO ("Talks in Belize") [report on "gruelling" talks between Ridley and Price] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: MT letter to Prime Minister Muldoon of New Zealand (EC access for New Zealand butter) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: No.10 letter to Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ("Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy") [MT's comments on Walker's paper for OD] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationality: Whitelaw minute to MT ("British Nationality Bill: New Clause on Non-Discrimination") [response to clause tabled by the Opposition] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Walker letter to Carrington (“Sales of food to the USSR”) [reaction to lifting of US embargo] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“United Nations Secretary-Generalship”) [case for supporting incumbent] [declassified 2012]
Text 81 May 5 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
Text 81 May 5 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Speech launching Business Opportunities Programme (Small Businesses)
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2012]
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