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81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Ian Gow minute to MT (“Jim Spicer, M.P., M.E.P.”) [choice of replacement for Vice-Chairman] [released 2017]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Responses to ACARD reports") [Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development] [declassified Dec 2011]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Robert Armstrong and Robin Ibbs) [Chief Scientist & Under Secretary vacancies, CPRS] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Saudi Arabia: MT letter to Prince Abdullah (SANGMED project) [National Guard medical services/hospitals modernisation contract; MT privately notes disappointment at lack of media coverage for her role in securing the contract] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Call on Prime Minister Suzuki, Action on Lybian People's Bureau, Habib Mission to Middle East") [declassified 2016]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	National Health: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (Report of the Health Services Group of the Centre for Policy Studies) [note by officials on outstanding issues; copy of Report attached] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	USA: UKE Washington telegram 1406 to FCO (2102Z) ("State Department appointments") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Lord Carrington minute to MT ("Political Co-operation") [MT not persuaded by Carrington's case for the desirability and feasability of strengthening cooperation amongst the Ten on foreign policy matters] [released Dec 2014]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Walters MSS)	Economy: Alan Walters diary (exchange rate) [Emmanuel Kaye wants a 1931-style devaluation] [released 2012]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (weekly report on market conditions) [declassified 2012]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Canadian PM)	Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“The Constitution - the London Perspective”) [Trudeau: “I would still plan for July 1st … early August is less than ideal”] [declassified 2013]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: Sherman letter to Gow ( Sunday Times article contain remarks from a supposed member of the CPS) ["The assertion were a malicious invention"] [released 2012]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: UKE Bonn to FCO ("Northern Ireland: Death of Sands") [reporting on Sands' death and situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 1409 to FCO (2200Z) ("Northern Ireland Hunger Strike") [message of Four Horsemen to MT] [declassified 2011]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Employment: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Prior ("Employment and Training Bill - Enterprise Zones") [industrial training boards] [declassified 2011]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Employment: Derek Rayner minute to MT ("Marks and Spencer and the Youth Opportunitues Programme") [problems with the youth training programme] [declassified 2011]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: No.10 letter to Lord President's Office ("Civil Service Dispute") [MT "remains of the view that arbitration in 1982 would cause the greatest difficulties for the Government"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: John Vereker minute to MT ("Civil Service Industrial Dispute: 6 May") ["Civil Service industrial action has become a little, although not dramatically, intensified today"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Atkins minute to MT ("Northern Ireland Electricity Tariffs") [declassified 2011]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Labour Party: MT letter to William McKelvey MP (closure of Armitage Shanks factory in Kilmarnock) [declassified 2011]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: MT letter to Foot (publication of the Security Commission's report into case of J.B. Wagstaff) [declassified 2011]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1981: Guidelines (C(81) 20)") [declassified 2011]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economy: Lankester minute to MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor: 0930 on Thursday 7 May") [brief for meeting: public expenditure, macro-economic discussion in Cabinet] [declassified 2011]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Privatisation: Lawson minute to MT ("BGC: Disposal of Oil Assets") [declassified 2011]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Rayner minute to MT ("Marks and Spencer and the Youth Opportunities Programme") [Manpower Services Commission] [declassified 2011]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Note for Wednesday meeting (weekly report on market conditions, official activity and rates in the gilt-market) [declassified 2011]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	India: FCO letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to India”) [invitation to Indira Gandhi to visit UK] [declassified 2012]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Edwards letter to MT (“Inward Investment Missions”) [report on visits to Japan and USA] [declassified 2012]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Pay of Ministers and Junior Ministers in the House of Lords”) [declassified 2012]
81 May 6 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2012]
81 May 6 We	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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