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81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Ian Gow minute to Bernard Ingham (Asian media) [suggestion that MT appear on TV show] [released 2017]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Department of Industry letter to No.10 (the use of accountants in Government service) [briefing note for MT] [declassified Dec 2011]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Meeting With the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Costa Rica Breaks Relations With Cuba") [declassified 2016]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Sri Lanka: President Jayewardene letter to MT (Aid Group Meeting in Tokyo) [overview of progress on Sri Lankan economic development; request for ongoing UK support] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Transport: Leon Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("British Rail: background briefing") [reply to MT request to see briefing prepared for Brittan constituency meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Walters MSS)	Economy: Alan Walters diary (election strategy, bduget) [election strategy meeting; Massey Ferguson boss congratulates Walters on budget] [released 2012]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Press Office: Ingham minute to MT ("Nationwide") [arrangements and topics for BBC interview] [released 2012]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Alexander-Dermot Nally) [situation in Northern Ireland following death of Sands] [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Alexander (John Hume to ask for concenssions from HMG for prisoners) [hunger strike at HMG Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT (developments in Northern Ireland following Sands' death and funeral) [hunger strike at HMG Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Marie Howe, Massachusetts state representative, letter to MT (death of Bobby Sands) ["We have now lost two brave Irishmen in your notorious Long Kesh concentration camp. In the name of God grant them their five demands!"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Local Authority Expenditure: Reform of Rates: Accounts Commission (E(81) 53 and 54)") [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Local Authority Expenditure - 1981-82 (E(81) 52 and 56)") [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Pym letter to MT (local government finance) ["I want to voice my disquiet about the way in which it is proposed we should handle the two items on local government finance"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Employment: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Unemployment and Young People") [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Middle East: FCO letter to No.10 ("Arab/Israel Dispute") [Carrington to begin discussion with the PLO] [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("NCB Finances (E(81) 57 and E(81) 58)") [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Hoskyns minute to MT ("NCB: E Discussion Tomorrow") [strengthening the Government's negotiating position with miners' unions: "It's just like the nuclear deterrent: we cannot afford to look like unilateral disarmers"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Ibbs minute to Lankester ("NCB Finances") ["The worst possible situation would be to take on the NUM and be seen to lose again"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Howell minute to MT ("Legislative Programme 1981-82") [argues that Gas (Industrial and Commercial Supplies) Bill should be included in programme] [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: UKE Paris to FCO ("French Presidential Election") [election of Mitterrand: reaction of defeated parties] [declassified 2012]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social Security: Rickett minute to MT ("Arrangements for Paying Social Security Benefits") [report of Jenkin's statement to the House of Commons on new arrangements] [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industry: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Pennock and Beckett of the CBI-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Green Paper on trade union legislation, pay negotiations, skill and material shortages, oil, nationalised industries, Government spending] [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Molyneaux letter to MT (mortar attacks on security force bases in Northern Ireland) [mortars may have been made, "practice-fired and tested at bases" in the Republic of Ireland] [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKA Rome despatch to FCO (“Note of conversation with President Pertini on Tuesday, 12 May”) [Mitterrand visit, constitutional problems] [released Dec 2015]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary Policy: Walters minute to Middleton (“Notes on Monetary Control - the Next Steps”) [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Iraq: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kurt Waldheim) [extract on Iran-Iraq] [declassified 2012]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	India: Biffen PS briefing to No.10 (“Call by Mr G.D. Birla”) [declassified 2012]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Rates: Rifkind minute to MT (Scottish Conservative Conference debate on domestic rates) [“rates are… becoming an explosive political issue”] [declassified 2012]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Rates: Cabinet Office briefing to MT (“Local authority expenditure: reform of rates: accounts commission (E(81) 53 and 54”) [declassified 2012]
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	United Nations: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, Kurt Waldheim, Perez de Cuellar) [Northern Ireland, E/W, Afghanistan, Iraq/Iran, Lebanon, Cambodia, Namibia, Middle East, South Lebanon, Cyprus] [declassified 2012]
81 May 12 Tu	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Major	Margaret Thatcher	Joint Press Conference with West German Chancellor (Helmut Schmidt)
81 May 12 Tu	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Major	Margaret Thatcher	House of Commons PQs
81 May 12 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2012]
81 May 12 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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