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Date: 18 May 1981.

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81 May 18 Mo	Chronology	Major	[Chronology]	Keith Speed dismissed as Navy Minister
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Rayner minute to MT ("1980 Departmental scrutiny of running costs: results of further analysis") [declassified Dec 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 (future of economic summits) [draft paper for agreement by Personal Representatives in advance of Ottawa G7 summit] [declassified Dec 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Carrington PS minute to Mike Pattison ("Australian High Commissioner's call on the Prime Minister on 19 May") [brief on Poland, EC-Australia, defence, Commonwealth] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: MT message for Turkish Prime Minister (centenary of the birth of Ataturk) [declassified July 2016]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Germany: John Cope minute to Gow (Cope's talks with Helmut Kohl) ["Kohl said very strongly to me that he thought that there should be Party to Party contact as well as Government to Government"] [released 2012]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Scotland: MT letter to Lord Elgin (opening of the Assembly of the Church of Scotland) [thanks for visit to Holyrood House] [released 2012]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("ECHR") [hunger strike at HMP Maze and the European Commission of Human Rights] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Atkins-Armstrong-Marshall) ["Maze Protestors and the European Human Rights Commission"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Local Government Expenditure 1981-82: Scotland (E(81) 55)") [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Accounts Commission for Local Authority Audit: PAC Aspects (E(81) 59)") [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Local Government Expenditure (E(81) 55, 56, 59 and 60)") [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Middle East: Department of Industry letter to No.10 ("Arabsat") [BAE bid for construction of Arabsat; hopes of success not high] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Canada: FCO to UK High Commission Ottawa (patriation of the Canadian Constitution) ["Our fears that Mr Pym's message might get garbled appear to have been realised"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Civil Service Dispute") ["The Civil Service dispute...presents Government with an opportunity as well as a problem"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Independent Inquiry into Civil Service Pay") [terms of reference and composition] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Whitmore minute to MT ("Civil Service Dispute") [Soames talks to Whitmore on tactics for dealing with Civil Service strike, and details of longer term inquiry] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Rayner minute to MT ("1980 Scrutiny of Departmental Running Costs: Results of Further Analysis") [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Ibbs minute to Lankester ("NCB Finances") [plan for "regaining some of the initiative" from the NUM] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industry: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Stephen Ross MP-Kenneth Baker) [closure of Elliott Turbomachinery Ltd., Cowes, Isle of Wight] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("BBC External Services") ["I have grave doubts about the wisdom of the approach [Carrington] advocates"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Defence: First Sea Lord minute to MT ("The Defence Programme") ["I am confident that you will at least spare two minutes to read this note...before you and your Cabinet colleagues consider a proposition to substantially dismantle the Navy"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Carrington-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Joseph-Nott-Armstrong) ["Defence Programme"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Ingham note for the record (MT-Keith Speed MP) [Keith Speed sacked as PUSS for the Royal Navy] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Privatisation: MT letter to Prime Minister George Chambers of Trinidad and Tobago (privatisation of Cable and Wireless) [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Brittan minute to MT ("Cost of Balham Job Centre") [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: Biffen PS letter to No.10 (UK/Soviet Joint Commission meeting) [resumption of trade relations] [declassified 2012]
81 May 18 Mo	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Minor	Margaret Thatcher	Speech opening Automan ’81
81 May 18 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2012]
81 May 18 Mo	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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