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Date: 5 Apr 1982.

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PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) East Asia: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to the Far East") [arrangements for trip] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“White Paper on Northern Ireland: Irish Government Statement”) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Pattison minute (Prior’s devolution bill) [reception to his Commons statement] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hopkins letter to Coles (Security Co-ordinator stepped down) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Kenneth Baker letter to Brittan (GEC sale of turbines to South Africa: Biffen’s proposal) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Weekly Economic Brief”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to Whitelaw ("Management of Local Authority Higher Education") ["I am proposing to defer activation of the long-term policy... until some assessment of the effectiveness of the... [National Advisory Board]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Whitelaw letter to Baroness Young ("Commencement of Statutes") [procedure] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Biffen briefing for MT ("British Airways: Price Waterhouse report") ["I thought it would be helpful to let you have a few preliminary points in advance of our discussion with Sir John King on 8 April"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Memorials: MT letter to Mrs Zoe Polanska-Palmer (Yalta Victims Memorial) [unveiling ceremony] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Ridley minute to King (“Local Government Finance (No 2) Bill”) [C&AG access to local authority papers] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Department of Employment letter to No.10 ("Wages Councils") [possible consequences of breach of International Labour Convention] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Dr. David Clark (generating new economic activity in South Shields) [follow-up to meeting on 4th March about redundancies in South Shields] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Lawson letter to Brittan (“BGC Consultancy Study”) [British Gas organisation & efficiency] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions including US report) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Fall minute to Weston ("Falkland Islands") [your minute on political costs of retaking the islands "not shown to the Prime Minister before events moved on"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: GCHQ notes of meeting ("Falkland Islands - Cover & Reporting") [GCHQ staffing (including Argentine diplomatic communications); Accommodation; Cover; SIGINT alert status; AOB] [declassified May 2023]

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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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