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Info only 83 May 5 Th Chronology Major [Chronology] Local elections
Text 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Governor of the Bank of England) [interest rates - Governor arguing against reduction; agreed no reduction this week; risk of increase in building society mortgage rates] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("The Strategic and Commercial Importance of the South Atlantic and Antarctica") [MT "has commented that she does not find the arguments in [your] papers convincing"][declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("United States Airline Anti-Trust Investigation") [international arbitration] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Michael Foot letter to MT (prospects for the shipbuilding industry) [proposals for Govt intervention] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("British Telecom Purchase of Swedish Telecommunications Equipment") ["directly competitive with our own System X"; proposed handling] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Department of Trade minute for Coles ("British/Soviet Joint Commission") [declassified 2015]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Schloss Gymnich and the interim solution") [Howe proposes "pre-emptive strike" for UK Budget refund negotiations be launched at meeting of Foreign Ministers in advance of Stuttgart [European] Council] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Korea: No.10 letter to Pym PS ("Visit by Alan Walters to Korea") [invitation from Korean Development Institute to deliver lectures] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: Heseltine minute to MT (forces on Gibraltar) ["in view of the present strained Anglo-Spanish relations... we should not at present withdraw any of our forces"; MT approves] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 1246 to FCO (2329Z) ("Middle East: Shultz mission") [summary of Eagleburger briefing] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Hailsham, Biffen, Heseltine, Tebbit, Fowler) ["Review Bodies Reports 1983"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Monetary policy: Treasury briefing (“Provisional Monetary Aggregates: Banking April [1983]”) [released 2012]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: BMG Berlin to UKE Bonn (“May Visit to Hess”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: FCO letter to No.10 ("Grenada") [Commonwealth Secretary-General's circulated letter regarding supposed US aggression toward Grenada] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 15th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Budget, EC Affairs, Statement on the Defence Estimates 1983) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: USSR Ambassador to the UK, Popov letter to MT (text of Andropov speech on nuclear weapons and arms control) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Ingham minute to Gow (suggestion that MT appear on Radio Leicester) [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Shrimsley letter to David Cox of London Weekend Television (no televised debate with Foot) [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: President Kaunda of Zambia letter to MT (situation in South Africa and Southern Africa) [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 17, 1983 Series ("The National Health Service") [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT letter to John Evans MP (Victorian values) [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Adam Ridley letter to Prior (possible manifesto passage on Northern Ireland) [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Ian Gow minute to John Coles (“Solzhenitsyn”) [possible meeting with MT] [released 2017]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Secretary of State for Scotland minute to MT (inward investment promotion in the USA) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: strategy for substantive talks”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: strategy for substantive talks”) [revised draft presentation] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Franks Report”) [regrade drafts as Top Secret] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Whitelaw letter to Prior (“White Paper on the development of Cable systems and services”) [regulation] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Cabinet Office: Departmental running costs”) [improving efficiency] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 May 5 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
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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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