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Date range: 11 Feb 19753 May 1979. Document type: Declassified documents.

Showing items 1401 - 1431 of 1431.

PDF 79 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Canadian Embassy Rome telegram to Canadian Department of External Affairs (“Italian Elections - background & prospects”) [Andreotti Government 'Hari-Kiri'] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Hunt minute to MT ("EEC: Supervision of United Kingdom Policy") [background briefing on role of European Secretariat in the Cabinet Office] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (IEA MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (letter of thanks for Harris' review of Douglas Hurd's book) ["I passed it on to Margaret for use in her material"]
PDF 79 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Ryder letter to Hayek (MT thanks Hayek for his sending her a copy of Law, Legislation and Liberty , Volume 3)
PDF 79 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian Political Situation”) [elections scheduled for June] [declassified Dec 2009]
Text 79 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Key Conservative Party Conservative General Election Manifesto 1979
PDF 79 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Arthur Seldon letter to Hayek (notes on New Statesman , The Economist and The Spectator responses to IEA papers) ["Christopher Hitchens wanted to meet you..."]
PDF 79 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Ryder note to MT (Scottish Conservative Party Conference) [cancelled due to General Election; MT asks for it to be reinstated] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKHC Malta letter to FCO (“Malta’s foreign relations”) [talks with France, Italy] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: Richard Ryder note for MT (meeting with Douglas Hurd) [thoughts on running No.10] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: NSC memo for David Aaron ("Noon Notes") [UK electoral campaign and SALT] [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to HM Treasury (“Scandal at the Bank of Italy”) [account of events] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“Italo-Cuban relations”) [Italians have cultivated close relations with the Cubans] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Elections: Townson of Thames Television letter to Gordon Reece (proposed General Election TV debate between MT and Callaghan) ["it would be a historic piece of broadcasting"] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Apr 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKA Rome despatch to FCO (“Fourth and Fifth Andreotti Governments, March 1979 to March 1979”) [Communists pulled down government for internal reasons, PSI still 'mesmerised' by PCI, have "not yet lived up to the promise of their 1978 Congress in Turin"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO minute (“Fourth and Fifth Andreotti Governments, March 1979 to March 1979”) ["The DC/PCI arrangements failed fundamentally because Signor Andreotti never saw them as more than a stop-gap"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Bancroft minute to No.10 (machinery of government) [covering note for papers on possible merger of departments] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 May 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Chart of organisation of Prime Minister's Private Office (organisation of No.10) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 1 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT note to Todd, Derek Howe and Ryder (conditions for interviews) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Prime Minister/No.10: Stowe minute ("Notes for a New Prime Minister") [matters requiring PM's early attention after election] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Parsons record of conversation (Parsons-Martinez de Hoz: the Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 2 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: Richard Ryder note for MT (meeting with Ken Stowe) [handover of power] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 2 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transition to power: CRD note for MT (“European Election” - draft manifesto) [MT says give to “whoever is Foreign Secretary”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit by the Taoiseach: 10 May 1979") [Lynch would like to meet new PM] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hunt minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [initial advice to new PM] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Elections: Conservative Research Department letter to MT ("European Election") [note about draft manifesto] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to FCO ("Visit by the Taoiseach: 10 May 1979") [appropriate for new PM to offer Lynch a short courtesy call] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Summary of the General Post sent to No.10 (Beginning 3 May-12 May 1979) [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Elections: Minutes of meeting of Conservative Central Office (European Elections) [plans for campaign] [released 2010]
PDF 79 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: NSC memo for Brzezinski ("Additional Information Items") [MT election victory predicted; foreign policy consequences] [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 May 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2010]

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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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