Go to: Speeches, etc. | Archive | Multimedia | Commentary | Chronology
| Date | Category | Type |
Value |
Author/Source | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Press |
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Key | Thatcher memoirs | Northern Ireland: The Brighton Bomb [memoirs extract] |
| 76 Oct 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Conservative Party | The Right Approach (Conservative policy statement) |
| 02 Feb 11 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Article for the New York Times ("Advice to a Superpower") |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Press |
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Key | Shultz (George) | Cold War: US bombing of Libya (Shultz memoirs) |
| 79 Apr 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Conservative Party | Conservative General Election Manifesto 1979 |
| 83 May 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Conservative Party | Conservative General Election Manifesto 1983 |
| 85 Feb 20 We | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Joint Houses of Congress |
| 85 Oct 11 Fr | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
| 82 Oct 8 Fr | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
| 87 Oct 9 Fr | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
| 90 Oct 12 Fr | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
| 79 May 15 Tu | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio] |
| 80 Nov 20 Th | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio] |
| 81 Nov 4 We | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio] |
| 82 Jun 15 Tu | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [Falkland Islands] (Argentinian surrender) [audio] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [US bombing of Libya] [audio] |
| 88 May 12 Th | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs [audio] |
| 88 Nov 22 Tu | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio] |
| 81 Jul 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Northern Ireland Office) | Northern Ireland: MT meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary (record of conversation) [authorises communication with PIRA over hunger strikes] [declassified 2009] |
| 81 Jul 18 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Northern Ireland Office) | Northern Ireland: MT meeting/phone exchange with Northern Ireland officials & Secretary of State (record of conversations) [decision not to take further initiative on hunger strikes] [declassified 2009] |
| 88 Sep 20 Tu | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to the College of Europe ("The Bruges Speech") [film] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for BBC (immediate reaction to Brighton Bomb) [film] |
| 84 Jan 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("First thoughts") ["I take a bleak view of the international scene"] [released 2014] |
| 84 Jul 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("Meeting with the Prime Minister 20 July" - UK foreign policy overview) [MT: "May I have a spare copy for the flat to ponder on from time to time"] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 14 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Peter Thorneycroft (thoughts at church) ["this is the day I was not meant to see"] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: MT speaking text (Conservative Conference speech) [post-Brighton Bomb] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Brighton Bomb: Reagan phone call to MT (sympathy and support) [audio] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jan 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Norman Tebbit to MT (thanks for her support during his recovery) [returning to cabinet] [released 2015] |
| 86 Apr 12 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to President Mitterrand (requests immediate decision on overflight request) [warns against "luke-warm support or no support at all from our closest allies"] [declassified 2005] |
| 85 Aug 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Management minutes (“Real Lives”) [Chairman clashes with Director-General; DG's statement revised] [released 2015] |
| 85 Aug 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Management minutes (“Real Lives”) [Milne: Real Lives "had to hit the air if this place is to run properly"] [released 2015] |
| 75 Nov 19 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S [Debate on the Address] |
| 76 Jan 19 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at Kensington Town Hall ("Britain Awake") (The Iron Lady) |
| 79 Mar 30 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Remarks on the murder of Airey Neave ("some devils got him") |
| 79 May 15 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [Debate on Address] |
| 79 Oct 12 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
| 80 Nov 10 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
| 80 Nov 20 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [Debate on the Address] |
| 81 Oct 16 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at Conservative Party Conference (plus address to overflow meeting) |
| 81 Nov 4 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [Debate on Address] |
| 81 Nov 16 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
| 82 Jun 15 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [Falkland Islands] |
| 82 Oct 8 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
| 83 May 31 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for BBC (immediate reaction to Brighton Bomb) [“The conference will go on, as usual”] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Interview for Woman’s Own (Brighton bomb) |
| 84 Dec 17 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for BBC (“I like Mr Gorbachev. We can do business together”) |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for Channel 4 A plus 4 (Brighton Bomb) [“it just occurred to me that this is the day I was not meant to see”] |
| 84 Nov 12 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
| 84 Nov 19 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference following Anglo-Irish Summit ("out ... out ... out") |
| 85 Feb 20 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Joint Houses of Congress |
| 85 Jul 15 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to American Bar Association ("we must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend") |
| 85 Oct 11 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
| 85 Nov 15 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Joint Press Conference with Irish Prime Minister (Dr Garret FitzGerald) |
| 85 Dec 4 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference after Luxembourg European Council |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [US bombing of Libya] |
| 86 Nov 10 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
| 86 Nov 15 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference after Camp David talks (nuclear weapons and arms control) |
| 87 Jun 4 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | General Election Press Conference (Health and Social Security) |
| 87 Oct 9 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
| 87 Nov 16 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
| 88 May 12 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 88 Sep 20 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to the College of Europe ("The Bruges Speech") |
| 88 Oct 14 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
| 88 Nov 14 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
| 88 Nov 22 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [Debate on the Address] |
| 89 Oct 13 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
| 90 Oct 12 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
| 90 Nov 12 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
| 72 Mar 24 Fr | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | Northern Ireland: Stormont suspended; direct rule began |
| 72 Jan 30 Su | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | "Bloody Sunday": British troops killed 13 in Londonderry |
| 74 May 15 We | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | Northern Ireland: Loyalist strike began; executive resigned (28 May) |
| 69 Aug 14 Th | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | Northern Ireland: troops deployed in Belfast |
| 79 Mar 30 Fr | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | Airey Neave murdered by INLA |
| 75 Nov 27 Th | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | Ross McWhirter murdered by IRA - MT given 24 hour police protection |
| 79 Aug 27 Mo | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | IRA murdered Mountbatten and 18 soldiers (Warrenpoint) |
| 81 Mar 1 Su | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | 2nd Republican hunger strike began (ended 3 Oct) |
| 85 Nov 15 Fr | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | Anglo-Irish Agreement signed at Hillsborough |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | Brighton bomb |
| 90 Aug 5 Su | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to the Aspen Institute ("Shaping a New Global Community") |
| 86 Apr 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT ("Response to Libyan terrorism") [seeks support for use of British based FB-111s to respond to Libyan attacks] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [reply to MT's points] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for her decision; targets] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for seeing Walters] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (UK hostages killed in Beirut) ["deeply grieved"; "direct Libyan role in their deaths"; French & Spanish "fully prepared to take more profound action to remove Qadhafi from power"] [declassified 2008] |
| 81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: White House record of conversation (MT-Reagan plenary) [East/West, Central America especially Belize; jellybeans] [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting at Camp David (record of conversation) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Sep 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Tokyo ("Massacre of Palestinians") ["it looks as though the [Israeli] government intend to brazen matters out"; reactions in Israel; UK position on responsibility for the massacre; MT statement; extracts from Report of Israeli Judicial Commisson of Inquiry (Feb 1983)] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 85 Jun 29 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference after Milan European Council |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, terrorism, Brighton bomb attack] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Vice-President George Bush) [terrorism, Middle East, Southern Africa, Strategic Defence Initiative] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jun 9 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [European Community, Libya, terrorism, NATO] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 May 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [Versailles Summit, EC mandate] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (Anglo/German Summit: lunch discussion) [international economic situation, arms control, trade, protectionism, relations with the US, terrorism] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (Anglo/German Summit: plenary session) [EC affairs, relations with the US, East/West, international terrorism, defence and arms control, environmental issues] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jun 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [East/West relations - “Mrs Thatcher’s general impression was that the US Government was rather at a loss as to how to proceed”; Middle East; Central America; Northern Ireland; trade issues; Laker case] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [Strategic Defence Initiative, civil aviation, US economy, Middle East, famine in Africa, UK-Irish relations] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 May 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [GATT Round, European Community Budget, CAP, EC/US, East/West relations] [declassified 2014] |
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