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Category | Type | Value | Author/Source | Title |
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| 79 Dec 17 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference for the international press |
| 79 Dec 18 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to the Foreign Policy Association ("The West in the world today") |
| 79 Dec 18 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Joint Written Statement on talks with President Carter |
| 79 Dec 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“Italian political situation: anti-terrorist measures”) [introduced by decree] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Dec 20 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Interview for Central Office of Information |
| 79 Dec 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Record of conversation (MT-Atkins-Sir Maurice Oldfield-General Officer Commanding NI-Chief Constable of the RUC) [Security] [declassified 2010] |
| 79 Dec 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | US: Vance minute to Carter (Rhodesia and Iran sanctions) [MT should talk to Nigeria regarding UN vote on Iran sanctions] [declassified 2007] |
| 79 Dec 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation: anti-terrorist measures”) [Cossiga government beset by difficulties] [declassified 2009] |
| 80 Jan 3 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Interview for Tricia Murray |
| 80 Jan 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Carrington memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 2 (Armed Protection for British Government Representatives Overseas) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Jan 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 2nd (Departmental Select Committees, etc) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Jan 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Sanders minute to MT ("Mr Atkins' Statement on Northern Ireland Bombs") [progress report] [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Jan 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hayek MSS) | Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Times (US response to the Iran hostage crisis) ["I am genuinely puzzled by the restraint shown by the United States in the recent emergency..."] |
| 80 Jan 29 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 80 Jan 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian Political Situation”) [Cossiga’s package of anti-terrorist measures] [declassified December 2010] |
| 80 Jan 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Italian PM Cossiga) [the Schild case, terrorism, the Community budget] [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Jan 30 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Joint Press Conference with Italian Prime Minister (Francesco Cossiga) |
| 80 Feb 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“Italian Political Situation: Anti-Terrorist Measures”) [Cossiga to make the vote a matter of confidence in the government] [declassified December 2010] |
| 80 Feb 26 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 80 Mar 3 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Airey Neave Memorial Lecture |
| 80 Mar 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Spain: the Basque elections") ["this is an important victory for Basque nationalism"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 80 Mar 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Middle East: FCO letter to No.10 (Carrington's parliamentary answer on the PLO and terrorism) [background] [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Mar 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Whitelaw minute to MT ("The Northern Ireland Conference") [Ministerial Group progress report & views on the way ahead] [declassified Feb 2011] |
| 80 Apr 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Meeting between the Prime Minister and the Taoiseach") [timing and agenda] [declassified Feb 2011] |
| 80 Apr 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Disasters: Israeli Embassy letter to MT (Alexander Kielland: Norwegian oil rig disaster) [message of condolence] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Apr 22 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 80 Apr 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("Meeting with Taoiseach during European Council - 27/28 April") [proposed bilateral meeting with MT] [declassified Feb 2011] |
| 80 Apr 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Record of conversation (Personal Representatives of G7 Heads of State of Government) [preparation for Venice summit] [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Apr 25 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Letter to President Carter (failure of Tehran hostage rescue operation) |
| 80 Apr 30 We | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | London Iranian Embassy siege began (SAS stormed 5 May) |
| 80 May 1 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Letter to Iranian President (Bani-Sadr) (Iranian Embassy siege) |
| 80 May 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Iran: MT letter to President Bani Sadr of Iran (siege of the Iranian Embassy in London) [released 2011] |
| 80 May 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 18th (Community Budget, Civil Service Manpower & Costs, etc) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 May 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | Iran: State Department minute ("Iran Update - May 6") [Bani-Sadr's message to MT] [declassified 2008] |
| 80 May 6 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 80 May 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Iran: President Bani Sadr of Iran message to MT (siege of the Iranian Embassy in London) [thanks for actions of UK police] [released 2011] |
| 80 May 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Iran: MT message to President Bani Sadr of Iran (siege of the Iranian Embassy in London) [thanks for message and condolences] [released 2011] |
| 80 May 9 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Scottish Conservative Party Conference |
| 80 May 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Israel: FCO briefing for No.10 (MT meeting with Conservative Friends of Israel) [declassified 2012] |
| 80 May 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Conservative Friends of Israel) [PLO, Camp David, West Bank] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 May 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: FCO briefing for MT ("Taoiseach's visit") [internal politics; N. Ireland; international dimension; EC; trade; world economy; industrial relations/Employment Bill] [declassified Feb 2011] |
| 80 May 17 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Meeting between Prime Minister and Mr Haughey") [conversation between UK ambassador Haydon and Taoiseach] [declassified Feb 2011] |
| 80 May 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Department of Health & Social Security briefing for MT (meeting with Taoiseach Haughey) [citizens' rights; local government in N. Ireland] [declassified Feb 2011] |
| 80 May 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("The state of Spain") ["The Home Secretary is due to visit Spain next week... the Spanish government is undoubtedly going through a bad patch... but I expect to see the present leadership pull through"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 80 May 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Lord Carrington, Jordanian Ambassador) [Arab/Israel dispute; Saudi Arabia; Gulf; Iraq; Algeria; Libya; Syria] [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 80 May 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian internal situation”) [allegations that Cossiga has been helping terrorist evade justice] [declassified December 2010] |
| 80 Jun 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian Political Situation”) [Cossiga could face investigation over Donat-Cattin affair] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 80 Jun 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Ireland: Ian Gow letter to Jim Molyneaux (tour of the border area) [MT has seen memo on security, IRA activities] [released 2017] |
| 80 Jun 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Roy Harrington minute to MT (appointment of a new Security Co-ordinator) [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 80 Jun 8 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Sanders minute to MT (Lord Brookeborough requests meeting with MT to discuss security situation in Northern Ireland and County Fermanagh in particular) [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jun 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Ian Paisley message to MT (widows from County Fermanagh request meeting with MT) ["This deputation represents some fifty women whose husbands have been murdered by the IRA and those murderers escaped safely across to Charlie Haughey's Republic"] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jun 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland letter to No.10 ("Lord Brookeborough's Call on the Prime Minister") [briefing for MT] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jun 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Italy: British Consulate General Milan letter to UKE Rome (“Dr. Giancarlo Bosetti and Signor Liugi Corbani”) [DC to fight election on terrorism and government’s financial mismanagement] [declassified December 2010] |
| 80 Jun 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Rome 7-power meeting (preparation for proposed political discussions at Venice summit) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Jun 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | Cold War: NSC or State Department memo (actions by allies on Iran and Afghanistan) [declassified 2005] |
| 80 Jun 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | Belize/Cold War: CIA National Foreign Assessment Center memo ("Cuba-Nicaragua: Support for Central American Insurgencies") [Belize ministers developing "discreet understandings" with Cubans against Guatemala] [declassified 2005] |
| 80 Jun 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Ian Paisley (meeting with widows of terrorist victims) [released 2011] |
| 80 Jun 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT letter to Ian Paisley (MT agrees to meet with Fermanagh widows) [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jun 24 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [Venice G7 Summit] |
| 80 Jun 25 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference for American correspondents in London |
| 80 Jul 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Fermanagh Widows: 7 July 1980") [brief for MT] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jul 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Fermanagh widows) [terrorism; situation in County Fermanagh] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jul 10 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 80 Jul 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Meeting with the Fermanagh Widows") [commentary of Northern Ireland security authorities on the suggestions of the Fermanagh widows] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jul 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Security: Cabinet Office letter to Whitelaw PS ("Menwith Hill") ['New Statesman' article on US National Security Agency activities] [declassified Dec 2010] |
| 80 Jul 29 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 80 Aug 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Spain: the impact of terrorism") ["The Government has put a brave face on this latest wave of violence... But winning the support of the Basque public... remains a slow and uphill business"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 80 Aug 5 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Letter to Italian Prime Minister (Franceso Cossiga) (Bologna bombing) |
| 80 Aug 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italy’s internal situation”) [terrorist incident at Bologna: damage to Cossiga’s reputation] [declassified December 2010] |
| 80 Aug 9 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Fermanagh widows letter to MT (request for MT's help regarding border security) ["we would implore you to intervene personally to see that security operations are no longer bluff, but REAL"] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Aug 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italy’s internal situation”) [PCI exploiting terrorist incident at Bologna] [declassified December 2010] |
| 80 Sep 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (letter from the Fermanagh widows to MT criticising border security) [comment on security operations in Fermanagh] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Sep 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to Mrs Harriet Howe (response to letter from the Fermanagh widows to MT criticising border security) ["there has been no slackening whatever in the efforts of the Security Forces in the Newtownbutler area, or indeed anywhere else in Fermanagh"] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Sep 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (murder of Constable Johnston of the RUC Reserve near Rosslea) [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Sep 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | Belize/Cold War: CIA National Foreign Assessment Center memo ("Cuba-Nicaragua: Support for Central American Insurgencies") [possible use of Belize to step up Cuban support for Guatemalan guerrillas] [declassified 2008] |
| 80 Oct 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Home Affairs: No.10 letter to Howell PS (Occidental Refinery at Canvey Island) [response to letter of protest from locals] [declassified Dec 2011] |
| 80 Oct 27 Mo | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | 1st Republican hunger strike began (ended 18 Dec) |
| 80 Nov 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Cabinet Secretary note circulated to Cabinet - C(80) 67 (The Queen's Speech on the Prorogation of Parliament) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Nov 10 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
| 80 Nov 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: MT draft letter to Pope John Paul II (hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland) [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Nov 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 40th (The Fire Service, 1981-82 Cash Limits & Votes, Public Expenditure 1981-82 to 1983-84, European Convention on Human Rights, Social Security Expenditure, etc ) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Nov 20 Th | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio] |
| 80 Nov 20 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [Debate on the Address] |
| 80 Nov 23 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: FCO record of conversation (MT, Forlani, Colombo & Carrington) [dinner talk] [declassified Dec 2010] |
| 80 Nov 23 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome record of conversation (MT - Prime Minister Forlani of Italy) [dinner conversation: EC issues, Japan, terrorism in Italy] [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Nov 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKA Vatican despatch to FCO ("The Prime Minister's Visit to the Pope") [welcomed by Vatican, will have helped counter pressure over hunger strikes] [declassified Dec 2010] |
| 80 Nov 25 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 80 Dec 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Haughey) [Northern Ireland, hunger strikes] [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Dec 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 43rd (New Zealand Butter, Northern Ireland, Luxembourg European Council, etc) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Dec 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Portugal: UKE Lisbon telegram to FCO ("Death of the Prime Minister") ["Carneiro... killed last night... no evidence of sabotage... but it is universally suspected by the Portugese... the loss of her outstanding leader is a tragedy for Portugal"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 80 Dec 8 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference after Anglo-Irish summit |
| 80 Dec 8 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for ITN (Anglo-Irish Summit) |
| 80 Dec 8 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Radio Interview for IRN (Anglo-Irish Summit) |
| 80 Dec 8 Mo | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Anglo-Irish summit in Dublin |
| 80 Dec 9 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 80 Dec 16 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 80 Dec 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT (situation in HMP Maze and Northern Ireland) [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Dec 18 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 80 Dec 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Paisley-Peter Robinson-Michael Alison) [situation in Northern Ireland, constitutional status of Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jan 4 Su | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Radio Interview for BBC Radio 4 The World this Weekend |
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