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PDF 81 Sep 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle, etc: MT letter to the Laings (thanks for stay at Dunphail) [Balmoral & reshuffle] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Hoskyns letter to MT (congratulations) ["crucial for the future"; Prior weakened] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (US Treasury) US: Department of the Treasury memcon (Howe-Regan meeting, with officials) [Howe urges US to raises taxes & cut spending; Regan criticises UK tax increases] [declassified 2010]
PDF 81 Oct 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion poll: Britto minute (party private poll results) [Conservative support 16 per cent if Alliance runs] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Oct 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Howe personal telegram to MT (Heath speech) ["we all think it right not to raise the temperature"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Oct 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Walters personal telegram to MT ("Note by Alan Walters on the Heath speech") [detailed critique] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Oct 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT notes for conference speech ("Virtue of a nation") [personal drafts, notes, briefing material] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Oct 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT notes for conference speech (draft) [unemployment] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Oct 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT notes for conference speech ("Draft 2") ["what is wrong with modern society is not material deprivation but disorientation"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Nov 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT letter to Walter Goldsmith (first indications of recovery) [sees "a big change in industrial attitudes"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Nov 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT diary note (1981 Remembrance Day Service) ["It was Michael Foot's first attendance and he was a little uncertain what to do"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT letter to Jeffrey Sterling (hopeful signs) [hopes for "sustained" recovery this time; wants sterling at $2] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Nov 12 Th Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Helen Ghosh to Caroline Stephens (MT to open Hyde Park drinking fountain) ["long agonising between Ministers"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Nov 19 Th Press Minor Commentary (The Times) MT: "Thatcher drops a few names" (lunchtime speech in Bonn goes wrong) [officials cause her embarrassment]
PDF 81 Nov 19 Th Press Minor Commentary (The Times) MT: "Thatcher drops a few names" (lunchtime speech in Bonn goes wrong) [officials cause her embarrassment]
PDF 81 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Gow minute to MT ("Drinks for backbenchers") [Dorrell letter; now gives assurances "he will NOT be joining the SDP"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Sir Michael Palliser letter to MT (lunchtime speech at Bonn summit) ["Diplomatic Service incompetence ... very sincere apologies"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Nov 25 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: "Gang of 25" letter to Chief Whip (collective protest against government economic policy) [will vote against any measures "which deflate aggregate demand"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Nov 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT letter to Jeffrey Sterling (hopeful signs) [hopes for earlier impact on unemployment than in the past] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Hoskyns minute to MT ("A Strategy for the next five years") [urges he head a PM's department, also CPRS & CRD] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Gow minute to MT ("Tuesday's Debate") ["disturbing note" from Jopling; 45 possible rebels] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Chief Whip minute to MT ("The Prime Minister") ["we are facing a very serious situation which we must discuss"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Norman Fowler letter to Geoffrey Howe ("Public Expenditure Debate") [Chris Patten concern on benefit uprating] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Geoffrey Howe speech draft (Public Expenditure Debate) [cancelled concession on benefit uprating] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 29 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Gow letter to MT (support & encouragement) ["a giant among pygmies"] [released 2012]

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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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