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81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Rayner letter to Pym (“Scrutiny of the Payment of Benefits to the Unemployed”) [declassified 2014]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Nott minute to MT (“Visit to Washington”) [conversations between Nott, Weinberger and Haig] [declassified 2013]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Cabinet: MT to Eldon Griffiths (petrol tax rebellion) [“I know that Geoffrey will be very glad to have a talk about this”] [released 2017]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: MT to John Stokes (1981 Budget) [letter “has been of very great encouragement to me”] [released 2017]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph, Soames, Brittan, Havers, Kenneth Baker, Peter Carey, Bill Ryrie, Lord Benson, David Scholey, Robin Ibss, Robert Armstrong) [future of International Computers Ltd (ICL): Government loan guarantee: draft Ministerial statement] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Department of Industry letter to No.10 ("ICL") [International Computers Ltd: discussions with banks on future of ICL; Government loan guarantee] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: White House record of conversation (Reagan-Argentine President-designate Viola) ["Argentina will cooperate in any effort to contain Communism and promote freedom"; Reagan promises "no public scoldings and lectures" on human rights; nuclear non-proliferation] [declassified 2012]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (State Department)	Argentina: USE Buenos Aires note for political files ("A talk with Colonel Antonio Fichera") [Army now controlling Junta; Galtieri achieving control as C-in-C; Junta position on Beagle mediation determined by army] [declassified 2019]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Argentina: Presidential Daily Brief ("Argentina: President-Designate Viola") ["a strong and effective leader"; importance of his meeting with you "to strengthen his hand against opponents both inside and outside the military"] [declassified 2016]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Nicaragua, Testimony Before the House Appropriations Sub-committee on State, Justice, Commerce and the Judiciary, Costa Rican Request") [declassified 2016]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Robert Cardwell") [proposed release of UVF prisoner on compassionate grounds] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Merseyside: Archbishop of Liverpool letter to MT (threatened closure of Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool) [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Carrington memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 20 (Relationship Between Fisheries Settlement and 1981 CAP Prices) [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Opinion Polls: Britto note to Derek Howe ("Public Opinion Background Note 56") [weekly survey note] [released 2012]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Privatisation: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Nationalised Industries: Privatisation") [need for "new impetus" for privatisation programme] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Polish Situation") [Scandinavian Ambassadors believe "Soviet intervention in Poland might be imminent"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Poland: Biffen letter to Carrington ("Contingency Planning About Poland") [planning for possible Soviet intervention] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Labour Party: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gavin Strang MP-Alex Fletcher) [unemployment and economic situation in Musselburgh, Scotland] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: UKE Paris to FCO ("President Giscard's Expectations of the European Council at Maastricht") [Maastricht European Council] [declassified 2014]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Lord Trenchard minute to MT ("Frigates for Portugal") [defence sales] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Defence Expenditure 1981/82") [further defence cuts] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: MOD letter to No.10 ("Defence Policy and Programme") [future defence policy] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Heseltine-Rayner-Soames-Armstrong-Kemp) [repayment of current costs by Departments to the PSA] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Gray PS letter to No.10 (PPS appointment) [declassified 2012]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Major	Margaret Thatcher	House of Commons PQs
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2012]
81 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2012]

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