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88 Apr 11 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Europe: DTI letter to No.10 ("Single Market Campaign: Lancaster House Conference") [suggests cutting material in MT speech critical of ideas for European Union, for fear of provoking Delors, speaking 10 minutes after her] [released Jul 2018]
88 Jun 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Europe/Bruges speech: Hugh Thomas memo for MT ("Notes for discussion with the Prime Minister") [federalist original thinking done 30 years or more ago; "The "Europe of Nations" has never been carefully worked out, to my knowledge. We could be at a turning point in our history"] [released Jul 2018]
88 Jun 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Europe/Bruges speech: Whittingdale record of conversation (MT-Hugh Thomas preparatory discussion on speech) ["must be positive in order to knock down federalist ideas ... United Europe but not European Union"] [released Jul 2018]
88 Jul 26 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Jimmy Young Show: European Community") ["your struggle to make Europe less theoretical and more practical ..." increasing bureaucracy "is the SOCIALIST way"] [released Jul 2018]
88 Aug 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell first draft for MT ("Version 1") [42pp, not annotated by MT] [released Jul 2018]
88 Aug 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell first draft for MT ("Version 2") [56pp, slightly annotated by MT] [released Jul 2018]
88 Aug 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Speech on Europe") ["opportunity to set out your views on Europe's future, focussing mainly but not exclusively on the EC"; encloses "very much a first draft"] [released Jul 2018]
88 Sep 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Bruges Speech") [autocue] [released Jul 2018]
88 Sep 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Europe/Bruges speech: MT speaking text (69pp set out for autocue) [late additions in pen] [released Jul 2018]
88 Sep 20 Tu	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	Speech to the College of Europe ("The Bruges Speech")
88 Sep 24 Sa	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT (Bruges Speech) [hopes she will read two good articles about the speech in The Economist] [released Jul 2018]
88 Oct 5 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT ("European Community: Extension of Commission powers and competence") [need to "be prepared to 'terrorise' the Commission politically on the lines of the Bruges speech"] [released Jul 2018]

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