Janus: The Papers of Baroness Thatcher LG., OM., FRS.

Churchill/THCR 2/6/2 contains:
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30	Papers relating to the co-ordination of MT's Christmas card lists, 1981
31	Papers relating to the co-ordination of MT's Christmas card lists, 1981-82
32	Papers relating to the co-ordination of MT's Christmas card lists, 1982
33	Papers relating to the Commonwealth, May 1979-December 1982
34	Papers relating to the Confederation of British Industry, December 1979-February 1983
35	Correspondence between MT's Political Office (normally Richard Ryder or Ian Gow MP) and Robert Conquest, often enclosing Conquest's foreign affairs briefings and draft speech material for MT, June 1977-May 1983
36	Papers relating to Conservative Central Office, including copy minutes of Directors' meetings and Management meetings held at Conservative Central Office (MT did not attend)
37	Papers relating to Conservative Central Office, 1977/8-May 1981 (mainly February-December 1980)
38	Papers relating to Conservative Central Office, May-December 1979
39	Papers relating to Conservative Central Office, August 1980-September 1982
40	Papers relating to Conservative Central Office, May 1981-December 1982
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The Papers of Baroness Thatcher LG., OM., FRS.

Title	Papers relating to defence (1), July 1979-June 1981
Reference	THCR 2/6/2/46
Covering Dates	July 1979-June 1981
Extent and Medium	3 folders

Content and context

Part 1: includes copy of the Ulster Unionist Council's paper on "Northern Ireland future terrorist trends", July 1979; memorandum on defence spending to Richard Ryder (MT's Political Secretary) from Peter Joynes (Conservative Research Department), 21 August 1979; opinion polling survey prepared by Cavenham Communications Ltd on "Britain's defence: the armed forces view", August 1979, with attached note from John Clemens (Chairman, Marplan) to Keith Britto (Conservative Research Department), 9 November 1979)- see also THCR 2/6/2/133 for similar material

Also includes a copy of note to MT from Ian Gow MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretary) on Rapier surface to air missiles, 8 November 1979; and comments for MT from Gow on the programme to replace the Polaris missile, 14 December 1979

Part 2, 1980: includes correspondence between MT and Antony Buck MP on a Defence Committee meeting, December 1980, with attached note for MT from Gow

Part 3, 1981: includes copies of correspondence between MT, Buck, Peter Emery MP, "Jock" Bruce-Gardyne MP, John Nott (Secretary of State for Defence) and Patrick Wall MP; copies of papers on "Aspects of the British defence problem" by Captain J.E. Moore RN (Editor, Jane's Fighting Ships), June 1981; and copy of "Hansard" relating to a defence debate, 25 June 1981

Access and Use

Part 1 opened in February 2010; part 2 in March 2011; part 3 in March 2012

A digital version of the file in PDF format is available at Churchill Archives Centre

Index Terms

Defence

Nuclear Weapons

Terrorism

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