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Downing Street visitors' books made public for first time

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Three red leather, gilt-tooled volumes released by the National Archives .

Names of visitors to No 10 are not made public so the books provide a valuable record of who had private conversations with prime ministers.

Some left private messages, especially to Margaret Thatcher , who spent more than a decade in Downing Street from 1979 to 1990 .

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90

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English

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