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PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: John Coles minute to MT ("Competitiveness of the UK Defence Industry") [commissioning of paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Private money and School Closures") [MT critical of Oliver Letwin paper "suggesting a new way of increasing the number of independent schools and of reducing the opposition to school closures"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan (Japanese conference on life sciences and mankind) [third British nominee for conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure Reviews") [options for savings; NHS contractor arrangements; territorial programmes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 note to MT (Athens European Council) [communication of UK concerns to Mitterrand about increased EC public expenditure and UK's 1983 refund] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Net Payments to European Community Institutions: public cxpenditure White Paper figures") [1983 refund; 1982 risk-sharing refund] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The Post-Stuttgart Negotiations and the French") ["we do not know with certainty why the frequent ministerial and official level contacts in the weeks before the Athens European Council failed to give us any forewarning of the line the President was likely to take... we have to find a way of getting our views over to the French at the only level that matters - that of the President"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) Cold War: UK Embassy in East Berlin to FCO (1983 Annual Report on GDR) [declassified 2007]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Canada: John Coles minute (lunch for Brian Mulroney) [visit later cancelled after Trudeau government brought budget forward] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“White Paper on Training”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Belize: MT letter to Prime Minister Price of Belize (Hillbank project) [sees economic benefits at first glance, full evaluation to follow] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local government: Ryder minute to Flesher (“London Docklands”) [dates for proposed visits] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ingham minute to MT (“London Docklands Railway”) [hears “there is a big row brewing over the tendering for this project”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Queen’s Speeches and Future Legislation Committee (QL) membership”) [proposed addition of Lord Advocate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“Economic Summit: 1984”) [discussions with France over potential date clashes, potential impact on PMQs] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Bernard Ingham (Economic Summit) [press announcement of date and participating countries] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: TUC Assistant General Secretary letter to MT (&dquo;World Economic Summit&rduqo;) [tradition of pre-summit meetings with host nation; proposes meeting in London] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: policy review”) [record of conversation: Youde, EXCO] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 letter to Howe PS (letter from Christine Loh of the Hong Kong Observers) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 minute to MT ("President Mitterrand") [possible meeting in Paris in advance of European Council meeting in March] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 3 to FCO (0056Z) ("Lebanon") [encouraging UN involvement: MT message to UN Secretary General & diplomatic initiatives] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Lebanon: Message to the Prime Minister from the Druze Community") [draft reply] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 14 to UKE Washington (1900Z) ("Lebanon") ["MNF role and the possible involvement of UN forces"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Manufacturing Nationalised Industries") [Corporate Plans: due dates; costs; decisions; presentational issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to President of the National Farmers' Union (National Farmers' Union views on agricultural issues before the European Council) [UK contribution to EC Budget; milk levy; green pound; cereals prices; EC Commission proposals on lamb] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Caroline Ryder (John Gummer) [meeting for “a general discussion on what we are doing”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (confirms to FCO date of MT visit) [news received “with rather great happiness”] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute to No.10 (“Visit of Dr von Weizsaecker: 5-8 April”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) US: Burt briefing for Shultz ("Your visit to the UK, Jan 11-12 Scope Paper") [“This past fall, pressures on the US/UK relationship have been stronger than at any time since Suez”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKHC Canberra (“Future of Hong Kong: briefing of allies”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office record of conversation (possible meeting with President Mitterrand) [Armstrong, Attali call: proposed dates for meeting in Paris; agenda; Dumas visit to London; rearrangement of Summit dates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Cabinet Office minute ("Management of Private Sector Blocks of Flats") [nomination of John Wheeler MP for committee] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT message to President Mubarak (problems of the Middle East) [Howe visit to Egypt] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: General Sir John Stanier letter to MT (Prime Minister's meeting with Colonel Gordon Ferguson on his return from Beirut) ["how much we in the army appreciate you finding the time"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Nicholas Edwards PS letter to Tom King PS ("White Paper on "Training for Jobs": MSC and NAFE") [comments on draft] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Howe minute to MT ("Shipbuilding - EC Notification of UK Shipbuilding Aid") [comments on Tebbit proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Teachers' superannuation scheme") [MT supports Policy Unit proposal that increase in contributions should be divided between employers and employees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Department of Environment letter to No.10 (the planning system: the work of Dr Alice Coleman) [response to MT's query] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: No.10 letter to FCO ("IDA 7") [UK contributions to International Development Association: MT 'takes the view that it would be a mistake to contribute to a supplementary fund'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Anthony Shrimsley memo for John Gummer (publicity) [“Our message is: ‘GET THE BEST OUT OF EUROPE - VOTE CONSERVATIVE’”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: Stephen Sherbourne notes (European Elections Publications’ Committee (“Howe Group”)) [meetings, activities] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Appointment of M Roland Dumas") [as Minister for European Affairs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: President Dos Santos letter to MT (eighth anniversary of People's Republic of Angola proclamation of independence) [thanks for MT message of congratulations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Net Payments to European Community Institutions: public expenditure White Paper figures") [1983 refund; 1982 'risk-sharing' refund; E(A) committee: how to avoid EC expenditure adding to public expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Bilateral Visits Overseas by the Prime Minister in 1984") [provisional schedule including UK/French Summit and Franco-British Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe minute to MT ("Possible Meeting with President Mitterrand") ["he cannot bring... [EC] negotiations to a successful conclusion without our agreement... An informal discussion... would be an excellent opportunity to get... points across to him" ; timing of meeting; content of talks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (MT visit) [Guardian requests interview; MT offers one to Hungarian TV] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute to No.10 (“Helmut Schmidt on Current Issues”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger letter to Tom King (“White Paper “Training for Jobs”: MSC and NAFE”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior PS note to Butler (“Operation Abercorn”) [documents downgraded to “restricted”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“UN Secretary-General’s activities”) [“he was in fact being active behind the scenes in a potentially useful way”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (Economic Summit) [Summit logo: four designs commissioned, possible modifications] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: dinner with Yao Guang”) [change of Chinese negotiator] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: policy review”) [“The Foreign Secretary accepts most but not all the amendments”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 27 to FCO (0130Z) ("Lebanon") [Thomson, Perez de Cuellar, Lui: record of conversation: UN role] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 38 to FCO (0020Z) ("Lebanon") [Wright, Poindexter: record of conversation: "White House thinking on the way ahead"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT message to U.N. Secretary General (1125Z) (U.N. involvement in Lebanon) ["much encouraged by your own continuing advocacy of such a course"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 11 to UKMIS New York (1230Z) (UN forces in Lebanon) ["possibilities for wider UN involvement"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger letter to Tebbit ("Shipbuilding - EC Notification of UK Shipbuilding Aid") [supports need for increased Intervention Fund assistance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit: Robert Young minute to Nicholas Owen ("British Shipbuilder' Pay Negotiations") [analysis of the settlement & its press coverage] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: John Coles minute to MT ("President Kyprianou") [scheduling of meeting; MT notes need to press Greece to make clear its stance on consultations with the Turks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("National Defence Technological Capabilities") [comments on working group report; information on technologies not covered by the report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKMIS New York telegram 17 to FCO (2230Z) ("Proposal by the President of the General Assembly for a Security Council Summit Meeting") [letter sent to Reagan, Andropov & Gandhi; "typical of him not to have written to all members of the Security Council"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: John Coles minute to MT ("East/West Relations") [request from Cardinal Hume for approval to publish his recent correspondence with MT] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry") [advice on request that MT write foreword to booklet commemorating 7th anniversary of Anatoly Shcharansky's imprisonment] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Promotion blockages in the Civil Service") [early retirement scheme; efficiency scrutiny of means used to identify & develop internal talent] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Meeting between the Prime Minister and President Mitterrand") [Attali, Armstrong: arrangements for Paris, 23 Jan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: MT letter to Jack Cunningham MP (Rates Bill) [“I and my Party continue to support the decentralisation of power and the enhancement of freedom and local choice”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economic policy: Redwood minute for MT (service and manufacturing sectors) [absurdity of “the myth that the only real job … is to manufacture something”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Jenkin letter to Tom King (draft White Paper on Vocational Education and Training) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to MT (“Economic Summit”) [proposes regular meetings with Robert Armstrong between now and Summit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Turnbull note to MT (Midland Bank mortgage rate increase) [half per cent] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Tunrbull note for MT (“Growth of Social Expenditure”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Howe to MOD (“Consequences of an Escalation of the Iran-Iraq War”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT (Denis Thatcher attendance to cricket matches in South Africa) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Secretary of State for Environment minute to MT (“Stansted Planning Inquiry”) [his position] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Hong Kong: change of Chinese negotiator”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong”) [policy review paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (“RSG: London Borough of Barnet”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 7 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 28 to FCO (0120Z) ("Lebanon") [role of the UN; UN diplomacy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 53 to FCO (0120Z) ("Lebanon") [Lebanese Security Plan; UN involvement; redeployment of US marines] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Paris telegram 12 to FCO (1045Z) ("Lebanon") [UN involvement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) US: Burt briefing memo to Shultz (“Checklist for your visit to London”) [“Assure HMG that the USG desires to maintain/deepen consultations and our interests remain basically consistent”] [declassified 2013]
Text 84 Jan 8 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Dr. Sakharov letter to Heads of State (obtaining Soviet permission for Mrs Bonner-Sakharov to travel abroad for medical treatment) [appeal to Heads of State for assistance, sent under cover of a letter from son-in-law, Efrem Yankelovich, who requests a meeting with MT] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jan 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Nigeria: Major-General Muhammadu Buhari letter to MT (coup) [role of armed forces in change of government, economic problems] [released 2014]
Text 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Lebanon") ["a brief round up of where we now stand"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("The "Freedom of Information Campaign"") [suggests public release of MT's less to Des Wilson: MT: "No - I do not release letters I write to others"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 minute to Department of the Environment (Dr. Alice Coleman) [reply to letter about Dr. Coleman's work] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Rees letter to Fowler ("NHS Manpower") ["new regime... should not be... [seen as] a weakening of the Government's policy to reduce public service manpower"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Shipbuilding - EC Notification of UK Shipbuilding Aid") ["I am not happy about... [Norman Tebbit's] proposed approach to the Commission"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("Select Committee on Energy") [Government policy on electricity & gas prices] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Sarah Tisdall case) [leak of document about Cruise missile arrival at Greenham Common; source identified in Defence Secretary's Private Office] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Possible Visit by Mr Davignon") [proposed dates; MT concerned that meeting not be scheduled too close to her return from Hungary] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("IDA 7") [UK contributions to International Development Association: question of additional contribution to a supplementary fund] [declassified Dec 2014]

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