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PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: Working Paper on the Public Service”) [“preserving continuity”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: FCO telegram to UKE Madrid ("Visit of HMS Invincible to Gibraltar") ["implications for our dealings with the Spaniards over Gibraltar, for Rapier, and for the pattern of future ships' visits"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robin Ibbs, Robert Armstrong, Ian Beesley, John Redwood, Robin Butler) [improving efficiency and effectiveness in the public sector] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 353 to FCO (0310Z) ("Shuweifat Gap") [MNF representations to forestall Lebanese military action] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Paris telegram 122 to FCO (1530Z) ("Lebanon: Shuweifat Gap") [UK calls on France to support its opposition to Lebanese military action] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 54 to FCO (1200Z) ("Lebanon") [rumours of imminent Lebanese military action] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: John Coles minute to MT (Lebanon: risk to UK contingent of Multinational Forces) [possibly imminent Lebanese military action; MT to be consulted if possible, while in Hungary, over any major changes in policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler minute to MT (Social Security Policy Reviews) [housing benefit; supplementary benefit: policy review teams: leadership & strategies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lords Thomas, Harris, Vaizey) ["Vaizey/CPS Study of Welfare State"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Urban Programme") [review appointments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("Publication of Public Expenditure White Paper") [debate to happen first] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling PS letter to No.10 ("Council of Fisheries Ministers: 31 January 1984") [statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Public Expenditure White Paper: Net Contributions to Community Institutions") ["we can now only agree to differ... too late to change the figures in the White Paper"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("UK Position in the Negotiations on the Stuttgart Declaration") [amended version of FCO paper sent under cover of Howe minute to MT of 27 Jan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with Craxi; Steel Council; Tebbit talks on EC aid for British Steel; EC fishing quotas for 1984; Milk Marketing Board breach of EC regulations; French restrictions on food imports; EC Court judgement on poultry imports; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hungary: Cartledge notes for MT (‘Thoughts’) [shared aspiration for peace] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MT personal minute for Tebbit (“Competition Policy”) [report preparation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Space: MT letter to Reagan (manned space station programme) [“an exciting development”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to Robert Armstrong (“London Economic Summit”) [decisions on: arrivals; meet and greets; lunches/dinners; photocalls and press conferences] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Coles minute to FCO (“European Inward Visits”) [planning] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies transcript of meeting (speeches at AGM, Hyde Park Hotel) [Thomas, Seton-Watson, Urban, Cottrell, Vinson, Cayzer, MT] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Robert Armstrong to MT (OD(EM) Meeting: British Military Involvement in the Gulf Region) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Julian Amery letter to MT (UK relations with South Africa & situation report) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (Deployment of British Gound Forces to the Gulf area) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Michael Jopling minute to MT (“Milk Marketing Arrangements and Threatened FEOGA Disallowance”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Policy Unit minute to MT (“Liquid Milk Prices and the Future of Milk Marketing”) [arguments against raising milk prices] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“Liquid Milk Prices and the Future of Milk Marketing”) [price control, increases in 1984, handling] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Norman Tebbit minute to MT (“Discussion in E(A)”) [asking for help in handling of the discussion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Chief Scientific Adviser minute to MT (“Technological Aspects of the A320 and V2500 Decisions”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“The Airbus A320 Project”) [British participation, launch aid, implications] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Solicitor General letter to MT ("Defective Housing") [private sector] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 375 to FCO (2340Z) ("Shuweifat Gap") [UK concerns relayed to US regarding risk to MNF should Lebanese attempt to close Gap] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe minute to MT ("Lebanon: The Next Steps") [strategy paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (Social Security housing benefit and supplementary benefit policy reviews) [appointments of policy review team leaders; Lord Vaizey reivew of benefits system] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Howe minute to Keith Joseph ("Proposed Review of High Energy Particle Physics") ["my own anxieties that the review would inevitably be seen as evidence that the UK intended to withdraw from CERN"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 374 to FCO (2330Z) ("The Presidential Race: 1984") [assessment of contenders] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Follow Up Work to the Report on Essential Defence Technologies") [advice on methodology & focus] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO (Argentina's policy towards talks with the UK over the Falklands) ["Argentina will never give up her legitimate rights over the Falklands"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Butler minute to Catford (the Falkland Islands records) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robin Ibbs minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Urban Programme") [need for proper scrutiny] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Treasury minute ("Ratios of Expenditure to GDP") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Angola: the Prime Minister's message to President Dos Santos") [record of UK ambassador's meeting with President: release of British prisoners] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Structure of the Nuclear Industry") ["no insuperable obstacles to a greater measure of competition and private ownership in the longer-term"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Appointments to the EC Commission") [press line on British candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department telegram to Shultz ("British Propose Direct Talks With Argentines") [published 2015]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Aerospace: Michael Alison minute for MT (“Launch aid for the Air Bus 320”) [backbench Conservative support for] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 4th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Liquid Milk Prices and the Future of Milk Marketing) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO telegram to UKE Bonn (“Economic Summit 1984”) [ground rules for communication with the press] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Peter Rees minute for Paul Channon (“Credit for Libya”) [MT wonders if Germans could be persuaded not to offer credit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food minute to No.10 (“Milk Marketing Arrangements and Threatened FEOGA Disallowance”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 letter to Howe PS (“Future of Hong Kong: briefing our European Community Partners”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 letter to Howe PS (“Future of Hong Kong: 8th round of talks”) [MT concerned] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Indian Request for Advice on Plans for the Removal of Dissident Sikhs from the Golden Temple") ["our proposed response"; SAS involvement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Sir Anthony Parsons note to Coles (Palestine: accounts of phone calls with King Hussein and Prince Hassan of Jordan) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 380 to FCO (0125Z) ("Shuweifat Gap") [US concerns relayed to Lebanese] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 734 2 to Budaputt (1710Z) ("Lebanon") [situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Redwood minute to MT ("Crime") [preventing and fighting crime, prisons, sentencing, and public perception of crime] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Tim Lankester minute to MT ("Family Practitioner Services H Committee") [Binder Hamlyn Report: handling of publication, following Govt row with BMA over deputising services] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to Alick Buchanan-Smith ("BP Rigg at Scott Lithgow") [BP threat to cancel contract] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Butler minute to MT (proposed Nissan plant in the UK) [gift to MT from Nissan: Butler advises against personal acceptance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 (an article in New Society: "Argentina and Democracy") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Patrick Jenkin minute to Nigel Lawson (capital and public expenditure) [need for "cost-effective modernisation, maintenance and replacement of the public services capital stock"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Agricultural Structures") [legal basis for payment of grants to hill farmers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("1984/85 Agricultural Prices and Related Issues") [MT requests neutral stance on the issue of French/German dispute over positive monetary compensatory amounts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("EC Expenditure Problem and Control of UK Public Expenditure") ["It is right that we should have an effective mechanism... [but not if this] jeopardises the proper exploitation of Community programmes. ESPRIT is a case in point"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (US Treasury) US: Department of the Treasury memcon (Leigh-Pemberton-Regan meeting, with officials) [reform of US & UK securities markets] [declassified 2010]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Michael Alison minute for Robin Butler ([Monday] “Lunches for cabinet colleagues”) [suggests new format] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: John Houston note to Alison Ward (“Banana Skins Before Easter”) [possible media problems] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Education: DES special adviser note (“‘Coming events’”) [“A continuous banana skin is the future of the ILEA”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Chris Mockler note to Alison Ward (“Department of the Environment: Important/Sensitive Issues”) [Liverpool, Rates Bill, GLC abolition, housing] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Michael Portillo memo to Alison Ward (“Treasury Calendar Until Easter”) [“we wish the Budget to arrive against a background of a clear blue sky.”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transport: Nick Ridley letter to William Whitelaw (“Future Events Which Will Require Careful Handling”) [“a dock strike looks very likely”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Robin Harris note to Alison Ward (impact of announcements or decisions) [“the highest public profile problems are often the least predictable”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hungary: Notes for MT (“Call on Prime Minister Lázár”) [talking points on notecard] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hungary: Turnbull notes for MT (“Lunch at British Embassy: Note for Remarks”) [economic goals of her government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office minute (“Note for the record”) [approach from Observer on story re: Oman/Cementation this weekend] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry record of conversation (MT-Lázár tête-à-tête) [discussion “really necessary”] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hungary: Notes for MT (“Call on Mr Kádár”) [talking points on notecard] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry record of conversation (MT-Kádár tête-à-tête) [East-West relations] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Jopling note circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 4 (Annual Review of Agriculture 1984) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 5 (Economic Strategy) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 6 (Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Rees memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 7 (Capital and Current Expenditure) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit: Prime Minister’s 2nd Dinner”) [proposed locations: suggests National Portrait Gallery because Mitterand would find “the vibrations at Apsley House distasteful”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit 1984: Commemorative Stamp”) [Post Office could produce a commemorative stamp, rather than a complete series] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (Lord Nugent’s proposals for revision of the Obscene Publication Act 1959) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: FCO minute for Coles (“Argentina: Debt Rescheduling”) [UK line for Paris Club meeting] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: Reagan letter to Thatcher (& others) (Lebanon: redeployment of US marines offshore) [declassified 2000]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Lázár of Hungary) [plenary session: Hungary-UK relations, East-West, disarmament, Hungary-EC negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Lázár of Hungary) [Hungary-UK relations, Hungary-EC negotiations, East-West] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT-First Secretary Kádár) [UK-Hungarian bilateral relations, East-West relations, arms control, communism and the USSR] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Losonczi) [East-West relations, arms control, economy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Environment Secretary minute to MT (the A320 project: British participation) [his comments and suggestions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Hungary: Press office minute (UK press coverage of visit & other stories) [“Lengthy coverage of visit on BBC”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 4 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 62 to FCO (1325Z) ("Lebanon") [situation report/record of conversation with Lebanese Foreign Minister] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Hungary: Ingham minute for MT (“Your Press Conference”) [“first step towards building up a dialogue”] [declassified 2014]

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