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Text 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Prior letter to Brittan (project to supply natural gas from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland) [Prior letter prompts MT query about unworked coal deposits in Northern Ireland] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cockfield minute to MT ("General Lighthouse Authorities") [response to PAC and ship-owner criticism of Lighthouse Authorities; MT continues to reject his proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Patrick Jenkin ("British Telecom Board Pay") [accepts proposed salary range increase, "But it is on the high side"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("Pay of Nationalised Industry Board Members") [effects of large salary increases for Board members on workforce wage settlements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Scottish Office briefing for MT (meeting with Tom Clarke MP to discuss closure of the Speedwell Wire Company Ltd, Coatbridge) [background to closure & information on regional investment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Police: MT letter to Lord Plowden (Chairmanship of the Police Negotiating Board) [letter of thanks to mark the end of Lord Plowden's tenure] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Younger PS letter to No.10 (“Public expenditure: oral statement”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Long term public expenditure”) [Social Security] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“Loans for Argentina”) [proposed bridging loan from Western banks pending IMF rescue package] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Export credit subsidies and risks”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("European Council: completion of the Internal Market) [appointment of Peter Rees to oversee UK input] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Gibraltar") [request for guidance on how to proceed with talks] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Gibraltar: partial opening of the frontier") ["It is unfortunate that Sir Joshua Hassan and his colleagues have come out in public with a strongly expressed view on what is essentially a foreign policy issue"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("Scrutiny of New Powers of Entry") [MT to revive proposal to transfer responsibilities from Solicitor General to Home Office] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 letter to Law Officers' Department ("Scrutiny of New Powers of Entry") [MT decides against transfer of responsibilities from Solicitor General to Home Office] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with the Chancellor of the Exchequer) [handwritten note listing topics for the meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Younger minute to MT ("BSC: future strategy") [paper on estimated financial consequences of closing Ravenscraig steelworks] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ian MacGregor) [Chairmanship of British Steel Corporation & National Coal Board; joint venture between BSC/Ravenscraig & US Steel; world recession] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Department of Industry briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with the Scottish TUC and others,14 December 1982") [review of British Steel Corporation's future strategy; Ravenscraig] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("British Steel Corporation Future Strategy") [proposed new investment at Port Talbot; proposed Ravenscraig closure; tactics towards EC Commission; draft Parliamentary announcement] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to Private Secretaries ("Legislative Programme 1983-84") [request for proposals; scheduling around General Election] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: UKE Tunis telegram to FCO ("Arab League Delegation's visit to London") [record of Lord Carrington's conversations with Tunisian Foreign Minister & Arab League Secretary General: PLO] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: MT letter to Nicholas Winterton MP (concerns regarding situation in Zimbabwe) [response to submission of a 24-point memorandum: "Following... [our] meeting I have... written to you twice and to Mr. [Denis] Walker once. I do not have anything further to add now"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Denis Norman) ["Zimbabwe": economy; agriculture/exports; human rights; British Military Advisory & Training Team; N. Korean influence; southern Africa; trend towards one-party state] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: FCO briefing for MT ("Zimbabwe") [record of conversation with Cranley Onslow; key issues; biography] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Unemployment") ["Following your meeting of 14 October I was asked to consider a list of possible fiscal measures"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Walters minute to Rowlatt (“Oil tanker drivers: contingency planning”) [rejects opposition to market forces as the basis of supplying fuel in a strike; government would rely on price mechanism] [declassified 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Prime Minister: Gow minute to MT ("Lunch for Cabinet Colleagues") [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) France: MT letter to Jim Callaghan (thanks for letting me know about your conversation with Mitterrand) ["I will of course make immediate inquiries" about matter discussed] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Admiral Fieldhouse Despatch on the Falklands Campaign ("Despatch by Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse, G.C.B., G.B.E., Commander of the Task Force Operations in the South Atlantic: April to June 1982") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Tam Dalyell MP letter to MT (location of the Belgrano at time of sinking) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Department of Education (Joseph's study of the effect of children's television on school children) [MT supports Joseph's proposals] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Defence: Brittan minute to MT ("Strategic Tankers") [RAF purchase of aerial tankers from British Airways] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Nott memo circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 43 (The Falklands Campaign: The Lessons) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Howe minute to MT (“Power Station Endurance”) [“we must do everything possible to minimise the cost to the Exchequer”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Ingham minute to MT (“Northern Ireland - Media”) [confine the visit to camera shots, doorstep interviews, camera statement] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Ian Gow minute for MT (“Nicholas Ridley”) [“wonders whether you are displeased with him because of the Falklands matter”; if not in cabinet after next election wants EC Commissionership] [released 2017]
Text 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Cockfield memo on trade policy - aim for open trading system; Middleton believes no need to increase base roots through new year][released 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South African Intelligence Activities in the UK: Klue”) [Pym’s statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Jenkin (“Programme for discussion of Corporate Plans: 1983”) [declassified 2012]
Text 82 Dec 13 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for Thames TV CBTV (children’s television)
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions including US report) [declassified 2012]
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