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Text 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS (“Lloyds Bank International and Argentina”) [MT supports IMF and rules out blocking British bank loans] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Monitoring Report: Public Trading Sector") [latest position on public pay sector negotiations] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Pym ("G5") [9/10 Dec: "Discussion concentrated on two areas: the IMF resources package, and debt problems, particularly those of Brazil"; IMF interim committee chairmanship; G10 update; Mexico; Yugoslavia] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Common Agricultural Policy: 1983/4 Price Fixing and the Green Pound") ["I must strongly disagree with... [Peter Walker's] proposal that we should take a decision now not to revalue the green pound"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Managing Director of Alcan Aluminium Ltd letter to Jenkin (company strategy & dispute with the National Coal Board) ["On the assumption... that the question of the coal supply to Lynemouth can be satisfactorily resolved very soon, it will enable the company to embark on a strategy in the U.K."] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("MNF") ["Mr Pym is instructing our Ambassadors to make high level approaches to the Israelis, Syrians and PLO... Our decision to participate in the... [Multi-National Force] gives us a particular reason for taking this action now in support of US efforts"; MT: "I think this operation will be useless and could be damaging"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National health: No.10 note to MT ("NHS Inquiry") [views of MT & others on remit] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("BSC future strategy") [statement to Parliament] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("British Telecom and the Monopolies and Mergers Commission") ["Either we privatise... Or we leave it in the hands of the state and send in the MMC... But to send in the MMC now would be the very worst time"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Offer of help from Sultan of Oman over Arab League visit") [Palestinian representation] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Lord Cockfield letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Support for Capital Goods Exports") [request for meeting with Howe & Jenkin to discuss policy options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Pym minute to Rees ("GATT Ministerial Meeting") ["you are to be complimented for the skill with which you played the UK hand"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Moscow telegram 853 to FCO (0756Z) ("Afghanistan") [Pravda editorial - "first authoritative Soviet statement on Afghanistan since Andropov's advent"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Hugh Thomas note to MT ("Visit to Washington, December 13 - 14 1982") [Thomas' account of visit to discuss US-Europe Alliance and nuclear deterrent with US Administration representatives] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Foreign Policy: Pym minute to MT ("Forward Look") [FCO plans for the next five years] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Yemen: MT message to Prime Minister Iryani of the Yemen (earthquake in the Yemen) [shock and sympathy] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Ireland: Taoiseach Fitzgerald letter to MT (message on Fitzgerald's election as Taoiseach) [need for cooperation on "tragic situation in Northern Ireland"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Education: MT letter to John Evans MP (CPRS paper and funding of education) [Keith Joseph favours a voucher scheme] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Vereker minute to Scholar ("Prime Minister's Speech to the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, 28 January") [speech themes] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Moore letter to Brittan (“Foundry Coke Prices”) [assistance to NCB] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Butler note to MT (“Northern Ireland”) [draft message and programme] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior PS minute to Butler (“Operation Piston”) [proposed programme and briefing note] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Woodfield note to Butler (Operation Piston) [draft MT statement and programme] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) US: State Department briefing for Shultz (dinner with MT) [objectives: “Reinvigorate US/UK relations in wake of serious bilateral frictions”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) US: Burt briefing for Shultz (meeting with MT) [“We believe that Thatcher is eager now to put recent U.S./U.K. frictions behind us”, though still “a determined nationalist”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, George Shultz) [US economic policy, congressional elections, cruise missiles, Falklands, Gibraltar, Hong Kong] [declassified 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Pym PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: Call on the Prime Minister by Sir SY Chung, CBE, Senior Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong: 20 December”) [summary of Lord Belstead visit and briefing] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Lord Belstead minute to Pym (“Hong Kong”) [summary report of visit to Hong Kong] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 minute to MT (“Statement on the Rate Support Grant settlement”) [Heseltine statement to Parliament] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Lord Cockfield letter to Brittan (corporate objectives for BAA) [“acutely sensitive”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Civil Commissioner of the Falklands telegram to FCO (“200 mile exclusive economic zone”) [UK economic investment] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office letter to FCO (“Shackleton report”) [economy of the Falkland Islands] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO (“Press summary”) [violence at pro-democracy rally; repatriation and burial of Falklands casualties] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Arts and amenities: Brittan letter to Channon (Arts Council grants) [additional funding] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (“Financial management”) [MT taking close interest] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 internal minute: Ingham to Coles (Nuclear deterrence and disarmament) [case for MT to give major speech] [declassified 2016]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Child support and the poverty trap”) [MT in favour of an income tax allowance] [declassified 2013]
Info only 82 Dec 17 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Remarks visiting Harrier factory
Info only 82 Dec 17 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech opening Kingston Conservative Association Headquarters
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr 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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