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Text 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Leon Brittan minute to MT ("VHF Band II and Independent National Radio") [financial implications of expanding BBC radio services] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Jenkin minute to MT ("Rolls Royce: Collaboration") [negotiations; issues to be resolved] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Michael Heseltine minute to Francis Pym ("BBC External Services Pay") [meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 664 to FCO (1545Z) ("British Airlines: US Anti-Trust Action") ["if anything, attitudes here have hardened"; options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Keith Committee") [collection and enforcement powers of Inland Revenue departments: income tax and VAT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Dolours Price") [Prior intends to cancel Northern Ireland residence condition; MT annotation: "quite wrong" to cancel; "I think we are just being played along"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lawson PS letter to No.10 ("Publication of Nationalised Industries' Objectives") ["as soon as possible, in order to disscoiate them from the announcement of... [Ian] MacGregor's appointment"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Forward look: public expenditure survey”) [set to rise “by about 5% in real terms over the 5 year period”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office internal minute ("Employment schemes for young people: UK/Germany") [forwarded to No.10 in advance of European Council, 21/22 March] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: Governor of Gibraltar telegram to FCO ("Spanish naval incursions") ["With the Spanish Foreign Minister visit to London in mind, I propose no... formal protest unless this incident proves to be the forerunner of further incursions"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Forward Look: public expenditure") [interim assessment costing Ministerial contributions to Forward Look: expenditure set to rise in real terms, compounding "the problems of reducing taxation and borrowing"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Younger letter to Jenkin ("Ravenscraig and Gartcosh") [protest at planned closure of Gartcosh & anticipated knock-on effect on Ravenscraig] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to Private Secretaries ("Government Bills suitable for offering to Private Members in the 1983/84 Parliamentary Session") [request for suggestions] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Rifkind letter to Tebbit ("Future of Concorde") ["I do not think that we can presume anything at this stage about our policy should the talks fail"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Pym PS letter to No.10 (Arab League delegation to UK) [guest list] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Arab League delegation: Press statement") [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 briefing for MT ("Visit by Arab League delegation") [programme; guest list] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: FCO briefing for MT (Arab League delegation to UK) [Israel/Palestine; Jordan; defence sales] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Safety of British citizens in Matabeleland") [report of abductions & murders] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Tornado for Greece") ["could be worth approximately £500m to the UK and maintain employment for some 2,000 workers... export orders are urgently needed... We face fierce French and American competition"; draft letter from MT to Papandreou] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (tax relief for mortgage interest: introduction of new scheme) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 10th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: HMT letter to No.10 ("Special Advisors at HM Treasury") [Chancellor minded to appoint William Hague as special advisor; MT: "NO - this is a gimmick and would be deeply resented by many who have financial and economic experience"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO letter to No.10 ("INF") [draft reply to Reagan's message on INF negotiations] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Arts: Priestley minute to Gow ("Special Financial Scrutiny of the Royal Opera House and the Royal Shakespeare Company") [arts subsidies] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 10, 1983 Series ("The 1983 Budget") [released 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Henry Steel letter to Graham Angel (“Extradition from the Republic of Ireland”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 630 to FCO (0115Z) (US St Patrick’s Day parade) [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Owen minute to Scholar (“National Coal Board Objectives”) [“opportunity to propose more ambitious objectives”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 666 to FCO (1835Z) (“Northern Ireland: President Reagan’s St. Patrick Day Statement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO (“Israeli arms for Argentina”) [Rhodes Boyson conversation with Menachem Begin] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT (Cable and employment prospects) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Baroness Young (obligations of civil service managers during industrial action) [pros and cons for notes on personal files of activists] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Mar 17 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
PDF 83 Mar 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions including US report) [declassified 2013]
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