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Text 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Lord Hailsham letter to Brittan (“The Prison Adjudication System”) [“view with considerable concern any possibility that the criminal courts which are already stretched to breaking point should have further burdens placed upon them”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT (“High Level Group Report”) [reduction of nuclear stockpile] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Competition and privatisation”) [“essential for you to put your full authority behind the privatisation programme”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Survey: education") ["you identify a number of issues on which the Prime Minister asked for more information": local authority capital expenditure; university capital expenditure; university student/staff ratios; number of teachers] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Prime Minister Nakasone letter to MT (Ninth Summit Meeting of Industrialised Nations: Science Conference on global issues) [details of proposal & request to nominate UK representatives] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Japan: Howe PS letter to MT (former Prime Minister Nobosuke Kishi: 88th birthday) [request for MT to send message via UK Ambassador, and proposed wording] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("Lebanon Internal") ["reconciliation dialogue to take place in Switzerland"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Tebbit minute to MT (revised Assisted Area Map) [timing] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Jenkin minute to MT ("Regional Directors in the North and the East Midlands") ["Four of our eight regional offices are "twinned"... separately based... but share the same Regional Director... twinning is not working"; MT "reluctantly" agrees to creation of new posts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Competition and Privatisation") [privatisation programme losing momentum; Lawson paper; lines to take for E(A) meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Delors & others) [International financial system, Brazilian debt, UK and French economies, EC budget] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO record of conversation (Rifkind-Chandernagor & others) [EC enlargement, institutions, internal market, EC/US relations, CAP] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Bob Hawke message to MT (America's Cup) [Australian victory] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler PS letter to No.10 Policy Unit (NHS Management Inquiry) [Fowler statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Tebbit minute to MT (changes to the Regional Development Grant Scheme) [delay of legislation pending revised Assisted Area Map] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet Defector: Mr Oleg Bitov") [announcement to press that request for asylum has been granted] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Procedure (Finance) Committee") [proposed Government response to report] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Press Major Commentary (The Times) Economic policy: "Chancellor allows no respite in struggle against inflation" ["unswerving determination to reduce inflation further"]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Brief for the Prime Minister: NUM Special Delegate Conference: 21 October 1983") [NUM rejects NCB pay offer] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [Anglo-French Summit: East-West relations, arms control, Allied cooperation, Falkland Islands, Middle East, EC issues, British-French bilateral relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [UN Resolution on the Falkland Islands, European issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [European Community issues, UN Resolution on the Falkland Islands] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Scholar letter to MT (Scholar's departure from No.10) ["It was a very great privilege and source of happiness to work for you"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Sherbourne record of conversation (MT-Emma Nicholson) [attracting professional women to the Conservative Party] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Readers' Digest") [briefing for interview] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Walters draft contribution to MT's Lord Mayor's Banquet speech ("Draft Piece for Prime Minister's Speech: World Recovery") [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Science: Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan letter to MT (proposal for conference on life science and mankind) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Belize: MT letter to Ted Rowlands MP (reports that British garrison about to be withdrawn from Belize are false) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Mr Kinnock and the US Budget Deficit”) [response to Kinnock’s suggestion “that we should emulate the US budget deficit in pursuit of growth”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson, Jacques Delors) [international financial system, Brazilian debt, UK and French economies, Community financing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Tebbit minute to Rees (“Rating: Non-Domestic Revaluation”) [implications of delay] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: call on Luo Jiahuan”) [record of discussion: Anthony Galsworthy, Jiahuan] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [record of discussion: Sir Percy Cradock, Yao Guang] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: informal contacts”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: future tactics”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Falklands at the General Assembly: American position”) [MT - “too mild in tone”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (article by Sir Nicholas Henderson in ‘The Economist’) [circumstances surrounding sinking of the ‘Belgrano’] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Oct 21 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Joint Press Conference with French President (Francois Mitterrand)
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