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Text 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: MT letter to Sonny Ramphal (CHOGM: response to Mrs Gandhi’s address of welcome) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury briefing to No.10 (Public Expenditure Survey 1983: Defence) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit internal minute to PS (“Public Expenditure: Defence”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“Economic assumptions”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Fowler PS letter to Rees PS (“Social Security programme”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Heseltine PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (“Privatisation and competition”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("Public expenditure survey: university current expenditure") [proposed compromise between MISC 99 recommended £50 million cut and Keith Joseph's resistance to it] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [Robert Armstrong, Dermot Nally: Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Council: Co-ordinating Committee: final text of report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT message to President Reagan ("US casualties in Beirut") [tribute ceremony] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT letter to President Mubarak (Lebanon and the Middle East) [thoughts on the way forward for negotiating peace in wake of bomb attacks on US/French forces] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Security at the British Embassy, Beirut") [contingency measures following recent bomb attacks on US/French forces] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Sir Antony Part letter to Brittan ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite: Technical Transmission Standards") ["a high level political approach... might now clinch the French Government's acceptance of the C-MAC packet system as the single European standard"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Copenhagen telegram to FCO ("Denmark/INF") [details of Danish Parliament debate on nuclear arms control] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to President Mitterrand (European Council: post-Stuttgart negotiations) [appointment of senior official for bilateral contacts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS minute to No.10 ("Meeting with Ian Stewart") [Economic Secretary: proposed meeting with MT to discuss European policies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Buchanan-Smith letter to Lamont ("Britoil Contract at Scott Lithgow") ["If Britoil are prepared to negotiate... it would be a mistake not to steer BS into this course of action"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Ferdinand Mount & Andrew Turnbull (Nationalised Industries Chairmen's Group proposals) [details; handling] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: George Younger letter to Tebbit ("Review of Regional Economic Policy") [White Paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Greece: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Greece: The Noel-Baker Estate") [Noel-Baker negotiations with Greek government, situation of British property holders] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: John Coles minute to MT ("Mr. Papandreou") [during meeting Papandreou wants to concentrate on EC issues, should raise concerns on British property holders] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Robert Armstrong at 0830 on Friday, 4 November") [candidate to head Police Department in the Home Office; leak to 'Guardian' newspaper regarding Cruise deployment, and decision on Government legal action] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to MT ("UK/Soviet and East/West relations") [MT requests redraft of attached paper, to exclude references to her forthcoming visit to Hungary and her possible meeting with Andropov, before circulation to OD committee] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Greville Janner MP/President of the Commonwealth Jewish Council letter to MT (persecution of Jews in Zimbabwe) [request for MT to intercede with Mugabe] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe) ["Grenada"; MT requests paper on "various claims made by the United States during the Grenada crisis and our own estimate of the validity of those claims"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [despite some lack of clarity about Irish ideas, "Officials nevertheless argue that it would be premature to dismiss Dr Fitzgerald's ideas out of hand"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 32nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Grenada, Lebanon, Argentina, Arms Control, EC Budget, Unemployment Figures) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to Sherbourne ("Speaking Notes") [arrangements for issuing speaking notes to Ministers and others] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Joint Report of the Steering Committee of the AIIC to the Anglo-Irish Summit on Anglo-Irish Contacts and Co-Operation [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Admiral Staveley (thanks for Falklands dinner at Northwood) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Zambia: MT message to President Kaunda of Zambia (congratulation on re-election as President) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT message to Reagan (pleased that UK Ambassador to Washington will join Reagan at Fort Le Jeune ceremony) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: MT letter to Prime Minister Mara of Fiji (last Fijians leave the British Army) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT letter to President Mitterrand (bilateral contacts for decision-making in advance of Athens European Council) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Lebanon: MT letter to President Mubarak of Egypt (situation in Lebanon and the Middle East) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: MT letter to Geoffrey Howe (thanks for excellent service by FCO since beginning of Grenada crisis) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Jimmy Savile (plans for MT visit to Stoke Mandeville hospital) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Visit of Spanish Foreign Minister: Remarks on Hong Kong”) [“Questions of sovereignty and territorial integrity could not be open for discussion”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Jenkin minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (Property Services Agency restructuring) [proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [“Argentine next-of-kin”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Elections in Argentina”) [“preliminary assessment of the results”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Arts and amenities: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Lord Gowrie) [funding for the Royal Opera House and Royal Shakespeare Company] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Nov 3 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
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