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Text 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Walker minute to MT (“Privatisation and the Energy industries”) [proposed Bill] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Biffen letter to Jenkin (recent discharge of radioactive material from Sellafield) ["...a matter of very considerable public concern... should be conveyed to the House by means of an Oral statement..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, King, Keith Joseph, Tebbit, Younger, Edwards, Rees, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, Patrick Mayhew, Lord Bellwin, Young, Armstrong) ["Work related training in the further education sector"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Lebanon") ["need to approach the Russians about a UN presence in Beirut"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT letter to President Assad (recent developments in the Middle East) ["I think it is important that we should explain our thinking to each other"; role of the Multinational Force] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: MT letter to Sir Austin Bide (intellectual property rights) ["I thought you would be interested to see the enclosed Green Paper"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Walker letter to MT (meeting with Chairman of the Electricity Council) [record of conversation about price increase] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ministers: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Treasury Ministers: Membership at Lloyds") [request from Lawson for special dispensation in regard to procedure for conflicts of interest] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Greenborough) [Chair of Review Body for nurses and professions allied to medicine: pay recommendations; management] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow/Britoil") [announcement of contract cancellation, with implication of ensuing closure; "very little support from any part of the House"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Orr-Ewing, Kenneth Baker, Lord Mottistone, Bowen Wells MP) ["Liberalisation in Telecommunications"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Security: MT letter to Ted Leadbitter MP (Commodore Dieter Gerhardt and British operations in the South Atlantic) [trial in South Africa for Soviet espionage; "absolutely no evidence... that Gerhardt may have obtained or disclosed information from British sources on operations in the South Atlantic last year"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: President Kyprianou letter to MT (Turkish occupation) [complaint of "a series of [recent] measures to consolidate and perpetuate"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Foreign policy: Hugh Thomas notes to MT (extract from Ford’s memoirs on Reagan, Falklands, etc) [“I didn’t take Reagan seriously”] [released 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Brittan-Biffen-Havers-Wakeham-Brennan-Armstrong-Goodall-Facer) ["Possible Proscription of Sinn Fein"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [paper on possible policy options for Northern Ireland] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Butler note to MT (thanks for Christmas party) ["It makes everyone in No.10 feel part of your extended family"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Reagan letter to MT (IRA bombing of Harrod's department store) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Harrods IRA bomb) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Lebanon: MT letter to President Asaad of Syria (situation in Lebanon) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Algeria: MT letter to President Benjedid of Algeria (UK-Algeria defence co-operation) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Belize: MT letter to Prime Minister Price of Belize (thanks for gift of Belize stamp album) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Dinner with Ji Pengfei: Chinese Garrison”) [“it would be impossible to send troops without publicity”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Constitutional and Governmental Development”) [new Territories Council] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Dinner with Ji Pengfei”) [Ji: “the first government of the SAR might be produced by consultation rather than election”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Ji Pengfei”) [“On detail, there were some signs of a disposition to compromise”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Butler minute to MT (“Operation Abercorn”) [media arrangements for visit] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Woodfield minute to Butler (“Operation Abercorn”) [programme and supporting brief for visit] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO (“Cyprus problem”) [“Kyprianou appearing to favour consultations under treaty of guarantee in parallel form”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1690 to FCO (0235Z) (“Commonwealth Action Group”) [“All the ministers are furious with Ramphal for dragging them to New York for no apparent purpose”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Tebbit minute to King (“Method of designating Assisted Areas”) [will need power to designate by reference to local authority wards] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute for No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) ["general picture more encouraging than in the last report"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Coles note to MT (Intervention of the West in the Gulf: Soviet reaction) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Goodall minute to MT (“Consequences of an Escalation of the Iran-Iraq War (OD(EM) (83) 4”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Agricultural Expenditure”) [overview: background, main issues, measures] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Chief Scientific Adviser minute for MT (“Agricultural Expenditure”) [the importance of scientific changes in agricultural policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Cabinet Office minute for MT (“Liquid Milk Prices”) [situation overview and changes recommendation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Lisbon telegram to FCO (“Argentina-Portugal”) [conversation between UK Ambassador & President Soares: Soares meeting with Alfonsin] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Argentina/Falklands: next steps with the Alfonsin Government”) [MT strongly disagrees with Howe] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Dec 20 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
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