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Text 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Manpower Services Commission letter to King PS (White Paper on Training) [timing of publication] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3826 to FCO (0330Z) ("President Reagan's press conference, 20 December: Middle East") [summary] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: No.10 minute to MT (Audit Commission) [cover note referring to an AC manual which "illustrates some of the horrors the AC has uncovered"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Withstanding a strike in the gas industry") [Official Group (MISC 98) report & summary of key points] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Treasury ministers' membership at Lloyds; review and simplification of tax; names for Court of the Bank of England; bank taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT ("Unisat") [summary of recent situation report correspondence (attached) from Brittan & Tebbit and of advice from Policy Unit rejecting under-writing of future costs, with which MT concurs] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie PS letter to Brittan PS ("Report on Race Relations in the Civil Service") [publication] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [rollback of protectionism; 1984 EC Budget/1983 refunds; Energy Council; Transport Council; Steel Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (Seminar on Industry & Employment: Checklist of Conclusions) [MT "would be grateful if the Ministers indicated could take the action attributed to them"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Australia: HMS Invincible") [policy on disclosure of presence of nuclear weapons] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Department of Trade and Industry letter to No.10 ("Guangdong Nuclear Project") [current state of play] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Fowler PS ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Sir John Greenborough") [complaint about briefing provided to MT: 3% public pay sector pay assumption] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Jenkin letter to Biffen (dog license legislation) [timing of Government statement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Turkish Prime Minister Ozal letter for MT (thanking for the message of congratulations) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Lord Bridge letter to MT (Security Commission Report on the Aldridge case) [submission of Report: officer charged with breach of Official Secrets Act 1920] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Peking telegram 1387 to FCO (0600Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Zhao Ziyang") [Chinese government seeking to expedite pace of discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office letter to Department of Defence ("Leak Inquiry: Cruise Missiles") [DPP directs police to investigate and interview officials] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Robin Cook MP letter to Howe (ESPRIT) ["Whilst you are right to claim that funds could be made available without increasing "own resources" if the CAP could be brought under control, I see no reason why the go ahead for ESPRIT cannot now be given as one way of shifting the EEC's near exclusive concern with agriculture"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 letter to the Student and Academic Campaign for Soviet Jewry (persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union) [request for message of support] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: TUC statement of guidance (“Trade Union political funds”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT ("Proscription of Sinn Fein") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland: Possible Proscription of Sinn Fein") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland: Possible Proscription of Sinn Fein") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT message to Reagan (IRA bombing of Harrod's department store) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Prime Minister Gonzalez of Spain (IRA bombing of Harrods) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to President Mitterrand (IRA bombing of Harrods) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Turkey: Prime Minister Ozal of Turkey message to MT (thanks for message of congratulations on appointment as Prime Minister) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Call on Zhao Ziyang”) [“the Chinese side were willing to discuss anything with us so long as their basic principles were not infringed”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Zhao Ziyang”) [“it would now be possible and necessar to expedite the pace of discussions so as to lead to agreement at an early date”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Zhao Ziyang”) [“Zhao said that one aspect of China’s sovereignty over Hong Kong would be China’s right to station troops there”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Coles letter to Ricketts (“Hong Kong”) [“the Prime Minister has noted from recent telegrams that the Chinese are reluctant to envisage progress towards democratic institutions in Hong Kong before 1997”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Roger Henning to Martin Berthoud (the situation) [“every member of the Chinese business community in Hong has a differing opinion”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Hong Kong observers’s paper (Sino-British talks) [as given to Chinese Government] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Butler minute to MT (“Operation Abercorn”) [plan and draft statement for visit] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Woodfield letter to Butler (“Operation Abercorn”) [MT to issue a written statement] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 3827 to FCO (1516Z) (George Shultz’s visit) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 note to MT (Peter Tapsell letter handed to John Coles) [US deficit] [declassified 2014]
Text 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Northern Ireland: Thatcher letter to Reagan (outrage at Harrods IRA bomb) [unclassified]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (cost of publicising plans to abolish GLC) [Parliamentary answer] [declassified 2014]
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