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PDF 82 Sep 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson minute to MT (“Coal Industry”) [pay talks, power station endurance] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lawson minute to MT (“Mineworkers’ Wage Negotiations”) [“If the miners accepted such an offer it would be a significant blow to Scargill”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Vereker minute to MT (“Miners’ Pay”) [NCB-NUM negotiations] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (“Coal Industry”) [NUM-NCB pay talks] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Scholar minute to MT (NCB negotiating strategy) [media reports] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar (“NUM Wage Negotiations”) [“whether it is better to allow the pay offer to the miners to be presented as higher than it is”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Vereker minute to Mount (“NCB’s EFL for 1983/84”) [proposed increase] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lawson minute to Howe (“NUM Wage Negotiations”) [“request to all colleagues to maintain the lowest possible profile on all this”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar (“Miners’ Pay”) [“satisfactory degree of confusion about the figures”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Vereker minute to Mount (“The Miners”) [“they have no genuine pay grievance”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Ingham minute to Vereker (“The Miners - Government Publicity”) [“we are letting Scargill get away with too much”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Scholar minute to MT (“Miners’ Strike Ballot”) [government preparedness] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar (“The Miners”) [“miners are at their highest level in relation to average earnings”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar (“Questions: The Miners”) [should accept pay offer] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Vereker minute to Butler (“The Miners”) [power station endurance] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Ingham minute to MT (“Presentation - Protectionism: Coal”) [“we need to ensure that we do not get a rash of silly protectionist stories”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson minute to MT (“Industrial action in the coal industry”) [miners’ ballot, Ministers’ policy] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Vereker minute to MT (“Preparation for a Miners’ Strike”) [“Far better to give the miners the impression that we can cope very well”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on possible miners’ strike) [“the police would face a major task in handling mass picketing”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson minute to Scholar (“Industrial action in the coal industry”) [“continue to plan against the possibility of trouble next year”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lawson minute to Howe (“NUM Wage Claim”) [“The Union have now accepted the wage offer and have called off the overtime ban”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Mount minute to MT (“Cabinet, 4 November: Industrial Relations: Pay”) [“risk that decisions are going to be taken which will set in concrete existing assumptions and expectations about pay”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Howe minute to MT (“NUM Wage Settlement”) [“the NUM did have some success in using the threat of strike action”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Vereker minute to Mount (“Coal”) [latest ballot; closures; prospects for the Autumn] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson minute to Scholar (“Power Station Endurance”) [withstanding a coal strike] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar (“Power Station Endurance”) [“we must always bear the sensitivity of the pit closures issue in mind”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lawson minute to MT (“NCB Pit Closures”) [proposals and recent closures] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Howe minute to MT (“Power Station Endurance”) [“we must do everything possible to minimise the cost to the Exchequer”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lawson minute to MT (“Power Station Endurance”) [feasibility studies] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Mount minute to MT (“NCB Chairman”) [MacGregor “seen as a hatchet man”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Howe minute to MT (“NCB Pit Closures”) [“they can only improve the financial position of the industry if they reduce their excess capacity”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Moore letter to Brittan (“Foundry Coke Prices”) [assistance to NCB] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Moore letter to Howe (“The South Wales NUM Strike Demand”) [“it is by no means certain that, if a strike were to start, it would ‘spread like wildfire’”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson minute to Scholar (“Power Station Endurance”) [“There is no intervention which it would be useful for the Prime Minister to make”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Brittan letter to Moore (“Foundry Coke Prices”) [“very reluctant to agree to an extension of the foundry grant for another year”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lamont letter to Brittan (“Foundry Coke Prices”) [“concerned about the size of the price increases that would be necessary”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Scholar minute to Lawson PS (“Power Station Endurance”) [action to be taken] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lawson letter to Howe (“Power Station Endurance”) [cost of accelerated delivery exercise] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Vereker minute to Walters (“Pit Closures”) [NCB discussion document] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Vereker minute to Walters (“Pit Closures”) [NCB discussion document: “the present draft is hopeless”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Vereker minute to Mount (“Pit Closures”) [“Ministers will be invited to take a tactical decision”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lawson minute to MT (“Power Station Endurance”) [accelerated rate of deliveries] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Moore letter to Brittan (“Foundry Coke Prices”) [aid to NCB] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Moore letter to Howe (“NCB Pit Closures”) [developments at Snowdown and in South Wales] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lawson minute to MT (“NCB Pit Closures”) [“reluctance on the part of the miners themselves to strike”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 23 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson minute to MT (“NCB Pit Closures”) [“the need for substantial pit closures is not in dispute”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar (“Pit Closures”) [“The scale of closures needed for the NCB to operate commercially, without cross-subsidy, would be truly colossal”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (“Pit Closures”) [“Many of the pits most vulnerable to closure in 1983/84 would be in Scotland and Wales”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Brittan letter to Lawson (“CEGB Coal Imports”) [“there is the strongest case against such artificial distortions to the market”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lawson letter to Brittan (“NCB Pit Closures”) [NCB “considering the potential for achieving further acceleration in the rate of closures”] [declassified 2013]

Documents lie at the core of this website, each one dated and sorted chronologically (by default) in search results. Most are images in PDF format of original paper documents scanned or filmed for the site. There also transcripts of speeches and interviews, press articles, photos, videos, and more. The document database contains tens of thousands of items and permits complex searching.

Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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