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PDF 84 Sep 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 letter to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: message to the Chinese Foreign Minister”) [MT comments on Howe minute] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Future of Hong Kong: draft White Paper”) [UK/China Agreement] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 8 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office telegram to UKE Budapest (European Commission) [MT acknowledgement of Lord Cockfield's acceptance of the role of Commissioner] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Tommy Thompson survey (coal dispute poll) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: assessment of progress in the working groups and ad hoc groups”) [“We have nothing to offer and much to ask”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Secretary of State’s message”) [Wu Xueqian too “busy today…tomorrow and all next week” to receive message personally] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong: message from Secretary of State”) [“have become increasingly concerned about difficulties which have arisen”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 9 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 9 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Spain: Sherbourne letter to Scott Hamilton, CCO (“Senor Fraga”) [possible meeting] [released 2014]
Text 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Irish Embassy letter to No.10 (Taoiseach Fitzgerald's meeting with the Prime Minister on 3rd September 1984) [cover note referring to letter of thanks for MT's hospitality] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 briefing for MT (Civil Aviation Authority review) [Howe comments; charter market firms] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Howe minute to Ridley (Civil Aviation Authority review) ["my comments on those aspects of the [draft Cabinet] paper which have an international dimension"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Civil Aviation Authority review") ["implications of the privatisation of British Airways... for competition"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Department of Education ("Council of Europe meeting of Ministers for Research") [proposal by Dr. Robin Nicholson to present idea for a 'European Royal Society' at the meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Stewart letter to MT ("Budget Council, 6/7 September") [report on proceedings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("Foreign Policy seminars: Chequers, Monday 1 October") [programme; participants; reference to discussion papers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to non-official participants (Seminar on NATO strategy, Chequers, 1 October) [cover letter only, referring to enclosed discussion paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Andrew Turnbull note to MT ("PLA Ballot") [results] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Whitelaw letter to Lord Hailsham ("Legislative Programme") [1985/86; 1986/87: emphasises need for early submission of developed proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Department of Employment letter to No.10 ("Seminar of Industry and Employment") [King's paper on 'Increasing Employment Through Deregulation'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Department of the Enviroment letter to No.10 ("Employment Seminar on 13 September") [Jenkin's papers on unused land and empty housing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Enlargement of the Community") ["enlargement will represent an economic cost... But the damage to Western political and security interests if the negotiations were to fail would be serious"; outline of specific objectives in defence of UK interests] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: Perez de Cuellar message to MT (funding for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Chair of the Women's Committee for Polina Paritsky (detention of Alexander Paritsky) [news of Paritsky's release] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 38th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry, Industrial Action in the Docks) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Monday 10 September 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("MISC 101(84)38th Meeting") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster's PS record of conversation (Lord Cockfield-Matyas Timar, President of the Hungarian National Bank) [Hungarian economy, relations with the USSR, world economic crisis] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO minute to No.10 (“Anglo-Italian Summit 18-19 October”) [Ministerial participation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Whitelaw letter to Howe (“Future of Hong Kong”) [Hong Kong Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Hong Kong Pensions”) [Hong Kong Bill] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: David Willets minute to No.10(“The computer strike at DHSS Newcastle”) [“when the strikers discover that they are not able to stop DHSS doing the uprating, they will realise they are in for a long struggle”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure in 1984-85") [overspend on local authority capital expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Department of Transport briefing for MT (Prime Minister's meeting with Chairman of British Midland Airways) [Civil Aviation Authority report on airline competition policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Biffen, Tebbit, Ridley, Wakeham, Ian Percival) ["CAA Review"; Civil Aviation Authority review of the implications of British Airways privatisation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Lord Cockfield letter to MT ("Aviation policy") ["You may wish to have a note of my views"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to President of the Confederation of British Industry (European Commission) ["I was grateful to have the CBI's views, and agree in general with the points you have made"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Rees letter to Jopling ("EC Agricultural Structures Proposals and Conservation") [comments on Jopling's proposed amendments; Treasury position] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKDel Strasbourg telegram to FCO ("European Parliament and the UK Refunds") [latest position] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to David Barclay ("Drugs") [media coverage; availability in schools; remedial measures; advises MT to convene meeting of key Ministers in advance of Party Conference debate] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: David Barclay minute to MT (drugs abuse campaign) [advice on how to address lack of progress; MT decides on PM letter to Brittan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: HM Treasury letter to No.10 ("Industry and Employment Seminar") [paper on 'The Link Between Pay and Jobs'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Dublin telegram 470 to FCO (1850Z) ("Informal Meeting of Foreign Ministers on Enlargement in Dublin: 11 September") [record of conversation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Enlargement of the Community") ["One asks onself why we ever got involved with it... But there are some useful gains... [and] should put paid to a lot of the guff about European Union/Federal Europe since it will obviously be impractical"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/Central America: National Security Planning Group minutes (1800Z) ("Review of the [words redacted] and Central America Special Activities") (NSPG 0095) [declassified May 2015]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Robin Butler minute for MT (“Aide memoire”) [“Ideas mentioned by the PM for next re-shuffle” - Gow possible Chief Secretary (among others)] [released 2015]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: David Hart note to MT (NCB pit closure formula) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 11 September 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (Miners' Wives Back to Work Campaign requests meeting with MT) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("MISC 101(84)39th Meeting") [miners' and docks strikes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Cable”) [“Many of the pilot franchise companies are disappointed and frustrated”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries (“Ministerial Changes”) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (the forced removal of the Kwangema community) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: the end-game”) [record of discussion: Youde, EXCO: “sombre mood”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: reply to your message”) [record of discussion: Evans, Wu Xueqian: “another big step forward”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cradock minute for Powell (“OD(K) 12 September - Hong Kong: Pensions”) [draft UK/China Agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cabinet Office briefing for No.10 (“OD(K): future of Hong Kong: draft White Paper”) [draft UK/China Agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“OD(K): Hong Kong: Pensions”) [draft UK/China Agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“OD(K): Hong Kong: state of negotiations”) [draft UK/China Agreement] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to Powell (MT's draft reply to Mr George Foulkes MP) [circumstances surrounding the sinking of the Belgrano] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Tebbit PS ("DTI Expenditure") [spending cuts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT ("The Nott Undertakings") ["You asked to see the context of the John Nott undertakings quoted in Lord King's letters to MPs"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, Michael Bishop) ["CAA Review: British Midland Airways"; Civil Aviation Authority review of the implications of British Airways privatisation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC Commission appointments; MT talks with FitzGerald; 1984 supplementary Budget/1985 draft Budget; UK rebates & budgetary discipline; EC enlargement negotiations; political cooperation: measures against terrorism & abuse of diplomatic immunity; North Sea fishing quotas] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Foreign Policy seminar at Chequers, 1 October") [MT agrees to Robert Armstrong's attendance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Visit to the UK by Mr. David Lange, New Zealand Prime Minister and Foreign Minister") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Megaw: The Payment of Permanent and Deputy Secretaries") [job weighting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Heseltine ("ROFs: Guarantee for Pensions After Privatisation") [Royal Ordnance Factories: Lawson proposes meeting with Heseltine to address the latter's misgivings about limitations of Government guarantee for ex-civil service staff] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Seminar on Industry and Employment: 13 September") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Enlargement") [handling of the meeting/key issues] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Charles Powell minute to Cradock (“Possible visit of the PM to Peking”) [should MT sign Joint Declaration in person?] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Charles Powell minute to Cradock ("Possible visit of the PM to Peking") [should MT sign the Joint Declaration in person?] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UK Chargé d'Affaires Afghanistan despatch to Howe ("First Impressions of Kabul") [Charles Powell: "Quite an interesting read"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 39th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry, Industrial Action in the Docks) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefng for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal and the Docks") [miners' and docks strikes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 12 September 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (documents from NCB-NUM negotiations) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Cabinet Committees: Effect of Ministerial Changes”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Brittan) [“VIP Visitors: Carriage of Arms by Bodyguards”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Message from Foreign Minister Wu”) [record of discussion: Youde, EXCO] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Call on Zhou Nan: organisation of work”) [draft Agreement: “the wretched Zhou creating difficulties again”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: draft 1985 central government budget") ["...presented as a turning-point in French fiscal history."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Lawson minute for Heseltine ("Falkland Islands: Future Capital Works") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("European Community: German attitudes") [Ambassador Bullard's initial impressions following first talks with key figures in West German government] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Ad Hoc Committee on Institutional Affairs: Statement by Kohl in Bundestag") ["Mitterrand had intended the Committee to consist of... independent personalities... Some member states had however undermined this"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKDel Strasbourg telegram to FCO ("European Parliament and UK Refunds") [statement by Chairman of the Budget Committee] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Foreign Policy: Possible Conflict of Principles") [Chequers seminar, 1 October: cover letter only, referring to enclosed discussion paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: FCO telegram 1581 to UKE Washington (1200Z) ("Laker Attorney General's Visit") [revised brief] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lord Hailsham letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Co-operative Development Agency and Industrial Development Bill") [implementation; effect of prohibition on commercial activities/partnerships] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: Heseltine letter to Howe ("UK-Sri Lanka Defence Agreement") ["I share your view that it would be awkward if the Agreement were to be invoked in a future crisis"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Charles Powell minute to MT ("President Kyprianou") [advisability of meeting with Kyprianou in advance of his own meeting with Pérez de Cuéllar] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: MT letter to Leon Brittan ("Drug Abuse") ["we urgently need a positive, coherent and effective response"; requests to see Brittan's draft policy statement in advance of Party Conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Cross Channel Electricity Link") [case for delaying full use of the second link & for short-term agreement with the French, in light of ongoing coal industry dispute] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Malaysia: MT letter to Prime Minister Mahathir of Malaysia (acknowledges Malaysian termination of referral of appeals to the Privy Council) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Redwood minute to MT ("Employment Seminar") [recommends that Young chairs committee to pursue issues on pay and jobs] [declassified Dec 2014]

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