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PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute for Powell (“Anglo-German Special Advisers/Private Secretary Contacts”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to FCO ("UK/Soviet Relations") [MT rejects FCO plan to invite Chernenko to UK] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 667 to FCO (2315Z) (“Cyprus”) [“Secretary General determined to run with the Cyprus ball himself”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Younger minute to Jenkin (“Urban Programme Review”) [“I can sustain our present position probably until the summer recess but beyond that we could be in a very difficult position”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“Argentina”) [international loans] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO to No.10 (“Saudi Offer of Military Assistance to the United Arab Emirates”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Kaunda (UK position on situation in Angola) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 30 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: strategy”) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jul 1 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jul 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 601 to FCO (0340Z) ("Jagjit Singh Chauhan") [recent statements unlikely to be actionable] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Transcript of BBC Radio 4 'World This Weekend' interview with Ian MacGregor (miners' strike: current situation) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute (“Treasury Economic Forecast: June 1984 Report”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Singapore: MT message to Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore (possible visit) [travel plans] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 ("Report on the South Atlantic Fund for the Prime Minister, October 1983-May 1984") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Berne telegram to FCO ("Relations with Argentina") [Argentina might accept the invitation to talks with Britain in present form] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("The Film Industry: Taxation") ["time is now very tight... If it is not possible [for the Chancellor and I] to reach agreement by close of play on Monday... I will have to bring the issue to you"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("Taxation of the Film Industry") ["that the industry should be permitted to write off part of the expenditure on a film before receipts started to come in... I am afraid that I cannot agree to such a concession... I am [however] offering three concessions to the industry"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Jopling letter to Jenkin (UK environmental achievements) ["I am still left with the impression that you have not fully appreciated the very real changes which we have made... in order to achieve the right balance between agriculture and conservation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Post-Fontainebleau issues and Enlargement") [Timms, Legras: record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Proposed Review of the BBC External Services") [BBC Activity Reviews] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") [options for how to proceed with project] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: High Commission of India message to Westland Helicopters ("Procurement of WG.30") [selection of helicopter for India] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") [renegotiation/cancellation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Department of Energy briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with Exxon - 3 July") [Sleipner deal with Norway] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Jenkin letter to Whitelaw ("Dog Licensing") [draft consultation paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Gowrie letter to Biffen ("David Steel's Freedom of Information (No 2) Bill (S.O. 39)") [details of three FoI Bills & proposed Government responses] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Rees, John Redwood, Robin Ibbs, Robert Armstrong) ["Urban Policy and Programme Review: Report"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Maintaining the Strength of the Science Base") ["implications of transferring to the university-Research Council system £20M presently intended for intra-mural research in MOD"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Brittan PS letter to Jenkin PS ("Visits to Liverpool by Members of the Character") [police protection advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Heseltine ("Non-Industrial Civil Service Pay Negotiations 1984") [next steps following unions' rejection of latest offer] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Future Fighter Aircraft") [proposed feasibility study on collaboration with France, W. Germany, Italy & Spain] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Fowler letter to Whitelaw ("Diet and Cardiovascular Disease") [Chief Medical Officer's report on causes of cardiovascular disease recommends reduction of fat and salt intake; MT comment: 'The famers won't be very pleased!'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Redwood minute to MT ("Nationalised Industries Investment and Financing Review: E(A)") [supports 'major cuts in the proposed External Financing Limits for the nationalised industries'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (military preparations by the Soviet Union) [MT alerted by intelligence report] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Michael Alison minute for MT (meeting 1922 Committee Executive) [MT to ask questions on GLC, presentation of Government programme, looming conflict between ‘green’ objectives and farming?] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 17 (Economic Prospects) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Rees memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 18 (1984 Public Expenditure Survey) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 23rd (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Coal Dispute - Numbers at Work") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: report on Walker-MacGregor meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with the Chancellor and Chief Secretary”) [Public Expenditure Cabinet, local authority expenditure, money supply] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Bruce Sutherland letter to MT (economic reform and taxation) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 letter to MOD ("Anti-Satellite Systems and Arms Control") [MT's response to MOD/FCO paper on ASATs, SDI and arms control] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Cradock minute to Powell ("Anti-Satellite Systems and Arms Control") [Cradock's assessment of joint MOD/FCO paper on anti-satellite systems, SDI and military uses of space] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Secretary of State's Visit to Moscow: First Session of Talks with Gromyko") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Secretary of State's Visit to Moscow: Gromyko's Speech on East/West and Anglo/Soviet Relations") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell (“Message from the Prime Minister to Mr Trudeau”) [Trudeau’s resignation as Canadian Prime Minister and Liberal leader] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Cartagena Conference”) [the Latin American Conference on debt] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Treasury Economic Progress Report (“International Debt”) [No. 169, July 1984] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Banks’ International Lending”) [survey by the Bank of England] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 2342 to FCO (2330Z) (“Release of Military Spares to Iran”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Canada: MT letter to outgoing PM Trudeau of Canada (farewell wishes) [role in Commonwealth, economic summits, resolving international issues] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("FRG: draft General Budget for 1985") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Ridley minute to MT ("Civil Aviation Review") ["due to report... on the review which I asked them to undertake, of the implications of privatising British Airways... I summarise the general lines on which they seem likely to report"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 letter to Lord Gowrie PS ("Direct Entry Principal Competition") [MT "not persuaded of the case... this year... [agrees with] the removal of internal barriers to promotion... would be grateful for a report ... as soon as possible on how more general progress might be made in this area"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Bus White Paper") ["It was agreed that I should urgently revise the draft Annexes... amendments in the [attached] revised text"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("The Film Industry: Taxation") ["to contrive our escape from the cobwebs of quango and levy system which enmesh Government in the film industry... need not damage the Budget. The Chancellor is not willing to take the risk"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT (taxation of the film industry) ["The way this is being handled is ridiculous... you do not know the costs of Mr. Tebbit's new option... You may wish to decide now that the Treasury position is correct"; MT requests further clarification of options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Prospects for the Irish Presidency") [EC enlargement; finance for Budget overrun in 1984; Common Agricultural Policy; removal of barriers to trade; Lome negotiations; European unity and institutional reform; Northern Ireland] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("1982 Risk-Sharing Refund: TCSC Enquiry") [line to take for Economic Secretary's appearance before Treasury & Civil Service Committee] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: Work of the Commission on Industrial Policy") ["hidden barriers to a genuine common market"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Outcome of Fontainebleau: Public Expenditure Implications") [lines to take] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Guinea: No.10 briefing for MT ("Visit by Senior Guinean Government Ministers") [military coup; human rights; debt] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (electricity prices) [local authority capital overspend; miners' strike; CEGB costs/price increase] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Clifford Garvin, Archibald Foster) ["Visit of Mr. Clifford Garvin: Chairman of Exxon": oil market; Sleipner Gas; gas regime in the US; US economy; unitary taxation in the US] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Clifford Garvin, Chairman of Exxon and Archibald Foster, Chairman of Esso) [world oil market; Sleipner Gas] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Brittan minute to MT ("Prison Contacts") [Working Party report on controlling the contacts of people accused of security offences: special custody arrangements; priviliged contacts with legal advisers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to David Barclay ("Public Service Pensions") ["The Committee should be prepared to set a timetable for action, not just commission another paper"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (promoting competition in Defence procurement & supply) [paper requested by MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Peter Walker letter to Rees ("IFR: Corporation Tax") [Rees defends 'extra tax' for private companies] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Young minute to MT ("British Steel") [difficulties at BSC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Nationalised Industries' 1984 Investment and Financing Review: E(A) (84) 36") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Armstrong minute to MT (“Contingency planning for an oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [report of working group for an oil tanker strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Spain: Michael Alison note to Charles Powell (meeting with Eduardo Serra) [Spanish foreign policy] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Drugs: Stephen Sherbourne letter to Mark Worrall (Young Conservatives National Advisory Committee resolution on heroin) [“There is no question of the Government decriminalising the possession and use of heroin”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Tebbit letter to Lawson (“Commercial Fraud”) [supports Fraud Investigation Group but concerned at delay] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Brittan minute to MT ("Miners' Dispute: South Yorkshire Police Authority") [miners' strike: situation at Orgreave] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-MacGregor-Gregson-Butler-Turnbull) [miners' strike: NCB/NUM talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prior letter to Brittan (“Derogation from International Human Rights Instruments”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Secretary of State's Visit to Moscow: Second Session of Talks with Gromyko: 3 July") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Your Visit to Moscow: 1-3 July: General Impressions") ["The first visit to the Soviet Union since 1977 by a British Foreign Secretary...was hard pounding"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Forum Debate: Press Comment”) [“on largely predictable lines”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS (“Message from the Prime Minister to Mr. Trudeau”) [MT approved amended version] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell (New High Commissioner to Canada) [draft letter of introduction for Day] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Department of Trade & Industry letter to No.10 (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [planned commencement of service in latter half of 1987] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC Canberra telegram to FCO (“Post-Summit briefing: Sir C Tickell’s call on the Australian Prime Minister”) [“Hawke made largely standard but helpful comments”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute ("PM's Questions: State of the Reserve") [additional briefing as requested] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town to Howe (“Mr. P. W. Botha’s European Tour”) [his plans and objectives] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“Review of United Kingdom Domestic Support for Agriculture”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: consultations in London on future strategy”) [“UMELCO are now… widely accepted as spokesmen for the real concerns”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill - Elections”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Australia: Prime Minister Hawke of Australia letter to MT (nuclear tests 1952-63) [Royal Commission into safety precautions, disclosure of sensitive information] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Berne telegram to FCO ("Relations with Argentina") [MT "not surprised that the Argentinians have got cold feet"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Berne telegram to FCO ("Relations with Argentina") [Caputo's concerns about the publicity of the talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Press Handling After Cabinet Tomorrow") [public spending review] [declassified Jan 2014]

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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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