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PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Monday 22 October 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("MISC 101(84) 45th Meeting: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to DHSS ("Payments to Striking Miners for Mortgage Interest") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Turner letter to MT (Brighton bomb) [“how glad we were you escaped without injury”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: UKE Budapest telegram to FCO (“Visit to Britain of Matyas Szuros, Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson letter to Dennis Skinner MP (Bank of England’s decision to rescue Johnson Matthey Bankers company) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 3147 to FCO (1906Z) (“Defence Sales to Iran”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Gowrie minute to MT ("Review of Support Services for Research and Development: Progress Report") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Tom King minute to MT ("Training Loans") [proposed scheme for adults] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Tom King minute to MT ("Employment and Training Measures 1985-86") [revised proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 3293 to FCO (1015Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit") [MT visit to Hong Kong following signature of Agreement will have more impact in period before Christmas] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cradock minute to Powell ("Hong Kong Party") [proposed guest list for party to celebrate Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3159 to FCO (0445Z) ("The Presidential Campaign") [report on second & final televised debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Burdens of Regulation on Small Firms: Enterprise") [Transport measures] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("Cross Channel Link") [disagreement over public expenditure forecast; National Coal Board expenditure & investment post-strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Fowler letter to Whitelaw ("The Queen's Speech: The Water (Fluoridation) Bill") [mention of the Bill to be dropped, pending outcome of fluoride safety concerns investigation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Summit: Ashford Castle, Republic of Ireland") ["proposals on participation by Ministers and officials at the meeting"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [Alfonsin's interview with Mitterrand, the Falklands dispute, delivery of new destroyers and a submarine to Argentina] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Falklands") [the UN vote: "Genscher will personally decide how FRG votes at last minute"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Brussels telegram to FCO ("Falklands Debate") ["Belgium will probably again abstain in this year's Falklands debate at the UN"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Falklands and Alfonsin's Visit to Paris") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("IDEM Study - Stage 1 Report and the Way Forward") ["disappointment that the Steering Group are minded to drop the SIDEM proposal... The major advantage of electronic mail... is speed... where speed is important, so is security"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland (thanks for message) [“The wickedness of this terrorist act serves only to reinforce our determination to defend our peaceful and democratic way of life”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 45th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Mr. Concannon") [miners' strike: position of Nottingham miners] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 23 October 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: DHSS letter to No.10 (extract from Supplementary Benefit Handbook on trade disputes) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Fowler letter to Walker (social security benefits: consequences of NACODS strike) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Ian MacGregor letter to Lord Shawcross (NACODS dispute: MacGregor proposes meeting) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MT letter to Malcolm Edwards (miners' strike) ["The nation is indebted to you for what you have done to enable our economy to be kept at work"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT ("Prolonging Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Whybrew and Young minute to Turnbull ("Power Station Supplies and Fuel Imports") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") ["[I] continue to believe that the process we are engaged on represents the least unpromising way forward on the Northern Ireland question"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Labour: Sherbourne note for MT (Neil Kinnock) [he “is no better after the break than he was before”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish relations: Northern Ireland”) [“there has been a marked increase of realism and lowering of expectations on the Irish side”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1199 to FCO (0035Z) (“Cyprus: Secretary General’s initiative”) [“if pressed Denktash would be prepared to go first to “approximately 30 percent” and ultimately to exactly 30 percent”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to Turnbull (“Funding”) [gilts hit hard by oil price & NACODS, nothing to report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute (“Monthly Monetary Report: September to December”) [sharp rise in broad aggregates in September, M0 in target range] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: David Owen letter to Lawson (Bank of England’s decision to rescue Johnson Matthey Bankers company) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: MT letter to Prime Minister Craxi of Italy (thanking for the gift) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Chairmanship of the British Technology Group") [candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Peter Rees letter to John Butcher MP (tax incentives to industry to support education and training) [encourages Committe to consider existing tax reliefs rather than proposing new ones] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 internal minute ("CBI Conference") [enhanced security for MT's attendance following Brighton Bomb] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("British Shipbuilders Privatisation and Defence") [Type 22 frigate orders: "Clearly the manner of placing these orders into yards with gross shipbuilding overcapacity and on the point of privatisation is going to be critical"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Jenkin minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: comment on Rees' proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: comment on Rees' proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Autumn Statement and BT") [Statement to be delayed due to legal requirement for full disclosure of material information relevant to the flotation; effect of the delay on the public launch of the flotation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: MT letter to Prime Minister Willoch of Norway (air pollution) [“strong grounds for concern and effective solutions have to be found”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: Prime Minister Hermannsson of Iceland message to MT (Nordic countries statement on air pollution) [urges UK to “adhere to the proposals”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: Prime Minister Lange of New Zealand letter to MT (Law of the Sea Convention) [“signature binds the United Kingdom to nothing”, opportunity change “what you do not like”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Ivory Coast: MT letter to President Houphouet-Boigny of Ivory Coast (utility supplies) [consortium assistance with gas plans] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Director-General of the British Council letter to MT ('Whitty boys: boarding school fees' case; FCO proposal for financial management/policy review) [MT: "...must pay [their fees]. It is not a matter of law - but of doing the only decent thing"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [senior staff appointment; the £1 coin; trade figures; partnership taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKDEL Strasbourg telegram to FCO ("Alfonsin's Speech to European Parliament") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Hesletine minute to Willie Whitelaw ("The Defence Programme") [objections to decreases in spending 1986-88] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: MT letter to Prime Minister Willoch (air pollution) [UK policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Attorney General letter to Cabinet ("New European Commission") [allocation of portfolios] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with Craxi & Mitterrand; Howe report on Foreign Affairs Council; EC enlargement; tariff cuts for developing countries; EC budgetary discipline; Jopling report on Agriculture Council; EC Budget Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Prime Minister Lange letter to MT (UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["signature binds the... [UK] to nothing and it gives you an opportunity to play an effective role in changing what you do not like"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley minute to MT ("Fixed Link Across the Channel") [market interest & French Government position] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (thanks for being at Brighton) [“which has cost our friends so dear”]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Michael Colvin (thanks for message) [daughter Amanda “remembered to bring out the speech”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 24 October 1984") [miners' strike: NACODS strike called off] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy paper ("Endurance and a NACODS strike") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [plan for informing Unionist parties of Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT on Howe's minute: "Her general comment is that she is becoming very pessimistic about this exercise"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit by Mr Gorbachev") [proposed arrangements for Gorbachev visit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Alan Greencross to David Mellor (Greater London Council) [“facts on restructuring”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Sherbourne minute for MT (points raised at Central Office meeting) [local government, security at Central Office] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Secretary PS minute to Charles Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Hurd meetings with Irish and Northern Irish leaders] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1213 to FCO (2315Z) (“Cyprus: Secretary General’s initiative”) [de Cuéllar “trying to increase the pressure on the two sides but so far without success”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Keith Joseph letter to Edwards (“Corporal Punishment in Schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute for MT (Van Der Post suggests MT meet South African Leader of the Opposition) [SAG won't like but no sustainable objection since you have met Botha] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (detention orders against people in British Consulate in Durban) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban and Coventry”) [detention orders against people in British Consulate: British-South African relations] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: MT minute to Ministers in Charge of Departments (Implementation of Improvements in the Financial Management of Advisory and Other Public Bodies) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Moore letter to Jenkin ("E(DL)(84)4. Unused Land and Empty Housing") [Treasury note to follow up Jenkin paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Training Loans") [comments on Tom King's pilot scheme proposal] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 letter to Rees PS (Kenneth Whitty: compensation for dependants) [details of award calculation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: recommended line to take to 'round off...correspondence' between ministers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Ethiopia: MT telegram to Taoiseach FitzGerald of Ireland (famine) [EC aid] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute: Policy Unit to Charles Powell (European Monetary System) [case against UK joining the Exchange Rate Mechanism] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Falklands at the UN General Assembly") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("1983 Refunds") ["expect to.. [be paid] in the course of today"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 34th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Coal Industry") [miners' strike: no details of planned pit closures in the Soviet Union] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Polish Coal Industry") [miners' strike: no details of planned pit closures in Poland] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Thursday 25 October 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Malcolm Edwards letter to MT (thanks for letter) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Conservative Party Members' Brief ("Coal Industry Dispute") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Soviet National Day Reception") [responding to October Revolution anniversary invitations from Soviet Ambassador] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: NIO record of conversation (Hurd meeting with Barry and Noonan) [security, extradition, procedures] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO minute to No.10 (“Call by Matyas Szuros, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party, on MT”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome to FCO (“Anglo-Italian Summit: Press Reactions”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (Government Purchasing) [papers; proposals; issues; main points for discussion; handling] [declassified Jan 2014]

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