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PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Drugs - DES Initiatives") [commends; but advises MT "urge that steps be taken to ensure advisers are in post by April 1986"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 letter to Leon Brittan PS (Prime Minister's visit to see New Scotland Yard's work on tackling drugs crime) [arrangements/programme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: The Marching Season") ["The behaviour of the DUP has been a disgrace"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram 575 to FCO (1513Z) ("Follow-Up to Milan European Council") [Fretwell, Lalumière: record of conversation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 692 to FCO (1530Z) ("Milan European Council: Further German Press Reactions") ["HMG's irritation with Germany made the headlines at the beginning of the week, to be replaced with more measured articles about our reasonable approach"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [suggested line to take in Armstrong's next meeting with Nally] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 Policy Unit minute for MT (‘Westlands’) [treat as a commercial issue, in which the Government need not become involved] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Robert Andrew minute to Butler (Larne harbour) [Hurd’s opinion on timing of new visit] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell note to Butler (possible visit by MT) [decision on dates needed] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell note to MT (“Possible visit to Northern Ireland”) [timing of possible Anglo-Irish agreement] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Tebbit letter to Jenkin (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [“there is much to be said in favour of a Birmingham Convention Centre if the funding problem can be overcome”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2036 to FCO (2222Z) (“US-South Africa: Sanctions Legislation”) [Senate has yet to consider, final outcome uncertain] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (South African attack on Botswana) ["considerable dismay" at her message; combatting terrorism] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Rate Support Grant Settlement 1986-1987”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Senate Arms Control Group) [arms control, US-Soviet Summit, East-West relations, terrorism, Middle East, EC, economy, Japan, security] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to MT (“SDI Research”) [MOD line at upcoming OD; MT: "Their attitude WON'T DO AT ALL"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (thanks for lunch with Vice-President Bush) [200th anniversary of UK/US diplomatic relations] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) EC: Renwick letter to Bullard ('Milan') ["account of atmospherics at and just before the European Council"] [declassified Nov 2016]
Text 85 Jul 6 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Jul 7 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jul 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Leon Brittan ("Community Radio") [careful handling of issue in Northern Ireland] [declassified Feb 2016]
Text 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS note to Andrew Turnbull ("Briefing for the Publication on Thursday 11 July 1t 3.30pm of Cash Limits Provisional 1984-85 Outturn White Paper") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS note to Andrew Turnbull ("Cash Limits for 1984-85") [publication of White Paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to MPO ("Multi-Department Review of Office Accommodation") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Young PS ("Deregulation White Paper: Lifting the Burden") [MT approves publication] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Football Association Chairman Bert Millichip (Heysel Stadium disaster and Bradford City fire) [FA response to football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT ("Video on Football Hooliganism: 10 am on 9 July") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Defence Sales to Jordan") [terms of credit cover agreement; "I am satisfied that the concessions made were necessary... [to] prevent King Hussein turning again to the Soviet Union for equipment"; draft MT reply to King Hussein] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Teachers' Pay Dispute) [MT approves Keith Joseph's proposed offer, subject to clearance with Treasury] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Teachers' Pay") [latest developments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lord Hailsham letter to Norman Tebbit ("EEC Product Liability Directive") [food industry request for exemption for processed foodstuffs] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks") [Howe content with Armstrong's suggested line to take in next meeting with Nally] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Joint Courts") [urges caution on Anglo-Irish joint courts in Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [comment on Armstrong's proposed negotiating position] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong's proposed negotiating position: Flags and Emblems Act; non-ratification of Anglo-Irish agreements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Malaysia: MT letter to Lord King, Chairman of British Airways (dispute between BA and Malaysian Air Services over additional MAS flights to London) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy record of conversation (Walker-members of the Coalfield Communities Campaign-others) [miners' strike and situation in the coal industry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Howe minute to MT ("R and priorities across Government") ["...in comparison with our major trading partners, our national commitment to Research and Development shows a relative and significant decline"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 letter to DTI (Westland) [MT notes case against Marmon takeover, but “believes that a different American offer would have to be judged on its merits”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Hailsham letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“likely resource implications which such a scheme would have for the legal system”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Butler note to Robert Andrew (“Equity”) [impact of possible Anglo-Irish agreement on upcoming visit] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (“Equity”) [“would be best if you were to come soon after rather than just before an Agreement was signed”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Amanda Ponsonby note for Mark Addison (Larne harbour) [suggested dates for opening ceremony] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Joseph memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 16 (Review of Student Support) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Lawson memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 17 (Economic Prospects) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Rees memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 18 (1985 Public Expenditure Survey) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Lewis Moss letter to MT (“The Royal Docks”) [“The practicality of servicing the total Royals Development has to be based on the assumption of our ownership of the Albert and King George V areas”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rees minute to Jenkin (“Presentation of the 1986-1987 RSG Settlement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (local authority spending agreement) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (“Commissioners in Liverpool”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Turnbull minute to Ballard (“Local Government Finance”) [MT meeting with Roy Thomason, Lewis Moss and Peter Bowness] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Liverpool and Rate Limitation”) [situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Fergusson minute for Reeve (“UK Policy towards South Africa”) [need to define "a reasonable pace of internal change, towards what goal"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute for Powell (“Joint Ten Statement on Southern Africa”) [draft text] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Press Handling after Cabinet") ["message should be business as usual"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to King Hussein (credit terms for Defence equipment) ["you asked me to consider what improvements we could make"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Downing Street: No.10 Security Coordinator minute to Robin Butler ("250th Anniversary") [comments on BBC journalist Christopher Jones' book] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Drug Squad Visit") [summary of key policy requirements emerging from visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Hugh Rossi) [potential links between the Centre-Right Party in Cyprus and the Conservative Party] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Malaysia: Lord King, Chairman of British Airways, letter to MT ("Malaysia") [agreement between BA and Malaysian Air Services on additional MAS flights to London] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Letwin minute to MT ("Nottinghamshire Miners") [secession of Nottinghamshire miners from the NUM] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Meeting with Mr. Walker") [brief for meeting: secession of Nottinghamshire miners from the NUM] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with Sir Hugh Rossi MP; 9 July") [Cyprus: recent developments] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Call by Mrs Avital Shcharansky) [human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: the Shcharansky case] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [public spending] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin letter to Rees (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [Birmingham City Council “seeking ways in which the public expenditure consequences of the project could be minimised”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2055 to FCO (2330Z) (“US Policy on Southern Africa”) [wants more concerted western response and hopes UK will take lead] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Ottawa to FCO (“Canada and South Africa”) [new Canadian sanctions announced 6 July; "a symbolic gesture"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MT letter to John Read (work of Audit Commission: efficiency in local government) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Jenkin) [commissioners in Liverpool] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute for MT (“Seminar on Policy towards South Africa”) [attendees, arrangements] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute to Heseltine's PS ("European Fighter Aircraft") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Gowrie letter to Whitelaw ("Copyright licensing") ["...allegedly extensive infringements of copyrights... since the use of photocopiers became widespread"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Press Handling of Cabinet") ["You really have to present a rigorous face to the world"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [Treasury "has no further fallback position"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Economic Outlook and Public Expenditure (C(85) 17 and 18)") [inflation and unemployment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 minute ("Press Line after Cabinet") [commitment to control of public spending] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [press line to take after Cabinet] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Young PS letter to No.10 ("De-Regulation White Paper: Lifting the Burden") [draft Parliamentary statement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Macfarlane letter to MT (football hooliganism: CCTV at football grounds and Football League "Survival Plan") [League drawing "battle lines" for "public argument with the Government"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT personal minute to Brittan ("Football Violence") [measures for tackling football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Superintendent Calligan (video of crowd trouble at Huddersfield/Leeds match) [football hooliganism: "genuinely shocking" video] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Mark Addison minute to MT (tackling drugs abuse: Government funding for voluntary bodies) [information requested by MT; disagreement between DES & Home Office over funding] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Leon Brittan minute to MT (initiatives for stepping up the fight against drug trafficking and abuse) [Brittan welcomes ACPO report's proposals, including National Drugs Intelligence Unit, National Co-ordinator, and Steering Group of senior officials from Home Office and Customs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [ECOFIN Council, 8 July: reference framework for 1986 EC Budget] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing note ("National Union of Mineworkers (Notts Area)") [secession of Nottinghamshire miners from the NUM] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Letwin minute to MT ("Victimisation of Working Miners") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Avital Shcharansky, delegates from the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry) [human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: the Anatoly Shcharansky case] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Walker minute to MT ("The Oil Market") [options for reducing output] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Heseltine minute to MT ("A Government Strategy For Industry") [coordination of Government exploitation of modern advanced technology] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT (a Government strategy for coordinating the exploitaiton of modern advanced technology) [MT dismissive of Heseltine's proposal] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (South African DFA) South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (again criticises armed raids) [declassified ?2005]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Perspectives for the CAP”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Redwood minute for MT (“State of the Economy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Review of Student Support”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Housing: MT letter to Jerry Wiggin MP (rural developments) [“It is quite wrong to regard these two policy aims - conservation and growth - as irreconcilable”] [released 2015]

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