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PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Ryder minute to Barclay (Don Concannon MP asks to see MT to discuss position of Notts miners) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Friday 19 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Endurance") [miners' strike: report on power station endurance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Fowler minute to MT ("Payments to Striking Miners for Mortgage Interest") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MT letter to Kinnock (response to Kinnock's position on Colliery Closure Procedures) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT ("The Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: briefing for Chequers meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Cutting from The Times (attack on home of Irene McGibbon, working miner's wife) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Jenkin (opencast coal site at Springhill, Staffordshire) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to Northern Ireland Office ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's thoughts on giving advance warning to Unionist parties about secret Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Tessa Gaisman minute for MT (Vice-Chairman for the Scottish party) [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT “has commented that the terrorist bomb in Brighton has slowed these confidential talks down”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1192 to FCO (2335Z) (“Cyprus: Secretary General’s initiative”) [de Cuéllar “working privately on Kyprianou and Denktash to try to extract some movement”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Consulate-General NY telegram 56 to FCO (1930Z) (“Call on Archbishop O’Connor”) [visit to Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy & other ministers) [Anglo-Italian Summit plenary] [European Community, world affairs, UK-Italian cooperation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, European Community, unemployment, financial issues, bilateral issues, Malta, Cyprus] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, Falklands at the UN, European Community, CERN, financial issues, East-West relations, Middle East] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer - Italian Finance Minister) [Italian financial situation, European Community budget issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food - Italian Minister of Agriculture) [1985 price negotiations, milk quotas, wine] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rees letter to Jenkin (“Local authority capital expenditure”) [“your proposals… would… cause uproar among our own supporters”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: Charles Powell minute to MT ("UK-Sri Lanka Defence Agreement") [draft MT letter to Jayewardene making clear that UK unable to offer military assistance for internal situation in Sri Lanka] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT telegram to King Hassan of Morocco (“Anglo/Libyan Relations”) [hostages] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-David Hart) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell letter to Armstrong (Anglo-Irish talks) ["The Prime Minister thinks that the Ambassador did well to make clear to the Taoiseach that there was no possibility of reaching agreement on 19 November"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's comments on record of Armstrong-Nally talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to Armstrong (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT “does not agree with the proposal put forward by the Irish side for a Ministerial Committee for Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 briefing for MT (“Supplementary speaking note”) [UN talks on future of Cyprus] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Situation at the Durban Consulate”) [the statement issued by the imprisoned men: further options] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 21 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: No.10 minute to MT (Brighton Hotel Bombing) [medical report; log of messages of sympathy] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Net Payments to EC Institutions") [comments on Lawson minute to MT of 15 Oct; "need to pay careful attention to the public presentation of the figures"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) [secondment of Michael Eaton to NCB head office] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Warry minute to No.10 ("Jaguar Cars: Pay Claim") [strike action threatened] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Hailsham minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: comment on Rees' proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("British Telecom Flotation - Executive and Employee Share Option Schemes") [implications for future privatisations if scheme is given go-ahead] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Home Secretary draft statement to the House of Commons ("Bomb Explosion at the Grand Hotel, Brighton") [this copy released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: Sherbourne note to Gummer (“Memorial Services”) [“to attend one you must attend them all”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Prime Minister Lange of New Zealand (UN debate) [NZ to vote with UK, “reflects the unique mutual loyalty on which our relations rest”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Taoiseach FitzGerald of Ireland note to MT (UN debate) [Ireland to abstain in vote] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("The Five Institutes' Autumn Report") [West Germany's five major economic institutes' domestic & global economic forecast 1984-5: background for MT visit to Bonn] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [the publication of the Argentine/Chilean agreement on the Beagle, the Falklands dispute] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands at the General Assembly") [MT's draft letters to the EC Heads of Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Lord Hailsham of St. Marylebone minute for MT ("A Naval History of the Falklands Campaign") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Falklands at the UN General Assembly: Alfonsin's Visit to Paris") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Falklands at the UN) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Geoffrey Howe minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Public Expenditure - FCO Programmes") [non-military parts of FCO expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Booth minute to MT (legal position of the NCB against the NUM) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
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]

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