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PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Brittan letter to Rees ("Miners' Dispute: Policing Costs") [miners' strike: dealing with extra policing costs; MT: "hadn't we better go the whole way now?"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Coal Dispute: Numbers At Work") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Martin Bangemann, New Federal Economics Minister”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Northern Ireland”) [Irish constitutional amendments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: UKDEL IMF telegram to FCO (“IMF and Argentina”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC budget: UKREP Brussels to FCO (“Discussion of budgetary imbalances at Fontainebleau”) [Mitterrand presenting outcome as “one in which there were neither victors nor vanquished”; Tietmeyer reaction] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) EC budget: UKREP Brussels to FCO (“Second session: budgetary imbalances”) [summary of plemary & bilaterals leading to agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: visit of UMELCO delegation to Peking”) [“cold and abrupt”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") ["Simple cancellation would... damage Anglo-Irish relations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Fowler") [NHS Management Board] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Department of Health & Social Security letter to No.10 ("Chairman of the NHS Management Board") [salary] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Department of Health & Social Security letter to No.10 (Deputy Secretary posts) [letter of protest at plans to reduced number of posts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Urban Programme - Policy Review") [recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Nationalised Industries' Bill (E(NI) (84) 6") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Turnbull minute to MT ("ENI: Nationalised Industries Bill") [Chief Whip's concerns about Bill; risk of 'guerilla tactics' by the Opposition] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl of FRG (UK budget contribution) [grateful for help at Fontainebleau] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT letter to Prime Minister Lubbers of the Netherlands (thanks for help at European Council) [search for solution to budget problem at Fontainebleau] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT to President Mitterrand (Fontainebleau European Council) [thanks for "hospitality … and excellent arramgents", congratulations on a "successful outcome"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Namibia: MT telegram to President Diouf of Senegal (independence) [“South Africa should have left the territory long ago”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO telegram to UKE Paris ("OECD: EDRC meeting on the French economy") ["Milleron described the broad thrust of French economic policy as being to improve the external balance by reducing inflation and slowing the growth of internal demand. Several other statements by Milleron during the course of the meeting illustrate how far French policy has apparently shifted since 1981/82..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute for MT ("Relations with Argentina: First Round of Talks") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("GEC and British Aerospace") [GEC examining takeover bid; "We suggest that... [MT] might put DTI on notice that she is becoming concerned about the apparent inaction"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit letter to Chairman of European Ferries PLC (sale of Sealink) ["The decision not to release European Ferries from the undertaking [not to acquire Sealink] was taken in accordance with the advice of the Director-General of Fair Trading"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Mr. Walker's Statement on Enterprise Oil") ["What could have been a difficult occasion for the Government proved to be very successful"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("1982 Risk Sharing Refund") ["We should not put our gain at risk by continuing to pursue the outstanding amount on the 1982 refund"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Fontainebleau: French reactions") ["Increasing recognition that British demands were reasonable"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Fontainebleau - German government statement and further press reaction") ["Federal Government... upbeat... Press comment by comparison less euphoric"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Outcome of Fontainebleau") ["Colleagues may find it useful to have the attached note explaining the main features of the agreement"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Foreign Policy: Possible Conflict of Principles") ["our policy on intervention by one country in the affairs of another... [has] clear implications for the police and the security service... in this country"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Briefing for PMQs (“additional background” on dispute) [strike “regardless of whether civil remedies are sought, society has a right and the duty to protect itself from mob rule”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 24th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Enterprise Oil) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Most Confidential Record to Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 24th (Parliamentary Affairs: Northern Ireland) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Sir Walter Marshall, Chairman of the CEGB, letter to Walker (report on CEGB meeting with BSC) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("UK/Soviet Relations") [arrangements for Howe visit to Moscow] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute to MT ("Sir Geoffrey Howe's Visit to Moscow") [MT rejects FCO plan to invite Chernenko to UK] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Dr FitzGerald’s Visit to London on 27 June”) [Taoiseach’s “wish that Anglo-Irish relations should not become an object of party controversy in the United Kingdom”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Robert Young minute to MT (“The Urban Programme - Policy Review”) [“Keep an Urban Programme, confine it to, and set clear objectives for, housing, the elimination of derelict land, and the support of voluntary social projects in the worst areas”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 letter to US Embassy (US tax reform measures in relation to imported cars) [“not discriminatory”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to Bob Hawke (London Economic Summit outcomes) [Crispin Tickell to brief Hawke on agreements and declarations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to Indira Gandhi (London Economic Summit outcomes) [Gandhi’s letter helped with wider perspective in discussions; Crispin Tickell to brief Gandhi on agreements and declarations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“Argentina”) [MT disturbed that further loans being considered without satisfactory IMF agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT letter to Graesser and others (Welsh party conference) [thank yous, early departure] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Muscat to FCO (“Situation in the Gulf”) [conversation with the Sultan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: discussions on general strategy”) [Youde and Evans visit to London] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ingham minute to Whitelaw (“Local government/London Transport”) [abolition of GLC: media campaign to lay ground for White Paper] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Building Societies Green Paper") [key proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Rees minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") ["the scales have been tipped decisively against the project"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young letter to Tom King ("YTS Allowances and Grants 1984/85") [increase] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Robin Butler minute to MT ("DHSS: Deputy Secretary Posts") [proposed appointees] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler) ["DHSS Reviews"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler) [NHS Management Board] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: MT message to Indira Gandhi (issues in Sri Lanka, Punjab) [UK fully supports India's unity] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("BT license") [progress through Parliament; analysis of changes to draft] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Clifford Garvin and Exxon") [Sleipner Gas; unitary taxation; US economy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (Urban Policy and Programme Review: Report) [options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: MT message to Prime Minister Gandhi (1630Z) (Sri Lanka and the Punjab troubles) [police investigation into "remarks carried by the media in Britain"; report of MT meeting with Jayewardene; UK/counter-insurgency training; Victoria Dam inauguration] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cold War: Exodus letter to MT (Soviet Union) [list of "refuseniks", Soviet treatment of Jews] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Young minute to Turnbull ("BSC's Borrowings") [proposal to raise BSC's borrowing ceiling] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/Central America: National Security Planning Group minutes (1500Z) ("Central America and Proposed Presidential Finding on Technology Modification") (NSPG 0093) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT message to Sultan Qaboos of Oman (Iraq-Iran war) [deployment of UK early warning aircraft] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Federal German economy") ["Lambsdorff's resignation... robs the German economy of one its most distinguished and experienced managers."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure in 1985-86") ["some of the bids may prove to be irresistible"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury briefing for MT (lunch with Sir John Baring) [Baring Brothers; developments on the Stock Exchange; Gower Report on investor protection] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MT letter to Chairman of European Ferries PLC (sale of Sealink) ["I understand that after giving careful consideration to your suggestions, Norman Tebbit remains of the view that European Ferries should not be released from its undertaking not to acquire Sealink"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms") [advice on possible further measures; MT: "The lack of progress is disgraceful... I will have a meeting myself with all depts in a fortnight"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (promoting a more positive public attitude to the European Community) ["A more informal and flexible system run by Bernard himself rather than by the FCO would be more effective"; MT unconvinced of need for campaign] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Foreign Affairs/Defence Seminar at Chequers") [MT agrees to proposed date of 1 October; supporting items document the thematic development of the seminar] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economic policy: No.10 minute for MT (“Lunch with Barings”) [topics suggested by Sir John Baring; privatisation] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Public spending: MT personal minute to Tebbit (proposed DTI settlement) [to secure his “weight and influence” on Star Chamber] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) City: No.10 minute for MT (“Lunch with Barings”) [briefing & background] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Lawson minute for MT (“Commercial Fraud”) [proposed Fraud Investigation Group] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Redwood & Willetts minute to MT (“The City”) [overview of policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Rees memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 16 (Using Private Enterprise in Government) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC 101(84)23rd Meeting") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Pascall minute to Turnbull ("Coal") [miners' strike: number of miners at work] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Rees letter to Brittan ("Miners' Dispute: Policing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
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 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]

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