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PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to MOD ("Ministerial Contacts with the Soviet Union") [responding to Soviet invitations to UK Ministers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell note to MT (Gorbachev accepts invitation to visit UK) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Jenkin minute to MT (Fund for Animal Welfare campaign: “Save our Swans”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Baker, Lord Avon, Letwin) [“London dimension of abolition”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker letter to Whitelaw (“Abolition: By-elections”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Permanent Secretary to the Treasury letter to Rees ("Value for Money") [outline of concerns about Government strategy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (extract from Books) [the gilt-edged market] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: UKE Washington telegram 27 to FCO (0400Z) ("El Salvador") [losses at El Paraiso] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 2996 to FCO (2236Z) ("Laker Consultations") ["particular issues that may come up"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Ridley PS letter to Howe PS ("Laker") [paper for Ministerial meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 3132 to FCO (0900Z) ("Hong Kong Agreement: Media Coverage") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("BL - Who Should Drive?") [letter from Austin Bide of British Leyland; Corporate Plan; privatisations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Andrew Pearce MEP (Merseyside industry and commerce) [follow-up to meeting during MT visit to Liverpool, 2 October; MT welcomes 'good news' stories whilst criticising "extravagant policies" of some local authorities] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Managing Director of Barratt Urban Renewals (Northern) Ltd (Minster Court urban renewal) [follow-up to meeting during MT visit to Liverpool, 2 October; "astonished... I hope that Barrats will.... repeat this... in other cities"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Leon Brittan minute to MT ("Drug Abuse") [request that all Departments 'keep lid' on Government proposals, to maximise impact of announcement at Conservative Party Conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (VAT exemption for small businesses) [MT firmly opposed to EC proposal to reduce real value of exemption] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: MT letter to Sir James Gowans (financial position of the Medical Research Council) [follow-up to meeting with Jellicoe and Gowans] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lord Renton letter to MT (legislative drafting) [respective roles of Government and Parliamentary Counsel] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to Powell ("The Belgrano") [MT's draft replies to letters from George Foulkes and David Owen] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("DTI: Expenditure Programme") [possible savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Trade and Industry") [savings in DTI's mainline programme] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Hurd PS (Northern Ireland block) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("Industrial Collaboration and Community R & D") ["we already face very difficult decisions on public expenditure. Moreover... [these proposals] depart from the arrangements which... [we] agreed in February... There is also the important question of funding for Community R&D generally"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Trade: Treasury minute (internal) ("ECGD: Liability to 'Take-Out' Loans in US Dollars and DM") [ECGD officials to discuss with banks the possibility of "unacceptable consequences for the availability of dollar or deutschmark or problems in implementing the change without an increase in public expenditure"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report”) [“Significant that those miners who have been able to vote, have voted overwhelmingly to work”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Peter Walker letter to Bishop of Durham (the miners’ strike) [MT’s annotated copy] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Margaret King notes (“Conference Clothes”) [list of items] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Tim Flesher minute for MT (“Unemployment”) [employment and unemployment increasing at same time] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Employment briefing for MT ("Major Industrial Disputes") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler minute to MT (MacGregor letter to NACODS) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler minute to Department of Employment (supposed departure of a 'certain American lady' to the US: she had in fact remained in the UK throughout) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("MISC 101(84)44th Meeting: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Bishop of Durham (the miners' strike) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: National Working Miners Committee dossier (“The Miners‘ Dispute. A Catalogue of Violence.’) [“working miners … have come under constant attack from striking miners”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Colin Budd minute to Charles Powell (“Capture of PIRA Shipment by the Irish Navy”) [“the Americans were not involved at any stage”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell letter to Sandiford (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT “said that she was worried that the Irish Government were trying to push the talks along too fast”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Meeting of Ministers: 5 October. Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [to agree instructions for Armstrong] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Sandiford minute to Charles Powell (“Meeting with the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs”) [proposed Hurd-Barry bilateral] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd letter to Havers (“R v Dominic McGlinchey”) [likely impact of an acquittal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Walker letter to Peter Rees (“AEA Review: financial implications”) [future of UK Atomic Energy Authority] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO minute to No.10 (“Visit by Matyas Szuros, Central Committee Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party”) [MT doubtful of seeing him; CDP urges] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (controls over activities of the abolition authorities) [GLC contracts] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 6 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 3141 to FCO (0440Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: Report on Public Opinion") [generally positive first responses; "inevitably there will be more cautious second thoughts"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: No.10 note (party conference) [Grand Hotel accommodation list] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT notes for conference speech (liberty & law) [“The choice is between a responsible freedom, and an East European state”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Bernard Ingham note for MT ( Sunday Times opinion poll) [“some interesting results about the Labour Party and violence on the picket line”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: MT notes for conference speech (“Miners Strike”) [“an agonising struggle”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 7 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 3005 to FCO (1600Z) ("Laker: Civil Action") [proceedings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Ronnie Millar draft for conference speech (Miners Strike) [polishes MT handwritten text] [released 2014]
Text 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Efficiency Unit minute to MT ("Value for Money Seminars") [Scottish Office] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: President Ershad of Bangladesh message to MT (Hong Kong Agreement) [congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Archbishop of Liverpool (the future of Liverpool) [follow-up to meeting during MT visit to Liverpool on 2 October] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Secretary of the Grafton Crescent Housing Cooperative (Visit to Grafton Crescent Housing Corporation) [2 October; MT impressed by residents' involvement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Regional Manager of Anglican Cathedral Precinct Housing Corporation (Anglican Cathedral Precinct housing and commercial facilities development) [Visit to Liverpool, 2 October: "an exciting project"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Bishop of Liverpool (future of Liverpool) [follow-up to meeting during MT visit to Liverpool, 2 October; "share your concern... [and] appreciate greatly your work"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3006 to FCO (1729Z) ("Reagan/Mondale Debate on 7 October") [report on first television Debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: report on H Committee position] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Redwood minute to MT ("The Health Service") [proposed strategy for health policy: 'The more we spend the less popular we become'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Geoffrey Pattie letter to Peter Rees ("Post Office Closure Programme and DHSS Industrial Dispute") [closures delayed until dispute resolved] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Tebbit letter to Whitelaw ("British Telecom Flotation") [guidance on appropriate responses to questions from the public during share offer period] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: No.10 note (“Prime Minister’s Clothes - Party Conference”) [list of outfits by day] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: No.10 note (“Prime Minister’s Programme”) [detailed list of movements, engagements] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (“Time Limits on Criminal Proceedings”) [Prosecution of Offences Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Anglo-German Special Advisers/Private Secretary contacts") [suggested meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [the Beagle and Falklands disputes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to George Foulkes MP (sinking of the Belgrano) ["if ... you believe that Ministers did not act in good faith and reasonably, I would prefer you to say so openly"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Dr David Owen MP (sinking of the Belgrano) ["the process of the disclosure will never satisfy those determined to misinterpret the Government's actions at the time"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: David Hunt note to Michael Alison (background information on pit closures for MT) [Labour record, unemployment, assistance] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Redwood draft fragment (MT conference speech) [“Violence is evil. And only this Party and the British people have the courage to condemn it”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Sherman draft speech module (“Modules, mark three: Job casualties of the class war”) [“The silent majority must speak up, or suffer the consequences”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Foreign policy: Sir Anthony Parsons letter to MT (reflections following Chequers seminar) [intervention & international law] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Draft MT speech (on arrival at Brighton) ["Monday 8th October AM"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: David Hart draft for MT (contribution to conference speech) ["The Left have lost the economic argument"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: The Times Editor's office letter to Hayek (The Times unable to use Hayek's article)
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 44th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Monday 8 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (report on power station endurance) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Tebbit letter to Rees ("Miners' Dispute - Policing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Gaisman note (“Prime Minister’s Clothes - Party Conference”) [precise listing of outfits by event] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: No.10 note (“Grand Hotel Accommodation”) [floorplan & guest list] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Foreign Secretary PS minute to Charles Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [FitzGerald speech on Forum report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Secretary PS minute to Charles Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [errors in previous letter] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FitzGerald letter to MT (PIRA arrests) [thanks for letter] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy/trade: Tebbit minute to MT (“Visit to Italy: 1-2 October 1984”) [account of visit; market large and worth exploiting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Tebbit letter to Peter Walker (“Review of the AEA”) [future of UK Atomic Energy Authority] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT letter to Michael Lingens (response to Bow Group open letter) [“the Government are pressing full steam ahead”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO to UKE Pretoria (“Durban Consulate”) [a radio interview from within the building] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 3011 to FCO (2142Z) ("Laker: Grand Jury") ["details of the evidence... to support the proposed indictments"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO letter to Powell ("Hong Kong: Signature of Agreement") [MT to travel to Peking to sign Agreement; timing of visit; handling of contacts with China] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Prime Minister Lange of New Zealand letter to MT (appointment to Privy Council) [sends thanks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (London Weighting) ["the Government will be implementing the recommended increases from 1 April"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: MT letter to Ministers in Charge of Deparments (Scrutiny of Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Business) [new policies or regulatory measures] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Tebbit minute to MT ("Sheffield Forgemasters") [possible failure of Forgemasters] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Turnbull minute to MT ("Sheffield Forgemasters") [possible failure of Forgemasters and possible supporting action by British Steel] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Young minute to MT ("Sheffield Forgemasters Steel Company") [possible failure of Forgemasters] [declassified Dec 2014]

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