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PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 3401 to FCO (0950Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: Prime Minister's Visit to Peking") [importance of Hong Kong perception] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3322 to FCO (2240Z) ("US Election Results") [analysis] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to President Reagan (1057Z) (US Election results) [personal message of congratulations; arms control seminar] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Ambassador Wright despatch to Howe ("The 1984 US Presidential Election: Why Reagan Won") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The Next US Administration") [summary of Ambassador Wright's assessment of likely policies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Government Response to the Tenth Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution") [redraft, at MT's request, to make line on nuclear energy more robust] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1045 to FCO (1330Z) ("Anglo-German Relations") [Bullard, Teltschik: record of conversation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [famine relief; EC Budget discipline; Research Council, 6 Nov; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Signature of the Hong Kong Agreement: Sir Y K Pao") [MT doubtful that Pao can be persuaded not to attend] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to Private Secretaries ("Legislation in the 1985/86 Sessions and 1986/87 Sessions") [request for Ministers' proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: DTI letter to No.10 (“Financial Services”) [replies on five points raised by No.10] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Chancellor Kohl letter for MT (sympathy at the attack in Brighton) ["my sympathy and my horror at the attack on your life"] [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 7 November 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Havers letter to Francis Bennion (conspiracy prosecution against Scargill) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Ian Lloyd MP (the miners' strike and the future of the coal industry) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Heseltine-Rifkind-Stanley-Armstrong-Acland-Whitmore-Cradock-Fieldhouse-Goodall-Cartledge) ["Ballistic Missile Defence: United Kingdom Policy towards the US Strategic Defence Initiative"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Hailsham-Rees-Bailey-Gregson) ["Public Expenditure"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984 (C(84) 32 and 33)") [MISC 106 public expenditure proposals: outstanding issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Jopling minute to MT ("MISC 106: Agriculture and R&D Expenditure") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Jenkin-Gow-Whitelaw-Gregson) ["Housing"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) ["Public Expenditure: Gas and Electricity EFLs"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Willetts minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Cabinet") ["some ammunition for Cabinet"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Forthcoming Summit") [MT's comments on proposed arrangements for Chequers summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT telegram to President Reagan (his re-election) [“will be a great tonic and reassurance for all America’s friends”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 briefing for MT (“Call by American Ambassador”) [Reagan’s priorities for second term, MT meeting with Shultz, Freddie Laker case, IRA] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Thatcher telegram to Reagan (congratulations on his reelection) [declassified 1998]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Van Zyl Slabbert) [detention orders against people in British Consulate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (British Consulate in Durban) [urges ending public standoff] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) International economic policy: CIA National Intelligence Estimate 3-84 ("The Political Repercussions of the Debt Crisis on Major LDCs") [Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Nigeria, the Phillipines, Venezuela] [declassified 2009]
Text 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Chancellor Kohl of FRG telegram to MT (talks) [Dooge Committee, foreign affairs] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: Prime Minister Craxi of Italy letter to MT (proposed conference on technological innovation) [arrangements for event in Venice, April 1985] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Geoffrey Pattie letter to Rees ("Moratorium on applications for support for innovation") [draft answer to Written PQ] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: UKE Lisbon telegram to FCO ("Visit to London by Portugese Prime Minister 20 - 23 November: economic background") [EEC; Portugese economy; UK market share, investments and potential contracts] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: UKE Lisbon telegram to FCO ("The Portugese scene at the time of Dr Mario Soares' visit to London (20 - 23 November)") [politics; economy; Presidential election in 1985] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKE San Jose telegram to FCO ("Migs for Nicaragua") [summary of current state of play amidst mounting Soviet/US military tension] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKE San Jose telegram to FCO ("Nicaragua: election results") [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: Powell note to MT ("Nicaragua") [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: No.10 letter to US Embassy, London (Laker case) ["the procedure if British Airways were to plead no contest"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: No.10 (partial) record of conversation (MT, Ambassador Price) [Laker case: indictments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Home Office letter to Powell ("Hong Kong Legislation") [legislative implications of Hong Kong Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Hong Kong: White Paper on Further Development of Representative Government") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Rajiv Gandhi message to MT (Indira Gandhi's funeral) ["Your presence was a source of strength to us"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Alasdair Milne letter to Pushkar Johari (Mrs Gandhi's Murder) [regrets at coverage of Chauhan's comments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Robert Armstrong: 0930 on Friday, 9 November") [job weighting for Permanent Secretaries; attribution in Cabinet minutes & the conventions of collective responsibility] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to No.10 ("Loan Guarantee Scheme") [options for future of the Scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Howe minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Government Response to the House of Commons Environment Select Committee's Report on Acid Rain") ["we must continue to coordinate very carefully the presentation abroad of our policy on this issue"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3645 to FCO (1902Z) ("Ad Hoc Committee on Institutions (Dooge Committee) 7/8 November 1984") ["Nature of Report to European Council": record of conversation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Committee on People's Europe") [report on first meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Sir Anthony Jolliffe) [City of London Business in the Community Initiative] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: DHSS letter to No.10 ("Restrictions on NHS Prescribing") [law change to require prescription of generic drugs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 36th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, US Presidential Election, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Public Expenditure Survey 1984, Economic Situation and Prospects) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Thursday 8 November 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Robert Maxwell) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Rees-Younger-Edwards-Hurd-Armstrong) ["Territorial Expenditure"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Nicholson minute to MT ("Report on Agricultural Development and Advisory Services") [charging for ADAS's services] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [Irish Government under pressure over proposed British location of Anglo-Irish summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [amended draft communique] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Sherbourne letter to John Gummer (technology at Central Office) [problems, solutions] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Turnbull minute to Armstrong (Liverpool City Council obligations) [“All the evidence points to a repeat of Liverpool’s challenge over the coming year”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, US Ambassador) [Reagan’s domestic priorities for second term, goals on East/West relations and arms control] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Julian Amery MP letter to Michael Heseltine (All Party delegation visit to the Falklands report) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: MT letter King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (kingdom’s requirements) [sale of Tornadoes and Hawks] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Jenkin (new ILEA: transfer of staff) [Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for October 1984") ["...encouraging..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Julian Bullard letter to No.10 ("Chancellor Kohl") [conversation with Bergsdorff] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("H committee next week") [nuclear waste disposal; grants for Norfolk Broads farmers; prohibition of under-strength whisky] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: King PS letter to No.10 (State Opening of Parliament: Debate on the Address) [latest version of Tom King's speech] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong) ["Attribution in Cabinet and Cabinet Committee meetings"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to King Fahd (sale of Tornado and Hawk aircraft to Saudi Arabia) ["I trust that the final negotiations... may now proceed... As a mark of my desire to bring this message directly to Your Majesty's attention, I have asked Michael Heseltine to bring it in person"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Middleton, Governor of the Bank of England) [Autumn Statement; SIA; CLCB reaction to £1 note/coin decision] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Gas Turbines for the Delhi Electric Supply Undertaking (DESU)") [dispute in Whitehall about a possible ATP offer] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Ingham minute to MT ("Manufacturing Industry") ["the notion is abroad in industry that manufacturing is numbered among the things about which you do not care"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Charles Powell ("The late Kenneth Whitty") [assassination & death in service; compensation for widow] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Greece: MT message to Andreas Papandreou (European City of Culture) [will discuss UK attendance at Athens inauguration ceremony] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Conservation of the Broads' Landscape") [options for preventing farmers ploughing: grant aid vs grazing grant] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 letter to Patrick Jenkin PS ("Government Response to the Tenth Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution") [MT requests strengthening of passage on the environmental benefits of nuclear energy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Patrick Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("Government Response to Select Committee Report on Acid Rain") [copy of response] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1065 to FCO (1700Z) ("Britain, Germany and the EC") [Bullard, Ungerer: record of conversation: internal market; European Treat covering political cooperation and security] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Turnbull minute to MT ("Gas Privatisation") [argues for further movement on privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Beijing telegram 2727 to FCO (0405Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Peking and Hong Kong") [Hong Kong aims; bilateral aims; multilateral aims] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong minute to Turnbull ("Ministerial Group on Coal (MISC 101)") [miners' strike: Edwards requests formal membership of MISC 101] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Friday 9 November 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Booth minute to MT ("Law and Order/Picket Violence and Victimisation") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Rees letter to Walker ("NCB Deficit Grant") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Warry minute to Turnbull ("Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: the return to work] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (Taoiseach Fitzgerald's views on repartition in Northern Ireland) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [Haughey pressures Taoiseach Fitzgerald on location of Anglo-Irish summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT proposes further amendments to draft communique] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Sherbourne note for John Gummer (meeting with MT) [appointments] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Flesher minute to Jenkin (Liverpool sports halls projects) [City Council budget and funding for the halls] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Fowler minute to MT (“Newcastle shift dispute”) [“we have now undoubtedly reached the ‘bottom line’ and no further concessions can be made”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong) [“Group on Housing”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Ministerial Group on Coal (MISC 101)”) [MT “wishes to avoid any general broadening of the membership of the Group”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Howe telegram to UKDEL IMF (“IMF Argentina”) [“we are not prepared to contribute to… new export credits”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Governor of the Bank of England letter to David Owen (Bank of England’s decision to rescue Johnson Matthey Bankers company) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BISBA to FCO (“Visit of Mr. George Robertson MP nad Mrs. Shirley Williams”) [talks on sovereignity of the Falklands] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Younger letter to Jenkin (“Contracting out of local authority services”) [declassified 2014]

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