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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 (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 (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]
Text 84 Nov 10 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 3355 to FCO (0023Z) ("Laker: Future Arrangements") [US/UK discussions on "relationship between US anti-trust law and bilateral aviation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Extracts from speech by Leon Brittan (the ending of the miners' strike) ["The challenge to the rule of law in Britain has never been so great or so direct as during this dispute"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Pantling note to MT ("'Law and Order' material for your speech") [miners' strike: Brittan speeches, statistics, letter to Daily Telegraph] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Nov 11 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Draft Autumn Statement [annotated by MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 11 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute to Robin Butler (“Economic Summit 1984”) [request for signed photo of MT] [released Dec 2014]
Text 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Hoskyns letter to Powell (follow up to letter to MT regarding the Schiller Institute) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Paul) [gas turbines] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Senator Hatch) [NATO/WEU revival; Northern Ireland] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 briefing for MT ("Call by Mr. Jing Shuping") [commercial relations with China] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3692 to FCO (1856Z) ("Foreign Affairs Council: 12 November 1984") ["Budget Discipline": record of conversation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO telegram 513 to UKRep Brussels (1717Z) ("1985 Draft Budget and UK Abatements for 1984") [record of conversation: Howe, Ian Stewart, members of the European Democratic Group] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: Budgetary Issues in the European Parliament") [revised Decision on Own Resources; EC Budget discipline; 1985 Budget] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment/Agriculture: Jopling letter to MT ("Agricultural Training: Overseas Activities") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Competition Act 1980, Section 11 References") [Department of Trade & Industry have 'moved some way to accommodate' MT's requests on references to Monopolies and Mergers Commission] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: Prime Minister Mara of Fiji letter to MT (renegotiation of the Lomé Convention) [ACP States seek larger EC commitment to European Development Fund] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: Taoiseach FitzGerald of Ireland letter to MT (Law of the Sea) [lack of support “would have a disproportionate effect” on benefits, EC signature] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: MT letter to John Biffen MP (State Opening of Parliament: Debate on the Address) [MT unable to attend House for winding up speeches due to prior commitment] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKE San Jose telegram to FCO ("Nicaragua") ["A state of national alert has been declared": summary of current state of play amidst mounting Soviet/US military tension] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute (internal): Armstrong to Secretariat ("Attribution of Views to Individuals in Minutes of Meetings") [guidance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Adam Butler PS letter to No.10 ("Overhaul Contract for Phantom Engines") [MT approves awarding the contract to Greece following resolution of the question over sale of Tornado to Turkey] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Taoiseach FitzGerald letter to MT (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea) ["probably the most significant achievement of the... [UN] in recent years and one which should not be diminshed by lack of support"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Monday 12 November 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("MISC 101(84) 47th Meeting: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Meeting with Working Miners") [miners' strike: Walker suggests MT should not meet working miners] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Summit") ["Dr Fitzgerald cannot afford to come away from the summit empty handed"; MT: "That is not my problem"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo/Irish Summit: 18/19 November") [announcement of and arrangements for summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Conservative Research Department briefing (“Industry & Employment and The Economy”) [Queen’s speech measures, other current issues] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: MT letter to Robert Kilroy-Silk (rating system) [“This Government recognises that the present system is far from perfect; it will be looking for a system that is altogether fairer and more robust”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Athens telegram to FCO (“Cyprus”) [“No apparent change in Greek position”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) US: Michael Spicer letter to Geoffrey Pattie (anti-misting kerosene: US ‘controlled crash’) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Michael Franklin (Official Group on Agricultural Expenditure) [“The knowledge of the existence of the Group should be confined to the Ministers concerned and to those officials who take part in its work”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“International Financial Scheme”) [report by the Bank of England] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO minute for Powell (“Possible Invitations to Belgian and Netherlands Prime Ministers”) [MT approves proposal; possible dates] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Howe minute to Brittan (“The charging of fees for entry certificates for Commonwealth citizens”) [declassified 2016]
Text 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: David Barclay minute to Robin Butler ("Seminars on Efficiency") [views on usefulness of the seminars] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 3373 to FCO (2355Z) ("Laker: Grand Jury") [indictments; talks on future arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Ridley PS letter to Howe PS ("Aviation and US Antitrust: The "Laker" Issue") [indictments; US/UK discussions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of the Portugese Prime Minister: 20-23 November") [timing of Kinnock's meeting with Soares] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Senator Hatch, Ambassador Price) [NATO; US dollar; Northern Ireland] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jing Shuping) [commercial relations; MT visit to China] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: President Reagan letter to MT (2257Z) (US Election results) [thanks; seminar on arms control & East/West relations; MT proposed stopover meeting during return flight from Beijing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Stewart PS letter to No.10 ("ECOFIN Council, 12 November: Budgetary Discipline") [final version of text outlining the Council's position; draft PQ reply] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1600Z) (Aid Budget, Coal Strike, Coin v Note) [tired of bleeding hearts who supported coal strike and also wanted more overseas aid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Papua New Guinea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Proposed Invitation to Visit Britain: Mr Michael Somare, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea") ["Our interests in PNG continue to grow"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ridley minute to MT ("Transport Bill") [additional clauses: right of Transport Consumer Bodies to consider BR/LRT fares/charges; Trust Ports; control of harbour development; public service vehicle driver licensing; railway accident reporting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Home Office Deputy Parliamentary Clerk letter to Mr. Caldwell ("Prosecution of Offences Bill") [introduction to House of Lords] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Fowler letter to Biffen (Social Security Bill) [additional items] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 47th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Ingham minute to MT ("Coal Strike") [Ingham meeting with GMBTU General Secretary David Basnett; MT: "Bernard was marvellous"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 13 November 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Coal Firing Scheme") [miners' strike: need to defer review of scheme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (NCB deficit grant) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Anne Scargill and Betty Heathfield (the miners' strike) ["The actions of your husbands are certainly damaging mining communities"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Warry minute to Turnbull ("Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: encouraging workers to return to work; Turnbull: "I don't agree that the time has come to switch from the carrot to the stick"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo/Irish Summit") [arrangements for summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Armstrong minute to Turnbull (“Ministerial Group on Local Authority Rate Setting”) [“To keep under review any problems which may arise affecting individual local authorities, arising from failure to set a local rate for 1985-86 or to fulfil their legal obligations”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“International Debt”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (congratulations on his reelection) [declassified 1998]
PDF 84 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT (“Stansted-Heathrow Terminal 5 Public Inquiries”) [arguments, handling] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation ("Efficiency: Discussion with Sir Robin Ibbs") [Robin Butler, Robin Ibbs] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Foreign Secretary PS letter to No.10 (letter and paper from Laurent Murawiec of the Schiller Institute) ["It is a farrago of prejudiced and unsubstantiated propositions"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram 764 to FCO (0800Z) ("Citizens Europe Committee") [Gallo's candidacy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC enlargement negotiations; fisheries; European Development Fund for ACP countries in the Third Lome Convention; EC budgetary discipline; 1985 draft EC budget; budget discharge for 1982; milk super-levy; vehicle weights, Energy Council, 13 Nov; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Lamont letter to Rees ("Privatisation of Warship Yards") [proposed strategy] [released Dec 2014]

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