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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]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Malaysia: Prime Minister Mahathir of Malaysia letter to MT (thanks for message of best wishes on installation of new Yang di-Pertuan Agong as Malaysian Head of State) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Rees letter to Walker ("Three Year Financial Target for Electricity Supply Industry") ['I am sorry you have difficulty with my proposal. I certainly did not intend it to involve a breach of faith'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: Howe minute to Tebbit ("Aid Trade Provision") [spending cuts: proposal to reduce planning figure for the Aid Trade Provision] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe) [spending cuts to Aid and Overseas budget: likely political implications] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1600Z) (Anglo-Irish Summit, Overseas Aid, UNESCO, Miners) [coal strike had cost £1.3b otherwise available for overseas aid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Prime Minister's Visit to Peking": Y.K. Pao's attendance at Hong Kong signing ceremeny; delegation of UK industrialists] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of the Prime Minister to Peking and Hong Kong") [programmes; participation in the Signature Ceremony; topics for talks in Beijing; timing & content of Announcement; delegation of industrialists] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Transport Bill") [proposed right of Transport Consumer Bodies to consider fares charged by BR and LRT; MT advised to indicate she is content with the Bill's proposals, subject to care being taken in defining the role of TCBs] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ingham minute to MT ("Bills") [presses for Local Government Abolition Bill to be published on Thursday rather than Friday, to maximise the media impact of a key Government policy] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Geoffrey Pattie minute to MT ("British Telecom") [flotation: details of final arrangements & announcement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKE Washington telegram 3376 to FCO (0137Z) ("Migs for Nicaragua") [current state of play] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKE Washington telegram 3387 to FCO (0028Z) ("U.S. policy on Nicaragua") [current state of play amidst speculation of an imminent US invasion] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Foreign Office programme; BT; Northern Ireland Industrial Bank; post mortem on Autumn Statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: President Reagan letter to MT (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea) ["I believe we must strenuously urge the FRG, Italy and Belgium not to sign... signature... will undermine our ability to negotiate a seabed mining regime"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Sherbourne minute to MT (“Your meeting with the Chairman”) [“another examine of a mild conflict between the Chairman and Alistair McAlpine”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to DTI (“Financial Services”) [MT raises three more points] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to MT (draft statement on research on education and school organisation) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Education for Economic Awareness”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Booth minute to MT ("Delay in Crown Court Trials") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Alastair Graham editorial in CPSA's Red Tape ("More aid to pit families?") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 14 November 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: DHSS letter to Department of Energy ("Deduction from Benefit for Strikers") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We 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 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Havers minute to MT (tracking and freezing NUM funds) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Unknown author minute to MT ("Northern Ireland Industrial Bank") [possible bank collapse] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Hurd-Armstrong-Goodall-Andrew-Cartledge-Goodison) ["Anglo-Irish Summit"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: David Hunt to Michael Alison (meeting on the industry) [information on event] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Sherbourne minute for MT (meeting with John Gummer) [agenda] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: President Reagan letter to MT (Law of the Sea Convention) [“it is our aim to maintain as much Western solidarity as possible”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local government: Turnbull minute to Armstrong (“Ministerial Group on Local Authority Rate Setting”) [proposed make up of group] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Liverpool City Council”) [“Of particular concern is the build-up of substantial commitments for next year and beyond”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“Cabinet: Parliamentary Affairs: Stansted Heathrow Terminal 5 Public Inquiries”) [main issues, handling] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Ridley letter to Howe ("Aviation and US Antitrust: The "Laker" Issue") [settlement on future working of Bermuda 2 agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Booth minute to MT ("Public Order Act, 1936, Section 5") [amendments to the Act] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Lamont letter to MT ("Austin Rover (ARG) Strike") [latest developments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Washington telegram 3395 to FCO (2025Z) ("Cyprus: Secretary General's Initiative") [advance notices of messages to be sent from Reagan to key players in the negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: John Moore PS letter to No.10 ("ICI's Case on Ethane Valuation") [case due to be heard in High Court; background; line to take] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: King minute to MT ("Employment Exercise") [update on progress of employment strategy exercise] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: Ingham minute to Alison and Flesher ("Robert Rhodes James") [spending cuts to Aid programme: response to suggestion that lobby briefings have 'impugn[ed] the motives of Mr Robert Rhodes James'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to Private Secretaries ("Legislation Committee Procedures") [review] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: MT letter to John Wakeham (messages from heads of state/government) [“sympathy for the injuries you received and the tragic personal loss which you suffered”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: MT letter to Sarah Berry (messages from heads of state/government) [“sympathy for the injuries you received and the tragic personal loss which you suffered”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: MT letter to Mabel Delamott (messages from heads of state/government) [“sympathy for the injuries you received”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: CDP note to MT (condolences from heads of state/government) [“to let those who were injured or bereaved … know of the very impressive list … who sent messages”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Fowler letter to Whitelaw ("The Queen's Speech: the Water Fluoridation Bill") [handling of questions arising from non-inclusion of the Bill in the Speech] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Rees minute to MT ("Civil service numbers") [latest statistics] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Channel Fixed Link") [main points from joint UK/France communiqué] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 37th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Thursday 15 November 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 minute to MT ("Mr Ian MacGregor: Performance Payments") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]

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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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