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PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Whitelaw ("Teachers' Pay Dispute") [new fortnightly bulletin of updates; first copy attached] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [InterGovernmental Conference; integrated Mediterranean programmes; EC draft 1986 Budget; US/EC steel trade; realignment of European currencies ] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland Affairs") [state of play in Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on latest round of talks with Nally] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler minute to MT (treatment of working miners by striking miners and the NCB: Butler's correspondence with MacGregor) ['Further evidence that Mr. MacGregor is not now an easy or consistent person to have dealings with!'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Walker-Younger-Gregons-Manley-Unwin) [power station endurance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Channon minute to MT ("Visit to South East Asia: 19 June - 9 July 1985") [results of trade promotion visit to Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia & Malaysia] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Rees letter to Tebbit ("Post Office: Tariffs and Targets") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Anglo-German summit: Royal Academy Exhibition”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Secretary of State for Energy PS letter to No.10 (Secretary of State’s alleged speech on Third World debts) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Dar es Salaam to FCO (“Mr Kinnock’s Visit”) [conversation with Nyerere: South Africa, African economic crisis, EC, Nyerere’s future] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Butler minute to MT (“Sir Kenneth Bond”) [the Audit Commission report on local government: further actions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to MT (“Soviet Compliance with Arms Control Agreements: Implications for British Policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute for MT (“South Africa”) ["our glorious French allies" acting without warning against South Africa four days after EU joint statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell letter to Michael Hoffman (invitation to attend Chequers seminar on policy towards South Africa) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute for Powell (“Seminar on Policy towards Southern Africa”) [names for seminar] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Unemployment: Butcher letter to Sean Hughes (situation in Knowsley) [Industry Act assistance, council initiatives and grant schemes] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute (draft message from the Prime Minister to President Mitterrand: the European Fighter Aircraft) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT message for President Mitterrand (the European Fighter Aircraft) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO briefing for No.10 ("Visit of Monsieur Fabius, 1 August") [intergovernmental conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan minute to MT ("Football Violence") [football hooliganism: progress report on Home Office actions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: FCO letter to No.10 (football hooliganism: proposals for further measures in response) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Confiscation or Forfeiture of Assets") ["We are still convinced that forfeiture rather than unlimited fines are the right course"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("NEDO Publication: Practical Aspects of a New Financial Intermediary") [National Economic Development Office: background note for PMQ] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (""System Y": DG/OFTEL's Report") [copy of report; summary; next steps] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Social Services: Ridley letter to Fowler ("DHSS Local Office Project") [demarcation of single & competitive tendering for computers] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 26th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Industrial Affairs, Home Affairs, Northern Ireland affairs) [Anglo-Irish Agreement draft] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Whitelaw minute for Brittan (“Economic Performance 1985”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industry: John Butcher letter to Sean Hughes MP (Government schemes for employment and training in the Knowsley area) [Industry Act assistance, council initiatives and grant schemes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2222 to FCO (0316Z) (“Prime Minister’s Visit: Political Subjects”) [Reagan-Gorbachev Summit, Middle East, SDI, South Africa, terrorism, MSE] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to MT (“MBFR”) [Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Whitelaw minute for Brittan (“The Government’s record since 1979” & “Public Expenditure & ‘Cuts’”) [arguments to circulate to MPs] [released 2015]
Text 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe minute to MT ("Your meeting with the French Prime Minister: European Community") ["reflections on the way ahead"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("R&D priorities across Government") [counter-arguments against lobbying from the research community, and Departmental scrutiny/reporting proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("MISC 110 Report on Defence R&D") ["...should be progressively reduced over the next 10 years, in order to make British industry more competitive"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Chief Scientific Adviser briefing for MT ("R&D priorities across Government (E(A)(85)40)") ["...R&D trends are alarmingly out of line with those of our principal industrial competitors and... this carries a great threat to our future economic prosperity"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Report of the Official Group on Defence Research and Development") [proposed reduction in spending] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Shorts") ["With some luck and better management, Shorts are now turning the corner... probably the best time to privatise"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("E(A)(85)16th meeting at 10.30am on Monday, 29 July Short Brothers PLC: strategy, funding and prospects for privatisation") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("H committee on Thursday 25 July") [Criminal Justice Bill 1986/87 and drugs misuse] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("1985 Survey: Scotland and Northern Ireland") [over-provision in the territorial blocks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit of Iraqi Foreign Minister to London") [urges that MT renews invitation to Tariq Aziz; Powell annotation: "He's a very tiresome man...[but] it will be hard to refuse"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Rees minute to MT ("Control of Civil Service Running Costs") [targets; monitoring; role of senior managers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Percy Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("International Drug Trade") [Joint Intelligence Organisation papers produced by Canada & US, calling for multinational approach to tackling drug crime] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 minute to Leon Brittan PS ("Confiscation of the Proceeds of Drug Trafficking") [MT "not yet convinced the fines route is preferable to forfeiture"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: George Younger minute to MT ("Scottish Teachers' Pay and Conditions of Service") ["to report the outcome of exchanges which I have been having with the Scottish education authorities in an effort to resolve the dispute"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Anglo-Irish agreement: timetable, implementation, Ulster Defence Regiment, terrorist prisoners: MT comment: 'I am utterly astounded by this minute. I am not prepared to go ahead with either of these things'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Hurd-Molyneaux-Enoch Powell) [Anglo-Irish negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Walker minute to MT (possible scheme to reduce the price of electricity to large industrial consumers) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1400Z) ("South Africa") (NSC 0119) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Oil Market After the Geneva Meeting") [analysis] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson letter to Conservative MPs (“end of term” message on current economic situation) [“steady expansion”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brittan letter to Tebbit (Direct Broadcasting by Satellite) [Tebbit keen that Parliamentary announcement address unethical competitiveness as well as IBA study] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Local Authority Capital Spending”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Vice-President George Bush) [terrorism, Middle East, Southern Africa, Strategic Defence Initiative] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Secretary for Defense Weinberger) [Strategic Defence Initiative, Mobile Subscriber Equipment, Fylingdales, arms control, Falklands] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chairman of the US Federal Reserve System Volcker) [US deficit, international debt, aircraft for Argentina, banking in the US, Japan, monetary policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT Press conference (visit to the US: meetings with the officials) [arms control, Strategic Defence Initiative, South Africa, Middle East, economy, terrorism] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Whitelaw minute for Brittan (“Tourism & Leisure”) [arguments to circulate to MPs] [released 2015]
Text 85 Jul 27 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jul 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute for MT ("European Fighter Aircraft Negotiations") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Luxembourg to FCO (“European Political Cooperation: Meeting of African Directors”) [UK & FRG firmly oppose EC economic sanctions against South Africa] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKMIS New York telegram 566 to FCO (0020Z) (“Security Council Meeting on South Africa: Conclusion”) [UK & US veto Chapter VII sanctions, France reneging on promise to] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jul 28 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jul 28 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Under Secretary of State for Corporate and Consumer Affairs letter to Lawson (speech material on competition policy) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 28 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 98”) [36.5 percent claim they would support Alliance, 30 percent Conservative and 30 percent Labour] [released 2015]
Text 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Policy Unit minute for MT ("Meeting with Peter Levine") [defence procurement discussion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation ("Meeting with Monsieur Fabius: 1 August 1985") [Charles Powell, Jacques Viot] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Peter Rees minute to MT (R and D priorities across Government) ["...if industry is not raising its [research & development] spending... we must identify the reasons..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Expenditure on Scotland and Northern Ireland") ["snouts well and truly in the public expenditure trough"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Peru: UKE Lima telegram to FCO ("President Garcia's Inauguration Speech") ["A tough and uncompromising speech"] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Booth minute to MT ("Meeting on 30 July with the Football Authorities") [football hooliganism: membership cards] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Football Association General Secretary Ted Croker letter to MT (football hooliganism: meeting on 30 July) [gives apologies] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Football Authorities: 30 July") [football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Rees minute to MT ("Stocktaking Meeting on Football") [football hooliganism: cautions against offering "financial carrots" to football authorities to encourage action] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Shaw minute to MT ("Football Violence") [football hooliganism: response to issues raised by MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Teachers' Pay Negotiations, England and Wales") ["main features of the current position"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Scott minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: Overseas Information Effort") [report on work to explain Northern Ireland policies overseas] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walter Marshall, Chairman of the CEGB) ["Meeting with Lord Marshall: Endurance"/"Third Tranche Coal"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Gas Privatisation") [progress on gas privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Privy Council Office record of conversation ("Social Security Review") [Whitelaw, Fowler, Biffen, Ingham, Patrick Jenkin, Lord Gowrie, Tony Newton: publicity measures to widen coverage of consultation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson letter for Under Secretary of State for Corporate and Consumer Affairs (speech material on competition policy) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (BBC) Northern Ireland: Brittan letter to Stuart Young (“Real Lives”) [“terrorism thrives on the oxygen of publicity”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (BBC) Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Management minutes (extract on “Real Lives” documentary) [Brittan’s request not to show the documentary] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Brittan letter to Howe (“European Convention on Human Rights: renewal of optional Clauses 25 and 46 (Right of Individual Petition and Compulsory Jurisdiction of the Court)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Ridley minute to Rees (“LDDC: Royal Docks”) [discrepancies in costings for scheme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: MT letter to Robert McFarlane (thanks for briefing) [declassified ?2000]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“South Africa Internal”) [balance sheet after ten days of the emergency] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Canberra to FCO (“Australian Policy towards South Africa”) [Australia will propose trade embargo at CHOGM] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2261 to FCO (1530Z) (“US-South Africa”) [House-Senate conference on sanctions legislation - "Admnistration statements slowly becoming more critical of South Africa"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“MISC 109: Liverpool City Council Situation Report”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Revisions to GDP Growth Rates”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to Robert McFarlane (meeting at the Embassy) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to Paul Volcker (thanking for the hospitality) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to George Bush (thanking for the meeting) [declassified 2014]

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