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PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: MT minute to Norman Tebbit (DTI spending) [position on departmental programmes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (resignations from the civil service) [public sector/private sector disparity of pay increases for management staff] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Lord Cockfield Monday 15 October") [European Commissioners: portfolios] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with Monsier Delors, 15 October") [EC Presidency; European Commissioners: portfolios] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Draft MT speech (opening discarded due to bomb) ["The shadow grows darker"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to DTI (“Financial Services”) [MT seeks reassurance on five points] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 11 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Home Office letter to No.10 (French Communist Trade Union (CGT) to bring shipment of food and supplies to UK in support of striking miners) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-King, MT-Walker) [miners' strike: NUM-NCB negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Merseyside: Jenkin minute to MT ("Future of the Liverpool Garden Festival Site") [paper MT finished reading moments before Brighton Bomb exploded] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Heseltine and Howe minute to MT ("Ballistic Missile Defence: UK Policy Towards the US Strategic Initiative") [advocates sceptical stance towards SDI] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Powell minute to MT ("Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD): UK Policy Towards the US Strategic Initiative") [response to MOD/FCO paper on SDI: "the paper caricatures BMD in order to make its point"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT: "The events of Thursday night at Brighton mean that we must go very slow on these talks if not stop them"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Draft for conference speech (section on strike) [probably final draft pre-bomb] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: MT notes (speech to Conservative Agents) [“Scargill - a very good OIL salesman”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Appointment of New Secretary of State for Northern Ireland”) [cautious press reaction] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Future of the Liverpool Garden Festival site”) [“it will be possible, while meeting the immediate demand for housing sites, to retain most of the best gardens for next summer at least”] [released Dec 2014]
Text 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Cabinet Office briefing book ("Anglo-Italian Summit 18-19 October 1984") [FCO, Treasury & other departments contributing] [declassified Feb 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Efficiency Unit minute to MT ("The Urban Programme") [advice on Jenkin proposals, and on papers, for forthcoming MISC 104 meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 3056 to FCO (2052Z) ("Laker Consultations") [strategy; objectives] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Howe PS letter to Ridley PS ("Laker") [agenda for Ministerial meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3048 to FCO (0045Z) ("The Presidential Campaign") [report on first television Debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Conveyancing") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: H Committee proposals are 'a weak package'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (BT/IBM: Value Added Networks) [MT agrees with DTI decision not to allow venture to proceed] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb:No.10 invitation (party conference) [tea with MT] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: CCO platform plan (party conference) [final session] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Belize: MT letter to Prime Minister Price of Belize (new High Commissioner) [“appointment will serve to maintain the relations of close friendship which so happily exist between us”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("European Political Cooperation Meeting: Falklands at the UN") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("MISC 106") [MT anotation: "I wonder if we have not misssed some possible economies"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to George Younger ("Territorial Blocks: Needs Assessment") [draft terms of reference] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Michael Jopling ("Report on Agricultural Development and Advisory Services") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Professor Bell report ("Report of a Study of ADAS") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robin Nicholson minute to MT ("MISC 106: R&D Expenditure by Departments") [government-funded R&D out of balance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute (internal): Crispin Tickell to Robin Renwick ("Italian Commissoners") [Communist Party candidate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department telegram to USE Buenos Aires & USMIS New York ("Falkland Islands (Malvinas) UNGA Resolution") [published 2015]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: Hailsham letter to MT (grieving) [“fight the good fight against the forces of darkness”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Catford minute for MT (Runcie’s criticism of government) [“He had apparently not realised the significance of the timing in relation to the Party Conference”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Sherman speech module (“The NUM and the British People”) [“the dispute is part of an attempt by the NUM and like-minded unions to impose their diktat on the British people”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Belize: MT to Prime Minister George Price (introduces new High Commissioner) [routine letter signed on day of Brighton Bomb] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Draft speech opening (post-bomb) [rejected draft referring to bomb as assault on government] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Employment briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Briefing - 12 October 1984: Major Industrial Disputes") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Friday 12 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("MISC 101(84)45th Meeting: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Hurd content with proposed speaking notes for secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Irish constitutional amendments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Ankara telegram to FCO (“Secretary General’s initiative”) [reports of “Denktash’s genuine intention to negotiate”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Robert Young minute to MT (“The Urban Programme - Misc 104”) [criticises Environment Department’s response to programme review] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Urban Programme resources (Misc 104(84)5)”) [proposed distribution of cuts, level of resources for the programme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Rees minute to MT (“The AEA Review”) [future of UK Atomic Energy Authority] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“The Future of the Atomic Energy Authority”) [“the best solution would be to privatise the AEA”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chief Scientific Adviser minute to MT (“E(NI) Review of UK Atomic Energy Authority”) [favours privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Review”) [“AEA should become primarily a contract Research & Development… organisation operating through a Trading Fund”] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Brighton Bomb: Reagan letter to Thatcher (message of sympathy) [“We must work together to thwart this scourge”] [declassified 2000]
Text 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Brighton Bomb: McFarlane minute for Reagan (suggested call to MT) [“nice gesture to complement your personal message”] [declassified 2000]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO minute to No.10 (“Anglo-Italian Summit 18-19 October: Participation by Officials”) [declassified 2014]
Audio 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Brighton Bomb: Reagan phone call to MT (sympathy and support) [audio] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 13 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 13 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: John Coles letter to MT (admiration) [“your courage, calm and nobility in the aftermath”] [released 2014]
Text 84 Oct 14 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 14 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: UKE Dublin telegram 553 to FCO (1730Z) ("Brighton Bombing") [press report that the bombing was IRA's second attempt on MT's life] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 14 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Peter Thorneycroft (thoughts at church) ["this is the day I was not meant to see"] [released 2014]
Text 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Lord Gowrie minute to MT (Implementation of Improvements in the Financial Management of Advisory and Other Public Bodies) [asks MT to issue minute to Ministers to emphasise her personal backing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Lord Gowrie minute to MT (Review of the Financial Management of Advisory and Other Public Bodies) [progress & next steps] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Peking telegram 2596 to FCO (0847Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: Signature of the Agreement") [Zhou informed of MT's wish to sign Agreement in Peking] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: MT letter to US Ambassador Price (Hong Kong Agreement) [thanks for congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Security Risks in Certain Civil Service Grades") [MT gives approval "for the procedure to be adopted for dealing with a civil servant who becomes a security risk while employed in a grade for all of whose members normal vetting security clearance is essential"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: MT message to President Jayewardene (1400Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Sri Lanka") [MT unable to commit to attending inauguration of Victoria Dam] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Department of Trade & Industry ("British Shipbuilders: Disposal of Brooke Marine") [MT agrees 'that the Omani Government should be allowed to acquire a minority stake in Brooke Marine'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury Minute Replying to the 19th to 23rd and 26th to 36th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee 1983-84") [publication of Government response; background note] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: UKHC New Delhi letter to No.10 ("Bomb Attack at Brighton") [press coverage in India] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Washington telegram 3079 to FCO (2310Z) ("Afghan Air Attacks on Pakistan") [US position] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: Gaisman note to MT (cancelled hair appointment) [“will send a good tip”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: MT note to Sir Alistair Graesser (thanks) [chairmanship helped “make what was a day of particular stress much easier for all of us”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: MT note to Pamela Hunter (thanks) [“you had a far more unusual and greater crisis to respond to … and you rose superbly to the occasion”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: MT letter to Paul Boswell (Grand Hotel) (gratitude to staff) [“the more enduring impression will be that of the marvellous human qualities dislpayed at the moment of crisis”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: MT letter to Sir Russell Sanderson (grateful for role played) [that conference continued is “further testimony to the high morale of the National Union”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Berne ("Relations with Argentina") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute for Governor of the Falklands ("Falklands: New Hospital") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Whitelaw PS ("MISC 106: R&D Expenditure by Departments") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Jopling minute to Peter Rees ("Report on Agricultural Development and Advisory Services") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Ministerial Group on Public Expenditure (MISC 106) Foreign and Commonwealth Office Programmes") [unable to reach agreement with Howe] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Channon minute to MT ("ECGD cover: Turkey and Pakistan") ["I would hope that we could review the whole position of cover in cases like this at the OD meeting on 22 October so that we do not lose other good potential business"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Cockfield) ["EC: new Commission": portfolios] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Delors, Pascal Lamy) ["President-Designate of the [EC] Commission": internal market; Dooge Committee; allocation of Commissioner portfolios; Budget/agricultural spending; EMS/European currency; Third World aid] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Sir Henry Plumb (European Community: UK 1983 refunds) ["my warm thanks and appreciation for all your efforts"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Grierson) ["European Community Industrial Policy"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Net Payments to European Community Institutions") ["We have not hitherto disclosed figures showing the effects of the European Council agreement"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("A People's Europe") ["enclosed note on a proposed UK initiative on frontier facilitation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Shridath Ramphal (thanks for message) [Ramphal conveys Commonwealth outrage, sympathy] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Stuart Young (thanks for message) [“I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your kind words”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: Sherbourne letter to MT (conference speech) [“you spoke for the nation”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to William Thorne (thanks for looking after her hair) ["that it lasted so well through Friday was the real test"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: Charles Powell note for Duty Clerk ("Brighton Bomb Attack") [list of messages from world leaders, and replies] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Neil Kinnock (thanks for his message) [“I share your determination that the perpetrators of this wanton act of violence shall not succeed in undermining our democracy”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Gordon Wilson (thanks for his message) [“I know that you will share my determination that the perpetrators of this wanton act of violence shall not be allowed to succeed in their aims”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to David Owen (thanks for his message) [“you have voiced the concern of the whole country for the victims of this wanton act of violence ... the perpetrators of such acts shall not succeed in undermining our democracy”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to James Molyneaux (thanks for his message) [“all attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism in this country will fail”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Ian Paisley (thanks for his message) [“I have made quite clear our determination that all attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail”] [released 2014]

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