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PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan, Peter Morrison) ["BL": privatisation of British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 note: Flesher to Robilliard (State Opening of Parliament) [Denis Thatcher's attendance] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (85) 3rd ("Local Government Finance Studies") [education; distributional impact; timetable] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Young minute to MT ("Deregulation, City Action Teams, and Tourism") [arrangements and organisation following Cabinet reshuffle] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Charles Powell minute to FCO ("South Africa at CHOGM") [feedback on draft speaking notes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Howe PS minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's briefing meeting for CHOGM") [attendees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO telegram 930 to UKHC New Delhi (1630Z) ("Lobbying of Commonwealth Governments on South Africa before CHOGM") [text of Howe message to UK High Commissions: "we expect all Commonwealth posts to lobby their host governments and report reactions"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Ingham minute to Powell ("Northern Ireland") [Anglo-Irish talks: media presentation of Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Coal - Notts Break-Away Movement") ['favourable developments' imminent] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2769 to FCO (2200Z) ("MSE") [Mobile Subscriber Equipment: UK firm, Plessey, vs. French bid for contract to supply combat phones to US army] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Paris telegram 834 to FCO (1332Z) ("Summit Seven Meeting in New York") [French representation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKDel NATO telegram 237 to FCO (1519Z) ("Alliance Consultation") [Shultz to attend Ministerial meeting of the Council in Brussels] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT message to President Reagan (1040Z) (US/Soviet Talks) [meeting of the seven economic summit countries to discuss Reagan's forthcoming meeting with Gorbachev] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Kohl) [Charles Powell highlights passages for MT on economic Summit Seven lunch; arms control; SDI research; discussion of MT dismay over Kohl's failure to observe "special confidence" in regard to draft treaty on PoCo and security matters; UK/FRG relationship; Luxembourg Council] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Greville Janner MP/President of the Commonwealth Jewish Council (Commonwealth Jewish Council's Greetings to Heads of Government) [released Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 record of conversation ("Note for the Record") [Ingham, Norgrove: presentation of the payment of arrears of housing benefit to Liverpool and other authorities] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 28th (Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs, Public Expenditure, Queen s Speech) [spending bilaterals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Norman Fowler minute for Douglas Hurd (“Drug Misuse: Conservative Party Conference Debate”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 note to MT (meeting with the Chancellor before CHOGM) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“a limited number of proposals, the main one of which, a graduate tax, is fraught with objections”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Teachers pay”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph (“Teachers’ Pay Dispute”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Kinnock attacks Scargill) [“Sun says Kinnock yesterday finally smashed Scargill’s strangehold on the Labour Party”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT letter to Eddie Molyneux (sale of arms) [Israel’s right to defend itself] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (BBC) Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Governors minutes (“Real Lives”) [issue unlikely to dominate coming meeting of General Advisory Council] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: No.10 briefing (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Conservative Friends of Israel”) [unhappiness at invitation to Jordanian/PLO delegation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: No.10 briefing (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Conservative Friends of Israel”) [unhappiness at invitation to Jordanian/PLO delegation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Senior Management Development Programme”) [response to MT request for improved management training] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Tebbit letter to Hurd (“Public Order Bill”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO (“South Africa: internal”) [reforms] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Bishop Tutu) [violence, apartheid, sanctions] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit 1986”) [dates announcement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT (Anglo-German proposal on MBFR: draft reply to President Reagan's letter) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Inland Revenue minute to John Moore ("Visit to Japan, Hong Kong and Mauritius") ["...pleasant statements about the ICL arrangement as an important example of technological collaboration between Japan and the UK but there is no question that Japanese interests come first."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: UK Ambassador Hungary despatch to FCO ("Kádár's Hungary: or 29 Years is a Long Time in Politics") [General Secretary János Kádár visit to UK] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Public inquiries") ["H committee discussed both delays and disruptions at major public inquiries and whether improvements in compensation arrangements might obviate them"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Wakeham letter to MT (Water Fluoridation Bill) ["... there is a hard core of opposition to it mainly from our own side..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Dog Licensing") [options] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Treasury minute to David Norgrove ("Defence Expenditure as a Proportion of GDP") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Mayhew minute to MT (The Crown Prosecution Service: remuneration of solicitors) [response to letter from Prosecuting Solicitors' Society] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Hailsham PS to Howe PS ("Australia Constitution Act: Request for Permanent Loan to Australia") [against allowing PRO copy to leave official custody permanently] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: MT letter to Turkish Prime Minister Ozal (Assistance for Turkey's admission in EDU) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: UKHC Colombo telegram 667 to FCO (0540Z) ("Commonwealth Finance Ministers meeting: Maldives 1985") [record] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: UKHC Canberra telegram 686 to FCO (0630Z) ("CHOGM: South Africa") [Bob Hawke public criticism of UK stance on sanctions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: UKE Pretoria telegram 376 to FCO (1445Z) ("Commonwealth economic relations with SA") ["answers to your queries about economic relations between SA and Commonwealth countries"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Howe minute to MT ("South Africa at CHOGM") ["a note on the action being taken to manage the South African issue in the run-up to CHOGM and at the meeting itself"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe PS minute to Heseltine PS ("Invitations from the Soviet Ambassador") [need to return to business as usual following expulsions; no ostracism, but social contacts should be avoided] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Taoiseach Fitzgerald (Anglo-Irish Agreement: state of play in talks) [outstanding drafting points; date of summit; Irish accession to European Convention on Suppression of Terrorism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (Anglo-Irish Agreement: message from Bud McFarlane) [US position on Anglo-Irish Agreement and US financial support for Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Irish Government suggests signing Agreement in New York] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: AP wire report ("Miners Cannot Buy Pit") ['the National Coal Board said today it had told 25 Yorkshire Miners that they cannot buy their pit when it closes at the end of December'; Norgrove annotation: 'Another PR triumph for the Coal Board'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr 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 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Electricity and Gas EFLs") [MT concerned about overshoots of External Financing Limits for electricity supply industry and British Gas] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Geneva Talks: Soviet Counter-Proposals") [preliminary analysis & advice on UK response] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Hurd letter to Tony Newton (Green Paper: enforcement of requirements under the new pension arrangements) [Hurd proposes "a new sort of relationship (between employers and pension providers)... subject to the oversight of your inspectors. I would hope that on those grounds the powers could be defended in the face of any objections there may be"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Treasury minute to MacGregor ("Social Security Reviews and 1985 Survey: Mr Fowler's 2 October Package") [implications of Fowler proposals; tactics to be adopted in Treasury discussions with Fowler; request for guidance on how to handle Fowler's forthcoming paper to MISC III] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (South African DFA) South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (drift towards international sanctions against SA) [declassified ?2005]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Brittan minute for MT (‘Westland’) [examine European solution urgently; do not rule out Sikorsky if no alternative] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (‘Westlands’) [Heseltine organised meeting of European NADs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (‘Westland’) [suggests meeting chaired by Chancellor] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Lawson letter to Brittan (“Take-over Panel”) [at least create contingency plan for statutory basis] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Douglas Hurd letter for MT (recent riots and racial discrimination) [suggests wording for MT conference speech] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Edwards minute for Scholar (“Family Policy Group”) [historical background on the taxation of husband and wife] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (“Teachers’ pay (England and Wales)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Labour party: CRD briefing (Labour Party conference) [Kinnock’s leadership, divisions within the party, policies] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Wicks minute (“Breakfasts”) [meetings offer “the opportunity to discuss, informally, governmental and political issues”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Lynda Chalker letter to MT (“Economic regulation of airports”) [objectives: privatisation of BAA and conversion of local authority airports into companies] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd letter to Whitelaw (“Shops Bill: Sunday trading”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (internal reform) [defence of record] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (President Machel visit to London) [aid to Mozambique, sanctions against South Africa] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Secretary of State for Wales letter to Kenneth Baker (“Rating Reform: A Green Paper for Wales”) [the E(LF) meeting: assessment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to MT (“Gold, JMB and South Africa”) [permitting JMB role] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Consequences of Price Restraint for British Agriculture”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: John MacGregor minute to Michael Jopling (“Emergency Relief for Farmers”) [draft statement suggestions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Robin Harris draft (“Draft section for the PM’s conference speech”) [“Neil Kinnock is no Gaitskell”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Oct 5 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Younger PS ("Local Authority Expenditure: Scotland: Aggregate Exchequer Grant 1986-87") [transferring money from the block grant] [declassified Jul 2015]
Text 85 Oct 6 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Meeting between President Alfonsin and Mr Steel") [text of a joint communique] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT draft (conference speech) [“Draft 1”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Visit of Mr Kadar") [General Secretary János Kádár; programme of visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Brittan ("BL privatisation") [dismayed by delay of Unipart sell-off; GM negotiations; "...1oo per cent of the businesses should be sold ... [but] separate out.... profitable companies like Land Rover for separate privatisation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the 15th to 25th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee 1984-85") ["Even with the interest of the coming debate we doubt whether the Treasury minute will attract much interest"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science & Technology: MT letter to Sir Henry Chilver (exploitable areas of science) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Howe-King-Armstrong-Spring-Barry-Nally and others) [Anglo-Irish Agreement: Convention on Suppression of Terrorism; Northern Ireland courts; Secretariat of Intergovernmental Committee; devolution; summit timing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to Powell (comment on joint letter from Jim Molyneaux MP and Ian Paisley MP) [suggested reply] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Emley Moor Drift Mine") [requests urgent investigation of report that NCB has told miners that they cannot buy their pit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 letter to DTI (‘Westland’) [MT thinks if Indian deal falls through “not necessarily a bad thing to allow the company to go into receivership”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Tebbit letter to Brittan (‘Westland’) [suspects European solution “may well owe more to an effort to keep Westland out of Sikorsky’s hands than to offer a lifeline to Westland”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Brittan letter to Lawson (“Financial Services Bill: International Reciprocity”) [proposes clause to deny access to UK market to firms from countries not granting it to UK firms] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Press Office minute for MT (line on riot) [said you are in close touch, talked to Home Sec; shock at murder & use of guns; support for police] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Douglas Hurd) [Tottenham riots] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger minute to MT (“The Teachers’ dispute in Scotland”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Ken Clarke (BA pay proposals) [“BA will not have an easy ride in attempting to restructure the engineering grades”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Pay Assumption and Running Cost Limits”) [outlines concerns with Lawson proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Nyerere letter to MT (“South Africa: economic sanctions”) [appeal for UK support] [declassified 2014]

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