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PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO telegram 788 to UKHC New Delhi (1100Z) ("Laker: London Consultations 1/2 November") [progress made on agreement to allow inter-airline discussions on tariffs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Press Conference and Media Issues") [arrangements, likely questions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Rajiv Gandhi) [death of Mrs Gandhi, statements by Sikh extremists, ] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong message to Powell (draft communique and statement of position for Anglo-Irish summit on Northern Ireland) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Shultz) [funeral of Indira Gandhi, terrorism, Cold War, Laker case] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 84 Nov 4 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi record of conversation (MT-Paul) [Mrs Gandhi's funeral, Chauhan's statements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan) [India; Japanese economy; Hong Kong; Japanese coal strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Hong Kong Legislation") [legislative implications of Hong Kong Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 letter to Sir Alistair Frame (RTZ's activities in Portugal) [background for forthcoming visit of Prime Minister Soares] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Tebbit PS letter to Patrick Jenkin PS ("BT Share Issue") [purchase of shares by Government Ministers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Job Weighting for Permanent Secretaries") [Lawson "concerned that... [MT] should have a clear appreciation of the risks before deciding to proceed [with asking Top Salaries Review Body to examine the issue]"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to David Trippier ("Small Business Loan Guarantee Scheme") [options for future of the Scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Pay (England and Wales)") [report on Burnham Committee meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Government Response to the Environment Select Committee's Report on Acid Rain") [proposed amendments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Department of Transport letter to No.10 ("Competition Act 1980: References of Nationalised Industries to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission") [Ridley suggests post-audit of London and South East sector of British Rail] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Tebbit PS letter to Jenkin PS ("BT Share Issue") [guidance for Ministers & Treasury staff on purchasing shares] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: Prime Minister Lubbers of the Netherlands letter to MT (Law of the Sea Convention) [Netherlands’ objections, signature not a ratification] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-German relations") ["We have recently been working rather effectively with the French on some Community issues. It is with the Germans, curiously, that we face almost more difficulty in establishing a working relationship."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 letter to David Steel MP (Queen's Speech on the Opening of Parliament) [advance copy] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: Powell briefing for MT (Visit by Yugoslav Foreign Minister Dizdarevic) [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Willie Whitelaw minute to Keith Joseph ("MISC 106: Agricultural R&D Expenditure") [should not be a separate line of reductions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Jopling minute to Peter Rees ("Report on Agricultural Development and Advisory Services") [Professor Bell's report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Walker PS minute to Cabinet Office ("Report of the Ministerial Group on Public Expenditure (MISC 106): Gas and Electricity Industries") [latest position] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Walker PS ("Report of the Ministerial Group on Public Expenditure (MISC 106): Gas and Electricity Industries") [agreement reached] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (handling of Cabinet) [inability to squeeze anything more out of Walker] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [gas and electricity industries] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention") [notes the risks of signing, but endorses FCO advice to do so; MT rejects advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Prime Minister Lubbers letter to MT ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention") ["Signing the Convention does not imply acceptance of the seabed regime"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention: Future Options") ["the question is whether... [UK] interests would be better served... inside the Convention process as a signatory, or outside it as a non-signatory"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Robin Butler minute for MT (“Eve of Session Dinner” - procedure) [Cabinet Secretary to read out Queen’s Speech; no Loyal Toast] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 32 (Public Expenditure 1984) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong minute to Butler (Box 500 report: transfer of funds to the NUM) [miners' strike: "Steps are being taken to prompt journalistic inquiries of Mr Scargill" regarding Soviet provision of aid] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Monday 5 November 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Record of conversation (Willetts-Tony Newton) ["Strikers' Benefits"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [account of Armstrong-Nally talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Forthcoming Summit") [arrangements for summit: to be held at Chequers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Fitzgerald) ["EC/ACP Negotiations: Size of EDF VI"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's comments on draft communique and statement of position] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Governor of the Bank of England) [Johnson Matthey; David Owen] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Hoskyns letter to MT (letter from Laurent Murawiec of the Schiller Institute) [concerns about the rise of the Green party in West Germany] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Paddy Ashdown MP letter to MT (possible CIA operation against British companies in the computer technology field) ["very serious questions which ought to be investigated"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Ambassador Wright despatch to Howe ("1984 US Presidential Election Result: What Will Reagan Do?") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Nicholas Edwards minute to MT (UK trade and industrial opportunities in the Far East) [thoughts following visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Commemoration of the End of the Second World War") [issues; proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("40th Anniversary of the End of the Second World War") [proposals in regard to Service in Westminster Abbey] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 letter to Patrick Jenkin PS ("Government Response to the Environment Select Committee's Report on Acid Rain") [MT content with draft response, subject to comments from colleagues] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Patrick Jenkin letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Contracting Out of Local Government Services") [draft announcement of compulsory tendering regime] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: FCO Parliamentary Clerk letter to No.10 ("White Paper - Hong Kong") [publication of Independent Monitoring Team & Assessment Office reports] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department ("Argentine Intent to Retake Falklands") [published 2015]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 note to MT ("UNLOSC") [UN Convention on the Law of the Sea; MT notes she is strongly opposed to signing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Jenkin memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 33 (Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Housing) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: MT message for Chancellor Kohl (bilateral relations: the forthcoming Anglo-German Summit) [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 6 November 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Armstrong (Box 500 report: transfer of funds to the NUM) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Gow letter to MT (cuts to the housing programme) ["any reduction in housing spending below baseline will lead to avoidable higher expenditure and to avoidable hardship later on"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Gregson briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure: Housing Programme") [brief for meeting with Jenkin to discuss cuts to housing programme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Redwood minute to MT ("Housing Expenditure") [argues for further reductions: "We should be robust about increasing council house sales and reducing the level of new build"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Trippier minute to MT ("Repackaging of DTI Assistance Schemes") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [arrangements for Chequers summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Central Office press release (“Two New Vice-Chairmen For Conservative Party”) [appointments consequent upon September Ministerial changes] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT note to Ronald Reagan (congratulations on election victory) [“You can count on Britain to work closely with you in meeting the challenges which lie ahead”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 550 to FCO (1000Z) (“Cyprus: Secretary General’s initiative”) [“Kyprianou not prepared to give Perez de Cuéllar a yes or no answer”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Government Purchasing") [foreword to report; publication] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Middleton, Governor of the Bank of England) [reporting system between Treasury & the Bank of England; Dunlop] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to David Barclay ("Scrutiny of BBC External Services") [transmission of scrutiny report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 3401 to FCO (0950Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: Prime Minister's Visit to Peking") [importance of Hong Kong perception] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3322 to FCO (2240Z) ("US Election Results") [analysis] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to President Reagan (1057Z) (US Election results) [personal message of congratulations; arms control seminar] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Ambassador Wright despatch to Howe ("The 1984 US Presidential Election: Why Reagan Won") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The Next US Administration") [summary of Ambassador Wright's assessment of likely policies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Government Response to the Tenth Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution") [redraft, at MT's request, to make line on nuclear energy more robust] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1045 to FCO (1330Z) ("Anglo-German Relations") [Bullard, Teltschik: record of conversation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [famine relief; EC Budget discipline; Research Council, 6 Nov; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Signature of the Hong Kong Agreement: Sir Y K Pao") [MT doubtful that Pao can be persuaded not to attend] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to Private Secretaries ("Legislation in the 1985/86 Sessions and 1986/87 Sessions") [request for Ministers' proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: Chancellor Kohl of FRG letter to MT (sympathy) [“enclosed a personal gift for you”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl of FRG (talks) [Dooge Committee, defence cooperation] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: German Ambassador to the UK letter to MT (Prime Minister's interview for Die Welt, November 2 1984) ["...right when she said the identity of the European states must be preserved... [FRG however now convinced of need to formalise] cooperation between EC states. This was particularly true in foreign policy..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Anglo-German relations") [future of the European Union] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl (bilateral talks) [future of EC; Dooge Committee; internal market/job creation; defence/NATO/Brussels Treaty] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yugoslav Foreign Minister Dizdarevic) [Yugoslav economy, debt rescheduling, East/West relations] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (The economic policy of the Netherlands Government) [despatch from former Ambassador, Sir Philip Mansfield] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 Lobby Briefing (publications, Yugoslavia, environment/local government debate, US elections) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: DTI letter to No.10 (“Financial Services”) [replies on five points raised by No.10] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Chancellor Kohl letter for MT (sympathy at the attack in Brighton) ["my sympathy and my horror at the attack on your life"] [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 7 November 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Havers letter to Francis Bennion (conspiracy prosecution against Scargill) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Ian Lloyd MP (the miners' strike and the future of the coal industry) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Heseltine-Rifkind-Stanley-Armstrong-Acland-Whitmore-Cradock-Fieldhouse-Goodall-Cartledge) ["Ballistic Missile Defence: United Kingdom Policy towards the US Strategic Defence Initiative"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Hailsham-Rees-Bailey-Gregson) ["Public Expenditure"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984 (C(84) 32 and 33)") [MISC 106 public expenditure proposals: outstanding issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Jopling minute to MT ("MISC 106: Agriculture and R&D Expenditure") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Jenkin-Gow-Whitelaw-Gregson) ["Housing"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) ["Public Expenditure: Gas and Electricity EFLs"] [declassified 2014]

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