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PDF 84 Sep 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Warry minute to Turnbull (“Trade Union Act”) [Whether the National Coal Board can use the Trade Union Act] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 26 September 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 26 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler minute to MT ("Meeting with the Secretary of State for Energy and Home Secretary: Suggested Speaking Note") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("MISC 101(84)42nd Meeting: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Colin Budd minute to Charles Powell (“Mr Barry’s Speech to the Britsh Irish Association, 15 September”) [“the overall impression conveyed was one of optimism about the prospects for significant improvement in the situation”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to Armstrong (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Armstrong’s talks with Nally] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Crime: Centre for Policy Studies report (“Criminal Waste”) [reasons, patterns, solutions]
PDF 84 Sep 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: MT personal minute to Lord Cockfield (a report on his visit to Hungary) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: George Foulkes MP letter to MT (circumstances surrounding the sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Jenkin minute for Tebbit ("Falkland Islands: Further Capital Works") [comments on estimated costs] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Norman Tebbit ("PES 1984: Department of Trade and Industry") [scale of reductions proposed] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") ["this year's Survey is proving particularly difficult"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure in 1984-85") [how to deal with expected overshoot] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Service Pay and Expenditure in 1985-86") [draft Rees paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Jopling PS minute to David Barclay ("ACARD Report: New Opportunities in Manufacturing") [application to food manufacturing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Willetts minute to Andrew Turnbull ("The Pay Factor for Next Year") [3 percent increase in public sector pay] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor and Chief Secretary") [Rees recommends government should "acquiesce in a substantial overspend this year"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, Lord King, Marshall) ["CAA Review"; Civil Aviation Authority review of the implications of British Airways privatisation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Frigates to Pakistan") [draft MT reply to President Zia-ul-Haq; "there have been long consultations... in an attempt to make an improved credit offer without increasing ECGD's commitment"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Department of Environment briefing for MT (meeting with Lord Cameron: Kings College, London and Somerset House) ["a short note about the present position"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Seminar on Possible Conflict of Principles in Foreign Policy: Chequers, 1 October") [comments on key points in attached paper circulated to Ministers & officials] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (McMahon, Middleton) [Johnson Matthey - Middleton "agreeing that we were doing the right thing"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Jopling PS letter to No.10 ("ACARD Report: New Opportunities in Manufacturing") [MT disagreement with Jopling] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 2870 to FCO (0350Z) ("Laker: Grand Jury") [indictments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKMIS New York telegram 934 to FCO (0105Z) ("Secretary of State's Meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister") [future of Hong Kong; signature of agreement; Sino/Soviet relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 3058 to FCO (0800Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: Media Coverage") [generally favourable coverage] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO letter to Powell ("Future of Hong Kong: Nationality") [agreement with Executive Council and China on nationality proposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: US Ambassador Price letter to MT (Hong Kong Agreement) [congratulations on successful negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Visit of the New Zealand Prime Minister to Chequers: 30 September") [personal relationship with Lange, economic policy, Argentina, nuclear policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Crombie Code") ["proposal is now to repeal the general requirement for Ministers to provide compensatory regulations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Hurd letter to MT ("Drug Misuse") [notes problem less prevalent in Northern Ireland; outlines work being done] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Sleipner") [negotiations on imports from Sleipner gas field] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Warry paper on trade unions(“Trade Unions, moderates, and the law”) [tackling militant union members; advice NCB should seek a test case for the new Act] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: Gaisman minute to MT (“Party Conference”) [engagements, clothes, milk quota meeting] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Howe memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 23 (White Paper On Developments in the European Community, January-June 1984) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 24 (The Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation and Opening of Parliament) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 42nd (Industrial Dispute in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Thursday 27 September 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (pit closures during Benn's time as Secretary of State for Energy) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Brittan letter to Rees ("Miners' Dispute: Policing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Powell minute for MT (a personal message for Kohl) [gestures seem to matter a lot to Kohl; he is susceptible to flattery] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Sherbourne note to MT (CCO “‘caricature’”) [MT to be photographed] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Sherbourne note to MT (request from Ronnie Butt for interview) [“recommend a regret on the usual grounds that you do not usually give interviews immediately before or during the Conference”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Sandiford letter to Charles Powell (“Magilligan Hunger Strike”) [objective of the strike “is to put pressure on the authorities to concede the separation of Loyalists from Republicans”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 946 to FCO (0651Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with UN Secretary General: Cyprus”) [“de Cuéllar said that pressure must be put on the Turkish Cypriots by the Turks not to insist on a veto power on all decisions”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Indira Gandhi letter to MT (elections in South Africa and detainees in Durban) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“The British Consul in Durban”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“The Situation in Durban”) [trying to persuade the Six to leave voluntarily] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Whitelaw, Brittan, Lawson, Biffen, Joseph, Ridley, Younger, Rees etc.) [“Local government policies” - Jenkin to announce government "looking at the most serious inequities and deficiencies of the system but without giving this the status of a review"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Conservative Party Chairman letter to Jenkin (Local government policy) [“the Party is clearly worried”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lord Gowrie letter to Brittan (Abolition of GLC & MCCs: transitional support for the voluntary sector) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (introducing statutory time limits on the bringing of criminal proceedings) [feedback from Attorney General and Lord Chief Justice] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Federal German economy") [outlook] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Powell minute for MT ("Belgrano") [Foulkes' and Owen's letters regarding circumstances surrounding the sinking] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("Public Servcie Pay and Expenditure in 1985-6") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Small Ministerial Group") [proposed membership] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Rees) [departmental programme savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Rees minute to Efficiency Unit ("Inspection and Management Consultancy in Departments") ["For our meeting with... [MT], it will... be enough to say that we have agreed to set up, as part of our monitoring of departments' progress with budgeting control, a more concentrated study with a few departments"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Acid Raid") ["There is now an agreed policy... If we do not come out soon with a clear and forthright statement... we will be driven into pledges we would rather not make"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Seminar on NATO strategy, Chequers, 1 October") [briefing for restricted session] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to MT ("NATO strategy") [thoughts in advance of Chequers, 1 October restricted session] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("E(DL): Unutilised Land and Houses") [Jenkin proposals "all to be welcomed"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 3078 to FCO (1030Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: White Paper on the Agreement: Public Reaction") [positive responses but "some anxieties are emerging"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit of New Zealand Prime Minister") [nuclear ships' visits] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Review of Regional Industrial Policy E(A) on 3 October") [alternatives to Tebbit recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Leon Brittan letter to MT (Drug Abuse) [note summarising action to date & action in hand; proposed announcements for Ken Clarke's speech at Conservative Party Conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Younger letter to Biffen ("Documents for Departmental Select Committees") [review of rules and conventions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Biffen ("Disclosure of Information to Select Committees") [review of rules & conditions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report”) [“stress key elements of Coal Board offer … Condemn violence and intimidation”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Redwood minute for Fowler (“Early Retirement and Jobs”) [“idea that encouraging early retirement helps with the employment problem is one of a number of lump Labour fallacies”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Sherbourne minute for MT (organisational issues) [keeping David Hart away from conference hotel, must not be a channel to MacGregor] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: Sherbourne minute to MT (“Party Conference Speech”) [“more of a single issue speech than normal”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: MT letter to Kohl (allied cooperation & European Community matters) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Powell minute for Julian Bullard (“Chancellor Kohl”) [Anglo-German relationship] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Energy: Conservative Central Office memo (“Oil and Gas Exploration”) [“difficult to assess what impact onshore oil and gas discoveries will have on the Conservative vote”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Sherbourne minute for MT (CCO issues) [MT: “We cannot afford anything at present”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Situation in the Durban Consulate”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Michael Jopling minute to MT (“Agricultural and Food Policy”) [a passage to include into his speech to the Farmer’s Club] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (“Government Statement on Agricutural and Food Policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Self-employment”) [information provision and awareness raising] [declassified 2013]
Text 84 Sep 29 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("ECOFIN Council: 1 October. Budget Discipline") ["salient features of the Presidency compromise"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Situation at Durban Consulate”) [draft reply to Botha] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 30 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 30 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) DT: DT note to Gaisman (party conference) [arrangements] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKE San Jose record of conversation (Howe, Miguel d'Escoto) [Contadora Process; Nicaraguan elections; Central American concerns about Soviet-backed Nicaraguan military build-up] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Sep 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKE San Jose telegram to FCO ("San Jose meeting: Nicaragua") [Ambassador Summerscale, President Monge record of conversation: assessment of current political situation] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Sep 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to President Zia-ul-Haq (sale of Type 21 Frigates to Pakistan) [contract negotiations; Memorandum of Understanding] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lange) [UN Falklands resolution, nuclear ships visits, Australia] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (British Consulate in Durban; Coventry case) [HMG in "breach of international law" over Durban case] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (detainees in Durban Consulate) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT message to President Botha (“Situation at Durban Consulate”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Jenkin letter to Brittan (“Time Limits in Criminal Proceedings”) [need to balance addressing court delay with risk of public backlash if detainees released on technicality] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd letter to Brittan (“Time Limits in Criminal Proceedings”) [“The enactment of Home Office legislation would leave Northern Ireland unhappily exposed, as the only jurisdiction in the United Kingdom unable to conform”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Chief Whip's PS letter to Powell ("Prime Minister's Letter about the Belgrano Affair") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Robert Armstrong ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Small Ministerial Group") [membership] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Robert Armstrong ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Small Ministerial Group") [potential difficulties] [declassified Jan 2014]

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