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PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 3 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Flesher minute to MT ("Bishop of Durham") [miners' strike: Walker-Bishop of Durham meeting 'extremely unsatisfactory'] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Flesher minute to MT ("Working Miners at Manton Colliery") [miners' strike: report of attempted murder of working miners] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT ("NACODS and the Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: report of attempted murder of working miners] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hong Kong: Michael Alison note to Charles Powell (mooted trip to China) [“likely to be too many people in the Conservative Party who felt instinctively that we had really given Hong Kong away to the Chinese”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“the farthest we are likely to get by the time of the Summit is to be able to report to the Prime Minsiter and the Taoiseach on the outlines of a possible package”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell minute to Appleyard (“New Canadian Prime Minister”) [proposed meeting with Mulroney: MT’s autumn diary “already exceptionally full”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“Airline Competition Policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rees minute to MT (“Party Conference: Motion on local government financial arrangements”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“A Voice for London”) [campaign against GLC abolition proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Local government finance”) [Jenkin review] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: Gaisman note to Grand Hotel (“Conservative Party Conference”) [MT’s room, menu requests] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Gummer note to Sherbourne (Garner’s notes for MT’s speech to agents’ dinner) [elections, grass roots] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hong Kong: MT letter to Prime Minister Hawke of Australia (Joint Declaration) [Australian support “will do much to foster confidence … at this critical time”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Biffen ("Education in London") [elections to new Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Education in London") [elections to new Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [venue & travel arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Powell ("Visit of the Yugoslav Foreign Minister") [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [foreign debt, visit by the Swiss Foreign Minister, Jimmy Carter's visit to Buenos Aires, Alfonsin one of the nominees for the Nobel peace prize] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Tokyo ("Falklands at the UN") [unofficial translation of amended draft resolution] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Norman Tebbit minute to MT (DTI spending) [efforts to reduce spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("New EC Commission") [West German Commissioners] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Budgetary Questions. European Parliament Press Conference") [UK 1983 refunds] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKDel Strasbourg telegram to FCO ("EC Budget 1983 Refunds") [latest position] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO letter to Powell ("Comments by the French Prime Minister on Britain") [performance of UK economy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 2967 to FCO (1425Z) ("Laker Grand Jury") [ex-BA employees informed by US Dept of Justice of their implication in crime; UK Govt protests at timing & at not being notified in advance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: MT letter to Prime Minister Hawke of Australia (Hong Kong agreement) [grateful for your support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Powell letter to FCO ("Hong Kong: Negotiating Team") [MT to give a party for those involved in negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Indo-British Colloquim (IBC)") [Gandhi has agreed to new body] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Robin Butler minute to MT (article in The Listener: disputed vote on Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Bill in 1976) [broken pair controversy - Tom Pendry MP request for documentation held by No.10; considers legal action against author of article, Julian Critchley MP] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Chief Constable of Merseyside Police Force (Visit to Liverpool, 2 October) [thanks for police arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Chairman of the Merseyside Development Corporation (tackling urban decay: International Garden Festival and the Albert Dock) [follow-up to MT visit to Liverpool, 2 October] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Lord Aberconway (International Garden Festival) [Commissioner General for the Festival: follow-up to MT visit to Liverpool, 2 October] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Chairman of Plesset PLC (Wavertree Technology Park) [follow-up to MT visit to Liverpool, 2 October] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Liverpool on 2 October") [draft replies to people MT was introduced to] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Howe minute to Lord Gowrie ("Megaw: The Payment of Permanent and Deputy Secretaries") ["as far as the Diplomatic Service is concerned I do not wish at present to seek any change in existing procedures"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3164 to FCO (1830Z) ("Enlargement: The Prospects") ["If we cannot get ahead soon, the German position on our own resources will begin to make the... Fontainebleau package precarious... the major difficulties come from Greek[s]... and French obstructiveness"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: FCO letter to No.10 ("Sleipner") [encourages movement in negotiations on imports from Sleipner gas field] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: FCO letter to No.10 ("British Shipbuilders: Disposal of Brooke Marine") [FCO supports Department of Trade & Industry decision not to sell majority stake to Omani Government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Ingham minute for MT (“Conference Speech”) [“people v. the machine”; ultra left v the nation; David English] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 32nd (Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Economic Affairs, Queen's Speech, Airline Competition Policy, Local Government Finance, Public Service Pay and Expenditure 1985-6, Public Expenditure Survey 1984) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Thursday 4 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Havers minute to MT (DPP to take over case of murder threat against working miner) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Anglo-German Consultations, 2 November: Programme”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit (“Direct Private Investment Overseas”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to MOD ("Ministerial Contacts with the Soviet Union") [responding to Soviet invitations to UK Ministers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell note to MT (Gorbachev accepts invitation to visit UK) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Jenkin minute to MT (Fund for Animal Welfare campaign: “Save our Swans”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Baker, Lord Avon, Letwin) [“London dimension of abolition”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker letter to Whitelaw (“Abolition: By-elections”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to Powell ("The Belgrano") [MT's draft replies to letters from George Foulkes and David Owen] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("DTI: Expenditure Programme") [possible savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Trade and Industry") [savings in DTI's mainline programme] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Hurd PS (Northern Ireland block) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("Industrial Collaboration and Community R & D") ["we already face very difficult decisions on public expenditure. Moreover... [these proposals] depart from the arrangements which... [we] agreed in February... There is also the important question of funding for Community R&D generally"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Permanent Secretary to the Treasury letter to Rees ("Value for Money") [outline of concerns about Government strategy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (extract from Books) [the gilt-edged market] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: UKE Washington telegram 27 to FCO (0400Z) ("El Salvador") [losses at El Paraiso] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 2996 to FCO (2236Z) ("Laker Consultations") ["particular issues that may come up"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Ridley PS letter to Howe PS ("Laker") [paper for Ministerial meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 3132 to FCO (0900Z) ("Hong Kong Agreement: Media Coverage") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("BL - Who Should Drive?") [letter from Austin Bide of British Leyland; Corporate Plan; privatisations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Andrew Pearce MEP (Merseyside industry and commerce) [follow-up to meeting during MT visit to Liverpool, 2 October; MT welcomes 'good news' stories whilst criticising "extravagant policies" of some local authorities] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Managing Director of Barratt Urban Renewals (Northern) Ltd (Minster Court urban renewal) [follow-up to meeting during MT visit to Liverpool, 2 October; "astonished... I hope that Barrats will.... repeat this... in other cities"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Leon Brittan minute to MT ("Drug Abuse") [request that all Departments 'keep lid' on Government proposals, to maximise impact of announcement at Conservative Party Conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (VAT exemption for small businesses) [MT firmly opposed to EC proposal to reduce real value of exemption] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: MT letter to Sir James Gowans (financial position of the Medical Research Council) [follow-up to meeting with Jellicoe and Gowans] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lord Renton letter to MT (legislative drafting) [respective roles of Government and Parliamentary Counsel] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Trade: Treasury minute (internal) ("ECGD: Liability to 'Take-Out' Loans in US Dollars and DM") [ECGD officials to discuss with banks the possibility of "unacceptable consequences for the availability of dollar or deutschmark or problems in implementing the change without an increase in public expenditure"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report”) [“Significant that those miners who have been able to vote, have voted overwhelmingly to work”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Peter Walker letter to Bishop of Durham (the miners’ strike) [MT’s annotated copy] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Margaret King notes (“Conference Clothes”) [list of items] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Tim Flesher minute for MT (“Unemployment”) [employment and unemployment increasing at same time] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Employment briefing for MT ("Major Industrial Disputes") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler minute to MT (MacGregor letter to NACODS) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler minute to Department of Employment (supposed departure of a 'certain American lady' to the US: she had in fact remained in the UK throughout) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("MISC 101(84)44th Meeting: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Bishop of Durham (the miners' strike) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: National Working Miners Committee dossier (“The Miners‘ Dispute. A Catalogue of Violence.’) [“working miners … have come under constant attack from striking miners”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Colin Budd minute to Charles Powell (“Capture of PIRA Shipment by the Irish Navy”) [“the Americans were not involved at any stage”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell letter to Sandiford (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT “said that she was worried that the Irish Government were trying to push the talks along too fast”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Meeting of Ministers: 5 October. Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [to agree instructions for Armstrong] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Sandiford minute to Charles Powell (“Meeting with the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs”) [proposed Hurd-Barry bilateral] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd letter to Havers (“R v Dominic McGlinchey”) [likely impact of an acquittal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Walker letter to Peter Rees (“AEA Review: financial implications”) [future of UK Atomic Energy Authority] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO minute to No.10 (“Visit by Matyas Szuros, Central Committee Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party”) [MT doubtful of seeing him; CDP urges] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (controls over activities of the abolition authorities) [GLC contracts] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 6 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: No.10 note (party conference) [Grand Hotel accommodation list] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 3141 to FCO (0440Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: Report on Public Opinion") [generally positive first responses; "inevitably there will be more cautious second thoughts"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT notes for conference speech (liberty & law) [“The choice is between a responsible freedom, and an East European state”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Bernard Ingham note for MT ( Sunday Times opinion poll) [“some interesting results about the Labour Party and violence on the picket line”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: MT notes for conference speech (“Miners Strike”) [“an agonising struggle”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 7 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 3005 to FCO (1600Z) ("Laker: Civil Action") [proceedings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Ronnie Millar draft for conference speech (Miners Strike) [polishes MT handwritten text] [released 2014]
Text 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary

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