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PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Robert Parry MP (UK Delegation to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe) [appointment as Substitute Member] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Stewart minute to MT ("EC Budget") [EC Commission request for early payment of non-VAT traditional own resources] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("British Aerospace") [proposed details of the sale] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Rees minute to MT ("Using Private Enterprise in Government: Competitive Tendering") [details of "much scope for further progress"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Public Sector Infrastructure") [assessment of NEDO report: "a mixture of probable exaggeration and the genuinely useful"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("British Aerospace") [case presented, in response to MT hesitation, for Tebbit to proceed with announcement that Govt to dispose of its residual shareholding] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Lord Young minute to MT ("Employment Exercise") [King's draft document on Government employment policy; Enterprise Unit's provisional conclusions on employment for school leavers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Joseph-Walker-Tebbit-King-Jenkin-Fowler-Rees-Young-Lamont-Gregson-Redwood) ["Employment Exercise": discussion of King's document on employment strategy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 088 to FCO (1735Z) (Dean Dove Ltd) [reply from Commissioner Sutherland regarding reclamation of UK's illegal regional aid; MT annotation requests clarification of alternative methods of aid withdrawal] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 14 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Powell note to MT (Afghan financial aid to the NUM) ['I am told that the cheque was handed over by Ron Brown MP and that the Afghan Charge d'Affaires was not present'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Kyprianou of Cyprus) [UN negotiations over Cyprus] [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: DTI briefing (meeting on Blackpool Assisted Area Status) [unemployment levels did not justify retention of status] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKE San Jose telegram to FCO ("Nicaragua: visit of Mr Kinnock") [summary of his key meetings & comments to the press] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKE Mexico City telegram to FCO ("Visit of Mr Kinnock: statements to the Press") [summary] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: Hugh Thomas letter to MT ("Argentina - Nicaragua") [report of Argentine communists murdered by Contras] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Keith Joseph minute to Patrick Jenkin ("New Burdens on Local Government") [cost of new responsibilities] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (local government finance) [advantages of laying the Orders after the Budget] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Gowrie letter to Patrick Jenkin ("1985-86 Rate Support Grant debate") [agrees with Peter Rees] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("1985 Public Expenditure White Paper") [departmental plans should be presented positively] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Warry minute to Turnbull (“E(A) - Employment Protection”) [recommendation to endorse a two year qualifying period] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Gregson briefing for MT (“Statutory employment protections”) [briefing for E-meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Ibbs minute to MT (“Statutory employment protection”) [comments on King’s memorandum] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC101(85) 2nd (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Jopling note circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 1 (Annual Review of Agriculture 1985) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Tebbit letter to Hailsham (“White Paper on Financial Services”) [responds to his reservations] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food record of conversation (agriculture price-fixing) [Jopling, French Minister of Agriculture] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“IFS Simulation of £1 Billion Extra Public Spending”) [the misuse of results] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Employment: Department of Trade & Industry briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Sir Peter Blaker MP and Mr Norman Miscampbell MP on Tuesday 15 January at 5.30PM”) [Blackpool Assisted Area Status] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (Geneva arms negotiations) [declassified 1998]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson’s Commons statement (sterling exchange rate) [some MT annotations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to George Foulkes (British engagement in the South Atlantic, the Falklands conflict) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute for Whitelaw (‘Economic & Social Policy Presentation: Chairman’s Brief’) [meeting on 15 Jan to regenerate momentum] [released 2015]
Text 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan minute to MT ("Public Order Review") [conclusions and recommendations; review of the Public Order Act 1936] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 66 to FCO (0830Z) ("Indo British Relations") [postponement of ministerial visits, commercial contract negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office briefing for MT ("Meeting with John Hume MP : 17 January") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Meeting on Northern Ireland: 16 January") [brief for meeting with Howe, Hurd, Armstrong; plans for next Anglo-Irish Summit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 letter to Heseltine PS ("Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of VE Day") [request for MoD proposals; MT answers to questions in Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of VE Day") [FCO advice & lines to take for Questions in Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO record of conversation ("Outcome of Geneva Talks: Soviet View") [Rifkind, Ambassador Popov: Soviet objectives] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 ("Decision-taking in the European Community") [revised draft of paper, in line with MT requests to emphasise national sovereignty, limits of the powers of the European Assembly, and voting practises] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: No.10 record of conversation (MT-British members of the 2000 Group) ["Call by the 2000 Group": fostering of non-governmental between UK and Japan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ronald Halstead, Chairman of Beecham Group, letter to MT (concern about proposals to reduce pharmaceutical industry profitability and restrictions on prescriptions) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 15 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to US Ambassador Price (Bermuda 2 Agreement) [clarification of Article 12(4) in light of ongong US Grand Jury investigation & anti-trust civil action against UK airlines] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to China") [copy enclosed of UKE Beijing despatch summarising the visit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Department of Employment minute to Turnbull (Blackpool Travel to Work Area status) [assisted areas defined using TTWAs] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on Blackpool Assisted Area status) [MT “said that the criteria which had been used to draw up the map were as objective as possible”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Hailsham letter to Patrick Jenkin ("Proposed new clause in the Abolition Bill") [enough on our plates without this, but will bow to business managers] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Rate Support Grant Debate 16 January 1985: Commitments for 1986/87") [meeting to agree form of words for Jenkin; MT thought they went too far, but in event they were not needed] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Whitelaw PS ("1985 Public Expenditure White Paper") [publication date] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Lawson minute to Tebbit (“White Paper on Financial Services”) [Treasury points] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Anglo-German Summit Consultations, 18 January”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO letter to No.10 (“Anglo-German Summit: Belgian INF Deployment”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe minute for MT (“European Community: Your Meeting with Chancellor Kohl”) [FCO thoughts on handling of Community issues] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Letwin minute (“Local Government: Countering the Far Left”) [propaganda campaign against rate capping] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Employment: Department of Employment briefing for MT (Blackpool Assisted Area status) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Employment: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Peter Blaker MP, Norman Miscampbell MP) [meeting on Blackpool's loss of Assisted Area status] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: MT message to President Reagan (exchange market situation: coordinated intervention) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute to MT (“Rules of Engagement in the South Atlantic”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 71 to FCO (1300Z) ("Indo-British Relations") [Foreign Ministry's capacity to do Britain "mischief"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 69 to FCO (1130Z) ("Visit by Indian Prime Minister") [postponement of Gandhi's trip to London] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Hurd-Armstrong & others) ["Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell note to MT (Meeting with John Hume: Hurd's suggested points to make) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKDel Strasbourg telegram 008 to FCO (1529Z) ("Italian Presidency's Opening Statement to the European Parliament") [intergovernmental conference on institutional reform; Dooge Committee; People's Europe; 1985 EC Budget; UK refund; Budget discipline; internal market; EMS; CAP; vehicle exhaust emissions; EC enlargement; external policies] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Our 1984 Abatement and the Provision of Supplementary Finance in 1985") [options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Delors inaugural Presidency speech on EC integration; Jopling report on agricultural structures/milk levy; Anglo-German bilateral: EC budget; miners' strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Oreja) [Secretary-General of the Council of Europe: programme for next 5 years; terrorism; role of Council of Europe in distinction to EC; East/West; Middle East; Latin America; Malta/Turkey; Cyprus; Northern Ireland; MT proposal for human rights cases Ombudsman; MT visit to Strasbourg to address Council of Europe Assembly] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: MT letter to President Kaunda of Zambia (response to request for UK support for Special Fund for Africa) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Coal Industry Dispute - Early Report for 16 January”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Possible visit to Britain by Mr Kadar") [General Secretary János Kádár; "his visit could play a significant part in the East/West dialogue"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT (Widdicombe Committee) [not supplying details of assumptions to authorities] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("GLC Propaganda on Ratecapping") ["increasingly unscrupulous" campaign against Abolition Bill] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to Whitelaw PS ("Rate Support Grant Debate: Commitments for 1986/87") [opening debate] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Gowrie letter to Patrick Jenkin (Abolition Bill) [proposed "counter-obstruction clause"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Powell minute to FCO ("Israeli Military Equipment for Argentina") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Howe PS minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure White Paper") [cuts to overseas services] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Whitelaw-Brittan-Jenkin-Biffen-Fowler etc) [government's economic and social policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Jopling (“Review of the CAP”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food record of conversation (price-fixing; milk quotas; and German stance towards CAP) [Jopling, Danish Minister of Agriculture] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Robin Nicholson minute for MT (“Anglo-German Summit - Space Station”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 minute for MT (“Anglo-German Summit”) [overview of briefing plan] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 16 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Baroness Elles MEP, Vice-President of the European Parliament, letter to Walker (European Parliament's Huckfield Resolution on trade unions) [Resolution condemns 'repressive acts against trade unions'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler note to Richard Hatfield (miners’ strike reports requiring action) ['Can you please reassure the Prime Minister that, in the absence of action by us, these reports do not simply lie unpursued?'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Jenkin minute (“GLC propaganda on ratecapping”) [“we are precluded in the short term from the most desriable course of action which would be to legislate to stop such advertising”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague to FCO (“Visit to Chequers of The Netherlands Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs”) [Dutch view of talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO Protocol Department minute (“Visit by The Netherlands Prime Minister and Foreign Minister: 26-27 January”) [request for protection & programme] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Lawson memoirs) Economy: Reagan letter to Thatcher (sterling crisis) [published 1992]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: President Reagan message to MT (exchange market situation: coordinated intervention) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Attorney-General letter to Nick Ridley (“Debate on Inspector’s Report on Stansted-Heathrow Terminal Inquiries”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Leon Brittan minute to Nigel Lawson ("BBC Accounts") [departs from standard accounting practice] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to Leon Brittan ("BBC Accounts") [BBC practice enables it to appear to be hard up] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Brittan PS minute to Charles Powell ("Sikh Demonstration - 20 January") [estimated attendance, involvement of Chauhan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Letter from Lord Aldington: Westland Helicopters") [propsects look better] [declassified Dec 2014]

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