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PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“OD(K): Hong Kong: state of negotiations”) [draft UK/China Agreement] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Visit to the UK by Mr. David Lange, New Zealand Prime Minister and Foreign Minister") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Megaw: The Payment of Permanent and Deputy Secretaries") [job weighting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Heseltine ("ROFs: Guarantee for Pensions After Privatisation") [Royal Ordnance Factories: Lawson proposes meeting with Heseltine to address the latter's misgivings about limitations of Government guarantee for ex-civil service staff] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Seminar on Industry and Employment: 13 September") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Enlargement") [handling of the meeting/key issues] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Charles Powell minute to Cradock (“Possible visit of the PM to Peking”) [should MT sign Joint Declaration in person?] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Charles Powell minute to Cradock ("Possible visit of the PM to Peking") [should MT sign the Joint Declaration in person?] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UK Chargé d'Affaires Afghanistan despatch to Howe ("First Impressions of Kabul") [Charles Powell: "Quite an interesting read"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to Powell (MT's draft reply to Mr George Foulkes MP) [circumstances surrounding the sinking of the Belgrano] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Tebbit PS ("DTI Expenditure") [spending cuts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT ("The Nott Undertakings") ["You asked to see the context of the John Nott undertakings quoted in Lord King's letters to MPs"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, Michael Bishop) ["CAA Review: British Midland Airways"; Civil Aviation Authority review of the implications of British Airways privatisation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC Commission appointments; MT talks with FitzGerald; 1984 supplementary Budget/1985 draft Budget; UK rebates & budgetary discipline; EC enlargement negotiations; political cooperation: measures against terrorism & abuse of diplomatic immunity; North Sea fishing quotas] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Foreign Policy seminar at Chequers, 1 October") [MT agrees to Robert Armstrong's attendance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 39th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry, Industrial Action in the Docks) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefng for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal and the Docks") [miners' and docks strikes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 12 September 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (documents from NCB-NUM negotiations) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Cabinet Committees: Effect of Ministerial Changes”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Brittan) [“VIP Visitors: Carriage of Arms by Bodyguards”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Message from Foreign Minister Wu”) [record of discussion: Youde, EXCO] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Call on Zhou Nan: organisation of work”) [draft Agreement: “the wretched Zhou creating difficulties again”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: FCO telegram 1581 to UKE Washington (1200Z) ("Laker Attorney General's Visit") [revised brief] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lord Hailsham letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Co-operative Development Agency and Industrial Development Bill") [implementation; effect of prohibition on commercial activities/partnerships] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: Heseltine letter to Howe ("UK-Sri Lanka Defence Agreement") ["I share your view that it would be awkward if the Agreement were to be invoked in a future crisis"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Charles Powell minute to MT ("President Kyprianou") [advisability of meeting with Kyprianou in advance of his own meeting with Pérez de Cuéllar] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: MT letter to Leon Brittan ("Drug Abuse") ["we urgently need a positive, coherent and effective response"; requests to see Brittan's draft policy statement in advance of Party Conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Cross Channel Electricity Link") [case for delaying full use of the second link & for short-term agreement with the French, in light of ongoing coal industry dispute] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Malaysia: MT letter to Prime Minister Mahathir of Malaysia (acknowledges Malaysian termination of referral of appeals to the Privy Council) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Redwood minute to MT ("Employment Seminar") [recommends that Young chairs committee to pursue issues on pay and jobs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Turnbull minute to MT ("Industry and Employment Seminar") [annotated agenda; includes Turnbull's handwritten record of discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Joseph-Walker-Jenkin-Fowler-Young-Cockfield-Gregson-Redwood-Turnbull) ["Seminar on Industry and Employment"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to Tebbit PS (MT, Lawson, Howe, Tebbit, Jopling, Rifkind, Channon, Ian Stewart, Michael Butler, David Williamson, Robert Armstrong) ["Enlargement of the European Community"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: Sir James Gowans letter to MT (follow-up to meeting on financial position of the Medical Research Council) ['As we told you, we are concerned that the future of medical research in the UK is being severely damaged by the progressive erosion of the Council's budget'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Walker minute to MT ("Harland & Wolff: SWOPS Order for BP") [supports Prior's request for H&W to take orders from BP and British Steel] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: draft 1985 central government budget") ["...presented as a turning-point in French fiscal history."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Lawson minute for Heseltine ("Falkland Islands: Future Capital Works") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("European Community: German attitudes") [Ambassador Bullard's initial impressions following first talks with key figures in West German government] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Ad Hoc Committee on Institutional Affairs: Statement by Kohl in Bundestag") ["Mitterrand had intended the Committee to consist of... independent personalities... Some member states had however undermined this"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKDel Strasbourg telegram to FCO ("European Parliament and UK Refunds") [statement by Chairman of the Budget Committee] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Foreign Policy: Possible Conflict of Principles") [Chequers seminar, 1 October: cover letter only, referring to enclosed discussion paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Trade: Tebbit letter to Rees ("ATP Management") [aid & trade provision - changes in management framework] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 30th (Membership of Cabinet, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Industrial Affairs, Economic Affairs) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Thursday 13 September 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (power station endurance) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Pascall minute to Turnbull ("Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike: 'particularly damaging' Newsnight piece on endurance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT ("NACODS") [miners' strike: NACODS balloting for strike action] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to MacGregor (Cabinet records unanimous support for the NCB's negotiating stance) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Budd minute to Charles Powell (“Message to the outgoing Canadian Prime Minister”) [“there must be some question about Mr Turner’s long term position as leader of the Liberals”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: UKE Berne BIS telegram to FCO (“Press Summary”) [international debt, security issues, Argentine-UK relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Turnbull minute to MT (“International Banking Crisis”) [Sir Walter Salomon’s paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Neil Kinnock (the demands from detainees in Durban Consulate) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Neil Kinnock letter to MT (the demands from detainees in Durban Consulate) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe to UK Consulate Lagos (“Incident at Durban Consulate”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa”) [refugees in the UK Consulate in Durban] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Lt-Cmdr Paul Murray-Jones letter to No.10 (future of Hong Kong) [criticism of UK Government’s handling of negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe telegram to UKE Beijing (“Message from Chinese Foreign Minister) [draft Agreement: “great concern… we cannot reopen issues of substance”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: FCO briefing for MT ("King Hussein of Jordan") [visit to UK; working lunch] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: FCO briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Robert Muldoon New Zealand Prime Minister at 1730 hours on 15 May 1984") [EC/NZ, economic issues, small states, regional issues, Olympics, South Africa, bilateral relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Redwood minute to MT ("BL") ["The DTI/[British Leyland] approach to the agreed policy of piecemeal privatisation has become lackadaisical"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("UK-Sri Lanka Defence Agreement") [timing of notification to Jayewardene of UK's inability to provide military assistance for internal conflict; Lady Young visit] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Conference of Attorneys-General, Colombo, 8-12 August 1984") [UK gift for new Legal Research Centre] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("1985 Budget Date") [Lawson proposes 19 March; MT agrees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Fowler minute to MT ("NHS Annual Report") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Willetts minute to MT ("The National Health Service: Annual Report") [comment on Fowler's report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: Nicholson minute to Flesher (financial position of the Medical Research Council) [follow-up to meeting with Jellicoe and Gowans; Nicholson requests assistance from No.10 with handling of HMT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("North Sea Gas Reserves") [recent discoveries of new gas fields; implications for imports from Sleipner gas field; gas privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Harland & Wolff - Orders from BP and BSC: E(NI), 18 September 1984") [response to Prior's request for H&W to take orders from BP and British Steel] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Police: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Brittan ("Police Pay") [disagreement over terms of settlement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: George Foulkes MP letter to MT (allegations from "The Observer" about the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Neil Kinnock MP letter to MT (independent inquiry into the sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Norman Tebbit ("Public Expenditure Survey: Department of Trade and Industry") [proposed savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Walker minute to MT ("Review of the AEA") [Atomic Energy Authority: findings & next steps] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("EC Budget") [UK has "leverage over the others at present and is using it to good advantage", but this will be lost once EC runs out of funds, "putting us back where we were pre-Fontainebleau: and we should again have to consider withholding"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Coal Negotiations") [miners' strike: variations on Clause 3 for NUM-NCB talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("MISC 101(84)40th Meeting") [miners' and dock strikes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB press release ("Mineworkers' Dispute: Talks Break Down") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (need to counter BBC reports of 'power cuts by November') [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: UKE BIS telegram to FCO (“Press Summary”) [international debt problem, the Beagle dispute] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Yunus Mahomed and Associates message to MT (request for intervention regarding Durban detainees) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe to UKE Pretoria (“Detainees at Durban”) [pressure on UK to support their demands] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (the demands from the Six in Durban Consulate) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“EXCO visit: Agenda”) [draft UK/China Agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: report on public opinion”) [“surprising[ly] calm and realistic”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Zhou Nan”) [insight into Zhou Nan’s recent behaviour] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 15 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 15 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Bullard message to FCO (his meeting with Chancellor Kohl: speaking with MT’s authority) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 15 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town message to MT (“Detainees at Durban”) [asking for meeting with MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 15 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Detainees”) [situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 15 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“EXCO Unofficials visit”) [draft UK/China Agreement] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 16 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: your second message to Wu Xueqian”) [record of conversation: Evans, Zhou Nan: draft Agreement] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Laker case) [proposed message from MT to Reagan] [declassified Jan 2014]

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