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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) 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) 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) 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) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (“Time Limits in Criminal Proceedings”) [“could make a useful contribution to reducing excessive delay”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Powell minute for MT ("The Belgrano") [draft reply to George Foulkes not yet ready] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute for Heseltine ("Falkland Islands: Future Capital Works") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Stanley Clinton Davis MP (European Commission) [appointment as UK Commissioner] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Foreign Affairs Council, 17 September") ["Budgetary Issues. Progress Report": record of proceedings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tebbit letter to Ridley ("Coastal Shipping in the Community") ["address cabotage as an urgently priority issue... I am sure you will be very wary of allowing the Commission to extend competence into international shipping"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson) ["EC Budget": "outcome of the informal meeting of Finance Ministers... Guidelines for a Council Decision on Budgetary Discipline"; New Own Resources decision; Foreign Affairs Council; Supplementary Budget for 1984; UK 1984 refund] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Informal ECOFIN on 15-16 September: Budgetary Discipline") [summary report; tactics for upcoming Foreign Affairs Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("Possible Conflict of Principles in Foreign Policy Seminar: Chequers, 1 October") [Prior "does not think he could now very easily attend... grateful to... [MT] for understanding the position"] [declassified Jan 2014]
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]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Redwood minute to Young (British Leyland privatisations) [asks Young to chase Tebbit on progress] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Bitov") ["the Russians may be about to produce Bitov in Moscow"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Non-Industrial Civil Service Pay 1984") [implications of 1984 pay offer for 1985 negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: No.10 letter to H.M. Treasury ("Seminar on Industry and Employment") [checklist and conclusions following seminar] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 letter to DHSS ("The National Health Service: Annual Report") [MT comment on report: 'The department really has made a superb effort'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Harland and Wolff Limited (E(NI) (84) 11)") [Prior's request for H&W to take orders from BP and British Steel] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Howe minute to Leon Brittan ("Soviet Prisoners of the Afghan Resistance") [resettlement for asylum applicants: "an account of the further discussions with our EC partners and allies"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 40th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry, Industrial Action in the Docks) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Monday 17 September 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (comment on NCB press release) [miners' strike: 'On balance we are better off not having the NCB's formula accepted'] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Miners' Wives Back to Work Campaign") [miners' strike: brief for MT meeting with Miners' Wives] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Jenkin ("Opencast Coal Site at Springhill Staffordshire") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 2750 to FCO (1637Z) (“US economy: prospects for deficit reduction and tax reform”) [further deficit reduction next year unlikely, prospects for fundamental tax reform highly problematical] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mexico: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Mexico: possible Message from the Prime Minister to President de la Madrid”) [MT ‘finds the draft stilted and patronising’] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO to UKE Pretoria (“Detainees”) [Yacoob’s views: British support for the detainees] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Neil Kinnock letter to MT (the six opposition leaders at the UK Consulate in Durban) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s Inteview on BBC News, Monday 17 September”) [briefing for MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Press”) [record of discussion: Evans, Zhou Nan: the Agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Initialling”) [record of conversation: Evans, Zhou Nan: the Agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO briefing to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: Prime Minister’s meeting with EXCO Unofficials, 19 September ”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: President of the Italian Senate telegram to MT (visit to Hong Kong and Beijing) [offering congratulations on outcome of negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull (“Public expenditure”) [“spending overshoot of about £1 billion”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (“Local government policies”) [meeting to discuss prior, to Conservative Party Conference] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Local authority capital expenditure”) [debate over moratorium proposal] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Sherbourne minute for MT (“Slogan for the Party Conference”) [MT annotation: “CONSERVATIVES FOR ALL THE PEOPLE”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Mexico: MT letter to President de la Madrid of Mexico (bilateral relations) [economic policies, political problems] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to Powell ("Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry into the Belgrano") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to Powell (MT's draft reply to George Foulkes regarding the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Tebbit minute for MT ("Falkland Islands: Further Capital Works") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Norman Tebbit minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Survey: Department of Trade and Industry") ["I do not regard your proposals as realistic"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Peter Walker ("Nationalised Industries Bilateral: 24 September 1984") [financing bids] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("EC Budget") [latest position on negotiations following Howe attendance at Foreign Affairs Council; attached record of proceedings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT message to Malaysia/British Society (inauguration of the Malaysia/British Society) ["keenly disappointed not to be with you tonight... look forward to undertaking my planned visit... before too long"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Heseltine, Luce & others) [Arab/Israel; arms sales; Saudi Arabia; Syria; Egypt; Libya/Morocco; Iran/Iraq] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 2776 to FCO (2305Z) ("Laker: Attorney-General's Visit") [meetings with President's Counsel & Assistant US Attorney General for anti-trust affairs; press leak] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Sir James Cleminson, President of the CBI, letter to DT (invitation to accompany MT to CBI Conference on 4 November) ["I think you would probably enjoy it, and there should be a good dinner afterwards"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: David Barclay minute to MT ("Visit to Liverpool: Possible Meeting with the City Council") [advice/proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2762 to FCO (1430Z) ("The Presidential Election: the early running") [state of play/analysis] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2763 to FCO (1440Z) ("The Presidential Campaign: the issues") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zaire: President Mobutu letter to MT (Zaire's economy) [aide-mémoire of aid requirement & plan for economic recovery] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Cross Channel Electricity Link") [case against delaying full use of the second link; concerns about NCB aspiration to expanding markets] [declassified Dec 2014]

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