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PDF 84 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 2813 to FCO (2353Z) ("Meeting between President Reagan and President Alfonsin") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("E.P Budgets Committee 18 and 19 September 1984: New Own Resources") ["likely to propose retention of the 1970 Own Resources decision... U.K compensation may be included... but duration likely to be limited"; MT: "Then we do not agree"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("High Level Group on Budget Discipline: 20 September") [record of proceedings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Luxembourg telegram to FCO ("EC Budgets and Release of British Refund") [Maud, Pfimlin: record of conversation: "once there was agreement on the 1984 supplementary budget... there would be no question of Parliament making further difficulties"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Community Budget Negotiations") [Foreign Affairs Council 17/18 September: record of proceedings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 31st (Foreign Affairs, Hong Kong, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Industrial Affairs, Economic Affairs) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Thursday 20 September 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Endurance") [miners' strike: report on power station endurance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: HMT letter to No.10 (costs of the coal strike) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (“PIRA Threat to Supermarket Chain”) [“very serious consequences of such a large sum of money finding its way into the hands of the PIRA and being used for the purchase of arms”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: President of the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders letter to MT (“Selective Distribution Block Exemption”) [“The regulation will place in the hands of bureaucrats in Brussels the right to be judge and jury over prices”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban Incident”) [South Africa determined to resolve the issue] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO to UKE Pretoria (“South African Demarche Durban Consulate”) [South African aide memoire in MIFT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: MT letter to S.Y. Chung (UK/China Agreement) [“an historic moment…admiration and gratitude for… EXCO”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Tom King letter to MT ("The Future Development of the Jobcentre Network") ["main elements of the strategy and why the Government is backing it"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (effects of the Dock strike on the Port of Liverpool) [note provided in response to MT concerns] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("Visit to Liverpool on 2 October") [draft speech; briefing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of President Kyprianou") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Howe minute to Leon Brittan ("Drug Abuse") ["Any statement at the Party Conference could usefully highlight our present efforts internationally"; summary] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT telegram to Prime Minister Papandreou of Greece (integrated Mediterranean programmes) [can launch in 1985 in spite of budgetary constraints] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS message to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("European Commission") [portfolios; "I think we could be reasonably satisfied with the distribution of the top posts"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("1983 Refunds: Possible Legal Action") ["chances of success... are very poor"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Future Development of the Community: Ad Hoc Committees on Institutions and "A People's Europe"") [MT disagrees with OD(E) Committee's view that 'People's Europe' paper too negative on some points: MT notes concerns about implication for UK social welfare of opening up internal market/free movement of EC citizens ] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Seminar on Possible Conflict of Principles in Foreign Policy 1 October") [programme; participants; discussion document; opening statement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Friday 21 September 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT ("Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: next steps to improve endurance and encourage miners back to work] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Sherbourne minute to Turnbull (points arising from MT-Sherman meeting) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: brief for MT-Walker-MacGregor meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Sherbourne note to Turnbull (MT meeting with Sherman) [notes] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 866 to FCO (0005Z) (“Cyprus: UN Secretary-General’s initiative”) [“No progress on substance”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (international debt & the world economy) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: Lord Cockfield minute to MT (“Visit to Hungary at the Invitation of Mr. Jozsef Marjai, Deputy Prime Minister”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute to MT (“Durban Detainees”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban Incident”) [Botha’s press statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: date of initialling”) [record of conversation: Evans, Zhou Nan] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Hong Kong Government telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: press coverage”) [UK/China Agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe telegram to Hong Kong Government (“Future of Hong Kong: Test of Acceptability”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: briefing for the Australians and Americans”) [“[MT] not impressed with the drafting of these messages”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: Nationality”) [children of non-Chinese nationals born in the SAR] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 22 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 873 to FCO (0001Z) ("Cyprus: Prime Minister's meeting with President Kyprianou") [John Thomson, Pérez de Cuéllar: record of conversation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (Steel to write to MT regarding coal dispute) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban Incident”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 23 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 23 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-MacGregor-Gregson-Butler-Turnbull) [miners' strike: NCB talks with TUC, involvement of ACAS, NACODS, ending the dispute, redundancies and closures, civil law, working miners, criminal offences, media, communities, open cast mining, structure of the coal industry] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 23 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: UKDEL IMF telegram to FCO (“G24 Ministerial meeting”) [communique of meeting in Washington on 21 September 1984] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (BBC efficiency studies) [value for money study, external services] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zaire: Charles Powell note to MT (President Mobutu's request to call on the Prime Minister) [MT agrees to case set out by FCO for meeting at short notice] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO record of conversation (FCO telegram of 25 Sep 1984 to UKMIS New York, 0945Z) (MT, President Kyprianou) [proximity talks; constitutional issues; powers & functions of proposed federal government; the Presidency; the legislature; overseas representation; Nicosia airport; clarification of Kyprianou's objectives] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 record of conversation (0945Z) (MT, President Kyprianou) [proximity talks; constitutional issues; powers & functions of proposed federal government; the Presidency; the legislature; overseas representation; Nicosia airport; clarification of Kyprianou's objectives; Falklands] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howe minute to MT ("Cross-Channel Electricity Link") ["the French Government, [should be left] in no doubt about their position on the future utilisation of either link"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Redwood minute to Turnbull ("BNOC Prices") [electricity prices] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Lord Hailsham letter to Brittan (“Time Limits in Criminal Proceedings”) [“I continue to have doubts about the value of statutory time-limits”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Argentina: Assessment") [economic and political crisis; Beagle dispute; foreign debt] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute for Powell ("Prime Minister's Letter about the Belgrano Affair") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Timetable") [potential difficulties] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Small Ministerial Group) [potential Star Chamber] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Monday 24 September 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Endurance") [miners' strike: report on power station endurance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("MISC 101(84)41st: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT ("Costs of the Miners' Strike") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT (Redwood's discussion with Whalen) [miners' strike: Whalen's thoughts] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Recall of Parliament") [miners' strike: Steel requests recall of Parliament] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy press release ("Peter Walker writes to Bishop of Durham") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Butler minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [the Irish side “accepted that what was now under discussion was not joint sovereignty or joint authority”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Havers minute to Hurd (“R -v- Dominic McGlinchey”) [“we may be heading for a very difficult and embarrassing series of events in connection with it”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Sandiford letter to Butler (“PIRA Threat to Supermarket Chain”) [press reports that “a large sum of money had found its way by a circuitous route to the Dublin branch of the Bank of Ireland, and that some of this money had already been withdrawn”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Day telegram to Acland (“Anglo-Canadian Relations”) [proposed Mulroney visit] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 877 to FCO (0030Z) (“Cyprus: Prime Minister’s meeting with President Kyprianou”) [“see if he could be brought to deny that the Greek-Cypriot position is as the Turks describe it”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Donald Regan) [UK coal strike, agriculture, taxation, US election, Middle East, Hong Kong] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: UKE Berne BIS telegram to FCO (“Press Summary”) [Argentina] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Economic Secretary to the Treasury minute to No.10 (“National Savings”) [announcement of a new NSC] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“The Durban Six”) [current situation, aide memoire] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban Incident”) [security implications] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban Incident and Arms Embargo Violations”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: George Young MP letter to MT (“Local government policies”) [abuses of office] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to Rees PS (“Local authority capital expenditure - announcement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lord Bellwin letter to MT (Local government) [abuses of office; review of the rating system] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: UKMIS New York telegram 903 to FCO (1945Z) ("Secretary of State's bilateral with Mr Lange") [New Zealand UN vote on Falklands, Hong Kong, EC trade, nuclear naval visits] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit of Dr. Soares") [dinner; advises against MT desire to attend return dinner] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 895 to FCO (0602Z) ("Cyprus") [Howe, Pérez de Cuéllar, John Thomson: record of conversation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Cyprus") [Charles Powell, Kyprianou: record of conversation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Sir John Sainsbury letter to No.10 (the planning system: concern of Sainsbury's and others about the system, and need for reform) [MT: 'We need detailed comment (after full consideration) from D.O.E'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to Tebbit PS ("Spanish Accession: Tariff Transition") ["We agree that the Commission and Spain are unlikely to make much headway until the French move into line on the Commission's proposals"; revisions to draft letter from Tebbit to French counterpart] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Competition Act 1980: Section 11 References of Nationalised Industries to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [President Alfonsin's address to the UN: the Falklands dispute, foreign debt, economy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Dr David Owen MP letter to MT (circumstances surrounding the sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to Prime Minister Papandreou (Integrated Mediterranean Programmes) ["to enable the southern regions of the present Community to adjust their economies to cope with the accession of Spain and Portugal.. Budgetary problems facing the... [EC] are severe. Nonetheless it should be possible for a start to be made... in 1985"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tom King letter to MT (EC: impact on employment of government directives & regulation) [report of perceived shift in attitudes at recent Informal Council of Social Affairs Ministers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversation ("Community Budget Negotiations") [David Williamson, Robin Renwick, Ungerer, Thiele] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Solicitor-General minute to MT (“Trade Union Act 1984”) [legal advice on existing strikes before Act is implemented] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 41st (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong, Gregson, Budd and Stoker note circulated to members of the Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 3 (Colliery Closure Procedures) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 25 September 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler minute to MT (Scanlon proposes 'mothballing' of pits instead of complete closure) [miners' strike; MT: "I think it would be a fundamental error"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Transport letter to No.10 (Nick Ridley's thoughts on the coal dispute) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]

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