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PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letters to Catholic prelates (Hume, Gray, Worlock, Murphy-O’Connor) [thanks; prayers] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letters to Anglican prelates (Archbishops Runcie (Canterbury), Habgood (York), Bishops Leonard (London), Sheppard (Liverpool), Walker (Ely), Wood (Norwich)) [thanks; prayers] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Archbishop of Canterbury (thanks for message) [“The victims of this terrible act are and will remain in all our thoughts and prayers”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (“Week Ahead” & Press Digest for MT) [Brighton Bomb] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Lord Sieff (thanks for message & flowers) [“The Marks & Spencers manager at Brighton was marvellous”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to David Steel (thanks for his message) [“I share your determination that the perpetrators of this wanton act of brutality shall not be allowed to succeed in their aim of undermining our democracy”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Monday 15 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 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 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: HMT letter to Department of Energy ("PSBR Costs of the Coal Strike") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (enforcement of fine imposed upon Scargill) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker, MT-King, MT-MacGregor) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to Butler ('little action' by the Security Service) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 letter to MOD ("Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD): UK Policy Towards the US Strategic Initiative") [response to MOD/FCO paper on SDI: "The Prime Minister's general view is that the case against [SDI] is not so open and shut as suggested"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [Howe content with proposed speaking notes for secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT content for exploratory talks to continue, but stresses need to avoid impression "of being bombed into making concessions to the Republic"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO to UKE Moscow ("Soviet Ambassador's Call 15 October: UK/Soviet Relations") [Soviet Ambassador to UK meets with Howe] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: Bill Deedes letter to Michael Alison (MT reaction) [“your boss is going to suffer - is already suffering - delayed shock over Friday”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Foreign Secretary PS minute to Northern Ireland Secretary PS (“Dominic McGlinchey”) [impact of an acquittal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to Armstrong (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [events in Brighton have confirmed to MT “that we must go very slow on these talks and must at all costs avoid the impression of being bombed into making concessions to the Republic”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Rees minute to MT (“Future of the Liverpool Garden Festival Site”) [“The extra cost of the MDC retaining some of the existing gardens and opening them to the public next year will be £2 million”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (detention orders against men in the British Consulate, political situation in South Africa) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (South Africa-UK relations: men in the British Consulate in Durban) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Prime Minister's Luncheon at the BBC, Wednesday, 17 October: BBC External Services") [background, review, transmission] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Tom King letter to Jenkin (introducing the Youth Training Scheme in the Civil Service) ["lack of progress... [MT's] "disappointment with the negative response of the trade unions"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of Mrs Jeane Kirkpatrick: 18/19 October") [MT advised that meeting is unnecessary] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3096 to FCO (2230Z) ("Presidential Campaign") [Vice-Presidential Debate; first Presidential Debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Madrid telegram 509 to FCO (1800Z) ("Spain/EC") [record of PM González's meeting with EC ambassadors to convey his concerns about lack of progress in negotiations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister González Márquez message to MT (1800Z) (Accession of Spain to the EC) [concerns about lack of progress in negotiations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Lord President draft statement to the House of Lords ("Bomb at the Grand Hotel, Brighton") [drafts; Hansard; progress of the investigation] [this copy released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: Robin Butler note to MT (visit to Royal Sussex hospital) [arrive Saturday by RAF helicopter] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Spanish PM González telegram to MT (accession of Spain and Portugal) [“progress of the negotiating process can only be regarded with anxiety”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [the Nobel prize for medicine awarded to Dr Cezar Milstein; new central market; Beagle and Falklands disputes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull (economic assumptions for public spending 1985-86 - 1987-88) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Hurd PS minute to Rees PS (Northern Ireland block) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Treasury minute to Rees PS ("MISC106: Gas and Electricity") [target for nationalised industries] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Consultancy, Inspection and Review (CIR) Services") ["value for money... whether staff inspection staff (560) should retain their independence to advise top managements and the Treasure, as Treasury would prefer, or whether they should advise line managers, as Robin Ibbs proposes"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.11 record of conversation (Lawson, Delors, Pascal Lamy) [EC: international finance; Budget; agricultural prices; development of internal market; Commissioner portfolios] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Delors, Rifkind, Pascal Lamy & officials) [improving the working of the EC institutions; internal market; Budget discipline; information policy; agriculture; research & development; relations with US] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("European Community: Standards and Industrial Collaboration") [possible UK initiatives: updated on work by officials] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Chief Rabbi Jakobovits (thanks for message) [messages and prayers from all sections of the community “a source of great support over these last few days”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Lord Home (thanks for message & flowers) [“overwhelming revulsion expressed by the British people for this wanton act of violence”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Michael Foot (thanks for his message) [“It is as well we cannot foretell the future - we could not endure the knowledge”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Gregor Mackenzie (thanks for his message) [“I am grateful for your prayers and your kind words which I value more than I can say”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Moss Evans (thanks for his message) [“Your letter was typical of so many I received in its concern for the victims of this wanton act of violence and in its determination that those responsible shall never be allowed to prevail”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Roy Mason (thanks for his message) [“You will have seen the same thing happen time & again in Northern Ireland”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Willetts minute to MT (“Financial Services”) [summary of plan due to be announced tomorrow] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 16 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to Butler (need to expose Kinnock's "ignorance" on issues behind strike) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Conservative Party backbenchers (coal dispute situation report) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to MacGregor (need to make facts of NCB's 'incredibly generous offer' public) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Contacts with the Soviet Union") [Gromyko and Gorbachev accept invitations to visit UK] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO to UKE Pretoria (“President Botha’s Letter to the Prime Minister”) [Durban Consulate situation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 minute to MT (“Anglo-Italian Summit”) [dinner for Craxi: speech] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-French Summit: 29-30 November") [programme; Ministerial participation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Reagan letter to MT (Hong Kong Agreement) [importance of Agreement to US interests] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Redwood minute to MT ("Jobs and Pay") ['If there were no social benefits and inadequate private philanthropy, no labour cartels, and enough honest money around, there would be little unemployment'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: UKE Washington telegram 3103 to FCO (2206Z) ("Brighton Bombing: US Media Comments") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Autumn Statement/BT, the exchange rate and the oil market, the prospects for public expenditure; appointments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [foreign debt, Beagle and Falklands disputes, human rights] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Heseltine minute for MT ("A Naval History of the Falklands Campaign") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: George Foulkes MP letter to MT (circumstances surrounding the sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Treasury assumptions) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Meeting with Secretary of State for Scotland") [territorial needs assessment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Rees, Gowrie, Robin Ibbs, Robert Armstrong, Peter Middleton) ["Inspection and Management Consultancy in Departments"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Own Resources Advance") ["will enable the Commission to pay us the bulk of our 1983 refunds this month... we do not consider the advance a legal obligation... will therefore have to be made... from the Contingencies Fund"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("European Community: Chairmanship of the Ad Hoc Committee on a People's Europe") [candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT report on meeting with Delors; other EC business] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Archbishop of York (thanks for message) [“The last months have indeed been a strain, and there is more to come. I shall be very thankful if we can secure total condemnation of violence”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 17 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Employment (request for King to supply list of trade unionists for MT to invite to No.10) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-King-Gregson) [miners' strike: response to NACODS' decision to strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT ("Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: response to NACODS' decision to strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Payments to Miners for Mortgage Payments") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong argues that Sir John Hermon, the Lord Chancellor and the Attorney General should be included in secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland") [speaking to Northern Ireland parties about secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [thoughts on giving advance warning to Unionist parties about secret Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Foreign Secretary PS minute to Charles Powell (“Northern Ireland”) [risks of speaking to Northern Ireland parties ahead of Anglo-Irish summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Charles Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Nally talks: package of security arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodison record of conversation (“Anglo-Irish relations”) [FitzGerald “regarded it as absolutely essential that HMG should be seen to be taking action on the ground in Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3110 to FCO (2254Z) (“Irish Gun-Running”) [US Customs action against ship owner] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 3110 to FCO (2254Z) (“Visit to Ireland by United States Bishops”) [“Everyone they had met had placed their hopes for political change on the Anglo-Irish Summit”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Hong Kong: Reagan letter to Thatcher (welcomes Sino-British agreement) [declassified 1998]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban”) [“the Consulate could become a Mecca for international opposition to the South African Government”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO minute to No.10 (“Anglo-Italian Summit: Joint Press Conference”) [introductory statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Conservatism: No.10 press notice (“No.10 Policy Unit”) [staff list] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: David Barclay minute to MT ("Office of the Social Security Commissioners") [transfer of administrative responsibility from DHSS to Lord Chancellor's Office] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: President Duarte message to MT (in Spanish) [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("CSCE: Budapest Cultural Forum") [appointment head of UK delegation] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: David Trippier letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Small Business Loan Guarantee Scheme") [lessons learnt & the future of the Scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: David Trippier letter to Robin Ibbs (Scrutiny of Administrative and Legislative Burdens) [study plan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Heseltine letter to Norman Lamont ("Privatisation of Warship Building") ["need for decisions on... [warship and refit] orders to be taken before the sales documents for the warshipbuilding yards can be finalised"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Rees minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: Rees believes H Committee proposals too timid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Charles Powell note to Robin Butler (Brighton Hotel Bombing) [crush injuries medical specialists] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Leon Brittan letter to Howe ("Soviet Prisoners of the Afghan Resistance") [applications for political asylum: cooperaton with US & EC on resettlement] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: MT letter to Marks and Spencer manager (thanks for practical help, support) [“everyone looked so elegant”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Buckingham Palace (Anglo-Irish Summit: Republic of Ireland, 18/19 November) [request for permission to attend] [declassified Jan 2014]

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