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PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Argentina: Assessment") [Alfonsin's visit to the United States, Argentine foreign debt, Beagle and Falklands disputes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Argentina: Economic Restrictions") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Prime Minister of the New Zealand letter to MT ("Falklands at the UN") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Younger) [territorial blocks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Sir Jack Lyons (thanks for message) [“the lovely orchid plant … does indeed help to relieve the sense of sorrow which I inevitably feel”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Lord Dacre (thanks for message) [“Yes, it was a terrible experience, the full realisation of which only began to sink in two days afterwards”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Field Marshal Bramall (thanks for message) [“very deply touched … the last few days have been difficult indeed, and letters such as yours have been more help than I can say”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: MT letter to Hayek (thanks for leather bound edition of The Road to Serfdom ) ["It means so much to me"]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 33rd (Brighton Bomb, Security in Parliament, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Economic Affairs) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Brittan letter to Rees ("Miners' Dispute: Policing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Thursday 18 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler note to MT (draft letter from NCB Regional Managers to members of NACODS) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Paul Foot article for the Daily Mirror ("Hart in the right place?") [miners' strike: David Hart's involvement in the National Working Miners' Committee] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: possible Chequers meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to DHSS ("Payments to Striking Miners for Mortgage Interest") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker press statement (Walker's response to Kinnock's claims about NCB's '20 pit hit list') [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [account of secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (record of conversation between UK Ambassador to Dublin and Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [Powell: "This shows Dr Fitzgerald wildly over-optimistic...we are in a different world following the Brighton bomb"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [thoughts on giving advance warning to Unionist parties about secret Anglo-Irish talks; MT: "'the bomb' has slowed things down and may in the end kill any new initiative"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (“Northern Ireland”) [“anxious that neither you nor I should be accused later of misleading the Unionists”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [talks with Irish leaders] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“We agreed that the exchanges were continuing on a basis of no commitment by either side”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Walker minute to MT (“Collaboration with the United States on energy research and development”) [“there are prospects of combining R&D resources to achieve results which benefit both our countries”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries (“Ministers’ Weekend Addresses”) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Gowrie PS letter to No.10 (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster’s responsibilities) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: No.10 minute to MT (“VIP Visitors: Carriage of Arms by Bodyguards”) [recommendations in advance of visit by President Mitterrand] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Mexican Ambassador letter to MT (London Economic Summit) [message from Latin American leaders on trade, financing and debt] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, terrorism, Brighton bomb attack] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: MT letter to Italian Minister of Defence (participation in the British-Italian Summit) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("El Salvador: Visit to Britain by Senor Licenciado Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes, Minister of the Presidency") [meeting between Duarte and FMLN/FDR "opens up a real prospect of national reconciliation"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: UKE San Jose telegram 405 to FCO (1900Z) ("El Salvador: Duarte/Guerilla Talks") ["Negotiations would inevitably be protracted"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Peking telegram 2627 to FCO (0429Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: Prime Minister's Visit") [Chinese Government welcomes MT's proposed visit to sign Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 3266 to FCO (1030Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: Report on Public Opinion") ["Reactions remain generally favourable, though various areas of concern continue to be the subject of comment"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Greece: Andreas Papandreou message to MT (European City of Culture) [progress on Athens preparations, invitation to inauguration ceremony] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: supportive of Rees' proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Redwood minute to MT (response to David Owen MP article on job creation) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to Prime Minister González Márquez (Accession of Spain and Portugal to the EC) ["I share your concern at the slow progress of the negotiations"; Gibraltar] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Geoffrey Pattie) ["British Telecom": share options for management] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Chancellor Kohl of FRG letter to MT (meeting with Gummer) [cooperation, Exercise Lionheart, budget] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT telegram to Spanish PM González (accession of Spain and Portugal) [“some of the issues outstanding are difficult and politically sensitive for member states] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (working together) [Conservative Party delegation visit to Bonn; defence; EC budget; future of EC; meeting in November] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Address to the European Parliament by the President of Argentina") [a suggested press line] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands at the UN: New Zealand") [MT's draft letter to the New Zealand Prime Minister] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Prior PS (public expenditure discussions) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("OD: Tornados for Turkey") [export credit support proposals: "dramatic increase in both the total contract value of the order... and the resulting... [UK] credit exposure"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Stewart letter to Howe ("1984 Supplementary Budget, Implications of Inter-Government Agreement") [timing & options for seeking Parliamentary approval of extra financing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Sir Arthur Hockaday (NATO strategy) [follow-up to Chequers seminar; MT rejects Hockaday's criticism of Trident] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Draft communiqué (Chequers meeting of Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Council) [annotated by MT] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Charles Powell to Michael Gorman (the Margaret Thatcher Rose) [MT recalled it "with pleasure"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Hugh Thomas (thanks for message) [“The terrible explosion at Brighton last week has inevitably cast a long shadow”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Renée Short (thanks for her message) [“a chilling experience for all of us who believe in democracy”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Ryder minute to Barclay (Don Concannon MP asks to see MT to discuss position of Notts miners) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Friday 19 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr 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 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Fowler minute to MT ("Payments to Striking Miners for Mortgage Interest") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MT letter to Kinnock (response to Kinnock's position on Colliery Closure Procedures) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT ("The Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: briefing for Chequers meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Cutting from The Times (attack on home of Irene McGibbon, working miner's wife) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Jenkin (opencast coal site at Springhill, Staffordshire) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to Northern Ireland Office ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's thoughts on giving advance warning to Unionist parties about secret Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Tessa Gaisman minute for MT (Vice-Chairman for the Scottish party) [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT “has commented that the terrorist bomb in Brighton has slowed these confidential talks down”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1192 to FCO (2335Z) (“Cyprus: Secretary General’s initiative”) [de Cuéllar “working privately on Kyprianou and Denktash to try to extract some movement”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Consulate-General NY telegram 56 to FCO (1930Z) (“Call on Archbishop O’Connor”) [visit to Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy & other ministers) [Anglo-Italian Summit plenary] [European Community, world affairs, UK-Italian cooperation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, European Community, unemployment, financial issues, bilateral issues, Malta, Cyprus] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, Falklands at the UN, European Community, CERN, financial issues, East-West relations, Middle East] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer - Italian Finance Minister) [Italian financial situation, European Community budget issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food - Italian Minister of Agriculture) [1985 price negotiations, milk quotas, wine] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rees letter to Jenkin (“Local authority capital expenditure”) [“your proposals… would… cause uproar among our own supporters”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: Charles Powell minute to MT ("UK-Sri Lanka Defence Agreement") [draft MT letter to Jayewardene making clear that UK unable to offer military assistance for internal situation in Sri Lanka] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT telegram to King Hassan of Morocco (“Anglo/Libyan Relations”) [hostages] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-David Hart) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell letter to Armstrong (Anglo-Irish talks) ["The Prime Minister thinks that the Ambassador did well to make clear to the Taoiseach that there was no possibility of reaching agreement on 19 November"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's comments on record of Armstrong-Nally talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to Armstrong (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT “does not agree with the proposal put forward by the Irish side for a Ministerial Committee for Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 briefing for MT (“Supplementary speaking note”) [UN talks on future of Cyprus] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Situation at the Durban Consulate”) [the statement issued by the imprisoned men: further options] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 21 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: No.10 minute to MT (Brighton Hotel Bombing) [medical report; log of messages of sympathy] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Net Payments to EC Institutions") [comments on Lawson minute to MT of 15 Oct; "need to pay careful attention to the public presentation of the figures"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) [secondment of Michael Eaton to NCB head office] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Warry minute to No.10 ("Jaguar Cars: Pay Claim") [strike action threatened] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Hailsham minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: comment on Rees' proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("British Telecom Flotation - Executive and Employee Share Option Schemes") [implications for future privatisations if scheme is given go-ahead] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Home Secretary draft statement to the House of Commons ("Bomb Explosion at the Grand Hotel, Brighton") [this copy released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: Sherbourne note to Gummer (“Memorial Services”) [“to attend one you must attend them all”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Prime Minister Lange of New Zealand (UN debate) [NZ to vote with UK, “reflects the unique mutual loyalty on which our relations rest”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Taoiseach FitzGerald of Ireland note to MT (UN debate) [Ireland to abstain in vote] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("The Five Institutes' Autumn Report") [West Germany's five major economic institutes' domestic & global economic forecast 1984-5: background for MT visit to Bonn] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [the publication of the Argentine/Chilean agreement on the Beagle, the Falklands dispute] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands at the General Assembly") [MT's draft letters to the EC Heads of Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Lord Hailsham of St. Marylebone minute for MT ("A Naval History of the Falklands Campaign") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Falklands at the UN General Assembly: Alfonsin's Visit to Paris") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Falklands at the UN) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Geoffrey Howe minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Public Expenditure - FCO Programmes") [non-military parts of FCO expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Booth minute to MT (legal position of the NCB against the NUM) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]

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