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PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Ivory Coast: MT letter to President Houphouet-Boigny of Ivory Coast (utility supplies) [consortium assistance with gas plans] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Director-General of the British Council letter to MT ('Whitty boys: boarding school fees' case; FCO proposal for financial management/policy review) [MT: "...must pay [their fees]. It is not a matter of law - but of doing the only decent thing"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [senior staff appointment; the £1 coin; trade figures; partnership taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKDEL Strasbourg telegram to FCO ("Alfonsin's Speech to European Parliament") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Hesletine minute to Willie Whitelaw ("The Defence Programme") [objections to decreases in spending 1986-88] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: MT letter to Prime Minister Willoch (air pollution) [UK policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Attorney General letter to Cabinet ("New European Commission") [allocation of portfolios] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with Craxi & Mitterrand; Howe report on Foreign Affairs Council; EC enlargement; tariff cuts for developing countries; EC budgetary discipline; Jopling report on Agriculture Council; EC Budget Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Prime Minister Lange letter to MT (UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["signature binds the... [UK] to nothing and it gives you an opportunity to play an effective role in changing what you do not like"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley minute to MT ("Fixed Link Across the Channel") [market interest & French Government position] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (thanks for being at Brighton) [“which has cost our friends so dear”]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Michael Colvin (thanks for message) [daughter Amanda “remembered to bring out the speech”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 24 October 1984") [miners' strike: NACODS strike called off] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy paper ("Endurance and a NACODS strike") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [plan for informing Unionist parties of Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT on Howe's minute: "Her general comment is that she is becoming very pessimistic about this exercise"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit by Mr Gorbachev") [proposed arrangements for Gorbachev visit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Alan Greencross to David Mellor (Greater London Council) [“facts on restructuring”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Sherbourne minute for MT (points raised at Central Office meeting) [local government, security at Central Office] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Secretary PS minute to Charles Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Hurd meetings with Irish and Northern Irish leaders] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1213 to FCO (2315Z) (“Cyprus: Secretary General’s initiative”) [de Cuéllar “trying to increase the pressure on the two sides but so far without success”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Keith Joseph letter to Edwards (“Corporal Punishment in Schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute for MT (Van Der Post suggests MT meet South African Leader of the Opposition) [SAG won't like but no sustainable objection since you have met Botha] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (detention orders against people in British Consulate in Durban) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban and Coventry”) [detention orders against people in British Consulate: British-South African relations] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: MT minute to Ministers in Charge of Departments (Implementation of Improvements in the Financial Management of Advisory and Other Public Bodies) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Moore letter to Jenkin ("E(DL)(84)4. Unused Land and Empty Housing") [Treasury note to follow up Jenkin paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Training Loans") [comments on Tom King's pilot scheme proposal] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 letter to Rees PS (Kenneth Whitty: compensation for dependants) [details of award calculation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: recommended line to take to 'round off...correspondence' between ministers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Ethiopia: MT telegram to Taoiseach FitzGerald of Ireland (famine) [EC aid] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute: Policy Unit to Charles Powell (European Monetary System) [case against UK joining the Exchange Rate Mechanism] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Falklands at the UN General Assembly") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("1983 Refunds") ["expect to.. [be paid] in the course of today"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 34th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Coal Industry") [miners' strike: no details of planned pit closures in the Soviet Union] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Polish Coal Industry") [miners' strike: no details of planned pit closures in Poland] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Thursday 25 October 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Malcolm Edwards letter to MT (thanks for letter) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Conservative Party Members' Brief ("Coal Industry Dispute") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Soviet National Day Reception") [responding to October Revolution anniversary invitations from Soviet Ambassador] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: NIO record of conversation (Hurd meeting with Barry and Noonan) [security, extradition, procedures] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO minute to No.10 (“Call by Matyas Szuros, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party, on MT”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome to FCO (“Anglo-Italian Summit: Press Reactions”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (Government Purchasing) [papers; proposals; issues; main points for discussion; handling] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Cockfield) ["Chairman of BTG"; British Technology Group] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Percy Cradock, 29 October") [his move to JIC chair; BMD; Gorbachev visit; MT Peking visit; Middle East] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Rees minute to MT (Training Loans) [comments on Tom King consultative document] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Rees minute to MT (changes in provision for employment and training measures) [presentation & management of annual Survey outcomes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (changes in provision for employment and training measures) [timing of announcement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3195 to FCO (2206Z) ("US Presidential Campaign") [state of play] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Ian Stewart minute to MT ("Friendly Societies Bill") [background to urgent legislation "to validate some 300,000 insurance contracts issued by friendly societies"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen letter to Whitelaw (First Report from Select Committee on Procedure: Short Speeches) [debate to be held on proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen minute to MT ("House of Commons Select Committee on Procedure") [Government evidence for Committee's general enquiry into Public Bill procedure] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Jenkin (new ILEA: future use of County Hall) [Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to MOD ("A Naval History of the Falklands Campaign") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Powell minute for MT ("Falklands Vote at the UN") [MT's draft messages to EC Heads of Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1221 to FCO (0107Z) ("Falklands at the UN") [the Argentine draft of the agreement has been tabled] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1222 to FCO (0035Z) ("Falklands at the UN") [text of Argentine draft resolution] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Jopling minute to MT ("MISC 106: R&D Expenditure") [proposed cuts in spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Wybrew minute to MT ("Energy - Contribution to Public Expenditure Savings") [British Gas, elecricity industry] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 note (internal): Roche to Flesher ("Acid Deposition") [Hansard extract: "concern on all sides of the House about the apparent lack of immediate Government action"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Community Budget Discipline") [outstanding points & proposed resolutions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: MT letters to Mrs Anne Hopkins (her letter about strike violence) [“so vivid .. so moving ... simply appalling that you ... should have to suffer so much”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute to No.10 (“Anglo-German Summit on 2 November: Sir Julian Bullard’s First Impressions”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Friday 26 October 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to HMT (PQ on the cost of the miners' strike) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("MISC 101 (84) 46th Meeting: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Warry minute to Turnbull ("Coal Dispute") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks") [Hurd's thoughts on talks with Irish Ministers: "I found the outcome rather depressing"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Discussions") [full record of Hurd talks with Irish Minister] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute to MT ("Lunch for Mr Gorbachev") [MT agrees to small lunch with Gorbachev] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Sherbourne note for MT (meeting with John Gummer) [vice chairman, Conservative Research Department, Gordon Reece] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Talks”) [“some of the talking was quite tough and I found the outcome rather depressing”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1229 to FCO (2357Z) (“Cyprus: Secretary General’s initiative”) [de Cuéllar “no significant movement”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Geoffrey Pattie minute to MT (“Anti-misting kerosene”) [“a fuel additive which will prevent aircraft crash fires”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT (“Seminar on Local Government”) [Jenkin review] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 27 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3203 to FCO (0306Z) ("US Congressional Elections") [analysis & predictions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Falklands: Alfonsin's Visit to Italy") [Alfonsin put great pressure on Craxi to vote for the Argentine resolution] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 28 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 28 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 3204 to FCO (0353Z) ("Laker Consultations") [negotiations for "a permanent arrangement to prevent the US antitrust laws undermining the smooth working of the bilateral aviations relationship"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 28 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Fowler letter to Rees ("Supplementary Benefit for Strikers") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 28 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Waldegrave, Terry Heiser, Oliver Letwin, Turnbull) [“Local government finance”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Rees PS letter to No.10 ("1983-84 Scrutiny of Running Costs") [PQ; publication] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gowrie, Heseltine, Jenkin, Ridley, Rees, Lamont, Raison, Ibbs, Baroness Young, Tony Newton, David Waddington) ["Government Purchasing"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Cradock & Powell) [East-West relations, Middle East, Southern Africa, SDI, arms control, China, Pakistan and Germany] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("CBI Conference") [enhanced security following Brighton Bomb: Police advise that it is unsafe for MT to attend reception] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: David Mellor PS letter to No.10 (Drug Misuse) [copy of 'aide-mémoire' briefing pack] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Cammell Laird") [Type 22 Frigate orders should not be given to Cammell Laird] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Leon Brittan, Whitelaw, Biffen, Wakeham) [Police and Criminal Evidence Bill: MT opposed to Lord Scarman's proposed amendment on racial discrimination] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("The Flick Affair and political corruption in the FRG") ["Following Barzel's resignation, the Opposition... have turned their guns on the Chancellor"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Review of Anglo/German relations: appointment of Mr Nigel Forman MP") [does not go ahead following MT criticism of Howe's choice] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UK Ambassador Bonn minute to Head of Chancery ("Chancellor Kohl") ["By moving a Wagnerian soprano out of the way I was able to get a chair next to Kohl's... we must persevere in the attempt to understand [him]..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Hurd minute to Rees ("Short Brothers PLC") [adjustment for increase in EFL; RAF trainer contract; proposal for small manufacturing facility in West Belfast] [declassified Dec 2014]

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