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PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT ("Scrutiny of Burdens on Firms") [advice on creation of inter-departmental group of Ministers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Booth minute to MT ("Public Order Review") [comment on Review: "This is a workmanlike analysis"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: No.10 minute to MT ("Home Improvement") [Green Paper on private sector housing improvement policy; MT: "I am horrified at some of its proposals"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Agriculture and Conservation") [pros & cons of legislation; Landscape Conservation Orders; costs: investment in preservation of landscape by diverting savings made elsewhere; Halvergate Marshes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Agriculture and Conservation") ['voluntary' approach vs. intervention; compensation; planning controls; Landscape Conservation Orders; preventing drainage of the Broads/Halvergate marshes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Future of the Royal Dockyards") [analysis of Heseltine proposals for contracting-out of management; recommendation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Using Private Enterprise in Government") [endorsement of Rees' contracting-out proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Employment: Prime Minister Craxi of Italy letter to MT (Italian conference on technological innovation and job creation) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Dean Dove Limited") [options for recovery of regional aid funding; risk of legal action against DTI] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Type 22 Frigates") [arrangements for Cabinet discussion of Heseltine's proposal to award Frigate contract to Cammell Laird] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: National Security Planning Group minutes (1600Z) ("Response to Threat to Lebanon Hostages") (NSPG 0105) [conditions for retaliatory strikes] [declassified Jul 2004]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling letter to Ridley (management of farming in UK) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Federal President von Weizsaecker) [Anglo-German Summit: East-West issues, bilateral relations] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [tete a tete: German domestic scene, UK economy, international economic questions, East-West relations, SDI, commemoration of the 40th anniversary of VE Day, Falklands-Argentina] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [plemary: future development of the Community, financial issues in the Community] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Washington telegram 155 to FCO (0015Z) (“Environmental Controls and Automobiles”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 minute for MT (“H Committee Last Week”) [commercial surrogacy] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Kinnock letter to MT (proposes energy review) ['would clearly serve the national interest'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 minute for MT (“Moon Dust”) [ranks with toothbrush once used by Napoleon] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 18 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 3rd Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler minute to MT (“Miners’ Strike”) [updates from Walker for discussion with MT: secret NUM discussions with NCB; proposed TUC statement on strike; proposed parliamentary debate on strike; Kinnock letter] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: FCO letter to Charles Powell (“Afghan Aid for British Miners”) [report on Afghan trade unionists' handing over of cheque to NUM] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Budd letter to Charles Powell (“Visit to UK by Canadian Prime Minister”) [dates of proposed visit have changed] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 25 to FCO (0200Z) (“Cyprus: high level meeting”) [“got off to a difficult start with the two sides in apparent deadlock”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 letter to Howe PPS (“Cyprus”) [proposed letter from MT to prevent UN talks stalling] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 letter to Howe PPS (“Cyprus”) [“We have let the Secretary-General know that we stand ready to help”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“H committee last week”) [surrogacy, Shops Act, ethnic monitoring in the civil service] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Sue Goodchild minute for Powell (“Visit of Netherlands PM - Saturday, 26 January”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Policy Unit minute for MT (“BA Privatisation and US Anti-Trust Suits”) [possible courses and options] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 (former Lieutenant N. Sethia’s Falklands diary: publication) [HMS Conqueror & General Belgrano] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 19 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler minute to MT (draft TUC plan for the coal industry: Walker's response) ['Walker must not allow himself to be manoeuvred into a position in which he is morally committed to welcoming...an unsatisfactory TUC statement'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) [miners' strike: TUC proposals for future of the coal industry; NCB-NUM discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Anglo-German Summit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Anglo-German Consultations 18 January”) ["an especially harmonious summit, which got a good press here"] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: UKE Washington telegram 173 to FCO (0006Z) (“Meeting of Five Finance Ministers in Washington: Background Briefing by Chancellor of the Exchequer”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 20 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 34 to FCO (0350Z) (“Cyprus: high level meeting”) [“Secretary General is to put yet another compromise formula to the two sides”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Monetary policy: MT letter to David Eccles (dollar/sterling exchange rate) [“If Europe could be rid of Socialism for the forseeable future, our currencies would become much more attractive”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Turnbull minute to MT (“Lunch at Lloyds”) [subjects to raise; DTI briefing] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Public Expenditure Survey) [spending blocks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Brittan PS ("1985 Public Expenditure White Paper (CMND 9428") [publication date] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nigel Lawson minute to Peter Walker (""Public Expenditure White Paper") [impact of miners' strike on figures for 1984-85] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Clarke minute to MT ("Ministerial Responsibility for Marriage Guidance Funding") [no pressure from outside government to make the change, so "rather pointless to do it"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Peking telegram 77 to FCO (0822Z) ("Visit by CLP Delegation: Meetings with Chinese Leaders") [future of Hong Kong; Guangdong Nuclear Project] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Supreme Soviet Visit: UK/Soviet Relations") [Gorbachev was well received, visit will have raised UK standing in Gorbachev's eyes, security issue, trade] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell note to MT ("Gorbachev") [speaking notes on east-west relations, regional problems, arms control, NUM contacts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell note to MT (interpreter's comments on Gorbachevs) [Mrs Gorbachev's demeanour, outlook, comments on husband] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Nicholas Edwards minute to MT ("Agriculture and Conservation") ["our present policies are already moving towards a better balance... the case for extending planning or other controls is not made out"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Howe minute to Rees ("Turkey: Second Bosphorus Bridge") ["The Turks will certainly consider it very odd if we do not pull out all the stops to secure this business and will begin to question the seriousness of our oft-repeated wish to participate fully... in their economic rehabilitation"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC101(85) 3rd (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food record of conversation (EC agricultural policy) [Jopling, Belgian Minister of Agriculture] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: MT letter for Sir Julian Bullard (thanking for the arrangements for the Anglo-German Summit) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: MT letter for Chancellor Kohl (thanking for the talks and hospitality) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 21 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB record of conversation (NCB-NUM Representatives) [miners' strike: NCB and NUM consider potential resumption of discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Wybrew minute to Redwood (“Coal Dispute”) [statistics on striking miners and coal production: 'The picture is encouraging...'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (call from Irene McGibbon of Miners' Wives Back to Work Campaign) [concern about NCB-NUM talks: 'working miners will be sold short'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Hatfield minute to Butler (reports on the strike: follow-up actions) ['I can confirm that those responsible for producing these reports are well seized of the need to be alert to the opportunities for follow-up action'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 36 to FCO (0305Z) (“Cyprus: high level meeting”) [“It remained for the Secretary General to salvage what little he could”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 40 to FCO (2335Z) (“Cyprus: high level meeting”) [“Secretary General… relying too much on constructive ambiguity”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 letter to Howe PPS (“Cyprus”) [“we could not intervene directly in fast-moving negotiations in New York without a direct request from the Secretary-General”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 2 (Legislation on Commercial Surrogacy) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 letter to Tebbit PS (“Lunch at Lloyds”) [subjects to raise; DTI briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“Cable”) [need to counter “flagging interest”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Norman Tebbit minute to MT (“Future British Space Programme”) [UK involvement in the international space station project] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“British Airways Privatisation and US Anti-Trust Suits”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 minute to MT (“Anglo-Italian Summit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: Powell letter to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit") [MT rejects Italian proposal for summit on 16/17 May; prefers autumn; seeing Craxi at Bonn in May] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Heseltine minute to MT ("Non-combatant evacuation from Germany") [in event of major international crisis] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Request by the Nicaraguan Vice-President to call on the Prime Minister") [Powell: "There is probably something to be said for seeing him, and delivering some home truths which he won't hear elsewhere in London"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Keith Joseph minute to Patrick Jenkin (Widdicombe Committee) [possible members] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull note to MT ("Inquiry into Local Government Practice and Procedures") [possible members] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Howe PS minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure White Paper: FCO") [Howe will not make further adjustments to FCO programmes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Secretary minute to Powell (Giscard d'Estaing visit to UK) [MT cannot meet with d'Estaing due to clash with Finchley Carnival] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Secretary ("Ministerial Responsibility for Marriage Guidance Work") ["the Prime Minister prefers not to disturb the present arrangements"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 note to MT (Scrutiny of burdens on firms) ["There has been jockeying for position by Sir Robin Ibbs and Lord Young"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 33 to FCO (1100Z) ("Anglo-Irish Relations") [Taoiseach "pleased" at reports of MT meeting with Hume] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on Armstrong meeting with Taoiseach] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Heseltine minute to MT ("Aftercare Of An Army Agent") [successful resettlement of agent from Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: UKE Ankara telegram 47 to FCO (1000Z) ("Secretary of State's Visit: Further High-Level Exchanges") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Tebbit minute to MT ("Austin and Pickersgill") [British Shipbuilding to make 675 Austin and Pickersgill workers redundant] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to S.Y. Chung (Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong) [thanks for gift following MT visit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Home Secretary draft statement to the House of Commons ("Brighton Bomb") [this copy released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: UKE Cairo telegram 36 to FCO (1115Z) ("Meeting with President Mubarak") [Ambassador Weir, Mubarak: record of conversation: Arab/Israel; inter-Arab relations; Egypt/Israel; Libya; bilateral] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: MT letter for Federal President von Weizsaecker (thanking for the conversation) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Lawson minute for MT (the Paris Club multilateral meeting on Argentine debt) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland PS minute for Lawson (“Competition Policy”) [review of the marketing boards] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 22 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB press release (“‘Think Again’ Call to Miners Leaders”) ['we do not want another round of talks in which the NUM yet again persist with their one impossible demand'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Washington telegram 190 to FCO (2352Z) (“Cyprus”) [“restraining Denktash”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe PPS letter to No.10 (“Cyprus”) [“The outlook is uncertain”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO (“Cyprus problem”) [need to “persuade the Turkish government not to lose patience and to continue to keep Denktash on a tight rein”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Tebbit note circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 3 (The Order for Type 22 Frigates 13 & 14) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: John Cope letter to Brittan (“Shop Hours and Sunday Trading”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Whitelaw minute to MT (“The Shops Act: Late Night and Sunday Opening”) [declassified 2014]

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