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Text 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Armstrong minute for Butler (export licence for the carbon-carbon equipment) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10: Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("Review of support for industrial R&D") [MT approves Tebbit's plans but wants the spending reduced even further than proposed, and to scrutinise the proposed budget; also keen to see companies contributing to local communities in return for grant aid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Oliver Letwin minute to MT ("GLC and Westminster: Lady Porter's Letter") [Porter's proposal needs careful handling] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Rees PS letter to George Younger PS ("Rates and Revaluation") [sets out agreed package of offsetting savings to fund increase in domestic rate relief] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Brittan-Lawson) [review of BBC financing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Letwin minute to MT ("Wages Councils") [comment on King paper; need for "robust presentation of the argument against Councils"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: King minute to MT ("Wages Councils - Draft Consultative Paper") [abolition or reform of Wages Councils] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (Anglo-Irish talks: leaks to Irish newspapers) [suspects leaks come from Irish sources] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe PS letter to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong-Nally talks: scope of British Proposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Job Centre Manager of the Year Award) [MT agrees no significant risk of public criticism and approves the scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr Gorbachev: Briefing of the Ten") [MT never keen to divulge too much on these occasions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: George Younger letter to Heseltine ("RAF Basic Trainer") [outline of the merits of BAe's PC-9 bid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Tebbit letter to Heseltine ("European Fighter Aircraft (EFA)") [stresses need to agree on merits of collaborative strategy and on negotiating tactics, to avoid "exploitation" by France] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("European Fighter Aircraft") ["We recommend that you should, at this juncture, sound a cautionary note"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Ridley letter to Lord Young ("British Airports Authority") [BAA involvement in Docklands STOLPORT; privatisation of BAA] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 minute to Department of Trade and Industry (Anglo-Indonesian Coporation) [Chairman's correspondence with MT, regarding Corporation's problems establishina a new plantation in Indonesia] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell to Master of Churchill College, Cambridge (visit to Brunei) [MT will try to ask Sultan of Brunei for donation to Archive Centre when she meets with him] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury Minute Replying to the 5th Report of the Public Accounts Committee, 1984-85") [proposed Treasury/MoD joint reply; request for clearance; arrangements] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mubarak, Howe, Luce, Urwick, Meguid, el Sharif, Gamzuri, Sharara) [Gorbachev/communism; Arab/Israeli negotiations; Lebanon; Sudan; Libya] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “Scottish dismissals “must stand”” [Scottish NCB state no amnesty for strikers dismissed]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT reply to written question (“main achievement of HMG since June 1983&rdquo)
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 9th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, football hooliganism) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKDEL Strasbourg telegram to FCO (“European Parliament Resolution on CAP Prices”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury internal minute (“‘Alternative Budgets’ 1985”) [summary of Shadow Chancellor press statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Walker (“FSBR”) [Financial Statement and Budget Report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO (“Cyprus”) [“the discussions in Geneva had not gone into the degree of substance expected”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Younger letter to Joseph (“Increasing the output of engineers and technologists”) [“I have the most serious difficulty with the almost token recognition of the Scottish universities in your proposed 1985/86 allocations”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Tebbit letter to Joseph (“Increasing the output of engineers and technologists”) [agrees with proposal &ldquothat we give immediate approval to bids of clear academic excellence, where industry has also given a high grading for industrial relevance”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph PS minute to Lawson PS (“Budget Day press releases: The Switch”) [funding found within existing resources] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“The funeral of President Chernenko”) [“The organisation has improved with practice. But this time we were only going through the motions”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Press Major Commentary (The Sun) Cold War: “Mrs T meets Mr G!” (“One hour of talking opens way for US”) [Chernenko funeral]
Text 85 Mar 14 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
Text 85 Mar 14 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech at dinner for Egyptian President (Hosni Mubarak)
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