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Text 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Hamburg land elections: 19 December") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Hamburg land election: 19 December") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: King letter to Lawson ("Nationalised industry pay") ["concerned to see that both gas and electricity are thinking of starting at 5%... factors have significantly altered the balance of wage bargaining this year"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Walker, Pym, Jenkin, Tebbit, Cockfield) ["Common Agricultural Policy: 1983/84 Price Fixing"; the green pound] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Gibraltar") [sovereignty] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Fowler PS letter to No.10 (Five Year Forward Look) [explanation for delayed Departmental response] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 (Efficiency Unit, internal) letter to Flesher ("Scrutiny of HM Inspectorate of Schools (England and Wales)") [tensions regarding No.10 requirement for redraft of "bureaucratic" reply to Parliamentary Question] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Technology: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Versailles Working Group on Technology, Growth and Employment") [favours delaying publication until the Summit] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Norman St John-Stevas MP letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill) ["sorry that we cannot reach agreement on the Bill's contents. However I am sure our positions are not so far apart as to preclude agreement in the future. In view of the massive support for the principle of the Bill in the House... and the very powerful support in the press... it would be highly desirable to proceed in an agreed and orderly fashion"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("UK contribution to the Multi-National Force (MNF) in Lebanon") ["Lebanese Foreign Minister... delighted"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.11 record of conversation (Howe, Biffen, Jenkin, Brittan, Ridley, St. John Stevas MP, Joel Barnett MP) [Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lamont letter to Jenkin ("The Future of Concorde") [PQ reply; letter to French Minister for Transport; Chair of British Airways "has proposed a long list of conditions which could lead to protracted negotiations"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: UKE Tunis telegram to FCO ("Visit by Arab League Secretary General") [Arab League delegation to UK: Palestinian representation] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Visit to London by an Arab League Delegation") [Lord Chalfont account of visit to Morocco to repair diplomatic rift over issue of Palestinian representation] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: Lord Cockfield minute for Pym ("Yugoslavia: Economic Crisis") [American proposal for a special assistance package to help Yugoslavia] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (review of the Secret Intelligence Service & GCHQ) [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: CPRS letter to Department of Trade ("Revision of the Paris Convention on industrial property") [MT dissatisfaction with current provision for countries to revoke patents] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: FCO briefing for MT ("Zimbabwe: Call on the Prime Minister by Mr Garfield Todd") [key issues; record of recent Cranley Onslow conversation with Todd; biography] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Unemployment") ["following the meeting of 14 October at which you considered the CPRS checklist of measures... three points that I would like to make on the responses you have received"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE London telegram to State Department & Department of Defense ("Falklands White Paper: Reversing Naval Cutbacks") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Governor of the Bank of England letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (latest monthly monetary review) [rapid growth during quarter but no further acceleration] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 letter to Foreign Secretary PS ("British Policy in the Antarctic: Minerals") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 letter to Executive Director of UNICEF (meeting with the Prime Minister) [courtesy note] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Fishing Industry: MT message to Gaston Thorn (UK problems with Japan & Spain; Common Fisheries Policy) [released Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 minute to MT (Soviet military threat) [MT requests overall assessment of UK ability to counter the threat] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT ("Forward Look") [Northern Ireland Office plans for the next five years] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Agriculture: Walker minute to MT ("Forward Look") [Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food plans for the next five years] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Tam Daylell MP (sinking of the General Belgrano) ["The General Belgrano's course at the moment of attack was merely incidental to the very real threat that she posed to our ships and our men"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Employment Protection Legislation") [disagreement on exemptions from employee protection legislation] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Coles minute to MT ("Visit to Falklands") [provisional programme for MT's visit] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Butler note to MT (Ballykelly incident) [suggests MT spend time with medical staff] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Butler note to MT (MT visit to Northern Ireland) [media arrangements] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior PS minute to Butler (“Operation Piston”) [visit to Musgrave Park Hospital] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (“Record of conversation between the Prime Minister and S.Y. Chung, C.B.E.”) [future of Hong Kong] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Edwards PS letter to Brittan PS (“Rate Support Grant settlement 1983/84: Wales”) [statement to Parliament] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“The Franks Report”) [dispute as to inclusion of reference to JIC & assessments staff] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MT letter to Bob McCrindle MP (tax relief on life assurance premiums) [“I cannot give you the assurance you seek”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bank of England) Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions including US report) [declassified 2012]
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