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Text 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Professor Donald Longmore letter to No.10 (Griffiths Report) [Consultant Clinical Physiologist at the National Heart Hospital: criticism of Report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Nationalised Industry References to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission") [1983 & 1984 Programmes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Department of Trade & Industry letter for Coles ("Turkey: Diesel Electric Locomotives") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Royal Family: UKE Beijing telegram 1090 to FCO (0300Z) ("Possible Visit by Duke of Edinburgh") [advice regarding request from World Wildlife Fund for Duke to accompany delegation to China in his capacity as President of WWF] [declassified Nov 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 minute to Jenkin PS ("Possible Visit by the Prime Minister to the International Garden Festival") [request for advice on the proposal] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Greece: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Visit of Prime Minister of Greece: 4 November") [proposed agenda, expect meeting to focus on EC issues, bilateral relations] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO (“Disarmament negotiations: Canadian position on French and British missiles”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Butler minute for Turnbull (MISC 99 “Star Chamber” update) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Howe PS letter to Biffen PS (“Publication of monthly PSBR figures”) [move to focus on public sector rather than central government borrowing] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("Contacts with France and Germany on EC issues") [Council of Europe, 4-6 December] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Canadian High Commissioner letter to MT (East/West relations) [text of Prime Minister Trudeau's address to Guelph University] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Paris ("Lebanon: Meeting of MNF Foreign Ministers in Paris 27 October") [record of conversation] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Cairo telegram to FCO ("Lebanon") ["The Egyptians are mounting an ambitious diplomatic effort to capitalise on the emotions aroused by the Beirut bombings with a view to reactivating the peace process through the Reagan initiative or some variant"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: President Mubarak letter to MT (peace in the Middle East) [proposals for reviving Reagan peace initiative following bomb attack of 23rd October on Multinational Forces] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT/security: FCO Security Department minute ("Security Brief for Prime Minister's Visit to New Delhi for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 23-30 November 1983") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("AFZ officers") [release] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: Howe minute to MT ("Sale of RAF Hunters to Zimbabwe") [counter-argument for proceeding with sale despite Heseltine concern in his minute to MT regarding "clear moral and presentational difficulties... at a time when ex-RAF officers are being monstrously treated in that country"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Barney Hayhoe PS letter to No.10 (Parliamentary Debate on the Civil Service) ["Government's achievements on manpower and the search for efficiency and effectiveness will form the core of the Minister's speech"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF: forthcoming Bundestag debate") [scheduling delayed as opposition insist on more than one day for the debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Pay Review Bodies") [report on E(PSP) committee meeting: terms of reference of the Review Bodies; exchanges between MT and the Chairmen] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Grenada/Lebanon: McFarlane background briefing (“regarding the President’s address”) [Soviet probes] [declassified 2010]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: UKE Paris to FCO ("Grenada") [Howe meets with Schultz: Shultz reports that Cuban presence on Grenada "turned out to be larger and more ominous than the US had estimated"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada) [situation in Grenada; Trudeau suggests general Commonwealth call for truce] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3174 to FCO (2153Z) ("Grenada: The Future") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 31st (Parliamentary Affairs, Grenada, Lebanon, EC Budget) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Younger minute to MT ("Wales Rate Support Grant 1984-85") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: Hugh Thomas letter to MT (US action in Grenada) ["now that it has occurred, & has been reasonably successful, may I suggest that we do make the best of it"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: Shipley note for the record ("The 'Peace' Movement") [report on CND demonstration] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT message to Reagan (meeting of NATO's Nuclear Planning Group) [future size of NATO's nuclear stockpile] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Grenada) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) British Telecom: Redwood minute to Turnbull (information on BT service for MT's speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Lebanon: President Mubarak of Egypt letter to MT (situation in Lebanon) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (Anglo-Irish Summit programme) [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: No.10 internal minute (“John Selwyn Gummer”) [advice on television & radio fee offers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: European Democratic Group press release (rebate) [British Conservative MEPs “had ‘no choice’ but to vote against proposals”]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: EXCO”) [Cradock: “I am disturbed at the developments in EXCO”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1172 to FCO (0026Z) (“Secretary Genrals report: Falklands”) [appeals for dialogue and offers services as intermediary] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 1803 to UKE Washington (1440Z) (“Falklands at the General Assembly”) [concerns about US policy] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Oct 27 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
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