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Info only 83 Oct 31 Mo Chronology Major [Chronology] NUM began overtime ban
Text 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ministers: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Ministerial conflicts of interest) [David Trippier: Royal Marines] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Pay Review Bodies") ["putting less weight on comparability"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Greece: Nikos Kyriazides letter to John Coles ("Visit of Greek Prime Minister: 4 November") [proposed guest list, reception invite for MT] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister Soares letter to MT (Accession of Portugal to the EC) ["Portugal's treaty... should be signed earlier than Spain's... This would be the logical result of the separate consideration of each candidature and its appreciation on its own merits"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Alex Fletcher letter to Biffen ("European Economic Interest Groupings") [House of Lords EC Scrutiny Committee involvement in consultation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (Law of Trespass) [drafting of new Bill] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Greville Janner MP & delegation of the Presidium of the World Conference on Soviet Jewry) ["World Conference of Soviet Jewry": human rights abuses] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Lord Hailsham (review of the prison adjudication system) [terms of reference] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("National Training Commission") [reassignment of funding & responsibilities for further vocational education and for employment services] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Michio Watanabe, member of Japanese Diet) [trade & economic relations; corruption charges against former Prime Minister Tanaka] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Director General of the Japanase International Trade Policy Bureau letter to Alan Walters (Japanese market access: promotion mission) [Japanese Government Ministry of Trade and Industry request for mission leader to meet with MT] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3238 to FCO (2336Z) ("Lebanon") [responsibility for bomb attack of 23rd Oct on Multinational Forces] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Lebanon: Message from President Reagan") [draft reply to Reagan letter concerning bomb attack of 23rd Oct on Multinational Forces] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("INF: demonstration in The Hague) [report] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Independent Broadcasting Authority record of conversation (MT, Ingham, members of IBA) ["Internal note of discussion at lunch with the Prime Minister 31.10.83"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Heseltine ("Obligations of Civil Service Managers and Noting of Files") [MT "content with the [Standing Group on Industrial Action] proposals relating to obligations but had reservations about the recommendation that there should be no change in the policy that industrial action is not formally recorded"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("CHOGM: Programme for Mr. Thatcher") [Heads of Government meeting in Goa & New Delhi] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Armstrong-Gregson) ["Enduring a coal strike"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Energy Efficiency Office press release (“Our Crusade to Save Cash”) [campaign launch] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: No.10 record of conversation (MT-King-Tebbit-Gummer) ["Political contributions by companies"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 letter to Welsh Office ("Rate Support Grant 1984-85: Wales and Scotland") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: Hugh Thomas minute to MT (Thomas "perturbed" by MT's line on the Grenada invasion) ["I cannot help thinking that the U.S. action was a blessing; and not a blessing in disguise"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Mauritius: Prime Minister Jugnauth of Mauritus letter to MT (appointment of new Mauritian High Commissioner to the UK) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Portugal: Prime Minister Soares of Portugal letter to MT (request for accession of Portugal to the EEC) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Jim Molyneaux (MT's meeting with the Taoiseach) [MT's meeting with Fitzgerald has no implications for constitutional status of Northern Ireland] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: MT letter to David Owen (Owen believes SDP representative should be invited to the Cenotaph remembrance ceremony) [further response] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Science: MT letter to Sir Andrew Huxley, President of the Royal Society (need to postpone MT's Royal Society admission ceremony) ["I need hardly say that this incident does not detract one jot from the honour which I feel in having been elected to the Fellowship"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Molyneaux (Anglo-Irish relations and Northern Ireland’s position) [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Coles note to MT (Anglo-Irish Summit Joint Studies review) [MT note: “Would you ask Michael (Alison) to go through this very carefully before I decide”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“Economic Summit 1984”) [arrangements Queen’s state dinner] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: press coverage”) [UK/China talks] [declassified 2013]
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