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Text 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Nicaragua: Leader Ortega of Nicaragua telex to MT (UN Security Council) [request to support resolution of “condemnation of the escalation [of] aggression against our people and territory”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: President Ortega letter to MT ("Nicaraguan Ports") ["We trust... that your government will support the draft resolution submitted by Nicaragua at the Security Council"; vote has already taken place, with UK abstaining, by time letter reaches No.10] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Denzil Davies (sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite") [case against awarding a monopoly; MT requests meeting of key Ministers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Defence Estimates 1984") [comments on Heseltine White Paper; "show's Michael's determination to come to grips with the management problems"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Statement on the Defence Estimates 1984") [background to Heseltine draft White Paper; handling; conclusion] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Sale of the Government's Residual Shareholding in Associated British Ports Holdings") [announcement; details of sale arrangement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson, Howe, Ian Stewart, Michael Butler, Brian Unwin, Crispin Tickell, Geoffrey Fitchew, David Williamson, David Hannay) [EC future financing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Whitelaw, Wakeham, Brian Unwin, David Hannay, David Williamson) ["Reform of Community's Financing"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [negotiations on reform of EC finance system/UK refund; Lawson report on Finance Council of 2 April; Jopling report on Agriculture Council; Foreign Affairs Council; joint European TORUS project] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Community Budget: Estimates of United Kingdom Net Contributions and Refunds") [statistics & analysis] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Whitelaw letter to Hailsham ("Legislative Programme 1985/86") [invitation to bid for two available spaces for Bills; Petroleum Bill] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: Prime Minister Gandhi letter to MT (Sri Lanka) ["The escalating situation... calls for immediate action and it would be good if you could use your great influence"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Surface-to-Surface Guided Weapons for the Royal Navy") [support for Heseltine proposal that contract should go to US firm in preference to BAe] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Alan Walters minute to Andrew Turnbull ("DLT Clause 117") [concern that Finance Bill clause could impair security of existing mortgages] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: National Economic Development Council record of conversation (Lawson, Tebbit, Tom King, Keith Joseph, Waldegrave, Buchanan-Smith, Donald Barron, Terence Beckett, Walter Marshall, JS Cassels, George Jefferson, Campbell Fraser, JJR Pope, JS McFarlane, RE Waterhouse & others) [economic strategy & the 1984 Budget; UK labour market; review of the sector assessments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “Notts miners may yield to pickets; Scargill denial” [Nottingham union leaders tell moderates not to cross picket lines from Yorkshire; Scargill denies telling Mocow newspaper strike was the start of a class war]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Press Major Commentary (The Sun) Coal: “Red lies about me by angry Scargill” [Scargill challenged Russian newspaper statements]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Jopling letter to Alison (defending CAP agreement) [“Overall the package is not unfair to Britain compared with other States”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: MT letter to Lord Hunt of Tamworth (thanks for words of support) [Oman/Cementation case] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 7th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit”) [invitations to heads of government: responses received and awaited] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Alan Walters draft (material from "Britain's Economic Renaissance") [clearance sought for publication] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Abolition of the Greater London Council and Metropolitan County Councils: MISC 95 report”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 4 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech opening the Cabinet War Rooms
Text 84 Apr 4 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Letter to Denzil Davies MP (General Belgrano)
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