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Text 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Geoffrey Howe note to MT (final draft of manifesto) [“It seems to me now to offer a good basis for our policy”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Tebbit letter to Heseltine ("British Aerospace") [Thorn-EMI takeover bid] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("INF Deployment") [Howe "fully shares... [MT's] concern... [recent] developments can only be seen in Moscow as evidence of the progressive unravelling of the NATO 1979 dual-track decision"; advises personal call to Lubbers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Western European Union (WEU)") ["It is difficult to believe that yet another forum is needed to discuss defence matters"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("Tornados for Turkey") [MT "did not in fact raise this issue [at the Anglo-German Summit]... I am however seriously concerned about the way this proposal was put forward at the last minute without proper consultation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Liverpool") ["I now have to reach a decision on a controversial set of proposals from Liverpool to close all its existing 25 county secondary schools and to establish 17 new... comprehensive schools... I thought I should let you know what I propose"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (UK record on Acid Rain) [Parliamentary Answer] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("European Community") [MT "concerned that... we should be ready to put forward... specific initiatives of potential benefit to the [UK]": proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Foreign Policy") ["There is a danger of a number of foreign policy matters going wrong over the next few weeks and months"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Call by the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 14 May") [main topics suggested as London economic summit and Hong Kong] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Hayden) [investment, South-East Asia, Hong Kong, nuclear testing] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("BL Trucks") [Tebbit and Younger discuss timing of announcement on Leyland Trucks; closure of Bathgate plant] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("BL Corporate Plan") [privatisation of British Leyland subsidiaries; MT: "DT is director of Q[uinton] H[azell]...I can't enter into discussion of Unipart at all"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO telegram to UKE Washington (1605Z) ("Soviet concern about a surprise NATO attack") [MT agrees paper to be passed to US on confidence-building measures relating to nuclear command post exercises] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Fixed Link Across the Channel") [supports Ridley case for no assistance from public funds] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “Police preparing clampdown on pit violence” [Police considering limits on picket numbers after violence]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “Scargill dispute halts paper” [editions of Daily Expressed not published due to inter-union dispute]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Press Minor Commentary (The Times) Coal: "Scargill dispute halts paper" [quarrel between journalist unions stops Express going to print]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Monetary policy: Treasury briefing (“Interpretation of Monetary Conditions: May [1984]”) [released 2012]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Tebbit minute to MT (“Regulation of Securities Industry”) [approves Governor’s initiative; closes no options for government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Redwood minute to MT (Governor’s proposed group) [welcome, but avoid associating government with it] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Turnbull minute to MT (“Securities Regulation”) [“I detect some ill feeling in the Treasury about this letter … a deal between the Bank and DTI without bringing them in”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("MISC 101(84)15th Meeting: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Coal: Home Office letter to Department of Energy (arrangements for Home Office attendance at daily Department of Energy meetings on miners' strike) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Pascall minute to Turnbull ("Coal: Operating Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Lawson (potential closure of Cortonwood pit: NCB letter to miners) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe minute for Walker (“International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson minute for Michael Jopling (“Competition Policy: Taxation Aspects”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Hugh Taylor (“Handling of Terrorism at the Summit and in the Ten”) [amendments to draft declaration and discussion paper] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Lord Roll message to MT (London Economic Summit) [memorandum on priorities for Summit, could be of use for additional briefing material] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Secretary of State for Trade & Industry PS to No. 10 (“US Space Station: June Economic Summit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (call by Chief Minister of Kwazulu: situation in South Africa) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: UMELCO statement”) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: UMELCO statement”) [“this time… the Unofficials had ‘gone too far’…] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Hong Kong: UMELCO visit to London: proposed call on Prime Minister”) [“state of some tension… Their manifesto… badly received by the Chinese”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: European tour of Zhao Ziyang”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 May 11 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Speech to Scottish Conservative Conference
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