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Text 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Singapore: MT message to Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore (possible visit) [“would welcome the opportunity to discuss world issues with you”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("London Economic Summit") [White House wants changes in press arrangements; Deaver call warns these were "of great significance in an election year"] [released Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [securities regulation; world financial markets; domestic markets; Sleipner Gas] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Berne ("Relations with Argentina") [British/Argentine talks in Berne: speaking note for the Swiss] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Berne ("Relations with Argentina") [British/Argentine talks in Berne: speaking note for the Swiss] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Lamont PS letter to No.10 ("British Aerospace") [statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Liverpool") [analysis of Government options for addressing City Council's statutory proposals; conclusion] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Sir Walter Marshall) [MT declines request for confidential meeting to discuss Sizewell Inquiry; reconstruction of nuclear construction industry; CEGB; policy/management of nuclear processing waste disposal; fast reactor; appointment to post] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental affairs: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("London Summit: possible British initiative on the environment") ["I have considerable misgivings about this [Howe] proposal"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("Social Security Reviews: Membership") [consultative documents] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Muldoon) [NZ/EC trade relations, international debt, Argentina, banking system, economic summit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("BL 1984 Corporate Plan") [British Leyland, Austin Rover, Unipart and Land Rover privatisations; Leyland Trucks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Leyland Trucks: The Timing of Announcements") [closure of Bathgate Plant; Jaguar privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("Sleipner") [Lawson unconvinced by merits of proposed gas deal with Norway] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lord Gowrie ("Performance Related Pay") [comments on Gowrie proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: MT letter to General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (recommendations of the Nurses and Midwives Review Body) [reply to request for meeting to discuss Government response] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “Walker resists pressure to call coal leaders together” [many months of coal stocks, rejects negotiations]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Press Minor Commentary (The Times) Coal: "20,000 in miners' protest march" [strikers gather in Mansfield for a mass demonstration]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: John Coles letter to FCO (“Economic Summit: Menus”) [use Hugh Casson sketches of No.10; reuse for MT Xmas card to save funds] [released 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: Coles letter to FCO (“Economic Summit: Menus”) [to reduce cost use same design as her official Christmas card this year] [released 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Walker-Gregson) [miners' strike: current situation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Tebbit minute to Jenkin (Liverpool militants) [need for a firm response] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit: Draft Economic Declaration”) [does latest draft strike balance between the “need to express confidence about the future and the danger of appearing to be complacent”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit: Keynote Speech”) [draft “a good basis on which to work”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong PS minute to John Coles (“Prime Minister’s Pre-Summit Meeting on 16 May”) [environment initiative; MT’s opening comments] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong PS minute to John Coles (“Prime Minister’s Pre-Summit Meeting on 16 May”) [economic declaration; draft statements on terrorism, democratic values; UK initiatives on industry and the environment] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“London Economic Summit”) [Mitterrand wants all declarations to be “fully and thoroughly prepared before the event”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“London Summit: Possible British Initiative on the Environment”) [“There is a real need for a parallel international approach on research to better define the problems”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to John Coles (“Handling of Terrorism at the Summit and in the Ten”) [draft declaration: passage on liberation movements; immunity for crimes of violence] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to MT (“Meeting on Economic Summit”) [statements on terrorism, democratic values; initiative on industry and environment; economic declaration] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to Helmut Kohl (additional German ministers at London Economic Summit) [“The trouble is, I am afraid, that a number of our colleagues consider that everything done at Summits should be on the basis of parity between national delegations”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: FCO minute to No.10 (“US Manned Space Station”) [UK participation in US space project] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Kuwait to FCO (“Attacks on Shipping in the Gulf”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Major-General Buhari letter to MT (visit of South African Prime Minister to the UK) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (“Hong Kong”) [record of conversation: Norman Tebbit, Lord Kadoorie] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Cradock, Wilson, S.Y. Chung, Lobo, etc) [UMELCO delegation] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 May 15 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
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