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Text 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Canada: MT letter to outgoing PM Trudeau of Canada (farewell wishes) [role in Commonwealth, economic summits, resolving international issues] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("FRG: draft General Budget for 1985") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Ridley minute to MT ("Civil Aviation Review") ["due to report... on the review which I asked them to undertake, of the implications of privatising British Airways... I summarise the general lines on which they seem likely to report"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 letter to Lord Gowrie PS ("Direct Entry Principal Competition") [MT "not persuaded of the case... this year... [agrees with] the removal of internal barriers to promotion... would be grateful for a report ... as soon as possible on how more general progress might be made in this area"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Bus White Paper") ["It was agreed that I should urgently revise the draft Annexes... amendments in the [attached] revised text"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("The Film Industry: Taxation") ["to contrive our escape from the cobwebs of quango and levy system which enmesh Government in the film industry... need not damage the Budget. The Chancellor is not willing to take the risk"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT (taxation of the film industry) ["The way this is being handled is ridiculous... you do not know the costs of Mr. Tebbit's new option... You may wish to decide now that the Treasury position is correct"; MT requests further clarification of options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Prospects for the Irish Presidency") [EC enlargement; finance for Budget overrun in 1984; Common Agricultural Policy; removal of barriers to trade; Lome negotiations; European unity and institutional reform; Northern Ireland] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("1982 Risk-Sharing Refund: TCSC Enquiry") [line to take for Economic Secretary's appearance before Treasury & Civil Service Committee] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: Work of the Commission on Industrial Policy") ["hidden barriers to a genuine common market"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Outcome of Fontainebleau: Public Expenditure Implications") [lines to take] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Guinea: No.10 briefing for MT ("Visit by Senior Guinean Government Ministers") [military coup; human rights; debt] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (electricity prices) [local authority capital overspend; miners' strike; CEGB costs/price increase] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Clifford Garvin, Archibald Foster) ["Visit of Mr. Clifford Garvin: Chairman of Exxon": oil market; Sleipner Gas; gas regime in the US; US economy; unitary taxation in the US] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Clifford Garvin, Chairman of Exxon and Archibald Foster, Chairman of Esso) [world oil market; Sleipner Gas] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Brittan minute to MT ("Prison Contacts") [Working Party report on controlling the contacts of people accused of security offences: special custody arrangements; priviliged contacts with legal advisers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to David Barclay ("Public Service Pensions") ["The Committee should be prepared to set a timetable for action, not just commission another paper"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (promoting competition in Defence procurement & supply) [paper requested by MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Peter Walker letter to Rees ("IFR: Corporation Tax") [Rees defends 'extra tax' for private companies] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Young minute to MT ("British Steel") [difficulties at BSC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Nationalised Industries' 1984 Investment and Financing Review: E(A) (84) 36") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Armstrong minute to MT (“Contingency planning for an oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [report of working group for an oil tanker strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “Steel unions snub miners and pledge to keep up output; Coal Board says 2,000 men volunteer for redundancy” [Steel unions reject sympathetic action; 2000 accept redundancy]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Spain: Michael Alison note to Charles Powell (meeting with Eduardo Serra) [Spanish foreign policy] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Drugs: Stephen Sherbourne letter to Mark Worrall (Young Conservatives National Advisory Committee resolution on heroin) [“There is no question of the Government decriminalising the possession and use of heroin”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Tebbit letter to Lawson (“Commercial Fraud”) [supports Fraud Investigation Group but concerned at delay] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Brittan minute to MT ("Miners' Dispute: South Yorkshire Police Authority") [miners' strike: situation at Orgreave] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-MacGregor-Gregson-Butler-Turnbull) [miners' strike: NCB/NUM talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prior letter to Brittan (“Derogation from International Human Rights Instruments”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Secretary of State's Visit to Moscow: Second Session of Talks with Gromyko: 3 July") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Your Visit to Moscow: 1-3 July: General Impressions") ["The first visit to the Soviet Union since 1977 by a British Foreign Secretary...was hard pounding"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Forum Debate: Press Comment”) [“on largely predictable lines”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS (“Message from the Prime Minister to Mr. Trudeau”) [MT approved amended version] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell (New High Commissioner to Canada) [draft letter of introduction for Day] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Department of Trade & Industry letter to No.10 (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [planned commencement of service in latter half of 1987] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC Canberra telegram to FCO (“Post-Summit briefing: Sir C Tickell’s call on the Australian Prime Minister”) [“Hawke made largely standard but helpful comments”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute ("PM's Questions: State of the Reserve") [additional briefing as requested] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town to Howe (“Mr. P. W. Botha’s European Tour”) [his plans and objectives] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“Review of United Kingdom Domestic Support for Agriculture”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: consultations in London on future strategy”) [“UMELCO are now… widely accepted as spokesmen for the real concerns”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill - Elections”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jul 3 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
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