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84 Jul 16 Mo	Chronology	Minor	[Chronology]	High Court ruled GCHQ union ban unlawful
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Justice: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Managing the Long-Term Prison System: the Report of the Control Review Committee") ["One of the most fundamental problems that any prison system has to solve is how to contain its most dangerous and difficult prisoners."] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Prior minute to MT ("Short Brothers Ltd: V2500 Engine Nacelle") ["...[further to] my minute of 5 July about Shorts' privatisation... I now seek... agreement to authorise Shorts' bid"] [declassified* Dec 2014]*
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: Cabinet Office record of conversation (meeting with the Taoiseach during visit to Dublin) [FitzGerald, Robert Armstrong, Alan Goodison: use of Irish Presidency of EC as smokescreen for meetings with MT on UK/Irish affairs; Dick Spring; Noel Dorr; EC Budget; next Presidency of the EC] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Governor-Sir Peter Middleton) [Inland Revenue; budget leak inquiry; 1985 budget date; gilt market reforms; speeches; monetary situation] [declassified 2010]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Federal Reserve)	Monetary Policy: Federal Open Market Committee record of conversation (16-17 Jul meeting) [declassified 1989]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure") [Lawson note on electricity prices] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil service: Lord Gowrie letter to Walker ("Multi-Department Review of Accommodation") ["charging departments rent and rates"; "the efficiency of energy use by departments"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with M. Dumas") [probable key issues; FCO briefing attached: Presidency of EC Commission; EC Budgetary discipline; EC Budget over-run ] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (Howe, Dumas) ["M. Dumas' Visit": candidates for EC Commission Presidency] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (meeting with the Taoiseach) [FitzGerald, Robert Armstrong: bilateral meetings with MT; Dick Spring meeting with MT; EC Budget; Presidency of EC Commission] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Middleton, Governor of the Bank of England) [new Chairman of the Inland Revenue; Budget leak enquiry; the gilt market; EMS membership getting "careful consideration"] [declassified 2013]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("Dock strike: effect on postal services") [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (Dock strike) [contingency measures in event of no settlement] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Tim Lankester minute to MT ("Mr. Ridley's statement") [Dock strike] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Robin Butler minute to MT ("Ministerial Responsibility for the Dock Strike") [MISC101 should handle both coal and dock strikes; Ingham to run daily group to handle media side of both] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Dock Dispute") [King/Ridley disagreement over causes] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, General Council of British Shipping) [dock strike; general position of the industry] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Service Assistance in Dock Strike") [current plan] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: Lord Cockfield PS letter to Prior PS ("Kinsale Gas") [Cockfield questions the gas price projections] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	El Salvador: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Visit of President Duarte of El Salvador") [possible meeting dates] [declassified Dec 2016]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Tom King letter to Keith Joseph ("Special Employment and Training Measures") ["you question the use of reduced requirements on YTS for redeployment to other employment measures"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Rees minute to MT ("E(A) Committee July 1984: Paper by the Secretary of State for Employment") ["my reactions to Tom King's paper on the annual review of special measures"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Howe minute to Leon Brittan ("Soviet prisoners of the Afghan resistance") [MT agrees to futher FCO discussions with EC/US to coordinate resettlement, on condition that asylum applicants are not returned to the Soviet Union] [released Jul 2018]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Trade Unions: Walker minute to MT (“Contingency planning for oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [comments on report - report's reliance on service drivers supported] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Coal board dismay over talks” [dismay over militant tone during negotiations]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Coal: Douglas Eden memo (intimidation in the NUM) [“Total control of the massive Yorkshire miners workforce is essential to force a national stoppage in the other coal fields”] [released 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Coal: Ronnie Millar draft on coal strike for MT (for 1922 speech) [“I am certain the country is just waiting for you to take this gentleman apart”] [released 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Coal: Ronnie Millar draft ("The Coal Strike") ["the country is just waiting for you to take this gentleman apart"] [released 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Tebbit memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 19 (Warshipbuilding Privatisation) [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 27th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry, Industrial Action in the Dock Industry) [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Department of Employment paper for discussion at evening meeting ("The civil law and the disputes in coal mining and docks") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Gregson minute to Turnbull ("Coal and Docks Disputes: Possible Strategies") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Gregson note to Turnbull ("Emergency Powers - Proclamation of a State of Emergency") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Brittan-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Biffen-Walker-King-Tebbit-Nick Ridley-Havers-Wakeham-Alison-Gregson) [miners' strike and dock strike] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Attorney General letter to Prior (“Derogations from International Human Rights Instruments”) [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Tom King letter to Keith Joseph (“Training for Jobs: public expenditure implications”) [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Environmental Affairs: No.10 internal minute: Policy Unit to Barclay (“The Black Report”) [“imprecise and not at all reassuring”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Heseltine-Stanley-Acland-Cradock) ["Anti-Satellite Systems and Arms Control"] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	G7: Reagan letter to MT (London economic summit) [photographed with MT next to Churchill portrait at No.10] [released 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Canada: MT letter to Turner (new High Commissioner to Canada) [letter of introduction] [declassified December 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [report by the Bank of England] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Hungary: No.10 minute to MT (farewell visit from Hungarian Ambassador) [MT: "I really must see him. I had such an interesting visit"] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to Howe (“Future of Hong Kong: your visit”) [record of conversation: Evans, Zhou Nan] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Hong Kong: OD(K) 17 July”) [papers on ‘Undertakings to Hong Kong people’ and ‘Nationality’] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“OD(K) Hong Kong: state of negotiations and future strategy”) [Howe visit to Beijing and Hong Kong] [declassified 2014]

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