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Text 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Direct elections to ILEA") [new Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT letter to Pierre Mauroy (UK/France co-operation) [exchange of courtesy letters on his period of office as Prime Minister ending] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [current EC issues] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Spanish relations: greetings from King of Spain") [cover note reporting HM Ambassador meeting with King] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Parliamentary Affairs: Civil Aviation Authority Review") [arguments against CAA proposed transfer of routes from British Airways to other airlines] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Howe minute to MT ("The Security of Small States") [background; foreign policy proposals; aid; security assistance; BBC Caribbean Service; strategy; benefits of supporting small states; UN; costs; recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("Sealink: Statement by the Secretary of State for Transport Wednesday, 18 July") [text; "I have today given my consent... to the sale of Sealink (UK) by BR to a subsidiary of Sea Containers Ltd"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Rees minute to MT ("VAT and Contracting Out") ["whether the incidence of VAT... [distorts] appraisal of the merits of carrying out certain work "in house" in the public sector": findings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: John Moore minute to MT ("Privatisation progress reports: July 1984") ["I attach to this minute summary notes on the present position of individual private candidates... My overall impression is that we have made fair progress... But some slippages have also become apparent"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 note to MT (EC Commission President) [UK support for Delors] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Kinnock: British EC Commissioners") [candidates & portfolios] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversation (Howe, FitzGerald) ["Next President of the EC Commission"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet Office: Community Affairs") [EC Commission Presidency; appointment of French PM; EC Budget; Agriculture Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC Commission Presidency; new PM of France; EC Budget issues; aid for olive oil; milk supplementary levy; price-fixing; supplementary Budgets for 1984/85] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE London telegram to State Department ("UK-Argentine Relations: Talks Begin") [published 2015]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Budget Council: Bilateral with the Germans") [Ian Stewart, Tietmeyer: record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to Gaston Thorn ("1984 and 1985 Budgets") ["If the Budget Council concludes that, when the full scope for savings has been exhausted, there is still a potential problem, then we are willing to consider [it]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Community Expenditure on R and D") ["It is important that our attitude... should be consistent with... commitments [made]... Budgetary discipline must remain the principal objective... [whilst ensuring] that there is a shift of resources away from agriculture and towards policies... likely to benefit the [UK]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [next President of EC Commission; appointment of Fabius as French PM; supplementary budget for 1984/draft budget for 1985; EC Commission Secretary General post; Jopling report on Agriculture Council; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 note to MT (Dock strike) [advice on line to take] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Neil MacFarlane letter to Kenneth Baker (Mercury Communications Ltd: appeal against refusal of planning permission for installation of microwave radio aerials and transmission equipment at Sunley Building, Manchester) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Fishing Industry: Jopling letter to Heseltine ("Future of Fishery Protection Arrangements") [Jopling proposal to contract out] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Warshipbuilding Privatisation (C(84) 19)") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Lawson-Biffen-Brittan-Tebbit-Ridley-Havers-Wakeham-Buchanan-Smith) ["Select Committee on Trade and Industry: British Shipbuilders Corporate Plan"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Tebbit minute to MT ("British Shipbuilders' Corporate Plan") [Select Committee on Trade and Industry orders Chairman of British Shipbuilders to divulge Corporate Plan documents] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “NCB closes ranks on “final offer” to miners” [NCB supports MacGregor's no surrender policy]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Michael Alison minute for MT (information provided by Alfred Sherman) [“degree of control which Arthur Scargill now exercises”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal, etc: Redwood minute to MT ("Local government, industrial disputes & the far left") [improve NCB presentation] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Gaisman minute to Michael Alison (information on backbench meeting) ["doom and gloom"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 28th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry, Industrial Action in the Docks) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs") [miners' strike and dock strike: ] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We 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 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: HMT letter to No.10 (text of Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech to Selsdon Group on miners' strike) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Reagan message to MT (miners' strike and dock strike) ["In recent weeks I have thought often of you with considerable empathy as I follow the activities of the miners and dockworkers unions...my thoughts are with you"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Coal Dispute: Notts Miners Court Case") [Justice Megarry suggests that 'penalties could be enforced against the NUM if the Attorney General applied for them'] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telgram 2183 to FCO (2315Z) ("Consultations with the Americans on Space") [discussions with the US on Strategic Defense Initative and ASATs: "there is clearly scepticism among some senior US officials" about SDI] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Economy: Reagan letter to Thatcher (support over mines and docks strikes) [declassified 1998]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe minute to Home Secretary (“Improper Activities by Members of the South African Embassy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKE Muscat to FCO (“Prime Minister’s Message”) [deployment of the Nimrod aircraft to Oman] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: your visit to Peking”) [Evans update for Howe on negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cradock note to No.10 (Howe visit to Hong Kong and Beijing) [Cradock to accompany Howe] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lord Gowrie letter to Jenkin (“Draft response to Select Committee on Education, Science and the Arts on GLC/MCC abolition”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Brittan letter to Rees (“Local authority expenditure controls and Fire Service resources”) [declassified 2014]
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