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Text 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (“Time Limits in Criminal Proceedings”) [“could make a useful contribution to reducing excessive delay”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Powell minute for MT ("The Belgrano") [draft reply to George Foulkes not yet ready] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute for Heseltine ("Falkland Islands: Future Capital Works") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Stanley Clinton Davis MP (European Commission) [appointment as UK Commissioner] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Foreign Affairs Council, 17 September") ["Budgetary Issues. Progress Report": record of proceedings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tebbit letter to Ridley ("Coastal Shipping in the Community") ["address cabotage as an urgently priority issue... I am sure you will be very wary of allowing the Commission to extend competence into international shipping"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson) ["EC Budget": "outcome of the informal meeting of Finance Ministers... Guidelines for a Council Decision on Budgetary Discipline"; New Own Resources decision; Foreign Affairs Council; Supplementary Budget for 1984; UK 1984 refund] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Informal ECOFIN on 15-16 September: Budgetary Discipline") [summary report; tactics for upcoming Foreign Affairs Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("Possible Conflict of Principles in Foreign Policy Seminar: Chequers, 1 October") [Prior "does not think he could now very easily attend... grateful to... [MT] for understanding the position"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Laker case) [proposed message from MT to Reagan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Redwood minute to Young (British Leyland privatisations) [asks Young to chase Tebbit on progress] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Bitov") ["the Russians may be about to produce Bitov in Moscow"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Non-Industrial Civil Service Pay 1984") [implications of 1984 pay offer for 1985 negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: No.10 letter to H.M. Treasury ("Seminar on Industry and Employment") [checklist and conclusions following seminar] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 letter to DHSS ("The National Health Service: Annual Report") [MT comment on report: 'The department really has made a superb effort'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Harland and Wolff Limited (E(NI) (84) 11)") [Prior's request for H&W to take orders from BP and British Steel] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Howe minute to Leon Brittan ("Soviet Prisoners of the Afghan Resistance") [resettlement for asylum applicants: "an account of the further discussions with our EC partners and allies"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “Violence must not pay” [Leader article]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 40th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry, Industrial Action in the Docks) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Monday 17 September 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (comment on NCB press release) [miners' strike: 'On balance we are better off not having the NCB's formula accepted'] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Miners' Wives Back to Work Campaign") [miners' strike: brief for MT meeting with Miners' Wives] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Jenkin ("Opencast Coal Site at Springhill Staffordshire") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 2750 to FCO (1637Z) (“US economy: prospects for deficit reduction and tax reform”) [further deficit reduction next year unlikely, prospects for fundamental tax reform highly problematical] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mexico: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Mexico: possible Message from the Prime Minister to President de la Madrid”) [MT ‘finds the draft stilted and patronising’] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO to UKE Pretoria (“Detainees”) [Yacoob’s views: British support for the detainees] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Neil Kinnock letter to MT (the six opposition leaders at the UK Consulate in Durban) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s Inteview on BBC News, Monday 17 September”) [briefing for MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Press”) [record of discussion: Evans, Zhou Nan: the Agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Initialling”) [record of conversation: Evans, Zhou Nan: the Agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO briefing to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: Prime Minister’s meeting with EXCO Unofficials, 19 September ”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: President of the Italian Senate telegram to MT (visit to Hong Kong and Beijing) [offering congratulations on outcome of negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull (“Public expenditure”) [“spending overshoot of about £1 billion”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (“Local government policies”) [meeting to discuss prior, to Conservative Party Conference] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Local authority capital expenditure”) [debate over moratorium proposal] [declassified 2014]
CD only 84 Sep 17 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Interview for Daily Telegraph
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