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84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Jenkin letter to Brittan (“Time Limits in Criminal Proceedings”) [need to balance addressing court delay with risk of public backlash if detainees released on technicality] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Hurd letter to Brittan (“Time Limits in Criminal Proceedings”) [“The enactment of Home Office legislation would leave Northern Ireland unhappily exposed, as the only jurisdiction in the United Kingdom unable to conform”] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Chief Whip's PS letter to Powell ("Prime Minister's Letter about the Belgrano Affair") [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Robert Armstrong ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Small Ministerial Group") [membership] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Robert Armstrong ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Small Ministerial Group") [potential difficulties] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Ad Hoc Committee on Institutions (Dooge Committee). First Meeting, Brussels, 28 September") [summary of proceedings] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Luxembourg telegram to FCO ("ECOFIN Council 1 October 1984") ["Budget Discipline": summary of proceedings] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation ("Seminar on NATO Strategy") [Chequers, 1 October: summary of Howe's remarks, made at FCO request; his doubts about the value of tactical nuclear weapons] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Heseltine, John Stanley, John Graham, officials, academics) ["Seminar on NATO strategy, Chequers, 1 October 1984", including MT notes] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Heseltine, Baroness Young, John Stanley, officials, academics, legal experts) ["Seminar on Conflict of Principles, Chequers, 1 October 1984", including MT notes] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: FCO letter to No.10 ("Future of Hong Kong: Telegram Distribution") [fewer telegrams to be copied to No.10; Powell: "I fear that our shredding machine will suffer from night starvation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: Ingham briefing for MT ("Liverpool - Media") [MT visit on 2 October] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: No.10 minute to Department of the Environment ("Visit to Liverpool") [MT visit on 2 October; draft programme; draft speech] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Visit to Liverpool") [complaint about local MPs not being informed of MT's visit on 2 October; future of International Garden Festival site] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Drugs: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Drug Misuse") [cautions against Brittan's proposal to publicly commit to a publicity campaign in advance of market research findings as to its likely efficacy] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Contracting-Out in Local Government") [Jenkin legislative proposals: assessment/advice] [released Dec 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Nationalised Industries Bill: E(NI) (84) 14") [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Redwood minute to MT ("Nationalised Industries Bill") ['The Bill should be supported and every encouragement given to the Treasury to meet the tight timetable'] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Tebbit letter to Lord Hailsham ("Co-operative Development Agency and Industrial Development Bill") [address concern about proposed dispensing of the two month period between enactment of the Bill and its coming into force] [released Dec 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Posts and Telecommunications: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("BT Flotation: Celebratory Dinner") [date, venue] [released Dec 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Press	Major	Commentary (The Times)	Coal: “Kinnock condones resolution on violence by police” [Kinnock forced to accept police use organised violence]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: HM Treasury letter to No.10 (“Link between pay and jobs”) [Lawson paper rebutting TUC arguments] [released 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: MT draft speech section (the history of liberty) [“The choice is between and orderly and responsible freedom, and an East European state”] [released 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Coal: Redwood minute for MT (events at Labour Conference) [Heffer & Benn carry NUM resolution; Labour quotes on coal] [released 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Coal: Redwood minute for MT (TV interview with working miners) [strong points are democracy, ballots, loyalties, not economics] [released 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Rees memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 26 (Public Service Pay and Expenditure 1985-86) [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Nick Ridley memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 27 (Airline Competition Policy) [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Jenkin memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 28 (Party Conference: Motion on Local Government Financial Arrangements) [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Monday 1 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Home Office letter to No.10 ("Courts and the Miners' Dispute") [miners' strike: appointment of stipendiaries to deal with cases relating to the strike] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Jenkin letter to Walker (opencast coal site at Springhill, Staffordshire) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Department of Education and Science statistical bulletin (“English School Leavers 1982-83”) [October 1984] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Liaison Committee (documents for meeting) [agenda and papers] [released 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Coal: MT letter to R.B. Giusti (miners’ strike) [“The treatment of intimidatory pickets is for the judgement of the local police”] [released 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Colin Budd letter to Charles Powell (“Capture of PIRA Shipment by the Irish Navy”) [“This capture is a badly needed boost to the morale of the Irish security forces”] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: MT telegram to FitzGerald (PIRA shipment captured) [congratulations to security forces] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Neil Ward minute to Turnbull (“Financial Support for Northern Ireland”) [“level of support has been the subject of some local political controversy in Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Canada: Appleyard letter to Charles Powell (“New Canadian Prime Minister”) [“if we are to influence Mr Mulroney as he formulates his policies, a fairly early meeting would seem desirable”] [declassified December 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Independent Study Group report (“Britain’s Undefended Frontier: A Policy for Ulster”) [protagonists, alternative approaches, policy, conclusions] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Local Government Finance: Committee Arrangements”) [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	US: UKE Washington telegram 29 to FCO (“United States monthly economic report for September”) [real GNP, consumer spending up; interest rates down; dollar surged] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: MT letter to Fathulla Jameel (Foreign Minister of the Maldives) (London Economic Summit outcomes) [“I do not believe we should expect immediate results to flow from Economic Summits”] [released Dec 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Science and technology: No.10 briefing (annual review of government-funded R&D) [departmental responses to ACARD report] [released Dec 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Situation in the Durban Consulate”) [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Italy: Italian Minister of Defence letter to MT (not able to participate in the Summit) [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: George Younger minute to MT (“Agricultural and Food Policy”) [Michael Jopling’s proposal] [declassified 2014]
84 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Peter Rees minute to MT (“Agricultural and Food Policy”) [Michael Jopling’s proposal] [declassified 2014]

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