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Text 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: MT letter to Prime Minister Willoch of Norway (air pollution) [“strong grounds for concern and effective solutions have to be found”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: Prime Minister Hermannsson of Iceland message to MT (Nordic countries statement on air pollution) [urges UK to “adhere to the proposals”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: Prime Minister Lange of New Zealand letter to MT (Law of the Sea Convention) [“signature binds the United Kingdom to nothing”, opportunity change “what you do not like”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Ivory Coast: MT letter to President Houphouet-Boigny of Ivory Coast (utility supplies) [consortium assistance with gas plans] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Director-General of the British Council letter to MT ('Whitty boys: boarding school fees' case; FCO proposal for financial management/policy review) [MT: "...must pay [their fees]. It is not a matter of law - but of doing the only decent thing"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [senior staff appointment; the £1 coin; trade figures; partnership taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKDEL Strasbourg telegram to FCO ("Alfonsin's Speech to European Parliament") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Hesletine minute to Willie Whitelaw ("The Defence Programme") [objections to decreases in spending 1986-88] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: MT letter to Prime Minister Willoch (air pollution) [UK policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Attorney General letter to Cabinet ("New European Commission") [allocation of portfolios] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with Craxi & Mitterrand; Howe report on Foreign Affairs Council; EC enlargement; tariff cuts for developing countries; EC budgetary discipline; Jopling report on Agriculture Council; EC Budget Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Prime Minister Lange letter to MT (UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["signature binds the... [UK] to nothing and it gives you an opportunity to play an effective role in changing what you do not like"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Chairmanship of the British Technology Group") [candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Peter Rees letter to John Butcher MP (tax incentives to industry to support education and training) [encourages Committe to consider existing tax reliefs rather than proposing new ones] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 internal minute ("CBI Conference") [enhanced security for MT's attendance following Brighton Bomb] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("British Shipbuilders Privatisation and Defence") [Type 22 frigate orders: "Clearly the manner of placing these orders into yards with gross shipbuilding overcapacity and on the point of privatisation is going to be critical"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Jenkin minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: comment on Rees' proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: comment on Rees' proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Autumn Statement and BT") [Statement to be delayed due to legal requirement for full disclosure of material information relevant to the flotation; effect of the delay on the public launch of the flotation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley minute to MT ("Fixed Link Across the Channel") [market interest & French Government position] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “Prospect for pits peace grows after Acas talks” [upcoming settlement talks]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “Thatcher riled by hit list talk” [MT annoyed by Kinnock asking whether she had a hit list of pits to close]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (thanks for being at Brighton) [“which has cost our friends so dear”]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Michael Colvin (thanks for message) [daughter Amanda “remembered to bring out the speech”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 24 October 1984") [miners' strike: NACODS strike called off] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy paper ("Endurance and a NACODS strike") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [plan for informing Unionist parties of Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT on Howe's minute: "Her general comment is that she is becoming very pessimistic about this exercise"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit by Mr Gorbachev") [proposed arrangements for Gorbachev visit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Alan Greencross to David Mellor (Greater London Council) [“facts on restructuring”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Sherbourne minute for MT (points raised at Central Office meeting) [local government, security at Central Office] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Secretary PS minute to Charles Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Hurd meetings with Irish and Northern Irish leaders] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1213 to FCO (2315Z) (“Cyprus: Secretary General’s initiative”) [de Cuéllar “trying to increase the pressure on the two sides but so far without success”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Keith Joseph letter to Edwards (“Corporal Punishment in Schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute for MT (Van Der Post suggests MT meet South African Leader of the Opposition) [SAG won't like but no sustainable objection since you have met Botha] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (detention orders against people in British Consulate in Durban) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban and Coventry”) [detention orders against people in British Consulate: British-South African relations] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 24 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech at lunch in honour of French President (Francois Mitterrand)
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