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Text 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UK Ambassador Bonn minute to Head of Chancery (for circulation as necessary) ("Breakfast with Strauss") [doesn't go down well] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Falklands") [the Greeks have decided to abstain at the UN vote] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Brussels telegram to FCO ("Falklands") [Belgium to abstain on the Falklands resolution as in previous years] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Tam Dalyell MP letter to MT (circumstances surrounding the sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robin Nicholson minute to MT ("MISC 106: R&D Expenditure") [group did not recommend that spending should be halved] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") ["a substantial shortfall has emerged"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Public Expenditure) [different categories of spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) [gas and electricity industries and spending savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Howe-Lawson-Rees) [FCO spending savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Hesletine minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Public Expenditure Survey") [latest proposed figures are an improvement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984") ["the remaining task is formidable"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("Ad Hoc Committee on Institutions") [MT "alarmed by some of the ideas which are being aired in this committee"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Jenkin letter to Lord Hailsham ("24th Report of the Law Reform Committee Latent Damage") [recommendations; follow-up] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 3221 to FCO (2159Z) ("Laker") [Wright, Dam: record of conversation: US/UK consultations on future arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Chairman of the European Democratic Group (VAT and foodstuffs) [offers assurances that UK government will not impose VAT on UK foodstuffs, and that EC will not enforce imposition] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT ("Planning System") [response to Sir John Sainsbury's proposals for reform] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: DHSS letter to No.10 ("The Health Service in England: Annual Report 1984") [press notice on publication of report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: Overseas Development Administration letter to Powell ("VSO and Oxfam") [Government funding for Voluntary Service Overseas and Oxfam] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lord Hailsham minute to MT ("House of Commons Select Committee on Procedure") [review of evidence submission procedure] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Wakeham PS letter to No.10 (Government precedence for opening Debates on Government days) [MT concern about Labour opening recent debate on unemployment] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen minute to MT ("Release of Documents to Select Committees") [review of rules & conventions; Tebbit agrees reluctantly to Biffen proposals, following recent disagreement between Govt and Committee over release of British Shipbuilders documents] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Central America: National Security Council Minutes (1930Z) ("Contadora Process") (NSC 0110) [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham note to MT (good interview with Birmingham Post ) [“‘Mrs Thatcher: the unshakeable PM’”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Channon memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 31 (Tornados for Turkey) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: David Williamson minute for Charles Powell (“Anglo-German Summit”) [counter German sense of British negativity about EC] [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-King-Alison-Smith-Butler-Turnbull) [miners' strike: latest developments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 30 October 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lamont letter to Rees ("Miners' Strike: Policing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: BBC news transcript ("Miner/Iain Bain") [miners' strike: report on attempt of Iain Bain to return to work] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Payment of Strikers' Housing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Gordon Reece note to MT (“Director of Publicity’) [“need a man or woman with imagination, class and an outstanding political flair”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Women: MT letter to Florence Nagle (thanks for gift) [“deeply impressed by all that you have achieved in working for the rights of women”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 note to Department of the Environment (“Meeting with the Bishop and Archbishop of Liverpool”) [request for briefings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries (“Ministerial Correspondence and Memoranda for Cabinet and Cabinet Committees”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Antony Acland (Parliamentary Private Secretaries and the media) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban”) [detention orders in British Consulate: next steps] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Matyas Szuros, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers) [economic reform in Hungary, UK-Hungarian relations, East-West relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MT letter to Lord Rothschild (Local government finance and functions) [request for ‘outside’ expertise] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull (“RSG settlement 1985/86”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 30 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
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