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Text 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Unemployment: Gordon Brown letter to MT (meeting with Gordon Brown) [factory and shop closures in constituency] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("Rate capping: ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office/MT ("H committee") [nuclear waste storage; grants for Norfolk Broads farmers; prohibition of under-strength whisky; private lease of Hampton Court Palace flats] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: MT letter to Hoskyns (letter and paper from Laurent Murawiec of the Schiller Institute) ["In general the paper is a good deal stronger on unsubstantiated propositions than it is on facts"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington 3413 telegram to FCO (1850Z) ("Laker: Grand Jury") [Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington 3420 telegram to FCO (2205Z) (Prime Minister's visit to the US) [proposed dates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Howe minute to Ridley ("Aviation and US Anti-Trust: The "Laker" Issue") [future working of Bermuda 2 agreement: talks with US officials] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: FCO briefing for MT ("Laker") [Reagan's pending decision on indictments; US/UK antitrust negotiations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Attorney General's Legal Secretary letter to Ridley PS ("Aviation and US Antitrust: The "Laker" Issue") [US/UK antitrust negotiations: Protection of Trading Interests Act] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Sikh Demonstration") [demonstration banned but Hyde Park has permission as an assembly point] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Redwood minute to No.10 (British Leyland Corporate Plan: response to letter from Austin Bide) [Lamont's letter "covers the ground in a workmanlike but ponderous manner"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of the Portugese Prime Minister: 20-23 November") [guest list] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1352 to FCO (0135Z) (MT, Kyprianou) [John Thomson, Pérez de Cuéllar: record of conversation, to inform MT's forthcoming meeting with Kyprianou] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of President Kyprianou") [Treaty of Guarantee; Cyprus vote in UN against UK over Falklands; 3rd round of UN proximity talks on Cyprus] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("The Dooge Committee") [interim report to European Council; Powell highlights two issues: formalisation of existing commitments in POCO; case-by-case look at possible extension of majority voting; MT comments extensively on report & on paper by Ruhfus on political cooperation ] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Rifkind PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Topical Points on European Community Matters") [comprehensive briefing pack for Ministers, backbenchers and MEPs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Redwood minute to No.10 ("The Employment Exercise") ['maintain[ing] the momentum' on employment strategy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Department of Trade & Industry letter to No.10 ("British Shipbuilders: Disposal of Brooke Marine") [comment on risk of strike action if minority stake sold to Omani Government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to the United States") [MT advises not to pursue proposal for December 1984 meeting, and to concentrate on February 1985 meeting instead; line to take for media speculation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Peking") [Howe/Youde advise against MT bring delegation of businessmen with her, and seeking to close Guangdong Nuclear Project deal, for fear of deflecting media attention from signing of Hong Kong agreement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("H Committee") [NIREX; grant-in-aid for the Broads; prohibition of sale of under-strength whisky; disposal of nuclear waste (redacted)] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Patrick Jenkin letter to Whitelaw ("Dog Licensing") [issue of consultation paper, following resolution of licensing income classification as charge rather than tax] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “NUM ignores Labour call for pit ballot” [NUM executive ignores Labour's call]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “Kinnock's “lack of guts” attacked by Thatcher” [MT criticises Kinnock]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Report by HM Inspectors (“Education Provision and Response in some Haringey Schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Friday 16 November 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Hailsham minute to MT ("Miners' Cases") [miners' strike: progress with Crown Court cases arising out of miners' dispute] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MacGregor letter to Stan Orme MP (response to "negotiating" paper) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd letter to MT ("The Council of Europe and Northern Ireland") [handling of Council of Europe Reports on Northern Ireland] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe minute to MT (report of Howe's talks with Taoiseach Fitzgerald and Barry) [the "Irish problem" will "be with us for many decades yet"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Howe-Irish Ambassador to UK) [prospects for Anglo-Irish summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Ingham minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [press arrangements for Anglo-Irish summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [view of RUC Chief Constable prior to the summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Patrick Mayhew minute to MT (“The Newcastle shift dispute”) [risk of legal challenge to unilateral variation of employees terms and conditions of service] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Dr David Owen MP (General Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT (“Politics of local government”) [rate-capping revolt] [declassified 2014]
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