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Info only 84 Nov 29 Th Chronology Major [Chronology] Anglo-French summit in Paris (returned 1 Dec)
Text 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("European Council, Dublin 3/4 December 1984") [briefing and related items] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Taoiseach FitzGerald (European Council, Dublin, 3/4 December 1984) [MT clarifies comments made at the Anglo/Irish summit press conference earlier that month] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Taoiseach FitzGerald letter to MT (European Council, Dublin, 3/4 December 1984) [priorities] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Rees minute to MT ("Inspection and Consultancy Services in Departments") ["To ensure co-ordination... [Lord Gowrie and I] propose to set up a small joint unit"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("US/Soviet relations: the Shultz/Gromyko meeting") [meeting of the four ambassadors on 28 November: record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Christopher Tugendhat (European Commission) [reflections on his term as a Commissioner] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling letter to Howe ("1985 Common Agricultural Policy Price Fixing") ["I have been considering how best to register our ideas... with the Commission and the other Member States"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (Lawson, Bérégovoy, Brian Unwin, Jean-Francois Stoll, officials) ["Franco-British Summit, Paris, 29-30 November 1984": EC Budget discipline; 1985 Budget; IMPs; EIB capital increase; EMS; special fund for Africa; world economy; mixed credits; Guangdong nuclear project; Washington meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo/French Summit: Channel Fixed Link") [line to take at press conference] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Anglo/French Summit: Stilettos") ["for use in argument about the more high-flown ideas on the future of the Community"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Robin Ibbs minute to MT ("Scrutiny of BBC External Services") [uneconomical practices, improvements in performance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MOD record of conversation (Heseltine-Hernu & others) [Anglo-French defence cooperation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Secretary minute to MT (possible transfer of Ministerial responsibility for marriage guidance work) [MT: "I prefer to leave matters as they are"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Ibbs ("Implementation of Efficiency Scrutinies") [agrees investigation of slow and incomplete implementation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO letter to Powell ("Hong Kong: UMELCO Statement on the Future of Hong Kong") [S.Y. Chung letter to MT in advance of meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO letter to Powell ("Hong Kong: Capital Punishment") [Youde commutes death sentence of Keung Sin-Chi; warning of possible public outcry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zaire: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Zaire: Possible Message to President Mobutu") [follow-up to meeting with Mobutu in which MT committed to "study carefully... Zaire's economic problems"; Mobutu reinvestiture ceremony for third term of office] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Robin Ibbs minute to MT ("Merit Pay") [analysis & advice regarding potential weaknesses in Lord Gowrie's proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Treasury record of conversation ("Taxation of Pensions") [John Moore, Robin Ibbs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Tebbit PS ("Small Business Loan Guarantee Scheme") [finalisation of the terms of the announcement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 4027 to FCO (1700Z) ("Preparation of the European Council") [EC enlargement; EC Budget discipline; IMPS; Dooge Committee] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Taoiseach Fitzgerald (response in Ireland to MT press conference) [Anglo-Irish relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Lamont letter to Rees (privatisation of warship building: foreign ownership) ["how I propose to handle the question of restrictions"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Channon minute to MT ("EC/US Steel: Pipes and Tubes") [imposition of further US tariffs on steel products] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Department of Trade and Industry ("British Steel Corporation") [MT urges continued work on privatising parts of BSC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by the Prime Minister to Peking and Hong Kong") [briefing proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “We have been warned” [Times Leader Article]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Press Major Commentary (The Sun) Coal: “20 odd sayings of Scargill” [former union leader convinced Scargill part of communist conspiracy]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Cabinet Office record of conversation (first meeting of Lord President’s group) [“presentation of the government’s economic and social policy”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 39th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, BT flotation) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Geoffrey Pattie letter to Keith Joseph (“Education for Economic Awareness”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Anglo/Irish Relations and Irish Politics") [assessment of current state of relations and politics: Fitzgerald's "standing in the party and with the public is now very low"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Anglo/Irish Relations") [note of Hurd-Paisley-Robinson meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Office of the Leader of the Opposition letter to No.10 (Kinnock's meeting with Tolkunov) [Gorbachev's visit to the UK] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Privy Council Office minute (“Note of a meeting … to discuss the presentation of the government’s economic and social policies) [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 29 November 1984”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Press Office briefing for MT (“Brenda Stout: Daily Mirror article by Paul Foot”) [House of Commons PQs: line to take] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Budd letter to Charles Powell (“Visit of Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs”) [“the first opportunity we shall have for substantive discussions with a member of the new Canadian Government”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1418 to FCO (0100Z) (“Cyprus: meeting with Iacovou”) [“The initial Greek Cypriot reaction to the Turkish sides new proposals is one of interest but also concern”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 record of conversation (meeting with Robert Kilroy-Silk MP on redundancies at BICC Prescott) [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 briefing (meeting with Kilroy-Silk on redundancies at BICC Prescott) [“Negotiations are taking place with the company about a limited amount of regional selective assistance”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (Liverpool City Council finances) [“there will be no extra money for Liverpool, this year or next, as a result of highwayman tactics”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lord Rothschild letter to Robin Butler (review of local government finance & functions) [bureaucratic issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Newcastle DHSS industrial dispute) [Whitelaw, Fowler, King, Hayhoe] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw PS letter to Lord Hailsham PS (“H Committee Correspondence”) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“Yugoslavia: Rescheduling”) [“Yugoslav Debt: Geneva Meeting, 26 November”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rees letter to Whitelaw (“Scottish local authority expenditure 1985-86”) [declassified 2014]

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