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Text 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Unemployment: Scotland Office briefing (meeting with Gordon Brown) [impact of Assisted Area status review on Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 minute to MT ("Frigates for Pakistan") ["The problem of credit... has re-emerged, with the Pakistanis pressing us to find an extra £30 million... MOD and the FCO want to [comply]... DTI... are prepared to go along... Treasury are firmly opposed"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Quarterly Report on Defence Sales and Prospects 1st July to 30th September 1984") ["very disappointing... sales in the first three quarters of 1984 some 29% lower than for the same period in 1983"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("The European Community - Portfolios") ["the outcome [of portfolio negotiations] has proved very satisfactory": details] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Department of Agriculture record of conversation (Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food meeting with the Netherlands Minister of Agriculture) [John MacGregor, Gerrit Braks, officials: 1985 price fixing; Dutch gas prices; collection of milk supplementary levy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to President Reagan (1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["three of the countries most likely to be involved in deep seabed mining have decided not to sign... There should therefore be a strong incentive for the international community as a whole to accept the need for improvements of the sort both our countries have worked for"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Efficiency Unit minute to No.10 ("CIR Report") [leaflet for Civil Service on Consultancy, Inspection and Review report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Public Order Review") [status of the review and MT's Guildhall Speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Henry Harpur-Crewe (preservation of Calke Abbey) [National Heritage Memorial Fund] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 1025 to FCO (1200Z) ("Chauhan") [Gandhi's "entourage are extremely angry with us"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 4169 to FCO (2129Z) ("ECOFIN Council on 10 December 1984") ["Annual Economic Report": key points; Council's reactions to the Report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Sir John Sainsbury and others) ["The Planning System": response to Sir John Sainsbury's group's proposals for reform] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: King minute to MT ("Employment Exercise") [draft paper on increasing employment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley minute to MT ("Review of Road Traffic Law") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: No.10 PS minute to MT ("Employment as a Proportion of the Population") [comparison of percentage employed in UK to other nations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Athens telegram 567 to FCO (1600Z) ("IMPS and Enlargement") [Papandreou unwilling to agree to EC enlargement without agreement on IMPS & wine; "The UK is identified in all the media as the main obstacle to Greek objectives"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to Peking: Meeting with the British Press") [arrangements; Hong Kong journalists; MT annotations to questions likely to be raised] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1900Z) ("Discussion of Geneva Format and SDI") (NSPG 0102) [declassified Nov 2005]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Department of Employment minute to Flesher (“Trade Union Act”) [answering which Trade Union leaders covered by 1984 Act; annotation pointing out Scargill now needs to be re-elected] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 50th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Oliver Wright) [possible MT visit to the United States in February 1985] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("The US Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI)") [Howe forwards Foreign Affairs article to MT; Powell: "This is very anti-SDI...Perhaps the FCO thinks it is 'educative'!"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: No.10 letter to HMT ("Public Expenditure White Paper: 1985") [MT's comments on draft White Paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [planning for next Anglo-Irish summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Gorbachev's Visit") [pre-meeting advice/briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Butler minute to Armstrong (Security Service report on "unfriendly" Soviet "transactions") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev's Visit: Briefing") [general briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr. Gorbachev") [lunch with Gorbachev and arrangements for post-lunch meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute to MT ("Gorbachev Visit: Meeting with Outside Experts") [briefing for pre-Gorbachev meeting with USSR experts] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT letter to President Reagan (Law of the Sea Convention) [“have found no reason to change our decision of two years ago not to sign”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 10 December 1984”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MT letter to Gill Blackman of the CEGB (miners’ dispute) ['Peter Walker has told me about the splendid job you...are doing to keep the nation supplied with electricity during this difficult period'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing for House of Commons PQs (“Unpublished Article on NCB Accounting Procedure”) [line to take] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Attorney General’s Office note to No.10 (“The Indemnity by the Attorney General to the Sequestrators of the NUM’s Assets”) [briefing note] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Appleyard minute to Charles Powell (“Visit of Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs: 10-12 December 1984”) [objectives, briefing papers] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: FCO letter to Charles Powell (“Proposed new Canadian High Commissioner”) [seeks MT’s agreement to informing Canadian Government that they will welcome McMurtry in London] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: President Kyprianou of Cyprus message to MT (1130Z) (“Cyprus: Message from President Kyprianou to the Prime Minister”) [MT: “I believe that there is an opportunity for a solution which must not be missed”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Unemployment: Scotltish Office briefing for MT (“Meeting with Mr Gordon Brown MP”) [redundancies and closures in Dunfermline East constituency] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: McFarlane memorandum for President Reagan (suggests he read "vintage Thatcher" interview) [unclassified]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT (“BA Privatisation and US Anti-trust Suits”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: FCO telegram 2108 to UKE Washington (1200Z) (US-UK civil aviation relationship) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Durban”) [detention orders against people in British Consulate in Durban] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO minute to No.10 (“Visit of the Hungarian Foreign Minister”) [meeting with MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Edwards PS letter to No.10 (draft statement to Parliament on rate support grant) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 10 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Radio Interview for Hospital Radio
CD only 84 Dec 10 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Radio Interview for BBC Calling the Falklands
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