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Text 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: Anne Sloman letter to Ingham (profile of MT) [wants programmes “to contain some meat about the way Mrs. Thatcher operates as Prime Minister”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: Ingham minute to MT (“Hugo Young/Anne Sloman Profile”) [“they do not wish to interview the Prime Minister, as they suggested they might at the outset”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to Jenkin PS ("Inquiry into Local Government Practices and Procedures") [possible members] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Leon Brittan letter to Patrick Jenkin ("Local Government Bill: Counter-obstruction") [agrees further measures necessary, but against creation of a criminal offence] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Brittan-Rees-Armstrong-Middleton) [difficulty acheiving goal of holding expenditure constant] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("The Pharmaceutical Industry") [control over the drugs budget] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Home Office ("Scrutiny of Burdens on Business") [MT "is keen to see progress to remove as many obstacles to entrepreneurial activity as possible"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: MT letter to Sir James Cleminson, President of the CBI (CBI Presentation on Pay) [MT supports CBI initiative] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Downing Street: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (BBC documentary on the 250th Anniversary of Prime Minister's official residence in 10 Downing Street) [security concerns] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Peter Rees ("Review of Student Support") [postgraduate awards; UK-wide joint consultative paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Pay (England and Wales)") [Burnham Committee negotiations: line to take on arbitration] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Patrick Jenkin, Jopling, Rees, Whitelaw, Younger, Gummer, Waldegrave, Stradling-Thomas) ["Agriculture and Conservation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with Kohl; Howe report on meeting with Dumas to discuss work of Dooge Committee & agricultural price fixing; European Parliament enquiry on policing of miners' strike; Committee on People's Europe: a 'postage stamp for Europe'; Foreign Affairs Council: EC enlargement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Future of the Royal Dockyards") [Heseltine proposals for contracting-out of management] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Type 22 Frigates (C(85) 3)") [Cabinet discussion of Heseltine proposal to award Frigate contract to Cammell Laird] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Type 22 Frigates") [comment on Heseltine proposal to award Frigate contract to Cammell Laird; recommends that both orders go to Swan Hunter] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Keith Joseph letter to Tom King ("House of Lord Select Committee on Science and Technology: Sub-Committee on Education and Training for New Technologies") [Joseph proposal to assume co-ordinating role for Government White Paper response to Committee's extensive and wide-ranging recommendations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “Coal board presses for talks as Thatcher and Kinnock clash on pit strike” [negotiations break down]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Armstrong minute for MT (“Legislation on Commercial Surrogacy (C(85)2)”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Norman Fowler minute for MT (“Commercial Surrogacy”) [disagrees with majority view at H Committee] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) National Health: Douglas Hurd letter to Whitelaw (“Commercial Surrogacy Bill”) [points for discussion at H] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute for No.10 (“National Savings”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: FCO minute to No.10 (“Relations with Argentina”) [decision on debt rescheduling] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 23 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Media: Anne Sloman, BBC Special Current Affairs Editor letter to No.10 (BBC radio profile of the Prime Minister) [resumé of previous profiles on Howe and the Civil Service] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Media: Ingham minute to Butler (“Hugo Young/Anne Sloman Profile”) [BBC radio profile of the Prime Minister: access to No.10 ruled out] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Fowler minute to MT (“Newcastle shiftworkers dispute”) [“This long dispute has been costly but it has achieved an important result in demonstrating our determination to make change where change is necessary”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: King minute to Joseph (“Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [hopes “any support that we give in extra resources is additional to a substantial switch programme within the universities and colleges themselves”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: King minute to Rees (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“I can justify contributing £1m in 1985/6 provided that the other economic departments do the same”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague to FCO (“Visit of Netherlands Prime Minister to Chequers, 26 January”) [Lubbers' unprecedently powerful position in Dutch politics] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“Space Policy - E(A) Meeting January 24”) [significance, expenditure, handling] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Gregson minute to MT (“Space Policy ”) [proposal for a new space programme] [declassified 2014]
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