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Text 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Powell letter to Cabinet Secretary (Giscard d'Estaing visit to UK) [MT cannot meet with d'Estaing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Public Order Review") [review of the Public Order Act 1936; foreign policy implications] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Visit by Indian Prime Minister") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: Charles Powell minute to MT (Anglo-Chilean relations) [MT request to be consulted by FCO on any future statements by the Ten & about UK position at UN on matters affecting Chile] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Chilean relations") [Howe "does not consider that the steps mentioned in your letter represent a significant distancing of ourselves from Chile"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("Scottish Teachers' Pay") [independent review of pay vs. independent reviews of pay & conditions of service; disruption in schools] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Armstrong minute to MT ("Orders for Frigates") [record of proposal agreed at Cabinet: frigate orders to Swan Hunter and additional help for Cammell Laird] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("World Bank's Special Facility for Africa") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Richard Hickmet MP letter to MT ("Second Bosphorus Bridge, Turkey") [represents securing of the contract as vital for the UK bidder, for UK prestige, and for employment in the North East of England; requests meeting with MT] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Rees letter to Channon ("The Second Bosphorus Bridge") [warned that your earlier decision to give priority to Airbus order would result in "difficult decisions because it would pre-empt almost all the available cover in a bad market"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Press Major Commentary (The Sun) Coal: “Shaky Scargill in treble climbdown” [Scargill changing plans after Nottingham revolt]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 3rd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, coal strike, exchange rates, Type 22 Frigates) [Heseltine dissents from Type 22 decision] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 letter to FCO (“Chemical Weapons/Gorbachev”) [record incomplete] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 minute to MT (“Chancellor Kohl’s visit to Chequers”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 24 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-King-Gregson) [“Coal Dispute”: NCB-NUM talks; NUM’s 'position still fell a long way short of what was needed for a satisfactory settlement'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: FCO letter to Charles Powell (“Sequestrators’ Action”) [sequestration of NUM funds: interference by the Luxembourg Government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NUM Secretary Heathfield letter to NCB Director of Industrial Relations Ned Smith (miners' strike: NUM willing to negotiate with NCB) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Ankara telegram to FCO (“Cyprus SYG’s initiative”) [“risk… that the Turkish Assembly will pass an unhelpful resolution on Cyprus, has not materialised”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Cyprus: Messages from the Prime Minister”) [Howe believes it would be right “to encourage Kyprianou to a greater sense of realism”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO briefing for MT (“Visit by Netherlands Prime Minister: 26 January”) [EMS likely to be raised] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to Turnbull (“Funding Meeting”) [briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO telegram to UKHC Nicosia (“Cyprus”) [conveys MT message to Kyprianou with instructions: “disappointed that it proved impossible to make further progress at the high-level meeting in New York”] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 24 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
Text 85 Jan 24 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for Thames TV TV Eye
Info only 85 Jan 24 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Letter to George Foulkes (TV licenses for OAPs)
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