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Text 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Bonn Economic Summit: Bilateral Meetings") [arrangements, order of priority for meetings (Reagan, Mulroney, Nakasone); no urgent need for Craxi] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit: Bilateral Meetings") [Mulroney"most anxious" for bilateral in Bonn; Reragan, Nakasone, Craxi] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: DTI letter to No.10 (Scrutiny of burdens on businesses) [draft "publishable" version of report on burdens on business] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Burdens on Business") ["There is no easy panacea for removing the burden of regulations from business"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Young minute to MT ("Deregulation") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walding) [visits by nuclear ships, US attitude] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: No.10 record of conversation (Lady Young-Walding) [defence policy, nuclear ships visits] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Lord Gowrie letter to Lord Hailsham (Top Management Programme) [details of new senior staff course] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Duties and Responsibilities of Civil Servants in Relation to Ministers") [draft guidance; draft Written Question & Answer; morale in the civil service] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (VE Day Commemoration Service: invitation to Lord Mayor of London) ["The present view here is that... [he] should be invited"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Confidential") [original title: "Budget Secret": Lawson proposals; Heseltine proposals; Policy Unit proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Teachers: In-Service Training") [coordination, timing & presentation of YTS & teacher training funding announcements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: John Patten letter to Kenneth Baker ("Abolition and Voluntary Sector") ["[we welcome] your proposals for concessions about grants for voluntary bodies in the Local Government Bill... We have no plans to change significantly the real value of support DHSS gives direct to the voluntary sector"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Education and Training for 14 to 18 year olds") [Young's proposals for the Youth Training Scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Turnbull minute to MT ("Meeting with Sir Keith Joseph and Lord Young") [brief for meeting: Youth Training Scheme and National Training Agency] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey: Gas Prices") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: Sir Crispin Tickell letter to Powell ("Overseas Aid: Policy and Politics") [reflections on aid policy after four months at Overseas Development Administration] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury Minute Replying to the 1st to 4th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee 1984-85") [background; procedure] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Housing Benefit") [Fowler's proposals under social security review] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Rees minute to MT ("MISC 111 and the Public Expenditure Outlook") [case for a savings target larger than that proposed under Fowler's current review of social security] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("A Channel Fixed Link: Guidelines for Promoters") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “Walker rules out talks as miners vote to strike on” [miners reject deal]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to the The Times (US Government borrowing) ["If the United States borrows a large part of the world's savings to finance current expenditure, the capital available anywhere for investment must become scarce and expensive"]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Invitation to the Prime Minister from Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to Ambassador Selwa Roosevelt (MT visit to Washington) [letter of thanks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to M. E. Pellew (MT visit to Washington) [dinner for President Reagan] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to ‘Tip’ O’Neill (MT visit to Washington) [MT address to Congress] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter letter to Paul Hanley (visit to the Air and Space Museum) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to Senator Robert Dole (meeting with senior Senate colleagues) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to Oliver Wright (arrangements for visit to Washington) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to George Bush (address to Joint Meeting of Congress) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Cabinet Office telegram to White House (copy of letter from MT to President Reagan) [thanking for his hospitality during her visit to Washington] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to Richard Ryder (MT speech to the Joint Meeting of Congress) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to Lord Hugh Thomas (speech to the Joint Meeting of Congress) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to Keith Joseph (speech to the Joint Meeting of Congress) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to William Deedes (speech to the Joint Meeting of Congress) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to Lord Hailsham (speech to the Joint Meeting of Congress) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to George Urban (speech to the Joint Meeting of Congress) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to Eldon Griffiths (speech to the Joint Meeting of Congress) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to William Waldegrave (speech to the Joint Meeting of Congress) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to George Walden (speech to the Joint Meeting of Congress) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food record of conversation (agriculture price fixing) [Jopling, Lord Cockfield] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 22 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr 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 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Wybrew minute to MT (“‘Plan for Coal’ - The Dangers of Wishful Thinking”) ['ill-founded optimism carries the seeds of its own destruction'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Washington telegram 622 to FCO (0118Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Shultz: Cyprus”) [“persuading Kyprianou that his time was running out”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 129 to FCO (2340Z) (“Cyprus”) [“Time is of the essence”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office minute for MT (week coming) [Washington visit, dollar/sterling, phone-tapping, coal strike stalemate] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 5 (Legislative Programme 1985-86 and 1986-87) [declassified Dec 2014]

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