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Info only 85 Feb 28 Th Chronology Major [Chronology] Newry RUC Station attacked by IRA mortars; 9 killed
Text 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Rates and Revaluation in Scotland") [disappointed that Younger is trying to re-open the decision] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Oliver Letwin minute to MT ("Rate Revaluation in Scotland") [Younger's proposed rate rises will have a disastrous political effect] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Whitelaw, Younger, Rees, Alison, officials) ["Rates and revaluation in Scotland"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Jenkin, Baker, Sir Philip Goodhart) [Goodhart's proposal of a parliamentary forum for London] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ken Baker letter to Sherbourne ("Early Warning - Planning in the South") [backbench Conservative hostility to more housing being built in the south east] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Leon Brittan minute to MT ("Financing the BBC") [licence fee settlement, establishment of inquiry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Review of BBC External Services") [recommendations on the report's conclusions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Rees PS letter to Department of Environment ("Deregulation of Private Sector Rents") [additional housing benefit costs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: UKE Washington telegram 714 to FCO (0150Z) ("New Zealand/US Relations") [New Zealand policy on nuclear ships' visits] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: John Cushanan letter to MT ("The Northern Ireland Economy") [views of the Northern Ireland Alliance Party] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Michael McAtamney (IRA mortar attack on Newry Police Station) ["yet another chilling reminder of the sacrifices made by the [RUC] in the fight against terrorism"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Lord Gowrie PS letter to Heseltine PS ("VE-Day Celebrations") [Bernard Levin proposal for survivors/family of German Resistance & '20th July' Bomb Plot to be invited] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("White Paper on Schools") [endorsement; summary of key points] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("EC Vehicle Emission Standards") [advice on technology options in context of economic considerations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("E(A) Meeting on Vehicle Emission Standards") [environmental concerns; costs; 'concessions' on present technological options & cost implications] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("European Community Vehicle Emission Standards") [meeting to decide UK line on proposed EC Directive] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Booth minute to MT ("Planning Inquiries") [proposed reforms to the planning system] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 747 to FCO (1935Z) ("Foreign Affairs Council: 28 February 1985") ["Enlargement": "Presidency tabled outline compromise position on fish... mixed response from member states"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Office of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury letter to No.10 ("Nationalised Industries Bill: Observations of the Nationalised Industries' Chairman's Group (NICG)") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Police: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Brittan ("Pay of Police Chief Officers") [Lawson refuses to make an exception to the principle that pay for pension purposes is pay at the time of retirement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “Scargill’s gift to Thatcher” Ronald Butt article]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 7th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, coal strike & teachers dispute, legislative programme) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 28 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker press statement ('final offer' to NUM on negotiated settlement of coal dispute) [settlement proposed by the TUC and NCB 'will provide miners with the greatest influence they have ever had on the future of any individual colliery'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (sterling) [“Some papers link the return of more than 50 percent of miners and the pound’s bounce back as a ‘double dose of joy’ for you”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lord Hailsham letter to MT (“Human Rights”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Attorney-General's Office letter to Armstrong (Ponting trial) [“the informed assessment is indeed that the source of the leaks from the ‘Crown Jewels’ … was somebody connected with Ponting’s defence”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: AGO letter to Armstrong (Ponting trial) [“the informed assessment is indeed that the source of the leaks from the ‘Crown Jewels’ … was somebody connected with Ponting’s defence”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington letter to Treasury (Volcker testimony to House Banking Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee) [“we are in a real sense living on borrowed money and time”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph minute to Tebbit (polytechnics and “The Switch”) [“possibility that some of the resources for this programme should be allocated to the polytechnics”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph PS minute to No.10 (increasing the output of engineers and technologists) [meeting with industrialists to discuss proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa”) [population resettlement programmes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO letter to No.10 (“SDI Testing-ABM Treaty”) [timetable for testing being brought forward] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Feb 28 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
CD only 85 Feb 28 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Message after IRA attack on Newry RUC Station ("barbaric")
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