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Text 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit") [revisions to declaration on 40th anniversary of WW2; MT: "It won't do as it is"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Leon Brittan minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Abolition: Voluntary Bodies: A Trust for London") [Baker's idea is an imaginative one] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Jenkin PS letter to Robin Butler ("Local Government Finance Studies: Chequers Presentation") [suggested agenda] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Running Costs Targets") ["pretty pathetic that Government running costs have risen faster than inflation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brittan PS minute to Lawson PS ("BBC Licence Fee") [statement on financing the BBC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Booth minute to MT ("Football Hooligans: Ministerial Meeting, 28 March 1985") [proposals for tackling football violence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan minute to MT ("Football Hooliganism") [Home Office proposals for tackling football violence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Ingham minute to MT ("Soccer Violence") [meeting with Robert Maxwell and Mirror editorial team: football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Jenkin minute to MT ("Football Spectator Violence") [football hooliganism: matches in Europe] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT ("Football Hooliganism: Meeting After Cabinet") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Exchange of Letters with Dr Paisley") [Anglo-Irish talks on Northern Ireland: Paisley expresses "alarm"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Rees minute to MT ("Assassination and Death in Service") [views on FCO/Treasury report's recommendations & further options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Beach Report on the Control of Military Information") [recommendation on Government response to Report's proposal for British media to have unrestricted access to military information already published by foreign media] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Maxwell) ["Daily Mirror - Drugs"; Maxwell wants "a Ministerial supremo"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Public Purchasing Policy: Molecular Beam Epitaxy Machine for Nottingham University") [case for his decision to purchase from a US rather than a British manufacturer] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to Whitelaw PS ("Teachers' Pay: Briefing and Publicity") [latest position on industrial action & negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Payment of Supplementary Benefit to EC Nationals") [options for excluding so-called "spaghetti scroungers"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Spain/Portugal accession to EC; EC Budget - own resources decision; amendments to the steel aids code; agriculture: price-fixing proposals; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 291 to FCO (1835Z) ("European Union: German Views") [Horst Teltschik speech in Bonn on future of the EC; "British attitudes evolving. ... Prospects for progress not too bad. Unaniminity important but the slowest ship should not hold up the convoy"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, Biffen, Wakeham, Gow) ["Airports Policy": development of Heathrow, Stansted, Manchester; privatisation of BAA & major municipal airports; Govt regulation of airports] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Council, 29-30 March") [Committee on People's Europe: MT request for redraft of line to take] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Council, 29-30 March: Environment") [reductions in air pollution: MT request for line on UK's record] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("European Council: Briefing") [Integrated Mediterranean Programmes (IMPs); strengthening the technological base of the EC] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ingham minute to MT ("Your Press Conference") [European Council, 29/30 March: arrangements; lines to take; draft Statement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (European Council, 29/30 March: 1985 Agricultural Price Proposals) [lines to take] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Athens telegram 173 to FCO (1130Z) ("Greece and Integrated Mediterranean Programmes (IMPs)") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 289 to FCO (1800Z) ("European Council, Brussels, 29/30 March") [Dooge Committee; economic & social questions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram 318 to FCO (1630Z) ("European Council") [conveyance of oral message from Craxi to MT regarding Integrated Mediterranean Programmes (IMPs)] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram 311 to FCO (1230Z) ("European Council: Italian Presidency Views") [EC enlargement; future of Europe; unemployment; political cooperation on international affairs] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram 314 to FCO (1420Z) ("European Council: Political Cooperation: Middle East") [Presidency draft text] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram 312 to FCO (1220Z) ("The Future of Europe: Mitterrand's Surprise") [proposal to elect President of European Council] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE The Hague telegram 97 to FCO (1040Z) ("Netherlands Approach to the European Council, 29/30 March") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 106 to FCO (1200Z) ("European Council") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Gas Privatisation") [next steps] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Lord Avebury letter to MT (human rights abuses committed by the Indonesian Government) [representation on behalf of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Social Security Expenditure") [figures, for MT meeting with Lawson] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “50p pit levy is rejected in ballot” [miners vote against levy; taken as criticism of union leadership]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Secretaries’ note circulated to Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 2 (“Lessons of the miners’ strike”) [next steps] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Secretaries’ note circulated to Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 6 (“Lessons of the miners’ strike - DTI Aspects”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Secretaries’ note circulated to Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 5 (“Lessons of the miners’ strike - Home Office Aspects”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Secretaries’ note circulated to Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 7 (“Lessons of the miners’ strike - MOD Aspects”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Secretaries’ note circulated to Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 4 (“Lessons of the miners’ strike - Department of Employment Aspects”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Secretaries’ note circulated to Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 3 (“Lessons of the miners’ strike - Department of Energy Aspects”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Argentina”) [the IMF decision to withhold drawings under the Argentine Standby Agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB representative Spanton letter to NUM Secretary Heathfield (assessing damage caused by the miners' strike) ['damage has occurred which will take months to recover'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO (“Cyprus”) [“the prospect is for a troubled period in Greek Cypriot politics”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 243 to FCO (2359Z) (“Cyprus”) [“Secretary General makes clear that he is exasperated by President Kyprianou’s bargaining tactics”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 1077 to FCO (1755Z) (“Secretary of State for Northern Ireland’s visit to Washington”) [“although serious work was going on between London and Dublin, it was too early to say what practical results could emerge from the dialogue”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell note to MT (Heseltine’s proposal for joint European response on SDI research) ["he wants [to] build up a body of opinion sceptical of SDI"] [declassified 2014]

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