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Text 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 note of conversation (Julian Bullard phone message) [message to Horst Teltschik delivered; Britain left out of three-way consultations between FRG, French and Italians] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ryder minute for Butler ("Rates Meeting") [possible dates for E(LF)] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Robin Butler (Public Expenditure Survey) ["a difficult Survey is in prospect"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Stephen Sherbourne minute to John Redwood (Transport and Public Expenditure) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Reform of the Police Complaints System") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Football Association and Football League Representatives-Ministers) [football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Tebbit-Lamont-Gregson-Warry) ["British Leyland"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Rees letter to Jopling ("Transfer of Costs of Early Retirement to Deparmental Votes") [redundancy implications] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Ingham minute to MT ("Robert Maxwell - Drugs") [Maxwell paper, following up meeting with MT, calling for a Drugs Supremo and legislation to confiscate gains] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: UKE Athens telegram 185 to FCO (0830Z) ("Integrated Mediterranean Programmes (IMPS): Greek Reactions") [government present IMPS settlement as a diplomatic triumph, opposition criticism of Greece coming off badly] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: UKE Athens telegram 188 to FCO (1120Z) ("Greek Politics") [New Democracy boycott of Sartzetakis presidency, possible early elections] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Schoolteachers") [rejects Keith Joseph/George Younger joint proposals for performance-related pay; wider public sector context; diversion of public expenditure savings; pay negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Teachers") [pay negotiations; countermeasures against ongoing industrial dispute; Government legal complaint of privilege against teachers in Scotland; teaching standards] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister Soares letter to MT (accession of Portugal to the EC) [thanks to UK on conclusion of negotiations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Lord Young PS ("Deregulation") [MT speaking note used at European Council meeting, 29-30 March 1985] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 315 to FCO (1606Z) ("European Council: German Reactions") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram 274 to FCO (1713Z) ("European Council, Enlargement and IMPs: French Press and Other Reactions") ["extensive and generally positive to the successful conclusion of negotiations for Spanish and Portugese accession"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram 329 to FCO (1530Z) ("European Council: Italian Press Comment") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 1215 to FCO (1600Z) ("Prime Minister's Initiative on Deregulation") [action to follow-up MT statement at European Council, 29-30 March 1985] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKHC New Delhi telegram 433 to FCO (0620Z) ("Westlands") [rival candidates; aid] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Jedda telegram 187 to FCO (0822Z) ("Call on Saudi Oil Minister") [Patrick Wright, Yamani: record of conversation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Timothy Raison letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Sri Lanka") [Samanala Wewa project] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to South East Asia: Speeches") [early drafts made available, to form basis of translations and press releases] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Saudi Arabia: Tornado") [MT seeks advice of Howe & Heseltine on advisability of stop-off en route to, or on way back from, her tour of South East Asia] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Robin Ibbs (Prime Minister's Visit to Malaysia) [Single Cell Protein project] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Richard Luce PS letter to V. W. Miller (Prime Minister's Visit to Brunei) [Brunei Chinese] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Chairman of the General Electric Company PLC, Jim Prior letter to MT (Prime Minister's tour of South East Asia) [details of "a number of projects in which GEC are deeply interested"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Asia, 4-13 April 1985") [general brief] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Heseltine minute to Whitelaw ("The Royal Dockyards") [outline of intended policy & legislative requirements, in making case for inclusion of Bill in 1985-86 legislative programme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Chairman of the Post Office letter to MT (industrial dispute) [explanatory note for MPs, of ongoing issues] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 minute to Fowler PS (reply to Mr Dale Campbell-Savours MP: future of benefit entitlement for 16 and 17 year olds) [revised draft] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howe minute to Ridley ("Channel Fixed Link (CFL)") [comments on draft Guidelines for proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Walker minute to MT (energy savings in the Government estate) [proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Alison note for MT (talk with Michael Eaton) [possible appointment to NCB Board; ways to keep him in London] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Foreign Affairs Committee letter to FCO (“Events of the weekend of 1 and 2 May 1982”) [documents submitted as formal evidence] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Foreign Affairs Committee letter to FCO (“Events of the weekend of 1 and 2 May 1982”) [documents submitted as formal evidence] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS minute to No.10 (“Falklands: Belgrano: Request for further material from the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs”) [Howe “prepared to send the Commitee a brief unclassified Memorandum reiterating the timings and essential points in telegrams”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS minute to No.10 (“Falklands: Belgrano: Request for further material from the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs”) [Howe “prepared to send the Commitee a brief unclassified Memorandum reiterating the timings and essential points in telegrams”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Lord Gowrie letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Civil Service retirement and re-employment policy”) [legal objections to proceeding with policy amendments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Nicholas Scott letter to Brittan (“UK/US extradition”) [“It could be argued that in effect we are asking the United States to return murderers”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) US: Charles Price telegram to Bob Dole (visit to London by Republican leadership) [request to reschedule] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lord Hailsham (VAT Tribunals: transfer of responsibilities) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT (“Falklands Trooping Contract”) [declassified 2014]
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