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Text 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Leyland Bus: Bangkok") [Leyland bid for Thai contract; Belgium prepared to breach OECD "no-aid" rules to win contract; need for British response] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO telegram 434 to UKE Moscow (1630Z) ("40th Anniversary: Attendance at Soviet Commemoration") [text of MT's message of goodwill to Gorbachev, published - with additional handwritten comment - on 7 May] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 note for the file ("VE Day Service at Westminster Abbey") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 letter to Leon Brittan PS (meeting on 9 May to discuss Drug Misuse) [record of conversation on 23 April circulated] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Keith Joseph, George Younger, Patrick Jenkin, Tom King, Biffen, Edwards, Hurd, Michael Havers) ["School Teachers": linking performance standards to pay scales; pressurising local authorities to comply with Government objectives; Scotland; punitive measures for public service strike disruption] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Own Resources Decision; 1985 EC draft Budget; agreement on farm prices for 1985-86; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Development of the European Community") [Lawson's thoughts on Howe minute of 15 April: internal market; decision-taking/unanimity rule; European Parliament] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation (C(85) 10)") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (Government Response to Environment Committee Report on the Wildlife and Countryside Act) [publication] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Legislative Programme 1985-86: Consequences of the Inclusion of a Gas Bill") [Bills to be dropped: proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Social Security Review") [family support; supplementary & housing benefits] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler letter to Jenkin (water rates and mortgage interest) [relation to income support & earnings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Fowler, Tebbit, Whitelaw, Rees, Wakeham, Barney Hayhoe, Tony Newton, John Redwood, David Willetts) ["Social Security Reviews: Pensions"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Koenigswinter Conference 1986") [MT declines Howe advice to host dinner; Powell: "...not nearly so influential a forum as it was." ] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Kohl telegram to MT ('The German Question': unification of Germany) [MT dubious about Howe's performance on visit to East Berlin, despite warm praise from Kohl] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Planning") ["...while DoE must clearly maintain its proper responsibility for planning, it is important that MISC 114 is kept closely informed of any changes in the planning regime which they have under consideration...."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7/Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 1446 to FCO (1935Z) ("Arab/Israel") ["Shultz was loath to accept that the US should take over the leading role in the peace process"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1488 to FCO (2330Z) ("EC: US Agriculture: Congressional Reaction to Bonn Summit") [Dole claims the French have made it clear they won't negotiate on the CAP] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Bonn Economic Summit: Bilaterals") [attendees for meeting with Reagan] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("EUREKA - French proposal for a European Research Co-ordination Agency") ["there can be no need or justification for increased governmental spending on anything like the scale the French appear to have in mind"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT draft opening statement (press conference after Bonn Summit) ["All of us are seeking to build on the progress already made"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT draft speaking note ("Bonn Economic Summit: Speaking Note on Economic Issues") [further revisions, annotated] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Hurd PS minute to Charles Powell ("US/UK Extradition") [new treaty would "deny fugitives accused or convicted of certain serious offences of violence scope for avoiding extradition"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Redwood minute to MT ("Economic Summit. Locomotive Reflation: Should the Non-US Economies Expand") ["If US interest rates start to come down because the US Government decides to cut its Budget deficit, it would be damaging for the other Western nations then to expand their Budget deficits"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Bonn Economic Summit: Speaking Note on Economic Issues") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: ?Treasury briefing ("President Mitterrand's Currency Ideas") [line to take: "very sceptical about any future return to a fixed or nearly-fixed system"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong note to MT (monetary policy) ["Mitterrand was 'greatly upset' by the reports of what you said... about high level monetary conference etc"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Soviet air space reservations in the Berlin air corridors") [MT content with Howe pursuing preservation of Allied rights, but wants to be consulted before any major decision is taken] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to Robert Armstrong ("Bonn Economic Summit: Political Declaration") [draft declaration - MT "finds the French objection to any reference to the United States in the context of the Geneva talks petty to a degree"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Bonn Economic Summit: Bilaterals") [briefs for meetings with Craxi, Mitterrand] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Gowrie letter to Patrick Jenkin ("EC Acquired Rights Directive and the South Bank") [issues arising from GLC abolition] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: John Moore PS letter No.10 (“ICI Case”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Jenkin letter to Walker (“Energy Conservation”) [PSA historical achievements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Walker minute to MT (“Chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Authority”) [future of UKAEA] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Younger-Jenkin-Rees) [rates and revaluation in Scotland] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Robert Armstrong minute to No.10 (“Defence Scientific Adviser’s minute on the SDI research programme and “Star Wars”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Scottish Office letter to No.10 (draft conference speech material on rates) [MT & Younger drafts] [released 2015]
Text 85 May 1 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Interview for Wall Street Journal
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