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Text 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Frank Field MP) [MT said that “ASW was a private company and there could be no question of Government instruction on the way it conducted its business”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: FCO to No.10 ("Visit by Premier Zhao Ziyang, 2-8 June 1985") [briefings: objectives on Hong Kong, relationship with Zhao, bilateral relations, trade relations] [released 2017]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Advocate letter to Lord Gowrie ("EC Acquired Rights Directive and the South Bank") [backs Havers legal advice on issues arising from GLC abolition] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Policy Work in the FMI") [assessing value for money of policy proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Booth minute to MT ("Football/Police Charges") [football hooliganism: cost of policing to football clubs][declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Jenkin minute to MT ("Housing Policy Review") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Tebbit-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Young-Lamont-Wiggins) ["BL Corporate Plan"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Warry minute to MT ("BL Corporate Plan") [British Leyland: brief for meeting with Ministers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Downing Street: Robin Butler minute to MT ("BBC Film on 250th Anniversary of No.10 1500-1700 on Friday 24 May") [filming of MT in No.10 flat] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Disposal of Surplus Land in the Public Sector") [request for MT's approval of proposed No.10 response to Dept of Environment launch of land register computerisation & to Patrick Jenkin's further proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Treasury minute: Gilhooly to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("National Institute Economic Review: May Edition") [briefing on Review's article on public service pay] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Heseltine, Younger, Fowler, Keith Joseph, Tom King) ["Review Bodies: Nurses"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("Teachers (England and Wales)") ["I must ask you to veto any offer, staged or not, which would increase the rates of teachers' salaries by more than 5.5 per cent"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Gowrie letter to Whitelaw ("Response to the Fourth Report from the Select Committee on the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration") [extension of PCA jurisdiction to non-Crown NDPBs with executive or adminstrative functions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler minute to MT ("Social Security Review: Transitional Pension Provisions") [Green Paper proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Robert Conquest letter to No.10 (Policy Towards the Soviet Union) [notice of availability for meeting to advise MT] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Robin Butler minute for MT (“Conclusions of a preliminary discussion” [on reshuffle]) [MT, Whitelaw, Wakeham] [released 2015]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 18th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland, local government, unemployment) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Review of the Common Agricultural Policy”) [MT: “a most interesting paper”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO (“Informal Meeting of Agriculture Ministers at Siena: Dutch Approach”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“German European Policy: Bundestag Debate”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Student Support and Training Loans”) [draft consultative paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Hunt letter to Alison (report of meeting with working miners’ delegation) ['reduction in the level of intimidation at work'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Abortion: MT letter to constituents (Unborn Children Bill) [free vote] [released 2015]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Law and order: MT letter to Mrs Mary Whitehouse (child sex abuse) [concerns about scale of abuse, import of pornography] [released 2015]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Frank Field MP) [future of Manchester Steel’s Bidston works] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Redwood minute to Turnbull (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [“the expenditure does not look well-based”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (“Sir Robin Nicholson and the AEA”) [Chairmanship & future of Atomic Energy Authority: MT to meet with Nicholson] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Paris to FCO (“Genscher Visit to Paris, 22-23 May”) [the SDI research programme, Eureka] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 May 23 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
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