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Text 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe minute to MT ("Your meeting with the French Prime Minister: European Community") ["reflections on the way ahead"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("R&D priorities across Government") [counter-arguments against lobbying from the research community, and Departmental scrutiny/reporting proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("MISC 110 Report on Defence R&D") ["...should be progressively reduced over the next 10 years, in order to make British industry more competitive"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Chief Scientific Adviser briefing for MT ("R&D priorities across Government (E(A)(85)40)") ["...R&D trends are alarmingly out of line with those of our principal industrial competitors and... this carries a great threat to our future economic prosperity"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Report of the Official Group on Defence Research and Development") [proposed reduction in spending] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Shorts") ["With some luck and better management, Shorts are now turning the corner... probably the best time to privatise"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("E(A)(85)16th meeting at 10.30am on Monday, 29 July Short Brothers PLC: strategy, funding and prospects for privatisation") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("H committee on Thursday 25 July") [Criminal Justice Bill 1986/87 and drugs misuse] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("1985 Survey: Scotland and Northern Ireland") [over-provision in the territorial blocks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit of Iraqi Foreign Minister to London") [urges that MT renews invitation to Tariq Aziz; Powell annotation: "He's a very tiresome man...[but] it will be hard to refuse"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Rees minute to MT ("Control of Civil Service Running Costs") [targets; monitoring; role of senior managers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Percy Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("International Drug Trade") [Joint Intelligence Organisation papers produced by Canada & US, calling for multinational approach to tackling drug crime] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 minute to Leon Brittan PS ("Confiscation of the Proceeds of Drug Trafficking") [MT "not yet convinced the fines route is preferable to forfeiture"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: George Younger minute to MT ("Scottish Teachers' Pay and Conditions of Service") ["to report the outcome of exchanges which I have been having with the Scottish education authorities in an effort to resolve the dispute"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Anglo-Irish agreement: timetable, implementation, Ulster Defence Regiment, terrorist prisoners: MT comment: 'I am utterly astounded by this minute. I am not prepared to go ahead with either of these things'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Hurd-Molyneaux-Enoch Powell) [Anglo-Irish negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Walker minute to MT (possible scheme to reduce the price of electricity to large industrial consumers) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1400Z) ("South Africa") (NSC 0119) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Oil Market After the Geneva Meeting") [analysis] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson letter to Conservative MPs (“end of term” message on current economic situation) [“steady expansion”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brittan letter to Tebbit (Direct Broadcasting by Satellite) [Tebbit keen that Parliamentary announcement address unethical competitiveness as well as IBA study] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Local Authority Capital Spending”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Vice-President George Bush) [terrorism, Middle East, Southern Africa, Strategic Defence Initiative] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Secretary for Defense Weinberger) [Strategic Defence Initiative, Mobile Subscriber Equipment, Fylingdales, arms control, Falklands] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chairman of the US Federal Reserve System Volcker) [US deficit, international debt, aircraft for Argentina, banking in the US, Japan, monetary policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT Press conference (visit to the US: meetings with the officials) [arms control, Strategic Defence Initiative, South Africa, Middle East, economy, terrorism] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Whitelaw minute for Brittan (“Tourism & Leisure”) [arguments to circulate to MPs] [released 2015]
CD only 85 Jul 26 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for CNN
CD only 85 Jul 26 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for NBC
Text 85 Jul 26 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for CBS
CD only 85 Jul 26 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for ABC
Info only 85 Jul 26 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Remarks meeting US Vice-President (George Bush) (visiting Washington)
Text 85 Jul 26 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Press Conference for British journalists (visiting Washington)
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