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Text 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit 1986”) [dates announcement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT (Anglo-German proposal on MBFR: draft reply to President Reagan's letter) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Inland Revenue minute to John Moore ("Visit to Japan, Hong Kong and Mauritius") ["...pleasant statements about the ICL arrangement as an important example of technological collaboration between Japan and the UK but there is no question that Japanese interests come first."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: UK Ambassador Hungary despatch to FCO ("Kádár's Hungary: or 29 Years is a Long Time in Politics") [General Secretary János Kádár visit to UK] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Public inquiries") ["H committee discussed both delays and disruptions at major public inquiries and whether improvements in compensation arrangements might obviate them"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Wakeham letter to MT (Water Fluoridation Bill) ["... there is a hard core of opposition to it mainly from our own side..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Dog Licensing") [options] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Treasury minute to David Norgrove ("Defence Expenditure as a Proportion of GDP") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Mayhew minute to MT (The Crown Prosecution Service: remuneration of solicitors) [response to letter from Prosecuting Solicitors' Society] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Hailsham PS to Howe PS ("Australia Constitution Act: Request for Permanent Loan to Australia") [against allowing PRO copy to leave official custody permanently] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: MT letter to Turkish Prime Minister Ozal (Assistance for Turkey's admission in EDU) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: UKHC Colombo telegram 667 to FCO (0540Z) ("Commonwealth Finance Ministers meeting: Maldives 1985") [record] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: UKHC Canberra telegram 686 to FCO (0630Z) ("CHOGM: South Africa") [Bob Hawke public criticism of UK stance on sanctions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: UKE Pretoria telegram 376 to FCO (1445Z) ("Commonwealth economic relations with SA") ["answers to your queries about economic relations between SA and Commonwealth countries"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Howe minute to MT ("South Africa at CHOGM") ["a note on the action being taken to manage the South African issue in the run-up to CHOGM and at the meeting itself"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe PS minute to Heseltine PS ("Invitations from the Soviet Ambassador") [need to return to business as usual following expulsions; no ostracism, but social contacts should be avoided] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Taoiseach Fitzgerald (Anglo-Irish Agreement: state of play in talks) [outstanding drafting points; date of summit; Irish accession to European Convention on Suppression of Terrorism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (Anglo-Irish Agreement: message from Bud McFarlane) [US position on Anglo-Irish Agreement and US financial support for Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Irish Government suggests signing Agreement in New York] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: AP wire report ("Miners Cannot Buy Pit") ['the National Coal Board said today it had told 25 Yorkshire Miners that they cannot buy their pit when it closes at the end of December'; Norgrove annotation: 'Another PR triumph for the Coal Board'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr 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 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Electricity and Gas EFLs") [MT concerned about overshoots of External Financing Limits for electricity supply industry and British Gas] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Geneva Talks: Soviet Counter-Proposals") [preliminary analysis & advice on UK response] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Hurd letter to Tony Newton (Green Paper: enforcement of requirements under the new pension arrangements) [Hurd proposes "a new sort of relationship (between employers and pension providers)... subject to the oversight of your inspectors. I would hope that on those grounds the powers could be defended in the face of any objections there may be"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Treasury minute to MacGregor ("Social Security Reviews and 1985 Survey: Mr Fowler's 2 October Package") [implications of Fowler proposals; tactics to be adopted in Treasury discussions with Fowler; request for guidance on how to handle Fowler's forthcoming paper to MISC III] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (South African DFA) South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (drift towards international sanctions against SA) [declassified ?2005]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Brittan minute for MT (‘Westland’) [examine European solution urgently; do not rule out Sikorsky if no alternative] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (‘Westlands’) [Heseltine organised meeting of European NADs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (‘Westland’) [suggests meeting chaired by Chancellor] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Lawson letter to Brittan (“Take-over Panel”) [at least create contingency plan for statutory basis] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Douglas Hurd letter for MT (recent riots and racial discrimination) [suggests wording for MT conference speech] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Edwards minute for Scholar (“Family Policy Group”) [historical background on the taxation of husband and wife] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (“Teachers’ pay (England and Wales)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Labour party: CRD briefing (Labour Party conference) [Kinnock’s leadership, divisions within the party, policies] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Wicks minute (“Breakfasts”) [meetings offer “the opportunity to discuss, informally, governmental and political issues”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Lynda Chalker letter to MT (“Economic regulation of airports”) [objectives: privatisation of BAA and conversion of local authority airports into companies] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd letter to Whitelaw (“Shops Bill: Sunday trading”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (internal reform) [defence of record] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (President Machel visit to London) [aid to Mozambique, sanctions against South Africa] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Secretary of State for Wales letter to Kenneth Baker (“Rating Reform: A Green Paper for Wales”) [the E(LF) meeting: assessment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to MT (“Gold, JMB and South Africa”) [permitting JMB role] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Consequences of Price Restraint for British Agriculture”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: John MacGregor minute to Michael Jopling (“Emergency Relief for Farmers”) [draft statement suggestions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Robin Harris draft (“Draft section for the PM’s conference speech”) [“Neil Kinnock is no Gaitskell”] [released 2015]
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