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PDF 83 Jun 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker minute to MT ("Power Station and Industrial Endurance") [MISC 57 report on increasing power station endurance in event of miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Jun 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Parkinson minute to MT ("Power Station and Industrial Endurance") [comments on MISC 57 report on increasing power station endurance in event of miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Jun 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Power Station and Industrial Endurance") [comments on MISC 57 report on increasing power station endurance in event of miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Jul 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to HMT ("Power Station Endurance in the Medium Term") [MT to call meeting on endurance before 19 September] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Jul 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 minute to Department of Energy ("Power Station Industrial Endurance") [MT agrees to all proposals in Walker's minute] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Jul 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong minute to MT ("Power Station Endurance in the Medium Term") [MISC 57 report on extending power station endurance in the medium and longer term] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Jul 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 minute to Armstrong ("Power Station Endurance in the Medium Term") [MT comments on MISC 57 report; defers decisions on options in the report until Walker presents NCB Corporate Plan for discussion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Jul 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Power Station Endurance in the Medium Term") [comments on MISC 57 report: "we should concentrate on those options like further stockpiling of coal"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Aug 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Rees letter to Walker ("NCB: Investment and Financing Review 1983") [considerations for financing review: pit closures, miners' pay, prices, investment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Aug 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Rickett note to Scholar (report of discussions with Department of Energy on coal strategy) [Walker 'unwilling to circulate a paper' for 15 September meeting: not prepared to commit himself prior to talks with MacGregor] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson minute to Scholar ("Coal") [argues for postponement of 15 September meeting on power station endurance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Miners' Pay") [brief for strategy meeting on miners' pay] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Owen minute to MT ("Coal Industry Pay 1983") [comments on possible 5% pay settlement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 15 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Walker-Tebbit-Armstrong-Gregson-Scholar) [Ian MacGregor's strategy for coal, pit closures, redundancies, miners' pay] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson minute to Scholar ("Coal") [decisions on NCB's future financing needs, power station endurance, NCB strategy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Prime Minister's Briefing for PMQs ("Major Industrial Disputes") [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Brief for the Prime Minister: NUM Special Delegate Conference: 21 October 1983") [NUM rejects NCB pay offer] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong minute to MT ("Endurance in the Event of a Miners' Strike") [current situation and outstanding issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (upcoming meetings with Gregson and Armstrong on miners' pay and power station endurance) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Armstrong-Gregson) ["Enduring a coal strike"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Heseltine-Tebbit-Younger-King-Armstrong-Gregson) ["Endurance in the Event of a Miners' Strike"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (overtime ban 'unlikely' to have 'significant' effect on power station endurance) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy press release ("Government Go Ahead for £400 Million Asfordby Mine: Mr Peter Walker") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) ["NCB Manpower", plans for closing uneconomic pits] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Kerr note to Turnbull ("Coal Prices") [MT 'accepts that it would not be right to tackle the problem of NCB's loss-making capacity by enforcing a higher coal price on the electricity industry'] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal") [Redundant Mineworkers Payments Scheme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Pascall minute to Turnbull ("NCB") [Redundant Mineworkers Payments Scheme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation ("Coal Policy") [pit closure programme; enhanced Redundant Mineworkers Payments Scheme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Trade and Industry ("Coal-firing Scheme") [MT wants review of the coal-firing scheme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Coal Firing Scheme") [MT wants review of the coal-firing scheme] [minutes from Turnbull and Walker to MT also in file] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (MacGregor knocked unconscious while visiting Ellington Colliery) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MT letter to MacGregor (MacGregor knocked unconscious while visiting Ellington Colliery) ["You are under no illusions that your task as Chairman of the Coal Board is a tough one, but I am sure that you will not be intimidated"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MacGregor letter to MT (MacGregor knocked unconscious while visiting Ellington Colliery) ["We shall certainly not bow to such tactics"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Pascall minute to Turnbull ("Coal") ["The temperature is rising in the coalfields...there is a strong possibility that the Scottish and Yorkshire miners could be on strike by the weekend"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turbull minute to MT ("Miners' Industrial Action") [Department of Energy situation report on strike, and other matters] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong minute to MT ("Proposed Ministerial Group on Coal") [Armstrong proposes setting up group to deal with strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal") [brief for MT-Walker-MacGregor meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-MacGregor) ["Coalmining Dispute"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Brittan-Walker-Jenkin-Fowler-King-Havers-Moore-Gummer-Gregson) ["Coalmining Dispute"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Coal Strike: Picketing") [Brittan statement to Chief Constables: "It is the duty of the Police to prevent...intimidation so that the law is upheld"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC 101(84)1st Meeting") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Brittan statement to the House of Commons ("Collieries (Picketing)") ["Any attempt to obstruct or intimidate those who wish to go to work is a breach of the criminal law"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 note for MT (“Message from Energy Private Office”) [information for NCB] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Coles minute to MT (call from Turnbull) [sitrep; NUM executive expected to call for a ballot] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Report on Coal Dispute") [situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [coal strike situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note for the record ("Coalmining Dispute") ["a further deterioration in the position this morning"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: CRD brief for House of Common Debate ("[Debate on] The Redundant Mineworker and Concessionary Coal Order and on the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC101(84)4th Meeting") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Coal Mining Dispute") [situation report: Walker speaks with MacGregor] [declassified 2014]

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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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