Includes: memorandum from John Redwood (Head, PM's Policy Unit) on the miners' and dock strikes, August 1984; copy of letter from Ian MacGregor (Chairman, National Coal Board) to (Lionel) "Len" Murray (General Secretary, Trades Union Congress), August 1984; list of profitable and non-profitable pits, September 1984; memorandum from Redwood on the coal industry, September 1984; copies of MT's correspondence with David Hart, Jack Peel and Lord (Harold) Watkinson relating to the strike, September 1984; and copies of the "Daily coal report", 28 September 1984 and 5 October 1984
Also includes memoranda for MT from Redwood, October 1990, including note on Labour Party conference; copy of letter from Peter Walker MP (Secretary of State for Energy) to Rt Rev David Jenkins (Bishop of Durham), October 1984; [part of] contribution from Alfred Sherman for MT's conference speech, October 1984; letter from David Hunt (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Energy) to Michael Alison MP (MT's Parliamentary Private Secretary) on pit closures, October 1984; and detailed notes on “normality” after the strike by Bernard Ingham (MT's Chief Press Secretary), November 1984