Archive, 1979-90: Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher Foundation

Date	Value	Author/Source	Title
89 Jan 19 Th	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: MT letter to Reagan ("you stood for all that is best in America") [declassified 2000]
88 Nov 16 We	Minor	Archive (Michael Miller MSS)	Cold War: Programme for MT's farewell visit to Reagan at the White House (ceremonial arrival)
89 Jan 19 Th	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (farewell) [declassified 2000]
87 Jun 12 Fr	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: Reagan call to Thatcher (election congratulations) [declassified 1998] [22K scan]
79 Aug 2 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Commonwealth: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Bangladeshi President Zia) [request for aid] [declassified 2009]
86 Mar 18 Tu	Key	Hansard	Economy: 1986 Budget (Lawson 3)
88 Nov 25 Fr	Key	Lawson (Nigel)	Economy: Minute to the Prime Minister (An independent central bank) [published 1992]
89 Oct 31 Tu	Key	Lawson (Nigel)	Economy: Resignation speech (Hansard)
88 Jun 23 Th	Key	Lawson (Nigel)	Economy: Tax Reform (The Government's Record) (CPC pamphlet)
81 Jan 14 We	Key	Lawson (Nigel)	Economy: Thatcherism in Practice: A Progress Report (Speech to Zurich Society of Economics)
84 Jun 18 Mo	Key	Lawson (Nigel)	Economy: The British Experiment (The Mais Lecture)
80 Aug 4 Mo	Key	Lawson (Nigel)	Economy: The New Conservatism (Lecture to the Bow Group)
79 May 4 Fr	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	General Election: Aide-memoire for St.Francis prayer ("Where there is discord ...")
80 Jan 10 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia: Message to the Prime Minister from Mr Mugabe") [Mugabe protest on SA troop presence] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 7 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Ken Stowe minute to MT ("Shell, Sanctions-Breaking and Sir Frank McFadzean") [criminal proceedings unlikely] [declassified 2009]
80 Jan 8 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Mugabe letter to MT (protests violations of Lancaster House Agreement) [threat to dishonour ceasefire agreement "in a similar way"] [declassified 2009]
79 May 31 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (further review of oil sanctions) [MT disinclined but wishes cabinet to decide] [declassified 2009]
80 Jan 10 Th	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to MT ("Rhodesia elections: parliamentary observers") [MT agrees statement on] [declassified 2009]
79 May 30 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to MT (further enquiry into breaches of Rhodesian sanctions) [MT: "It would be best to have cabinet decision not to go ahead"] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 14 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Attorney General letter to Carrington (Bingham Report) [timing of announcement on DPP decisions] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 15 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Attorney-General minute to MT ("Rhodesia Sanctions: Further Inquiry") [arguments about scale of task for criminal investigations] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 25 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Bishop Muzorewa letter to MT (thanks for meeting) [seeks to station diplomatic representatives in London] [declassified 2009]
79 May 16 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Boyd letter to MT (introducing report) [declassified 2009]
79 May 17 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Boyd letter to MT (proposes British gesture to Muzorewa government) [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 19 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Rhodesian Sanctions: Further Inquiry") [deferral of decision on furrther inquiry into sanctions breaking] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 20 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Cabinet Secretary briefing for MT ("Rhodesia: OD(79) 21 & 19") [next steps] [declassified 2009]
79 May 11 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Cabinet Secretary briefing for MT (OD discussion of Rhodesia) [next steps] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 5 We	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Carrington letter to Lord Harlech (thanks) ["vital contribution"] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 26 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Carrington minute to Attorney General (Bingham Report) [timing announcement of DPP decisions] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 12 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO briefing for No.10 ("Bishop Muzorewa's Visit") [objectives & press handling] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 4 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Call by the US Ambassador, 5 December: Rhodesia") [briefing for] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 25 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Debate on Southern Africa: Rhodesian Oil Sanctions") [Castrol] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 6 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia") [brief for MT meeting with General Walls] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 27 Fr	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia") [urges MT send personal messages to other leaders before CHOGM] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 4 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia: ceasefire negotiations") [MT messages to heads of government] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 8 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia: Chinese Assistance to ZANU") [light arms only; ZANU unhappy] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 5 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia: Lord Harlech's Mission to Africa") [itinerary, terms of reference] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 21 Fr	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia: Message to African Presidents") [enlisting support for compliance with ceasefire] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia: Message to New Zealand Prime Minister") [appreciation for support] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 6 Th	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia: messages to the South African Government") [suggestion from Laurens Van Der Post] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("The PM's meeting with the Commonwealth Secretary-General: Rhodesia") [briefing for] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 2 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (advice on PMQs) [accept sanctions will not be renewed as "a parliamentary fact"] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 3 Fr	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (comparison of MT's statements on Zimbabwe 25 Jul & 3 Aug) [rebuts claim of inconsistency] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 17 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (draft reply to Nyerere letter) [avoid showing hand before CHGM] [declassified 2009]
79 May 18 Fr	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (MT agrees arrangements for publishing Boyd Report) [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 25 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (proposed response to Kaunda letter) [declassified 2009]
79 May 10 Th	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (proposes Duff visit Rhodesia) [MT agrees] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 13 We	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (recommends MT meet Zambian High Commissioner) [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 16 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (telling US about Muzorewa visit to London) [MT: "we did not RULE OUT legality on the present constitution"] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 6 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: FCO telegram to Sir Antony Duff (draft Carrington Cabinet Paper on Lusaka CHGM) [MT: "overladen"] [declassified 2009]
79 May 19 Sa	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Fraser letter to MT (concerns over Rhodesia) [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 12 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Henry James minute for MT (photo with Muzorewa?) [questions; MT says she will] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 4 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Hunt minute to MT ("Rhodesia Sanctions: Further Inquiry") [timing announcement of no further inquiry] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 13 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Hunt minute to MT ("The Bingham Report: A Further Inquiry C(79) 19") [FCS paper recommending against] [declassified 2009]
79 May 29 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Hunt minute to No.10 ("Further Review on Rhodesian Oil sanctions") ["would serve no useful purpose"] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 7 Fr	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Jamaica High Commissioner letter to MT (message from Jamaican PM Manley) [congratulations on Lancaster House progress] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 24 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Joe Clark letter to MT (congratulations) [Lancaster House Agreeement "a splendid achievement"] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 23 Su	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: King Hussein letter to MT (congratulations on Lancaster House Agreement) ["remarkable breakthrough"] [declassified 2009]
80 Jan 1 Tu	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Liberia President Tolbert message to MT (message of condolences) [Commonwealth monitors helicopter crash] [declassified 2009]
80 Jan 11 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Liberian President Tolbert message to MT (situation) [concern over presence of South African troops in Zimbabwe][declassified 2009]
79 Dec 4 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Liberian PresidentTolbert message to MT (Lancaster House Conference) [necessity of securing Patriotic Front support for independence plan] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 7 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Lord Privy Seal minute to Attorney General (Bingham Report) [urges presentational changes to statement] [declassified 2009]
80 Sep 22 Mo	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Lord Privy Seal minute to MT ("Lonrho V Shell and BP Arbitration") [public interest immunity] [declassified 2009]
80 Jan 17 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Lord Privy Seal minute to MT ("Proceedings by Lonrho against BP and Shell") [resist Lonrho demand for documents] [declassified 2009]
80 Mar 31 Mo	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Lord Privy Seal minute to MT ("Proceedings by Lonrho against Shell and BP") [public interest immunity] [declassified 2009]
80 Feb 18 Mo	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Lord Privy Seal minute to MT ("Proceedings by Lonrho against Shell/BP") [public interest immunity] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 5 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: MT letter to Australian PM Malcolm Fraser [UK objective] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 12 Th	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: MT letter to Bishop of Mashonaland (his urging that UK lifts sanctions) [HMG in consultations] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 22 Sa	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: MT letter to Commonwealth Secretary-General Sonny Ramphal (thanks for congratulations) [your own contribution 'significant'] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 30 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: MT letter to Frank Dobson MP (BP/CONOCO oil swap deal) [no oil went to Rhodesia] [declassified 2009]
80 Jan 3 Th	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: MT letter to Ian Paisley (defends Lancaster House agreement) [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 1 Su	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: MT letter to Kaunda (reply to his letter) [aim to bring Rhodesia to legal independence with widest possible international approval] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 11 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: MT letter to Lord Soames (responsibilities as Governor) [confirms Walls to have direct access to him] [declassified 2009]
79 May 31 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: MT letter to Muzorewa (thanks & congratulation) [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 28 Tu	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: MT letter to Nicholas Winterton MP (addressing concerns over Lusaka CHOGM) ["I am very concerned when I receive a critical letter from you"] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 21 Th	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: MT letter to Roger Shipton MP (thanks for report on Rhodesian elections) [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 6 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: MT letter to Zimbabwe-Rhodesia PM Muzorewa (CHGM statement) ["trust our good faith"] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 5 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: MT notes at meeting of Cabinet Committee (OD(79) 3rd, on Rhodesia) ["Constitution not perfect - neither is it anywhere in Africa"] [declassified 2009]
79 May 8 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Muzorewa letter to MT (assurance of support) [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 4 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 letter record of conversation (MT- Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal) [Lancaster House situation] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 28 Tu	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO ("Rhodesia") [lack of leverage through aid programmes] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 3 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (Australian interpretation of MT-Fraser meeting) [Fraser seeking intermediary role] [declassified 2009]
79 May 17 Th	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (Boyd report on Rhodesian elections) [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 26 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (Harlech's mission to Rhodesia) [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 9 Mo	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (message to President Carter) [MT revision of draft] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 21 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (MT agrees to meet Muzorewa in London) [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 4 We	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (MT approves draft letter to Kaunda) [Patrick Cosgrave not her emissary] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 26 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to Law Officers' Dept (Attorney General minute on sanctions-breaking) [MT agrees his conclusions] [declassified 2009]
79 May 8 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (MT comments on Hunt's incoming brief) [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 27 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to FCO (MT's amendment to Kaunda letter) [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 6 Th	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to MT ("Rhodesia") [Carrington pressing for dissolution of Rhodesian parliament] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 19 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to MT ("Rhodesia: Message from Dr Kissinger") ["a little off-beam in some respects"] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 8 Sa	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to MT ("Statement on Bingham") [Carrington "very unhappy" with draft statement] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 7 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to MT ("Statement on Rhodesia") [Gilmour statement on Soames appointment "went off very quietly"] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 19 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to MT ("Statements in the House") [Attorney General's Bingham announcement went badly] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 30 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to MT (Bingham Report) [timing announcement of DPP decision not to prosecute] [declassified 2009]
80 Jan 9 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 note of conversation ("Call by Bishop Muzorewa") [Muzorewa promises to win the election] [declassified 2009]
80 Jan 9 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 note of conversation ("Call by Messrs. Mugabe and Nkomo") [concerned over personal security & SA troop presence] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 24 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT- Israel Ambassador Kidron) [farewell meeting - Sithole] [declassified 2009]
79 May 14 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Boyd) [receives his report] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 2 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Canadian PM Joe Clark) [tactics] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 1 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington) [Harlech's proposed meeting with the Patriotic Front] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 4 Sa	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Australian PM Fraser) [next steps & comuniqué] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 31 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Australian PM Malcolm Fraser) [CHGM discussions] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 4 Sa	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Botswana President Sir Seretse Khama) [Rhodesian situation] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 6 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Lord Harlech) [Harlech mission to Southern Africa] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 12 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-UN Secretary-General Waldheim) [Asia, UN, Soviet Union, Middle East & Zimbabwe] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 13 Fr	Key	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Zimbabwe/Rhodesia PM Bishop Muzorewa) [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 18 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Commonwealth Secretary-General Sonny Ramphal) [Rhodesia] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 12 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-David Rockefeller) [Rhodesia; Shah of Iran; conservatism] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 6 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-General Walls) [Walls seeks assurances] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 6 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Giscard) [extract on Rhodesia, with cover note] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 26 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Julian Amery) ["great blunder" not to recognise Muzorewa regime as soon as it was established] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 3 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Malcolm Fraser) [Fraser seeking intermediary role for himself] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 1 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-NZ PM Muldoon) [Southern Pacific; Rhodesia] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 11 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Tolbert of Liberia) [Lancaster House Conference] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 20 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Singapore PM Lee Kuan Yew) [discussion of Rhodesia over lunch] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 20 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Sri Lankan PM Premadasa) [CHGM; Rhodesia; Non-Aligned Movement; Sri Lanka] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 5 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Ambassador Brewster) [Rhodesia, defence, Iran, Ulster, BNOC oil sales] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 10 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Secretary of State Vance) [extract on Rhodesia - MT hoping US sanctions would be lifted before her visit] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 15 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Zambian High Commissioner Chibesakunda) [argumentative] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 8 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Zambian President Kaunda) [farewell at end of Lusaka CHGM] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 10 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Nyerere letter to MT (sanctions against Rhodesia) [concern at reports Britain might lift] [declassified 2009]
80 Jan 1 Tu	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: PM Bernard Ayandho of Central African Republic letter to MT (congratulations on Lancaster House Agreement) ["la grande satisfaction"] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 24 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: PM Michael Manley of Jamaica letter to MT (congratulations) ["very pleased" at Lancaster House Agreement] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 21 Fr	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: President Hilla Limann of Ghana message to MT (congratulations on Lancaster House Agreement) ["forbearance and statesmanship"] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 8 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: President Kaunda letter to MT (Zambian policy) [critique of "Muzorewa-Smith rule"] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 24 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: President Zia-Ul-Haq of Pakistan message to MT (congratulations on Lancaster House Agreement) ["sagacious leadership"] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 24 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: President Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh message to MT (congratulations on Lancaster House Agreement) ["heartiest felicitations"] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 24 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Richard Ryder note to MT (report of Patrick Cosgrave's meetings with African politicians) [Sithole, Chikarema & Chinamano] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 11 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Tanzanian President Nyerere letter to MT (Lancaster House Conference) ["very last obstacle" - disposition of forces] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 29 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Zambian President Kaunda letter to MT (conversation with Daphne Park) [return to ordinary diplomatic channels] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 8 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe-Rhodesia PM Muzorewa letter to MT (thanks for personal message regarding Lusaka conference) [declassified 2009]
80 Nov 25 Tu	Major	Archive (Home Office)	“Yorkshire Ripper” case: MT meeting with Home Secretary (William Whitelaw) (disquiet at police performance) [declassified 2006]
79 Jun 21 Th	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Abortion: MT letter to Archbishop of Glasgow Thomas Winning (John Corrie's proposed amendment to the Abortion Act 1967) ["I myself welcome the fact that the House will have an opportunity soon to discuss the issue"] [released 2010]
79 Jun 21 Th	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Abortion: MT letter to Cardinal Basil Hume (John Corrie's proposed amendment to the Abortion Act 1967) ["I myself welcome the fact that the House will have an opportunity soon to discuss the issue"] [released 2010]
79 Jun 21 Th	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Abortion: MT letter to the Duke of Norfolk (John Corrie's proposed amendment to the Abortion Act 1967) ["I myself welcome the fact that the House will have an opportunity soon to discuss the issue"] [released 2010]
80 Mar 14 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Alexander note to MT (Foreign Office paper: "Western Strategy in the Wake of Afghanistan") [declassified 2010]
80 Jul 24 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Alexander note to Walden (HMG should meet US Government's request for assistance for the Afghan resistance) [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 21 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Armstrong briefing for MT ("OD: Afghanistan") [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 5 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Armstrong letter to Palliser (message from Brzezinksi to Armstrong) [Pakistan, Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 30 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Armstrong letter to Palliser (message from Brzezinksi to Armstrong) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 3 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Brezhnev letter to MT (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [reply to MT's letter] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 15 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("South-West Asia") [briefing documents] [declassified 2010]
80 Aug 20 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Carrington minute to Members of OD Committee ("Help for the Afghan Resistance") [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 19 Sa	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Carrington minute to MT ("Afghanistan") [meetings with foreign governments to discuss Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
81 May 20 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Carrington minute to MT ("Afghanistan") [proposes fresh, UK-led diplomatic activity aimed at Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]
80 Feb 1 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Carrington minute to MT ("Afghanistan: The Next Steps") [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 2 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Carrington minute to MT ("Iran and Afghanistan") [US Embassy hostage crisis in Iran and Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 8 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Carrington minute to MT ("Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan") [declassified 2010]
80 Mar 17 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Carter letter to MT (issues surrounding Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [Pakistan, India, Turkey, trade in military technology] [declassified 2010]
80 Mar 27 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Carter letter to MT (proposes NATO summit on Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 6 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Afghanistan: The Next Steps") [economic impact of UK actions against USSR] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 1 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO letter to MT ("Soviet Foreign Policy After Afghanistan") [declassified 2010]
81 Jun 9 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Afghanistan") ["encouraging" responses to proposed international conference on Afghanistan; Carrington to visit Moscow] [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 2 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Afghanistan") [FCO line on supply of arms to the resistance movement in Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]
80 Feb 28 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Afghanistan: Future Action") [response to Soviet intervention] [declassified 2010]
81 Mar 25 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Film on Afghanistan") [FCO commissioned film "has now appeared on television in 35 countries"] [declassified 2011]
80 Nov 3 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Film on Afghanistan") [FCO commissions film on Soviet occupation of Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]
80 Apr 2 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("President Carter's Message of 27 March to the Prime Minister: A NATO Summit Meeting") [draft response to Carter] [declassified 2010]
81 Jan 28 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("President Giscard's Proposal for an International Conference on Afghanistan") [declassified 2011]
80 Sep 19 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Publicity for the Resistance in Afghanistan") [training of Afghan tribesmen to take video of Russian military activities in Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 29 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Quadripartite Meetings") [Italian concerns about their exclusion from meeting of 24/25 January on Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Jul 4 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Sayed Ahmed Gailani") [head of Afghan resistance group, Gailani, meets with Hurd and FCO officials] [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 9 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan?") [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 24 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 (text of Carrington's statement to the House of Lords on Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 31 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO record of conversation (UK, US, Canadian, French, German and Italian delegations) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 3 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO to Embassies and Missions (Guidance telegram on Afghanistan) ["the Russians are resorting to 'the Big Lie'"] [declassified 2010]
80 May 7 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Abidjan ("Afghanistan Neutrality and Non-Alignment") [UK proposal gathering support; Soviet reactions] [declassified 2011]
80 Sep 26 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Belgrade ("Meeting between Secretary of State and UN Secretary-General: Afghanistan") [possible UN Resolution on Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]
80 Aug 9 Sa	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Islamabad ("Afghanistan") [Douglas Hurd discusses Afghanistan situation with Pakistan Foreign Minister Agha Shahi] [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 2 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Jeddah ("Afghanistan") [message from Carrington to Habib Chatty; "the Islamic countries should retain the initiative in efforts to seek a solution to the problem caused by the Soviet invasion"] [declassified 2011]
79 Dec 28 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Kabul ("Afghan Coup D'Etat") [British Government statement on USSR actions in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 29 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Moscow ("Afghanistan") [neutrality for Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
81 Jun 15 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Moscow ("Afghanistan: Proposed Visit to Moscow") [arrangements for Carrington's Moscow visit to discuss Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]
80 Feb 28 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Moscow ("Neutrality for Afghanistan") [report on discussion with Soviet Ambassador to the UK] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 7 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Moscow ("Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan") [restriction of contacts with Soviet officials] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 7 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Paris ("Afghanistan and East-West Relations") [Carrington message to French and German Foreign Ministers] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 7 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Tokyo ("Afghanistan") [Cortazzi-Japanese Ambassador meeting] [declassified 2010]
80 May 16 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Vienna ("Afghanistan") [summary of FCO reaction to Soviet proposals on Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]
80 May 15 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Vienna (FCO response to Soviet proposal on Afghanistan) [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 3 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Washington ("Afghanistan and East-West Relations") [possible UK actions towards the Soviet Union] [declassified 2010]
81 Aug 13 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: FCO to UKMIS New York ("Afghanistan") [account of Perez de Cuellar-Waldheim-Hurd-John Graham meeting to discuss UN role] [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 15 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Fergusson minute to Lyne ("Prime Minister's Telephone Conversation with Chancellor Schmidt") [briefing] [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 31 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Hurd minute to Carrington ("Afghanistan") [remarks on Allied meeting to discuss Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 7 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Islamic Council of Europe Secretary-General Azzam letter to MT (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) ["I take this opportunity to congratulate you on the firm and bold stand taken by the British Government"] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 14 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: MT letter to President Giscard (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [declassified 2010]
80 Mar 1 Sa	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: MT letter to President Zia of Pakistan (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 23 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: MT letter to Prime Minister Fraser of Australia (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [declassified 2010]
80 Mar 1 Sa	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: MT letter to Prime Minister Gandhi of India (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 1 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: MT letter to Prime Minister Ohira of Japan (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [neutrality for Afghanistan, Moscow Olympic Games, India, Pakistan, inflation] [declassified 2010]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: MT letter to Ron Brown MP (response to Brown's letter) ["I have no intention of inviting Mr. Babrak Karmal to London"] [declassified 2011]
81 Nov 17 Tu	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Afghanistan: MT letter to Vladimir Bukovsky (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [Soviet defectors inside Afghanistan] [released 2012]
81 Jun 10 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: No.10 letter to FCO ("Afghanistan") [MT supports Carrington's plan but says that proposed visit to Moscow must be cancelled if USSR takes action in Poland] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 15 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: No.10 note to FCO ("Message from President Carter") [support for Afghan rebels] [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 8 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and the Olympic Games] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 16 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ministers-Governor of the Bank of England) [actions against Iran and Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Mar 28 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Schmidt) [extract] [Afghanistan, Carter's proposed NATO summit] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 25 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Schmidt) [extract] [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 3 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Soviet Ambassador to the UK, Lunkov) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 14 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher) [Afghanistan, Iran] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 21 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Prime Minister Cossiga of Italy) [Afghanistan, Iran and the US] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 15 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Schmidt) [Iran, Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 10 Su	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: President Carter letter to MT (thanks for support and proposals for the future) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Diego Garcia] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 6 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: President Giscard letter to MT (French/German response to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) ["we have indicated our willingness to search for means and conditions permitting the maintenance of fruits of detente"] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 12 Sa	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia letter to MT (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) ["I am writing to applaud the vigorous way in which your government has denounced Soviet intervention in Afghanistan"] [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 6 Su	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Prime Minister Gandhi of India letter to MT (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) ["We wonder...whether a non-aligned country needs to indicate neutral status"] [declassified 2010]
80 Mar 18 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Prime Minister Ohira of Japan letter to MT (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [support for neutral Afghanistan, trade relations with USSR, Moscow Olympic Games, aid to Pakistan, Turkey] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 15 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Record of conversation (Armstrong-Brzezinksi-Wahl-von Staden) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 25 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Record of conversation (Carrington-US Ambassador to the UK Brewster) [US response to Brezhnev's speech] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 15 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Record of conversation - Annex (Armstrong-Brzezinksi-Wahl-von Staden) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan: Support for Afghan resistance] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 6 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Record of telephone conversation (Carrington-Prime Minister Fraser of Australia) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, Olympic Games, French/German relations with the US] [declassified 2010]
81 Jan 16 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Ron Brown MP letter to MT ("Afghanistan") [Brown argues that MT should invite President Babrak Karmal of Afghanistan to London] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 13 Mo	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Sayed Ahmad Gailani of the National Islamic Front of Afghanistan message to MT (happy birthday) [thanks for support] [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 14 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Text of statement by Douglas Hurd to the House of Commons (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 1 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Council Discussion: Comments") [meeting of NATO Council to discuss Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 1 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("NATO Council Meeting: Afghanistan") [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Jun 26 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Ankara to FCO ("East/West Relations: Afghanistan") [NATO Ministerial Meeting: Carrington intervention in Restricted Session] [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 23 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Bonn to FCO ("Attitudes to Afghanistan") [German response to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Mar 14 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Bucharest to FCO ("Secretary of State's Visit to Romania: 12-14 March") [Romanian position on Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
81 Jul 9 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Islamabad to FCO ("Afghanistan") [Pakistan receives "another very threatening message from the Russians" regarding Pakistan-US arms deal] [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 24 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Islamabad to FCO ("Russian Atrocities in Afghanistan") [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 5 Sa	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Jeddah to FCO ("Afghanistan") [Habib Chatty seeks talks with President Babrak Karmal of Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]
80 Jun 12 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Kabul to FCO ("Afghanistan") [American reporting from Kabul "has contained exaggeration and fabrication"] [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 3 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Kabul to FCO ("Afghanistan: Recognition/Withdrawal of Ambassadors") [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Aug 7 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Kabul to FCO ("Afghanistan: Sitrep") [declassified 2011]
80 Aug 11 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Kabul to FCO ("Afghanistan: Sitrep") [declassified 2011]
80 Aug 26 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Kabul to FCO ("Afghanistan: Sitrep") [declassified 2011]
80 Sep 18 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Kabul to FCO ("Afghanistan: Sitrep") [declassified 2011]
80 Sep 22 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Kabul to FCO ("Afghanistan: Sitrep") [declassified 2011]
80 Aug 28 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Kabul to FCO ("Afghanistan: Sitrep") [report of West German Charge d'affaires with Soviet Ambassador to Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]
80 Aug 21 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Kabul to FCO ("Afghanistan: Sitrep") [Special Envoy from President Ceaucescu of Romania visits Kabul] [declassified 2011]
80 Aug 18 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Kabul to FCO ("Afghanistan: Sitrep") [USSR/Afghanistan scientific and technical co-operation; situation in Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]
79 Dec 30 Su	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Kabul to FCO ("General Situation") [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 31 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Kabul to FCO ("Security Situation") [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 1 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Kabul to FCO ("Security Situation") [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 29 Sa	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Kabul to FCO ("Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan") [current situation] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 2 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Kabul to FCO ("Speech by Babrak Karmal") [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Mar 6 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Afghanistan Neutrality") [statement by Soviet Government] [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 29 Sa	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Afghanistan") [delivery of MT's letter to Brezhnev regarding USSR actions in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
81 Sep 15 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Afghanistan") [UKA to Moscow meets with Zemskov; negotiating withdrawal of Soviet troops] [declassified 2011]
80 May 13 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Approach to USSR about Afghanistan") [UK and USSR seeking a political solution] [declassified 2011]
80 Feb 23 Sa	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Brezhnev's Speech: Afghanistan") ["My preliminary assessment is that the the international pressure for withdrawal made some impression"] [declassified 2010]
80 May 28 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Soviet Policy on Afghanistan and the Middle East") [account of Brezhnev speech] [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 7 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Soviet Reaction to US Policies") [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 10 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Paris to FCO ("Britain, the Community and the Afghanistan Crisis") [declassified 2010]
81 May 4 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Rome to FCO ("Afghanistan/Pakistan/India") [report Four Power talks on situation in Afghanistan; support for Afghan resistance] [declassified 2011]
80 Apr 17 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Salisbury to FCO ("Secretary of State's Meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister") [Carrington meets with Huang Hua: situation in Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]
80 Apr 17 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Salisbury to FCO ("The Secretary of State's Call on President Zia") [Carrington meets with Zia: proposal for neutral Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]
80 May 15 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Vienna to FCO ("Secretary of State's Meeting with Chancellor Kreisky") [UK proposals for neutral and non-aligned Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]
80 Mar 14 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Washington to FCO ("Afghan Neutrality") [US response to Soviet position on neutrality for Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 7 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Washington to FCO ("Afghanistan and US/Soviet Relations") [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 28 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Washington to FCO ("Afghanistan") [account of meeting with US Secretary of State Vance] [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 29 Sa	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Washington to FCO ("Afghanistan") [Carter's message to Brezhnev regarding Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 17 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Washington to FCO ("Afghanistan") [Four Power lunch: French proposals on special status for Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 1 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Washington to FCO ("Afghanistan") [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Mar 1 Sa	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Washington to FCO ("Meeting with Vance") [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Jun 27 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Washington to FCO ("U.S. Policy Towards Afghanistan") [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 10 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKE Washington to FCO ("US Aid to Afghan Resistance") [Reagan's comments on aid to Afghan resistance in TV interview] [declassified 2011]
80 Nov 27 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKMIS New York to FCO ("Afghanistan: Follow Up to General Assembly Debate") [Parsons talks with Waldheim] [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 10 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKMIS New York to FCO ("Afghanistan: General Assembly") [statement by the Nine to UN General Assembly] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 6 Su	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKMIS New York to FCO ("Afghanistan: Security Council") [report on meeting of UN Security Council] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 6 Su	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: UKMIS New York to FCO ("Afghanistan: Security Council") [UK statement to UN Security Council] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 15 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("Iran and Afghanistan") [declassified 2010]
81 Apr 10 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Walden minute to Coles ("Help for the Afghan Resistance") [report of Carrington-Haig discussion on arms for Afghan fighters] [declassified 2011]
81 Nov 12 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Africa: Julian Amery MP letter to MT (thoughts on Southern Africa) [Namibia, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, South Africa] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 11 We	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Africa: MT letter to Howard (satellites and services to Francophone Africa) [thanks for letter] [released 2012]
79 May 30 We	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Africa: MT letter to President Mustafa Ould Salek of Mauritania ("Death of Mauritanian Prime Minister") [condolences] [released 2010]
79 Oct 16 Tu	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Africa: MT message to President Dos Santos of Angola (congratulations on becoming President) [released 2010]
80 Dec 3 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Armstrong briefing for MT ("E: Liquid Milk Prices") [declassified 2011]
80 Apr 15 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Energy Subsidies to the Horticulture and Fishing Industries (E(80) 35)") [declassified 2011]
80 Aug 5 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Liquid Milk Prices (E(80) 88 and 89)") [declassified 2011]
79 Jun 15 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Berrill minute to Lankester ("Milk Marketing") [declassified 2011]
79 Dec 5 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Berrill minute to Lankester ("Milk Prices") [proposed increase in price of milk and future of the milk distribution system] [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 23 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Biffen minute to MT ("Liquid Milk Prices") [declassified 2011]
79 Jun 1 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Walker ("Milk Prices") [proposed independent review of milk pricing arrangements] [declassified 2011]
79 Jun 13 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Walker (milk prices and Milk Marketing Boards) [declassified 2011]
79 May 21 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Walker (proposed milk retail price increase) [declassified 2011]
80 Dec 1 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Edwards minute to MT ("Liquid Milk Prices") [declassified 2011]
79 Oct 3 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Hunt briefing for MT ("Liquid Milk Prices (C(79) 41)") [proposed increase of milk price] [declassified 2011]
79 Jun 25 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Hunt minute to Lankester ("Milk Marketing") [declassified 2011]
79 Jun 12 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Jopling letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (milk prices and Milk Marketing Boards) ["we shall receive very strong pressure from within the Party if we embark on a course which appeared to be aimed at dismantling the powers of the Milk Marketing Board"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 27 Fr	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Agriculture: Jopling minute to Walker (row over milk prices) [report of Jopling's meeting with Officers of the Agriculture Committee] [released 2012]
79 Oct 1 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Joseph minute to MT ("Milk Prices") [proposed increase of milk price] [declassified 2011]
79 May 21 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Lankester minute to MT ("Milk Prices") [proposed increase in retail price of milk] [declassified 2011]
79 May 24 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: MAFF letter to No.10 ("Milk Prices") [written Parliamentary Answer on 1.5p increase in retail price of milk] [declassified 2011]
79 Dec 10 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: No.10 letter to Home Office ("Maximum Retail Price of Milk") [new price to come into operation on Sunday 17 February] [declassified 2011]
79 May 23 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: No.10 letter to MAFF ("Milk Prices") [MT agrees to 1.5p increase in retail price of milk] [declassified 2011]
79 May 21 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: No.10 letter to MAFF ("Milk Prices") [MT's view is that 1p increase in retail price of milk is "maximum that is politically feasible"] [declassified 2011]
80 Sep 5 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Orkney NFU representatives) [agricultural costs, milk price, sheepmeat, CAP] [declassified 2011]
79 May 21 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Nott letter to Walker ("Milk Prices") [proposed increase in retail price of milk conflicts with reform of CAP and elimination of milk surplus] [declassified 2011]
80 Mar 21 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Nott letter to Walker ("Review of Liquid Milk Costings System") [declassified 2011]
80 Dec 3 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Prior minute to MT ("Liquid Milk Prices") [declassified 2011]
79 Jun 4 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Milk Prices") ["I think it would be disastrous to have an independent enquiry into the whole future of milk marketing in this country"] [declassified 2011]
79 May 16 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Retail and Wholesale Milk Prices") [urgent need for increase in retail price of milk] [declassified 2011]
79 Dec 3 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (milk prices) ["strength of feeling" building up "as a result of our decision not to increase milk prices in October"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 3 Tu	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Agriculture: Walker letter to Jopling (row over milk prices) [anger of farmers' unions] [released 2012]
80 Mar 21 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Walker letter to MT ("Energy Prices and Competition") [proposes fuel subsidy for British food producers] [declassified 2011]
79 May 22 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Walker letter to MT (proposed increase in retail price of milk) [addressing MT's concerns] [declassified 2011]
82 Dec 20 Mo	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Agriculture: Walker minute to MT ("Forward Look") [Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food plans for the next five years] [released 2013]
80 Jul 18 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Walker minute to MT ("Liquid Milk Prices") [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 25 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Walker minute to MT ("Liquid Milk Prices") [declassified 2011]
80 Nov 27 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Walker minute to MT ("Liquid Milk Prices") [declassified 2011]
80 Mar 27 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Younger letter to MT (supports Walker's proposed fuel subsidy) [declassified 2011]
80 Dec 2 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Agriculture: Younger minute to MT ("Liquid Milk Prices") [declassified 2011]
80 Feb 8 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aid: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Overseas Aid (OD(80) 7 and 8)") [aid policy review] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 9 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aid: Carrington minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Aid Policy Review") [report of aid policy review group] [declassified 2010]
79 Sep 17 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aid: Carrington minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Effect on Rhodesia Policy of Cuts in the 1979-80 Aid Programme") [strategy for dealing with cuts to spending] [declassified 2010]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aid: Carrington minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Effect on Rhodesia Policy of Cuts in the 1979/1980 Aid Programme") [MT: "Cuts? But we agreed there has been an increase of 2% in real terms"] [declassified 2010]
79 Jul 30 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aid: Carrington minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Overseas Aid: Policy Review") [arrangements for fundamental review of aid policy] [declassified 2010]
79 Jul 17 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aid: Carrington minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("The 1979-80 Aid Programme") [aid expenditure] [declassified 2010]
79 Sep 7 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aid: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Carrington ("Effect on Rhodesia Policy of Cuts in the 1979-80 Aid Programme") [Chancellor rejects call for contingency spending] [declassified 2010]
79 Sep 24 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aid: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Carrington ("Effect on Rhodesia Policy of Cuts in the 1979-80 Overseas Aid Programme") [accepts Carrington's strategy for dealing with cuts to spending] [declassified 2010]
79 Jul 9 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aid: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Carrington ("Overseas Aid: Policy Review") [calls for fundamental review of aid policy] [declassified 2010]
79 Jul 25 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aid: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Carrington ("The 1979-80 Aid Programme") [aid expenditure] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 18 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aid: FCO letter to No.10 ("Overseas Aid Policy") [draft parliamentary statement on aid policy review] [declassified 2010]
79 Jun 21 Th	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: MT letter to Bernard Braine MP (international trade and development, UNCTAD V) ["our overrding priority must be to get our own economy right"] [released 2010]
82 Apr 26 Mo	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: MT letter to President Kaunda of Zambia (International Development Association and the World Bank) [other nations to follow UK lead in making larger proportion of grant contribution available] [released 2013]
82 May 7 Fr	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: MT letter to President Nyerere of Tanzania (International Development Association and the World Bank) [other nations to follow UK lead in making larger proportion of grant contribution available] [released 2013]
82 Aug 24 Tu	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: MT letter to President Toure of Guinea (river blindness) [UK a regular contributor to Onchoceriasis Control Programme] [released 2013]
82 Apr 21 We	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: MT letter to President Zia of Pakistan (International Development and the World Bank) [US yet to give full contribution to IDA; HMG makes 370 million pounds available to IDA] [released 2013]
82 May 4 Tu	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: MT letter to Prime Minister Premadasa of Sri Lanka (International Year of Shelter for the Homeless) ["I cannot guarantee that we shall be able to make a financial contribution"] [released 2013]
82 Oct 1 Fr	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: MT letter to Prime Minister Premadasa of Sri Lanka (International Year of Shelter for the Homeless) [UK unlikely to be able to make an additional contribution] [released 2013]
79 Jun 26 Tu	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: MT letter to the Lord Bishop of Southwark (aid for the developing world) ["The Government's first priority must be to ensure that our own economy is soundly based"] [released 2010]
82 Apr 10 Sa	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: MT message to Prime Minister Mugabe of Zimbabwe (International Development Association and the World Bank) [HMG makes 370 million pounds available to IDA] [released 2013]
82 Mar 29 Mo	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: President Jayewardene of Sri Lanka letter to MT (aid to Sri Lanka) [call for UK aid] [released 2013]
82 Apr 2 Fr	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: President Kaunda of Zambia letter to MT (World Bank aid to Africa) [Western contribution to the International Development Association] [released 2013]
82 Sep 23 Th	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: President Lopez Portillo of Mexico letter to all Heads of State at Cancun meeting (International Meeting on Cooperation and Development) [released 2013]
82 Apr 8 Th	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: President Nyerere of Tanzania letter to MT (International Development Agency and the World Bank) [asks UK to use influence to encourage other nations to donate to IDA] [released 2013]
82 Apr 20 Tu	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: President Nyerere of Tanzania letter to MT (International Development Agency and the World Bank) [asks UK to use influence to encourage other nations to donate to IDA] [released 2013]
82 Jul 13 Tu	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: President Toure of Guinea letter to MT (river blindness) [request for cooperation in seeking to eradicate the disease] [released 2013]
82 Mar 27 Sa	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: President Zia of Pakistan letter to MT (international aid policy review) [UK contribution to International Development Association] [released 2013]
82 Mar 11 Th	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: Prime Minister Mugabe of Zimbabwe letter to MT (international aid policy review) [International Development Association and World Bank] [released 2013]
82 Aug 16 Mo	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: Prime Minister Premadasa of Sri Lanka letter to MT ("International Year for the Homeless") [thanks for support so far; progress report; request for contribution pledge] [released 2013]
82 Feb 16 Tu	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: Prime Minister Premadasa of Sri Lanka letter to MT ("International Year of Shelter for the Homeless") [call for UK contribution to UN programme] [released 2013]
82 May 18 Tu	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Aid: Prime Minister Premadasa of Sri Lanka letter to MT (International Year of Shelter for the Homeless) [released 2013]
80 May 30 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Algeria: FCO letter to No.10 (brief for MT's meeting with Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Benyahia) [declassified 2010]
82 May 5 We	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Algeria: MT message to Prime Minister Abdelghani of Algeria ("Death of Algerian Foreign Minister") [condolences] [released 2013]
82 Jun 18 Fr	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Algeria: MT message to Prime Minister Abdelghani of Algeria (thanks for message on Queen Elizabeth II's birthday) [released 2013]
80 Jun 2 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Algeria: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Benyahia) [Iran, Afghanistan, Arab-Israeli conflict] [declassified 2010]
82 Jun 14 Mo	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Algeria: Prime Minister Abdelghani of Algeria message to MT (Queen Elizabeth II's birthday) [released 2013]
82 Jul 23 Fr	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Angola: MT letter to President Dos Santos of Angola (negotiations for peace settlement in Namibia) [released 2013]
80 Mar 31 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Anguilla: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Bill for the Separation of Anguilla from St. Kitts-Nevis (OD(80) 32)") [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 2 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Anguilla: Havers letter to MT ("Bill for the Separation of Anguilla from the Associated State of St Kitts") [declassified 2010]
80 Mar 14 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Archives: Armstrong minute to Whitmore ("Suez Records") [official papers relating to the Suez affair due for release in 1986] [declassified 2009]
86 Jun 30 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Archives: Armstrong minute to Wicks (Suez affair) [Anglo-French-Israeli meeting at Sèvres, October 1956] [declassified 2009]
80 Jun 17 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Archives: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Armstrong) ["Suez Records"] [declassified 2009]
80 Feb 26 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Argentina: FCO letter to No.10 ("Argentina") [visit to the UK of Argentine Minister of the Economy] [declassified 2010]
80 Jun 16 Mo	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Argentina: Gow letter to Nick Ridley (MT meeting with Argentine Minister of the Economy, Martinez De Hoz) [thanks for note of conversation] [released 2011]
80 Jun 11 We	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Argentina: Nick Ridley letter to Gow (MT meeting with Argentine Minister of the Economy, Martinez De Hoz) [note of conversation] [released 2011]
80 Jun 6 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Argentina: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Argentine Minister of the Economy, Dr. Martinez de Hoz) [declassified 2010]
80 Dec 17 We	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Arts: Armand Hammer letter to MT (Hammer's acquisition of Da Vinci codex) [declassified 2011]
81 Dec 2 We	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Arts: Armstrong minute to Stephens ("The Royal College of Music") [Armstrong pleased that MT will attend centenary celebration; makes clear that he has not received "inducement or reward" from RCM] [released 2013]
80 Nov 12 We	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Arts: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster's Office letter to No.10 ("Luton Hoo") [preservation of the Collection] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 10 Tu	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Arts: Channon minute to MT (export licence for the Da Vinci codex) [Channon accepts Reviewing Committee's decision to delay export, but will reduce delaying period to one month] [declassified 2011]
81 May 14 Th	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Arts: Gow minute to MT ("Chairmanship of the Arts Council") [Channon wishes to appoint Alistair McAlpine as Chairman of the Arts Council] [released 2012]
80 Jun 20 Fr	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Arts: Heseltine letter to MT (preservation of the Luton Hoo Collection) [declassified 2011]
82 Oct 26 Tu	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Arts: Hugh Thomas briefing note ("Lord Thomas' Dinner, October 26") [notes on attendees incl. Pritchett, Berlin, Naipaul, Stoppard, Larkin, Alvarez, Spender, Powell] [released 2013]
81 Jan 5 Mo	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Arts: MT letter to Armand Hammer (Da Vinci codex) [declassified 2011]
80 Mar 21 Fr	Trivial	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Arts: MT letter to David Trippier (end of public funding for the Clowns' Training School) [released 2011]
82 Oct 27 We	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Arts: MT letter to Hugh and Vanessa Thomas (thanks for literary dinner) ["I hope [writers] enjoyed it - I was a little worried that Philip Larkin was so silent"] [released 2013]
80 Jul 14 Mo	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Arts: MT letter to Nicholas Phillips of the Wernher Collection (preservation of the Luton Hoo Collection) [declassified 2011]
82 Feb 22 Mo	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Arts: MT letter to Paul Eddington (future of West End Theatres) [response to Eddington's concerns about the preservation of theatre-land] [released 2013]
80 May 20 Tu	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Arts: Nicholas Phillips of the Wernher Collection letter to MT (preservation of the Luton Hoo Collection) [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 22 We	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Arts: Nicholas Phillips of the Wernher Collection letter to MT (preservation of the Luton Hoo Collection) [thanks for help] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 5 Th	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Arts: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Armand Hammer) [export licence for Da Vinci codex] [declassified 2011]
80 Dec 19 Fr	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Arts: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Stevas) [Armand Hammer's purchase of Da Vinci codex] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 22 We	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Arts: Pattison minute to MT ("Da Vinci Manuscript") [Stevas meets Lord Coke to discuss sale of Da Vinci manuscript] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 9 Mo	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Arts: Pattison minute to MT ("The Leicester Codex") [export licence for Da Vinci codex] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 30 Fr	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Arts: Pattison minute to MT ("The Leicester Codex") [Reviewing Committee recommend that export licence should be withheld; dangers involved in overturning decision] [declassified 2011]
82 Feb 25 Th	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Arts: Stephens minute to MT ("Re-enactment of Founding of Royal College of Music at St. James's Palace on Sunday 28 February") ["We have been bounced by, I suspect, a combination of the Royal College of Music and the Palace"] [released 2013]
81 Jul 10 Fr	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Arts: Stephens minute to MT ("Royal College of Music Centenary Celebration: 28 February 1982") [Stephens: "May I please ask you to reconsider your decision [to attend]"] [released 2013]
81 Nov 4 We	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Arts: Stephens note to MT (Royal College of Music Centenary) [Armstrong asks MT to reconsider refusal of invitation; Whitmore "adamant" that MT should not attend] [released 2013]
81 Jan 21 We	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Arts: Stevas letter to MT (Da Vinci codex) [temporary export licence] [declassified 2011]
80 Dec 29 Mo	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Arts: Stevas letter to MT (Da Vinci codex) [temporary export permission granted] [declassified 2011]
80 Apr 18 Fr	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Australian High Commission letter to No.10 (televised international telephone conversation between MT and Prime Minister Fraser) [declassified 2010]
79 Jun 14 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Cabinet Office letter to Cartledge ("Visit to Australia by the Prime Minister 30th June-1st July") [objectives of visit] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 29 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Cartledge minute to MT ("Australia") [problems with Fraser regarding Canberra meeting joint statement] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 15 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: FCO letter to Cartledge ("The Prime Minister's Visit to Australia: 30 June - 1 July: RHODESIA") [handling public statements about Rhodesia during MT's visit] [declassified 2009]
80 Apr 25 Fr	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Australia: FCO letter to No.10 ("Telephone Conversation with Mr Fraser") [brief] [declassified 2010]
79 Jun 30 Sa	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: FCO note ("Visit by the Prime Minister") [MT Canberra visit schedule] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 5 Th	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Australia: FCO to UK High Commission Canberra (convey MT irritation at publication of conversation with Australian Prime Minister (Malcolm Fraser)) [Vietnamese Boat People] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 28 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: FCO to UKE Tokyo ("Canberra Joint Statement") [Carrington suggests direct message from MT to Fraser regarding joint statement] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 4 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: FCO to UKHC Canberra ("Visit by the Prime Minister") [announcement of MT's visit to Australia] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 27 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: FCO to UKHC Canberra (Australian proposed joint statement regarding MT-Fraser meetings) ["the joint statement which the Australians have in mind is totally inappropriate for a short and informal visit..."] [declassified 2009]
80 Jul 24 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Howell minute to MT ("Australia: Transfer of Enrichment Technology") [declassified 2011]
79 Jun 29 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: MT letter to Fraser (Canberra meeting joint statement) ["the joint statement as at present drafted by officials is longer and more detailed than I had in mind"] [declassified 2009]
81 Mar 23 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: MT letter to Premier Tonkin of South Australia (closure of the British-Consulate General in Adelaide) [not possible to re-open office] [declassified 2011]
80 Aug 1 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: MT letter to Premier Tonkin of South Australia (proposed uranium enrichment plant) [declassified 2011]
79 Nov 27 Tu	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Australia: MT letter to Prime Minister Fraser of Australia (MT wishes Fraser a speedy recovery from illness and thanks him for support on Rhodesia) [released 2010]
80 Jul 25 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: MT letter to Prime Minister Fraser of Australia (proposed uranium enrichment plant) [HMG "prepared to authorise transfer of centrifuge technology to you"] [declassified 2011]
79 Jun 4 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: MT letter to Prime Minister Muldoon of New Zealand ("Visits to Australia and New Zealand") [MT regrets that she cannot visit New Zealand at this time] [declassified 2009]
82 Nov 1 Mo	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Australia: MT message to Prime Minister Fraser of Australia (get well soon) [Fraser admitted to hospital with back condition] [released 2013]
82 Jun 30 We	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Australia: MT message to Prime Minister Fraser of Australia (UK will retain HMS Invincible rather than selling her to Australia) [MT offers HMS Hermes instead] [released 2013]
79 Jun 30 Sa	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: No.10 message to Whitmore (UK press coverage of Tokyo summit) [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 1 Su	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: No.10 message to Whitmore (UK Press coverage) [Canberra visit, Rhodesia, Lusaka, petrol prices, BP] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 1 Su	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: No.10 message to Whitmore (UK Press coverage) [Tokyo Summit, Vietnamese refugees, Post Office, nuclear power, Northern Ireland] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 1 Su	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Fraser) [UK/Australia relations, energy, North/South dialogue, Vietnamese refugees, inflation, East/West relations, Pakistan and nuclear weapons] [declassified 2009]
80 Feb 4 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Fraser of Australia) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, Middle East, Iran] [declassified 2010]
79 Jun 14 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: No.11 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Phillip Lynch, Australian Minister of Commerce and Industry) [economic issues in Australia] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 7 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Palliser letter to Hunt ("Visit to Australia by the Prime Minister 30 June / 1 July") [objectives of visit] [declassified 2009]
81 Mar 3 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Premier Tonkin of South Australia letter to MT (closure of the British-Consulate General in Adelaide) [Tonkin lobbies for re-opening of the office] [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 3 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Premier Tonkin of South Australia letter to MT (proposed uranium enrichment plant in South Australia) [request for support] [declassified 2011]
82 Dec 2 Th	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Australia: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia letter to MT (thanks for message of sympathy regarding recent illness) [released 2013]
82 Jul 2 Fr	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Australia: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia message to MT (Ian Sinclair to visit London to discuss sale of HMS Invincible or Hermes to Australia) [released 2013]
82 Jul 1 Th	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Australia: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia message to MT (sale of HMS Invicible to Australia) [Fraser confused by MT's alternative offer of HMS Hermes] [released 2013]
79 Aug 3 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Tebbit despatch to Carrington ("Visit to Australia by the Prime Minister, The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP, 30 June to 1 July 1979") [official visit was "short but highly successful"] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 1 Su	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Text of MT speech to Australian National Press Club (UK/Australia relations, energy, the Tokyo Summit, the Commonwealth and Rhodesia) [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 27 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: UKHC Canberra to FCO ("Visit by the Prime Minister: Proposed passage on Rhodesia in draft joint statement") [Fraser's suggests amendments to draft statement] [declassified 2009]
79 Jun 29 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: UKHC Canberra to No.10 ("Visit by the Prime Minister: Canberra Joint Statement") ["The central difficulty is...Mr Fraser's preoccupation with Rhodesia"] [declassified 2009]
79 May 11 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Wall letter to Cartledge ("Overseas Visits by the Prime Minister") [FCO advises MT to visit Australia] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 3 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Whitmore letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Canberra: Rhodesia") [records of meetings in Canberra] [declassified 2009]
82 Jun 17 Th	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Bahamas: MT message to Prime Minister Pindling of the Bahamas (congratulations on election victory) [released 2013]
82 Aug 27 Fr	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Bahamas: Prime Minister Pindling of the Bahamas message to MT (thanks for message of congratulations on election victory) [released 2013]
80 May 2 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Bangladesh: FCO letter to No.10 ("Bangladesh: Visit by President Zia") [invitation to Zia] [declassified 2010]
82 Apr 2 Fr	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Bangladesh: Lieutenant General Ershad of Bangladesh (situation in Bangladesh) [Bangladeshi foreign policy objectives] [released 2013]
82 May 4 Tu	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Bangladesh: MT letter to General Ershad (UK aid to Bangladesh and other matters) [released 2013]
80 Jun 20 Fr	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Bangladesh: MT letter to President Ziaur of Bangladesh (thanks for gifts) [declassified 2010]
79 May 5 Sa	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Bangladesh: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Zia of Bangladesh) [congratulations on MT's election, Lusaka CHOGM] [released 2010]
80 Jul 8 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Bangladesh: President Ziaur of Bangladesh letter to MT (thanks for visit and development aid for Bangladesh) [declassified 2010]
80 Jun 19 Th	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Bangladesh: President Ziaur of Bangladesh message to MT (thanks for visit) [declassified 2010]
79 Jul 30 Mo	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	BBC: MT letter to BBC Chairman Sir Michael Swann (consequences of cut to FCO's grant-in-aid on BBC External Services) [released 2010]
82 May 4 Tu	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Belize: MT letter to Prime Minister Price of Belize (timetable for withdrawal of British garrison from Belize) [garrison to stay for the time being due to uncertain situation in Guatemala] [released 2013]
82 May 5 We	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Belize: MT letter to Prime Minister Price of Belize (timetable for withdrawal of British garrison from Belize) [garrison to stay for the time being due to uncertain situation in Guatemala] [released 2013]
82 Aug 11 We	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Belize: MT message to Prime Minister Price of Belize (British garrison in Belize) [situation will be kept under review] [released 2013]
82 Jun 16 We	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Bermuda: Prime Minister Swan of Bermuda letter to MT (thanks for bilateral meeting) [released 2013]
81 Dec 1 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Brazil: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Foreign Minister of Brazil, Guerreiro) [Brazilian internal affairs, bilateral relations] [declassified 2011]
79 Aug 8 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Bullard minute on BBC External Services (FCO proposals for cuts) [“Experience has made me suspicious of the BBC’s own figures”] [declassified 2009]
80 Sep 24 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Whitelaw ("Welsh Language TV") [MT: "An unwise letter"] [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 15 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Levy on Independent Television Contractors") [need for alternative to levy on profits] [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 11 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Dafyyd Wigley MP letter to MT (fourth television channel) [Gwynfor Evans threatens hunger strike unless HMG establishes Welsh TV channel] [declassified 2011]
79 Aug 22 We	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: David Boddy letter to Richard Ryder (complaining against BBC) [procedure] [released 2010]
79 Nov 12 Mo	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: David Boddy minute to Thorneycroft and others (October radio & tv) [calculation of political balance] [released 2010]
79 Oct 31 We	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 (BBC External Service cuts) [FCO cuts yet to come] [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 24 Mo	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: FCO letter to UKE Paris (MT will not do interview with Antenne 2) [MT refusing all interview requests] [released 2011]
79 Dec 21 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Gladstone minute on BBC External Services (lunch at Bush House) [vital FCO/BBC be on same side next time; BBC to lay on “suitable claret”] [declassified 2009]
80 May 6 Tu	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Gordon Reece letter to MT (recommends Robin Day for role of Chairman of the BBC) ["The appointment of Robin Day would also be very popular and would be widely praised"] [released 2011]
79 Oct 1 Mo	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Gordon Reece letter to No.10 Press Secretary (Henry James) (ITV strike) [no chance of LWT being on air for interview this Sunday] [released 2010]
79 Nov 26 Mo	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Gordon Reece letter to Richard Ryder (audience figures for British tv & radio news) [“since the strike ... ITV have shown a considerable down turn”] [released 2010]
80 Apr 11 Fr	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Gordon Reece letter to Whitelaw (inadequate funding for Channel 4) [suggests postponement of launch] [released 2011]
80 Oct 1 We	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Gordon Reece letter to Whitelaw (Reece "horrified" by appointment of Jeremy Isaacs as CEO of ITV2) [released 2011]
79 Nov 28 We	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Gordon Reece message to Richard Ryder (ITN poll on Europe) [majority favour PM’s policy, but growing trend for withdrawal] [released 2010]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Gordon Reece minute for Richard Ryder (MT’s first major tv interview as PM) [now is the time] [released 2010]
79 Nov 8 Th	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Gordon Reece minute for Richard Ryder (recommends PM go on tv) [“Nothing happened”] [released 2010]
79 Nov 15 Th	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Gordon Reece minute to MT (PPB slot available 21 Nov) [“If you considered this an appropriate moment to talk to the electorate”] [released 2010]
79 Jun 20 We	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Gordon Reece minute to Richard Ryder (MT at Tokyo G7) [MT’s first interview since General Election] [declassified 2009]
81 Feb 24 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Home Office letter to No.10 (BBC charter, licence and agreement) [advertising on the BBC] [declassified 2011]
79 Jul 25 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Home Office letter to No.10 (creation of fourth television channel) [encouraging other companies to produce content for fourth channel] [declassified 2011]
79 Nov 9 Fr	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Ian Gow minute for MT (BBC External Services - Commons debate 13 Nov) [“receiving exceptionally favourable treatment”] [released 2010]
79 Sep 19 We	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Ian Gow minute to MT (encloses transcript of Monday’s Panorama ) [MT: “I really think we should protest officially”] [released 2010]
79 Oct 25 Th	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Ingham letter to London Correspondent for Antenne 2 (MT will not accept interview offer) [released 2011]
80 Apr 30 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Ingham record of conversation (MT-BBC Officials) [BBC licence fee, advertising on the BBC, Carrickmore, Reithian Standards, BBC cuts] [declassified 2011]
79 Nov 20 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Lady Plowden, Chairman of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, letter to MT (ITV levy) [Chancellor of the Exchequer concerned that levy is on profits, not revenue] [declassified 2011]
80 May 12 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Maude minute to MT ("IBA and TV Contractors") [declassified 2011]
79 Aug 3 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: McQuillan minute to FCO Departments (BBC External Service cuts) [ministers want to protect World Service and broadcasts to Communist countries] [declassified 2009]
79 May 4 Fr	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Michael Cole letter to MT (hopes to conduct first interview with her as PM) [released 2010]
80 Aug 1 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: MT letter to Dafyyd Wigley MP (Gwynfor Evans' threatened hunger strike over fourth television channel) [MT will not meet with Evans] [declassified 2011]
80 Jun 30 Mo	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: MT letter to Lord Vaizey (economics of the BBC) [released 2011]
80 Apr 3 Th	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: MT letter to Margaret Wickstead (cuts to BBC expenditure) [released 2011]
80 Oct 7 Tu	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: MT letter to Mary Whitehouse (Broadcasting Bill) [broadcasting standards] [released 2011]
80 Apr 1 Tu	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: MT letter to Thelma Cazalet-Keir (Moscow Olympic Games and BBC Chairman) ["We want someone who will actually insist that both [balance and public taste] are observed"] [released 2011]
81 Feb 23 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Home Office (BBC charter, licence and agreement) [advertising on the BBC] [declassified 2011]
79 Jul 18 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Home Office (creation of fourth television channel) [encouraging other companies to produce content for fourth channel] [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 16 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Home Office (ITV levy) [MT wants option of making changes to levy left open] [declassified 2011]
79 Nov 26 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Home Office (Whitelaw's proposals for legislation on broadcasting) [advertising on the fourth television channel] [declassified 2011]
80 Sep 15 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Edwards-Whitmore-Pattison) [Gwynfor Evans' threatened hunger strike over fourth television channel] [declassified 2011]
79 Aug 16 Th	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Richard Ryder to David Boddy (complaining against BBC) [predicts an avalanche] [released 2010]
79 Oct 27 Sa	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Sir Ian Gilmour letter to MT (BBC External Service cuts) [cuts reduced by one third] [declassified 2009]
80 Feb 15 Fr	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: UKE Paris letter to Andy Wood ("Requests from the French Media for Interviews with the Prime Minister") [released 2011]
80 Jul 29 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Welsh Office letter to No.10 (Gwynfor Evans' threatened hunger strike over fourth television channel) [Edwards meets with Evans] [declassified 2011]
80 Sep 17 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Welsh Office press release ("Text of a letter from the Home Secretary to the Rt Hon Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos") [HMG accepts case for Welsh television channel] [declassified 2011]
79 Nov 15 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Whitelaw letter to MT ("Tenth Report of the Select Committee on Nationalised Industries") [response to the report on Independent Broadcasting Authority] [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 9 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Whitelaw letter to MT (ITV levy) [Whitelaw's response to Chancellor and MT's concerns on levy] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 18 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("B.B.C. Charter and Licence and Agreement") [declassified 2011]
80 Jun 9 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("ITV Levy") [Whitelaw and Chancellor agree not to introduce new levy arrangements this session] [declassified 2011]
80 Jan 15 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Levy on Independent Television Contractors") [Whitelaw will remain open to possibility of making changes to levy by amending Broadcasting Bill] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 26 Th	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Budget, etc: Carrington letter to MT (complains at Ingham briefing) [have avoided indicating differences to press on "budget or anything else"] [released 2012]
81 Feb 23 Mo	Key	Archive (Walters MSS)	Budget: Alan Walters diary (MT-Howe-Wass budget meeting) [MT telling Howe get down PSBR or "you are for the chop"] [released 2012]
81 Feb 19 Th	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Indexed Gilts") [must auction them since appropriate price unknown] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Alan Walters minute to MT (Budget) [urges tougher than expected PSBR to ease funding, interest rates & exchange rate] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 10 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Alan Walters minutes to MT (Budget) [danger of underestimating PSBR; "Budget & Monetary Policy"] [declassified 2011]
82 Feb 1 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Armstrong minute to Whitmore (leak of Chancellor of the Exchequer's paper on economic strategy) [Economist article] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 26 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Brittan letter to Heseltine ("The National Insurance Surcharge and the Rate Support Grant") [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 17 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Chancellor minute for Lawson ("Competitiveness & the Exchange Rate") [Wass group a "post-mortem on a patient who ought to be dead but isn't!"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 12 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer draft cabinet paper ("1981 Public Expenditure Survey") [move to cash planning] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 16 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer draft letter to Sir Jeremy Morse (windfall tax on bank profits) [rejects his counter-proposal] [declassified 2011]
82 Mar 3 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to MT ("The Budget") [update] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 23 Mo	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Sir Jeremy Morse (windfall tax on bank profits) [rejects his counter-proposal] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 5 Th	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Thorneycroft (thanks for expression of views on the economic situation) [lead up to the Budget] [released 2012]
80 Nov 6 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("1981 Budget & Public Expenditure White Paper") [timetable] [declassified 2011]
80 Dec 30 Tu	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("1981 Budget Arrangements") [10 March date] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Additional Revenue from the Banks") [no alternative now to a tax on windfall profits] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 24 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Bank Tax & DERV Duty Concessions") [minor concession to smaller banks; firming up on DERV] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 29 Th	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Capital Tax Changes in the 1981 Budget") ["the major attack this year should be on CTT"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 18 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Company Taxation: Stock Relief") [detailed reform proposals] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Corporation Tax: The Reform of Stock Relief") [consultative paper proposed] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 18 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Indexed Gilts") [seeks agreement to announce in budget] [declassified 2011]
82 Feb 24 We	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Mortgage Interest Relief Ceiling") [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 26 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("North Sea Fiscal Regime") [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 20 Fr	Major	Archive (TNA)	Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Oil Taxation Proposals") [broad lines of budget changes] [declassified 2011]

89 Jan 19 Th

Key

Archive (Reagan Library)

Cold War: MT letter to Reagan ("you stood for all that is best in America") [declassified 2000]

88 Nov 16 We

Minor

Archive (Michael Miller MSS)

Cold War: Programme for MT's farewell visit to Reagan at the White House (ceremonial arrival)

89 Jan 19 Th

Key

Archive (Reagan Library)

Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (farewell) [declassified 2000]

87 Jun 12 Fr

Major

Archive (Reagan Library)

Cold War: Reagan call to Thatcher (election congratulations) [declassified 1998] [22K scan]

79 Aug 2 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Commonwealth: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Bangladeshi President Zia) [request for aid] [declassified 2009]

86 Mar 18 Tu

Key

Hansard

Economy: 1986 Budget (Lawson 3)

88 Nov 25 Fr

Key

Lawson (Nigel)

Economy: Minute to the Prime Minister (An independent central bank) [published 1992]

89 Oct 31 Tu

Key

Lawson (Nigel)

Economy: Resignation speech (Hansard)

88 Jun 23 Th

Key

Lawson (Nigel)

Economy: Tax Reform (The Government's Record) (CPC pamphlet)

81 Jan 14 We

Key

Lawson (Nigel)

Economy: Thatcherism in Practice: A Progress Report (Speech to Zurich Society of Economics)

84 Jun 18 Mo

Key

Lawson (Nigel)

Economy: The British Experiment (The Mais Lecture)

80 Aug 4 Mo

Key

Lawson (Nigel)

Economy: The New Conservatism (Lecture to the Bow Group)

79 May 4 Fr

Key

Archive (Thatcher MSS)

General Election: Aide-memoire for St.Francis prayer ("Where there is discord ...")

80 Jan 10 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia: Message to the Prime Minister from Mr Mugabe") [Mugabe protest on SA troop presence] [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 7 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Ken Stowe minute to MT ("Shell, Sanctions-Breaking and Sir Frank McFadzean") [criminal proceedings unlikely] [declassified 2009]

80 Jan 8 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Mugabe letter to MT (protests violations of Lancaster House Agreement) [threat to dishonour ceasefire agreement "in a similar way"] [declassified 2009]

79 May 31 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (further review of oil sanctions) [MT disinclined but wishes cabinet to decide] [declassified 2009]

80 Jan 10 Th

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to MT ("Rhodesia elections: parliamentary observers") [MT agrees statement on] [declassified 2009]

79 May 30 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to MT (further enquiry into breaches of Rhodesian sanctions) [MT: "It would be best to have cabinet decision not to go ahead"] [declassified 2009]

79 Nov 14 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Attorney General letter to Carrington (Bingham Report) [timing of announcement on DPP decisions] [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 15 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Attorney-General minute to MT ("Rhodesia Sanctions: Further Inquiry") [arguments about scale of task for criminal investigations] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 25 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Bishop Muzorewa letter to MT (thanks for meeting) [seeks to station diplomatic representatives in London] [declassified 2009]

79 May 16 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Boyd letter to MT (introducing report) [declassified 2009]

79 May 17 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Boyd letter to MT (proposes British gesture to Muzorewa government) [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 19 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Rhodesian Sanctions: Further Inquiry") [deferral of decision on furrther inquiry into sanctions breaking] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 20 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Cabinet Secretary briefing for MT ("Rhodesia: OD(79) 21 & 19") [next steps] [declassified 2009]

79 May 11 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Cabinet Secretary briefing for MT (OD discussion of Rhodesia) [next steps] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 5 We

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Carrington letter to Lord Harlech (thanks) ["vital contribution"] [declassified 2009]

79 Nov 26 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Carrington minute to Attorney General (Bingham Report) [timing announcement of DPP decisions] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 12 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO briefing for No.10 ("Bishop Muzorewa's Visit") [objectives & press handling] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 4 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Call by the US Ambassador, 5 December: Rhodesia") [briefing for] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 25 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Debate on Southern Africa: Rhodesian Oil Sanctions") [Castrol] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 6 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia") [brief for MT meeting with General Walls] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 27 Fr

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia") [urges MT send personal messages to other leaders before CHOGM] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 4 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia: ceasefire negotiations") [MT messages to heads of government] [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 8 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia: Chinese Assistance to ZANU") [light arms only; ZANU unhappy] [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 5 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia: Lord Harlech's Mission to Africa") [itinerary, terms of reference] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 21 Fr

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia: Message to African Presidents") [enlisting support for compliance with ceasefire] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 3 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia: Message to New Zealand Prime Minister") [appreciation for support] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 6 Th

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("Rhodesia: messages to the South African Government") [suggestion from Laurens Van Der Post] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 3 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 ("The PM's meeting with the Commonwealth Secretary-General: Rhodesia") [briefing for] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 2 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (advice on PMQs) [accept sanctions will not be renewed as "a parliamentary fact"] [declassified 2009]

79 Aug 3 Fr

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (comparison of MT's statements on Zimbabwe 25 Jul & 3 Aug) [rebuts claim of inconsistency] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 17 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (draft reply to Nyerere letter) [avoid showing hand before CHGM] [declassified 2009]

79 May 18 Fr

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (MT agrees arrangements for publishing Boyd Report) [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 25 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (proposed response to Kaunda letter) [declassified 2009]

79 May 10 Th

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (proposes Duff visit Rhodesia) [MT agrees] [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 13 We

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (recommends MT meet Zambian High Commissioner) [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 16 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (telling US about Muzorewa visit to London) [MT: "we did not RULE OUT legality on the present constitution"] [declassified 2009]

79 Aug 6 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: FCO telegram to Sir Antony Duff (draft Carrington Cabinet Paper on Lusaka CHGM) [MT: "overladen"] [declassified 2009]

79 May 19 Sa

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Fraser letter to MT (concerns over Rhodesia) [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 12 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Henry James minute for MT (photo with Muzorewa?) [questions; MT says she will] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 4 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Hunt minute to MT ("Rhodesia Sanctions: Further Inquiry") [timing announcement of no further inquiry] [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 13 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Hunt minute to MT ("The Bingham Report: A Further Inquiry C(79) 19") [FCS paper recommending against] [declassified 2009]

79 May 29 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Hunt minute to No.10 ("Further Review on Rhodesian Oil sanctions") ["would serve no useful purpose"] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 7 Fr

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Jamaica High Commissioner letter to MT (message from Jamaican PM Manley) [congratulations on Lancaster House progress] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 24 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Joe Clark letter to MT (congratulations) [Lancaster House Agreeement "a splendid achievement"] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 23 Su

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: King Hussein letter to MT (congratulations on Lancaster House Agreement) ["remarkable breakthrough"] [declassified 2009]

80 Jan 1 Tu

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Liberia President Tolbert message to MT (message of condolences) [Commonwealth monitors helicopter crash] [declassified 2009]

80 Jan 11 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Liberian President Tolbert message to MT (situation) [concern over presence of South African troops in Zimbabwe][declassified 2009]

79 Dec 4 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Liberian PresidentTolbert message to MT (Lancaster House Conference) [necessity of securing Patriotic Front support for independence plan] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 7 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Lord Privy Seal minute to Attorney General (Bingham Report) [urges presentational changes to statement] [declassified 2009]

80 Sep 22 Mo

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Lord Privy Seal minute to MT ("Lonrho V Shell and BP Arbitration") [public interest immunity] [declassified 2009]

80 Jan 17 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Lord Privy Seal minute to MT ("Proceedings by Lonrho against BP and Shell") [resist Lonrho demand for documents] [declassified 2009]

80 Mar 31 Mo

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Lord Privy Seal minute to MT ("Proceedings by Lonrho against Shell and BP") [public interest immunity] [declassified 2009]

80 Feb 18 Mo

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Lord Privy Seal minute to MT ("Proceedings by Lonrho against Shell/BP") [public interest immunity] [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 5 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: MT letter to Australian PM Malcolm Fraser [UK objective] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 12 Th

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: MT letter to Bishop of Mashonaland (his urging that UK lifts sanctions) [HMG in consultations] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 22 Sa

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: MT letter to Commonwealth Secretary-General Sonny Ramphal (thanks for congratulations) [your own contribution 'significant'] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 30 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: MT letter to Frank Dobson MP (BP/CONOCO oil swap deal) [no oil went to Rhodesia] [declassified 2009]

80 Jan 3 Th

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: MT letter to Ian Paisley (defends Lancaster House agreement) [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 1 Su

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: MT letter to Kaunda (reply to his letter) [aim to bring Rhodesia to legal independence with widest possible international approval] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 11 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: MT letter to Lord Soames (responsibilities as Governor) [confirms Walls to have direct access to him] [declassified 2009]

79 May 31 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: MT letter to Muzorewa (thanks & congratulation) [declassified 2009]

79 Aug 28 Tu

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: MT letter to Nicholas Winterton MP (addressing concerns over Lusaka CHOGM) ["I am very concerned when I receive a critical letter from you"] [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 21 Th

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: MT letter to Roger Shipton MP (thanks for report on Rhodesian elections) [declassified 2009]

79 Aug 6 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: MT letter to Zimbabwe-Rhodesia PM Muzorewa (CHGM statement) ["trust our good faith"] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 5 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: MT notes at meeting of Cabinet Committee (OD(79) 3rd, on Rhodesia) ["Constitution not perfect - neither is it anywhere in Africa"] [declassified 2009]

79 May 8 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Muzorewa letter to MT (assurance of support) [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 4 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 letter record of conversation (MT- Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal) [Lancaster House situation] [declassified 2009]

79 Aug 28 Tu

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO ("Rhodesia") [lack of leverage through aid programmes] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 3 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (Australian interpretation of MT-Fraser meeting) [Fraser seeking intermediary role] [declassified 2009]

79 May 17 Th

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (Boyd report on Rhodesian elections) [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 26 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (Harlech's mission to Rhodesia) [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 9 Mo

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (message to President Carter) [MT revision of draft] [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 21 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (MT agrees to meet Muzorewa in London) [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 4 We

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to FCO (MT approves draft letter to Kaunda) [Patrick Cosgrave not her emissary] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 26 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to Law Officers' Dept (Attorney General minute on sanctions-breaking) [MT agrees his conclusions] [declassified 2009]

79 May 8 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (MT comments on Hunt's incoming brief) [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 27 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to FCO (MT's amendment to Kaunda letter) [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 6 Th

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to MT ("Rhodesia") [Carrington pressing for dissolution of Rhodesian parliament] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 19 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to MT ("Rhodesia: Message from Dr Kissinger") ["a little off-beam in some respects"] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 8 Sa

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to MT ("Statement on Bingham") [Carrington "very unhappy" with draft statement] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 7 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to MT ("Statement on Rhodesia") [Gilmour statement on Soames appointment "went off very quietly"] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 19 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to MT ("Statements in the House") [Attorney General's Bingham announcement went badly] [declassified 2009]

79 Nov 30 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 minute to MT (Bingham Report) [timing announcement of DPP decision not to prosecute] [declassified 2009]

80 Jan 9 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 note of conversation ("Call by Bishop Muzorewa") [Muzorewa promises to win the election] [declassified 2009]

80 Jan 9 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 note of conversation ("Call by Messrs. Mugabe and Nkomo") [concerned over personal security & SA troop presence] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 24 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT- Israel Ambassador Kidron) [farewell meeting - Sithole] [declassified 2009]

79 May 14 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Boyd) [receives his report] [declassified 2009]

79 Aug 2 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Canadian PM Joe Clark) [tactics] [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 1 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington) [Harlech's proposed meeting with the Patriotic Front] [declassified 2009]

79 Aug 4 Sa

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Australian PM Fraser) [next steps & comuniqué] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 31 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Australian PM Malcolm Fraser) [CHGM discussions] [declassified 2009]

79 Aug 4 Sa

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Botswana President Sir Seretse Khama) [Rhodesian situation] [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 6 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Lord Harlech) [Harlech mission to Southern Africa] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 12 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-UN Secretary-General Waldheim) [Asia, UN, Soviet Union, Middle East & Zimbabwe] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 13 Fr

Key

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Zimbabwe/Rhodesia PM Bishop Muzorewa) [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 18 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Commonwealth Secretary-General Sonny Ramphal) [Rhodesia] [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 12 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-David Rockefeller) [Rhodesia; Shah of Iran; conservatism] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 6 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-General Walls) [Walls seeks assurances] [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 6 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Giscard) [extract on Rhodesia, with cover note] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 26 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Julian Amery) ["great blunder" not to recognise Muzorewa regime as soon as it was established] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 3 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Malcolm Fraser) [Fraser seeking intermediary role for himself] [declassified 2009]

79 Aug 1 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-NZ PM Muldoon) [Southern Pacific; Rhodesia] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 11 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Tolbert of Liberia) [Lancaster House Conference] [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 20 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Singapore PM Lee Kuan Yew) [discussion of Rhodesia over lunch] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 20 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Sri Lankan PM Premadasa) [CHGM; Rhodesia; Non-Aligned Movement; Sri Lanka] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 5 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Ambassador Brewster) [Rhodesia, defence, Iran, Ulster, BNOC oil sales] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 10 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Secretary of State Vance) [extract on Rhodesia - MT hoping US sanctions would be lifted before her visit] [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 15 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Zambian High Commissioner Chibesakunda) [argumentative] [declassified 2009]

79 Aug 8 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Zambian President Kaunda) [farewell at end of Lusaka CHGM] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 10 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Nyerere letter to MT (sanctions against Rhodesia) [concern at reports Britain might lift] [declassified 2009]

80 Jan 1 Tu

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: PM Bernard Ayandho of Central African Republic letter to MT (congratulations on Lancaster House Agreement) ["la grande satisfaction"] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 24 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: PM Michael Manley of Jamaica letter to MT (congratulations) ["very pleased" at Lancaster House Agreement] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 21 Fr

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: President Hilla Limann of Ghana message to MT (congratulations on Lancaster House Agreement) ["forbearance and statesmanship"] [declassified 2009]

79 Jun 8 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: President Kaunda letter to MT (Zambian policy) [critique of "Muzorewa-Smith rule"] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 24 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: President Zia-Ul-Haq of Pakistan message to MT (congratulations on Lancaster House Agreement) ["sagacious leadership"] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 24 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: President Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh message to MT (congratulations on Lancaster House Agreement) ["heartiest felicitations"] [declassified 2009]

79 Jul 24 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Richard Ryder note to MT (report of Patrick Cosgrave's meetings with African politicians) [Sithole, Chikarema & Chinamano] [declassified 2009]

79 Dec 11 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Tanzanian President Nyerere letter to MT (Lancaster House Conference) ["very last obstacle" - disposition of forces] [declassified 2009]

79 Aug 29 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Zambian President Kaunda letter to MT (conversation with Daphne Park) [return to ordinary diplomatic channels] [declassified 2009]

79 Aug 8 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe-Rhodesia PM Muzorewa letter to MT (thanks for personal message regarding Lusaka conference) [declassified 2009]

80 Nov 25 Tu

Major

Archive (Home Office)

“Yorkshire Ripper” case: MT meeting with Home Secretary (William Whitelaw) (disquiet at police performance) [declassified 2006]

79 Jun 21 Th

Major

Archive (Thatcher MSS)

Abortion: MT letter to Archbishop of Glasgow Thomas Winning (John Corrie's proposed amendment to the Abortion Act 1967) ["I myself welcome the fact that the House will have an opportunity soon to discuss the issue"] [released 2010]

79 Jun 21 Th

Major

Archive (Thatcher MSS)

Abortion: MT letter to Cardinal Basil Hume (John Corrie's proposed amendment to the Abortion Act 1967) ["I myself welcome the fact that the House will have an opportunity soon to discuss the issue"] [released 2010]

79 Jun 21 Th

Major

Archive (Thatcher MSS)

Abortion: MT letter to the Duke of Norfolk (John Corrie's proposed amendment to the Abortion Act 1967) ["I myself welcome the fact that the House will have an opportunity soon to discuss the issue"] [released 2010]

80 Mar 14 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Alexander note to MT (Foreign Office paper: "Western Strategy in the Wake of Afghanistan") [declassified 2010]

80 Jul 24 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Alexander note to Walden (HMG should meet US Government's request for assistance for the Afghan resistance) [declassified 2011]

80 Jan 21 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Armstrong briefing for MT ("OD: Afghanistan") [declassified 2010]

80 Feb 5 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Armstrong letter to Palliser (message from Brzezinksi to Armstrong) [Pakistan, Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 30 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Armstrong letter to Palliser (message from Brzezinksi to Armstrong) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 3 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Brezhnev letter to MT (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [reply to MT's letter] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 15 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("South-West Asia") [briefing documents] [declassified 2010]

80 Aug 20 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Carrington minute to Members of OD Committee ("Help for the Afghan Resistance") [declassified 2011]

80 Jan 19 Sa

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Carrington minute to MT ("Afghanistan") [meetings with foreign governments to discuss Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

81 May 20 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Carrington minute to MT ("Afghanistan") [proposes fresh, UK-led diplomatic activity aimed at Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]

80 Feb 1 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Carrington minute to MT ("Afghanistan: The Next Steps") [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 2 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Carrington minute to MT ("Iran and Afghanistan") [US Embassy hostage crisis in Iran and Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 8 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Carrington minute to MT ("Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan") [declassified 2010]

80 Mar 17 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Carter letter to MT (issues surrounding Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [Pakistan, India, Turkey, trade in military technology] [declassified 2010]

80 Mar 27 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Carter letter to MT (proposes NATO summit on Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [declassified 2010]

80 Feb 6 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Afghanistan: The Next Steps") [economic impact of UK actions against USSR] [declassified 2010]

80 Feb 1 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO letter to MT ("Soviet Foreign Policy After Afghanistan") [declassified 2010]

81 Jun 9 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Afghanistan") ["encouraging" responses to proposed international conference on Afghanistan; Carrington to visit Moscow] [declassified 2011]

80 Jul 2 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Afghanistan") [FCO line on supply of arms to the resistance movement in Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]

80 Feb 28 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Afghanistan: Future Action") [response to Soviet intervention] [declassified 2010]

81 Mar 25 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Film on Afghanistan") [FCO commissioned film "has now appeared on television in 35 countries"] [declassified 2011]

80 Nov 3 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Film on Afghanistan") [FCO commissions film on Soviet occupation of Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]

80 Apr 2 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("President Carter's Message of 27 March to the Prime Minister: A NATO Summit Meeting") [draft response to Carter] [declassified 2010]

81 Jan 28 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("President Giscard's Proposal for an International Conference on Afghanistan") [declassified 2011]

80 Sep 19 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Publicity for the Resistance in Afghanistan") [training of Afghan tribesmen to take video of Russian military activities in Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]

80 Jan 29 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Quadripartite Meetings") [Italian concerns about their exclusion from meeting of 24/25 January on Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

80 Jul 4 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Sayed Ahmed Gailani") [head of Afghan resistance group, Gailani, meets with Hurd and FCO officials] [declassified 2011]

80 Jan 9 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan?") [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 24 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 (text of Carrington's statement to the House of Lords on Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [declassified 2010]

79 Dec 31 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO record of conversation (UK, US, Canadian, French, German and Italian delegations) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 3 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO to Embassies and Missions (Guidance telegram on Afghanistan) ["the Russians are resorting to 'the Big Lie'"] [declassified 2010]

80 May 7 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Abidjan ("Afghanistan Neutrality and Non-Alignment") [UK proposal gathering support; Soviet reactions] [declassified 2011]

80 Sep 26 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Belgrade ("Meeting between Secretary of State and UN Secretary-General: Afghanistan") [possible UN Resolution on Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]

80 Aug 9 Sa

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Islamabad ("Afghanistan") [Douglas Hurd discusses Afghanistan situation with Pakistan Foreign Minister Agha Shahi] [declassified 2011]

80 Jul 2 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Jeddah ("Afghanistan") [message from Carrington to Habib Chatty; "the Islamic countries should retain the initiative in efforts to seek a solution to the problem caused by the Soviet invasion"] [declassified 2011]

79 Dec 28 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Kabul ("Afghan Coup D'Etat") [British Government statement on USSR actions in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

80 Feb 29 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Moscow ("Afghanistan") [neutrality for Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

81 Jun 15 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Moscow ("Afghanistan: Proposed Visit to Moscow") [arrangements for Carrington's Moscow visit to discuss Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]

80 Feb 28 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Moscow ("Neutrality for Afghanistan") [report on discussion with Soviet Ambassador to the UK] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 7 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Moscow ("Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan") [restriction of contacts with Soviet officials] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 7 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Paris ("Afghanistan and East-West Relations") [Carrington message to French and German Foreign Ministers] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 7 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Tokyo ("Afghanistan") [Cortazzi-Japanese Ambassador meeting] [declassified 2010]

80 May 16 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Vienna ("Afghanistan") [summary of FCO reaction to Soviet proposals on Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]

80 May 15 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Vienna (FCO response to Soviet proposal on Afghanistan) [declassified 2011]

80 Jan 3 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO to UKE Washington ("Afghanistan and East-West Relations") [possible UK actions towards the Soviet Union] [declassified 2010]

81 Aug 13 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: FCO to UKMIS New York ("Afghanistan") [account of Perez de Cuellar-Waldheim-Hurd-John Graham meeting to discuss UN role] [declassified 2011]

80 Jan 15 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Fergusson minute to Lyne ("Prime Minister's Telephone Conversation with Chancellor Schmidt") [briefing] [declassified 2010]

79 Dec 31 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Hurd minute to Carrington ("Afghanistan") [remarks on Allied meeting to discuss Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 7 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Islamic Council of Europe Secretary-General Azzam letter to MT (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) ["I take this opportunity to congratulate you on the firm and bold stand taken by the British Government"] [declassified 2010]

80 Feb 14 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: MT letter to President Giscard (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [declassified 2010]

80 Mar 1 Sa

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: MT letter to President Zia of Pakistan (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 23 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: MT letter to Prime Minister Fraser of Australia (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [declassified 2010]

80 Mar 1 Sa

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: MT letter to Prime Minister Gandhi of India (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [declassified 2010]

80 Apr 1 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: MT letter to Prime Minister Ohira of Japan (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [neutrality for Afghanistan, Moscow Olympic Games, India, Pakistan, inflation] [declassified 2010]

81 Feb 2 Mo

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: MT letter to Ron Brown MP (response to Brown's letter) ["I have no intention of inviting Mr. Babrak Karmal to London"] [declassified 2011]

81 Nov 17 Tu

Major

Archive (Thatcher MSS)

Afghanistan: MT letter to Vladimir Bukovsky (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [Soviet defectors inside Afghanistan] [released 2012]

81 Jun 10 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: No.10 letter to FCO ("Afghanistan") [MT supports Carrington's plan but says that proposed visit to Moscow must be cancelled if USSR takes action in Poland] [declassified 2011]

80 Oct 15 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: No.10 note to FCO ("Message from President Carter") [support for Afghan rebels] [declassified 2011]

80 Jan 8 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and the Olympic Games] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 16 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ministers-Governor of the Bank of England) [actions against Iran and Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

80 Mar 28 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Schmidt) [extract] [Afghanistan, Carter's proposed NATO summit] [declassified 2010]

80 Feb 25 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Schmidt) [extract] [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 3 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Soviet Ambassador to the UK, Lunkov) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 14 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher) [Afghanistan, Iran] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 21 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Prime Minister Cossiga of Italy) [Afghanistan, Iran and the US] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 15 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Schmidt) [Iran, Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

80 Feb 10 Su

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: President Carter letter to MT (thanks for support and proposals for the future) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Diego Garcia] [declassified 2010]

80 Feb 6 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: President Giscard letter to MT (French/German response to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) ["we have indicated our willingness to search for means and conditions permitting the maintenance of fruits of detente"] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 12 Sa

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia letter to MT (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) ["I am writing to applaud the vigorous way in which your government has denounced Soviet intervention in Afghanistan"] [declassified 2010]

80 Apr 6 Su

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Prime Minister Gandhi of India letter to MT (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) ["We wonder...whether a non-aligned country needs to indicate neutral status"] [declassified 2010]

80 Mar 18 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Prime Minister Ohira of Japan letter to MT (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [support for neutral Afghanistan, trade relations with USSR, Moscow Olympic Games, aid to Pakistan, Turkey] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 15 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Record of conversation (Armstrong-Brzezinksi-Wahl-von Staden) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

80 Feb 25 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Record of conversation (Carrington-US Ambassador to the UK Brewster) [US response to Brezhnev's speech] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 15 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Record of conversation - Annex (Armstrong-Brzezinksi-Wahl-von Staden) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan: Support for Afghan resistance] [declassified 2010]

80 Feb 6 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Record of telephone conversation (Carrington-Prime Minister Fraser of Australia) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, Olympic Games, French/German relations with the US] [declassified 2010]

81 Jan 16 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Ron Brown MP letter to MT ("Afghanistan") [Brown argues that MT should invite President Babrak Karmal of Afghanistan to London] [declassified 2011]

80 Oct 13 Mo

Minor

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Sayed Ahmad Gailani of the National Islamic Front of Afghanistan message to MT (happy birthday) [thanks for support] [declassified 2011]

80 Jan 14 Mo

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: Text of statement by Douglas Hurd to the House of Commons (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 1 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Council Discussion: Comments") [meeting of NATO Council to discuss Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

80 Jan 1 Tu

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("NATO Council Meeting: Afghanistan") [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

80 Jun 26 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: UKE Ankara to FCO ("East/West Relations: Afghanistan") [NATO Ministerial Meeting: Carrington intervention in Restricted Session] [declassified 2011]

80 Jan 23 We

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: UKE Bonn to FCO ("Attitudes to Afghanistan") [German response to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

80 Mar 14 Fr

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: UKE Bucharest to FCO ("Secretary of State's Visit to Romania: 12-14 March") [Romanian position on Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

81 Jul 9 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: UKE Islamabad to FCO ("Afghanistan") [Pakistan receives "another very threatening message from the Russians" regarding Pakistan-US arms deal] [declassified 2011]

80 Jul 24 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: UKE Islamabad to FCO ("Russian Atrocities in Afghanistan") [declassified 2011]

80 Jul 5 Sa

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: UKE Jeddah to FCO ("Afghanistan") [Habib Chatty seeks talks with President Babrak Karmal of Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]

80 Jun 12 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: UKE Kabul to FCO ("Afghanistan") [American reporting from Kabul "has contained exaggeration and fabrication"] [declassified 2011]

80 Jan 3 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)

Afghanistan: UKE Kabul to FCO ("Afghanistan: Recognition/Withdrawal of Ambassadors") [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]

80 Aug 7 Th

Major

Archive (TNA)