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PDF 74 Mar 16 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Heath: Robert Armstrong note (“Events leading to the resignation of Mr Heath’s Administration on 4 March 1974”) [declassified Oct 2005]
PDF 78 Mar 1 We Declassified documents Major Conservative Party Conservative Campaign Guide Supplement 1978
PDF 79 Aug 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Lusaka Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (papers circulated during sessions) [large file] [declassified 2011]
PDF 79 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howell minute to MT ("BP/BNOC Supply Arrangements") [declassified 2009]
PDF 80 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 minute to MT (“British nuclear test programme”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Feb 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Walker note circulated to Cabinet - C(80) 11 (Annual Review of Agriculture 1980) [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government buildings: Carrington minute to Heseltine (“International Conference Centre (ICC) - Broad Sanctuary”) [“worried by the practical and economic implications of any delay”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Gow record of conversation (MT-Enoch Powell) [constitutional change in Northern Ireland] [released 2011]
PDF 80 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO briefing for MT ("Taoiseach's visit") [internal politics; N. Ireland; international dimension; EC; trade; world economy; industrial relations/Employment Bill] [declassified Feb 2011]
PDF 80 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("The New EC Commission") [Presidency candidates; UK Commissoners candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Royal family: HMQ's Private Secretary letter to No.10 (Prime Minister’s audiences with the Queen) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Royal family: HMQ's Private Secretary letter to No.10 (Prime Minister’s audiences with the Queen) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Michael Alexander minute to MT ("Visit and Visitors - 1981") [the "programme of inward visits is already looking rather ambitious"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Apr 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: President Reagan letter to MT (thanks) [assassination attempt and meetings with MT] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Jul 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Joseph letter to BT Chairman (financing and investment) [“some progress at last in getting BT financing outside the PSBR”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Aug 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Baker letter to Brittan ("Metro-Cammell Ltd: Kowloon-Canton Railway") [extent of Government financial support for Metro-Cammell] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Royal family: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS minute to No.10 (“The income of the Prince of Wales”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Dec 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Efficiency Unit minute to Willie Rickett ("Review of Administrative Forms") [drafts of Rayner cover minute/report] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 81 Dec 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Vatican: Vatican letter to MT (Papal World Peace Day message on nuclear arms control) [declassified 2013]
PDF 81 Dec 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO (situation in Poland) [reports of "thousands of people" being sacked for refusing to resign from Solidarity] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: UKE Washington telegram 3941 to FCO (2332Z) ("EC Lunch for Haig: Poland") [Henderson reports on his talks with Haig] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Haig letter to Carrington (US sanctions against the USSR) [Haig urges UK and EC to take similar steps; text of Brezhnev's response to Reagan's letter] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Carrington) ["Poland": Haig's message to Carrington; US sanctions against the USSR; need for meeting of the Ten] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Poland: The Soviet Role") [assessment of the extent to which the USSR was responsible for declaration of martial law in Poland; predicted future developments] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Carrington) [situation in Poland; Reagan to announce sanctions against the USSR; Carrington attempting to arrange meeting of foreign ministers; concerns] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: FCO to UKE Brussels ("Poland: Meeting of Foreign Ministers") [invitation to and arrangements for meeting] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: FCO to UKDEL NATO ("US Sanctions Against the Soviet Union") [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: FCO to UKE Brussels ("Poland: Informal Meeting of Political and Economic Directors of the Ten, 30 December") [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Dec 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: FCO telegram 2004 to UKE Washington (2000Z) ("US Measures Against the Soviet Union") [preliminary discussion of US sanctions at informal meeting of political and economic directors from the EC] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO letter to No.10 ("Invitation to President Reagan") [further instructions for Henderson] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Feb 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO letter to No.10 ("Invitation to President Reagan") ["the Americans have now focussed on the prospect of a visit to Windsor and are keen on it"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (measures to boost the construction industry) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: MT letter to Nicholas Winterton MP (Fodens Ltd liquidation) [request for investigation into redundancies] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Feb 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: MT letter to John Patten MP (Sir Roger Hollis) [addresses concern raised by Hollis' son regarding fresh allegation] [released Dec 2023]
PDF 82 Mar 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to MT ("The Budget") [update] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 (messages between Pope & HM Queen) [Northern Ireland] [partially declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Jenkin minute to MT (“BL’s future structure”) [restructuring and privatisation] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit of President Reagan") [Americans put forward revised programme] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: HMT Background Economic Briefing ("Ministerial Statements") [extracts from speeches and interviews following the Budget] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Central Policy Review Staff minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Longer term study on electricity prices”) [MT: “And without any consultation with me! - Not good”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO draft telegram to UKE Washington (0930Z) ("Falklands") [Pym message to Haig responding to Peruvian peace initiative] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKHC Ottawa to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [Canadian position on Falklands sovereignty] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 letter to MOD ("South Africa") [MT favours "warmer" response to Botha's offer of support facilities] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands") [draft telegrams to Parsons regarding UN negotiations] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (proposed letter to PW Botha regarding South African offer of support facilities) [urges against making letter "warmer"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s Meetings with President Mitterrand and M. Mauroy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 82 Jun 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Cape Town telegram 378 to FCO (0900Z) ("Falklands Arms") [South African response to accusations of SAG supplying arms to Argentina] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Tripoli telegram 158 to FCO (1005Z) ("Libya/Argentina") [report of Libya supplying arms to Argentina] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 572 to FCO (1132Z) ("Falklands") [Libyan arms to Argentia, Captain Astiz] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit (SAPU) paper ("Sir A Parsons' Speech in the Security Council on 2 June 1982") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Brasilia telegrams 245-247 to FCO (2000-2020Z) ("Vulcan Diversion") [diplomatic wrangling over diversion of a Vulcan to Brazil; "typical of Brazilian spinelessness ... their acute anxiety not to offend the Argentinians unless they feel they have no alternative"; airbridge between Argentina and Libya via Brazil] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 166 to UKE Brasilia (0235Z) ("Vulcan Diversion") ["You should seek meeting with Foreign Minister to express HMG's surprise and disappointment at the delay in allowing the Vulcan aircraft to depart"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: President Mubarak of Egypt message to MT (1401Z) (Israeli-Lebanese conflict) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO letter to No.10 ("Existing Contracts (John Brown)") [briefing on trade with the USSR and Poland for MT's meeting with Reagan] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Chedli Klibi, Secretary General of the League of Arab States, message to MT ("Lebanon") [urges MT to take "all necessary measures" to "put an end to the Israeli criminal acts" in the Lebanon] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT message to Chedli Klibi, Secretary General of the League of Arab States (Israeli-Lebanese conflict) ["We are committed to the territorial integrity of Lebanon and wish to see an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all Israeli forces"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Tel Aviv to Pym in Brussels via FCO ("Lebanon/Israel") [Israeli Cabinet communique] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Tel Aviv telegram 281 to FCO (1135Z) ("Israel/Lebanon") [Israeli/Lebanese conflcit: "It is plain to all that the crucial stage has now been reached"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 347 to FCO ("Lebanon") [Israeli/Lebanese conflict: report on positions of Palestinians in Lebanon] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 2289 to FCO (2255Z) ("Lebanon") [Israeli/Lebanese conflict: Henderson meets with Haig, Clark and Eagleburger; Haig's concerns] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: No.10 letter to FCO ("Beirut") [MT rejects drafts of letters to Reagan: "[MT] very much doubts whether [Reagan] would be prepared to make it plain publicly than an Israeli attack on Beirut would not have his support"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT letter to President Shaikh Zaid of the United Arab Emirates (Israeli-Lebanese conflict) ["I fully share your deep concern at recent events"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO letter to No.10 ("Arab League Delegation") [line for MT to take at PMQs] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Armstrong) [Frederick Forsyth's proposed book on the Falklands Crisis] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Tebbit letter to MT ("Youth Training Scheme") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Aug 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: No.10 letter to Department of Employment (Lord Rochester's Amendment to the Employment Bill) [MT comments on employee involvement] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Aug 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (“Zimbabwe: kidnapped tourists”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Sep 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Department of Environment letter to No.10 ("Family Policy Group") [Heseltine's paper; housing] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Sep 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 minute to Commonwealth War Graves Commission (Hong Kong war cemeteries and memorials) [background note for MT’s visit to Hong Kong] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Sep 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Sparrow minute to MT ("Family Policy Group") [paper by Head of the CPRS, John Sparrow] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Sep 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Governor Liu Tianfu of Guangdong Province-Mayor Liang Lingguang of Canton) [future of Hong Kong, Guangdong Province, Guangdong nuclear project, business and industry, energy] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Walters minute to MT ("Wages, Falling Inflation and Employment Protection") [need to ensure that firms and Government Agencies are able to cut wages] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Butler note for MT ("Far East Tour - headings for report to Cabinet") [aide memoire] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Sep 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: FCO record of conversation (MT-Simon Downs, BP China Representative) [MT's visit to BP Establishment in Shanghai] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: No.10 letter to FCO ("Visit of the Prime Minister to the Far East") [request for follow-up to points outstanding from MT's visit to the Far East] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Vereker minute to Scholar ("Industrial Relations Legislation") ["it would be a mistake to legislate at this stage for compulsory strike ballots"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 13 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Security: Whitelaw PS letter to No.10 (“Report of Lord Bridge’s Inquiry into the Trestrail affair”) [review of vetting procedures] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Oct 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (“Zimbabwe”) [Nott meeting with Mugabe] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Oct 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: No.10 letter to FCO (“Spain/Gibraltar”) [ongoing concerns about Spanish intentions] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Oct 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: CPRS letter to Home Office ("Family Policy Group") [draft CPRS paper for next meeting of the Family Policy Group] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Draft Green Paper on Trade Union Democracy") [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Edwards letter to MT (deaths of two GCHQ employees: related security concerns) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to Ministry of Defence (“Zimbabwe”) [military aid and general review of policy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 internal minute: Ingham to Coles (Nuclear deterrence and disarmament) [case for MT to give major speech] [declassified 2016]
PDF 83 Jan 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Pym minute to MT ("Alliance and Nuclear Matters") [INF negotiations] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 letter to Government House (Prime Minister's Visit to the Falkland Islands, 9 - 13 January 1983) [telegram from General Thorne informing MT of the successful positioning of Coastel 1 & MT congratulatory reply] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT (UK laser and non-nuclear electro-magnetic pulse weapons) [RAKER and SHINGLE programmes] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Child Support and the poverty trap”) [“the main reason for this is the high level of public spending”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Ministry of Defence minute to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: contingency planning”) [military assessment] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 briefing to MT (“Hong Kong”) [contingency planning for Chinese invasion of Hong Kong] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKMIS Geneva telegram 19 to FCO (1730Z) ("INF") [Hurd meeting with Nitze] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO briefing for MT (European Council, Brussels, 21/22 March) [full briefing] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Reagan letter to MT (intermediate range nuclear forces: negotiations with the USSR) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Reagan message to MT (intermediate range nuclear forces: negotiations with the USSR) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Buildings: No.10 minute to Tom King PS (House of Commons Services Committee: report on the development of the Bridge Street site) [No.10 corrects Department of Environment's impression that MT has approved development regardless of public expenditure implications] [released Jul 2015]
PDF 83 Apr 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: FCO letter to No.10 ("Grenada") [Commonwealth Secretary-General forwards letter from Government of Grenada asking for assistance "in the prevention of aggression by the United States against Grenada"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Tebbit minute to MT (political activities of trade unions) [state of public opinion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Apr 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Taxation: No.10 letter to HMT ("Clause 90 of the Finance Bill") [new powers for the Inland Revenue: MT asks "whether this...introduces new risks into lending on mortgage security"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 May 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Buildings: Leon Brittan letter to Tom King ("Bridge Street") [refuses to agree to additional funding & development, pending scrutiny] [released Jul 2015]
PDF 83 May 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 letter to Bermuda Government Auditor (South Atlantic Fund) [declassified 2013]

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