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PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Colombia: MT letter to President Betancur of Colombia (signing of EC/Andean Pact Co-operation Agreement) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Korea: MT letter to President Chun of South Korea (terrorist bombing at Rangoon war memorial) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl (formal invitation to G7 London summit) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: MT letter to President Mitterrand (formal invitation to G7 London summit) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan (formal invitation to G7 London summit) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: MT letter to Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada (formal invitation to G7 London summit) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Education: MT letter to Joseph (research work of the National Council for Educational Standards and unauthorised disclosure of documents) [NCES requires further funds] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: MT letter to Gaston Thorn, President of the European Commission (formal invitation to G7 London summit) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong Calls on Leaders”) [“Note with pleasure the progress made in the latest phase of negotiations”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Coles minute to Ricketts (“Future of Hong Kong: Sir Percy Cradock’s calls on Chinese Leaders”) [instructions to Cradock] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on situation in Liverpool) [MT said “External pressures should be allowed to exert themselves and the Government should avoid appearing to issue threats”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT messages to Heads of State (Economic Summit) [invitations to proposed participants] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO telegram to UKE Washington (1700Z) (“Possible Escalation of the Iran-Iraq War”) [stopping the delivery of military equipment to Iran] [declassified Jan 2014]
Text 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Contracting out Catering at the Civil Service College, Sunningdale") ["This particular bit of "privatisation" will save us about 45 directly employed staff and about £90,000 a year"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: Sir Anthony Parsons minute to MT ("King Hussein's Visit") [proposed subjects for discussion] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: FCO briefing for MT ("King Hussein's Call on the Prime Minister") [Lebanon; Syria; Palestine; aid for Jordan; Iran/Iraq] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("The Follow-Up Meeting") [follow-up to Seminar on Industry & Employment; thoughts on barriers to employment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("Electricity Supply Industry Board Salaries") [pay increase percentage; extension of salary scales] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (press leak concerning delivery of Cruise missiles to Greenham Common) [High Court decision given in favour of Government bid to recover minute leaked to 'Guardian' newspaper] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science: Nicholson minute to Coles ("Mr Nakasone's Proposal to Convene a Conference on Life Sciences and Mankind") [British nominees to attend conference: recommends Stuart Hampshire in place of Mary Warnock] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger letter to King ("Responsibility for work-related training in the further education sector") [transfer of funding from English & Welsh local authorities to Manpower Services Commission: outline of alternative measures for Scotland] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Lebanon: MNF consultations") [scheduling] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("BritForLeb: PSP") [situation report] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Tebbit minute to MT ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite: the BBC/Unisat Project") ["breakdown of this project... [risks] a public row... legal consequences... [and] considerable damage to our relations with Industry... Nevertheless... the BBC... should not be compelled to go ahead with DBS if they no longer wish to do so"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF Deployment: Announcement of Pershing II IOCS") [attainment of Initial Operating Capability: timing of public announcement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Motley, Burt & Howe memorandum to Eagleburger ("Review of Argentine Arms Transfers and Consultations with the UK") [published 2015]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: Hugh Thomas letter to MT [disturbed at her current view of US following Grenada; no real alternative to mending fences] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Monetary Policy: Treasury briefing: "Monthly Monetary Report: November [1983] - February [1984]" [released 2012]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 37th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Budget, EC Affairs, Restrictions on Conveyancing for Reward, Electricity Prices) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Employment: Mount minute to MT ("The Follow-Up Meeting") [barriers to unemployment] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Sherbourne minute to MT ("Alfred Sherman") [Sherman offered role as representative of Turkish Cypriot community in London; MT advises he does not accept] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to Heseltine (“Future of Hong Kong: Defence and Internal Security”) [“questions directly relating to defence have been raised for the first time”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cromer letter to MT (proposed talks with his son) [negotiating position] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS record of conversaton (Ingham, Jenkin, Waldegrave, Lord Bellwin, Brittan, Joseph etc.) [“Presentation of local government policies”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Edwards PS letter to Rees PS (“Rate Support Grant settlement 1984/85: Wales”) [Wales, England, Scotland RSG Parliamentary statements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO (“Relations with Argentina”) [conversation between UK Ambassador and Spanish Foreign Minister] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 note to MT (FCO and MOD ministers both planning visits to Falklands) [MT: "absurd for both to go. Michael [Heseltine] MUST go"] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Review of Civil Service Catering") ["Barney Hayhoe seeks your agreement to a statement"; outside contractors; trading fund; additional investment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Call by King Hussein of Jordan") [Reagan letter of 11 December to King Hussein] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Anthony Parsons, John Coles, King Hussein) [Lebanon; Syria; Palestine; Hussein's correspondence with Reagan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: King Hussein letter to MT (Middle East peace process) [follow-up to meeting with MT; reference to enclosed letters from Reagan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Burden of Regulation: Transport") [Department of Transport report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Keith Joseph, Walker, Jenkin, Tebbit, Tom King, Cockfield, Lord Young, Alan Walters, Mount, Redwood, Armstrong) ["Seminar on Industry and Employment: Follow Up Meeting"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Bulend Ulusu letter for MT (cessation of his responsibilities as prime minister of Turkey) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: David Barclay minute to MT ("Genetic Manipulation Advisory Group (GMAC)") [MT unconvinced by Keith Joseph's case for winding up of Group & transfer of Ministerial responsibility for genetic manipulation research to Health & Safety Commission] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Tonga: MT letter to King Tupou IV (Stabisoil) ["a product... I promised [you] we would investigate"; advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: UKE Santiago telegram 946 to FCO (1445Z) ("Resignation of Chilean Foreign Minister") [details & thoughts on the resignation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Katsuji Kawamata, Chairman of Nissan, letter to MT (proposed Nissan plant in UK) [apologises for delay] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Changing the Manpower Services Commission") [transfer of work-related futher education funding from local authorities to MSC; transfer of job centres to Department of Employment] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT (Responsibility for work-related training in the further education sector) [transfer of funding from local authorities to Manpower Services Commission; transfer of job centres to Department of Employment] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (Responsibility for work-related training in the further education sector) [transfer of funding from local authorities to Manpower Services Commission; transfer of job centres to Department of Employment] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Local authority higher education") [statement to House on reformative measures] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Lebanon: MNF consultations") [proposal for meeting at Director level rejected by Cheysson] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: No.10 minute (internal) to Coles ("Lebanon") ["the time has come to play the UN card"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: No.10 minute to FCO (Prime Minister's message to President Mitterrand on 23rd October) [query as to how message was conveyed] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Association of British Chambers of Commerce letter to MT (electricity prices) [cover letter for attached letter from Director-General to Peter Walker] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Ridley letter to Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority ("Civil aviation licensing policy review") ["I would wish to have the results of your Review available well before the flotation of BA plc proceeds"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Barclay ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite (DBS)") ["We have too long a history of arm-twisting nationalised industries - and private ones too - into costly enterprises... with disastrous results... The embarrassment is largely Unisat's own fault for committing funds without being certain of the BBC's decision... We should avoid any panic and rushed decisions"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT ("Direct broadcasting by satellite") [summary of recent minutes from Tebbit, Brittan, Cabinet Office & Policy Unit; "The crisis point has not yet been reached"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite: the BBC/Unisat Project") [progress report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: MT letter to Ramphal (Heads of Government meeting: New Delhi Communique) [thanks for receipt] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Westlands W30 helicopters for India") ["you asked for a progress report... on our consideration of the Indians' request for aid"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Rees letter to Whitelaw ("Public Services (Transfer of Functions) Bill") [pending legislation "it would be valuable to have an assessment from colleagues on the transfers from their departments planned over the next few years for which the enacting of the Bill in the 1984-85 Session is thought to be necessary"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Net Payments to European Community Institutions: public expenditure White Paper figures") ["we... agreed that I would consult you... about the figures, and relevant text"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Policy Unit minute for MT (“Competition Policy”) [Government in danger of losing the initiative] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Sherbourne minute to Alison (David Wolfson and John Gummer) [problems caused by fact that Gummer is Party Chairman but not a Privy Councillor] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Shepherd minute to MT ("Thames TV Children's Programme") [brief for interview] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT message to Taoiseach Fitzgerald (IRA kidnapping of Don Tidey: rescue) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Jordan: King Hussein of Jorda letter to MT (thanks for meeting) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: MT letter to Prime Minister Jonathan of Lesotho (Lesotho-South Africa relations) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brunei: MT letter to Sultan Hassanal of Brunei (congratulations on assumption of full sovereignty and independence for Brunei) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Tonga: MT letter to King Tupuo of Tonga (Stabisoil) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Executive: MT letter to Harriet Harman MP (Harman argues for need to increase women's representation on public bodies) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Lunch with Yao Guang”) [“We needed to speed up our discussions on arrangements after 1997”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: ‘Umelco’”) [“It was a tense and in some parts emotional meeting”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Jenkin) [MT interested in possible visit to Docklands] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Jenkin letter to Lord Hailsham (“PSA restructuring”) [addresses Hailsham’s concerns] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 briefing for MT (“PSA restructuring”) [Property Services Agency: “Opinions are divided on the merits of these proposals”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: MT letter to Chedli Klibi (European Council peace initiative) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Policy Unit minute to MT (“Agricultural Expenditure Seminar”) [political aspects, discussion points] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ingham letter to Jenkin (local government campaign) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO (“Alfredo Spilsinger”) [potential Argentine-UK go-between] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Dec 17 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Italy/Lebanon") [Italian component of Multinational Force to be reduced] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Alan Clark letter to MT (MT's comment on Equal Opportunities in Government Departments) [Clark impressed by "the sheer scope of your vigilance in all matters of government. There has been nothing like it since Churchill"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Taoiseach Fitzgerald message to MT (IRA bombing of Harrods) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Prime Minister Gonzalez of Spain letter to MT (IRA bombing of Harrods) [released 2013]
Text 83 Dec 18 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 18 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: President Mitterrand letter to MT (IRA bombing of Harrods) [in French] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 18 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKE Abu Dhabi to FCO (“Mr. Luce’s Visit to the UAE: Call on President”) [request for British defence assistance] [declassified 2014]
Text 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Jordan") [Hussein letter to MT enclosing letters from Reagan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Call by King Hussein of Jordan") [draft MT letter to President Reagan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Calke Abbey") [preservation of Calke Abbey: National Heritage Memorial Fund] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Electricity Supply Industry Board Salaries) [MT concerned that pay increase offers too high] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("Corporate Planning in the Nationalised Industries") [guidelines on new arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Lord Orr-Ewing to discuss liberalisation in telecommunications) [complaint against BT/Mercury duopoly] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Histories of the Special Operations Executive (SOE)") [request for approval to publish] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("New French Minister for European Affairs") [Roland Dumas "...one of Mitterrand's closest and longest standing political allies."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Jenkin minute to MT (recent discharge of radioactive material from Sellafield) ["...has revealed a serious operational weakness and has given rise to a good deal of public anxiety..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (meeting on 21st December to discuss work-related training in the education sector) [Lord Bellwin to deputise for Environment Secretary due to clash with Rate Limitation Bill press conference] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Discussions with Cheysson on the Lebanon/MNF") [Howe, Cheysson: record of conversation] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKRep Damascus telegram to FCO ("Syria/Lebanon/Saudi Arabia") [summary of a meeting of the three Foreign Ministers] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT letter to President Gemayel (visit to UK) [courtesy note following the visit] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: Yugoslav Ambassador's letter to MT (UK-Yugoslav bilateral relations) [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Intellectual property rights") [MT approves Parliamentary announcement about Green Paper] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: MT letter to Chairman of British Caledonian Airways Ltd (disparity in size between British Airways and other British airlines) [proposals for reducing disparity] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("CHOGM") [Heads of Government meeting: MT commends excellent briefing for New Delhi, and offers views on Foreign Office proposals for revisions to future briefing and future conference arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office note to No.10 (EH101 Anglo-Italian helicopter project) [Italian loan approval] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Turnbull ("TSRB Pensions") [Top Salaries Review Body: advice & attached briefing for MT meeting on 21 December] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Peter Middleton note to Stephen Sherbourne (Special Advisers) [terms & conditions of posts] [released 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prior-Brittan-Wakeham-Biffen-Gummer-Acland) ["Harrods Bombing: Possible Banning of Sinn Fein"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodall briefing for MT ("Possible Banning of Sinn Fein") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Home Office letter to No.10 ("Possible Proscription of Sinn Fein") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) France: MT letter to Prime Minister Mauroy of France ("Launcher for Skynet 4") [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Lebanon: MT letter to President Gemayel of Lebanon (thanks for gifts) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Heseltine minute to Howe (“Future of Hong Kong: Defence and Internal Security”) [“we must firmly resist any suggestion that Chinese troops should be sanctioned in Hong Kong after 1997”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Heseltine, Rees, Armstrong, Ibbs, Montague Alfred) [“PSA restructuring”] [declassified 2014]
Text 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Northern Ireland: Reagan letter to Thatcher (outrage at Harrods IRA bomb) [unclassified]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT - US Ambassador) [Middle East, East-West relations, UK-US relationship, Grenada, Argentina] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: Sir Antony Duff to Robert Armstrong (“Terrorism in The Middle East”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Arms sales to Argentina”) [UK dismayed by French lifting of restraints] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ministers: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Treasury Ministers: Membership at Lloyds") [request from Lawson for special dispensation in regard to procedure for conflicts of interest] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Greenborough) [Chair of Review Body for nurses and professions allied to medicine: pay recommendations; management] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow/Britoil") [announcement of contract cancellation, with implication of ensuing closure; "very little support from any part of the House"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Orr-Ewing, Kenneth Baker, Lord Mottistone, Bowen Wells MP) ["Liberalisation in Telecommunications"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Security: MT letter to Ted Leadbitter MP (Commodore Dieter Gerhardt and British operations in the South Atlantic) [trial in South Africa for Soviet espionage; "absolutely no evidence... that Gerhardt may have obtained or disclosed information from British sources on operations in the South Atlantic last year"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: President Kyprianou letter to MT (Turkish occupation) [complaint of "a series of [recent] measures to consolidate and perpetuate"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Walker minute to MT (“Privatisation and the Energy industries”) [proposed Bill] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Biffen letter to Jenkin (recent discharge of radioactive material from Sellafield) ["...a matter of very considerable public concern... should be conveyed to the House by means of an Oral statement..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, King, Keith Joseph, Tebbit, Younger, Edwards, Rees, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, Patrick Mayhew, Lord Bellwin, Young, Armstrong) ["Work related training in the further education sector"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Lebanon") ["need to approach the Russians about a UN presence in Beirut"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT letter to President Assad (recent developments in the Middle East) ["I think it is important that we should explain our thinking to each other"; role of the Multinational Force] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: MT letter to Sir Austin Bide (intellectual property rights) ["I thought you would be interested to see the enclosed Green Paper"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Walker letter to MT (meeting with Chairman of the Electricity Council) [record of conversation about price increase] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Foreign policy: Hugh Thomas notes to MT (extract from Ford’s memoirs on Reagan, Falklands, etc) [“I didn’t take Reagan seriously”] [released 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Brittan-Biffen-Havers-Wakeham-Brennan-Armstrong-Goodall-Facer) ["Possible Proscription of Sinn Fein"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [paper on possible policy options for Northern Ireland] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Butler note to MT (thanks for Christmas party) ["It makes everyone in No.10 feel part of your extended family"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Reagan letter to MT (IRA bombing of Harrod's department store) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Harrods IRA bomb) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Lebanon: MT letter to President Asaad of Syria (situation in Lebanon) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Algeria: MT letter to President Benjedid of Algeria (UK-Algeria defence co-operation) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Belize: MT letter to Prime Minister Price of Belize (thanks for gift of Belize stamp album) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Dinner with Ji Pengfei: Chinese Garrison”) [“it would be impossible to send troops without publicity”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Constitutional and Governmental Development”) [new Territories Council] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Dinner with Ji Pengfei”) [Ji: “the first government of the SAR might be produced by consultation rather than election”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Ji Pengfei”) [“On detail, there were some signs of a disposition to compromise”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Butler minute to MT (“Operation Abercorn”) [media arrangements for visit] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Woodfield minute to Butler (“Operation Abercorn”) [programme and supporting brief for visit] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO (“Cyprus problem”) [“Kyprianou appearing to favour consultations under treaty of guarantee in parallel form”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1690 to FCO (0235Z) (“Commonwealth Action Group”) [“All the ministers are furious with Ramphal for dragging them to New York for no apparent purpose”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Tebbit minute to King (“Method of designating Assisted Areas”) [will need power to designate by reference to local authority wards] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute for No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) ["general picture more encouraging than in the last report"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Coles note to MT (Intervention of the West in the Gulf: Soviet reaction) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Goodall minute to MT (“Consequences of an Escalation of the Iran-Iraq War (OD(EM) (83) 4”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Agricultural Expenditure”) [overview: background, main issues, measures] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Chief Scientific Adviser minute for MT (“Agricultural Expenditure”) [the importance of scientific changes in agricultural policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Cabinet Office minute for MT (“Liquid Milk Prices”) [situation overview and changes recommendation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Lisbon telegram to FCO (“Argentina-Portugal”) [conversation between UK Ambassador & President Soares: Soares meeting with Alfonsin] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Argentina/Falklands: next steps with the Alfonsin Government”) [MT strongly disagrees with Howe] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (Seminar on Industry & Employment: Checklist of Conclusions) [MT "would be grateful if the Ministers indicated could take the action attributed to them"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Australia: HMS Invincible") [policy on disclosure of presence of nuclear weapons] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Department of Trade and Industry letter to No.10 ("Guangdong Nuclear Project") [current state of play] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Fowler PS ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Sir John Greenborough") [complaint about briefing provided to MT: 3% public pay sector pay assumption] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Jenkin letter to Biffen (dog license legislation) [timing of Government statement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Turkish Prime Minister Ozal letter for MT (thanking for the message of congratulations) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Lord Bridge letter to MT (Security Commission Report on the Aldridge case) [submission of Report: officer charged with breach of Official Secrets Act 1920] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Peking telegram 1387 to FCO (0600Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Zhao Ziyang") [Chinese government seeking to expedite pace of discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office letter to Department of Defence ("Leak Inquiry: Cruise Missiles") [DPP directs police to investigate and interview officials] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Robin Cook MP letter to Howe (ESPRIT) ["Whilst you are right to claim that funds could be made available without increasing "own resources" if the CAP could be brought under control, I see no reason why the go ahead for ESPRIT cannot now be given as one way of shifting the EEC's near exclusive concern with agriculture"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 letter to the Student and Academic Campaign for Soviet Jewry (persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union) [request for message of support] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Manpower Services Commission letter to King PS (White Paper on Training) [timing of publication] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3826 to FCO (0330Z) ("President Reagan's press conference, 20 December: Middle East") [summary] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: No.10 minute to MT (Audit Commission) [cover note referring to an AC manual which "illustrates some of the horrors the AC has uncovered"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Withstanding a strike in the gas industry") [Official Group (MISC 98) report & summary of key points] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Treasury ministers' membership at Lloyds; review and simplification of tax; names for Court of the Bank of England; bank taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT ("Unisat") [summary of recent situation report correspondence (attached) from Brittan & Tebbit and of advice from Policy Unit rejecting under-writing of future costs, with which MT concurs] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie PS letter to Brittan PS ("Report on Race Relations in the Civil Service") [publication] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [rollback of protectionism; 1984 EC Budget/1983 refunds; Energy Council; Transport Council; Steel Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: TUC statement of guidance (“Trade Union political funds”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT ("Proscription of Sinn Fein") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland: Possible Proscription of Sinn Fein") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland: Possible Proscription of Sinn Fein") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT message to Reagan (IRA bombing of Harrod's department store) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Prime Minister Gonzalez of Spain (IRA bombing of Harrods) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to President Mitterrand (IRA bombing of Harrods) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Turkey: Prime Minister Ozal of Turkey message to MT (thanks for message of congratulations on appointment as Prime Minister) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Call on Zhao Ziyang”) [“the Chinese side were willing to discuss anything with us so long as their basic principles were not infringed”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Zhao Ziyang”) [“it would now be possible and necessar to expedite the pace of discussions so as to lead to agreement at an early date”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Zhao Ziyang”) [“Zhao said that one aspect of China’s sovereignty over Hong Kong would be China’s right to station troops there”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Coles letter to Ricketts (“Hong Kong”) [“the Prime Minister has noted from recent telegrams that the Chinese are reluctant to envisage progress towards democratic institutions in Hong Kong before 1997”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Roger Henning to Martin Berthoud (the situation) [“every member of the Chinese business community in Hong has a differing opinion”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Hong Kong observers’s paper (Sino-British talks) [as given to Chinese Government] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Butler minute to MT (“Operation Abercorn”) [plan and draft statement for visit] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Woodfield letter to Butler (“Operation Abercorn”) [MT to issue a written statement] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 3827 to FCO (1516Z) (George Shultz’s visit) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 note to MT (Peter Tapsell letter handed to John Coles) [US deficit] [declassified 2014]
Text 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Northern Ireland: Thatcher letter to Reagan (outrage at Harrods IRA bomb) [unclassified]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (cost of publicising plans to abolish GLC) [Parliamentary answer] [declassified 2014]
Text 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: No.10 minute to MT (Agreement between the Building Societies Association and the National House Building Council: exemption from Restrictive Trade Practices Act) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Possible Visit to the Irish Republic by President Reagan") [advice from UK Ambassador not to discourage Reagan from accepting invitation - MT annotates agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Rees letter to Fowler (Social Sercurity expenditure) ["I am extremely put out by... yet another increase in your forecast"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Tebbit minute to MT ("Shipbuilding - EC Notification of UK Shipbuilding Aid") [MT unconvinced by Tebbit's argument for early notification] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Nationalised Industry References to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC): 1984 Programme") [conclusions from ad hoc meeting chaired by Lawson on 21 December] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Tebbit minute to MT ("Post Office Industrial Action") [negotiations; bonus system as deterrent against strike action] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: David Barclay minute to MT (British Association for the Advancement of Science: launch of new journal) [MT sends apologies; Kenneth Baker attends in her place] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Superannuation Scheme (England and Wales)") [Government Actuary report calling for increase in contributions; draft Statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Home Office letter to Cabinet Office ("Leaks and Scotland Yard") [findings of internal investigation into involvement of police press office in stories about MoD & DES leaks] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: MT letter to Katsuji Kawamata, Chairman of Nissan (proposed Nissan plant in UK) [thanks for letter and update] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 1714 to FCO (1805Z) ("Lebanon: Secretary General's remarks") [proposal to replace Multinational Force with United Nations Force] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3852 to FCO (2306Z) ("Lebanon") [current US thinking] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Lebanon") [USSR opposed to UN intervention] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: Tebbit minute to MT ("Rolls-Royce: Saudi Arabia") ["writing to seek your urgent intervention... for an engine contract"; MT requests redraft of proposed message to Fahd] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 minute (internal): Parsons to Coles ("Last Words") [Gulf; Palestine; Lebanon; Hong Kong; Falklands; Belize/Caribbean; UK/American relations; East/West relations; nuclear] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Urban Programme") [should look at objectives of a spending programme to see if "we can devote substantially less resources to it"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Heseltine letter to No.10 (Government efficiency programme) [progress report on Ministry of Defence measures] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ridley minute to MT ("European Community: Transport issues") [update & proposed negotiating strategy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hungary: UKE Bonn to FCO (Hungarian FM visits West Germany) [requests postponement of Kohl visit to Hungary in view of MT’s] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (MT visit) [FCO urgently seeks to firm up date] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 38th (Foreign Affairs, EC Budget, EC Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs, Northern Ireland) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Coles note to MT (thanks for Christmas party) ["I hope you will have a really refreshing Christmas. Some of us here know your burdens better than most - and therefore want you above all to have a little peace and rest"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT letter to Reagan (MT reports on her discussion with King Hussein of Jordan) [Arab-Israeli conflict, situation in the Middle East] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Zimbabwe: MT message to Prime Minister Mugabe of Zimbabwe (MT glad at release of Air Force Officers) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Aid: MT letter to President Diouf of Senegal (further help in fight against river blindness/onchocerciasis) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Tanzania: MT letter to President Nyerere of Tanzania (Tanzania to approach IMF) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Butler minute to Fall (reports on Robin McLaren) [MT “felt that the number of reports made it incumbent on the Government to make thorough inquiries”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Butler minute to Fall (“Hong Kong”) [proposed paper by Youde to EXCO] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Ingham minute to MT (“Operation Abercorn”) [draft statement for visit, media arrangements] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior PS minute to Butler (security arrangements for visit) [communications] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior PS minute to Ingham (“Operation Abercorn”) [press arrangements] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Coles minute to Howe PS (“Canadian visitors”) [“is there likely to be any embarrassment if the Prime Minister singles out Mr. Mulroney for special treatment in the form of a lunch”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 1717 to FCO (0120Z) (“Lebanon: Role of UN forces”) [de Cuéllar: “very conscious of the need for a Security Council mandate and of the difficulty of securing one”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Littler minute for Lawson (“Nigerian Debt”) [UK is THE major creditor] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Solicitor General) [Argentina: arms sales and bank lending] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MT letter to President Nyerere of Tanzania (financial relationship with Tanzania: the IMF programme) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Howe, Patrick Mayhew) [“Argentina: arms sales and bank lending”] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The Asiatic Society, Calcutta") [request for message & photo from MT to mark bicentenary] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler minute to MT ("Development of DHSS Policies") [progress report following 16 Sep 1982 meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Department of Health & Social Security letter to No.10 (General Practitioners: income from the NHS) ['Pulse' medical journal article; Family Practitioner Services; control of expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: MT letter to General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Conference (Scott Lithgow) ["must face up to the realities of the commercial world"; refutes case for Govt intervention in contract dispute with Britoil] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: MT letter to Norman Godman MP (Scott Lithgow) [declines request for meeting to discuss cancellation of Britoil contract] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: MT letter to Sir William Lithgow (Scott Lithgow) [refuses to consider Govt intervention in contract dispute with Britoil but pledges Govt resources to minimise local impact should loss of contract lead to closure of the firm] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Shipbuilding - EC Notification of UK Shipbuilding Aid") [comments on Tebbit proposals; MT unhappy with quality of DTI submission] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Lord Vaizey (proposed Study of Welfare State) ["I shall await your conclusions eagerly... I should also be pleased to meet you"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan (Japanese conference on life sciences and mankind) [British nominees for conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to Tebbit ("Import Restrictions Against the USSR") [MT & Howe agree to lifting of restrictions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: John Moore letter to MT (“Privatisation and the Energy industries”) [proposed Bill] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Waldegrave letter to Brian Sedgemore MP (Windscale - claim for compensation) [diseases allegedly caused by proximity to Sellafield nuclear facility] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("White Paper on Training") [TVEI; YTS; adult training; transfer of responsibilities & funding from local authorities to Manpower Services Commission] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 1717 to FCO (0120Z) ("Lebanon: role of UN forces") [John Thomson, Perez de Cuellar: record of conversation] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 1723 to FCO (2003Z) ("Lebanon: role of UN forces") [Soviet position on the proposal; alternative way forward] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 1722 to FCO (2000Z) ("Lebanon: role of UN forces") [President of the Security Council meeting with ambassadors of Syria, Lebanon & USSR] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Lebanon: MNF") [proposal to expand role of UNIFIL] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Saudi Arabia: MT message to King Fahd ("Rolls Royce - Saudi") [engines for Boeing 747 aircraft: MT requests RR bid be given due consideration; notes also "I am deeply concerned about the grave situation in the Middle East"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Exependiture Review") [MT note: "we can't go on like this"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: President Reagan letter to MT (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in New Delhi: outcomes) [relations with developing nations/economic conference proposal; Communique; Grenada] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: MT letter to President Banda (contributions to the International Development Association and the International Monetary Fund) ["[US] contribution, as the largest single donor to IDA, is crucial... [and] too low... As regards the IMF, we have... increase[d] the... [UK] quota"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Henry Plumb (1984 EC Budget and 1983 British refunds) [action taken by the conservative European Democratic Group in the European Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT (EC: 1982 risk-sharing refunds) ["a formal letter requesting... [EC] to remedy its failure to fulfil by 31 December 1983 its obligations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sir John Boreham letter to MT (sends CSO articles) [effects of taxes & benefits on household income; Redwood analysis] [released 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT engagements list (Ulster visit - “Operation Piston”) [flying programme] [released 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Redwood minute for MT (Policy Unit programme) [“every opportunity for you to dominate the popular ground of British politics”] [released 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe minute for Lawson (“Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society (AGF)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Commonwealth: Reagan letter to MT (New Delhi Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting communique) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Saudi Arabia: MT message to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (jet engines for Saudi airline: Rolls-Royce) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Aid: MT letter to President Banda of Malawi (International Development Association and IMF funds) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Science: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan (international conference on 'Life Sciences and Mankind') [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Tam Dalyell MP (transfer of sovereignty over dependent territories) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Social Security: MT letter to Lord Vaizey (Vaizey's 'new Beveridge' report) ["I am sure that you will, as always, produce an original and highly readable report which will be of great value to us"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Hazel Bradford, wife of Robert Bradford MP (murder of Edgar Graham and Harrods bomb) [dealing with terrorism] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Future of Hong Kong: Constitutional and Governmental Development”) [proposed paper “examining the scope for increasing internal self-government in Hong Kong”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to Heseltine (“Future of Hong Kong”) [papers for OD(K) meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT message (Christmas visit) [drafts and final text: “the Government is fully committed and determined to make Northern Ireland a better and more peaceful place”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: NIO itinerary (upcoming visit) [outward car plan] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: Jenkin letter to Councillor Edmonds (closure of Round Oak Steel Works) [“a decision that BSC alone had to take”] [declassified 2014]
Text 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (Commonwealth & Grenada) [declassified 2000]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Money Supply in Banking December: ‘First Guess’”) [satisfactory for £M3; not a lot in these figures] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rees minute to Jenkin (“Rating: Non-Domestic Revaluation”) [timing - prefers April 1989] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: FCO letter to No.10 (“Middle East: US Policy”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Michael Jopling to Nigel Lawson (“Liquid Milk Prices”) [the proposed set of changes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Director of Central Statistical Office letter to MT (effects of taxes and benefits on household incomes) [“system is complex and costly”] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Dec 24 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: BRITFORLEBANON telegram to FCO (Ceasefire Committee: 'violations' sub-committee) [assessment of the proposal] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Jamaica: MT message to Prime Minister Seaga (congratulations on re-appointment as Prime Minister) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Mrs Dodd, wife of Inspector Stephen Dodd (IRA bombing of Harrods: death of Inspector Dodd) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to John Hermon, Chief Constable of the RUC (thanks for helping with MT's visit to Northern Ireland) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 24 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT note to mayor of Ards Borough (visit to Newtownards) [thanks for gift] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 24 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT note to Cecil Hull (visit to Newtownards) [thanks] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 24 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT note to Jim Kilfedder (visit to Newtownards) [security services are “a beacon of hope”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 24 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT note to Lieutenant Colonel Beroys (visit to Drumadd Barracks) [impressed by professionalism and morale] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 24 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT note to Lieutenant Colonel Draper (visit to Aughnacloy Army Base) [impressed by professionalism and morale] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 24 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT note to Lieutenant General Richardson (visit to Northern Ireland) [debt owed to security services] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 24 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT note to Prior (visit to Northern Ireland) [“the great majority of people in Northern Ireland support our efforts for peace and reconciliation”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 24 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT note to Group Captain Salter (visit to RAF Aldergrove) [thanks] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 24 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT note to Superintendent Forde (visit to RUC at Newtownards) [impressed by professionalism] [declassified December 2014]
Text 83 Dec 25 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 83 Dec 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Franz Joseph Strauss letter to MT (meeting of the presidents of the Airbus partner companies) [declassified 2014]
Text 83 Dec 27 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1473 to FCO (0828Z) ("Central Committee Plenum") [leadership changes; Andropov's health] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 83 Dec 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("Lebanon") [record of Multinational Forces coordination meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("Lebanon: MNF") [report on injured British soldiers] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Beirut ("Lebanon Ceasefire Committee") [UK government's position] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 27 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry to Deputy PM Marjai (MT visit) [requests briefing on economic issues] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
Text 83 Dec 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 1724 to FCO (2017Z) ("Lebanon: UN forces") [analysis of proposal that UN cover Israeli & Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3881 to FCO (2252Z) ("Lebanon: Beirut bombings") [Reagan statement regarding US policy on tackling state-supported terrorism] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3882 to FCO (2255Z) ("Lebanon") [Rumsfeld, Khaddam: record of conversation in Damascus] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Cairo telegram to FCO ("Meeting between Arafat and Mubarak") [briefing for US, French & Italian ambassadors: "The main thrust of Boutros's message seemed to be an appeal to the West to help Egypt make the most of the visit"; summary of the Arafat, Mubarak talks] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("Lebanon - Ceasefire Committee") ['violations' sub-committee] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: No.10 minute to MT ("Lebanon") [Ceasefire Committee: 'violations' sub-committee] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Japan: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan (congratulations on re-appointment as Prime Minister) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Japan: Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan letter to MT (Nakasone re-appointed as Prime Minister; priorities for the future) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT letter to Barbara Castle (EC Budget) ["I am grateful for your firm support over the Parliament's treatment of our 1983 refunds"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) USA: US Ambassador letter to MT (thanking for hospitality) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: MT letter to David Owen (launch aid for British Aerospace) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO (“Alfonsin’s first two weeks: assessment”) [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Dec 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: Howe minute to Heseltine ("Gibraltar") [elections: "one of the key issues will be the future of the Naval Dockyard... I agree... [with] your proposal for maintaining a Naval presence... until after the elections"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Prime Minister Mauroy letter to MT (New Year message) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("YTS") [Youth Training Scheme: negotiations with Civil Service Unions; trainee for No.10] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("Lebanon") [situation report] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: No.10 minute to Howe PS (UKMIS telegram 1717: Lebanon: role of UN forces) [MT request for more detail about passing reference in telegram to UN Secretary General's "secret negotiations" on Cyprus] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Rees letter to Walker ("BGC 1983 Corporate Plan") [British Gas: outstanding issues not addressed by the Plan; gas exports] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Constitutional and Governmental Development”) [draft EXCO paper] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Hilton Cheong-Leong letter to MT (statement to Urban Council) [“British colonialism, no matter how benevolent and efficient it is, should in due course be replaced by self-administration by Hong Kong people”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO telegram to UKHC Nicosia (“Cyprus”) [“Kyprianou was anxious to talk to the Prime Minister”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO minute to No.10 (“Anglo Italian Summit: 26-27 January”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Howe minute to Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (“Liquid Milk Prices”) [declassified 2014]
Text 83 Dec 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: President Mubarak message to MT (meeting with Chairman Arafat) [record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to Rees ("British Council: expenditure provision") ["a sudden reduction... would be hard to defend in the House and give rise to much more robust lobbying"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (prisoners in police cells) [Brittan press article] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: President Mubarak message to MT (Middle East peace process) [significant recent developments] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 note (internal): Duty Clerk to Diary Secretary ("TSRB Meeting: 12 January") [Top Salaries Review Body: meeting rescheduled to accommodate Lord Chancellor] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1983 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007]
PDF 83 Dec 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Submission to Ministers - Working Paper on Future Security”) [“The Security issue has come to the fore earlier than anticipated”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Butler minute to Coles (Robin McLaren) [approach to Lord Cromer’s son] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 3899 to FCO (2154Z) (“Shultz’s visit to London”) [news beginning to leak, State Department to issue statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley minute to MT (“Shipping: Panamanian freight tax”) [possible countermeasures] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Dec 31 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 31 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: President Dos Santos letter to MT (Angola/South Africa) [complaint of incursion & request for UK support; UK ambassador record of conversation with Dos Santos] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 31 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) Cold War: UK Embassy in Warsaw to FCO (1983 Annual Report on Poland) [declassified 2007]
PDF 83 Dec 31 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Alison (thanks to political office for Christmas gift of hair rollers) ["At least my hair should look all right in the Orwellian year to come!"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 31 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Angola: President Dos Santos of Angola message to MT (claims South African aggression against Angola) [released 2013]
Text 84 Jan 1 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT message to President Mitterrand (TGV and Marseille station bombings) ["I was shocked to hear of the bomb outrages in France over the New Year"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies note (“Reports of Study Groups 1983-1984”) [domestic policy, cold war] [released 2014]
Text 84 Jan 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Hugh Thomas minute for MT (“The Future of the Centre for Policy Studies”) [position of Sherman] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry minute (“Conceptual Plan” for MT visit) [antecedents, goals, press handling] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
Text 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 2 to FCO (1440G) ("Lebanon") [meeting of the Coordination Committee: record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 letter to Fowler PS (Social Security Seminar) [control of expenditure on Family Practitioner Services & social security benefits; forecasting FPS expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 003 to FCO (1440Z) ("Cyprus: Denktash's goodwill proposals") [details of statement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: John Coles minute to MT ("Competitiveness of the UK Defence Industry") [commissioning of paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Private money and School Closures") [MT critical of Oliver Letwin paper "suggesting a new way of increasing the number of independent schools and of reducing the opposition to school closures"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan (Japanese conference on life sciences and mankind) [third British nominee for conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure Reviews") [options for savings; NHS contractor arrangements; territorial programmes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 note to MT (Athens European Council) [communication of UK concerns to Mitterrand about increased EC public expenditure and UK's 1983 refund] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Net Payments to European Community Institutions: public cxpenditure White Paper figures") [1983 refund; 1982 risk-sharing refund] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The Post-Stuttgart Negotiations and the French") ["we do not know with certainty why the frequent ministerial and official level contacts in the weeks before the Athens European Council failed to give us any forewarning of the line the President was likely to take... we have to find a way of getting our views over to the French at the only level that matters - that of the President"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) Cold War: UK Embassy in East Berlin to FCO (1983 Annual Report on GDR) [declassified 2007]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Canada: John Coles minute (lunch for Brian Mulroney) [visit later cancelled after Trudeau government brought budget forward] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“White Paper on Training”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Belize: MT letter to Prime Minister Price of Belize (Hillbank project) [sees economic benefits at first glance, full evaluation to follow] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local government: Ryder minute to Flesher (“London Docklands”) [dates for proposed visits] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ingham minute to MT (“London Docklands Railway”) [hears “there is a big row brewing over the tendering for this project”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Queen’s Speeches and Future Legislation Committee (QL) membership”) [proposed addition of Lord Advocate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“Economic Summit: 1984”) [discussions with France over potential date clashes, potential impact on PMQs] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Bernard Ingham (Economic Summit) [press announcement of date and participating countries] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: TUC Assistant General Secretary letter to MT (&dquo;World Economic Summit&rduqo;) [tradition of pre-summit meetings with host nation; proposes meeting in London] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: policy review”) [record of conversation: Youde, EXCO] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 letter to Howe PS (letter from Christine Loh of the Hong Kong Observers) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 minute to MT ("President Mitterrand") [possible meeting in Paris in advance of European Council meeting in March] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 3 to FCO (0056Z) ("Lebanon") [encouraging UN involvement: MT message to UN Secretary General & diplomatic initiatives] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Lebanon: Message to the Prime Minister from the Druze Community") [draft reply] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 14 to UKE Washington (1900Z) ("Lebanon") ["MNF role and the possible involvement of UN forces"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Manufacturing Nationalised Industries") [Corporate Plans: due dates; costs; decisions; presentational issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to President of the National Farmers' Union (National Farmers' Union views on agricultural issues before the European Council) [UK contribution to EC Budget; milk levy; green pound; cereals prices; EC Commission proposals on lamb] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Caroline Ryder (John Gummer) [meeting for “a general discussion on what we are doing”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (confirms to FCO date of MT visit) [news received “with rather great happiness”] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute to No.10 (“Visit of Dr von Weizsaecker: 5-8 April”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) US: Burt briefing for Shultz ("Your visit to the UK, Jan 11-12 Scope Paper") [“This past fall, pressures on the US/UK relationship have been stronger than at any time since Suez”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKHC Canberra (“Future of Hong Kong: briefing of allies”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office record of conversation (possible meeting with President Mitterrand) [Armstrong, Attali call: proposed dates for meeting in Paris; agenda; Dumas visit to London; rearrangement of Summit dates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Cabinet Office minute ("Management of Private Sector Blocks of Flats") [nomination of John Wheeler MP for committee] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT message to President Mubarak (problems of the Middle East) [Howe visit to Egypt] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: General Sir John Stanier letter to MT (Prime Minister's meeting with Colonel Gordon Ferguson on his return from Beirut) ["how much we in the army appreciate you finding the time"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Nicholas Edwards PS letter to Tom King PS ("White Paper on "Training for Jobs": MSC and NAFE") [comments on draft] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Howe minute to MT ("Shipbuilding - EC Notification of UK Shipbuilding Aid") [comments on Tebbit proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Teachers' superannuation scheme") [MT supports Policy Unit proposal that increase in contributions should be divided between employers and employees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Department of Environment letter to No.10 (the planning system: the work of Dr Alice Coleman) [response to MT's query] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: No.10 letter to FCO ("IDA 7") [UK contributions to International Development Association: MT 'takes the view that it would be a mistake to contribute to a supplementary fund'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Anthony Shrimsley memo for John Gummer (publicity) [“Our message is: ‘GET THE BEST OUT OF EUROPE - VOTE CONSERVATIVE’”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: Stephen Sherbourne notes (European Elections Publications’ Committee (“Howe Group”)) [meetings, activities] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Appointment of M Roland Dumas") [as Minister for European Affairs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: President Dos Santos letter to MT (eighth anniversary of People's Republic of Angola proclamation of independence) [thanks for MT message of congratulations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Net Payments to European Community Institutions: public expenditure White Paper figures") [1983 refund; 1982 'risk-sharing' refund; E(A) committee: how to avoid EC expenditure adding to public expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Bilateral Visits Overseas by the Prime Minister in 1984") [provisional schedule including UK/French Summit and Franco-British Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe minute to MT ("Possible Meeting with President Mitterrand") ["he cannot bring... [EC] negotiations to a successful conclusion without our agreement... An informal discussion... would be an excellent opportunity to get... points across to him" ; timing of meeting; content of talks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (MT visit) [Guardian requests interview; MT offers one to Hungarian TV] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute to No.10 (“Helmut Schmidt on Current Issues”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger letter to Tom King (“White Paper “Training for Jobs”: MSC and NAFE”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior PS note to Butler (“Operation Abercorn”) [documents downgraded to “restricted”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“UN Secretary-General’s activities”) [“he was in fact being active behind the scenes in a potentially useful way”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (Economic Summit) [Summit logo: four designs commissioned, possible modifications] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: dinner with Yao Guang”) [change of Chinese negotiator] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: policy review”) [“The Foreign Secretary accepts most but not all the amendments”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 27 to FCO (0130Z) ("Lebanon") [Thomson, Perez de Cuellar, Lui: record of conversation: UN role] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 38 to FCO (0020Z) ("Lebanon") [Wright, Poindexter: record of conversation: "White House thinking on the way ahead"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT message to U.N. Secretary General (1125Z) (U.N. involvement in Lebanon) ["much encouraged by your own continuing advocacy of such a course"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 11 to UKMIS New York (1230Z) (UN forces in Lebanon) ["possibilities for wider UN involvement"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger letter to Tebbit ("Shipbuilding - EC Notification of UK Shipbuilding Aid") [supports need for increased Intervention Fund assistance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit: Robert Young minute to Nicholas Owen ("British Shipbuilder' Pay Negotiations") [analysis of the settlement & its press coverage] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: John Coles minute to MT ("President Kyprianou") [scheduling of meeting; MT notes need to press Greece to make clear its stance on consultations with the Turks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("National Defence Technological Capabilities") [comments on working group report; information on technologies not covered by the report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKMIS New York telegram 17 to FCO (2230Z) ("Proposal by the President of the General Assembly for a Security Council Summit Meeting") [letter sent to Reagan, Andropov & Gandhi; "typical of him not to have written to all members of the Security Council"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: John Coles minute to MT ("East/West Relations") [request from Cardinal Hume for approval to publish his recent correspondence with MT] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry") [advice on request that MT write foreword to booklet commemorating 7th anniversary of Anatoly Shcharansky's imprisonment] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Promotion blockages in the Civil Service") [early retirement scheme; efficiency scrutiny of means used to identify & develop internal talent] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Meeting between the Prime Minister and President Mitterrand") [Attali, Armstrong: arrangements for Paris, 23 Jan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: MT letter to Jack Cunningham MP (Rates Bill) [“I and my Party continue to support the decentralisation of power and the enhancement of freedom and local choice”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economic policy: Redwood minute for MT (service and manufacturing sectors) [absurdity of “the myth that the only real job … is to manufacture something”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Jenkin letter to Tom King (draft White Paper on Vocational Education and Training) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to MT (“Economic Summit”) [proposes regular meetings with Robert Armstrong between now and Summit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Turnbull note to MT (Midland Bank mortgage rate increase) [half per cent] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Tunrbull note for MT (“Growth of Social Expenditure”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Howe to MOD (“Consequences of an Escalation of the Iran-Iraq War”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT (Denis Thatcher attendance to cricket matches in South Africa) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Secretary of State for Environment minute to MT (“Stansted Planning Inquiry”) [his position] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Hong Kong: change of Chinese negotiator”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong”) [policy review paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (“RSG: London Borough of Barnet”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 7 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 28 to FCO (0120Z) ("Lebanon") [role of the UN; UN diplomacy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 53 to FCO (0120Z) ("Lebanon") [Lebanese Security Plan; UN involvement; redeployment of US marines] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Paris telegram 12 to FCO (1045Z) ("Lebanon") [UN involvement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) US: Burt briefing memo to Shultz (“Checklist for your visit to London”) [“Assure HMG that the USG desires to maintain/deepen consultations and our interests remain basically consistent”] [declassified 2013]
Text 84 Jan 8 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Dr. Sakharov letter to Heads of State (obtaining Soviet permission for Mrs Bonner-Sakharov to travel abroad for medical treatment) [appeal to Heads of State for assistance, sent under cover of a letter from son-in-law, Efrem Yankelovich, who requests a meeting with MT] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jan 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Nigeria: Major-General Muhammadu Buhari letter to MT (coup) [role of armed forces in change of government, economic problems] [released 2014]
Text 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Lebanon") ["a brief round up of where we now stand"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("The "Freedom of Information Campaign"") [suggests public release of MT's less to Des Wilson: MT: "No - I do not release letters I write to others"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 minute to Department of the Environment (Dr. Alice Coleman) [reply to letter about Dr. Coleman's work] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Rees letter to Fowler ("NHS Manpower") ["new regime... should not be... [seen as] a weakening of the Government's policy to reduce public service manpower"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Shipbuilding - EC Notification of UK Shipbuilding Aid") ["I am not happy about... [Norman Tebbit's] proposed approach to the Commission"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("Select Committee on Energy") [Government policy on electricity & gas prices] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Sarah Tisdall case) [leak of document about Cruise missile arrival at Greenham Common; source identified in Defence Secretary's Private Office] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Possible Visit by Mr Davignon") [proposed dates; MT concerned that meeting not be scheduled too close to her return from Hungary] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("IDA 7") [UK contributions to International Development Association: question of additional contribution to a supplementary fund] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (UK/Soviet dialogue) [Howe proposes meeting with Gromyko; MT favours London rather than Moscow] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: Geoffrey Howe note to Nigel Lawson (“Guide for the European Elections”) [seeks colleagues’ views on draft] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Lord Cockfield's study of tax law; monetary targets, rapid growth in monetary aggregates; exchange rates, dollar strength; pay] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO (“Press Summary”) [President Alfonsin's statement about the Falklands; Argentine economy; the Beagle dispute; military unrest] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland minute for MT (“Northern Ireland Electricity Service: Possible Sale of Electricity Generating Sets to Argentina”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("European Community: Transport issues") ["French... Germans... Italians are our traditional opponents... the Dutch, like us, attach prime importance to a dynamic Common Transport Policy... colleagues should do what they can to support... Ridley's efforts in their bilateral contacts between now and [European Council in] March"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hong Kong: MT to Lord Cromer (issues he has raised) [Cradock, Evans, Youde] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT meeting with Conservative local councillors) [rate-capping] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hong Kong: MT letter to Lord Cromer (his suggestions) [Cradock, Evans, Youde] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Minister Várkonyi (MT visit) [Ambassador’s profile of MT] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (talks with Bullard & others) [“great delight” at MT visit: Bullard] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry minute (MT visit) [meeting with British Ambassador to discuss arrangements] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy press release ("Government Go Ahead for £400 Million Asfordby Mine: Mr Peter Walker") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe minute for MT (urges visit by the Prime Minister to Bonn) [MT rejects stopover in Bonn on way back from Budapest] [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rees letter to Tom King (draft White Paper on vocational education and training) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Tom King (“White Paper “Training for Jobs”: MSC and NAFE”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: Reagan letter to MT (accepts invitation to London economic summit) [need to build on consensus reached at last meeting] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Rauf Denktash letter to MT (declaration of independent Turkish Republic of Nothern Cyprus) [“will not… hinder the establishment of a genuine federation”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Officer letter to Chief Executive of the PSA (Property Services Agency restructuring) [MT request for report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“Economic Summit 1984”) [proposed declaration on traffic in narcotics: precedents set by previous Summits; MT’s position] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Bettino Craxi message to MT (Economic Summit) [accepts invitation; need to tackle major economic problems but not give rise to too high expectations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: President Reagan letter to to MT (Economic Summit) [accepts invitation; focus should be on building on consensus reached at Williamsburg] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: HMA Ambassdor to Italy despatch (“Italy: Annual Review for 1983”) [beginning of Craxi's premiership] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute (“Monthly Financial Markets Report”) [Dec 1983] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (paper on choice of monetary targets in 1984 MTFS) [signalling importance of narrow money to interest rate policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKMIS New York telegram 31 to FCO (1650Z) (“Future of Hong Kong”) [EXCO members visit to US] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: MT letter to Lord Cromer (Hong Kong negotiations) [suggestions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 note to FCO (“Hong Kong”) [rumours about US plans for Guam and Macao] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Future of Hong Kong: constitutional and governmental development”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Hong Kong: meeting of OD(K), 11 January 1984”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Hong Kong”) [Evans conversation with MT: clarification] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (“Prime Minister and Conservative Councillors”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ingham minute to MT (“Rates - Councillors”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: David Barclay minute to MT ("Housing Policy") ["You asked us to check what the Manifesto said"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi record of conversation (Norman Tebbit trade mission to India) [Indira Gandhi, Tebbit, Wade-Gery, Garekhan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 36 to FCO (0010Z) ("Lebanon") [Multinational Forces; role of UN; 17 May Agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 71 to FCO (0100Z) ("UN Forces in Lebanon") [refugee camps; USSR; Syria] [declassified Jan 2014]

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

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