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83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT (“European Community expenditure and the control of UK public expenditure”) [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Howe minute to MT (“European Community expenditure programmes and the control of UK public expenditure”) [points of disagreement with Lawson on policy] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to MT ("Athens European Council: UK net contribution") ["...in light of the developments at the Special Council in Brussels yesterday, I should like to set down what I now believe our priorities and tactics should be..."] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with Chancellor”) [public expenditure, EC budget, energy prices] [declassified 2014]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Commonwealth: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Nyerere) ["Tanzania: IMF"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Commonwealth: No.10 minute to MT ("Awkward Questions") [Heads of Government Conference in Goa & Delhi: lines to take on outcomes] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Where Will The New Jobs Come From") [cover minute summarising Lawson paper & TUC paper, for next meeting of NEDC] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	China: Tebbit minute to MT ("Guangdong Nuclear Project") [question of UK Government equity participation in project; impact on Sino-British relations and future of Hong Kong] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	National Health: Department of Health record of conversation ("Implementation of the Griffiths Report in DHSS") [Fowler, Ken Clarke, John Patten, Ken Stowe, Henry Yellowlees, Dr. Acheson] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: Lord Vaizey to MT (the Welfare State) [request for meeting with MT to discuss his proposed Study] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Japan: Michio Watanabe MP of Japan letter to MT (thanks for hospitality during visit and gift of photographs) [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Hungarian National Archive)	Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry note (conversation with British Ambassador) [Hungarians inclined to postpone] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Commonwealth: Armstrong note (New Delhi Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) ["'Always purr when you're pleased'. A lot of people acting on that advice this morning"] [released 2013]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EC: List of signatories to Early Day Motion on the EC budget ["this House believes that the own resources of the European Community should not be increased"] [released 2013]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Commonwealth: Ingham minute to MT ("Press Conference, Radio and TV") [New Delhi Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting] [released 2013]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Coles letter to Fall (“Hong Kong”) [conversation with Lee Kuan Yew] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	International economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Nyerere of Tanzania) [Tanzanian seeking a third devaluation; asked MT use her influence with the IMF] [declassified 2014]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Iraq: UKE Washington telegram 3586 to FCO (2115Z) (“Threat to Shipping in the Gulf”) [Reagan’s decision on US policy towards the Gulf] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Argentina: uranium enrichment plant”) [liaison with US over concerns] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 29 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Argentina”) [Howe advocates worth of congratulatory message to newly elected Argentine government] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“E(A) 1 December 1983: EC expenditure programmes and control of UK public spending”) [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“European Community expenditure programmes and control of public expenditure”) [endorsements of Treasury policy] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 (“Public expenditure as a percentage of GDP”) [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson, Chirac) [prospects for Athens European Council, 4-6 Dec; EMS; economic convergence] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Council, 4-6 December: preparation of the United Kingdom position") [background for MT briefing meeting with Lawson, Howe, Jopling and Channon] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Post-Stuttgart negotiations: meeting of Ministers at 5.30pm on 1 December") ["This meeting is intended to... decide the [UK] line on certain major points for the European Council in Athens on 4-6 December"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: FCO briefing for MT (Athens European Council, 4-6 Dec 1983) [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: President of the National Farmers' Union letter to MT ("Heads of Government meeting - adaption of the CAP") [specific concerns outlined in advance of MT trip to Athens] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial policy: MT letter to Lord Peyton of Yeovil (merger of Alcan UK and British Aluminium) ["most heartened to hear of the improvement in your company's fortunes"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: Walker PS letter to No.10 ("Briefing for Prime Minister's Questions") ["You asked... for a note on the different figures for the profits of the gas and electricity industries which had recently been quoted in Parliament"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("Cable Franchises") [capital allowances; BT involvement; selection of consortia; MT queries Treasury awareness of potential sticking point] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Commonwealth: MT letter to President Reagan (Heads of Government meeting in New Delhi: Communique) [Declarations on International Security & on Economic Action; Grenada] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Commonwealth: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("CHOGM: Prime Minister's Statement") [Heads of Government meeting in New Delhi: draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Commonwealth: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("CHOGM") [Heads of Government meeting in Goa & New Delhi: bilateral meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (Ground Launched Cruise Missile delivery programme) [clarification of information provided in Heseltine letter of 24 November] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Westland W30 helicopters") [Indian Air Force: "I believe that we are unlikely to win the contract unless we offer substantial aid"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Your Meeting on the EC Budget: Thursday 1 December") [attendees] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC budget inequity; milk prices/levy; monetary compensatory amounts; new transport policies; EC enlargement; 1982 risk-sharing refund; steel volutary restraint agreements; Japanese export restraint package; steel prices; US/EC steel dispute; 1983 budget refunds; easing of EC internal trade barriers; Environment Council; Departmental coverage of EC expenditure programme costs; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	India: John Lall letter to MT (BBC World Service) [strengthening of the radio signal] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Port of London Authority (PLA)") ["the problems that we face... could soon become urgent"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Jordan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by King Hussein") [date to discuss "stagnation in the Middle East peace process"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: Manchester Society of Architects letter to MT (manipulation of the construction industry) [Manchester Evening News article] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Regional Policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("White Paper on Regional Policy") [revised draft] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("ESPRIT") [answers to MT questions raised by Howe minute of 22 November] [released Dec 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("ESPRIT") [Robin Nicholson response to MT questions raised by Howe minute of 22 November] [released Dec 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Department of Environment letter to No.10 ("The Planning System") [response to Sir John Sainsbury's concerns about the complexities of the planning system] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1600Z) ("Strategic Defense Initiative") (NSC 0096) [declassified Dec 2005]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: UKREP Brussels to FCO ("European Parliament Report on Northern Ireland") [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EC: EC Presidency report to Delegations (European Council, Athens, 4 to 6 December 1983) [released 2013]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Commonwealth: MT message to Reagan (comments on communique issued by New Delhi Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) [released 2013]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	International economic policy: Lawson message to Brazilian Finance Minister Galveas (UK role in IMF talks and Paris Club restructuring) [wants UK Ambassador at every point to stress the UK's constructive and generous attitude] [declassified 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	International economic policy: Turnbull minute for MT ('Brazil') [opposes FCO suggestion to placate Brazilian criticism of UK role] [declassified 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (Commonwealth & Grenada) [summary declassified 2000]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	USA: FCO minute to No.10 (“Proposed Call on the Prime Minister by the US Ambassador”) [declassified 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Iraq: Goodall to MT (“Oil Supplies from the Gulf”) [impact on the UK oil prices if supplies were cut off] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Middle East: Anthony Parsons minute to No.10 (“Middle East”) [conversation with Prince Hassan] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: Norman Tebbit minute to Howe (“A320”) [launch aid for British Aerospace] [declassified 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Obstruction of Local Government policies: appointment of Commissioners”) [declassified 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Abolition of the Greater London Council (GLC) and Metropolitan County Councils (MCCs)”) [declassified 2014]
83 Nov 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: No.10 note to MT (Tam Dalyell MP ‘Wall Street Journal’ article) [allegations regarding circumstances surrounding sinking of ‘Belgrano’] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Papandreou ("European Council, 4-6 December") ["...I attach great importance to our making decisive progress on [this] occasion... my views on a few key points in advance of the meeting"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lawson, Jopling, Channon, Kenneth Baker, officials) [Athens European Council, 4-6 Dec] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Community Aid") [European Council, 4-6 December] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by President Gemayel of Lebanon") [programme] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Netherlands: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Rifkind, van Eekelen, David Hannay, Posthumus Meyjes) [UK contribution to EU budget; own resources; new policies] [declassified July 2017]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Saudi Arabia: MT letter to King Fahd (Minister for Trade and Industry visit to Saudi Arabia) [MT greetings & message of goodwill] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Commonwealth: No.10 note to MT ("CHOGM") [Heads of Government meeting in New Delhi: "whether you had been able to raise with President Moi the case of the Ethiopian princesses"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("ICL") [chairmanship transition; relationship between BT & International Computers Ltd] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: BT letter to No.10 (record of confidential discussion) [Robin Butler, Clive Priestley: "to confirm my understanding of the outcome"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Jopling PS letter to Howe PS (House of Commons Debate on the Common Agricultural Policy) [Jopling opening speech] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	France: No.10 minute to MT ("Politique Internationale") [FCO recommends that MT accepts prize; MT declines] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	China: MT letter to Lord Kadoorie (Guangdong Nuclear project) [does not agree to UK Government equity participation in project] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	China: No.10 letter to Lord Rhodes (Guangdong Nuclear project) [MT does not agree to UK Government equity participation in project] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Electricity Supply Industry Board Salaries") [MT firmly opposed to pay increase] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Regional Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("White Paper on Regional Policy") [modernisation; phasing out of replacement investment; selective assistance for relocation projects] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Visit of M. Chirac") [visit is "a good opportunity to influence M. Chirac's thinking"] [declassified Jul 2017]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Esprit") ["UK participation will be significantly above the 22% which we contribute to the costs of the programme"] [released Dec 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Turnbull note to MT (overtime ban 'unlikely' to have 'significant' effect on power station endurance) [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 35th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Budget, EC Affairs, Industrial Affairs) [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("North/South Anglo-Irish Security Cooperation") [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("European Parliament and Northern Ireland") [Haagerup report] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EC: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Common Agricultural Policy: Milk") [released 2013]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Colombia: President Betancur of Colombia message to MT (death of British citizens in Spanish air crash) [released 2013]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	South Africa: Prime Minister Jonathan of Lesotho letter to MT (South Africa-Lesotho relations) [released 2013]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Saudi Arabia: MT letter to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (UK-Saudi trade and relations) [released 2013]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EC: MT letter to Prime Minister Papandreou of Greece (MT's views in advance of Athens European Council meeting: EC Budget) [released 2013]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Hong Kong: MT letter to Lord Kadoorie (proposed nuclear power station in Guangdong Province: implications for Hong Kong) [released 2013]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Victor Rothschild memo to MT (“The Future of Hong Kong”) [“Chinese intentions towards Hong Kong after 1997 have at last become clear”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Butler minute to MT (Operation Abercorn) [outline programme] [declassified December 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1510 to FCO (0035Z) (“Cyprus”) [reports de Cuéllar “might be willing to consider proposals from us for concerted action to break out of the current deadlock”] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Possible Meeting between the Prime Minister and Mr Papandreou at the European Council”) [“better to avoid a bilateral meeting on an issue unrelated to the budget negotiations”] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	International economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 ('Brazil') [instructions to our Ambassador] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome to FCO (“Anglo Italian Summit”) [arrangements and location] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Iraq: Howe to MOD (“Consequences of an Escalation of Iran-Iraq War”) [the Gulf States’ perception of the Iranian threat] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Iraq: Howe to Department for Energy (“Oil Supplies from the Gulf”) [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Sale of British Airways”) [possible litigation] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Athens telegram to Flash FCO ("Cyprus: Guarantor power consultations") ["Clear implication that Papandreou is looking to us to pull his chestnuts our of the fire..."] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: FCO letter to No.10 (bilaterals at European Council, 4/6 Dec) [proposed programme; No.10 warns of Italian sensitivities to France, Germany and Britain concerting their positions] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Athens European Council: the Greek memorandum") ["...the Prime Minister should seek to dress up the benefits which Greece is already getting from the Community and those which she will get as a result of the decision to postpone for two years the introduction of VAT"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("European Council: political items") [Middle East; Cyprus; East/West relations; Afghanistan; Latin & Central America] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Cyprus: meeting between Mrs Thatcher and the Prime Minister of Greece") ["There is very little prospect in the present climate of our being able to play a successful leading role either in resolving the present crisis, or in contributing to the longer-term search for a solution..."] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("European Council, 4-6 December: opening remarks by the Prime Minister") [plain talking on need for consensus, and EU Budget contributions] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("European Community financing") ["short fact sheet" requested by MT] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("European Community: European Council of 4-6 December") ["...short glossary of the main terms which may be used in the discussion on the budget inequity..."] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Athens European Council: message from the Prime Minister to Papandreou") [Ambassador's discussion with Papandreou on budget issue] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 1516 to FCO (0245Z) ("PLO in Lebanon") [Arafat request for UN flag to be flown on evacuation ships] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3644 to FCO (2350Z) ("US Middle East policy") [Oliver Wright record of conversations with Richard Murphy & Raymond Seitz] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("EC/Israel/Lebanon") [Patrick Moberly, David Kinche record of conversation: "Israelis believe that Syria has lost the initiative in Lebanon and that it would be a tragic mistake if the Europeans helped Syria to recover it"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("Lebanon internal") [situation report] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKdel NATO telegram to FCO ("US/Israeli talks in Washington") [US report to NATO on Yitzhak Shamir visit] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Commonwealth: Prime Minister Gandhi letter to MT (Heads of Government meeting in New Delhi and Goa) ["my congratulations on the constructive outcome"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT ("TSRB Pensions") [Top Salaries Review Body: MT agrees to further meeting to try to resolve Heseltine/Hailsham dispute with Treasury over senior army officers'/judges' pensions] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("European Community Financing") [fact sheet requested by MT] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Falklands: President's Assistant for National Security Affairs memorandum to President Reagan ("Argentine Certification") [published 2015]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("INMOS") [current financial position; sale options/risks] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 Policy Unit ("Follow up to Chequers Seminar on Industry and Employment") [progress report on remits given to Treasury by MT in September] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	National Health: Department of Health letter to No.10 ("NHS Management Enquiry") ["restructuring of the DHSS to implement Griffiths [Report] in the NHS"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: No.10 minute to MT ("Dolours Price") [press reports that 1973 Old Bailey bomber intends to return to London in breach of release conditions] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Lord Vaizey's request for a meeting to discuss proposed Study of Welfare State) [MT agrees to personal reply, meeting & use of civil service resources] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Regional Policy: Younger letter to Tebbit ("Future Regional Industrial Policy: Draft White Paper") [assistance for relocation projects] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Regional Policy: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (Future Regional Industrial Policy: Draft White Paper) [Treasury revisions] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Regional Policy: Jenkin letter to Tebbit ("White Paper on Regional Policy") [request for redraft] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chirac) [Athens Summit, French domestic politics, attitudes to EC taxation and enlargement, trade] [declassified Jul 2017]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: No.10 minute to MT ("Soviet Prisoners Captured by the Afghan Resistance") [advice & redraft, at MT's request, of reply to Count Tolstoy regarding treatment of prisoners & possibility of UK asylum] [released Jul 2018]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Middle East/Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1600Z) ("Libya & Oil and Gas Export Control Issues") (NSC 0097) [declassified Dec 2005]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Falklands: Hugh Thomas letter to MT (conversation with Argentinian Ambassador to US) [Raul Alfonsin would like “to end the state of war between us”] [released 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Hungarian National Archive)	Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (MT visit) [discussions with FCO & CND] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Hungarian National Archive)	Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (MT visit date still uncertain) [“the visit is a constant source of discussion at every meeting”] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Commonwealth: MT letter to Prime Minister Gandhi of India (congratulations on success of New Delhi Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) [released 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EC: Prime Minister Papandreou of Greece letter to MT (plans for Athens European Council meeting) [released 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Parliament: MT letter to Biffen (thanks for standing in for MT at Prime Minister's Questions three times in a row) [released 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Defence: MT letter to Peter Lilley MP (deployment of US Cruise Missiles to the UK) [dual control firing arrangements give UK "tantamount to a veto" on firing of nuclear weapons] [released 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Dinner with Yao Guang”) [“Our mutual understanding had been enhanced”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong: Next Session of Talks”) [“The Chinese request to receive the rest of the working papers quickly is interesting”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: UKE Athens telegram to FCO (“Cyprus: Guarantor Power Consultations”) [“Papandreou is looking to us to pull his chestnuts out of the fire”] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: Howe PS briefing for MT (“Meeting between Mrs Thatcher and the Prime Minister of Greece”) [“only advantage in agreeing to take on the role of mediator would be presentational”] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	US: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“The US economy”) [“The US economy is rushing forward on the back of easy money and a traditional Keynesian stimulus to the economy”] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Howe message to UKE Brasilia (“Brazil: Financing”) [his letter to Maxwell-Hislop: the Brazil debt problem] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	International economic policy: Department of Trade and Industry minute to No.10 (credit for Brazil) [hopes to resume offering export credits shortly; Turnbull & Treasury sceptical] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: UKE Washington telegram 3632 to FCO (1919Z) (“Argentina: Certification”) [Eagleburger said decision imminent, certification inevitable after elections] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Iraq: Coles to MT (“Threat to Shipping in the Gulf”) [Tony Parson’s minute] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (arms sales to Argentina) [Reagan defends US policy - MT sceptical] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“US arms sales to Argentina”) [draft message conveying UK concerns] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“French arms sales to Argentina”) [UK to express regret over French decision to lift ban] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO (“Press summary”) [current events including receipt of international loan] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Heseltine letter to General Secretary of the British Council of Churches (“On Making Peace in a Nuclear World”) [meeting to discuss policy statement] [declassified 2016]
83 Dec 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 Dec 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Athens telegram to Flash FCC ("Cyprus: Guarantor Power consultations") [briefing for MT talks with Papandreou at European Council] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: FCO letter to No.10 ("Message from President Kyprianou to the Prime Minister") [response to statement made by MT to the House regarding Cyprus situation] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 1522 to FCO (1900Z) ("PLO in Lebanon") [statement by UN Secretary General] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("Firing at BRITFORLEB") [situation report] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: No.10 minute to MT (BRITFORLEB forces) ["dormitory operation"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Argentina: Reagan letter to MT (situation in Argentina) [US to make Argentina eligible for arms transfers] [released 2013]
83 Dec 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Tanzania: President Nyerere of Tanzania letter to MT (Tanzanian debt problem) [released 2013]
83 Dec 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: UKE Athens telegram to FCO (“Cyprus: Guarantor Power Consultations”) [“any form of talks under the treaty of guarantee run a strong risk of leaving us with a good share of the blame for failure”] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: FCO letter to No.10 (“Message from President Kyprianou to the Prime Minister”) [“did not want the possibility of parallel exchanges (between the UK and Greece and the UK and Turkey) to be excluded”] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO (“EC/Cyprus”) [“The Greek Cypriots would jump at Haferkamp’s idea”] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO (“Developments in North Cyprus: ‘Constituent Assembly’”) [first meeting, new constitution] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: President Nyerere of Tanzania letter to MT (economic problems) [UK offer to help in discussions with IMF] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: US Ambassador Price letter to MT (message from the President on certification of Argentina) [MT annotates critically] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 3650 to FCO (184Z) (message to Shultz on arms sales to Argentina) [US gives confidential assurance to consult UK prior to any sales] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO telegram 2037 to UKE Washington (2130Z) (message to Shultz on arms sales to Argentina) [Howe conveys “serious concerns”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 4 Su	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 Dec 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Sherherd minute to Butler ("European Council") [order of business; Presidency text; budgetary imbalances] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 4 Su	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 minute to All Members of the UK Delegation to the European Council ("Prime Minister's briefing meetings") [required attendees] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 4 Su	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	G7: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("1984 Economic Summit") [connection between summit dates and events around D-Day anniversary; "remembrance and reconciliation" the best tone for German susceptibilities] [released Jan 2014]
83 Dec 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3653 to FCO (1818Z) ("US/Israeli strategic cooperation") ["In private Eagleburger argues that a strong US/Israeli relationship is necessary"; analysis; situation report] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Damascus telegram to FCO ("Mr Luce's call on Syrian Foreign Minister") [Luce, Khaddam: record of conversation] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("Lebanon") ["I recommend that we should dissociate the UK as firmly as possible from this US action, in terms at least as critical as those we used about the French attack"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Lebanon") [line to take on US air strike] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: No.10 minute to MT ("Lebanon") [US air strike: "I have told... [Heseltine's] office... you were not disposed to have a row with the Americans about this"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Damascus ("Lebanon") [US air strike] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Athens ("Lebanon") [Howe, Weinberger: record of conversation] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Athens ("Lebanon: US action") [lines to take on US air strikes] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: Heseltine message to MT (US air raids on Syrian military targets) [update & advice on UK response] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: FCO telegram to UKHC Nicosia (“Cyprus: Guarantor Power Consultations”) [“Kyprianou was anxious that the British Government should not seem to encourage talks between himself and Mr Denktash before the purported Turkish-Cypriot declaration of independence had been reversed”] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 4 Su	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (State Department)	Falklands: US State Dept brief (resuming US arms sales to Argentina) [declassified 2002] [external link]
83 Dec 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 2 to UKE Athens (1930Z) (“Argentina: US certification”) [concerns about backlash over lack of UK support for US action in Grenada] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: FCO record of conversation (“informal record” of Athens European Council, 4/6 Dec) [first day - introduction, agriculture] [declassified Dec 2015]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (the McGovern case) [John Coles, Dermot Nally] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Garret FitzGerald) [milk surpluses; the McGovern case/tensions between Irish and UK police forces] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Foreign Secretary record of conversation (incomplete text of Howe's notes of European Council) [includes some material from 6 Dec] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with President Mitterrand: Argentina") [relations with new government/US arms sales; EC Budget; agricultural reform; French intransigence; UK refund; industrial co-operation] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Bullard minute to Howe PS ("European Council: political co-operation items") [Middle East; Cyprus; Central America; Argentina; Afghanistan] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, FitzGerald) [EC: milk; Northern Ireland: security cooperation/McGovern case] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (McGovern case) [John Coles, Dermot Nally] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Soviet press conference: Middle East") [comment on US/Israeli intervention] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO ("US/Syria") [Luce comments to media regarding US military action] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Damascus telegram to FCO ("US/Syria") [Luce comments to media regarding US military action] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Damascus telegram to FCO ("Firing at BritForLeb") [Richard Luce, Walid Jumblatt: record of conversation] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("Firing at BritForLeb") [speculation & press comment] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Athens ("Lebanon") [Parsons minute outlining concerns about US policy & advising MT to contact Reagan directly] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: No.10 minute (internal) to Coles (Multinational Force: withdrawal of British contingent) [Rifkind answer to Draft Notice Question in Commons; "mood in the House... strongly critical of American policy"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: President Assad letter to MT (US/Israeli intervention in the Lebanon) ["a threat to peace and security... in the world at large"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (electricity supply industries' EFL) [detail of last increase] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Whitelaw PS ("Public Expenditure Survey") [MT wants increased spending on programmes to be kept to a minimum] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil service: No.10 letter to Central Office of Information ("New technology in the GIS") [proposal for Government Information Service] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("INF: Soviet press conference") [arms control talks; Western deployment; Andropov's health] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: MT message to Andropov (Geneva Arms Control Agreement) ["we cannot accept that you should maintain a monopoly of intermediate range missiles in Europe... We deeply regret your decisions to suspend the Geneva negotiations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Department of Agriculture minute to No.10 ("CAP") [Common Agricultural Policy: EC negotiations/milk levy] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Tom King minute to MT ("Review of the Hotel and Catering Industry Training Board") [announcement to Parliament on future of the Board] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Nationalised Industries References to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC)) [Scottish airports] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet Unofficial Peace Movement") [attempts to hand over MT reply; press release; protest to Russians] [declassified Dec 2018]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Greece: FCO note for the reccord (Williamson-Papanicolaou) [possible Papanicolaou fact finding visit to Paris and Bonn] [declassified Dec 2017]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EC: MT notes from Athens European Council meeting (EC issues, EC budget) [released 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EC: MT speaking notes for Athens European Council meeting (EC budget) [released 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EC: Briefing notes for MT bilateral meetings at Athens European Council (EC issues and budget) [released 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Lebanon: President Asaad of Syria letter to MT (situation in Lebanon) [released 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Ricketts letter to Coles (“Future of Hong Kong: Possible Visit by EXCO”) [“the odds probably are that the Unofficials themselves will press very hard for a visit and for reassurances on HMG’s position”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Ricketts minute to Coles (“Hong Kong: Mr Robert Adley MP”) [Adley “has tended to be critical of the Hong Kong Government and of the Unofficials there in taking an unrealistic view of the negotiations”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Papandreou) [brief exchange on tripartite consultations during Heads of Government dinner] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	US: UKE Washington telegram 3660 to FCO (2254Z) (“U.S. economy: latest developments”) [“the U.S. economy is undergoing a rapid expansion”] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	International economic policy: UKE Brasilia to FCO (“Brazil Financing”) [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Lawson minute for MT (“Argentina: Arms Sales and Bank Lending”) [review in light of possible US arms sales] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Howe PS minute to No.10 (“Argentina”) [concerns over re-certification of Argentina as a potential purchaser of US arms] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Heseltine letter to Chairman of Independent Broadcasting Authority (“The Day After”) [request for interview in response to television drama about nuclear war] [declassified 2016]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: FCO record of conversation (“informal record” of Athens European Council, 4/6 Dec) [second day - agriculture I, budgetary discipline, budgetary imbalances, agriculture II, after dinner discussion] [declassified Dec 2015]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Nick Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Sealink privatisation”) [MT: “as soon as it can be done”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Papandreou) ["Cyprus": brief exchange of words on tripartite consulation] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand) [EU Budget/member contributions; MT concerns about Mitterrand contradicting Delors' policies; the 'German Question'; EC expansion; Middle East; US] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: MT speaking notes (Athens European Council) ["Need an agreement at next meeting. Or Community will rot away and return to quarrels"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 1530 to FCO (0040Z) ("Lebanon: US action") [text of UN Secretary General's statement] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: No.10 minute (internal) to Coles ("Lebanon") [Parsons: case against withdrawal of Multinational Force's UK contingent] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: No.10 (partial) record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand) ["Lebanon": concerns about US policy; role of the UN] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Saudi Arabia: Tebbit minute to MT ("Visit to Saudi Arabia") [report: highlights Saudi emphasis on their determination to make transition from public to private sector, and to find overseas markets for downstream petrochemicals; identifies new opportunities] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Saudi Arabia: King Fahd letter to MT (Minister for Trade and Industry visit to Saudi Arabia) [welcomes visit] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (public expenditure since 1975/76) [areas of increased spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (latest proposals) [possible savings, DHSS changes] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Falklands: MT letter for President Reagan (Argentine certification) [published 2015]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand) [EC Budget: MT confronts Mitterrand over French stance at last EC Council, taken "without any warning"; milk levy; financial burden sharing; further talks on settling Budget problem; EC enlargement; Lebanon; UK relations with US/agricultural imports] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Seminar on Industry and Employment: Follow-Up Meeting") [proposed structure; agenda; papers; attendees] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	National Health: Fowler minute to MT ("No Strike pledge: Additions to the Review Body") [Association of Clinical Biochemists] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Posts and telecommunications: Treasury briefing for MT ("Cable and Wireless Sale: Briefing") [undersubscription of shares issue] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Posts and telecommunications: No.10 Policy Unit record of conversation (John Redwood, British Telecom board members) ["British Telecom" - acquisition of ICL, INMOS, privatisation prospects] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Posts and telecommunications: No.10 minute to MT (Lord Orr-Ewing's request for a meeting to discuss suppression of commercial competition in the telecommunications industry) [MT agrees to meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Regional Policy: Prior PS letter to Tebbit PS ("White Paper on Region Policy") [request for amendment to draft to clarify non-applicability to Northern Ireland] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Draft White Paper on Regional Industrial Policy: Mr Younger's Proposed Amendment") [assistance for relocation projects] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Mozambique: MT letter to President Machel of Mozambique (response to Machel's letter of thanks) [Machel's visit to the UK] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3668 to FCO (0050Z) ("Your Meetings with Shultz: East-West Relations and Arms Control") [briefing] [released Dec 2014]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Walters MSS)	Monetary policy: Cassell minute for Chancellor & Permanent Secretary (“Monetary targets”) [unresolved issues for next MTFS] [released 2012]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Trivial	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister: MT letter for Vice-President Hidayatullah of India (thanking for the gifts) [Indian law books] [declassified 2015]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Grenada: FCO letter to No.10 ("Grenada") [documents retrieved from Grenada suggest "inexorable build-up of pressure on Bishop to relinquish hold on real power or see it wrested from him"] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Christopher Lawson letter to Sherbourne ("Winning for the Third Time - Some Stepping Stones to Victory") [released 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Saudi Arabia: King Fahd of Saudi Arabia letter to MT (UK-Saudi trade and relations) [released 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Mozambique: MT letter to President Machel of Mozambique (thanks for visiting London) [released 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Confidence”) [“a growing feeling that as the Chinese appear to be dictating the terms, the talks are irrelevant”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (AEI)	Europe: Athens European Council (statements in absence of Presidency conclusions)
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Falklands: Thatcher letter to Reagan (resuming US arms sales to Argentina) [summary declassified 2000]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Iraq: Lawson to Department of Energy (“Oil Supplies from the Gulf”) [oil shortage crisis, price instability] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Rees letter to Nicholas Ridley (“Protected Expenditure Levels (PELS) for Transport 1984-85”) [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 3678 to FCO (2012Z) (“Argentina”) [conversation between Rodric Braithwaite & Vice-President Bush] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: No.10 telegram to Heseltine PS and Howe PS (“US certification and arms sales”) [MT decides to avoid major row over certification; "take up the cudgels" only if major US arms sale in prospect] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: FCO record of conversation (“informal record” of Athens European Council, 4/6 Dec) [third day - "Discussion of Presidency's Final Compromise Proposal", plus drafts] [declassified Dec 2015]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Lebanon: Italian views") [text of press comminque following inner cabinet meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("US Middle East policy") [UK ambassador, King Hussein: record of conversation: Hussein "in [despair] with the Americans following the recent agreement with Israel"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [electricity prices; EC budget after Athens; Bank Court; public expenditure, fiscal and monetary stance] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Sudan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("President Nimeiri of the Sudan") [FCO case for MT meeting with Nimeiri at short notice during his private visit to UK] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("East-West relations and INF: Soviet policy and propaganda") [analysis/arms control talks; "lack of direction in the Soviet leadership... the Alliance should do what it can to encourage the Russians to decide in favour of quiet negotiation, not public declamation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Howe minute to MT ("Arms Control") [fresh approaches] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: No.10 briefing for MT (post-Cabinet meeting with Norman Tebbit) [topics, including INMOS and BT/International Computers Ltd (ICL)] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Jopling letter to Howe ("New Zealand Butter Quota") ["a legal hiatus in the special arrangements... would be seized on by the French and others as an important step towards dispensing with [them]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [report on European Council meeting 6/7 Dec; draft 1984 EC budget; 1983 UK refunds; Transport Council; upcoming Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Falklands: President Reagan letter for MT (Argentine certification) [published 2015]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Housing: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Capital Allowances for Shared Ownership in the Private Sector") [Treasury resistant to proposal] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Norman Tebbit) [solicitors' conveyancing monopoly; BT/ICL; senior management in Dept of Trade & Ind; INMOS] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("INMOS") ["would be helpful in judging the situation if we were given actual figures"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Jordan: UKE Amman telegram 577 to FCO (1605Z) ("US Middle East Policy") [Israel; Lebanon] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: MT letter to Des Wilson (Freedom of Information Campaign) ["I am afraid I cannot offer any encouragement to your proposal of a Freedom of Information Act"] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	National Health: Younger PS letter to No.10 ('Sunday Mail' campaign on the NHS) [text of Younger article published in 'Sunday Mail' in response to the campaign] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Rees letter to Prior ("Harland and Wolff: Corporate Plan") [options] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Regional Policy: Tebbit letter to Jenkin (Regional Policy White Paper) [changes in Green Belt policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Ingham minute to Tim Flesher (Beach Report on the Protection of Military Information) [summary/analysis & advice on publication; attached oral evidence to Committee on Censorhip] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: National Economic Development Council record of conversation (Lawson, Tebbit, Patrick Jenkin, Tom King, Keith Joseph, Peter Walker, Norman Lamont, Buchanan-Smith, Robin Leigh Pemberton, Len Murray, Harry Kleeman, Donald Barron,Terence Beckett, R. Bickerstaffe, JS Cassels, T. Duffy, AM Evans, C. Jenkins, George Jefferson, Campbell Fraser, JJR Pope, JS McFarlane, RE Waterhouse, D. Young & others) [Lawson speech of 17 Nov & Autumn Statement; sources of new employment; plastics processing] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Legal Procedure: Mount minute to MT ("The Solicitors' Conveyancing Monopoly") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: meeting with Tebbit; Austin Mitchell's Home Buyers Bill] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT [released 2013]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: Press Office letter to Flintham of The Northern Echo (list of MT's favourite books) [released 2013]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Spain: President Reig of Andorra message to MT (sympathy following Spanish air crash) [released 2013]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Northern Ireland: MT letter to Taoiseach Fitzgerald (kidnapping of Don Tidey by IRA) [released 2013]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	South America: MT letter to David Owen (UK policy towards Argentine and Chile) [released 2013]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Security: MT letter to Des Wilson (proposed Freedom of Infomation Act) ["I am afraid I cannot offer any encouragement to your proposal of a Freedom of Information Act"] [released 2013]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT letter to Ian Stafford Beer, Head Master of Harrow School (thanks for Churchill Songs) ["The evening brought back many happy memories for Denis, Mark and me"] [released 2013]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: 7th Round, First Day: Comment”) [“perhaps the most positive session so far”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Ricketts minute to Coles (“Hong Kong: Briefing the Opposition”) [“Parliamentary interest generally has increased considerably in recent months”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Heseltine, Papandreou, Bayulken) [military situation, possibility of high level talks] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	US: No.10 briefing for MT (“Visit of Treasury Secretary Regan”) [US economy, international debt, unitary taxation] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Cockfield minute for Lawson ('Argentina') [is August agreement legally binding?] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	International economic policy: Howe minute for MT ('Brazil') [FCO urges case by case approach] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Falklands: Reagan letter to Thatcher (resuming US arms sales to Argentina) [declassified 2000]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Middle East: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Shultz in Bonn: Middle East”) [US policy] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: No.10 note to MT (“Cabinet”) [Liverpool Council] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Jenkin letter to Whitelaw (Rate Support Grant settlement) [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (re-certification of Argentina as a potential purchaser of US arms) [defends] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industry: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sean Hughes MP) [MT said that “the only way in which more jobs could be found was by creating the conditions in which enterprise coud flourish”] [released Dec 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Damascus telegram to FCO ("Lebanon") [Druze community representations] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKDel NATO telegram to FCO ("Lebanon: MNF Foreign Ministers meeting, 8 December") [record of conversation] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: Ministry of Defence note to No.10 (Chief of Defence Staff: official visits to Middle East) [forthcoming schedule] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Beirut ("Lebanon/MNF") [Howe, Luce, Rumsfeld: record of conversation: 7th December] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: No.10 letter to Walker PS ("Electricity prices") [MT concern about delay in settling prices; request for briefing to be circulated in advance of Cabinet meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Angola: President Dos Santos letter to MT (UK/Angolan relations) [Lopo do Nascimento visit to UK; trade relations; Southern African issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Commonwealth: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Tanzania: IMF") [Lawson "reluctant to lobby the IMF on behalf of President Nyerere"; MT annotation: "has devalued twice and is prepared to do so again if it will gain the loan from the I.M.F. Can we enquire?"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKDel NATO telegram to FCO ("North Atlantic Council: START") [Soviet withdrawal from negotiations & US response] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tebbit) ["BT/ICL": International Computers Ltd; "fears about technological dependence on the US"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("European Community: first reactions in French Government after Athens") ["I doubt whether Mitterrand ever really got to grips with the issues or that he has thought through the problem of dealing with them in the French Presidency"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	France: No.10 letter to Brian Crozier (Politique Internationale award to MT for "political courage") [MT declines to accept award] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Lord President PS ("Changing Employment Patterns: NEDC Paper") [Lawson paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	China: Lord Kadoorie letter to MT (Guangdong Nuclear project) [UK Government decision against equity participation in project is "a missed opportunity with long-term implications"] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	National Health: MT letter to General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (Review Body for nurses and professions allied to medicine) [membership; pay recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("International Military Services Ltd: Provision in the ROF Bill") [contingent liability clause] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: FCO minute to No.10 ("Turkey: Appointment of new Prime Minister") [declassified July 2016]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Trade: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("Rolling Back Protectionism") [paper; restraint on exports of textiles & footwear to UK; US restrictions on speciality steels; discussions in Brussels] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 8 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; MT comment: 'No [to Bernard Williams] - he did a dreadful report for the Home Office some time ago'] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Legal Procedure: Tebbit minute to MT ("Solicitors' Conveyancing") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: line to take at Cabinet] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 36th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Northern Ireland, Local Government) [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Baroness Elles minute to MT ("Haagerup Report on Northern Ireland") [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Argentina: Reagan letter to MT (situation in Argentina) [US to make Argentina eligible for arms transfers] [released 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Argentina: MT letter to President Alfonsin of Argentina (situation in Argentina) ["Although we have many difficulties, we can all take pleasure in the restoration of democracy to Argentina"] [released 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Morocco: Prime Minister Karim-Lamrani of Morocco letter to MT (UK-Morocco relations) [released 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Liberia: MT letter to Samuel Doe of Liberia (response to request for debt relief) [released 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: 7th Round: Second Day, Comment”) [“The good atmosphere which was established yesterday was maintained today”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO (“Cyprus: Turkish offer on Varosha”) [negotiations with Denktash on declaration announcing terms of UN agreement] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Industry: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sean Hughes MP, David Trippier, Giles Shaw MP, Michael Alison MP) [unemployment in constituency] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	US: Treasury briefing (“Chancellor’s meetings with Mr Regan, 8 December”) [“Cannot disguise own view that budget deficit is key”] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	US: No.10 note for the record (“Prime Minister’s comments on US budget deficit”) [line to take] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: No.10 Policy Unit minute to No.10 (“The Future of the Crown Agents”) [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Tanzania: IMF”) [MT’s discussions with Nyerere] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: MT letter to Liberian President Samuel Doe (Liberian debt) [reply commissioned] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Jenkin letter to Whitelaw (“Briefng for Cabinet Ministers on Local Government policies”) [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: MT letter to President Alfonsin (personal message) [draft congratulations on inauguration] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (“Argentina”) [MT requests meeting] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Berne (“Argentine elections”) [MT personal message to Alfonsin on his inauguration] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Vice-President Bush letter to MT (re-certification of Argentina as a potential purchaser of US arms) [wishes "we could sit down and chat because I have been troubled by recent tensions"] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Nick Ridley PS letter to Biffen PS (“Statement on British Airways privatisation: Monday 12 December 1983”) [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Spain: MT message to Prime Minister González ("Madrid Airline disaster") [condolences] [declassified Jul 2016]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("E(A) papers for 13 December") [Training for Jobs] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Training for Jobs") ["development of Youth Training Scheme... further improvements in adult skill training"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKDel NATO telegram to FCO ("Lebanon MNF") [review of the role of the Multinational Force] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: Heseltine minute to Howe (Hunter aircraft for the Lebanese airforce) ["I believe that we must remain firm in declining to sell"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: FCO briefing for MT ("Lebanon: Multi-National Force") [key points from Howe meeting with Rumsfeld & MNF Foreign Ministers on 8th October; key issues for the meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Sudan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Nimeiri, Luce, Abdel Salam) [relations with neighbouring countries & their backing by the USSR; Islamic law; Eritrean refugees; Ethiopia; aid for emergency generators; Lonhro] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Sudan: FCO briefing for MT ("Call by President Nimeiri: Aid") [supplementary brief on aid, with general briefing attached] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Commonwealth: No.10 letter to General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (Heads of Government meeting in New Delhi: "Towards a New Bretton Woods" report) [UK government rejects report's proposal for an international monetary conference] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("INMOS and BT/ICL") ["sale of INMOS and the placing of the major BT contract for computer systems [with either IBM or UK company International Computers Ltd (ICL)]... strength of the technological argument in each case"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: British Telecom letter to No.10 (meeting in 10 Downing Street on 1 December) [proposed acquisition] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Making Schools Better") ["exciting list of proposals... [must] not let them be eroded by the quibbles already surfacing in the officials' note"; MT agrees] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Making Schools Better") [outline of key aims & strategy] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (INMOS) [strategic importance to UK; ICL & retaining computer capability in the UK] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (Employment & Industry Seminar: follow-up meeting) [request for oral reports from Ministers; key areas for discussion] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("YTS and Unemployed 17-year-olds in 1984/85") [proposals for future development of Youth Training Scheme & Young Workers' Scheme] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Australia: Colin Mason message to MT (HMS Invincible) [opposition to nuclear weapons in Australia] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: MT messages to Ozal and Ulusu (appointment of the new Turkish prime minister) [declassified July 2016]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to Howe ("ESPRIT") [MT asked to resolve UK line to take for Research Council meeting on 13 December, regarding funding & offsetting savings] [released Dec 2014]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(83) 35 (Restrictions on Conveyancing for Reward) [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Argentina: President Alfonsin of Argentina message to MT (MT's comments on situation in Argentina, Anglo-Argentine relations) ["Where there's a will there's a way"] [released 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Economy: Turnbull letter to Kerr (arrangements and agenda for follow-up to Ministerial industry and employment seminar) [released 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT [released 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Industry: Turnbull minute to MT ("Visit to the Engineering Industries Council") [arrangements and briefing] [released 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Venezuela: MT message to President Lusinchi of Venezuela (congratulations on election victory) [released 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Turkey: MT messages to Prime Minister-Elect Ozal and Prime Minister Ulusu of Turkey (congratulations on election victory/commiserations on election defeat) [released 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Spain: MT message to Prime Minister Gonzalez of Spain (Madrid air disaster) [released 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Spain: Prime Minister Gonzalez of Spain letter to MT (Madrid air disaster) [released 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Seventh Round of Talks”) [“Defence of Hong Kong SAR will be the responsiblity of the central government”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Seventh Round of Talks”) [defence forces] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Calls on Chinese Leaders”) [“an unusual opportunity to put our views directly to the people in decision-making positions”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“MIPT: Future of Hong Kong: Calls on Chinese Leaders”) [“an unusual opportunity to put our views directly to the people in decision-making positions”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Calls on Chinese Leaders”) [MT comment: “The most difficult point is that of acceptability of any solution to the people of Hong Kong”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Calls on Chinese Leaders”) [“considering the possibility of withdrawing British troops from Hong Kong well before 1997”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: The Way Ahead”) [“we can reasonably expect to have fairly detailed discussion over the whole area of the Chinese plan”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	International economic policy: Lawson minute for MT (export credit for Brazil) [rejects Howe's view - extend no new medium-term credit at present] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Berne telegram to FCO (“Argentine elections”) [Alfonsin reaction to initial contact from MT] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Howe minute to MT (“European public opinion and nuclear weapons”) [differing attitudes in northern and southern spheres] [declassified 2016]
83 Dec 10 Sa	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 Dec 10 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industry: Sean Hughes MP letter to MT (factory and colliery closure in constituency) [would like to discuss with MT] [released Dec 2014]
83 Dec 10 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Damascus telegram to FCO ("Syria/MNF") [clarification of Syria views on the British contingent of the Multinational Force] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 10 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: Permanent Bureau for the Druze Institutions message to MT (seige of Deir al-Qamar) [compliance with UK government request to lift seige temporarily] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 10 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Henry Plumb) [EC Budget deficit] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 10 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Henry Plumb) [EC Commission budget deficit] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 10 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Middle East: King Hussein of Jordan letter to MT (situation in the Middle East; Hussein's letter to Reagan) [released 2013]
83 Dec 10 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Cockfield letter to MT (“China- Hong Kong”) [visit to China] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 10 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Goodall minute to MT (“Future of Hong Kong”) [seventh round of talks] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 11 Su	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 Dec 11 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Jordan: UKE Amman telegram 577 to FCO (1200Z) ("Jordan/Middle East") [King Hussein letter to Reagan; analysis] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 11 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Middle East: UKE Amman to FCO (“Jordan-Middle East”) [King Hussein’s letter to President Reagan] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 11 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Middle East: UKE Amman to FCO (“Middle East-Jordan”) [King Hussein’s account] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Public Purchasing") ["... arrangements by which... [MT] is alerted to potentially sensitive public purchasing issues in advance of their becoming public"] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("YTS and unemployed 17-year-olds in 1984/85") [Manpower Services Commission should "squeeze the 90,000 unemployed 17-year-olds into some kind of occupation by 1985"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Responsibility for work-related training in the further education sector") [transfer of funding & responsibilities from local authorities to Manpower Services Commission] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("President Gemayel's Visit") [political analysis] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Heseltine, Luce, Chief of Defence Staff) [review of the Multinational Force's role] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: No.10 briefing for Howe ("Visit of the President of the Lebanon") [schedule] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Coal/electricity prices") ["idea of obliging the CEGB to pay a higher price for coal, thus enabling us to reduce the subsidy to the NCB. I attach a note which convinces me that this would be a bad idea"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Britsat Limited letter to No.10 (Direct Broadcasting by Satellite: the BBC/Unisat Project) ["our alternative project has been thoroughly checked out... and on this basis we have recently submitted an unsolicited offer to the BBC"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil service: Lord Gowrie PS letter to No.10 ("Publication of Report on Race Relations: Review of Personnel Policies and Procedures") [background/trade union attitudes; PQs; media handling] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("OD(D): Arms Control") [background; handling; recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Heseltine minute to MT (Quarterly Report on Defence Sales: July - September 1983) ["Since 1979 defence exports have grown by an average of almost 10% a year in real terms, and there is every prospect that this will be repeated in 1983"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Repackaging of Department of Trade and Industry Schemes") ["confusion created by the number of related schemes and services... we will be looking to standardise and simplify... We expect small firms to benefit particularly"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: financing in 1984") ["difficulties can be foreseen for the latter part of 1984... We should not, however, forecast disaster too soon"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (State Department)	Falklands: State Department telegram to Shultz ("Bush-Alfonsin Bilateral Meeting") [published 2015]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gibraltar: Heseltine minute to MT ("Gibraltar Dockyard") ["Bossano, the leading TGWU official... likely to fight the [General] election on a platform of opposition to closure... work must begin on preparing the dockyard for closure"; possible strike action] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("INMOS") [borrowing limit; timing of sale] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Tebbit letter to Whitelaw ("Co-operative Development Agency and Regional Development Grants") [timing of legislation] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Regional Policy: Tebbit PS letter to Biffen PS ("Statement: Regional Policy White Paper") [text of Parliamentary announcement] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Japan: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan (visit of Japanese Market Access Promotion Mission to UK) [Anglo-Japanese trade] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (ESPRIT) [funding & offsetting savings] [released Dec 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("Research Council, 13 December: ESPRIT and other R & D Programmes") [funding & offsetting savings: disagreement between Lawson and Tebbit] [released Dec 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Howe minute to Tebbit ("ESPRIT") [funding & offsetting savings; "We must avoid provoking the European Parliament into taking punitive action against our 1984 budget (including our refunds)"] [released Dec 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Legal Procedure: Barclay minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: guidance to Tebbit on line to take at Cabinet] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Legal Procedure: Hailsham letter to MT ("Restrictions Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: urges cautious approach] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Foreign policy: Hugh Thomas memoranda for MT (notes, records of meetings) [Hungary, disarmament, Gibraltar, Argentina, France] [released 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Germany: Ridley letter for Butler (informal Anglo-German discussions) [foreign policy, NATO and security issues] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	US: US Ambassador to London, Charles Price, letter to MT (MT's comments on Anglo-American relations at UPITN headquarters) ["your warm reference to our friendship and understanding was very much appreciated"] [released 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Germany: Adam Ridley letter to Robin Butler (HMG special advisers meet with German representatives to discuss summit arrangements) [released 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Parliament: Alison minute to MT ("Teas for New Members") [arrangements for further meetings with new MPs] [released 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	China: Cockfield minute to MT ("Visit to China 19-29 November 1983") [report of Cockfield's visit to China] [released 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Eurogroup Film") [brief for recording of NATO Eurogroup film] [released 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Industry: Engineering Industries Council record of conversation (MT-Engineering Industries Council) [problems and prospects of the engineering industry] [released 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Japan: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan (Japanese trade mission to the UK) [released 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Cold War: MT letter to Cardinal Basil Hume (present state of East-West relations) [released 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Defence: MT letter to Cranley Onslow (Government's nuclear defence policy) [released 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Calls on Leaders”) [“the sooner we can prevent the idea of a PLA presence in Hong Kong taking root the better”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [“concern about where the present course of action is leading”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Hong Kong Calls”) [“There was no request from the Chinese side for explicit affirmation of the premise that sovereignty and the right of administration over Hong Kong would pass to China in 1997”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Ricketts letter to Coles (“Hong Kong”) [Lee Kwan Yew’s view “that any approach to the Chinese requires a mixture of firmness and realism”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Cradock despatch (“The Hong Kong negotiations”) [“For the Chinese the political objective of resuming sovereignty including the right of administration has been paramount”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [current situation and possible developments] [released Dec 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Lord Nugent letter to MT (reform of the Obscene Publications Act 1959) [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	International economic policy: Tebbit minute for MT (export credit for Brazil) [agrees with Howe] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary Policy: Turnbull minute to MT (tilt in the money market yield curve: interest and exchange rates) [MT wants to discuss with Walters] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: David Owen letter to MT (the British Aerospace request for launch aid) [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (“Local Government policies”) [press briefing and lines to take on leak] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 3732 to FCO (2315Z) (“Argentina”) [Vice-President Bush visiting Alfonsin] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("MNF") [French views on withdrawal of Multinational Force] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of President Gemayel to London, 13-15 December 1983") [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Overseas Aid: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("IDA 7") [latest position in negotiations & next steps] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [electricity and coal prices; exchange rate and interest rates; Bank of England Court - "any nearer to finding someone to keep the Bank in line on monetary policy?"] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("British mercenaries") [Ambassador Goulding record of conversation with Venancio da Moura] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Angola: FCO briefing for MT ("Possible call by Sr Nascimento, Angolan Minister of Planning, on the Prime Minister, 14 December 1983") [contingency briefing in the event that MT is called upon to "tip the balance on the release of the British prisoners"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Commonwealth: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Lesotho") [covering advice & draft MT reply to Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan: Lesotho/South Africa relations] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("OD(D)") [statistics "As background to our forthcoming discussion on arms control and disarmament"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Making Schools Better") ["It is important to bolster Keith Joseph's enthusiasm for his new policies, in order to reduced the risk of DES backsliding. You may therefore wish to press home a number of points"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Walker minute to MT ("Fast Reactor Collaboration") [agreement with France, Germany & Italy ready to be signed; PQ; "clear withdrawal provisions in case the need arises"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 letter to Stephen Crampton (Common Agricultural Policy reform) [request for meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Policy: Edwards minute to MT ("INMOS") [borrowing limit; timing of sale] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Jordan: UKE Amman telegram 586 to FCO (0700Z) ("Jordan/Middle East") [King Hussein interview on US television] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security Services: FCO letter to No.10 ("Disappearance of Mr Niall Campbell") [line to take for PMQs] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Employment Seminar: Burden of Regulations on Small Firms") [scrutiny proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	National Health: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ('The Right Policy for a Better Health Service": Statement by Norman Fowler) [text] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social Services: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Genetic Manipulation Advisory Group (GMAC)") [case for winding up of Group & transfer of Ministerial responsibility for genetic manipulation research to Health & Safety Commission] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("The Rising Costs of Defence Procurement") [proposal to set up interdeparmental working group to address Defence procurement value for money & scope for greater collaboration and standardisation withing NATO] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("OD: East-West Relations") [accelerating change in the Soviet system; Ministerial dialogue & other proposed forms of contact] [released Dec 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-German Ambassador Ruhfus) [European Community issues, East-West relations, the Falklands] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Simplifying Tax Legislation”) [meeting to discuss issues raised by Peter Rowland] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: UK Ambassador Dublin to Howe ("The Irish Question: First Impressions from the Republic of Ireland") [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Walker memo circulated to Cabinet - C(83) 36 (Electricity Prices) [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Peking TelNo 1325 Future of Hong Kong: Calls on Leaders”) [“more should be made of the need to maintain domestic and international confidence if stability and prosperity are to be preserved”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Ricketts minute to Coles (“Future of Hong Kong: Sir P Cradock’s Calls on Chinese Leaders”) [comments and instructions on line to take] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“The Future of the Crown Agents (OD(83) 10)”) [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Lord Trefgarne PS letter to No.10 (South Atlantic Fund annual report) [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Argentina: reply to the Prime Minister’s message”) [newly elected government] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Korea: MT letter to President Chun Doo Hwan (bombing in Rangoon) [message of solidarity against act of terrorism] [declassified Jul 2016]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Meeting with Keith Joseph on Thursday, 15 December") [new policy for schools; proposed changes in role of Manpower Services Commission; agricultural research] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: No.10 minute (internal) to Coles ("Lebanon") ["The real point is that all of us have run out of ideas and the situation continues to deteriorate... the FCO should consider discussing the UN card with the.. [Multinational Force] partners"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: No.10 record of conversation (attack on BritForLeb HQ) [Heseltine, Luce, Jumblatt] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gemayel, Howe, Heseltine, Luce & others) [British contingent of Multinational Force; ceasefire committee/negotiations; Lebanese govt relations with US ] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: Younger letter to Rees ("Scottish Electricity Boards: External Financing Limits and prices") ["To allow sizeable [price increases]... which would be attributed to the construction of Torness, which represents a major financial burden on SSEB, would attract severe criticism of our nuclear programme"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal) to Turnbull ("Electricity prices") ["A 3% rise... would not be inconsistent with economic pricing principles"; Turnbull supports MT inclination to limit rise to 2%] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1983: electricity prices") [efficiency savings/price increases] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Angola: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lopo do Nascimento, Luis de Almeida) [Southern African issues; release of British prisoners] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Brittan minute to MT ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite: the BBC/Unisat Project") ["We face the possibility of a public row and perhaps legal action in which the BBC and Unisat will blame each other and perhaps the Government... The outlook, therefore, is bleak"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil service: Lord Gowrie PS letter to No.10 ("Report on Race Relations in the Civil Service") [MT concern about 'Equal Opportunity Officers' proposal: "nonsense"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Internationalisation of Nuclear Energy") [history of proposals & initiatives in response to MT request for further information] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Meeting with Keith Joseph on Thursday, 15 December") [new policy for schools ["real danger that his proposals will be watered down by the DES"]; proposed changes in role of MSC; agricultural research] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [draft budget for 1984/UK refunds; ESPRIT information technology programme; New Zealand butter imports; revisions to EC loan mechanism; hazardous consumer products; steel market stabilisation; fishing catch quotas; youth employment; Northern Ireland; upcoming Councils] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (CIA)	Falklands: Paper prepared in the Central Intelligence Agency ("Argentina-UK: Status of the Falklands Dispute") [published 2015]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-French Summit: Autumn 1984") [possible dates] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	India: MT letter to Vice-President Hidayatullah (Exhibition of Constable & Turner paintings at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi) [request for loan of paintings] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Jordan: UKE Amman telegram 586 to FCO (0745Z) ("PLO") ["would... welcome British involvement, in launching a new Middle East peace initiative"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	El Salvador: MT message to President Duarte (election) ["one of the first priorities in countries such as El Salvador must be to restore peace and stability"] [declassified Dec 2016]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	USA: UKE Washington telegram 3745 to FCO (2355Z) ("President Reagan and the US political scene") [likelihood of running for office again] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Heseltine) ["Cost of Defence Equipment"] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("BNOC: 1984 First Quarter Prices") [approves proposal to retain existing prices, despite risks] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Legal Procedure: Armstrong note to MT (Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services) [Hailsham resignation threat: '...the Lord Chancellor is very steamed up about conveyancing'] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Legal Procedure: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Restrictions on Conveyancing for Reward (C(83)35)") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Legal Procedure: Mount minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: urges more robust approach] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Biffen letter to Whitelaw ("Departmental Select Committees") [membership] [released Dec 2014]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	International economic policy: Howe PS letter to No. 10 (“IMF 1983 Article IV Consultations”) [annual review of UK economy] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Peter Rowland, Lord Hailsham, Biffen, Lord Cockfield, Peter Rees) [tax simplification proposals] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Sherbourne minute to MT ("Meeting with National Officers and Area Chairmen of the Young Conservatives on Thursday, 15th December at 6.30 pm at the House of Commons") [brief for meeting] [released 2013]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	G7: MT letter to Reagan (London G7 1984) [plans for summit] [released 2013]
83 Dec 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	G7: MT letter to Prime Minister Craxi of Italy (formal invitation to G7 London summit) [released 2013]

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