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Text 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 116 to FCO (0120Z) ("Lebanon") [Syria/Saudi Arabia; withdrawal of US marines] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Damascus telegram 28 to FCO (0300Z) (Howe, Khaddam conversation) ["Lebanon"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Heseltine minute to MT ("Withstanding a Strike in the Gas Industry") ["Service assistance for the maintenance of the compressor stations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Stephen Sherbourne minute to MT (Post Office closures) [MT agrees to meeting with Kenneth Baker to discuss proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph) [proposal to set up inquiry to consider UK's continued participation in CERN; initiative on teaching standards] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Cambridge Railway Electrification") [advises acceptance of Ridley proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 58 to FCO (0010Z) ("Cyprus: Meeting between the Secretary-General and President Kyprianou") ["text of Kyprianou's statement to the press"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 (Arms Control: TGWU reply to message from Soviet construction workers' unions) [copies of correspondence] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Secretary minute to MT (Sarah Tisdall case) [Howe's urges Whitehall inquiry to draw up recommendations designed to avoid risk of recurrence; Armstrong's outline of key concerns & Whitehall measures already in hand] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Sir John Sainsbury) ["Sainsbury's and Planning": Sainsbury's difficulties in obtaining planning consents] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to Civil Commissioner of the Falklands (“Falkland Islands: Speculation about British Policy”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Public Expenditure White Paper) [draft of part 1] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite: the BBC/Unisat project") ["Ministers on Tuesday asked Mr Jeffrey Sterling, special adviser to Mr Tebbit, to explore with all parties whether there were ways of avoiding an imminent collapse of the project"; detailed situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 minute to MT ("Promotion blockages in the Civil Service") [Lord Gowrie proposal for early retirement scheme: "should want to be sure that spending £6 million to secure 100 additional retirements would enable a substantial improvement... in the upward flow of good staff"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Chairman of Hawker Siddeley Group PLC letter to MT (Singapore Rapid Transit project) ["delighted to learn that you have secured a contract worth some £40 million"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Economy and Value in the MoD") [copy of letter from Chief of General Staff to HM The Queen] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversations ("Visit to Brussels: 9/10 January") [Permanent Secretary of the Overseas Development Administration: meetings with French & Italian Permanent Representatives and with Vice-President Davignon] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economic policy: Redwood minute for MT (“Brian Walden Interview”) [“accusations of drift … pick up your recent enthusiasm for reducing taxes”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (talks with Birch) [detailed plans for visit - British desiderata] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry minute (MT visit) [British say MT cannot arrive till 8pm on 2 Feb] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) ["NCB Manpower", plans for closing uneconomic pits] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 1st (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Northern Ireland, Economic Affairs) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Most Confidential Record to Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 1st (Handling of Documents) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: No.10 record of conversation (MT-King-Gummer-Alison) ["Political Levy"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“PIRA threat to Weston supermarket chain”) [“Irish anxiety to ensure by all possible means that money does not pass to PIRA”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Paul Channon minute for Howe (“Credit for Libya”) [asks FCO view for fear of offending US] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: UKHC Lagos to FCO (“Nigerian Debt”) [the ECGD action against Nigeria ‘uncalled for’] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Solicitor General minute for MT (“Argentina: Arms Sales and Bank Lending”) [Bank of England could forbid UK banks lending to Argentina] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Turnbull letter to Inland Revenue (MT wanting to see publication of figures showing income distribution before & after income tax) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Eleanor Ling letter to MT (David Newbigging: recommendation) [“make use of his experience”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Nicholas Ridley letter to Jenkin (“Malpractices in Local Government”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to Whitelaw (Brief for Ministers on Local Government policies) [revised draft] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin letter to Brittan (“Audit Commission Value for Money handbook”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (UK-US joint decision-making on use of nuclear weapons) [Prime Minister accused by media of misleading Parliament] [declassified 2016]
Text 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Lord Gowrie PS letter to No.10 (Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee: Session 1983-84) [introduction to civil service: joint memo by Cabinet Office/Treasury] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Flesher minute to Coles and MT (Speech by Sir Frank Cooper: "The Year Ahead - British Defence Issues 1984") [attracted some publicity in press] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Robin Butler minute to MT (Youth Training Schemes in the Civil Service) [opposition from local branches of Civil and Public Services Association] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (financing the National Health Service) [key points from text of speech given to Royal Institute of Public Administration by Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Fowler, Rees, Kenneth Clarke, Rhodes Boyson, Geoffrey Otton, John Redwood, Peter Middleton) ["Health and Social Security Policy"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Nationalised Industry Board Pay and Appointments") [background; Lawson proposals; appointments; dismissal terms; compensation; communication of decisions; handling] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Prior minute to MT ("Shipbuilding: EC Notification of UK Aid") ["early notification... to support both British Shipbuilders and Harland and Wolff Ltd"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen PS letter to Brittan PS (procedures for handling important Government announcements) [request for advice to be circulated to Departments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Meeting with the Soviet Foreign Minister") [pros & cons of meetings in London or Moscow respectively; MT's preference for London but leaves it to Howe's judgement] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 (Anglo-Soviet relations) [assessment of Soviet thinking behind the feeding to 'Times' newspaper of speculation on possible high-level talks] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Sir John Sainsbury letter to Jenkin (the planning system: Sainsbury's difficulties in winning planning appeals) ['In the last twenty years we have never had results from planning appeals such as we have experienced in the last year'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("United States Measures Against Supply of Special Steels from the European Community") [EC to retaliate against US protectionist measures] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Security: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Security Commission") [pay] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 (the Sakharovs) [advice on request from relatives to meet with MT, to procure her assistance in persuading Soviet authorities to grant travel abroad for Mrs Bonner-Sakharov, for medical treatment] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1604Z) ("MBFR [Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions]") (NSPG 0100) [Reagan: "We have received sufficient movement from the Soviets to warrant a response from the West"] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lord Cockfield minute to Peter Rees (Public Expenditure White Paper) [presentation of capital spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Younger PS minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure White Paper 1984") [comparisons betewen England, Scotland and Wales] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Barclay note to MT (chemists' pay) [meeting in favour of legislation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 minute to MT ("Promotion blockages in the Civil Service") [summary of Lord Gowrie, Robin Ibbs & Policy Unit minutes on an efficiency scrutiny of means used to identify & develop internal talent, and an early retirement scheme; Policy Unit advice attached] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Promotion blockages in the Civil Service") [Lord Gowrie proposals on an efficiency scrutiny of means used to identify & develop internal talent, and an early retirement scheme: regarding latter "we shall need to look very carefully at public presentation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Northern Ireland Office letter to Cabinet Office (UK domestic support for agriculture) [nominee to represent Northern Ireland Office on proposed Official Group] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Net Payments to European Community Institutions: Public Expenditure White Paper figures") ["I accept your argument that the White Paper should... assume that we will receive 90% of our budget refund for 1983 by the end of March. I continue to think, however, that the disputed balance of our 1982 risk-sharing refund should be treated differently"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Ridley PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Ministerial Group on Maritime Affairs") [reconstitution; forthcoming business; UN Law of the Sea Convention] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("Prime Minister's Visit to Paris") [arrangements for meeting with Mitterand on 23 January] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Trade unions: No.10 record of conversation (“Political Levy”) [“should seek a voluntary agreement with the TUC”, failing which legislation] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Monetary policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor, Permanent Secretary, Governor of the Bank of England & others) (“Monetary targets”) [released 2012]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Monetary policy: Treasury briefing (“Interpretation of Monetary Conditions: January [1984]”) [released 2012]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Special Advisers: Sherbourne minute for MT (“Meeting with Special Advisers on Monday”) [arrangements, briefing] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) European Elections: Sherbourne record of conversation (Cabinet political discussion on Europe) [campaign planning] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to MT (“Weekend World”) [producer warns Walden must raise Oman story, “could not ignore it”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: DTI to Treasury (“Gower Report on Investor Protection”) [circulates proof & press release; comments by end April 1984] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Peter Rowland: tax simplification) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Cyprus”) [consultations under treaty of guarantee] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 134 to FCO (0320Z) (“Your meeting with Shultz: East/West relations”) [“the handling of the relationship with the Soviet Union will be a major theme”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 135 to FCO (0322Z) (“Your meeting with Shultz: Middle East”) [“domestic pressures for withdrawal of US land forces are likely to grow strongly in an election year”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 133 to FCO (0310Z) (“Your meeting with Shultz”) [Soviet Union, Middle East] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Howe minute to MT (“Visit of Mr Shultz: 15/16 January”) [“I do not propose to tackle George Shultz about transatlantic relations as such”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (“Monetary Targets” in 1984 MTFS) [decision to target M2 & M0 for narrow money] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: MOD to MT (“Iran-Iraq War: DMAO Visit to Gulf States”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Michael Jopling minute to MT (“Milk Marketing Arrangements and the Threatened FEOGA Disallowance”) [line to take] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Robert Young minute to MT (“Aviation Committee of Conservative MPs”) [launch aid for British Aerospace] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: meeting with Luo Jiahuan”) [record of conversation: Galsworthy, Jiahuan: UK/China talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Hong Kong Government telegram to FCO (“Increases in registration tax and license fees for taxis”) [record of conversation: Acting Governor, UMELCO] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe telegram to UKHC Ottawa (“Future of Hong Kong: briefing the Canadians”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: recent public remarks by Chinese officials…”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Hong Kong: meeting with Governor and Unofficials 13 January 1984”) [summary of main points] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Luce, Acland, Cradock, Youde, Evans, S.Y. Chung/members of EXCO) [strategy for ongoing UK/China talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS briefing to No.10 (“Meeting with Governor…and EXCO Unofficials 16 January”) [UK/China talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Brittan letter to Jenkin (“Abolition Paving Bill”) [abolition of GLC] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin letter to Norfolk County Council (Government initiatives which call for action by local authorities) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 14 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Monckton minute to MT ("Home Improvement Consultation Paper") [comment on draft Green Paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: President Reagan letter to MT (US/Soviet Relations) [advance notice of major address to the American people] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: President Reagan letter to MT (relations with the Soviet Union) [included in briefing for MT meeting with Mitterand in Paris on 23 January] [declassified Jan 2014]
Text 84 Jan 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (coming broadcast on US-Soviet relations) [declassified 1998]
PDF 84 Jan 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Hong Kong Government telegram to FCO (UMELCO press release) [taxi drivers dispute and civil unrest] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: FCO telegram to UKDEL NATO (“UK policy on the Polish crisis”) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012]
Text 84 Jan 15 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 15 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: Britto note to Sherbourne (“Public Opinion Background Note 20”) [“Conservative lead over Labour falling”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 15 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Shultz, Acland) [US elections, East/West relations, Central America, Falklands, Middle East] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 165 to FCO (2350Z) ("Lebanon") [Thomas, Murphy: record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("E(NI), Tuesday, 17 January") [Board appointments: raising pay up to market rates; recruit able managers; removing under-performing Chairmen & senior Board members] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Ridley letter to Tebbit ("Nationalised Industry References to the MMC") [British Rail Property Board] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker PS letter to No.10 ("Gas Safety: Transfer of Ministerial Responsibilities") [Parliamentary Written Answer] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Mr Donald Rumsfeld") [Howe advises MT to meet with US Special Middle East Envoy during his visit to London, in Howe's absence, to discuss role of Multinational Force in Lebanon & Middle East peace process] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Kyprianou, Michaelides, Panayides, Vovides) [Turkish Cypriot declaration of UDI; Security Council Resolution 541; Kyprianou's list of proposals for an overall solution; next steps; customs union with EC; EC position on 'independent' area of Cyprus] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO briefing for MT ("Cyprus: Prime Minister's Meeting with President Kyprianou: 18 January, 9a.m.") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Teachers' Superannuation Scheme (England and Wales)") [agrees in principle with increasing employees' contribution, but advises delay, pending agreement on policy covering normal accrual public service schemes generally] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: NABISCO CEO letter to David Trippier (Enterprise Trust) [company to make further pledge of support] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute for MT (“Argentina: Possible Sale of Electricity Generating Sets by Northern Ireland Electricity Service”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Tebbit minute for MT (“Argentina - Sale of Generating Sets”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Geoffrey Howe (Public Expenditure White Paper) [capital expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Civil Service Pay Negotiations 1984") [proposals for handling; timescale] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to Howe ("INF - Shorter Range Systems") [role in Long Range INF negotiations; respective numbers of SS20, SS12/22, SS1/23 Soviet missiles deployed] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Multilateral Nuclear Disarmanent: a New Approach") ["you asked for advice on Mr Stephen Salter's ideas... Ingenious as this approach is, there is nonetheless a gap between the mathematical exactness of the formula and the political realities"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Prime Minister Gonzalez (British Aerospace and the 'RAPIER' low-level air defence system) ["I am pleased that BAe's proposals have clearly received very serious consideration... an encouragement to pursue vigorously the opportunities for collaboration on other projects"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Prime Minister González ('RAPIER' system: British Aerospace consortium with Spanish industry) ["I know that Michael Heseltine has written very recently to Sr Narcis Serra... But I wish to add my own support to the British Aerospace proposals"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("E(A) Privatisation Review") ["We have now clearly set out the shape of the prospective privatisaton programme for future years and the implications for the legislative timetable and capital markets... I hope that we can obtain unqualified endorsement for the whole programme... you may like to be forewarned of one or two problem areas"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 minute to MT ("France") [statistics on economic development in France, in advance of MT meeting with Mitterand in Paris on 23 January] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry minute (talking points for Premier Lázár meeting with MT) [tête-à-tête] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry minute (talking points for Lázár meeting with MT) [plenary] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry minute (talking points for President Losonczi meeting with MT) [“Plan for themes of negotiation”] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry briefing for Comrade Kadar (“Anglo-Hungarian Relations”) [MT “shrewdly anti-communist”] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Kerr note to Turnbull ("Coal Prices") [MT 'accepts that it would not be right to tackle the problem of NCB's loss-making capacity by enforcing a higher coal price on the electricity industry'] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (White Paper ‘Training for Jobs’: MSC and NAFE) [“all outstanding differences have been resolved”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Spain: MT letter to Prime Minister González of Spain (collaboration on military equipment) [BAe’s proposals] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodall minute to Armstrong (“Call by Michael Lillis”) [two messages from FitzGerald meeting with MT: “Firstly, that her mind was not closed to new ideas; but secondly that she did not want any secret talks”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“The Future of the Crown Agents”) [privatisation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO minute for Coles (“Anglo-Dutch Exchanges on the European Community”) [Howe backs Lubbers' desire for a meeting to consolidate Dutch support on EC budget] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT message to Oxford University Conservative Association (new edition of “Forum” meeting) [“Today it is the Conservative Party which is winning the battle of ideas”]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Luce, Acland, Cradock, Evans, Youde, S.Y. Chung/EXCO) [UK/China talks: negotiating objectives] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Hong Kong Government telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: press coverage”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [summary of conclusions from MT/EXCO meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Rates Bill”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Howe minute to MT (“Shipping: Panamanian freight tax”) [possible countermeasures] [declassified 2013]
Text 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office record of conversation (European Community questions) [Armstrong, Attali: talks in advance of next EC Council meeting; role of Dumas; French farmers; EC trade policy; control of agricultural spending; UK contribution to EC Budget; 'Presidency proposals' tabled by Greek government at Athens] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science & Technology: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Annual Review of Research and Development") [draft Parliamentary question and answer] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow") [case for financial support in recognition of firm's status as largest employer in the area; local regeneration] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 briefing for MT ("Your Meeting with Ken Baker on Post Offices: Wednesday, 18th January 1984 at 4.00 pm") [closures] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS Geneva telegram 12 to FCO (1940Z) ("Cyprus") [Pérez de Cuéllar, Evren: record of conversation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Iacovou) ["Cyprus"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: David Steel MP letter to Edward du Cann MP (visit to Soviet Union) ["I propose to sound out the Russians on starting up a European contribution to the East/West dialogue at Parliamentary level"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Local Overseas Allowance - Germany") [details of further reductions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [tax and expenditure in the longer-term; budgetary prospects; privatisation review; competition policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Civil Commissioner of the Falklands telegram to FCO (“Lady Young's Visit to the Falklands: 200 Mile Fisheries Limit”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Heseltine minute for MT (“Possible Sale of Electricity Generating Sets to Argentina”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Sizewell") [Central Electricity Generating Board ordering of forgings in advance of Public Inquiry outcome] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Walker) ["Sizewell": concern about rising costs of project in advance of Public Inquiry outcome] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Prime Minister's Visit to Paris, 23 January) [Armstrong, Attali: announcement & arrangements for visit] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Prime Minister's Visit to Paris, 23 January) [Armstrong, Attali: East/West issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Prime Minister's Visit to Paris, 23 January) [Armstrong, Attali: UK/French cooperation on strategic issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Prime Minister's Visit to Paris, 23 January) [Armstrong, Attali: Economic Summit 1984] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Prime Minister's Visit to Paris, 23 January) [Armstrong, Dumas: preparation for March meeting of European Council; Dumas visit to London on 8 Feb; UK contribution to EC Budget] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Minutes of Liaison Committee meeting (Whitelaw chairing) [“‘To keep under review the presentation of Government policy and measures’”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Policy Unit minute for MT (“Competition Policy”) [briefing for meeting with Tebbit and Fletcher] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Peter Rowland, Lord Cockfield) [tax simplification] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hill letter to Heyhoe (“Ministerial Dealings with Sinn Fein Members”) [“no Northern Ireland Office Minister will meet any Sinn Fein MP or Assembly Member”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Sauve letter to MT (appointment as Governor-General) [will make “every effort to sustain and encourge the very warm and complimentary relationship we in Canada share with Britain”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson, Ambassador Price) [Price “very much afraid that the Budget proposals would show no reduction in the US deficit”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson minute for MT (“Argentina: Commercial Bank Lending”) [MT complains at being given "wrong 'facts'"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Nigel Lawson minute to MT (“Milk Marketing Arrangements and the Threatened FEOGA Disallowance”) [comments on Jopling’s minute] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: MT letter to Franz Joseph Strauss (Launch Aid for British Aerospace) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO record of conversation (Luce, Cradock, Donald, Youde, SY Chung/EXCO) [Negotiating objectives and transitional issues] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Sir Percy Cradock minute to Robin Butler ('Times' article on role of the Prime Minister's Adviser on Foreign Affairs) [definition of role] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Tebbit minute to MT ("Visit to India, 8-14 January 1984") [recount of visit; "impressed by the opportunities"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("BL: Leyland Trucks Redundancies") [BL announcement; background; advice on handling] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 34 to FCO (1200Z) ("Security Situation in Beirut") [assassinations; "challenge to the Government's authority"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Robin Butler minute to MT (Coronary Artery Disease Research Association (CORDA) fundraising for NMR scanner) [Denis Thatcher & officials: correspondence with Professor Donald Longmore, National Heart Hospital; MT rules out possibility of reception at No.10] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kenneth Baker) ["Post Office Counters": closures] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Tim Flesher minute to MT (Barry Jones MP request for meeting to discuss redundancies at British Aerospace's Broughton (Chester) site) [MT rejects advice to decline meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Teachers' Superannuation Scheme (England and Wales)") ["Like you, I am unhappy with the suggestion that the whole of the 1.05% increase in contributions should be borne by the employers"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Tebbit) ["IDA 7": additional contribution to International Development Association supplementary fund] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Efrem & Tatiana Yankelovich) [request for MT's assistance in persuading Soviet authorities to grant travel abroad for Dr. Sakharov's wife, for medical treatment] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Geoffrey Howe note to John Gummer (European Elections Publications’ Committee (“Howe Group”)) [requests meeting, need to ensure “themes in advertising and publicity are coherent with our manifesto themes”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: MT note to Geoffrey Howe (state of preparation) [suggests meeting, need to ensure “as clear and co-ordinated campaign strategy as possible”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute for Coles (“Discussion of Papers on Argentina/Falklands at OD”) [Falklands fisheries limit; possible sale of electricity generating sets] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Patrick Jenkin minute to Peter Rees (Public Expenditure White Paper) [presentation of capital spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (Environmental Pollution) ["handling of pollution issues has been deficient... [Cabinet Secretary] endorses the suggestion for an additional sub-committee of E, with a meeting of Ministers to be held to set the scene"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [French farmers: UK lorries blockade; US restrictions on steel imports; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of the Prime Minister to France: 23 January - Brief on the European Community") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("The Prime Minister's Visit to Paris") [press announcement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Sherbourne minute for David Wolfson (Special Advisers) [rules on pay, role in elections] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal") [Redundant Mineworkers Payments Scheme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Pascall minute to Turnbull ("NCB") [Redundant Mineworkers Payments Scheme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute for MT (“Taxation Reform”) [advice on Bruce Sutherland proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“President Reagan’s Message to the Prime Minister: US/Soviet Relations”) [proposed draft reply: “We cannot expect rapid changes. The Soviet system is too rigid for that”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to John Coles (“Economic Summit”) [pre-Summit meetings with the Foreign Secretary] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson minute for MT (“Nigeria - Debt”) [update] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MT letter to President of Liberia Samuel Doe (Liberian debt) [glad to have been able to assist] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Policy Unit minute for MT (“Liquid Milk Prices”) [the present arrangements review, possible prices increase] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 letter to Chairman of Hong Kong’s Urban Council (future of Hong Kong) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Hong Kong”) [comparison with Shanghai] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 letter to Ridley PS (“Shipping: Panamanian freight tax”) [MT sets deadline for countermeasures] [declassified 2013]
Text 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Guinea: FCO telegram to UKE Dakar ("Official Visit by Sekou Toure") [request declined; "However, Ministers would be glad to see the President should he decide to make a private visit"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("India") [Indian High Commissioner: farewell call] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler letter to Biffen ("Social Services Committee Enquiry into NHS Management Inquiry Report") [request for Parliamentary debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Electricity Supply Industry Board Salaries") [pay offer figures] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO briefing for MT ("Lebanon/MNF: Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr Rumsfeld, 20 January") [current respective positions of US, Italy, France & USSR on the Multinational Force; Middle East peace process] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO record of conversation (1900Z) (Howe, Gromyko) [trade & economic relations; US negotiating behaviour; arms control; human rights] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Sixtieth Anniversary of the Establishment of Anglo-Soviet Diplomatic Relations") [proposals for marking the anniversary] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Geoffrey Pattie minute to MT (Defence contracts with the Netherlands) [UK purchase of Dutch Goalkeeper Close-In Weapon System in return for Dutch purchase of Rolls-Royce Spey engines] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Shultz message to Howe (2000Z) (East-West Relations) ["impressions from my meeting with... Gromyko"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to President Reagan (East/West Relations) [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Tim Flesher note to MT (East/West Relations) [excerpt of recent Pym speech lamenting missed opportunities] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Gromyko) [human rights & request for Soviet authorities to grant travel abroad for Dr. Sakharov's wife, for medical treatment] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: John Houston note to Geoffrey Howe (“German Aspects of Public Relations Campaign on EC”) [queries, CDU connections] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: John Houston note to Stephen Sherbourne (“Cabinet Meeting on European Elections”) [importance of campaign, policy, objectives] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Treasury minute ("Ratios of Expenditure to GDP") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Tebbit letter to Rees ("EH101 Helicopter Project") [Westland acceptance of launch aid offer for Anglo-Italian project; terms & publicity] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT letter to President Reagan (relations with the Soviet Union) [thank for copy of his speech - pleased he placed on record willingness to establish "a constructive and realistic working relationship with the Soviet Union"; "We cannot expect rapid changes"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of the Prime Minister to Paris: 23 January 1984") [agreement on text of post-meeting press announcement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of the Prime Minister to France: 23 January") [non-EC issues; bilateral and other issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation ("Coal Policy") [pit closure programme; enhanced Redundant Mineworkers Payments Scheme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 2nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Jenkin and Edwards memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 1 (Non-Domestic Rating Revaluation) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 30 (The Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation of Parliament and the Opening of the New Session) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: No.10 minute for MT (“Opening of the Joint European Torus (JET), Culham”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Taxation: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Tax Reform Strategy") [Lawson's general strategy for taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (advance copy of US-Soviet relations speech) [“I hope that your speech will mark the beginning of a new phase”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“Economic Summit 1984”) [commercial sponsorship: past examples, what to do in present case] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong PS minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit 1984”) [visit from a trade union delegation a traditional event in run-up to economic summits] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan minute to MT (“Video Recordings Bill”) [certification] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Stockholm to FCO (“Secretary of State’s Meeting with Gromyko on 19 January: Middle East”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKHC Brunei telegram to FCO (record of conversation: Lord Fanshawe, Lee Kuan Yew) [International Democrat Union, UK/China talks, Philippines] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: R.W. Gray (Deputy Secretary Department of Trade) minute for Coles (“Hong Kong”) [“I am sure I could bring matters to a satisfactory conclusion”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: opening statement at eighth round of talks: 25-26 January”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Hong Kong”) [EXCO, UK/China talks, Ministerial visit to Beijing] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Younger letter to Tebbit ("Leyland Trucks") [future of Bathgate plant] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 38 to FCO (1150Z) (Lebanese Government's strategy) [Miers, Kassis, Haddad: record of discussion] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: FCO minute ("Australian High Commissioner: Introductory Calls") [bilateral relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ministers: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Treasury Ministers and Lloyds") ["to avoid conflicts of interest"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Rees letter to Younger ("Scott Lithgow") [local area industrial regeneration proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Scott Lithgow and Beyond") [case against approving Younger's request for additional funding for Scottish Development Agency] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow and Beyond") [arguments for and against meeting with STUC] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Tim Flesher minute to MT (Atlantic Conveyor replacement) [overdue and over-budget] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Tim Flesher ("QL Legislative Programme: 1984/85") [industrial pollution] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Tim Flesher ("QL Legislative Programme: 1984/85") [need to prioritise Bills facilitating privatisation programme] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Tim Flesher minute to MT (QL Legislative Programme: 1984/85) [priority Bills] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: UKMIS Geneva telegram 20 to FCO (1655Z) ("Proposed Review of High Energy Particle Physics") ["CERN would see this as a preliminary step to almost certain UK withdrawal"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: UKE Paris telegram 63 to FCO (1740Z) ("Proposed Review of High Energy Particle Physics") ["would go down badly in France"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: UKE Bonn telegram 69 to FCO (1715Z) ("Proposed Review of High-Energy Particle Physics") ["discussion of withdrawal from CERN... would seriously damage our scientific and European credentials with the Germans"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: UKE Berne telegram 17 to FCO (1800Z) ("Proposed Review of High Energy Particle Physics") ["implication of possible UK [withdrawal from CERN]... unlikely to lead to public reaction by the Swiss Government but there would be considerable concern and regret"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Rees minute to MT ("LOA Germany") [Local Overseas Allowance: opposed to Heseltine proposal for reductions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Teachers' Pay Structures") [unauthorised information leaflet issued by Chairman of the Burnham Management Panel] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Angola: MT telegram to President Dos Santos of Angola (clemency for British mercenary prisoners) [“humanitarian gesture” will be appreciated among relatives, parliamentarians and public] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan message to MT (London economic summit) [accepts invitation, “a very important opportunity to consolidate the economic recovery”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (Economic Summit 1984) [proposal for visit by Japanese PM; Reagan and Trudeau also to be in London before summit] [released Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Overseas Development Administration minute to Howe ("Falkland Islands: Possible Declaration of a 200 Mile Exclusive Fisheries Limit (EFL)") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Urban Programme") [how to measure cost effectiveness] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to David Barclay ("Publication of 1984 Public Expenditure White Paper") [arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (chemists' pay) [applicability of principle to other NHS contractors] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Strategic co-operation with the French") [lines to take for meeting with Mitterrand] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Post-Stuttgart Negotiations") [summary of UK objectives, for MT meeting with Mitterrand] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to France") [Direct Broadcasting by Satellite: UK adoption of CMAC sound system] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("The Prime Minister's Visit to Paris") [press line to take; background to meeting; arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Post-Stuttgart Negotiations") [for MT meeting with Mitterrand in Paris on 23 Jan: EC Budget: UK safety net proposal; control of agricultural spending; CAP; common market; industrial cooperation; own resources] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Sherbourne minute (Special Advisers’ meeting) [agenda] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Wales: Chris Butler note to Alison Ward (Welsh issues for Special Advisers’ meeting) [“our relations with local government could well be a source of considerable problems;”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Monetary policy: Lomax minute for Chancellor & Permanent Secretary (“Monetary prospects”) [released 2012]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Economics Ministry to Foreign Ministry (MT visit) [economic issues briefing for Lázár meeting with MT] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute for MT (“Competition Policy”) [changes to the machinery of Government: Armstrong’s views] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Turnbull minute to MT (prospects for the 1984 Budget) [HMT's account of MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer meeting on Budget] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Turnbull minute to MT ("Talks with the Chancellor") [briefing for MT meeting with Chancellor: 1984 Budget, tax strategy, privatisation, competition policy, Treasury Ministers and Lloyds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: NIO Establishment Division minute to Butler (“Visits to Northern Ireland by the Prime Minister”) [standard operating procedure] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to Robert Armstrong (“Economic Summit 1984”) [agreed arrangements for: arrivals; Prime Minister’s dinner; locations; final press conference] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Prime Minister Nakasone message to MT (Economic Summit) [accepts invitation; opportunity to consolidate economic recovery] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome to FCO (“Anglo Italian Summit, 26-27 January: Craxi Government”) [domestic politics, economy, foreign policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome to FCO (“Anglo Italian Summit: Italian Policy towards the EC”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: MOD to Richard Luce (Iraqi Use of Chemical Weapons) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: MOD to FCO (“Consequences of an Escalation of the Iran-Iraq War”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: David Goodall minute to No.10 (“Iran-Iraq: Supply of Defence Equipment”) [background summary] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Donald Rumsfeld) [Arab-Israel issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Howe minute to Jopling (“Milk Marketing Arrangements and the Threatened FEOGA Disallowance”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO note to No.10 (“Hong Kong”) [Triads] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to John Gieve (“Speaking Note on Rates Bill”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 21 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 21 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome to FCO (“Anglo Italian Summit”) [timetable] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 22 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Cabinet Office briefing book ("Anglo-Italian Summit 26-27 January 1984" in Rome) [FCO, Treasury & other departments contributing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Guinea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Guinea: Visit of President Sekou Touré") ["could be useful [meeting]... would [MT] be prepared in principle to see Sekou Touré"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ('Right to Buy' scheme: performance of local authorities) [PQ request for list; MT advised that Barnet performing poorly] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 254 to FCO (2350Z) ("Proposed Visit by President Reagan to the Republic of Ireland") [details] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Lebanon") [threat of Lebanese Government military action to close Shuweifat Gap] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 132 to UKE Washington (1730Z) ("Lebanon: UN Options") [Embassy representatives of the Multinational Forces partners: record of discussion] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow") [Britoil contractual dispute with British Shipbuilders & completion of the oil rig] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Sir William Lithgow letter to MT (Scott Lithgow) [plea for Government investment & development to encourage private enterprise in the area following the setbacks of nationalisation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Gas Prices") [economic pricing; exports] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Department of Trade & Industry briefing for MT (meeting with Barry Jones MP to discuss redundancies at British Aerospace's Broughton (Chester) site) [statistics; Got launch aid for A320 Airbus; Govt regional investment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Security: MT letter to Ted Leadbitter (Commodore Dieter Gerhardt and British operations in the South Atlantic) [trial in South Africa for Soviet espionage: "no basis whatever for your surmises that Gerhardt in some way compromised our operations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Review Body (London Weighting for the Armed Forces) [acceptance of recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to Howe ("Supply of Naval Equipment to Germany for Installation in Argentine Destroyers") [review of OD decision in 1982 to make exception to rules on embargo of defence equipment destined for Argentina] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand, Attali) [French farmers blockade of British lorries; Lebanon; Arab/Israeli problem; Soviet Union: analysis of internal situation; Hungary; EC Budget negotiations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Adam Ridley letter to Stephen Sherborne (Special Advisers) [rules limiting their role at election times] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Nicholas True minute to Alison Ward (forthcoming events) [DHSS issues] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) France: Élysée menu (lunch with Mitterrand) [to discuss European Council meeting, Middle East, East/West relations] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economic policy: MT letter to Professor Brian Griffiths (MT attacked at IEA lunch) [“It was a bit of a bumpy ride!”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Michael Alison minute to MT (“Mail on Sunday article about your PPS!”) [Falkender criticism; MA already moving to a more active Commons role] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s Visit to Hungary“) [press briefing - MT insists on not minimising 1956] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Trade and Industry ("Coal-firing Scheme") [MT wants review of the coal-firing scheme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tebbit) [competition policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: NIO Establishment Division circular (“Visits to Northern Ireland by the Prime Minister - Instructions for use of codeword”) [“Operation Equity”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe (future of the Crown Agents) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Richard Luce minute for Paul Channon (credit for Libya) [agrees to offer if rivals do; MT endorses 'reluctantly'] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO record of conversation (Baroness Young, Minister of State - US Congressional Delegration) [Grenada, Falklands-Argentina, Middle East, enlargement of EC, NATO, terrorism] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (Future of Hong Kong: HMG’s public position) [policy paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Summary of conclusions at the Prime Minister’s meeting with Hong Kong Unofficials on 16 January”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gow, Mayhew) ["Latent Damage and Defective Housing": legal position] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 270 to FCO (2322Z) ("Visit to the United States by the Irish Prime Minister") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 274 to FCO (2342Z) ("LAF action in the Shuweifat Gap") [MNF opposition to proposed action; US expresses pragmatic view in private] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Alan Walters note to MT ("Young Workers Wages") ["Young Workers Scheme has been quite successful"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Scott Lithgow") ["If ever there was a case for not bailing out a public sector disaster, this is it"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Scott Lithgow") [MT's conditions for meeting with STUC] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Scott Lithgow") [background; papers; key questions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to Rees ("Britoil Contract at Scott Lithgow") [latest position on dispute with British Shipbuilding] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Heseltine minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow") [comments on Younger proposals for recovery initiative in Inverclyde area] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal) to Miss Wallace ("Electricity Prices") [lines to take] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Butcher, Barry Jones MP) [British Aerospace & employment in Deeside] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 letter to John Pennington (acquisition of FBC Group by West German company Schering) [benefits of encouraging foreign investment & of UK investments abroad] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to Lord Bridge (Sarah Tisdall case) [views sought on case for referral to Security Commission] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Welsh Office letter to No.10 ("Government Response to Committee on Welsh Affairs - Water in Wales") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("OD: East-West Relations") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster minute for MT (“The Argentine and the Falklands”) [restoration of commercial links] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute for Coles (“Relations with Argentina”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Goodall minute for MT (“OD: Northern Ireland Electricity Service: Possible Sale of Electricity Generating Sets to Argentina”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Goodall minute for MT (“Argentina/Falklands - Next Steps with the Alfonsin Government (OD (84) 1)”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ridley minute for MT (“Argentina/Falklands: Next Steps”) [restoration of the Air Services Agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Sir Geoffrey Howe minute to Peter Rees ("FCO Expenditure Problems") [how to make progress on outstanding issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Heseltine minute to Howe ("Defence Communications Centre (DCC)") [staff reduction: "I have decided that the inspectors' proposals should be pursued, recognising the risk that there will be industrial action as a result"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT (Promotion blockages in the Civil Service) ["You... specifically asked for my views on two points: the reality of the [low] morale argument: and the reality of the link between reduced career prospects and Civil Service efficiency"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Competition and Privatisation") [candidates for privatisation; market implications of the proposed programme; legislative implications; proposal to transfer all except "special" shares to Treasury] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") ["Commission... ought to be able to pay up to 90 per cent of our refunds... and, indeed, the outstanding £42 million risk-sharing money, by the end of March. We shall watch the position closely"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Public Expenditure White Paper: Net Contributions to Community Institutions") ["if we broke the link [in the White Paper, with 1983 refunds], we might well be asked whether the £42 million had in practice been written off"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Department of Agriculture record of conversation (meeting with the Danish Minister of Agriculture) [Jopling, Kofoed; officials: pricing policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hungary: Coles letter to C.J. Chetwood (MT visit to Hungary) [MT will visit Wimpey site] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hungary: FCO notes for MT (“Points for use in private conversations in Budapest”) [talk with Kádár; MT declines to raise German unification] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to Charles Douglas-Home (complaint about missing copies of The Times )
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute for MT (“Competition and Privatisation: E(A) (84) 3”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute for MT (“Competition Policy”) [Tebbit unhappy with new proposals; MT sides with him against Armstrong] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior statement (Hennessy Report) [escape from the Maze] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO (“The Canadian Politican Scene”) [“Canadians are tired of Mr Trudeau”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Barry Jones) [redundancies in British Aerospace] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Gow letter to MT ("Defective Housing") [private sector] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Younger, Walker, Jenkin, Tebbit, Rees, Redwood) ["Scott Lithgow"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Sir William Lithgow letter to No.10 ("Why Scott Lithgow Deserves To Live") [sends them his letter to the Financial Times] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Teachers' Superannuation Scheme (TSS) (England and Wales)") [key points in advance of meeting to discuss Joseph's case for maintaining employee contribution rate at 6% and for seeking the increase required entirely from employer contributions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: David Trippier minute to MT (impact of Huntley and Palmer closure) [plans underway to estabish enterprise agency in Knowsley] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Angola: MT letter to President Dos Santos of Angola (bilateral relations) [conflict in South Angola, South African military operations] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Patrick Jenkin minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Urban Programme") [problems of social and economic deprivation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: MT letter to President Dos Santos (British mercenary prisoners) [message of thanks for forthcoming release] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: MT letter to President Dos Santos (relations between the UK and Angola) [trade; conflict in Southern Angola; South African role in the conflict] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Spain/Gibraltar") [reply to request for "advice on any further steps which might be taken in support of efforts to sell RAPIER to Spain"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Institute of Fiscal Studies: Study on EC Budget") ["Our concern is... that the IFS figures can easily be misinterpreted by those opposed to the Government's negotiating strategy"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [post-Stuttgart negotiations; EC enlargement; ESPRIT information technology programme; Jopling meeting with Danish counterpart; Anglo-Italian summit; Steel Council; Fisheries Council; French farmer protests] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hungary: Draft MT speech for Lázár dinner (first draft, further annotated) [“The chairs at Geneva have already stayed empty too long”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: FCO minute to No.10 (“Opening of the Joint European Torus (JET)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Adam Ridley minute for Chancellor (“Visit to Federal German Chancellery: January 12 1984”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Budget, competition policy, pay, currency, Treasury Ministers and Lloyds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Space: President Reagan letter to MT (manned space station programme) [suggests collaboration & that NASA head meets with MT] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industry: David Trippier minute to MT (impact of Huntley and Palmer factory closure) [plans underway to establish enterprise agency in Knowsley] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Caroline Ryder minute to MT (“Whitsun Recess”) [clash of events with proposed meeting with TUC delegation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague to FCO (“Possible Visit by Dutch Prime Minister”) [Lubbers view on dates; van den Broek would come too] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“Non-Domestic Rating Revaluation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Goodall to MT (“Consequences of an Escalation of the Iran-Iraq War (OD(EM) (84) 1)”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Denis Thatcher letter to Coles (his visit to South Africa: Colin Brandt) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“The Stansted Inquiry”) [misunderstanding about the Environment Secretary’s statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: 8th round of talks: first day”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Hong Kong Government telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong”) [Adley MP: Kuomintang investigation] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: MT message to Prime Minister Gandhi (Republic Day) [congratulations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 307 to FCO (2350Z) ("Lebanon") ["Congressional worries about the Marines' role in Lebanon"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (meeting with the Prime Minister) [MT rules out attendance of a wider group of local community representatives] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley minute to MT (Hoverspeed ferry company receivership) ["if the company closes there will, regretfully, be a loss of some 600 jobs... [but] privatised companies must stand or fall by their own efforts"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO telegram 22 to UKE Berne (1052Z) ("Relations with Argentina") [conditions for talks; proposed agenda; public presentation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 0295 to FCO (0435Z) ("President Reagan's State of the Union Address") [main points] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague letter to No.10 ("Mr Lubbers/Mrs Thatcher") ['Time' magazine: article on recent MT visit to Netherlands/austerity measures/deployment of cruise missiles] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite") ["[Brittan] feels that Sir Antony Part has exceeded his remit in offering advice on issues which go well beyond the question of transmission standards"; draft reply rebutting Part's criticisms of DBS project handling] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Efficiency Unit letter to Heseltine (targets for management and efficiency improvement) ["I think that you personally may be interested to know about the overall response to my letter... your approach in MOD is absolutely in the right direction... I would like to offer my help"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie letter to Brittan ("Report of the Joint Review Group (JRG) on Employment Opportunities for Women in the Civil Service: Programme of Action in Response to its Recommendations") [Trade Union concerns; Programme & policy statement by PQ/draft press notice; costs] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 letter to Mrs Elizabeth Charles (MT visit to Hungary) [no time to meet with Church leaders] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hungary: Draft MT speech for Lázár dinner (first draft, annotated) [MT: “I think that at some point we must make clear how much we value our way of life and that there could be no retreat from it”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 3rd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Timing of Non-Domestic Revaluation) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Jopling memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 2 (Liquid Milk Prices and the Future of Milk Farming) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe message to UKE Paris (“Visit by Monsieur Dumas”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO Steering Brief (“Visit of the PM to Hungary: 2-4 Feb 1984”) [overview & objectives] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hatfield minute to Taylor (“Destruction of the IRA”) [proposals for new security arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Barclay minute to Department of Employment (Liverpool community programme scheme) [proposed MT visit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 306 to FCO (2347Z) (“State of the Union address: President Reagan and the US budget deficit”) [“he does not wish to make hard economic choices in an election year”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome to FCO (“Anglo Italian Summit: 26-27 January: Falklands”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: Governor's Office of Gibraltar telegram to FCO ("Gibraltar Election") [report on results; recommendation to send congratulatory message to Hassan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (defective housing) [private sector] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("First Thoughts") ["I take a bleak view of the international scene" - annotated by MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 43 to FCO (0830Z) ("Lebanon") [possible imminent Lebanese military action to close Shuweifat Gap] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Lord Rhodes letter to MT (report on Parliamentary Delegation visit to China) [Sino-British relations; future of Hong Kong; trade; Chinese modernisation and reform] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Conservative Research Department briefing ("Opposition Day Debate on Shipbuilding Tuesday 31st January 1984") [closure & its effect on the Inverclyde area] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (Competition in Defence Procurement) [overview of MoD measures & attached paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (schools: private money and parental choice) [Policy Unit paper presenting options for DES] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Stepping Down") [to "allow the calculation of separate pension elements based on service and salary before and after a "step down" to a post with a lower salary"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Department of Trade and Industry letter to No.10 ("Nissan") [proposed Nissan plant in the UK: Nissan appears to reach agreement with trade union] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister González Márquez letter to MT (Secretary-General of the Council of Europe) [nomination of Oreja] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram for Civil Commissioner of the Falklands ("Relations with Argentina") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Jopling minute to MT ("Terms of retirement of civil servants") ["the same terms are available to people who have to leave through no fault of their own and people who need to be got rid of because of their limited efficiency"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Equipment collaboration with France and the FRG") [No.10 request for note on track record/prospects for future co-operation, for MT meeting with Mitterrand] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("UK position in the Negotiations on the Stuttgart Declaration") [summary of UK position on main issues; MT: "very useful"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Italy: No.10 briefing cards (“Bilateral With Signor Craxi”) [economic summit; European Council] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("First thoughts") ["I take a bleak view of the international scene"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hungary: FCO letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s Visit to Hungary: Speech”) [suggested additions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Armstrong minute for Antony Acland (“Visit of President Mitterrand”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rees letter to Tom King (“Training for Jobs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Redwood minute to MT ("Budget Stance") [urges "bold" action on public spending and taxation in 1984 Budget] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit: Debt Issues”) [solution to issues in Latin America, proposed meeting with Ecuadorian Foreign Minister] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Tessa Gaisman minute for MT (“Centre for Policy Studies”) [MT rejects proposed book of her speeches] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Heseltine - Spadolini) [European defence cooperation, defence equipment production, Lebanon] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Ministry of Agriculture record of conversation (Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food - Italian Minister of Agriculture) [price fixing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Ministry of Agriculture record of conversation(Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food - Italian Minister of Agriculture) [taxation of spirit drinks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Italian Treasury Minister) [international economic-monetary meetings, EC issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [EC issues, East-West relations, Lebanon, MNF, the Falkland Islands and Argentina] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Craxi Foundation) Italy/EC: Italian record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [EC issues] [declassified 2017]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy, with Foreign Ministers) [Lebanon, MNF, UN Force] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [plenary meeting: EC monetary and economic issues, US-European relations, defence collaboration] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: No.10 minute to MT (“Anti-Riot Training for the Saudi National Guard”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Eighth Round: Dinner”) [record of conversation: Evans, Zhou Nan] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 28 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 28 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 note to Treasury (press report on pay rise for senior civil servants) [Top Salaries Review Body pay review] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to Chancellor Kohl (EC negotiations) ["Mitterrand and I... at one on the urgent need to relaunch the Community... Unless decisive progress can be made at... [the March European Council] the disarray of the Community will get worse] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hungary: Draft MT speech for Lázár dinner (last draft, MT annotated) [“a peace which means more than the silence of guns”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: discussion with EXCO”) [EXCO reactions to latest round of UK/China talks] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 29 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 29 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister Trudeau”) [resignation as Liberal leader] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 29 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: Turnbull minute to MT (“Anti-Riot Training for the Saudi National Guard”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("YTS") [Civil Service unions oppose introduction of Youth Training Scheme] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ministers: No.10 note for Robin Butler (Speaker's Statement on Members' Declarations of Interests) [his office sends text, seeing Butler as having "no need for concern"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("Electricity Supply Industry: Board Salaries") [pay offer figures] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: MT letter to Sir William Lithgow (Scott Lithgow) [closure & its effect on the Inverclyde area] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Scott Lithgow") [closure & its effect on the Inverclyde area] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT (Electricity Council prices for 1984/85) [increase amount; legal challenge to London Electricty Board; 3-year financial framework] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("'Peace' letters from Soviet citizens") [handling of replies] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Department of Trade and Industry letter to No.10 ("Sheerness Steel") [update on performance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Spain: Spanish PM González letter to MT (Spanish participation in Council of Europe) [nomination of Don Marcelino Oreja for Secretary-General] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Portugal: MT to Prime Minister Soares of Portugal (invitation) [will visit in April] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Kinnock letter to MT (Prime Minister's Questions) [notification of absence due to visit to US] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Spain and NATO") [Spain to hold referendum onn membership; Gonzalez to call election "in the event of an adverse result"; Gibraltar] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Goodall minute for MT (“Falkland Islands: Possible Declaration of a 200 Mile Exclusive Fisheries Limit (OD (83) 19)”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Goodall minute for MT (“Falkland Islands: Possible Declaration of a 200-Mile Fisheries Limit”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Lawson minute for Howe (“OD: Falkland Islands: Fisheries”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Overseas Development Administration minute to FCO (“The Brewster Contract for Housing in the Falkland Islands”) [review by ODA officials] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Coles note for MT (Howe paper OD(83) 19) ["are we not weakening our position on sovereignty?"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Territorial Programmes") [over-provision in the block budgets for Scotland and Northern Ireland] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Geoffrey Howe ("FCO Expenditure Problems") ["the overriding consideration must be the Government's capacity to swallow" additional spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Lord Cockfield ("Public Expenditure White Paper - Part 1, Table 1.13") [public sector capital spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("British Airways privatisation: market for shares in the United States") ["examining the possibility... of an issue... on the New York stock exchange simultaneously with the UK flotation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Managing Director of British Aerospace (sale of Tornado aircraft to Turkey) ["sorry to hear that the prospects for the sale... are looking less bright again... Geoffrey Pattie is considering visiting Turkey next month"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Walker minute to MT (privatisation of gas & electricity: press leaks) [Walker angry about "totally untrue stories"; asks MT to identify source of the leaks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to President of the National Farmers' Union (European Commission price proposals for 1985-86 and the 'green pound') ["need for the CAP to be operated cost-effectively... On the green pound... I am not... able to give you a definite Government view at this stage"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Public Expenditure White Paper: Net Contributions to Community Institutions") ["unwise to assume... that the £42 million balance of our 1982 Risk Sharing funds will be paid by 31 March"; MT thinks proposed redraft "unduly defensive & rather weak"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to President Pertini of Italy (thanking for the gifts) [bag and scarf] [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit”) [arrivals and departures; meetings at Lancaster House; note takers; timetable; MT’s diary; Queen’s banquet; final press conference] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to Robert Armstrong (“Economic Summit 1984: Commercial Sponsorship”) [MT agreed sponsorship is acceptable if “on the basis either loans of equipment or provision of equipment at cost price”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Michael Havers letter to Brittan (“Re: Video Recordings”) [legislation on certification] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Coles note to MT (George Urban’s CPS speech) [“we should ask for the term ‘Thatcher doctrine’ … to be dropped”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to David Storey (proposed amendment to 1973 Constitution Act) [“the Province’s position within the United Kingdom is secured by the wishes of the majority of its population”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster minute to MT (“Airbus A320”) [comments on UK participation and launch aid] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Future of Hong Kong: Defence, Security and Public Order”) [“worrying indications”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT ("Value for Money - the Ibbs Initiative") ["What we now need is a detailed system of monitoring and reporting"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (National Audit Office study of efficiency reviews conducted since 1979) ["intention is to give Parliament an independent account of the contributions which the scrutinies and reviews have made to value for money"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 343 to FCO (2250Z) ("Shuweifat Gap") [possible imminent Lebanese military action] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 (Lebanon: Shuweifat Gap) [possible imminent Lebanese military action] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Younger, Channon, Ingham, STUC delegation) [Scott Lithgow] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger letter to Rees (Scottish Electricity Boards: External Financing Limits) [capital expenditure; price rises; EFL for 1984/85] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Lords Vaizey, Harris & Thomas to discuss proposed Vaizey/CPS Study of Welfare State) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Julian Amery MP letter to MT (development of the political capability for Special Operations) [request for meeting to discuss his thoughts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 Policy Unit minute to John Coles ("Competition in Defence Procurement") [commends MoD policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Katsuji Kawamata, Chairman of Nissan, letter to MT (proposed Nissan plant in the UK) [confirms agreement with trade union] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKHC Ottawa telegram 65 to FCO (1550Z) ("The Trudeau Initiative") ["I do not think that he really believes in NATO or NATO strategy"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Hugh Thomas note for MT (encloses US newspaper article on present state of Argentina) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Cabinet: 9 February") [to discuss economic position, capital and current expenditure, public expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Andrew Turnbull (draft Cabinet paper) [balance between capital and current expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Territorial Programmes") [problems in the assessment of needs in Scotland and Northern Ireland] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Aerospace: No.10 record of meeting (“A320 Airbus” - BAE’s application for launch aid) [“The Prime Minister commented that even with substantial sales the rate of return would be low”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO Steering Brief (MT visit to Hungary) [draft, including points for private talk with Kádár] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Edwards note circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 3 (Government's Response to Committee on Welsh Affairs - Water in Wales) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Coles minute for MT (“European Inward Visits”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tom King minute to MT (“White Paper: Training for Jobs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Butler letter [recipient redacted] (Shipley recommendations on destruction of the IRA) [“a considerable intelligence effort is directed at Irish terrorism”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 352 to FCO (2358Z) (“The United States FY85 Budget”) [growth strong, major tax reforms unlikely] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (International Centre for Child Studies) [Armstrong invited to become patron] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (London Economic Summit) [multilateral initiative on terrorism: US seeking declaration at Summit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Coles minute for MT (“European Inward Visits”) [planning] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Chief Secretary minute to MT (“Lunch Aid for the A320”) [opposed to providing any assistance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Norman Tebbit) [the A320 project: UK participation and French views] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: public presentation”) [“EXCO… great disappointment… much concerned…”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO telegram 191 to UKE Washington (1340Z) (“Future of Hong Kong: briefing the Americans”) [EXCO visit to London and 8th round of UK/China talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: 8th round of talks 25/26 January 1984”) [MT: “Rather worrying. I do not like being pushed on decisions…”] [declassified 2014]

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

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