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88 Jul 7 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge: Lords Amendments") [student nurses, hostels, the disabled charities] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Jul 7 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: John Major minute to MT ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey: Additional Bids") [departmental summaries] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
88 Jul 8 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Piper disaster, soccer hooliganism, rate support grant) [166 feared dead in North Sea disaster] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Domestic policy: Hamilton record of conversation (92 Group dinner) [list of attendees and likely topics] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Kinnock's tour, MT's meeting with Kohl, economy, Kensington by-election, Piper oil disaster) [Conservatives ahead in polls, satisfaction with Kinnock drops] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Bob Hawke message to MT (Toronto Summit) ["there is a very real danger that the momentum in Geneva will be lost and that protectionist pressures will intensify"] [released Dec 2016] |
|
88 Jul 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Lawson memo circulated to Cabinet - CC(88) 10 (Economic Prospects) [declassified Feb 2016] |
|
88 Jul 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Major memo circulated to Cabinet - CC(88) 11 (1988 Public Expenditure Survey) [declassified Feb 2016] |
|
88 Jul 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor, 13 July") [Markets; public expenditure; Bank of England Directors] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Jul 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Dukakis, law and order, MT's broadcast to Russia, Kinnock) [South Africa sanctions] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Greek attack, Rover/BAe, education, law and order) [coverage of Greek holiday boat attack] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, IRA bombing, Piper oil platform, industry, Rover, Kinnock) [IRA operations in Europe] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(88) 25th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Economic Prospects and 1988 Public Expenditure Survey) [declassified Feb 2016] |
|
88 Jul 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Rover/BAe, economy, mortgages, law and order, Kinnock's tour) [Conservatives win Kensington with reduced majority] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Domestic policy: Bernard Ingham minute ("Sunday Express") [should emphasise: changes made, reforms to be achieved, caring about people, determination to raise standards, crime and punishment, Britain's role in the world] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for Robin Butler ("Sir Alan Walters") [comments in his press article annoyed Lawson; Walters agrees to clear further statements with Wicks] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Jul 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Sir Alan Walters") [public comments feeding renewed media speculation of MT rift with Lawson; Walters agrees not to give further interviews; copies of articles] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Jul 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Kinnock, air traffic, housing, industry) [Kinnock to protest to Mugabe after being held at gunpoint] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for MT ("Sir Alan Walters") [Walters comments in the press; Lawson saying he could not work with Walters if he were to return] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Jul 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor, 20 July") [Alan Walters; Markets; tax treatment of residence] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Jul 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Iran, Kinnock, Labour politics, economy, industry, crime) [Iran calls ceasefire with Iraq] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Ingham minute for Gray ("Sir Alan Walters") [Walters said Evening Standard misquoted him; lively lobby; Perks told Walters to shut up] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Jul 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Chancellor and Walters, Kinnock, industry) [Tory MPs back Lawson, MT tells Walters to shut up] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Chancellor, student loans, politics, economy) [Lawson's future] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Domestic policy: MT to Bishops Sheppard and Warlock (Merseyside Taskforce) [government committed to regeneration of the area] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Wicks letter to Sir Alan Walters (follow-up to phone conversations) ["if you are to return here, you must refrain from all public comment which could have, or be interpreted as having, any bearing on British economic policy"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Jul 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Chancellor, Labour politics, local government, privatisation) [MT defends Lawson, Lawson makes 'declaration of independence'] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cambodia: MT to Prince Sihanouk (Toronto G7 summit declaration) ["It remains to be seen whether the Vietnamse Government will abide by their declared intention to withdraw all their troops"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Paul Gray) [Lawson distressed that his IEA speech was being interpreted as a "declaration of independence"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Jul 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, IRA bombing, Leon Brittan, estate agents, education, industry, economy) [Labour MPs denounce proposed EC role for Brittan due to Westland role] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: MT to Jim Goold (Bill Hughes' ideas on Scottish enterprise) [MT would like this to be discussed further] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor, 27 July") [foreign currency borrowing; Markets] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Jul 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, reshuffle, HOTOL, City, education, housing, law and order) [reshuffle generally well received, Moore seen to have been demoted] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: Charles Powell minute ("Jimmy Young Show: European Community") [points to make: UK's unfair share of EC costs, EU spending, completion of Single Market, burden of regulations on businesses] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Lawson letter to Conservative MPs ("Chancellor's end-of-term letter") [continued strength of the economy] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Jul 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, reshuffle, Labour politics, petrol, HOTOL, Chernobyl) [Clarke gets good press, favourite to succeed MT] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Michael Bates minute ("Interview with the Australian media: 29 July") [questions on: relations with new US President, trade unions, social welfare, social conditions, South Africa, Gorbachev, Northern Ireland] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for Butler (Alan Walters article for National Interest) [phoned him urging withdrawal from publication as reviving recent 'embarrassment'; Walters readily agreed] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Jul 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, MT's broadcast, Ted Heath, Labour politics, economy, overseas aid) [MT's 'No' to Europe] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for Butler (Alan Walters interview in Daily Mail) [told him he had to behave like a Trappist monk or "his return to No.10 would be in serious doubt"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Jul 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: MT message to Prince Sihanouk (Toronto Summit) [on Cambodia, "Pressure on Vietnam to co-operate has been, and remains, the primary focus of the efforts of the international community"] [released Dec 2016] |
|
88 Jul 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Brooke memo for MT ("Summer Strategy Survey") ["confirms the great strength of our position ... Our record on the economy underpins our political strength"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Jul 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, economy, Ashdown, MT's visit to Australia, European Community) [Lawson says inflation may rise but economy is booming and best is yet to come] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Aug 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for Bearpark (Alan Walters's articles) [these seem ok, send to Treasury; Alan's lecture series in the autumn "gives me the colly-wobbles"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Aug 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Bearpark minute for Butler (Alan Walters's articles) [proposed Wicks letter] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Aug 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Geoffrey Littler letter to Pascal Lamy (Paris Summit) [ECU Treasury bills] [released July 2017] |
|
88 Aug 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Wicks letter to Sir Alan Walters (articles Walters has sent him) ["most helpful" to see them; danger of his Johns Hopkins lectures being infitrated by the press] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Aug 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Nigel Lawson ("Rate Reform: Government Valuation Services") [implication for organisation and staffing of valuation services] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Aug 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [Cleveland report, share prices, IRA cash flow, HOTOL research programme] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Aug 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [Bush chooses running mate, rail fares, US economy, UK economy, nurses' pay] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Aug 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Walters note for Gray ("A Central Bank for Europe") ["on my visits to No.10, I fear that I may have left the wrong impression of my thinking"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Aug 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [Zia's death, nurses' pay, inner city schools, TV content, Australian Governor-General] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Aug 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Rome minute to FCO ("Italian Sherpa") [Vattani's relationship with De Mita] [released July 2017] |
|
88 Aug 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [Zia's death, Dan Quayle under file, Botha hedging over Mandela release, transport] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Aug 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [civil service, Bush campaign, pay settlements, inflation, Labour's election chances] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Aug 21 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [IRA coach bombing, Notting Hill Carnival terror campaign, Stock Exchange abuses, chemical spillages] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Aug 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Trade figures: Market response"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Aug 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor") [Trade figures] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Aug 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [IRA coach bombing, Bush campaign, alcohol laws, student loans] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Aug 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [Royal Navy recruiting officer killed by IRA, review of measures against IRA, Northern Ireland council elections, Piper Alpha disaster, nurses' pay, alcohol laws] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Aug 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nicholas Scott minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Attachment of Benefit") [practicality of making deductions from benefits] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Aug 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [plans to combat IRA violence, Iran-Iraq war, workfare scheme, interest rates, Irish border, North Sea safety, satellite TV] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Aug 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Economic Summit 1991") [dates, venue] [released July 2017] |
|
88 Aug 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [new security measures, Tyrone arrests, IRA weapons, Barlow Clowes victims, Sudan, Piper Alpha] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Aug 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (Evening Market Report) ["the 1% rise seems to have done the trick in holding the pound steady despite the trade figures"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Aug 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [emergency action to cool the economy, mortgage rates to rise, international aid, IRA extradition, spy ring, olive branch to NUT] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Aug 27 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [Lawson's 'keep your nerve' message, Jaguar job losses, IRA extradition, Terry Waite imprisonment, P&O compensation] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Aug 28 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main newspaper stories) [Post Office strike threat, measures against the IRA, IRA extradition, Lawson's economic policies] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Aug 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Speech to Scottish CBI: 8 September") [possible theme of Scottish business achievement] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Sep 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Today's Markets") [sterling weakened in afternoon; suggests (and MT agrees) further intervention tomorrow in London] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Sep 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Scottish CBI Speech") [contributions and comments on previous drafts, recommended inclusion of comments on business rates] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Sep 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: FCO telegram 156 to UKE Washington (1800Z) ("IMF: World Economic Outlook - Prospects and Policy Issues") [economic growth, inflation] [released July 2017] |
|
88 Sep 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (FCO) |
Europe: Stow (DTI) to John Kerr (MT Bruges speech) [“pretty dim view” of draft sections] |
|
88 Sep 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Nigel Wicks miunte to Howe PS (Paris Summit) [economic and political situation] [released July 2017] |
|
88 Sep 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Community Charge: Student Nurses") [treatment as full-time students] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Sep 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("The Economy: current assessment") ["The economy is showing all the signs of a classic explosion of demanded generated by easy money and credit"; right to raise interest rates, but danger of overshooting] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Sep 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Scott ("Community Charge: Attachment of Benefit") [upper limit] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Sep 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Spain: Charles Powell briefing ("Visit to Spain: Interviews") [points to make: significance of MT's visit, British tourism, closer co-operation; Gibraltar will be a difficult issue] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Sep 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: 15 September") [IMF meetings; markets; public expenditure; Barlow Clowes] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
88 Sep 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: Fowler PS letter to No.10 (Prime Minister’s visit to Poland) [benefits of a small firms sector] [declassified 2016] |
|
88 Sep 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury minute for Grice ("M0 Figures") [Grice notes figures show no evidence of economy slowing, but Bank thinks postal dispute has distorted them] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Sep 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Howe PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("1989 Summit") [Sherpas meetings, arrangements for Summit, themes, role of US] [released July 2017] |
|
88 Sep 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nigel Lawson minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Non-Domestic Rates: Government Valuation Services") [proposal for a single central payment] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Sep 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(88) 28th (Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Feb 2016] |
|
88 Sep 17 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Walters letter to No.10 (CBI survey of UK Monetary Policy) [copy of his letter to CBI Director-General pointing out "serious errors of fact, analysis and interpretation"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Sep 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Lord Belstead minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Student Nurses") [preferred option for exemptions] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Sep 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Environment: Morris minute for Guise (Lawson comments on second draft of Royal Society speech) [sharply rejects world fuel levy proposal; copy of draft] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Sep 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Charles Powell briefing (New York Times interview) [points to make: freedom is on the move, US economic and military policies, Northern Ireland, Poland] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Sep 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Howe PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Call by the Japanese Sherpa") [Summit procedure, themes, Uruguay Round, debt] [released July 2017] |
|
88 Sep 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Preparations for the 1989 Economic Summit") ["it is too early to identify Summit themes" but economy, trade, agriculture likely] [released July 2017] |
|
88 Sep 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Ken Clarke minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Student Nurses") [limits of exemption] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Sep 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Economic Summit 1991") [prospective dates, possible venue clash] [released July 2017] |
|
88 Sep 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Nigel Wicks miunte to Howe PS ("Call by the Japanese Sherpa") [preparatory meetings, French Revolution bicentennial, economic issues] [released July 2017] |
|
88 Oct 1 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Environment: MT draft section for conference speech ('Environment') [roots concern for the environment in Conservative values] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 1 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Environment: MT draft section for conference speech ("Materialism - The Community") ["The Japanese refer to it as our economic miracle / and who are we to argue?"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 2 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nicholas Scott minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Deductions from Benefit") [deduction regulations] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Oct 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Howe PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Toronto Summit Follow Up: Drugs: Complaints from the Commission") [European Commission seeking involvement in drugs initiative] [released July 2017] |
|
88 Oct 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Nigel Wicks miunte to Howe PS ("Preparations for the 1989 Economic Summit") [MT thinks there should only be three Sherpa meetings] [released July 2017] |
|
88 Oct 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Labour conference comment) [Ron Todd speech, Kinnock's position] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Howe PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Preparations for the 1989 Economic Summit: First Meeting of Personal Representatives") [procedure, themes, economic outlook, trade, drugs, environment] [released July 2017] |
|
88 Oct 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Geoffrey Littler letter to Pascal Lamy ("Preparations for the 1989 Summit: African Debt") [interpretation of the Berlin agreement] [released July 2017] |
|
88 Oct 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Meeting of Summit Sherpas") [agenda, French Revolution bicentennial, Summit themes] [released July 2017] |
|
88 Oct 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Harmonisation of Rating: The Contractor's Basis") [increase in rateable values] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Oct 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Nigel Wicks miunte to Howe PS (1989 Economic Summit) [first Sherpas meeting: topics and arrangements for Summit] [released July 2017] |
|
88 Oct 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Nigel Lawson ("Non Domestic Rates: Government Valuation Services") [Crown properties, review of valuation services] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Oct 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Howe PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Preparations for the 1989 Paris Summit") [arrangements, trade, agriculture, debt, environment] [released July 2017] |
|
88 Oct 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to John Major ("Community Charge Specific Grant") [not necessary for Wales] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Oct 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Alan Walters") ["usual stocktaking discussion": interest rates/inflation; Market management; Lord Mayor's Banquet speech] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Oct 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Major ("The Community Charge: Publicity") [draft booklet and leaflets] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Oct 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news) [interest rates, mortgage tax relief, Rover/BAe, Heysel stadium disaster, Barlow-Clowes report, IRA media interviews] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Norman Fowler minute to Nigel Lawson ("Retail Prices Index Advisory Committee") [Community Charge will be on the agenda] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Oct 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: No.10 letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's interview with "Polityka"") [written answers] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Oct 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, South Africa) [higher interest rates, Lawson's tax plans, Star Chamber, nurses' pay, Barlow-Clowes report, South Africa rugby boards] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Domestic policy: Charles Powell minute ("Prime Minister's Interview with 'Polityka'") [MT's approved answers to questions on: electoral successes, changes over last 10 years, economic transformation, trade unions, Thatcherism] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Princess of Wales) [curbs on IRA interviews, Sinn Fein propaganda campaign, Labour attack on government's handling of economy, Lawson's position on economy, Diana's comments on family life] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to MT ("Harmonisation of Rating: The Contractor's Basis") [rate to be prescribed] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Oct 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Financial services: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation ("Minutes of the Trade and Industry Backbench Committee meeting") [Barlow Clowes collapse "the most serious financial matter" DTI "had dealt with for many years"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Broadcasting ban) [criticism of ban on broadcasting by terrorist organisations, BBC's Gerry Adams interview, government spending, European rebuttal to Bruges speech] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("The Community Charge: Publicity") [Ingham suggests more vigorous publicity campaign than Ridley envisages; MT agrees] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Oct 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKDel NATO telegram 385 to FCO (1128Z) ("North Atlantic Council, 20 October: Briefing by Deputy Secretary Whitehead on Visit to Eastern Europe") [released Jul 2016] |
|
88 Oct 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, child benefit, economy, environment, East-West relations) [Conservatives' poll lead, Irish churches, Italian ship collision, child benefit freeze, council houses, Barlow-Clowes, British Rail privatisation] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Wicks letter to Sir Alan Walters (IEA/Cato Conference) [glad he so readily agreed to pull out of speech] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Oct 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Financial services: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (Trade and Industry Backbench Committee meeting) [discussion of FIMBRA: "setting up a lifeboat is delicate"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (MT-Cranley Onslow) [child benefit, Barlow Clowes, NHS spending] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (MT-Hordern-Sheldon) [Comptroller and Auditor General pay] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Green Paper on legal professionalism, child benefit, public spending, broadcast ban, politics, East-West relations, defence) [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Commons, MT's Times interview, MT's visit to FT, legal professionalism, merger policy) [MT's intention to stay on for fourth term] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [MT visit to Poland: - need to offer Poles something "on the economic front"] [declassified 2016] |
|
88 Oct 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, social security, MT's Times interview, GCHQ, media, Soviet Union) [claims that the government is 'cheating' over social security] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Cecil Parkinson minute to MT ("Rate Support Grant Settlement 1989/90") [agreement on remaining elements] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Oct 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2601 to FCO (2255Z) ("US/Eastern Europe") ["a summary of current thinking... in the Administration"] [released Jul 2016] |
|
88 Oct 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Treasury economic forecast") ["internal forecast makes depressing reading... you may want to... stress your concerns"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
88 Oct 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, social security (and leak), television, MT's Hebrew University speech, Royal Ordnance, NATO/defence, visit to Poland, East-West relations) [Moore felt to have done well presenting social security uprating] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Bernard Ingham minute (interview with Scotland on Sunday) [points to make: interest in Scotland, explain policies vigorously, devolve responsibility at community level] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 31 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Poland, health charges, North/South) [Autumn Statement, NHS funding, economic performance, Labour constitution and policies, MT's visit to Poland] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Oct 31 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Major memo circulated to Cabinet - CC(88) 13 (1988 Public Expenditure Survey) [declassified Feb 2016] |
|
88 Nov 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Health policy: Mark Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (Conservative backbench Finance committee) [Chancellor attended; concerns about "increases to NHS preventing a fundamental review"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Nov 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, leak, eye/teeth charges, MT's visit to Poland, environment) [health charge rebels go home empty handed] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Nov 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Autumn Statement, MT's visit to Poland) [boost for NHS spending, worries over inflation] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Nov 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, PM Rakowski) [political developments in Poland, economic reform] [declassified 2016] |
|
88 Nov 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Polish Independents) [economic reform in Poland, anti-communism, political situation] [declassified 2016] |
|
88 Nov 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Ken Clarke minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Harmonisation of Rating: The Contractors Basis") [decapitalisation rate] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Nov 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, General Jaruzelski) [MT visit to Gdansk, Polish internal situation, Solidarity] [declassified 2016] |
|
88 Nov 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John Major minute to Nicholas Ridley ("The Community Charge: Publicity") [draft booklet and leaflets] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Nov 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Economic Statistics Next Week") [relatively thin week for statistics - M0 figures moving in the right direction], but "a very long way to go" [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
88 Nov 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, General Jaruzelski) [East-West relations, UK-Polish bilateral relations, economy and trade, arms control, trade union reforms] [declassified 2016] |
|
88 Nov 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Pensions, MT's visit to Poland, Broadcasting White Paper) [row over suggestion that Lawson mooted means testing pensioners' benefits] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Nov 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Broadcasting White Paper, pensioners, MT's visit to Poland) [warm welcome for increasing TV choice, Lawson seen to have done u-turn over means testing pensioners' benefits] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Nov 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nicholas Scott minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Deductions from Benefit") [further deductions could cause tensions] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Nov 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 note to MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: 9 November") [lobby briefing fracas; economic prospects] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
88 Nov 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Presidential election, Chancellor's briefings, health/welfare, broadcasting, education, industry) [Bush wins easily, Labour MPs try to make a 'Lawsongate' out of briefings] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Nov 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
US: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (“Your meeting with British Prime Minister Thatcher, Wednesday, November 16, 2:45pm”) [International Fund for Ireland, Middle East, economic issues, Southern Africa] [declassified 2013] |
|
88 Nov 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, President, students, soccer, economy) [Cabinet to decide whether Lawson should face censure motion over meeting with Sunday Lobby] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Nov 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, King's Cross report, Chancellor's briefing, industry) [shock SNP victory over Labour in Govan by-election] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Nov 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Wakeham memo circulated to Cabinet - CC(88) 15 (The Queen's Speech on the Opening of Parliament) [declassified Feb 2016] |
|
88 Nov 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Nigel Wicks record of conversation (Wicks, Alan Walters) [Walters's contract; economic conditions; CGT; US economic policy] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
88 Nov 13 Su |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("North/South Dialogue: Attali Meeting of 11-12 November") [question of whether and how to launch a summit] [released July 2017] |
|
88 Nov 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, nurses, Chancellor's briefing, MT's visit to USA, law and order, Northern Ireland) [nurses' grading, pressure on Lawson] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Nov 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Environmental Affairs: Tickell letter to Powell (MT's speech to the Royal Society) ["I agree that the next thing is to make sure that something happens"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
88 Nov 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, MT's speech, Gorbachev visit, MT's US visit, Washington, Chancellor's briefing) [MT's comments on freedom, red carpet for Gorbachev] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Nov 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Europe: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: European Economic Community (EC)”) [“We support European integration, but are concerned about statements by EC spokesmen stressing reciprocity, protection of ‘sensitive’ sectors, and preference for European goods”] [declassified 2013] |
|
88 Nov 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Economy: US State Dept briefing (“United Kingdom economy at a glance”) [“Even though the British economy is booming, some observers believe it may be overheating and thus lead to inflationary problems and larger balance of payment deficits”] [declassified 2013] |
|
88 Nov 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: COCOM”) [“There is increasing pressure from our key Allies, including the UK, to free up high technology trade with the Soviet Union”] [declassified 2013] |
|
88 Nov 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Northern Ireland: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Ireland and Northern Ireland”) [International Fund for Ireland, counter-terrorism measures] [declassified 2013] |
|
88 Nov 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Transport: US State Dept briefing (“Fact sheet: Civil Aviation”) [“disputes betwen the US and UK have occured frequently due to the highly competitive nature of the lucrative North Atlantic air routes”] [declassified 2013] |
|
88 Nov 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Trade: US State Dept briefing (“Fact Sheet: Gatt - Uruguay Round”) [“the most ambitious and technically complex trade negotiation yet undertaken”] [declassified 2013] |
|
88 Nov 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: Charles Powell conversation record (MT-Alan Greenspan) [US economy, budget deficit, Black Monday] [declassified Nov 2016] |
|
88 Nov 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
World economy/Italy: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Bilateral with Signor Amato: EMU") [Italian thinking; agenda for Lawson-Amato bilateral on 21 Nov] [declassified Feb 2018] |
|
88 Nov 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Queen's Speech, Queen's visit to Russia, environment, business in community, law and order) [controversity over whether HM should accept invitation of state visit from Gorbachev] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Nov 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Whitelaw letter to MT (thanks for invitation to Eve of Session dinner) [second year of Parliament tricky; her team stronger individually than a year ago] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Nov 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Security service bill, Queen's Speech, nurses, USA, Middle East) [likely opposition to water privatisation] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Nov 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Terry Perks minute ("Interview with 'She' magazine") [questions about: working women, pensions, national debt, environment] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Nov 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Queen's Speech, the Queen, Canada) [friction with HM over government policy, government cannot be accused of running out of steam] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Nov 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John Moore minute to Nicholas Ridley ("The Community Charge Bill") [how people will read the bill] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Nov 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Security Service, environment summit, the Queen) [Botha reprieves Sharpeville Six] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Nov 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Welsh Office minute to Wakeham PS ("Welsh Rate Support Grant Settlement 1989/90") [statement on government's decisions] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Nov 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Lawson (Nigel) |
Economy: Lawson minute to MT ("An independent central bank") [argues for] [published 1992] |
|
88 Nov 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, nurses, Ryan extradition, law and order, France) [Labour accuses Lawson of deception over trade deficit and rise in interest rates] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Nov 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: Powell briefing for MT ("Interview with Beeld") ["the main points you will want to get across"] [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
88 Nov 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John Major minute to Nicholas Ridley ("The Community Charge Bill") [safety net provisions] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Nov 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Sir Peter Middleton NIESR lecture ("Economic Policy Formulation in the Treasury in the Post-War Period") [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
88 Nov 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev Visit: Bilateral Relations") ["need to consider what we should seek to get out of the visit"] [released Jul 2017] |
|
88 Nov 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Ireland, Arafat, nurses, economy) [MT 'furious' over Patrick Ryan affair] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Nov 30 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Chancellor, IRA - Ireland/Belgium - EuroCourt, Euro Council, NHS, East-West) [government majority in economic debate, MT's relationship with Lawson] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Dec 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, IRA, MT's visit to Pyke Centre, MT's visit to France, Official Secrets Act) [Ryan extradition papers contained minor defects] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Dec 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Andrew Dunlop minute to MT ("Harmonisation of Rating: The Contractors Basis") [existing system, proposed changes] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Dec 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to Paul Gray ("Uniform Business Rate and Revaluation: Transitional Arrangements Harmonisation of Rating: The Contractors Basis") [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Dec 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (MT-Frank Field) [development of the MDC in the Wirral, ecclesiastical issues, workplace schemes] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Dec 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Currie and eggs, Ireland, Gorbachev, trade) [Haughey gives impression Ryan won't be extradited] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Dec 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Michael Bates minute ("Interview with 'US News and World Report'") [questions on: new US administration, East/West relations, Middle East, South Africa] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Dec 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: 6 December") [proposal for an independent central Bank; markets; European Council] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
88 Dec 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Curried eggs, ECHR and Ryan, Employment White Paper, East-West) [It's all eggs today] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Dec 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news) [MT underlined passages on state of the NHS and schools, IRA broadcast interviews, lobby system, terrorists shoot down US plane] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Dec 10 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, defence, EC) [continued fall out from Currie's egg comments] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Dec 12 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to Ridley PS ("Uniform Business Rate and Revaluation: Transitional Arrangements") [limit on gains for small properties] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Dec 12 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
ERM: Allan note for Chancellor ('Ch'[ancellor]) [suggestion that Alan Walters might speak to backbench Conservative finance committee; Lawson: "Absolutely [out of the question]"] [declassified Feb 2018] |
|
88 Dec 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, rail comment, media, GATT, EC) [Clapham rail crash and Armenian earthquake dominate] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Dec 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("HM Treasury's Monthly Monetary Assessment") [contradictory evidence on consumer spending; housing market has slowed down, but not M0 on annual basis] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
88 Dec 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, IRA, Clapham crash, Arafat) [row over Ireland's failure to extradite Ryan, Clapham crash still dominates news] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Dec 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, eggs, Ryan, Clapham crash, East-West) [continued coverage of rail crash] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Dec 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, eggs, defence, law and order, health, Ireland, Middle East) [compensation for egg producers widely canvassed] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Dec 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Cold War: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (“Your meeting with British Prime Minister Thatcher, Wednesday, December 16 at 11:00am”) [relations with Gorbachev, Afghanistan, the Gulf, Middle East peace process, South Africa, terrorism] [declassified 2013] |
|
88 Dec 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Kinnock broadcast, research and development) [Kinnock does not rule out proportional representation but rejects electoral pacts] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Dec 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, police murder, eggs, Armenian earthquake, Secrets bill) [police death in Coventry bank raid] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Dec 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Andy Bearpark minute to MT (Bilateral with the Chancellor) [no specific topics - general discussion of state of the economy] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
88 Dec 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, eggs, crime, OECD report, Secrets bill) [calls for Currie to be reinstated] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Dec 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Terry Perks minute (Interview with David Frost) [questions on: British politics, environment, Northern Ireland, "kinder, gentler Britain", foreign policy] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Dec 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to Nigel Lawson ("Uniform Business Rate and Revaluation: Transitional Arrangements") [system in Wales] [released Feb 2016] |
|
88 Dec 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, aircrash treatment, eggs, transport, West Germany) [258 passengers die as jet falls on Lockerbie] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Dec 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Legal procedure: Sinclair minute for MT ("Legal profession Green Paper - approach to competition restrictive trade practices and the professions") ["The main difficulty is likely to come from the medical profession"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
88 Dec 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office note for ministers ("Climatic Change") [overview of problem, existing international responses, possible courses of action for UK] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
88 Dec 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Legal procedure: Sinclair minute for MT ("Restrictive practices in the legal profession") [MT: "On this summary note I am STRONGLY in support of the Lord Chancellor"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
88 Dec 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, MT's visit to Lockerbie, other news) [extensive coverage of Pan Am disaster, assumption it was caused by a bomb] [released Jul 2018] |
|
88 Dec 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Lockerbie, home loans) [rise in interest rates main domestic story; Lockerbie tragedy main international issue] [released Jul 2018] |
|
89 Jan 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Soros Foundation letter to No.10 (Open Sector Initiative) [Charles Powell impressed by Soros/Pembroke College proposal for scheme to aid restructuring of Soviet economy; brings to the attention of MT] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jan 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Chancellor minute to Chief Secretary ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey Post Mortem") [Lawson questions "somewhat absurd" suggestion money GDP will fall 1.75 percent in 1990 owing to intro of charge] [declassified Feb 2018] |
|
89 Jan 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Soros Foundation letter to No.10 (Gorbachev's Vision) [Soros article: "Its conclusions are alarming in their naivety" - MT] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jan 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Heathrow-Belfast air disaster, GEC takeover bid, Budget tax cuts) [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jan 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Heathrow-Belfast air disaster, Hirohito funeral, GEC takeover bid) ["Concern over 100 million-to-one chance of both aircraft engines failing"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jan 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to Ridley PS ("Community Charge: Publicity") [MT's concerns over adequacy of strategy] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jan 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 note to MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: 11 January") [Lawson's meetings in Washington; review body reports; markets] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
89 Jan 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, East Midlands air crash, eggs, GEC takeover bid, domestic politics) [blame focusing on pilot] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jan 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, East Midlands Crash, Eggs) [blame for crash "now shifts to electrical problems"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jan 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham briefing ("Reader's Digest") [topics for interview to include socialism, problems facing the government, Northern Ireland, Europe] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jan 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Rating Appeals") [supports limiting appeal rights of non-domestic ratepayers] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jan 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Economy, Education, Health, Middle East) [inflation expected to rise] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jan 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, talks with Arafat, MT's "She" Magazine interview, domestic politics) ["row over William Waldegrave's meeting with Arafat" and remarks about Israeli leaders] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jan 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, domestic politics, Middle East, arms control) [fallout from William Waldegrave's meeting with Arafat] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jan 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Call on the Prime Minister by by Premier Robert Bourassa of Ontario: 5.00pm, 19 January") [provincial investment, Canada-US trade, 1992 and Uruguay Round] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jan 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, soccer, Middle East/Waldegrave, East-West) [legislation to tackle football hooliganism] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jan 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, domestic politics, Mendis, social trends, NHS review, education) [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jan 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to Paul Gray ("E(LF) Non-Domestic Rating Issues") [burden in Scotland, decapitalisation rate, government contributions] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jan 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Mendis, privacy) [latest polling figures show Tories up but Lawson unpopular] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jan 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell minute to Nigel Wicks ("Paris Economic Summit") [French initiative on the environment, Japanese and German economies, trade with FRG] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jan 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Kent) [criticisms over Chunnel rail link] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jan 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chancellor and Chief Economist ("Classification of the Community Charge in the National Accounts") [Lawson opts not to make any adjustments in the FSBR] [declassified Feb 2018] |
|
89 Jan 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, cricket, Budget, Prince Charles, NHS, Privacy Bill) ["More stories of rows between you and Chancellor"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jan 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("E(LF) 26 January 1989: The Burden of Business Rates in Scotland") [solution has to balance spending constraints against political situation] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jan 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Eggs, Legal profession, Chancellor/Budget) [three main stories: legal profession Green Paper; Currie's letter on eggs; Toyota looking for European factory site] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jan 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Environmental Affairs: Powell minute for MT ("French PM's call for an environmental conference") [MT: "WE are DOING things NOW. They aren't - the declaration is pathetic"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jan 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Gibraltar film, Privacy Bill, Chancellor/Budget) ["Death on the Rock" affair] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jan 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Charles Powell letter to Lawson PS ("CDU Economic Council, 17/18 October") [asks Lawson to take the engagement - "good opportunity to get our views across"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
89 Jan 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, NHS review) [East-West relations, Sinn Fein Playboy feature] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jan 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Ingham to Christopher Ogden ("Your Book") [MT's answers to questions for biography] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jan 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Perks briefing ("Interview with Woman's Own") [theme will be "Towards 2000"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jan 31 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Prisons, Gibraltar, NHS, Development Plans White Paper, Politics, Middle East) [situation in Wandsworth prison] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, NHS) [NHS review "gets a warm welcome" from several papers, but "Labour and unions bitterly critical"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, NHS, Labour Party - Moscow, Labour Party - Sky TV, Labour Party and NHS, Budget) [criticism of Kinnock TV interview] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, NHS, Politics, South Africa) [Botha resigns as National Party leader] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Politics) [Currie's position in the government] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Environmental Affairs: Sir James Goldsmith letter to Powell (Rain Forests) [note that "should form the basis of a 'Thatcher plan for saving the rain forests' "] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
89 Feb 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Environmental Affairs: Netherlands PM Ruud Lubbers letter to MT (Ozone Layer Conference) ["I consider it most important that this initiative should have the support of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
89 Feb 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Eggs) [ongoing fallout from Currie's salmonella comments] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Rating of Stud Farms") [possible exemption] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Feb 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to Paul Gray ("Non-Domestic Rating") [revaluation, transitional arrangements] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Feb 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: 8 February") [Budget update; G7 meeting] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
89 Feb 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Eggs, Driving law) [Currie agrees to see select committee on salmonella issue] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: President Mitterrand message to MT (money laundering and drugs) ["the lack of transparency and supervision of certain international financial transactions leads to numerous abuses"] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Feb 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to Ridley PS ("Non-Domestic Rating") [government contribution in lieu of rates] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Feb 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of Mr Kamentsev - Banking Protocol") ["the main British banks have acceded to the Soviet request that a general banking protocal should be concluded"; details & comments] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Feb 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Edwina) ["Pops and Qualities alike think Edwina Currie wiped the floor with the Select Committee and left them with egg over their faces"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Eggs and Microbes, Politics) [action on food scares] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Food) [food poisoning scares] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Major ("Business Rates") [transitional arrangements and revaluation] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Feb 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Food) ["Food still dominates the news" with French cheese listeria scare] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Food, Middle East) ["Khomeini's order for Salman Rushdie's murder dominates most front pages", along with coverage of food poisoning scare] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Salman Rushdie) [Rushdie "in hiding" over Satanic Verses death threats] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 6th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Pay Review Bodies, Economic Strategy) [declassified 2016] |
|
89 Feb 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Iran, Food, Pay Bodies, Unemployment) [NHS reforms, private sector pay, Rushdie affair] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Paris Economic Summit") [agenda for summit: inflation, economic outlook, trade, agriculture, debt] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Feb 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Iran, Rushdie, Cleveland, Poland) ["Ayatollah rejects Rushdie's apology and says he must be 'sent to hell'"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell minute to Nigel Wicks ("Paris Economic Summit") [debt, industrial subsidies, environment] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Feb 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Iran, Food debate, Frankfurt, Belfast) ["Iran orders its envoys home in response to Euro action"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: FCO brief ("Angl0-French Summit") [European Community, East-West, security issues] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Feb 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, TV guidelines) ["Iran's president says Rushdie's problem has no solution except in his death"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: President Mitterrand message to MT (money laundering and drugs) [international initiatives already taking place] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Feb 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: MT message to President Mitterrand (Paris Summit) [discussion of the environment] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Feb 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News) [state of the government and the Labour party's respective positions] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Paris Economic Summit: Mitterrand Initiative on Money Laundering and Drugs") [confiscation of drug traffickers' assets] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Feb 26 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Norman Fowler minute to Nigel Lawson ("Retail Prices Index Advisory Committee Report") [inclusion of Charge in RPI calculation] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Feb 26 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Fowler letter to Chancellor ("Retail Prices Index Advisory Committee Report") [recommends Community Charge be included in RPI in similar way to rates] [declassified Feb 2018] |
|
89 Feb 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Environmental Affairs: MT letter to Professor James Lovelock (Ozone Layer Conference) ["I would very much welcome and value the contribution which you can make"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
89 Feb 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Treasury minute to Charles Powell ("Paris Economic Summit") [summit arrangements, French Revolution bicentennary, economic policy, environment] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Feb 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, BSI, Anglo/French Summit, Politics) [state of the economy, Rushdie affair] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Feb 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chancellor ("RPIAC Report on the implications for the RPI of the abolition of domestic rates") [Bank of England happy] [declassified Feb 2018] |
|
89 Mar 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Hammersmith Council) [state of the economy, Labour attacks on government policy] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Mar 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Food/Select Committee, Economy) ["Eggs and pound main stories today"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Mar 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John Moore minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Standard Community Charge") [increase in personal charge levels] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Mar 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rating") [crown property, business rates] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Mar 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Environment) [latest polls on economic policy, Rushdie affair] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Mar 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Paris Economic Summit") [summit arrangements, economic issues, debt, environment] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Mar 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Rushdie Affair, Ozone Conference, Rail Crash, Water) [ongoing fallout from publication of Satanic Verses] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Mar 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Powell conversation record (CDP-Andrei Vavilov) ["He thought we underestimated Yeltsin, who was far from being a spent force"] [declassified Jul 2018] |
|
89 Mar 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, British Rail, Chunnel Link) ["Reports of the third rail crash in 3 months - the second in 48 hours"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Mar 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Ozone Conference, Chunnel Rail Link) ["Most papers lead on the IRA plot to murder you and senior Ministers is foiled"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Mar 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Green Movement, British Rail) ["British Rail gets a bad press today"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Mar 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Politics, Legislative Programme) ["You make clear Budget's top priority will be fight against inflation"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Mar 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Budget) ["Chancellor seen to be walking on tightrope in his sixth Budget tomorrow"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Mar 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John Major minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Business Rates in Scotland") [impasse on financing harmonisation] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Mar 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Budget, Judge Pickles, Manchester Air Crash, Chat Interview) ["Mixed signals for Chancellor on eve of Budget"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Mar 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Hansard |
Economy: 1989 Budget (Lawson 6) [Hansard extract] [218K file] |
|
89 Mar 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 10th (the Budget) [declassified 2016] |
|
89 Mar 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Other News, Budget Treatment, Budget Comment) [Budget "cautious, dull and even boring - but prudent in making counter inflation priority target"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Mar 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Budget, Lockerbie/Airport Security, Lawyers' Reform, Pik Botha, Politics) [Lawson's Budget dissected] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Mar 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 11th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified 2016] |
|
89 Mar 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Lockerbie, Politics, Middle East) [Channon "strongly defends his handling of Lockerbie disaster bomb warnings after cover-up claims by Labour"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Mar 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Robert Conquest letter to MT (Changes in Soviet Conceptions of the World) [analysis; "we underestimated the profundity of the economic and other troubles"] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Mar 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Bordes Affair, Scarborough Conference, Lockerbie) ["Opposition parties try to pile the pressure on Paul Channon to make a further statement to Commons on Lockerbie"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Mar 21 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Paul Channon/Lockerbie, Labour Policies) [criticisms and defence of Channon for handling of Lockerbie] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Mar 21 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Paris Economic Summit") [world economic prospects, environment, money laundering, chemical weapons] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Mar 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Paul Channon, Politics) ["Paul Channon is felt to have done well yesterday - but that does not stop media calling on him to quit"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Mar 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("The Markets and the Latest Economic Figures") [sterling better than feared in light of Wednesday's trade figures; markets waiting for G7 meeting; upcoming economic statistics] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
89 Apr 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Your Tour, Gorbachev, Harrods/Lornho) [MT in South Africa] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Gorbachev, Namibia) [Gorbachev in Ireland and UK] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Lawson PS minute to Charles Powell ("Comparison of European Subsidies") [comparative figures] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Apr 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Harrods/Lornho, Gorbachev, Namibia) [poll on threat posed by Soviet Union] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Gorbachev, Westland) ["extensive coverage of Mr Gorbachev's visit and arrival"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 conversation record (MT-Gorbachev) [Introduction; International Attitudes to the Soviet Union; Perestroika; Defence and Arms Control; Regional problems; Moscow Embassy, President Bush, Central America, Namibia, etc; family unification; Royal visit to the USSR] [declassified Jul 2018] |
|
89 Apr 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Gorbachev, Other News) ["An excellent press and massive coverage in which warmth and special relationship shine through differences"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Your Ten Years, Gorbachev) ["Gorbachev goes home to trouble"; "Bush signals USA will hold a steady course in approach and policy towards USSR"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Docks, Peter Walker, Soccer, Community Care) [unions divided by docks strike ballot] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Paris Economic Summit") [world economy, trade and agriculture, debt, environment, money laundering] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Apr 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Lord Roll message to MT (Paris Summit) [unofficial meeting, draft documents on macro-economic policy] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Apr 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Judges, Labour Party Politics, Your Ten Years) ["Judges get a terrible hammering in leader columns for their threatened 'strike'"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Major (business rate in Scotland) [a generous offer] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Apr 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (National Security Archive) |
Cold War: Politburo discussion of MT-Gorbachev meeting (document from Gorbachev Archive) [“I like the independence of Thatcher”] |
|
89 Apr 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Peter Walker) ["Judges bow to pressure of public opinion and postpone their meeting on the Green Papers"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths note for MT ("Broadcasting: No.10 meeting on the quality factor") ["little value", "a lobbying exercise by the industry to limit competition"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
89 Apr 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute for MT ("Broadcasting: local services and Channel 6") [revised proposals for cable to ease entry; drop Channel 6 idea] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
89 Apr 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute for MT ("Broadcasting: ownership") [Home Secretary's proposals designed to "clip the wings of a Murdoch or a Maxwell", but real beneficiaries will be existing franchise holders; "the unacceptable face of a new protectionist Europe"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
89 Apr 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Sheffield Disaster/Comment, Your Visit, Your Ten Years) ["Horrific pictures on front pages of spectators crushed against wire fence"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Hillsborough Comment, Your Ten Years) [responses to disaster] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Hillsborough, Your Ten Years) ["Police allege that drunken fans picked the pockets of Hillsborough disaster victims and kicked, punched and urinated on them"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Hillsborough Comment, Anti-Drugs Trails, Your Ten Years) ["You face a full-scale revolt over Football Spectators Bill"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Bicentennary of the French Revolution: Paris, 13-14 July 1989") [arrangements for events] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Apr 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Tomorrow's Economic Figures") [consumer spending figures suggest "some degree of slow down"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
89 Apr 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Hillsborough Comment, Membership Scheme) ["Pops treat decision to go ahead with membership card scheme with tactical delay in remarkably low key"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, EC, Your Ten Years) [pressure mounting over interest rates] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, SNF) [MT "heading for a showdown with Kohl" over NATO] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Environment/Climate, Your Ten Years, Politics) ["You warn Kohl of risks to NATO in West Germany's SNF stand"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main Years, Food Blackmail, Global Climate Seminar, Economy) ["Thatcher heads for new row with EC"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("UK Economic Summit 1991") [London the only feasible venue] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Apr 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Chancellor Kohl, Baby Food) ["Spiked baby food dominates the pops"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Apr 29 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Lubbers, Van den Broek, Ruding) [Europe: nuclear deployment; Delors Report; economic & monetary union] [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
89 Apr 29 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers, Charles Powell, Merkelbach) [Europe: nuclear deployment; Delors Report; economic & monetary union] [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
89 May 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Tom King letter to MT (congratulations on tenth anniversary of her government) ["this remarkable milestone of achievement"] [released Mar 2019] |
|
89 May 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Conservative Party |
Conservative Campaign Guide 1989 |
|
89 May 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Your Ten Years) [state of prison service] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, SNF, Your Ten Years) ["POA say there could be a summer of discontent in Britain's jails"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John Major minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Community Charge Capping in Scotland") [authorities have used new system as an excuse to increase spending] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 May 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, SNF, Your Ten Years) [MT's Press Association interview "is described by many as your frankest yet"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: MT speaking notes (cabinet dinner for tenth anniversary of her government) ["The Marxists thought they would bury us. We have buried Marxism"] [released Mar 2019] |
|
89 May 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office conversation record (MT's Global Climate Seminar) [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
89 May 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News) ["You pledge there will be no slowing down as you celebrate your 10th anniversary"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to Paul Gray (press inquiries) [treatment of properties occupied by PM] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 May 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Iran, Labour Policies) [Labour executive meets "to determine new policies"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Labour Policy, Iran, NATO, Ortega, Babangida) ["Labour Party's defence policy shambles, disaster etc dominates front pages"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Walters minute to MT ("When "The Time Will Be Ripe"") ["we always appear to be negative [on EMS].... this note atttempts to set out a positive response"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
89 May 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Powell minute to Walters ("Europe") [your idea "ingenious and well worth pursuing. It puts the other Europeans on the spot"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
89 May 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Politics, Community Charge) ["Kinnock wins crucial battle over Labour's defence policy"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Walters minute to MT ("The Dmark, the Dollar and Sterling") ["It is becoming increasingly clear to the Bundesbank that it (and, above all, Pohl) have greatly misjudged monetary policy"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
89 May 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News) ["Labour Party looking for trouble over the community charge leaflet"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Walters minute to MT ("Intervention") [disapproves of Bank's policy to contain rise of US dollar] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
89 May 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Exchange rate management") [cover note for Walters minutes] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
89 May 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, SNF/Defence, Community Charge, John Moore's Speech) ["Gorbachev offers to withdraw 500 short range nuclear weapons"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Football Trouble, SDP) ["Labour Party and SLD wooing members of SDP... which looks to be in its death throes"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John Moore minute to John Major ("Community Charge Capping in Scotland") [increase in charge levels would lead to reductions in rebate entitlement] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 May 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Talk with Alan Walters: 17 May") [EMS; intervention & exchange rate management] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
89 May 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, EC, Brewers) [reports of Tory split over Europe] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, EC, Sino-Soviet Summit) [backbenchers sign motion "supporting your position against undue interference by EC in British affairs"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, EC, Labour Policies, Televising the House) [interview with MT on her position on Europe, EC position on UK VAT regime] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Perks briefing ("BBC World Service interview") [programmes on the "Thatcher Era", interview to discuss international affairs, the economy, agenda for the future] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Labour Programme, EC) ["Chinese peaceful revolt gets top billing again"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Lawson unhappy; MT seeks to smooth over public perception of rift in regard to economic policy; efforts to present united front complicated by subsequent No.10 press office advice/actions] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
89 May 21 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to George Soros ("A Plan to Solve the Economic Crisis in Poland") [proposals by Soros for review in run up to Paris Club debt negotiations later in the year] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 May 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Tit for Tat Expulsions, EC/Inflation) ["People power defies troops in Peking"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Lawson PS minute to Charles Powell (economic and trade relations with Japan) ["Japan would be well advised to adopt strctural reforms in a number of areas"] [released July 2017] |
|
89 May 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, EC Launch, Anglo-Soviet Relations, China) ["Power struggles in Peking with Army declining to fire on crowds but regaining some control"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to John Major ("Business Rates in Scotland") [level of contribution from the Reserve] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 May 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Euro Elections, Anglo-Soviet Relations) ["Britain says no to deadline from Kremlin as fears of lasting damage to Anglo-Soviet ties in expulsions row"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Paris Economic Summit: Meeting of Sherpas 2-4 June 1989") [economic policies, trade, debt, environment] [released July 2017] |
|
89 May 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Economy, EC) [prospect of interest rate rise] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Tom King minute to John Major ("1989 Public Expenditure Survey: Northern Ireland") [law and order, strengthening the economy] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
89 May 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 19th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified 2016] |
|
89 May 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Economy, Politics, Hong Kong) ["You defend Chancellor and say his policies have given us our highest standard of living"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, NATO, Heath) ["Moscow says Bush's conventional arms initiative is 'a serious step in right direction'"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 May 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John Major minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Community Charge Capping in Scotland") [need to act as the situation demands] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jun 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Bush, Tube Strike, Politics) ["Extensive coverage of Mr Bush's 'tear down the walls' speech"] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jun 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Walters letter to Treasury (monetary policy) [misrepresentation of his views in the press] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
89 Jun 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Paris Bicentenary Celebrations") [if MT were the only leader not to attend the ceremony "her absence would be very conspicuous"] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jun 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to George Soros (A Plan to Solve the Economic Crisis in Poland) ["need to allow events to unfold rather than to try to force their pace"] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jun 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Walters minute to MT ("Money market assistance and funding policy") ["The Treasury's policies meet the needs of the day"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
89 Jun 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Paris Economic Summit: Sherpa Meeting") [French Revolution bicentennary, themes, world economy, debt, environment, foreign policy] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jun 12 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John Selwyn Gummer minute to Baroness Trumpington ("The Community Charge and Second Homes") [personal charge payable on main residences, standard charge on additional homes] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jun 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Walters minute to MT ("Germany's covert exchange control") [MT request for details] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
89 Jun 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Bicentenary of the French Revolution") [MT views - take joint line with Bush on Trocadero ceremony; list of bilaterals] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jun 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Chancellor Kohl message to MT (Paris Summit) ["I attach great importance to the problem of changes in the earth's atmosphere"] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jun 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John Moore minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("The Standard Community Charge") [compensation for reduction in authorities' revenue] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jun 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Council: Social Charter") [briefing document] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jun 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("Bilateral with Uruguayan President, Julio Sanguinetti") ["We have Falklands-related interests in good relations with Uruguay""] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jun 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Paris Economic Summit") ["The Canadians views and objectives on the Summit are close to our own"] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jun 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
World economy/Italy: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("World Economic Prospects: June 1989") [anticipates further tightening of monetary policy in Europe and Japan later in the year] [declassified Feb 2018] |
|
89 Jun 24 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Tomorrow's meeting") [Howe/Lawson: European Council Madrid: discussion of their concerns, primarily on ERM & Conservative Party divisions over Europe; outline of counter-arguments for MT to deploy if deemed necessary] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
89 Jun 24 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Mr. Lubbers") [European Council Madrid: EMU; Social Charter] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
89 Jun 24 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: MT message to Chancellor Kohl (Paris Summit) [need for international action on environment] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jun 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Powell record of conversation ("European Council, Madrid: Heads of Government Dinner") [world economy/debt; rainforest protection; middle-income debt; China; fraud] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
89 Jun 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Bicentenary of the French Revolution") [MT preferences on bilaterals, arrangements for arrival, interpreters] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jun 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Paris Economic Summit: Bicentennary") [attendance at 13 July events commemorating 1789 revolution (MT opts to take common stance with Bush), bilaterals] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jun 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to Paul Gray (meeting with Chancellor and Treasury on reducing inflation) [Middleton wants prescriptions for future policy not just the past; six possible topics on the history side] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jun 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham briefing ("Sunday Express") ["difficult areas over which you will need to tread carefully" including row with Lawson, Cabinet re-shuffle, Europe] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jun 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury minute ("Treasury Economic Forecast") [economic growth, monetary policy, inflation] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jun 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Washington telegram 1794 to FCO (2320Z) ("Prospects for the Paris Economic Summit") [opportunities for discussion, political declaration, US approach to the Summit] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jun 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("E(LF)") [option for adjusting safety net to assist the north] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jun 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Chancellor and Treasury Officials: Wednesday 5 July") [where did it go wrong on inflation; interest rate and exchange rate policy] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
89 Jul 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Washington telegram 1806 to FCO (2327Z) ("Paris Economic Summit: East/West and Eastern Europe") [policy toward Poland and Hungary] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: FCO to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Interview with Le Monde") [subject areas: Europe, economy, international affairs] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jul 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: FCO minute to Charles Powell ("Paris Bicentenary Celebrations: Gifts") ["the main recommendation is for a suitably British antiquarian book on the French Revolution"; MT agrees first edition of Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jul 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Paris Summit: Japanese Views") ["Environment, trade, China and East-West relations are important items for Japan"] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Prospects for the Paris Economic Summit") [Italian government in crisis] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Paris Economic Summit") ["Mitterrand needs a success and will be tempted to exploit the simultaneous presence in Paris of G7 and other leaders"] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Paris Economic Summit") ["Environment the main summit issue for FRG"] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Nigel Wicks record of conversation (Paris Sherpas meeting) [discussions on environment, drugs] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Washington telegram 1812 to FCO (2100Z) ("Prospects for the Paris Economic Summit") [draft communique on economic issues] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("Paris Economic Summit: Commission View") [Delors does not plan to play an active role] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Harmonisation of Rating: Decapitalisation Rate") [consutlation, views on proposed rates] [released Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jul 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Middleton-Burns-Griffiths) [economic performance and prospects - Treasury papers on the recent rise in inflation and economic forecast] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
89 Jul 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKHC New Delhi telegram to FCO ("Paris Bilaterals on 14 July: Prime Minister's meeting with Ranjiv Gandhi") ["an opportunity to consolidate their personal relationship and set the seal on the improvement of bilateral relations"] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Manila telegram to FCO ("French Bicentenary Bilaterals") [meeting with Aquino: refugees, security, trade] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Gorbachev's visit to France: comment") ["Gorbachev confident and impressive in private, less assured in his public appearances"] [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
89 Jul 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Perks briefing ("Interviews with French Television and Le Monde") [to cover Economic Summit, EC, East-West relations, economy] [released Feb 2019] |
|
89 Jul 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Financial Relations with Japan") [report on the opening of Japanese markets] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("French Bicentenary: President Ershad of Bangladesh") [flood alleviation] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Ridley PS minute to Charles Powell ("Global Environment: Economic Issues") [revised paper] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("The Paris Summit: The Japanese Economy and Debate on Structural Reform") ["Confidence in the domestic economy remains strong"] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: TUC letter to MT ("Paris Summit Meeting") [China, Soviet Union, employment issues] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 9 Su |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: G7 draft statement ("Economic Declaration") [economic growth, developing countries, environment] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Economic Summit: French Views on North/South Dialogue") [ambitions for a renewed dialogue] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The Bicentenary of the French Revolution") ["the world's eyes will be on France"] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Washington telegram 1846 to FCO (2215Z) ("Paris Summit: United States Economic Perspective") ["US Summit representatives likely to be bullish about G7 economic situation"] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Charles Powell ("The Bicentennial Celebrations and the Paris Economic Summit") [arrangements] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Charles Powell ("Paris Economic Summit: Draft of the Economic Declaration") [international economic situation, monetary developments, trade, development, environment, drugs] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("French Bicentenary: Discussion with President Aquino") [Aquino "will be looking for help with trade, aid and debt"] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("French Bicentenary: Breakfast Meeting with Rajiv Gandhi: 0800-0900, 14 July") [India's international relations, international issues] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("French Bicentenary: President Mitterrand") [bilateral relations, North/South, debt, East/West relations, EC/Austria, security issues] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("French Bicentenary: Bilateral with President of Uruguay") [Falklands and relations with Argentina] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("French Bicentenary: Bilateral with the President of Mexico") [Mexican politics, debt, bilateral relations] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("French Bicentenary: Bilateral with President Mubarak") [Arab/Israel, Lebanon, regional issues, Egyptian economy] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("French Bicentenary: Meeting with President Bush") ["The main objective of this meeting is to concert tactics prior to the Economic Summit"] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("French Bicentenary: Bilateral with Japanese Prime Minister") [bilateral relations, China, Japanese economic role] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: FCO documents (Paris Summit draft declarations) [East/West, human rights] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: World Bank letter to Heads of Government (Paris Summit draft declarations) [International Development Association] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Walters minute to Gray ("Intervention and sterilisation - 1987 - 1988") [analysis] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
89 Jul 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with President Aquino") [Aquino's achievements as President, visit to UK, Vietnamese refugees, American bases] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("Meeting with Rajiv Gandhi") [Nehru centenary, international issues, bilateral relations] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with President of Uruguay") [help with Falklands, new Argentine president] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("French Bicentenary: The Prime Minister's Bilateral Meeting with the President of Mexico: 1530-1600, 13 July") [Mexico's relations with creditor banks] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with President of Mexico") ["Our main current interest is the negotiation of a bilateral drugs agreement"] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with President of Egypt") [Arab/Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Egyptian economy] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with Japanese Prime Minister") [Uno "is in deep political trouble and may well not survive"] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("Paris Economic Summit: Foreign Policy Issues") [arrangements, declarations, Middle East, China, East/West] [released July 2017] |
|
89 Jul 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("French Bicentenary: 13-14 July, Paris") [bilateral meetings, arrangements for ceremonies, Economic Summit] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Overseas Development Minister PS to Charles Powell (mid-income countries) [aid obligations] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Perks minute ("Your Interviews with the French Media") [extensive coverage of Le Monde interview] [released Feb 2019] |
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89 Jul 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Environmental Affairs: Alan Walters minute for Gray ("Rainforest Protection - the Goldsmith idea and an alternative proposal") [proposal to set up a FORESAVE body; "this is an occasion where Britain could clearly take the initiative and lead the OECD countries" ] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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89 Jul 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 briefing ("Programme for French Bicentenary and Economic Summit") [as at 12 July, plus earlier versions] [released Dec 2016] |
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89 Jul 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Washington telegram 1874 to FCO (2205Z) ("Vietnamese Boat People in Hong Kong") [how to handle the issue at bilaterals with Bush and Baker] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("Meeting with Rajiv Gandhi") [forestry projects, Indian airports] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("Meeting with Rajiv Gandhi") [forestry projects, Indian airports] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Paris Economic Summit: Political Texts") [human rights, East/West, China/Hong Kong, Arab/Israel] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with President Bush") [Poland and Hungary, North/South dialogue, Cyprus, China/Hong Kong, Middle East, arms control, South Africa] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Meeting with President Bush in Paris: Briefing on Cyprus") ["The US and UK have common objectives in Cyprus"] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("Poland/Hungary at the Paris Summit") [coordination of policy, Bush's initiative] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Economic Summit") ["the French want to make debt and the environment the main Summit issues"] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 25th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, the Future of the Legal Profession, Economic Prospects and the Public Expenditure Survey 1989) [declassified 2016] |
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89 Jul 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: FCO telegram to UKE Paris ("Prime Minister's Breakfast meeting with Rajiv Gandhi: 14 July") [BAE bid, power station] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Salinas) [Mexican economy] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Sanguinetti) [Uruguay economy, situation in the South Atlantic] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: G7 draft statements (Paris Summit) [human rights, China, East/West relations] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Charles Powell ("Paris Economic Summit: Draft Political Declarations") [paragraphs on Hong Kong, nuclear deterrence] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Charles Powell ("Political Texts") [terrorism, China, human rights, East/West relations] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Rajiv Gandhi) [Hong Kong, Commonwealth, Antarctica, bilateral relations, commercial relations] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Mubarak) [Arab-Israel, Lebanon, Sudan, Libya] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT - Japanese PM Sosuke Uno) [Tokyo Stock Exchange, Rover, North/South Summit, China] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: FCO record of conversation (Major-Baker) [China, East/West relations, Poland/Hungary, draft economic declaration] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: G7 final draft declarations (Paris Summit) [China, terrorism, human rights, East/West relations] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Mark Lennox-Boyd minute to MT (1922 Committee) [fears that next election could be lost if issue not handled correctly] [released Dec 2016] |
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89 Jul 15 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: G7 statement ("Declaration on Human Rights") ["We reaffirm our commitment to freedom, democratic principles and human rights"] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 15 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: G7 statement ("Declaration on Terrorism") ["We remain resolutely opposed to terrorism in all its forms"] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 16 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell minute to Major PS ("Anglo French Relations") [Mitterrand "felt that the press were trying to create artificial differenes between Britain and France"] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 16 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: G7 statement ("Declaration on China") [condemnation of "violent repression in China in defiance of human rights"] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 16 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: G7 statement ("Declaration on East-West relations") ["We hope that freedom will be broadened and democracy strengthened"] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 16 Su |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: G7 documents ("The 40 Conclusions of the Summit of the Arch") [economy, environment, drugs] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Energy: Guise minute for Gray ("Nuclear Power") ["such a liability on the balance sheet of National Power would make it insolvent before it is floated"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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89 Jul 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: MT message to President Mitterrand (Paris Summit) [environment, drugs, IRA] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 note to MT (Sir Emmanuel Kaye) [inheritance tax, CGT treatment of minority holdings in unquoted companies] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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89 Jul 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Alan Walters minute to Paul Gray ("Intervention and Sterilisation - 1987-1988") ["It is the persistence in pegging the exchange rate which is the proximate cause of the monetary expansion"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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89 Jul 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Paris minute to Nigel Wicks ("Summit of the Poorest Countries") [unofficial meeting] [released July 2017] |
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89 Jul 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Paul Gray minute to Lamont PS ("Correspondence from Sir Emmanuel Kaye") [inheritance tax, CGT treatment of minority holdings in unquoted companies] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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89 Jul 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Monetary Policy & Exchange Rate Targeting") [CPS conference on "Monetarism Lost" - intellectual climate moving against targeting exchange rates] [declassified Dec 2017] |
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89 Jul 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Correspondence from Sir Emmanuel Kaye") [capital gains tax] [declassified Dec 2016] |