|
81 Jan 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Bank of England) ["Background to the Budget"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jan 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister's Visit”) [Ambassador's talk with Van Agt] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jan 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Bank of England) ["Restricted Indexed Gilts"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jan 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Lord Soames PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Economic evidence to the Top Salaries Review Body") ["The Government invites the Review Body... to take account of current economic circumstances"] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jan 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Caroline Stephens minute to MT (Paul Volcker visit to London) [meeting with MT & Lawson] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
81 Jan 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Rees-officials-Alan Walters) ["Budget Strategy"] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jan 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
India: Prime Minister Gandhi of India letter to MT (global economic situation) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jan 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (“Nissan”) [annoucement of UK manufacturing operation] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jan 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Gow record of conversation (MT-Edward Du Cann) [Du Cann uneasy about monetarism - "don't understand the policy myself"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jan 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Governor of the Bank of England) [indexed gilt proposal, possible reduction in MLR] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jan 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Governor of Bank) [Indexed Gilts & possible MLR cut] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jan 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Treasury briefing for MT (MT, Committee of London Clearing Bankers) [windfall tax on banks; lending & debt; Bank of England's role in relation to companies facing financial difficulties; changes in monetary control; endowment profits] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
81 Jan 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Capital Tax Changes in the 1981 Budget") [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jan 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("The 1981 Budget") [urges £1b "industrial package" & direct action to reduce sterling 5-10 per cent] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jan 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: FCO briefing for MT (“Prime Minister's Visit to The Hague, 6 Feb 1981”) [full brief for Anglo-Dutch Summit] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 1 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Time magazine interview transcript (economic strategy, US, defence and foreign affairs, Northern Ireland, SDP-Liberal Alliance) [released 2012] |
|
81 Feb 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Economic summit: Aid study") [MT approves paper for circulation] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Feb 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Committee of London Clearing Bankers) [MT concerns about lending & debt; "short-term prospects for industry, recent monetary developments, monetary control... windfall tax proposal" & Sir Jeremy Morse paper presenting "The Arguments Against a Special Tax on Bank Profits"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
81 Feb 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Rees-Cockfield-officials) ["Direct Personal Taxation"] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Feb 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Rees-Cockfield-officials) [indirect taxation] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Feb 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industry: HMT letter to No.10 (NEDC meeting: TUC likely to attack Government policies) [dealing with the TUC] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industry: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Pennock and Beckett of the CBI) [CBI's medium term strategy for industry, TUC's strategy for recovery, CBI budget representations, CBI trends survey, Labour EEC policy, nationalised industries] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: Armstrong minute to Alexander ("Prime Minister's Visit to the United States: 25-28 February") [UK priorities and objectives] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Rees-Cockfield-Middleton-Battishill-Cropper-Dalton-Isaac) [stock relief scheme] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Feb 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-officials-Alan Walters) ["Monetary Target and Monetary Control"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Jenkin (tax and private medical insurance, capital allowances for hospital buildings) [no tax relief for private medical insurance] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Feb 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Wiggins minute to Couzens ("The Exchange Rate") [Chancellor feels that "the Government's general stance on the exchange rate [is] not really understood by his colleagues"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Overseas aid: Lord Carrington minute to MT (“Development Policy”) [MT: “The important thing is that we stand with the US”] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Feb 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Michael Heseltine letters to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [supports Keith Joseph's proposals] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Rees-officials) ["North Sea Fiscal Regime"] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Feb 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Ingham note to Sanders ("Prime Minister's Summing Up of Macro-Economic Discussion Which Took Up 1 Hour 4 Minutes to 11:45 a.m.") [NEDC/NEDO debate] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("UK oil policy: refinery and disposal strategy") [call for interdepartmental review of North Sea pricing policy & opposition to creation of additonal reserve producition capacity: both concerns being in relation to PSBR] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
81 Feb 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Van Agt of the Netherlands) [restricted session: deployment of nuclear weapons systems, EC Budget, agricultural prices, Common Fisheries policy, Afghanistan, cost of European Institutions] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Van Agt of the Netherlands) [plenary session: EC Budget, agricultural prices, North-South relations, aid, Japan, relations with the US, South Africa, Middle East, oil] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Burns minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Some Outside Views") [views of Griffiths, Pepper, Rose, Budd and Samuel Brittan on budget] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Jim Prior letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("The 1981 Budget") ["I am glad to add my voice to Keith's"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: CPS report ("Reports of Study Groups 1980-1981") [nationalised industries, housing, energy, personal capital formation, enterprise culture, a "new tableau economique", transport, trade union reform] [released 2012] |
|
81 Feb 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: MT to speech to CPS AGM (economic policy and political philosophy) [released 2012] |
|
81 Feb 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter Sir Antony Part (difficult economic situation) ["The second year is certainly tough!"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Feb 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Treasury briefing for Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Meeting with Mr Volcker") [US economy; UK financial policies] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
81 Feb 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversations ("Ottawa summit and meeting of Personal Representatives") [Sir Robert Armstrong, Allan Gotlieb] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Feb 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Walters minute to MT ("The Budget, etc.") ["When we are buffeted around by massive shifts in the target variables...the strategic planning of the budget is extremely difficult"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Feb 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Employment: Gow record of meeting (Conservative Employment Committee meeting with Derek Ezra) [coal, the economy and unemployment] [released 2012] |
|
81 Feb 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Lawson-Cockfield-Rees-officials) [stock relief scheme] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Feb 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Joseph PS letter to No.10 (Inward investment from Japan) [regarding the interests of established manufacturers] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Feb 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Volcker) [US economy; monetary control issues; Volcker findings as to opinion in London ("pretty nervous") and Europe (recesssion thought to be deepening)] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
81 Feb 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Jenkin letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (private health insurance) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Feb 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Lankester minute to Walters ("Georgetown University Speech") [Walters' draft for MT's speech and comments] [released 2012] |
|
81 Feb 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Budget: Bank of England record of conversation (Governor of the Bank of England-John Wiggins) [bank levy] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: HMA The Hague despatch to FCO (“Visit to the Netherlands by the Prime Minister on 6 February 1981”) ["short working visit … had the intended effect"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 15 Su |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to John Tilney (economic situation) ["We are in rough water...mainly because of the unemployment figures"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Feb 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversations ("Ottawa summit: meeting of Personal Representatives") [Sir Robert Armstrong, Allan Gotlieb; Sir Robert Armstrong, Schulmann] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Feb 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [freeze personal allowances so as to ease monetary policy] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Lawson minute for Chancellor ("Competitiveness & the Exchange Rate") [response to Wass working group] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Handling of political questions at Ottawa summit") ["we shall need to consider what preparations should be made in advance"] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Feb 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: State Department briefing for President Reagan (“Essential Issues Papers”) [declassified 2006] |
|
81 Feb 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Chancellor minute for Lawson ("Competitiveness & the Exchange Rate") [Wass group a "post-mortem on a patient who ought to be dead but isn't!"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Peter Cropper record of meeting ("Conservative Party Finance Committee - 17 February 1981") [Scott Committee Report] [released 2012] |
|
81 Feb 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT to Michael Shaw (government’s economic strategy) [“the Government is anxious to reduce interest rates … We are still doing our utmost to reduce Government spending”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Feb 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Al Haig briefing for President Reagan (MT visit, with copy of her final schedule) [principal goal: "demonstrate publicly and privately that Mrs.Thatcher is the major Western leader most attuned to your views on East-West and security issues"] [declassified 2006] |
|
81 Feb 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Heseltine-Fowler) ["1981 Budget"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Jenkin-officials) [1981 Budget] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Lawson PS minute to Monck ("National Savings and the Budget") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-officials) ["Taxation of the Banks"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Lawson minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Interest Rates") ["any change in interest rates should be made in the Budget"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Wass minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Conversation with the Governor") [Wass phone discussion with Governor on monetary policy & bank levy] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 622 to FCO (0105Z) ("Initial Reactions to Reagan's Programme for US Economic Recovery") [response in Congress and on Wall Street] [released 2012] |
|
81 Feb 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Monck minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Meeting with the Governor on Monday 23 February") [briefing for meeting] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Stutely minute to Battishill and others ("March 1981 Budget: Journalists' Expectations") [briefing for meeting] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: FCO briefing for MT (Prime Minister’s visit to Washington) [talks with Reagan; meetings on the Hill; US space programme budget cuts; honorary degree ceremony; Donovan award; Economic Industrial Lunch] [declassified 2014] |
|
81 Feb 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Governor of the Bank of England-Wass) ["Monetary Affairs"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Lawson-Governor of the Bank of England-officials) ["Monetary Affairs"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Wicks minute to Unwin ("Financial Implications of the NCB Decision for the Budget") [costs of coal settlement] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
India: MT letter to Indira Gandhi (forthcoming visit to India) [MT: “I am looking forward to a really thorough exchange of views”] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Feb 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Battishill minute to Taylor (conversation with Lankester: follow-up to MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer meeting) [ITV levy, VAT on advertising] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government Machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Economic effects of industrial action") [proposal for a dedicated group based within Cabinet Office "to assess the economic significance of particular industrial threats"] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Feb 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Rees-Cockfield-officials) ["The Fiscal Stance"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: HMT record of conversation (Macro-Economic Group) ["Budget Developments"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Pickering minute to Battishill ("Budget Summary") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Strikes: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Economic Effects of Industrial Action") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: White House record of conversation (MT-Reagan plenary) [East/West, Central America especially Belize; jellybeans] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Feb 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: White House Press Briefing (MT visit) [distance between British & US approach to the economy] |
|
81 Feb 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: FCO record of conversation (MT-Economic Industrial lunch in Washington) [economic situation in Britain; Secretary Regan account of US policy; industrial policy] [declassified 2014] |
|
81 Feb 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker) [Soviet Union, Poland, economy] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Senate Members) [Reagan Administration, defence, nuclear weapons, Soviet Union, Poland, economy, socialism, NATO] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US House of Representatives Members) [Reagan Administration, economy, Anglo-Irish relations, Northern Ireland, Zimbabwe, defence, Poland, Arab-Israeli conflict, NATO] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Lawson PS minute to PPS ("Budget Summary") [Lawson's comments on Budget summary] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Gow minute for MT (backbench morale) ["noticeable deterioration"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Feb 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Folger minute to Unwin ("Budget: Letter to No 10") [summary of Budget decisions for MT] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North/South: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia letter to MT (Australian review of North/South matters) [policies toward the developing world] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: FCO telegram 360 to UKE Washington (1555Z) (Donald Regan criticism of UK economic policy) [Regan ‘plain talk’ ruffles diplomatic feathers during MT visit] [declassified 2014] |
|
81 Feb 28 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Anthony Nelson et al to Geoffrey Howe (European Monetary System) [time has come for the UK to become a full member] [released 2017] |
|
81 Mar 1 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 721 to FCO (1830Z) (“Visit of the Prime Minister and Lord Carrington to the USA: 25-28 February 1981”) [Reagan said he looked to the visit “as that of a leader who had a similar approach to international issues and economic policy”] [declassified 2014] |
|
81 Mar 1 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Brian Griffiths, Geoffrey Wood & others article (“How Tight was Monetary Policy in 1980?”) [City University annual monetary review] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: MT to Julian Amery (US visit) [letter will be of use in aiding preparations] [released 2017] |
|
81 Mar 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government machinery: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Use of Input-Output Tables") [advice on merits/demerits] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
81 Mar 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Couzens letter to Sprinkel (Regan testimony to Congress re: MT's economic policies) [offers "one or two corrections"] [declassified 2010] |
|
81 Mar 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Peter Cropper record of meeting ("Conservative Party Finance Committee - 3 March 1981") [talk by Samuel Brittan] [released 2012] |
|
81 Mar 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer ("An Enterprise Campaign") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["An Enterprise Campaign"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“The Prime Minister’s visit to Washington”) [proposed messages to Schmidt and Giscard] [declassified 2014] |
|
81 Mar 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Housing: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (private housebuilding) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Mar 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Thorneycroft (thanks for expression of views on the economic situation) [lead up to the Budget] [released 2012] |
|
81 Mar 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: MacGregor minute to MT (proposal for enterprise campaign) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 letter to Department of Industry (proposal for enterprise campaign) [MT's comments on MacGregor's minute] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Budget: MT notes (Budget Cabinet) [comments by individual ministers] [released 2013] |
|
81 Mar 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Prime Minister Trudeau letter to MT (Ottawa economic summit) [preliminiary outline] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Mar 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 10th (The Budget) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hoskyns MSS) |
Economy: Hoskyns diary (Cabinet reaction to budget) [Prior strongly attacks but with little support] |
|
81 Mar 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham minute to MT (report of lobby briefing) [lobby view of the Budget, backbench opinion and dissent within the Cabinet] [released 2012] |
|
81 Mar 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Press Summary for the PM (the Budget, Civil Service strike) ["The Budget is not well received"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Mar 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Strikes: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Economic Effects of Industrial Action") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Ian Gow record of conversation (MT-John Peyton) [“The United Kingdom is in a hell of a mess, from which there is no quick exit”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Mar 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: The Times pages 1-2 ("Chancellor Under Savage Attack from All Quarters") [response to Budget] [released 2012] |
|
81 Mar 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Hoskyns MSS) |
Economy: Hoskyns diary (lunch with the Thatchers) ["she needed a boost to her morale"] |
|
81 Mar 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Letter of the 364 economists critical of monetarism (letter sent to academics and list of signatories) [released 2012] |
|
81 Mar 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: The Sun front page ("Cabinet Men Warn on Budget") [dissent within the Cabinet] [released 2012] |
|
81 Mar 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Pages from The Times ("Mrs Thatcher stands by her attack on Cabinet 'wets'") [response to the Budget] [released 2012] |
|
81 Mar 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Strikes: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Armstrong) ["Economic Effects of Industrial Action"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industry: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Pennock and Beckett of the CBI-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [CBI response to the Budget] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Emmanuel Kaye (problems created by high value of sterling) [cannot control; falling now; fight against inflation] [released 2012] |
|
81 Mar 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Monetary Policy: MT letter to Sir Emmanuel Kaye (high value of sterling and interest rates) ["at least our interest rate is coming down at a time when that of some of our competitors seems to be rising"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Mar 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Cardona minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Budget: Letters from Public") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Clausen, McMillen) [meeting with President of the World Bank: US economy; UK economic strategy; Bank's role in recycling of oil money; principles & role of World Bank & IMF; proportion of UK aid; increased visibility for capital projects vs increased credit] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
81 Mar 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: FCO record of conversation (Lord Carrington, Marten, Clausen, McMillen) [meeting with President of the World Bank: bilateral aid; politicisation of World Bank; proportional representation; World Bank's role in assisting developing countries; reduction in US and other countries' support & new strategies to compensate] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
81 Mar 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Jasper Rootham (response to suggestions for economy) ["As for your general remarks about the need for a "more individualistic and less directed society", I could not agree more"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Mar 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Strikes: Joseph minute to MT ("Economic Effects of Industrial Action") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Ridley (“Niehans”) [study publication date] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 12th (Parliamentary Affairs, Nigeria, Pakistan, Mexico, EC Affairs, Civil Service Pay Dispute, Defence Estimates 1981) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hoskyns MSS) |
Economy: Hoskyns diary (Reece warns MT to be ready) [Macmillan, Thorneycroft and du Cann will tell you to stand down in the summer] |
|
81 Mar 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North/South: MT letter to Prime Minister Fraser of Australia (Australian review of North/South matters) [policies toward the developing world] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Lankester minute to MT (“Effect of the Civil Service Industrial Action on the Central Government Borrowing Requirement”) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Jeremy Bray MP (MT suggests Bray meeting with Alan Walters) [released 2012] |
|
81 Mar 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (European Union) |
EC: Maastricht European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
|
81 Mar 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Economy: Alan Walters diary (CBI) [Beckett “still all gloom & disaster”] [released 2012] |
|
81 Mar 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Strikes: No.10 letter to HMT ("Economic Effects of Industrial Action") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Economy: Alan Walters diary (CSO, Railway Electrification) [many doubts on electrification] [released 2012] |
|
81 Mar 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Rupert Murdoch) [progress of Times Newspapers] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
81 Mar 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Nationalised Industries: Walters paper ("Notes on Mr. Cropper's Paper on Financing More Investment to Nationalised Industries") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Ian Gow to Lord Harris (“University College, Buckingham”) [explanation of government’s economic strategy] [released 2017] |
|
81 Mar 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Nationalised Industries: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Alan Walters-Ridley-Cropper-Wolfson-Duguid-Young-Ryrie-Monck-Burgner) ["Nationalised Industries Investment"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: HMT press release ("Government Views on the Statement by the 364 Academic Economists") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Burns to Andrew Turnbull (report of letter of the 364 economists to The Times ) ["Monetarism attacked by top economists"] [released 2013] |
|
81 Mar 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Text of statement circulated in British universities on Government economic policy (letter of the 364 economists to The Times ) [released 2013] |
|
81 Mar 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: John O'Sullivan article for Inquiry (“The Battle of Britain”) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Allen minute to Howe (“Statement of 364 Academic Economists”) [Sam Brittan’s response] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Douglas Hague minute to Lankester (his public statement on economic situation in Britain) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 31 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Treasury paper for MT ("The Natural Rate of Unemployment") [Friedman and the Phillips Curve theory] [released 2012] |
|
81 Mar 31 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: MT interview for South Wales Echo (economic situation in Wales, industry, SDP, Cabinet divisions) [released 2012] |
|
81 Mar 31 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Joseph-Howell-Fowler-Ibbs-Armstrong-Le Cheminant-Moore) [the relationship between Government and the Nationalised Industries] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 31 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Whitmore minute to MT ("Liaison Committee") [Pym favours re-establishing committee on presentation of policy] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Mar 31 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Ian Gow record of conversation (MT, Barry Jones MP, Michael Roberts, Gow) [job losses] [released 2017] |
|
81 Apr 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Hayek MSS) |
Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Times (response to statement criticising MT's economic policies by 364 economists) ["It should surprise no one that the lost generation of British economists who had succumbed to the teaching of Lord Keynes should form a panicking mob when a reversal of the policies they had inspired reveals the damage they have done"] |
|
81 Apr 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Nationalised Industries: Walters minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Nationalised Industry Financing") [addressing points of disagreement] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Apr 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [discussion of macro-economic policy in Cabinet] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Apr 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 to Chancellor of the Ducy of Lancaster's Office ("Liaison Committee") [MT supports revival of liaison committee on presentation] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Apr 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Ian Gow note (Scottish speech) [economic measures] [released 2017] |
|
81 Apr 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Kilroy-Silk, Kenneth Baker, Ian Gow) [factory closure in constituency] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Apr 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Howarth minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (denies that CRD opposed budget publicly) [response to the letter of the 364 economists] [released 2012] |
|
81 Apr 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Walters minute to Lankester (dealing with the opponents: uselful read for Question Time) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Apr 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Joseph PS letter to No.10 (“Nissan: local content”) [negotiations] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Apr 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: MT letter to Sir Ralph Bateman (criticism within the US of MT's economic policies) [released 2012] |
|
81 Apr 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Hoskyns MSS) |
Economy: Hoskyns diary (ministerial frustration) ["more than just Norman Lamont and Cecil Parkinson who are - openly - pissed off"] |
|
81 Apr 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Macro-Economic Policy") [Cabinet discussions of macro-economic policy] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Apr 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Gow record of meetings (1922 Committee and Treasury Select Committee) [Bill of Rights, economy] [released 2012] |
|
81 Apr 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury press notice (“Central Government Transactions (Including Borrowing Requirement)”) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Apr 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: Fforde minute for Governor (“The Dilemma of the Liberal Central Banker in XXth Century Britain”) [agony of the pragmatist yoked to the Crusader] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Apr 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Romania: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Verdet of Romania) [plenary session: Poland, Romanian economy, Afghanistan, bilateral relations, CSCE meeting] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Apr 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Ian Gow minute to Lord Thorneycroft (John Gouriet) [“suffers from the mistaken belief that wherever he is, the centre of the world is not far distant”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Apr 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Housing: Stanley PS letter to Pym PS (“Proposed oral statement on the right to buy”) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Apr 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Walters minute to Middleton and Burns (“Notes on Movement to Monetary Base Control”) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Apr 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Ian Gow minute to Tom Normanton (meeting with Helmut Kohl) [“Europe’s future depends on Franco-German relations”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Apr 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKA Washington despatch to Lord Carrington (“The Reagan Administration’s economic policy - an initial assessment”) [assesses content, prospects in Congress & chances of success] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Apr 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Trivial |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Robert Conquest letter to Gow (comments on members of Reagan's Administration) [comment on resentment within the Administration at British attitudes] [released 2012] |
|
81 Apr 21 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (tax evasion and the black economy) [MT requests discussion before Howe proceeds with his outlined redeployment of staff] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
81 Apr 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [MT not convinced by Howe reassurances that tax evasion counter-measures will not lead to rise in recorded unemployment] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
81 Apr 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Walters minute to Middleton (his letter to Griffiths) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Apr 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Professor Patrick Minford (MT thanks Minford for his response to the letter of the 364 economists) ["Thanks to you, Harold Rose and Ralph Harris, we won the day"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Apr 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Lankester minute to MT ("Your meeting with the Chancellor") [brief for meeting: macro-economic policy discussions, coinage] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Apr 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Ottawa economic summit") [Trudeau's attendance at Dinner for Heads of State/Government] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 May 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Ottawa economic summit) [probable key issues] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 May 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Cabinet Discussions of Macro-Economic Policy") [Hoskyns supports more Cabinet discussion of macro-economic policy] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 May 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Lankester minute to MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor: 0930 on Thursday 7 May") [brief for meeting: public expenditure, macro-economic discussion in Cabinet] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 May 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Edwards letter to MT (“Inward Investment Missions”) [report on visits to Japan and USA] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 May 7 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Housing: No.10 record of conversation (Whitelaw, MT) [“Housing legislation: deregulation of rents”] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 May 7 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: FCO letter to No.10 (“Counsellor for Science and Technology at Tokyo”) [advice to FCO and No.10] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 May 9 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
New Zealand: FCO briefing for MT ("Dinner for New Zealand Prime Minister Thursday 18 June 1981. 2000 hours N.10.") [trade, world economy, developing countries, CHGM, Springboks, Mitterrand] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
81 May 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Schmidt) [plenary session: French Presidential election, CAP and EC Budget, defence, Arab/Israel, East-West relations, foreign affairs, economic affairs, industry, trade] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 May 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Ingham minute to MT ("Nationwide") [arrangements and topics for BBC interview] [released 2012] |
|
81 May 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industry: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Pennock and Beckett of the CBI-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Green Paper on trade union legislation, pay negotiations, skill and material shortages, oil, nationalised industries, Government spending] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 May 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Ian Gow to John Patten (meeting of junior ministers) [economy, UK’s world position, defence, law and order] [released 2017] |
|
81 May 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Peter Tapsell MP letter to MT (Reaganite policies and macro-economic strategy) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 May 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Ghana: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Limann of Ghana) [situation in Ghana] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 May 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Pay: MT letter to Gerry Neale MP (getting the message across on pay negotiations) [views of Dorian Williams] [released 2012] |
|
81 May 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Biffen letter to Joseph (Foreign Affairs Council meeting: trade with Japan) [balance of trade deficit] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 May 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Foreign Office letter to Cabinet Office ("Ottawa Seven Power summit: political preparations") [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 May 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Possible meeting between the Prime Minister and Mr Trudeau") [political sensitivities] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 May 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Ian Gow minute for MT (“Tim Renton”) [dismissed as PPS to Biffen over Budget] [released 2017] |
|
81 May 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Housing: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (study of the private rented sector) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 May 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 (future of economic summits) [draft paper for agreement by Personal Representatives in advance of Ottawa G7 summit] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 May 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Timetable and Key Decisions to Christmas 1981") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 May 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Professor Allan Meltzer and Professor Brian Griffiths letter to MT (comment on macro-economic policy) ["We share your goals...We fear, however, that commitment to your programme has waned"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 May 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Professor Griffiths letter to MT (economic reform: results and prospects) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 May 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Walter Salomon (proposed levy on bank profits) [regrets, but Chancellor had "no real alternative"] [released 2012] |
|
81 May 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North/South: Ted Heath letter to MT (North/South Summit, Mexico City, 1981) [thoughts on preparations for summit] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 May 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 letter to HMT ("Timetable and Key Decisions to Christmas 1981") [response to Chancellor of the Exchequer's minute] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 May 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Walters minute to Vereker ("CBI Speech, 16 June") [advice on speech topic] [released 2012] |
|
81 May 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Commonwealth: Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal letter to MT (preliminary ideas for CHOGM 1981) [Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Melbourne] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 May 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Professor Brian Griffiths (economic strategy) ["We are not pursuing the "strategy" as vigorously as is necessary...[but] there are many political difficulties"] [released 2012] |
|
81 May 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT letter to Sir Yue-Kong Pao (thanks for copy of talk to the Foreign Correspondents' Club) [MT appreciates Pao's tone of optimism for the future of Hong Kong and his support for free enterprise] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jun 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Ingham minute to Vereker ("Gallup") [opinion poll shows public losing faith in Government handling of the economy; Ingham's suggested media response] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jun 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Vereker minute to MT ("CBI Speech") [advice for speech] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jun 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North/South: MT letter to Ted Heath (North/South Summit, Mexico City, 1981) [thanks for sending thoughts on preparations for summit] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (“Nissan”) [update on UK venture] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jun 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Hoskyns minute to Vereker ("CBI Speech, Tuesday 16 June") [advice for speech: producerism vs consumerism] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jun 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Cabinet Discussion of Economic Policy") [Hoskyns and Walters ask to attend Cabinet discussion] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Lord Thorneycroft letter to MT (Business Opportunities Programme) [“these initiatives are not only running into the sand but are in some real danger of turning into a political disaster”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Jun 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Housing: No.10 minute to MT (“Parliamentary Affairs”) [GLC Housing Order] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jun 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: MT minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Monetary Control”) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (OD(E) sub-commitee: trade relations with Japan) [Carrington, Biffen: balance of trade deficit] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jun 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Energy: No.10 minute to MT ("BNOC prices") [proposed reduction] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
81 Jun 6 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Walters minute to MT ("Cabinet Macro-Economic Discussion") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: HMT letter to Department of Industry ("Prime Minister's Speech to the CBI") [Treasury comments on proposed text] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jun 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Australia: Carrington PS minute to Michael Alexander ("Call by Minister Foreign Affairs of Australia 11.00 am on 12 June") [Commonwealth, north-south issues, east-west relations, South-East Asia, EC, defence] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
81 Jun 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Lankester minute to MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor: 1430, Wednesday 10 June") [agenda for meeting: business start-up scheme, Defence discussion in OD, rent deregulation] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Energy: Howell letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("North Sea oil prices") [MT supports BNOC's proposed reduction in prices] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
81 Jun 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Nigel Vinson letter to MT (promoting wider capital ownership) ["We want to encourage individual involvement in, and understanding of, the wealth creation process; only thus can individuals really feel part of our society"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jun 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Lankester minute to MT ("CBI Speech") [comments on draft speech] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jun 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer paper ("Economic Strategy") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Political discussion at the Ottawa summit") [East-West relations] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jun 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Meeting of Personal Representatives, 4 to 6 June 1981") [Ottawa G7 economic summit: key issues] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jun 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Cabinet Macro-Economic Discussion") [tactics] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Ibbs note to Lankester ("Economic Strategy") [response to Chancellor of the Exchequer's paper] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Thorneycroft paper ("Strategy") [strategy for the next two years] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jun 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: John Moore notes ("Why The Arguments Against Reducing Interest Rates Are Not Valid") [released 2012] |
|
81 Jun 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Gow letter to Vinson ("Ownership to the People") [thanks for proposals on wider ownership of wealth] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jun 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Economic Strategy (C(81) 29 and 30)") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Ingham minute to MT ("Economic Strategy Briefing") [brief for press officers on Cabinet discussion] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Ingham minute to MT ("Cabinet, 17 June: Economic Strategy") [public presentation of economic strategy] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Housing: Whitelaw letter to Heseltine (compulsory registration of shorthold rents) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jun 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 23rd (Economic Strategy) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer: rent deregulation) [difference of views] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jun 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT to Jock Bruce-Gardyne (CBI speech) [“Though I say it myself, I really think that it went rather well”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Jun 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("International economic situation: US interest rate policies") ["We need... to think carefully about the line that the United Kingdom should adopt... I am very conscious of the need not to part company from the Germans over this"] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jun 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Gow minute to MT (MT's meeting with the 1922 Committee) [10th June meeting of 1922 Executive "the best which has been held since you became Leader of our Party"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jun 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Gow minute to Walters (asking for comments on Moore’s memorandum) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Health: Jenkin letter to Howe (“Nurses’ pay”) [“Acceptance… of the six per cent offer would be a considerable prize”] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jun 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Chancellor Schmidt's views on the German political situation, the Ottawa summit, and the Middle East) [Federal German Chancellory State Secretary, Sir Robert Armstrong] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jun 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Alan Walters note (John Moores paper) [role of government in credit markets] [released 2017] |
|
81 Jun 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Howe letter to MT (monetary control: draft provisions) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Walters minute to Gow (“Note on John Moore’s Paper”) [Government funding and lower interest rates, the exchange rate, inflation, property boom] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Walter Goldsmith (economic strategy) ["we will be redoubling our efforts"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jun 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: Carrington minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Polish Economy") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Visit of Mr. Trudeau") [Canadian High Commissioner, Sir Robert Armstrong] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jun 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Menu card from celebration dinner for the 75th anniversary of the Thirty Club of London (MT notes for speech) [released 2012] |
|
81 Jun 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Carrington ("Polish Economy") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Walters minute to Gow and Wolfson ("Memorandum by Nigel Vinson") [proposals on wider ownership of wealth] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jun 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Briefing for the Ottawa economic summit") [proposed topics for briefing requests, for MT's approval] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jun 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Canada: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Armstrong-Candian High Commissioner) [likely main themes at upcoming Ottawa economic summit; patriation] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
81 Jun 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: Carrington letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Polish Economy") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Countering Tax Fraud and Evasion") [MT not convinced by Howe reassurances that measures will not lead to rise in recorded unemployment] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
81 Jun 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Trudeau, Gilmour, Biffen, Jopling, Lord Bridges, Michael Pitfield, Allan Gotlieb & others) [France; W. Germany; forthcoming Ottawa G7 summit; Canadian domestic issues] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jun 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Canada: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Trudeau) [patriation of Canadian constitution] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
81 Jun 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Canada: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Trudeau) [Trudeau's visits to Europe, Ottawa economic summit, Canadian domestic issues] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
81 Jun 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Venezuela: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Dr Zambrano Velasco) [bilaterial relations, economic situation in Central and South America, Venezuela/Guyana border dispute] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 letter to HMT ("MISC 14") [MT requests that Chancellor of the Exchequer use MISC 14 to look into ways of reducing hindrances to employment] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Barney Hayhoe PS (“Non-Departmental Public Bodies: A Guide for Departments”) [MT revisions] [declassified 2014] |
|
81 Jun 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
EC: MT speech at Luxembrough European Council ("Economic Situation - Speaking Note") [released 2012] |
|
81 Jun 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: Draft record of Luxembourg European Council Meeting (First and Second Sessions, and dinners of leaders and Foreign Ministers) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Tax Evasion") [supports Howe's proposals, wise to concentrate on PAYE deductibility for medium and large firms, but additional focus on "self-employed moonlighter" somewhat contradicts this] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
81 Jun 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Ottawa economic summit - objectives of participants") [Trudeau] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jun 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Ottawa summit: North/South item") [spending on foreign aid] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jun 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand) [Anglo-French relations, British economy, EC budget, TNF, Soviet Union and US, Middle East] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (European Union) |
EC: Luxembourg European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
|
81 Jul 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Pay in the Coming Year (E(81) 66)") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Vereker minute to MT ("E, 2 July: The Next Pay Round") [controlling pay increases] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Ottawa economic summit: briefing meeting") [proposed attendees] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jul 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 2023 to FCO (2207Z) (“President Reagan’s economic recovery programme: the present position”) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jul 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2034 to FCO (2010Z) ("Ottawa economic summit: U.S. objectives") [speculative assessment] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jul 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Economic summit") [G7, Ottawa: anticipated Italian position on key issues] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jul 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Ottawa economic summit") [G7: anticipated French position on key issues] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jul 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Ottawa economic summit") [G7: comments by President Mitterrand in letter to French trade union] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jul 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Tim Lankester minute to MT ("Tax Evasion") [addresses MT concerns that successful countermeasures will cause lower activity in economy as a whole] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
81 Jul 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Ottawa summit") [speculative assessment of Suzuki's stance on key issues] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jul 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Ottawa economic summit") [G7: anticipated W. German position on key issues] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jul 5 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's meeting with French and German Foreign Ministers on 5 July: Ottawa summit") [summary of discussion] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jul 5 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Ottawa summit: political advisers' meeting Ottawa 5 July") [agenda/topics for discussion] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jul 5 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Press Summary for the PM (hunger strikes and pro-IRA march in Northern Ireland, riots in Southall, Economy, Afghanistan, Unions, Industry, internal strife for Labour party) [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Constitution") ["no Supreme Court decision before the end of July"] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jul 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (controlling pay increases) ["we should try...to link in people's minds the moral similarity between high pay claims demanded with menaces and other forms of anti-social behaviour"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 11 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Press Summary for the PM (riots throughout the country, Northern Ireland, unions, industry, economy) [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Ottawa economic summit") [summary of final preparatory meeting, with annexes addressing key issues] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jul 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2127 to FCO (2350Z) ("Trudeau's visit to Washington: 12 July") [summary of his meeting with Reagan in advance of G7 summit] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jul 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT letter to Lord Barber (Standard Chartered bid for the Royal Bank of Scotland) [matter being considered by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 2125 to FCO (2322Z) ("US Views on the British Economy") [doubts in the US about state of UK economy] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Washington telegram 2125 to FCO (2322Z) ("US Views of the British Economy") [review of US views ahead of Ottawa G7] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Joseph minute to MT (increasing public awareness of "where new real jobs come from") [suggests arranging meetings between Ministers and business representatives, journalists and interviewers] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 2126 to FCO (2326Z) (“Prospects for the U.S. economy”) [“concern expressed by other countries”] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jul 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Relations with developing countries") [minute presenting policy options & background briefing paper for forthcoming international summits] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jul 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North/South: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Relations with developing countries") [summits on aid, North/South issues, development] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Summit: Mr Trudeau's position") [G7; assessment] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jul 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: UKHC Canberra telegram to FCO ("Australian Prime Minister: North/South") [global negotiations on foreign aid] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jul 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Canadian High Commission letter to Cabinet Office (G7 Summit: programme) [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jul 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Ottawa communique") [G7 summit; assessment of the draft] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
81 Jul 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Nigel Vinson, Kenneth Carlisle, Michael Grylls & others) [“Ownership to the People”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Jul 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Professor Griffiths of the City University) [the media, monetary control, civil unrest] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Geoffrey Howe to Frank Taylor (Howell pamphlet on work) [“The most hopeful development for improving incentives is for the Government’s economic policies to work”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Jul 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Press Summary for the PM (riots in Brixton, economy, industry, unions, Northern Ireland, Labour party's leftward shift) [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Ingham minute to MT ("Professor Griffiths - Media") [cautions MT against bringing together groups of journalists for briefings and discussions] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North/South: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Relations with Developing Countries") [summits on aid, North/South issues, development] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North/South: FCO letter to No.10 ("North/South Summit") [response to Heath's memo on plans for Mexico summit] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Richard Allen brief for President Reagan (dinner with Lord Carrington) [declassified 2000] |
|
81 Jul 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (meeting with Yue-Kong Pao) [visit to China and Hong Kong] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jul 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: MT notes for Reagan bilateral (Home and Foreign Affairs) [declassified 2010] |
|
81 Jul 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: MT speaking notes for Ottawa G7 ("Economic Discussion") [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: MT's notes on talks at the Ottawa G7 [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-US Treasury Secretary Regan) [US economic policy, developing nations, global negotiations, energy affiliate, IFI meetings, trade, deregulation of US gas prices] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan-Carrington-Haig-Regan-Meese-Allen-Armstrong-Whitmore) [global negotiations, trade with Japan, Lebanon, CoCom, interest rates] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: G7 record of conversation (Ottawa G7: first plenary session) [macroeconomic situation, fiscal and monetary polices, trade] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: G7 record of conversation (Ottawa G7: second plenary session) [developing nations and aid, energy, Middle East] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 21 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: G7 record of conversation (Ottawa G7: third plenary session) [summit communique] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 21 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: G7 record of conversation (Ottawa G7: fourth plenary session) [assessment of summit] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: Ottawa Summit statement ("Declaration of the Ottawa Summit") [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North/South: Biffen minute to MT ("Relations with Developing Countries") [summits on aid, North/South issues, development] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Monck minute to Chancellor's PS (“Interest Rates: Note for the Prime Minister”) ["The Markets since last Friday"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Department of Industry briefing for MT (Prime Minister's meeting with Dr. David Clark MP) [redundancies & unemployment in South Tyneside; National Enterprise Board] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
81 Jul 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Vereker minute to Brittan ("Census Debate Speech") [draft censure speech and comments] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: MT speech to 1922 Committee (achievements so far and work still to do) [released 2013] |
|
81 Jul 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 29th (Parliamentary Affairs, Namibia, Israel/Lebanon, Gibraltar/Spain, Ottawa Economic Summit, EC Affairs, 1981 Public Expenditure) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: MT to Cranley Onslow (government policy) [“we all need to give a message of hope to the country”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Jul 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tebbit, Dr. David Clark MP) [redundancies & unemployment in South Shields] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
81 Jul 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Douglas Hague paper ("1979-81: Or 1970-72 Revisited?") [similarities in media reactions to recessions] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Strategy Meeting, Chequers") [strategy for next two years] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Vereker minute to MT ("Draft Speech for the Censure Motion Debate") [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Strategy Meeting, Chequers") [thoughts before economic strategy meeting] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Middleton (“Money Supply in July: First Guess”) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Peter Middleton minute to No.10 (“Seminar on Monetary Control: 31 July”) [steering brief and papers for discussion] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer’s PS minute to No.10 (“Funding”) [report on the work of Treasury-Bank Committee] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Extract of MT draft speech for Censure debate ("Pay and the Ability to Compete") [struck out 'Anyone For Denis?' joke: "If they seek entertainment, they'll find it in the Whitehall Theatre"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Joseph contribution to MT's speech for Censure debate [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Joseph contribution to MT's speech for Censure debate [with MT's annotations] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Tebbit contribution to MT's speech for Censure debate ("The Changing Pattern and Level of Employment") [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Tebbit contribution to MT's speech for Censure debate (Employment) [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North/South: Carrington minute to MT ("Relations with Developing Countries") [summits on aid, North/South issues, development] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Housing: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Proposals for housing legislation: rent deregulation (C(81) 42)”) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jul 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Gow record of meeting (MT-1922 Executive) ["Is time running out?", "must care", etc] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Australia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Fraser of Australia) [the Australian economy, relations with South Africa, Commonwealth issues, Middle East, Namibia] [declassified 2014] |
|
81 Jul 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT to Ray Whitney (medium-term economic strategy) [remains and will remain government policy] [released 2017] |
|
81 Jul 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Notes for the Monetary Seminar: 31 July 1981”) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Middleton minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Monetary Control: Draft Statement”) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Tebbit minute to MT (“Nissan terms for investment in Britain”) [MT: “This just isn’t on”] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jul 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Russell Sanderson letter to Gow (grassroots opinion in the Party) [Northern Ireland, the SDP, unemployment, pensions, industry] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT letter to Governor of the Bank of England (thanks for luncheon) [released 2012] |
|
81 Jul 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Commonwealth: MT letter to Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal (agenda for Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Melbourne) [response to Ramphal's proposals] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Richard Allen memo for President Reagan (“Britain Drifts”) [declassified 2000] |
|
81 Jul 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Sir Keith Joseph’s PS minute to No.10 (“Professor Rose”) [the Times article: “The Death of Monetarism?” ] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Middleton (“July Money Supply Figures”) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Howard Davies minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Minimum Lending Rate”) [the Times article] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 2303 to FCO (2230Z) (“US economic programme: budgetary legislation”) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Aug 1 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: Chancellor Schmidt letter to MT (Ottawa G7) [reducing budget deficit] [released 2012] |
|
81 Aug 2 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Lord Thorneycroft circular (unemployment) [“No other party would attempt in any effective way whatever to interrupt this downward slide”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Aug 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Walters minute to MT ("Keynes, Unemployment and Public Expenditure") [Keynes was against reflation in 1937] [released 2012] |
|
81 Aug 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Peter Shore MP letter to MT (request for "clear statement as to the Government's official and considered view of the present state of the economy") [expresses concern about Chancellor of the Exchequer's views] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Aug 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer, Financial Secretary, Governor of Bank of England) [seminar on monetary control] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Aug 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS minute to Rosalind Gilmore, Treasury (statement by Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve System) [endorsed by Howe] [declassified 2012] |
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81 Aug 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cabinet: MT to George Gardiner (reshuffle) [“the Government is anxious to reduce interest rates … We are still doing our utmost to reduce Government spending”] [released 2017] |
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81 Aug 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Commonwealth: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Melbourne Declaration") [Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Melbourne] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Aug 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury Press Office announcement (“Monetary Control”) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Aug 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Howard Davies minute to Gilmore (“New Monetary Control Arrangements: Briefing”) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Aug 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cabinet: MT to Stephen Hastings (government policy) [“July has been a tough month”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Aug 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Ingham record of conversation (MT-Ivan Fallon of the Sunday Telegraph ) [the Wets, economic issues] [released 2012] |
|
81 Aug 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Joseph letter to MT (suggests asking Tim Bell to produce education campaign for public on causes of unemployment) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Aug 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Keith Joseph minute to MT (unemployment) [how best to present government’s view] [released 2017] |
|
81 Aug 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Ian Gow minute to Ray Whitney (nationalised industry spending) [relationship with unions] [released 2017] |
|
81 Aug 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 2354 to FCO (2314Z) (“US economic programme: budgetary legislation”) [“doubts have been expressed”] [declassified 2012] |
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81 Aug 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: MT letter to Chancellor Schmidt (Ottawa G7) [German budget measures] [released 2012] |
|
81 Aug 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Lankester letter to Joseph (MT's thoughts on asking Tim Bell to produce education campaign for public on causes of unemployment) [declassified 2011] |
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81 Aug 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Treasury minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“OECD survey of the UK: July 1981”) [“[OECD] fairly enthusiastic about the general thrust of UK policies”] [declassified 2012] |
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81 Aug 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Monthly Note to the Prime Minister on the Central Government Borrowing Requirement”) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Aug 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Commonwealth: Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal letter to MT (arrangements and agenda for Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Melbourne) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Aug 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (response to Joseph's suggestion to ask Tim Bell to produce education campaign for public on causes of unemployment) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Aug 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT (presentation of economic facts) [“we have not done enough yet to put over the basic reality of poor competitiveness as the key weakness in the British economy”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Aug 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“US economic policy”) [concern about high interest rates] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Aug 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Poland") [assessment of political and economic aspects of Polish crisis] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Aug 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Merseyside: Heseltine minute to MT ("It Took A Riot") [the problems of Merseyside, the Toxteth riots] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Aug 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Merseyside: Lankester minute to MT ("Inner Cities") [suggestions for handling Heseltine's minute on Merseyside] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Aug 16 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil service: Ministry of Defence Staff Association Secretary letter to MT (“Industrial relations in the Ministry of Defence: formation of the MoD Staff Association”) [“there is deep resentment at the way both the Government and the Unions have handled the recent pay dispute”] [declassified 2014] |
|
81 Aug 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Commonwealth: MT letter to Prime Minister Fraser of Australia (draft Melbourne Declaration) [Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Melbourne] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Aug 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Armstrong record of conversation (Armstrong-Secretary General to the Presidency of the Republic of France, Beregovoy) [arrangements for Anglo-French summit, G7 summit, Iran, Northern Ireland, hunger strikes at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Aug 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hoskyns MSS) |
MT: Hoskyns, Wolfson and Millar memo for MT ("Your Political Survival") ["The Blockbuster" memo - "Your own management competence, like that of most of your colleagues, is almost non-existent ... Your own Leadership style is wrong"] [released 2016] |
|
81 Aug 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (Montebello G7; Nancy Reagan visit to UK) [declassified 1998] |
|
81 Aug 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial policy: No.10 minute (internal) to Rickett ("Dinner with CBI: Wednesday, 9 September") [confidential Dinner with senior members: arrangements & follow-up] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
81 Aug 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Alan Walters minute for Ian Gow (“Archie Hamilton, MP”) [“it is most unlikely that we shall not be in a sustained recovery phase during 1983”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Aug 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-John Sparrow) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Aug 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Michael Pattison minute to MT (inner cities) [Anthony Sheen’s protest] [released 2017] |
|
81 Sep 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Hoskyns note ("Conference Speech Points") [approach to economy, SDP, etc] [released 2012] |
|
81 Sep 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Inner Cities: No.10 record of conversation (MT-TUC Representatives-Whitelaw-Heseltine-Prior-Brittan) [policy for the inner cities] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Sep 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 2565 to FCO (2246Z) (“President Reagan and the economy”) [budget deficit] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Sep 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Merseyside: Gregson briefing for MT ("Secretary of State for the Environment's Report on Merseyside etc.") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Sep 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Merseyside: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Merseyside") [thoughts on Heseltine's paper] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Sep 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Merseyside: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Toxteth: Response to the Paper "It Took A Riot"") [thoughts on Heseltine's paper] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Sep 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Merseyside: Ibbs minute to Lankester ("Merseyside") [thoughts on Heseltine's paper: "The unpalatable truth may be that the decline is unlikely to be halted"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Sep 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Lawson draft for MT's speech to the Australian Institute of Directors (economic strategy, global economic situation) [released 2012] |
|
81 Sep 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Merseyside: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Joseph-Prior-Heseltine-Ibbs-Strauss-Armstrong-Gregson) [Heseltine's paper on Merseyside] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Sep 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Commonwealth: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal) [arrangements and agenda for Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Melbourne] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Sep 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Commonwealth: HMT letter to No.10 (comments on Australian budget) [arrangements and agenda for Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Melbourne] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Sep 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Armstrong-Secretary General of the Elysée) [possible subjects of discussion between MT and President Mitterrand: Franco-British bilateral cooperation, East-West relations, developments in Poland, Northern Ireland, economy] [declassified 2014] |
|
81 Sep 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Delors) [UK and French economies, EMS, EC Budget] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Sep 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [plenary session: foreign affairs, international economy, industry, transport, energy, research and space, EC issues] [declassified 2014] |
|
81 Sep 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand) [plenary session: Anglo-French relations, EC issues, foreign affairs, economic affairs, industry, transport, energy, research and space] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Sep 12 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: MT letter to Miss Brown (Jimmy Young interview) ["all my economics come from the fundamental principles I learned as a child. If we practised those - the economics would come right!"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Sep 12 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Press Summary for the PM (forthcoming reshuffle, TUC willingness to strike, rise of the SDP, economy, industry, Northern Ireland) ["Mr Prior forecasts reshuffle next week; says he would like to stay where he is"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Sep 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Press Summary for the PM (reshuffle, SDP-Liberal Alliance, Labour party strife, economy, industry, law and order) [suggestion that Prior will resign if asked to go to Northern Ireland] [released 2012] |
|
81 Sep 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Press Summary for the PM (response to reshuffle, economy, Northern Ireland, unions, SDP-Liberal Alliance, Labour party strife) [Reshuffle: "A good welcome (apart from Mirror and a very sourpuss Guardian)"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Sep 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 31st (Namibia, Poland, Belize, Canadian Constitution, Anglo-French Consultations, EC Affairs, Economic Affairs, 1981 Public Expenditure) [declassified 2011] |
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81 Sep 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Reshuffle: Interview with MT for News of the World (MT's thoughts on reshuffle) ["Britain today has a conviction Government"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Sep 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Lankester minute to MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor: Wednesday 16 September: 1715 Hours") [brief for meeting] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Sep 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North/South: Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal letter to MT (plans for Mexico North/South summit) [Brandt/Ramphal letter] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Sep 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Civil Service Department, EMS, Merseyside, Defence cash limits, public expenditure decisions, Cancun summit] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Sep 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong minute to Whitmore (proposals for changes in membership of E Committee on Economic Strategy: position of David Howell) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Sep 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North/South: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Relations with Developing Countries (OD(81) 43 and 44)") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Sep 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Housing: Stanley letter to Ministers (home ownership) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Sep 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Ian Gow to Julian Amery (notes on government policy) [thanks for having taken trouble to write] [released 2017] |
|
81 Sep 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Inner Cities: Heseltine minute to MT ("Inner Cities") [need to "go wider" on inner city reform than just Merseyside] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Sep 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Inner Cities: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Younger-Fowler-Jenkin-Howell-Heseltine-Tebbit-Hailsham-Brittan-Boyson-Armstrong-Ibbs) [Merseyside and related matters] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Sep 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Commonwealth: Transcript of MT's interview with George Negus of Australian TV, "60 Minutes" (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Melbourne) [British and Commonwealth issues] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Sep 27 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North-South: Chancellor of the Exchequer message to MT ("Cancun") [situation ahead of Cancun summit] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Sep 27 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer telegram to MT (“The state of policy in the United States”) [“pressing the Americans… to reduce their budget deficit”] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Sep 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (US Treasury) |
US: Department of the Treasury memcon (Howe-Regan meeting, with officials) [Howe urges US to raises taxes & cut spending; Regan criticises UK tax increases] [declassified 2010] |
|
81 Sep 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North-South: MT letter to Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal (Cancun summit) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Sep 30 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cabinet: MT to James Douglas-Hamilton (retirement from Whips’ Office) [“Throughout your years in the Whips’ Office, we have had not only a happy Office, but also a happy Parliamentary Party”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Oct 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Employment: Duguid minute to Wolfson ("Unemployment") [CBI views on unemployment and the economy] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Oct 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Vereker minute to Scholar ("Prime Minister's Press Conference in Melbourne: Economic Issues") [suggestions for press conference] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Oct 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Harry Boyne to Ian Gow (Heath speech) [“a sustained attack on the Government’s economic policy”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Oct 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Vereker minute to Pattison ("Changing Gear") [comments on "Changing Gear" pamphlet produced by Blue Chip group] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Oct 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Alan Walters notes (Heath speech) [“The easiest way to see that Heath’s vicious circle is a piece of preposterous nonsense is to reverse it”] [released 2017] |
|
81 Oct 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Energy: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("North Sea oil pricing policy") [working group report] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
81 Oct 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 2990 to FCO (1940Z) (“US economic recovery programme”) [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (US economy) [scepticism about anti-inflation programme] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Michael Jopling to Ian Gow (correspondence with Patrick Cormack) [possible letter from backbenchers criticising government policy] [released 2017] |
|
81 Oct 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Economic Policy, Tax and Public Expenditure") [economic policy 1982-5] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Oct 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (comments on "Changing Gear" pamphlet produced by Blue Chip group) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Oct 11 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Economy: Alan Walters diary (MT) [PM requested Walters to produce more intellectual basis for policy] [released 2012] |
|
81 Oct 11 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Scholar minute to MT ("Economic Policy, Public Expenditure, Etc.") [comments on Chancellor of the Exchequer's paper] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Oct 12 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Treasury record of conversation (“Note of a meeting with the Japanese Government Economic Mission to Europe”) [Howe, Ianayama: deficit in balance of trade] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 12 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Rees PS record of conversation (“Minister for Trade’s meeting with the Japanese Economic Mission to Europe”) [Rees, Inayama: deficit in balance of trade] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Chile: Chilean Ambassador Schweitzer letter to MT (birthday greetings) [support for MT's government] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
81 Oct 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Robin Harris minute to MT and Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Selsdon Group "Fringe" Meeting Addressed by Mr. Nigel Lawson on Thursday 15th October") [report of Lawson address on economic policy] [released 2012] |
|
81 Oct 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Sherman draft for MT's Party Conference speech ("Economic 1") [released 2012] |
|
81 Oct 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Walters draft for MT's Party Conference speech (the economy, dealing with the problems left behind by Labour) [released 2012] |
|
81 Oct 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North-South: Chancellor Schmidt letter to MT (Cancun summit) [Schmidt unable to attend] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Economic Policy and Public Expenditure (C(81) 50 and 51)") [comments on Chancellor of the Exchequer's paper] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Oct 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Hailsham letter to MT (comments on Chancellor of the Exchequer's paper on future economic policy and public spending) [comments on Chancellor of the Exchequer's paper] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Oct 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Economic Policy and Public Expenditure (C(81) 50 and 51)") [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Oct 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Scholar minute to MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor tomorrow, 20 October") [public expenditure and economic policy] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Oct 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Walters minute to MT ("Gordon Pepper on Monetary Control") [Walters' response to Pepper's comments] [released 2012] |
|
81 Oct 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North-South: Walters minute to MT ("Cancun - A View on Foreign Aid") [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North-South: HMT letter to No.10 ("Cancun Briefing") [Cancun summit] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North-South: Department of Trade letter to Overseas Development Administration ("Cancun Briefing") [Cancun summit: trade related "nuggets"] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 33rd (Parliamentary Affairs, British Leyland, Unemployment, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Economic Policy and Public Expenditure) [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Oct 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North-South: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Lopez Portillo of Mexico) [Cancun summit, Belize, Sicartsa II] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North-South: Chancellor Kreisky of Austria letter to MT (Cancun summit) [Kreisky unable to attend] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Keith Joseph minute to Ian Gow (Peter Bauer) [“a tour de force&rduqo;] [released 2017] |
|
81 Oct 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Rouse note to Gow ( New York Times article on Ford units at Halewood and Saarlouis, West Germany) [article "might be useful for illustration of our low productivity and overmanning"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Oct 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Yugoslavia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Kraigher of Yugoslavia) [Cancun summit, Southern Africa] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Allen minute to Kemp ("The Economic Alternative: Sir Ian Gilmour's "Fringe" Speech at Blackpool on 14 October") [possible response by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to Gilmour's proposed programme] [released 2012] |
|
81 Oct 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North-South: MT notes from Cancun summit meeting [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North-South: UKDEL Cancun to FCO ("Cancun Summit: First Day") [report on first day of summit] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Tanzania: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Nyerere of Tanzania) [Tanzanian economy, Cancun summit] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand) [Cancun summit, Greece] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North-South: Ingham minute to MT ("Press Conference") [Cancun summit] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 25 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North-South: UKE Mexico City telegram 537 to FCO (1300Z) ("Cancun Summit: Second Day") [report on second day of Cancun summit] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT (Liverpool Group: Quarterly Economic Bulletin) [MT keen to meet with Professor Minford & Alan Walters to discuss the latest report] [declassified Dec 2010] |
|
81 Oct 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Prior-Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [tete a tete: Anglo-Irish relations, political affairs in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Oct 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Prior-Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [plenary session: Anglo-Irish joint studies, Anglo-Irish cooperation council, all Ireland court and security, guarantee, economic affairs] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Oct 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Economic Assumptions") [publication of economic data: unemployment levels, prices, earnings, NI contributions] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Oct 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Vereker minute to Walters ("Economic Assumptions for the Industry Act and the Government Actuary") [comments on Chancellor of the Exchequer's minute on publication of economic data] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Oct 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Walters minute to Vereker ("Economic Assumptions for the Industry Act and the Government Actuary") [comments on Chancellor of the Exchequer's minute on publication of economic data] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Oct 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
North-South: President Lopez Portillo of Mexico letter to MT (Cancun summit) [thanks for attending] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Vereker minute to Scholar ("Economic Assumptions") [comments on Chancellor of the Exchequer's minute on publication of economic data] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Oct 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Date of the 1982 Budget") [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Oct 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Raymond Pennock) [CBI annual conference] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
81 Oct 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Northern Ireland: NIOM(81) 6th (note of meeting: security, prisons, economy, constitutional and political, Anglo-Irish discussions) [declassified Dec 2012] |
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81 Nov 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: HMT letter to No.10 ("Economic Assumptions") [follow-up to Chancellor of the Exchequer's minute on publication of economic data] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Nov 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Central Policy Review Staff ("The health of industry") [proposed reduction in national insurance surcharge] [declassified Dec 2010] |
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81 Nov 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal) to Hoskyns ("CBI conference: pay, unemployment and industrial relations") [damning assessment of the conference; copy of CBI President's speech (incomplete): various topics including secession from EC] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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81 Nov 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Walter Goldsmith (first indications of recovery) [sees "a big change in industrial attitudes"] [released 2012] |
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81 Nov 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Walter Goldsmith (economic strategy) [MT responds to concerns of the Institute of Directors] [released 2012] |
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81 Nov 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Monthly economic report for Italy”) [government’s grip on economic policy as unsure as ever] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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81 Nov 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: No.10 letter to HMT ("Economic Assumptions") [MT's comments on Chancellor of the Exchequer's minute on publication of economic data] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Nov 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Scholar minute to MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor, 1730, Wednesday 4 November") [brief for MT: public expenditure] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Nov 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 35th (Parliamentary Affairs, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Canadian Constitution, EC Affairs) [declassified 2011] |
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81 Nov 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Scholar minute to MT ("Mansion House Speech: Monday, 16 November") [proposed outline of speech on global economic situation] [released 2012] |
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81 Nov 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Jeffrey Sterling (hopeful signs) [hopes for "sustained" recovery this time; wants sterling at $2] [released 2012] |
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81 Nov 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Spadolini of Italy) [tête-à-tête session: Italian economy, European Council: 30 May Mandate, Sinai Multinational Force, India and Prime Minister Gandhi, Cancun] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Nov 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Spadolini of Italy) [plenary session: Sinai Multinational Force, Saudi Arabia, Poland, TNF, European Council: 30 May Mandate, European Union, Spain, trade] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Nov 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: President Reagan meeting with US Ambassador to London (possible Thatcher defeat) [declassified 1998] |
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81 Nov 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Rates: Heseltine minute to MT (Green Paper on alternatives to domestic rates) [revised draft] [declassified 2012] |
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81 Nov 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Vereker note ("The Guildhall Speech: "One World"") [comments on draft speech] [released 2012] |
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81 Nov 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (proposed increase in National Insurance Contribution) [declassified 2012] |