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PDF 91 Jan 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute for Major ("Options for 'Narrowing the Band'") [involving possible devaluation] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("EMF: Draft Treaty Texts") [covering notes to send to Kohl, Santer, Gonzales and Lubbers] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush phone call to French President (Mitterrand) (record of conversation) [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 21 to FCO (0014Z) ("Baker's consultation with coalition partners") [talks to set an itinerary] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 13 to FCO (0820Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Gulf Crisis") ["Soviet permanent reprentative peddles the idea of a further Security Council Resolution to severe diplomatic relations and telecommunication links with Iraq"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Luxembourg telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: EPC Ministerial Meeting, Luxembourg 4 January: Gulf Crisis") ["Reaffirmation of basic approach of twelve, based on prevoius statements and resolutions. Need for internal cohesion and solidarity with US and other allies underlined"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Luxembourg telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: EPC Ministerial Meeting, Luxembourg 4 January: Gulf Crisis") [text of presidency statement approved by twelve foreign ministers and released] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: MOD letter to Powell ("Prime Minister's Visit to the Gulf and Egypt") [allowances] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Treasury letter to MOD ("US Request for an Aircraft Carrier for the Red Sea") ["the proposed deployment is not of the highest priority and...we should not be bounced into conceding it now"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Powell letter to MOD ("The Gulf: Rules Of Engagement") [Prime Minister content with amendements "to give UK commanders delegated authority to response to Iraqi pre-emptive attacks"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell ("Rules Of Engagement") [the Foreign Secretary agrees with amendments to grant "limited extension in the authority of the Joint Commander to act in extremis against Iraqis missiles or attacks"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell ("Possible Gulf Debate") [favours motion on the adjournment because Labour wants it and Hurd "anxious to keep [Kinnock and Kaufman] ... on board"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: MOD letter to General Attorney Office (Missing Laptop) [story of the theft reported by the Media; arrengements to brief the Press; potential reward or immunity from prosecution for the thief returning the laptop] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: MOD letter to Powell (Service Morale) ["effect on the morale of the services of undertaking Operation Granby at the same time as 'Options for Change' are underway"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Attorney General Office letter to MOD (Rules of Engagement) [Attorney General content with revised ROE] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Powell minute for FCO ("The Gulf: Possible Debate in the House") ["preliminary work on a speech for the Prime Minister if there is an early debate in the House on the Gulf"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Powell minute for Prime Minister ("Gulf") [schedule of meeting arranged] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO minute for Prime Minister ("The Threat to British Civil Aviation in the Event of a Conflict in the Gulf") ["I hope that it will be soon possible to recruit a suitable team to take on the inspection of overseas airports"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO minute for Prime Minister ("Iraq/Kuwait: Sustaining National Unity") ["it is encrasingly important for colleagues to take opportunities..to explain Government policy to as many sections of the public as possible"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Department for transport minute for Prime Minister ("The Gulf: War Risk Insurance for Airlines") [Major assents to proposal] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: PM Major letter for Chancellor Kohl (IGC on EMU: UK proposals for Stage 2) [tabling texts] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: PM Major letter for Dutch PM Lubbers (IGC on EMU: UK proposals for Stage 2) [tabling texts] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: PM Major letter to Spanish PM Gonzalez (IGC on EMU: UK proposals for Stage 2) [tabling texts] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 35 to FCO (0041Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait") ["Bush remains termined to use force if he has to...the Administration will need to continue to watch congressional opinion closely, but early action to constrain the President is unlikely"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 22 to FCO (0041Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Gulf Crisis") ["French permanent representative dismissive of Mitterrand's reported support for a Security Council Meeting before 15 January Deadline"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("US/Iraqi Talks") ["importance of the Americans keeping open the possibility of a direct talk with Saddamn and of not again allowing themselves to be boxed in by over-attachment to particular dates""] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Powell letter to Department of Transport ("The Gulf: War Risk Insurance for Airlines") [Prime Minister content with the recommendation to "take action under the Marine and Aviation Insurance (War Risks) Act 1952 to re-insure British aircraft operating to the Middle East"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Iraqi Refusal of Invitation by the Twelve") ["they presumably calculate that there remains the possibility that Tariq Aziz's refusal to go to Luxembourg will persuade one or two European Governments to break ranks and send envoys to Baghdad"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Panorama") [Saudi concern] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell ("Iraq/Kuwait: Message to President Kaunda") [suggested wording for the letter to President Kaunda from the Prime Minister] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell ("The Gulf Crisis: a Just War") ["arguments and attempts to answer theological reservations over resort to force"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Attorney General Office letter to Powell ("US Request for an Aircraft Carrier for the Red Sea") [difficulties concerning the implementation of e embargo in the Red Sea] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Chief Whip's Office record of conversation (Energy Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Defence Secretary & others) ("Gulf: Media Arrangements") [timing, role of No.10 Press Secretary, backbenchers] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Attorney General Office letter to MOD (Stolen Laptop) [possible reward for return or immunity for theft] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell ("Gulf: Briefing the Opposition") [Foreign Secretary favors a new meeting between the PM and Mr Kinnock after the PM's visit to the Gulf; "you might also like to know that Mr Baker...was seeing Mr Kinnock this afternoon"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell ("Foreign Secretary's Meeting with Secretary Baker, 4 January: Tete-a-Tete") [timing; Mr baker's call on the Prime Minister next weekend; aircraft carrier in the Red Sea] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO minute for Department for Transport ("The Gulf: War Risk Insurance for Airlines") [timing to give notice to the airlines of the war-risk insurance premium to be paid from 15 January; "this should be left to the last possible moment"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 minute for MOD ("Gulf Briefings") [group briefing arrangements] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury letter to FCO ("Intergovernmental Conference on Economic and Monetary Union") [press briefing] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (EMU: launch of the British proposals for amending the EC Treaty) [timetable and press briefing] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell ("Acts of Atrocity in Kuwait") [Information Department ask to have a look to the photograph album given to the PM] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Treasury letter to Transport Secretary ("The Gulf: War Risk Insurance for Airlines") ["favour an agreement with the industry which allowed for a much shorter period of notice: perhaps no more than 24 hours"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Chief Whip's Office record of conversation ("Gulf: Media Arrangements") [Government backbenchers; letter to all MPs setting out Government case in event of Commons debate Jan 15; reply to Cardinal Hume's letter; case against further time for sanctions; photos of the atrocities in Kuwait to be used to bring home Saddam's inhumanity; refusal of Saudi authorities to issue sufficient visas for British journalists] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: MOD letter to Powell ("Call by Chief of Defence Staff") ["The Prime Minister will want primarily to ask Sir David about a number of issues rising from his visit to the Gulf d the Cabinet discussion"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: MOD letter to FCO ("Call by Admiral Lanxade") ["Admiral Lanxade made clear that he had President Mitterrand's authority for his reassurance that France would fight"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Cabinet Secretary briefing for Prime Minister ("OPD(G): 10 January") [PM's visit to the Gulf; international situation; second round of UK/US talks; response tu partial and full Iraqi withdrawal;media handling; debate in Parliament; IEA stockdraw; cabinet 10 January; pattern of meetings in the event of hostilities] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Cabinet Secretary briefing for Prime Minister ("Cabinet, 10 January: Possible Military Action in the Gulf") [international situation; comments from Ministers on the possible conflict; possible debate in the Parliament; formal authority to the PM to commit British troops after 15 January] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Cradock minute for Powell ("Iraqi Options: Threat of a Pre-emptive Attack") [assumptions on possible targets and strategies] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Morris PS minute for Prime Minister ("Gulf Debate") [arrangement of short discussion on Parliamentary handling of the debate during OPD(G) 10 January] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Department for Transport minute for FCO ("The Gulf: War Risk Insurance for Airlines") ["we must expect that airlines will withdraw services from areas where they foresee conflit, whether or not we offer re-insurance"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (EMU: Major's draft reply to Michael Butler) [hard ecu proposals helpful, but rejects need for European System of Central Banks] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury record of telephone conversation (Lamont, Bérégovoy) [UK tabling hard ecu/EMF treaty texts] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury record of telephone conversation (Lamont, Solchaga) [UK tabling hard ecu/EMF treaty texts] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Muscat telegram to FCO ("Visit of the prime Minister to Oman - 8/9 January") ["the Prime Minister clearly established an easy rapport with the Sultan who was visibly flattered to receive such attention at this early stage of the Prime Miniter's term of office"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO telegram to UKMIS Geneva (1100Z) ("Gulf: Secretary of State's Conversation with Secretary Baker") [French initiative considered counterproductive; possible new Troika invitation to Tariq Aziz for a meeting in a different venue from Luxembourg; UN Secretary General's potential initiative not be discouraged] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO telegram to UKE Luxembourg ("Gulf: Secretary of State's Conversation with the Luxembourg Prime Minister") ["if the Baker/Tariq Aziz meeting in Geneva is unsuccessful...no difficulty if Poos were to say publicly that the EC Troika invitation remained on the table"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Cabinet Office telegram to Powell ("Iraqi Withdrawal from Kuwait: Immediate Reactions") ["things might not develop in a clear-cut way. Saddam Hussein might reject the timetable or the pattern of withdrawal we proposed. Or he might make some attempt to negotiate on these"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Saudi Arabia") ["the Prime Minister succeeds in establishing good rapport with King Fahd and the Crown Prince...very positive reaction from British forces of all three services to Prime Minister's contact with them and remarks" ] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Cabinet Office telegram to Powell (Baker's statement) ["the US and the rest of the international community wanted a peaceful solution. This is still a confrontation Iraq can avoid"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Mitterrand Press Conference") ["France remains solid on need for complete Iraqi withdrawal and manintenance of 15 January deadline. But it will actively pursue efforts for peace up to last moment"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell ("Telephone Call by Mr Mulroney") [PM's impressions of his Gulf trip; Canada's decision to send medical assistance; discuss the idea of a G7 meeting; Mr Mulroney's visit to London] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: MOD letter to House of Commons Library (Media handling) [rules issued to Editors "to guide them on how to cover Gulf news without jeopardising the safety of the troops"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Department of Transport letter to Treasury ("The Gulf: War Risk Insurance for Airlines") ["draft for a set of agreements with insurers which should provide the basis for reinsurance for all United Kingdom airlines who may be flying to the gulf Area"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: MOD letter to Powell ("US Request for Deployment of Carrier Group") [a carrier was to be deployes in the Mediterranean anyway; concerc over the cost of the enhancements required; planning of minimun mount of work at a limited cost] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: MOD conversation record ("Call by Mr Ashdown") [Government's argument for military action in the Gulf] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: MOD letter to Powell ("Po Granby: Operational Readiness") [updates concerning the arrangements to speed up the flow of battle-winning equipment and munitions; need for more beds for medical care of prisoners of war] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Julian Amery letter to Foreign Secretary (Western Presence in the Gulf) [what the presence should consist of and where it should be located; idea of "making use of the only realiable state in the Middle east not counting Israel. I mean of course Turkey"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Cabinet Secretary briefing for Prime Minister ("OPD(G): 10 January") [PM's visit to the Gulf; international situation; UK/US talks; consular advice and contingency plans for evacuation; Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait: immediate reactions; Rules of Engagement; media arrangements; IEA stockdraw; meeting arrangements in case of hostilities] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Powell minute for Prime Minister ("OPD(G) and Cabinet: Points to Make on Your Gulf Visit") ["there is an expectation that there will be a conflict and that Saddam Hussein will loose"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 conversation record ("The Gulf") [Powell's conversation with general Scowcroft] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Powell note for Prime Minister ("Meeting with Secretary Baker") [final arrangements] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Lord Chancellor's Office minute for Prime Minister ("Gulf Debate: Parliamentary Handling") [when to initiate the debate and under what form of motion] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Morris PS note for Prime Minister ("Gulf") [Foreign Secretary and Chief Whip's requests to speak with the PM before the OPD(G) of 10 January] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Department of Energy letter to Powell ("The Gulf: Oil Supplies") [draft reply to President Bush's message concerning the meeting of the IAE Governing Board; ] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Wakeham minute for Prime Minister ("Media Handling") [three proposals] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jan 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush letter to King Hussein ("we have arrived at a fateful point") [declassified 1999]
PDF 91 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Alan Walters letter to MT ("Notes on sterling") [exchange risk assessment] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for Major ("Intergovernmental Conference on Economic and Monetary Union") [Lamont paper for OPD] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Hogg briefing for Major ("Your Discussions Tomorrow on EMU") [Redwood to question function of EMF as proposed by UK] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: Notes for George Bush phone call to foreign & Congressional leaders (war imminent) [unclassified?]
PDF 91 Jan 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: French President (Mitterrand) call to George Bush (seeks progress report) [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("European Council, Maastricht: December 1991") [proposed dates] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush phone call to Egyptian President (Mubarak) ("just checking in") [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Chancellor's Speech for the EMU Debate, 24 January") [latest draft] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Lamont, Juncker) [IGC procedure; bilateral contacts; French attitude to EMU; Delors; UK approach; Germany; ECOFIN; monetary union] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for Major (EMU Intergovernmental Conference (IGC): Draft Treaty Texts) [UK submitting draft texts; Major unperturbed by reference to Stage 3] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("ECOFIN Council and EMU IGC: 28 January: Summary") ["efficiently chaired by Juncker"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor Kohl letter for Major (modified UK proposals for "hard ecu" and European Monetary Fund) [glad of UK participation in debate, but reservations over hard ecu] declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: CIA note on Iraqi chemical & biological weapons (Iraq probably has CW warheads for SCUDs) [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Conservative Party: No.10 minute for Turnbull ("PM's meeting with Mrs Thatcher: 31 January") [Freedom of City of Westminster] ​​​​​​​[declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 91 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1990 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007]
PDF 91 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Hurd minute for Major ("Inter-Governmental Conference on Economic and Monetary Union") [agrees with Lamont's "negotiating strategy"; UK being taken "increasingly seriously as a negotiating partner"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Feb 2 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: King Hussein letter to George Bush ("the voice of friendship, peace and honour") [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversation (Hurd, Garel-Jones, Williamson, Kerr) [EMU and EPU Inter-Governmental Conferences - Luxembourg presidency seeking early results; "natural run of both IGCs" would culminate in Dec 1991 at Maastricht] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Feb 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Lilley letter for Chancellor ("Intergovernmental Conference on Economic and Monetary Union") [comments on Lamont's paper] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Feb 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush letter to King Hussein ("deep disappointment at your speech") [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 Feb 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush meeting with Israeli Defence Minister (Arens) (record of conversation) [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 Feb 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for Major ("An Ecu Bond Issue") [opportunity to follow up Major's proposal of Oct 1990] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Feb 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush phone call to King Hassan of Morocco (record of conversation) [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 Feb 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/NHS reforms: Turnbull briefing for Major ("Meetings with Ministerial Colleagues") [MT "was very concerned" about NHS reform plans, agreed launch on 1 Apr "only after lengthy discussions with Mr Clarke"] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Feb 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: State Department to USE Moscow (Soviet talks with Saddam) [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 Feb 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: US Embassy Paris to State Department (French Government anxieties about post-war US policy) [declassified 1999]
PDF 91 Feb 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush phone call to French President (Mitterrand) (record of conversation) [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush letter to Gorbachev (Soviet talks with Saddam) [declassified 2001]
PDF 91 Feb 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO telegram to UKREP Brussels and other EC posts ("Monetary Committee: 18 February") [account of meeting] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Feb 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush letter to Gorbachev (further reservations) [declassified 2001]
PDF 91 Feb 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush letter to coalition leaders (Gorbachev's negotiations with Saddam) [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 Feb 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush phone call to French President (Mitterrand) (Gorbachev's negotiations with Saddam) [declassified 2001]
PDF 91 Feb 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for Major ("Ecu Bond Issue") [successful outcome of UK's first ecu bond issue] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Feb 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush phone call to Gorbachev (Soviet negotiations with Saddam) [declassified 2001]
PDF 91 Feb 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush phone call to French President (Mitterrand) (Moscow & Iraq) [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush phone call with French President (Mitterrand) (Soviets & Iraq) [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush phone call to Gorbachev (Soviets & Iraq) [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 Feb 23 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush phone call with Gorbachev (Soviet negotiations with Saddam) [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 Feb 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("UK/FRG Summit, 11 March: Handling of EMU") ["game plan for moving forward Anglo-German dialogue on EMU at summit"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Feb 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("UK/FRG Summit, 11 March: German Views on EMU") ["The German internal debate is evolving in ways which could be helpful to us"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Feb 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("EMU/IGC: 25 February") [objectives of EMU; multiannual guidelines & multinational surveillance; budget deficits; financial support mechanism] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Feb 27 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Sir Leon Brittan letter for Major (Brittan press article on problems of convergence) ["Coming Together for a Single Currency"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: President Ozal of Turkey letter to Major (EC/Turkey relations) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: King Hussein letter to George Bush (“deep joy at the conclusion of hostilities“) [declassified 2001]
PDF 91 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Possible visit by Dutch Prime Minister and Foreign Minister") [Major's diary busy; officials advise merit of finding time to meet with Lubbers & Van den Broek] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 91 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Major letter to President Ozal of Turkey (EC/Turkey relations) [declassified Jul 2018]
Text 91 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Hansard Economy: 1991 Budget (Lamont 1) [external link]
PDF 91 Apr 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: UKMIS New York telegram 661 to FCO (0546Z) ("Mrs Thatcher's call on the Secretary-General, 8 April") ["discussion of the Gulf, Arab/Israel and Cyprus"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 91 Apr 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO briefing for Major ("Visit by the Dutch Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Finance Minister: 14 April 1991") [first bilateral meeting with Major: probable key issues] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 91 Apr 14 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (Major, Lubbers, Hurd, van den Broek, Maud, Kok, Michael Jenkins) [European economic & monetary union; political union; agriculture] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 91 Apr 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush phone call to U.N. Secretary-General (Perez De Cuellar) (Kurdish refugee crisis) [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush letter to Gorbachev (Kurdish refugee crisis) [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 Apr 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: meeting with Mandela") [Mandela asked to see MT when she visited South Africa, though not all ANC would approve; asks would she see Treurnicht? right wing parties needed to be pressurised to join negotiations] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 91 Apr 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush phone call to Turkish President (Turgut Ozal) (doesn’t want US to “get bogged down in a civil war in Iraq”) [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Position of Dutch Government") [possible election in 1992; speculation over Lubbers succession to Delors as EC President] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush phone call to U.N. Secretary-General (Perez De Cuellar) (Kurdish refugee crisis) [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 May 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush meeting with U.N. Secretary-General (Perez De Cuellar) (Kurdish refugee crisis) [declassified 2003]
PDF 91 May 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Foreign Affairs Council: 13 May 1991 Intergovernmental Conference (Political Union): Ministerial Social Policy: Secretary of State's Comments") [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 May 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Mrs Thatcher: talks with Gorbachev") [preliminary account; Gorbachev appeal for financial support in return for reform] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 91 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("My telno 1095: Mrs Thatcher: talks with Gorbachev") [fuller account from translator; Gorbachev "unyielding on Baltic States"; pleads for financial aid - G7 "must be prepared to pay to safeguard process of worldwide significance"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 91 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Mrs Thatcher's visit to Moscow") [speeches, dinners, meetings, media] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 91 Jun 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Conservative Party: Major notes (meeting with MT) [South Africa; Ridley book; Health Reforms; Internal EC Frontier; Row; Gorby; Press; Election] ​​​​​​​[declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 91 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) MT: UK High Commissioner Lagos letter to FCO ("Possible lecture by Mrs Thatcher") [approach from Nigerian Minister of Justice] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 91 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO telegram to UKE Luxembourg ("European Council: EMU") [text of draft conclusions] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: MT draft speech ("Draft speech to Chicago Council on Foreign Relations: 17th June") ["Second revision second draft"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 91 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Stockholm telegram 289 to FCO (1315Z) ("Swedish EC Bid: Statement by Prime Minister") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: MT speech to the Economic Club of New York (press release) [plus seventh draft] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 91 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO telegram to UKE Paris ("Draft European Council conclusions on EC external relations") [text] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to FCO ("IGCs: prepration for Maastricht") [Intergovernmental conferences: Prime Minister's programme of meetings] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute (internal): European Community Department to Private Office ("IGCs: Westminster handling") [Intergovernmental conferences: Parliamentary procedure for Treaty ratification] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Major ("Inter-governmental conferences") ["FCO... assessment of what we might hope to achieve at Maastricht and what the main pitfalls for us are likely to be"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Post-Maastricht") [Treaty ratification procedure] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Jul 28 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Hurd minute to Major ("OPD(E): prospects for Dutch Presidency") [paper addressing key issues for the next six months] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("Inter-Governmental Conferences") [best achievable outcome at Maastricht; PM's broad agreement with Foreign Secretary] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Aug 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Hurd PS letter to No.10 (Dutch intentions on South Africa) [sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Foreign Secretary minute for Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Enlargement of the Community: Timetable") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: UKE Peking telegram to FCO ("Visit to China by the Right Honourable Mrs Margaret Thatcher MP, 10-12 September") [MT requested meeting with Zhao Ziyang "not possible"; "some animated exchanges ... frank and friendly atmosphere"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 91 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 689 to FCO (1456Z) ("EC Enlargement/Baltic States") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 91 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to the Hague, 18 September: scene setter") [internal political scene; European monetary & political union; GATT; Yugoslavia] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 briefing for Major ("European Community Briefing: 1500 Tuesday 17 September") [European economic and political union] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Sep 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 briefing for MT ("Your meeting with Mr. Lubbers: 18 September") [Yugoslavia; Soviet Union; Eastern Europe; GATT; EMU, European political union] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Sep 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (Major, Hurd, Lubbers, Van den Broek, Garel-Jones, Dankert) [Yugoslavia; Soviet Union; Eastern Europe; GATT; EMU, European political union] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Sep 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush phone call to French President (Francois Mitterrand) (Iraq obstructing weapons inspectors) [declassified 1999]
PDF 91 Sep 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush phone call to John Major (Iraq obstructing weapons inspectors) [declassified 1999]
PDF 91 Oct 27 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Major (Maastricht: EMU negotiations) [strategy] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (Major, Lubbers) [GATT; Soviet Union; IGCs] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Presentation of policy before Maastricht") [Hurd's proposals for media strategy in run-up to intergovernmental conferences] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Home Office record of conversation ("Note of a meeting held on 5 November 1991 with the Netherlands Minister of Justice") [Kenneth Baker, Hirsch Ballin: meeting note provided to No.10 as briefing for Major's meeting on 7th November with Ruud Lubbers] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (Major, Hurd, Lubbers, Van der Broek) ["European Community: Prime Minister's meeting with Mr. Lubbers"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Parliament") [UK contribution to EU budget] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 note to Major (Germany & NATO) [French position] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Dutch assessment of Foreign Ministers conclave") ["Dutch largely share our assessment of where things stand"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Hurd letter to Conservative Party MPs ("European negotiations") [key concerns] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: D.A. Hadley minute to No.10 ("Social Chapter: options for Maastricht") ["You asked us to consider privately what might be done if... we could not reach agreement with other member states"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: Gus O'Donnell minute for PM Major ("Mrs Thatcher's speech") [phone conversation with Charles Powell] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 91 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO briefing for Major ("Prime Minister's meeting with Dutch Prime Minister, Friday 22 November") [European political union: key issues] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKrep Strasbourg telegram to FCO ("European Parliament Plenary, Strasbourg, 20 November 1991: Debate on the Political Union IGC") [summary] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Office of the Attorney General letter to Treasury ("EMU IGC: big issues") [legal advice in advance of intergovernmental conference] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Treasury briefing for Major ("Prime Minister's meeting with Lubbers: EMU") ["points the Chancellor thinks the Prime Minister should make"] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 briefing for Major ("European Council: the Dutch") [briefing meeting with Hurd & Lamont: key points] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute (internal) to Hurd PS ("Maastricht: Presidency views on Defence") [record of conversation at officials level] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Department of Employment briefing for Major ("Prime Minister's Bilateral with Prime Minister Lubbers") [Working Time directive] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (Major, Hurd, Lamont, Lubbers, Van Den Broek, Kok, Dankert, Ersboll, Garel-Jones, John Kerr) [organisation of the European Council; UK attitudes; Court of Auditors; Foreign Policy; Defence; Social Policy; Competence; European Parliament; Article 100c; Cohesion; the Chapeau; Tax; EMU; Seats of the Institutions; Enlargement; GATT; Conclusion] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("My telecon with Gomersall: Lubbers' pre-Maastricht visit to Athens") [membership of Western European Union] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Bonn, 27 November: Maastricht") [analysis of German position on various political/monetary union issues, and of the public mood in Germany] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute (internal): Hogg to Wall ("Maastricht") [forthcoming party political broadcast] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Stephen Wall conversation record (Major-Andreotti) [EC issues; Italian internal politics (Andreotti saw "strong signs of people wearying of the existing political system"); Yugoslavia; Libya] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Major ("Maastricht: media strategy") [lines to take] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 91 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Oslo telegram 497 to FCO (1045Z) ("Mrs Brundtland on EC Membership") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jay minute for Parry ("Enlargement") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("The former Soviet Union and EC Membership") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Jan 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Foreign Secretary minute for Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Enlargement of the Community: Timetable") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Feb 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Conservative Party: Wall briefing for Major ("Your Meeting with Mrs Thatcher: Foreign Policy") [Former Soviet Union; Special Meeting of the UN Security Council; Iraq; GATT] ​​​​​​​[declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Feb 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversation (Foreign Secretary, President of the EC) [enlargement of the European Community] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Feb 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Foreign Secretary ("Enlargement of the Community: Timetable") [declassified Jul 2018]
Text 92 Mar 10 Tu Declassified documents Key Hansard Economy: 1992 Budget (Lamont 2) [external link]
PDF 92 Mar 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister of Greece letter to Major (Greece's entry to the WEU) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Apr 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO telegram 170 to UKE Ankara (1100Z) ("Greece and the WEU: Letter from Mitsotakis to the Prime Minister") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Apr 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Athens telegram 155 to FCO (1122Z) ("Greece/WEU") [UK should be 'firm' with Greece and not take too seriously Mitsotakis's veiled threat] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Apr 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Major message to Prime Minister of Greece (Greece's entry to the WEU) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Apr 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Istanbul telegram 27 to FCO (0920Z) ("EC Enlargement: EFTA Heads of Government") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Apr 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Athens telegram 178 to FCO (1800Z) ("Secretary of State's Visit to Athens: WEU") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Apr 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute to No.10 (Major's draft reply to the Greek Prime Minister: Greece/WEU) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Major letter to Prime Minister of Greece Mitsotakis (Greek accession to the WEU) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Jun 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("EC Enlargement and the Swiss Application") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Jun 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: UKA Paris record of conversation ("Lunch with Mrs Margaret Thatcher at the Élysée: 2 June") [Mitterrand "visibly enjoyed seeing Mrs Thatcher again ... He looked perky ... relaxed"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 92 Jun 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Wright minute for Kerr ("Enlargement: Commission Discussion") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Jun 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: Alex Allen minute for Stephen Wall ("Mrs Thatcher's visit to Taiwan") ["rather ritual protest" from the Chinese] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 92 Jun 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) MT: Julian Seymour letter to Alex Allen (MT's Frankfurt speech) [enclosing text] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 92 Jun 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Port Stanley to FCO ("Falkland Islands: Prime Minister's Message for Tenth Anniversary of Liberation") [message from Islanders to Major] [declassified 2012]
PDF 92 Jun 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: President of the Republic of Slovenia letter for Major (Slovenia's bid to join the EC) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Jun 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) MT: MT letter to Prime Minister Major (thanks for his letter on her joining the Lords) ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 92 Jul 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("EC Enlargement: Malta") [Major's draft reply to the Maltese Prime Minister] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Jul 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Major letter to Prime Minister of Malta Adami (Malta's application to join the EC) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Jul 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 1812 to FCO (1515Z) ("Foreign Affairs Council, 20 July: Follow up to European Council: Enlargement") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Jul 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (FBI) US: FBI airtel (PIRA plot to MT) [“uniquely placed source”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 92 Jul 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO minute to No.10 ("Visit to UK by Turkish Prime Minister") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Jul 25 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1657 to FCO (0050Z) ("EC/WEU/NATO Enlargement: Braithwaite/Neville-Jones Talks in Washington, 24 July") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Jul 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO briefing for John Major ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr Milan Panic") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Jul 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: No.10 record of conversation (John Major, Milan Panic) [the Yugoslav war: ethnic cleansing, the situation in Bosnia and Kosovo] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Jul 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1680 to FCO (0105Z) ("EC/WEU/NATO Enlargement") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Jul 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Bosnia: MT letter to Douglas Hurd (detailed analysis and covering letter) ["No one with a conscience can let this go on .... Please do NOT give me a brush-off letter"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 92 Jul 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Bosnia: MT letter to Prime Minister Major (encloses her letters to Douglas Hurd) ["I have been distraught about the situation in Bosnia & Croatia for months"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 92 Jul 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Bosnia: Stephen Wall record of conversation (Major-Hurd) [response to MT's letter] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 92 Jul 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("Slovenian Membership of the European Community") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Aug 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Bosnia: Stephen Wall minute for Major (meeting at Chevening) [Hurd said privately at end "he did not think we could go on saying no on money, refugees and troops"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Aug 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Bosnia: Gozney record of conversation (Hurd-Rifkind) ['Yugoslavia' - discussion of options requested by PM at 30 Jul meeting] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Aug 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Bosnia: Gozney record of conversation (Hurd, Danish & Portugese Foreign Ministers, sundry officials) [informal discussion of future policy towards Yugoslavia] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Aug 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Bosnia: UKE Washington telegram 1718 to FCO (2350Z) ("Yugoslavia") [US Administration "thinking hard" about protecting humanitarian relief corridors, but large military presence on the ground "was not on"; will "start thinking about safe havens"; UNSCR thought essential] ​​​​​​​[released Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Aug 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Major letter for Slovenian Prime Minister Kucan (Slovenian membership of the European Community) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Aug 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Bosnia: Douglas Hurd draft letter to MT (as annotated by PM Major) [Major urges he offer MT a meeting] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 92 Aug 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Bosnia: FCO telegram 693 to UKE Washington (1540Z) ("Yugoslavia: Use of Force Resolution") [questions for US Administration] ​​​​​​​[released Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Aug 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Bosnia: Douglas Hurd letter to MT (counters her letter) [acknowledges Belgrade ultimately controls Bosnian Serbs, but rejects military action] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 92 Aug 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (FBI) US: FBI Boston teletype to FBI Director (PIRA plot against MT) [PIRA suspects - background and movements; threats against MT - “we are going to take care of her”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 92 Sep 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (FBI) US: FBI memorandum (“Alleged threat to assassinate former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher …”) [named IRA operatives “capable of carrying out such an act”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 92 Sep 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury letter (“The Exchange Rate” [after Black Wednesday]) [“devaluation … a blessing in disguise … how and when we rejoin the ERM”] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 92 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: UKA Washington fax for Stephen Wall ("Baroness Thatcher: Calls at the White House") [Bush "gave me a large wink" when MT talked of Europe] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 92 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“Should sterling rejoin & if so when?”) [“should not exclude … the possibility that … floating has a better chance of success”] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 92 Sep 19 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) MT: Debbie Fletcher letter to Alex Allen (MT's CNN speech) ​​​​​​​[enclosing text] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 92 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("Enlargement Negotiations") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Oct 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("European Community: visit of Prime Minister Lubbers of the Netherlands") [Maastricht Treaty] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Oct 6 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO minute to No.10 ("Visit of Turkish Prime Minister, 23 November") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO minute to No.10 ("Visit of Turkish Prime Minister, 23 November") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Defence Implications of Community Enlargement") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Oct 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister of Turkey Demirel letter to Major (Turkey/EC cooperation) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO briefing for Major ("Call by Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers of the Netherlands: Tuesday 10 November") [Maastricht Treaty ratification; subsidiarity; openness; future financing; sites of EC institutions; GATT; former Yugoslavia; enlargement; Eastern Europe] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Oslo telegram 375 to FCO (1143Z) ("Norwegian Labour Party Conference: Decision to Apply for EC Membership") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Nov 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (Major, Hurd, Lubbers, Michael Jenkins) [Maastricht Treaty] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Nov 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("Letter from the Turkish Prime Minister") [Major's draft reply: EC/Turkey relations] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO briefing for Major ("Prime Minister's Lunch with Prime Minister of Demirel of Turkey on 23 November, 1992") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Major letter to Prime Minister of Turkey Demirel (Turkey/EC cooperation) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Nov 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: No.10 record of conversation (John Major, Turkish Prime Minister Demirel) [war in Yugoslavia; Turkey/EC; privatisation & Turkish economic situation; Northern Iraq; Cyprus; human rights] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Nov 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Wilson minute for Arthur ("Possible Increase in British MEPs; Boundary Changes") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Nov 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister of Norway Brundtland letter for Hurd (Norwegian application for membership of the EC) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Nov 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister of Sweden Bildt letter for Major (Swedish application for membership of the EC) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 92 Nov 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: UKE Ankara telegram 767 to FCO (0716Z) ("Demirel's Visit to London: Coverage in Turkish Press") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 92 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Swedish Foreign Minister Bildt letter to Major (Swedish application for membership of the EC) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 93 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) MT: Prentice minute for FCO Permanent Under-Secretary ("Lady Thatcher's 1993 Travel Plans") ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 93 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Minister of Agriculture letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Visit to Sweden and Finland: 19-21 November 1992") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 93 Jan 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 29 to FCO (0600Z) ("EC/Malta") [Maltese foreign minister "claims German support for early EC membership"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 93 Apr 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Bosnia: US Embassy in London telegram to Secretary of State (Thatcher attacks UK policy in Bosnia) [unclassified]
PDF 93 Apr 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO ("Lady Thatcher's visit to Poland") ["Bosnia and the need to help the democratic reform movement in Russia were her two main themes both in public and private, but no new elements in the Bosnia case"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]
PDF 93 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Vienna telegram 153 to FCO (1526Z) ("Austria and Schengen") [change in position: Austria wants to join Schengen only after it joins the EC] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 93 Jul 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“Britain & the ERM: Chancellor’s speech to the European Policy Forum”) [defends Lamont speech, 10 July 1992] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 93 Aug 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“Calculating the cost of ‘Black Wednesday’”) [methodology discussed] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 93 Aug 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“The cost of intervention”) [$4.19b over 3 Aug 1992 - 1 Apr 1993] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 93 Dec 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“The cost of intervention”) [counterfactuals] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 93 Dec 21 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“The ERM Project”) [lengthy analysis of decision to join & policy during membership] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 94 Jan 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“Reflections on the UK’s membership of the ERM”) [comment on the ERM project paper] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 94 Jan 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“Reflections on the UK’s membership of the ERM”) [further comment on the ERM project paper] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 94 Jan 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Lyne-Martin Mansergh) [urges British Government to remain "reasonably optimistic" as to PIRA response to Joint Declaration; Adams visa] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 153 to FCO (2205Z) ("Gerry Adams") [no decision yet on visa application, State & Speaker opposed, NSC keen to give 'constructive' response] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington letter to FCO ("Gerry Adams") [disturbing conversation with NSC official] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Lyne-Lake's secretary) [Adams visa - Sinn Fein stringing along British and Irish Governments in seeking clarification of Joint Declaration] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute for Major ("Northern Ireland") [expectation that PIRA will not accept Joint Declaration and are preparing for increased violence; ways to pressurise Sinn Fein] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Northern Ireland Office ("USA/Gerry Adams") [seeks comment on draft letter from No.10 to National Security Adviser Tony Lake] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 23 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Lyne-Lake) [talks between No.10 and White House over the weekend re: US visa for Gerry Adams] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to NIO ("Northern Ireland meeting on 26 January") [advance notice of questions PM wants to explore] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington fax to No.10 ("Gerry Adams") [Holl at NSC warning that Adams visa would be granted on terms unacceptable to UK] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 179 to FCO (2341Z) ("Gerry Adams") [Acting Secretary of State Tarnoff wanted visa idea dropped or granted only by agreement with UK] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Foreign Secretary-US Ambassador) ["Northern Ireland: Visa for Gerry Adams" - Hurd warned against granting it without denunciation of violence; Seitz spoke of pressures on Clinton] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for PM ("Ministerial Meeting on Northern Ireland, 26 January") [includes summary of intelligence assessment, 19 Jan] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO telegram to UKE Washington (2055Z) ("Visa for Gerry Adams") [Hurd lobbied "a receptive Christopher" who said question not yet with the President] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 203 to FCO (1600Z) ("Gerry Adams") [dozen Senators signing letter to Clinton calling for visa; split recommendation with NSC favouring visa on conditions weaker than UK wants] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation ("Ministerial Meeting on Northern Ireland, 26 January") [action points, summary and corrections to record] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Lake calls to Lyne) [White House decision to grant visa on conditions; agrees to modify conditions with involvement of State Dept; Adams to be invited to meet US Consul-General & urged to comply publicly] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: NIO record of conversation (Hume calls Chilcot) [argues for Adams visa; views of Clinton and the "Derry people"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington fax to No.10 Press Office ("Adams Visa") [State & NSC press line "singing from the same song sheet"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Mayhew calls Major) [tactics with Irish at IGC] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 231 to FCO (1800Z) ("Gerry Adams") [Tarnoff briefs UKA on Adams meeting with US Consul-General refusing to accept the conditions; Congressional criticism of the conditions, but State intended to stick by them] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 244 to FCO (2350Z) ("Gerry Adams") ["another battle royal" between State and NSC, which wants to grant one-day visa in response to Congressional pressure; recommends further call from Foreign Secretary to Secretary of State] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute for PM (Adams visa update) [NSC pushing back against State; "With luck, this will be past history soon"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to NIO ("USA/Gerry Adams") [Adams refusing US conditions; draft British press line; "we should not strike a triumphalist tone"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO telegram 80 to UKE Washington (1423Z) ("Gerry Adams") [Visa issue - Hurd rang Christopher, who noted strong political pressure from Senators Mitchell, Kennedy & Moynihan] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Lake calls Lyne) ('Adams') [US "going back to Adams again" - "White House desperate to find in favour of Adams"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to National Security Adviser (Gerry Adams visa) [sharing intelligence; four IRA bombs in Oxford Street; trusts US will not go back on its earlier decision] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 29 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to NIO ("Adams/USA: contingency press line") [for use "If Adams now weasels his way into the United States"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to National Security Adviser (Adams visa) [US eyeball to eyeball with Adams; "could not believe that it would be democratic America which blinked. Surely you won't"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute for PM ("Gerry Adams") [given visa; Lyne "did not mince words with Lake when he was telephoned to be told of the decision"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to NIO ("Adams/USA: contingency press line") [small modification following conference call between Renwick, Lyne and Meyer] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington fax to FCO ("Gerry Adams: reactions") [State "extremely disappointed", 'scathing' about White House statement; Holl of NSC "unapologetic about the decision", "could not be separated from the more general feeling that something was fraying in the relationship between the US and the UK"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 46 to FCO (1425Z) ("Northern Ireland") [Taoiseach says publicly he will clarify aspects of Joint Declaration but not renegotiate; generally positive press reactions to issue of US visa to Adams] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute for PM (draft message to President Clinton on Adams visa) ["to show Clinton that he has reached the limits of our tolerance, and should not take us for granted"; Major - "Pl. refer Tuesday when I'm in a calmer mood over this"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute for PM (draft message to Taoiseach) [new material on Adams visa] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to National Security Adviser ("Gerry Adams") [US decision lead item on British radio & tv; newspaper coverage; Adams "trumpeting the fact that he was NOT asked by the US to renounce violence"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Jan 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to UKA Washington ("Gerry Adams") [PM and Foreign Secretary "agreed that our tactic must be to put Adams on the spot, and expose his evasions as directly as we can"; two car bombs in London since visa granted] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 267 to FCO (0515Z) ("Foreign Secretary's call on National Security Adviser, Washington, 31 January") ["FS spells out bluntly our position on Adams. Lake chastened but unrepentant, still hoping that Adams might produce something"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute for PM ("Speech by Gerry Adams in New York, evening of 1 February") ["rumours in Washington that [he] may offer some form of conditional ceasefire"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to National Security Adviser ("Gerry Adams") [terrible UK press, Adams using "the finest platform ever granted to the IRA to justify terrorism"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to UKA Washington ("Gerry Adams") [Major deciding against message to President; US Ambassador to call at No.10 instead] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (evening) (Lyne-Seitz) ("USA/Gerry Adams") [No.10 calls in US Ambassador Ray Seitz - "need to find constructive ways of rebalancing the situation", distancing Administration from Adams's statements] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 274 to FCO (0040Z) ("Gerry Adams") ["Adams offers nothing new" - account of his NYC speech] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 294 to FCO (0450Z) ("President Clinton on Northern Ireland") ["rejected Adams' call to pressurize the British Government on Northern Ireland"; says proposal for a US envoy "overtaken by events"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Letter to the Taoiseach") [contrary to US thinking, Adams visa "relieved rather than increased pressure on the Provisionals to end violence"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Lyne calls Lake) ("USA/Gerry Adams") [British thanks for "corrective action" in President's speech; conversation "amicable on both sides"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to NIO ("Press line on Northern Ireland: Wednesday 2 February") [PM wants "a very firm line in public comment today about Northern Ireland"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Hume calls Lyne) ("USA/Gerry Adams") [British misread Adams visit to US, which put him "under great pressure to refrain from violence and address the Joint Declaration"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 315 to FCO (0025Z) ("Gerry Adams") ["US press already describing the outcome of the visit as disappointing"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Major letter to Reynolds ("Letter to the Taoiseach") [Adams visit "has done a lot of damage and the Administration must be regretting their decision to let him in"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland up-date") [includes action plan and annex on Adams's statements in US - "a dense history lesson", no olive branch] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Hurd-Spring in Brussels) [Spring explains Irish Government position on visa, "some disappointment at the outcome", but would be vindicated if Adams led catholics to a peaceful settlement in the north; Spring thought Adams' commitment to peace genuine] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO telegram 33 to UKHC Ottawa & various posts (1517Z) ("Sinn Fein President's Visit to the US") [warning against Sinn Fein attempts to secure visas] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Reynolds letter to Major ("Letter from the Taoiseach: meeting with the PM") [Adams visit putting great pressure on him not to disappoint; "I do not believe we have in any sense lost the initiative for peace"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to NIO ("Northern Ireland update") [PM thoughts on way ahead; endorses NIO action plan] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 94 Feb 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington fax to FCO ("President Clinton's call to the Prime Minister") [Clinton deeply angered by Sunday Times piece on visa; "very up-beat at the end of his conversation with the Prime Minister ... clearly felt it had gone well"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 97 Aug 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (HM Treasury) EMS: Treasury minute (“The cost of Black Wednesday reconsidered”) [“The most sensible assumptions give a loss of £3.3bn measured at February 1994”] [FOI release 9 Feb 2005]
PDF 02 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Younger MSS) MT: MT to George Younger (thinking of him in his illness) [“we made a difference”]
PDF 02 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Younger MSS) MT: George Younger to MT (thanks - & reflections on 1984-85 miners’ strike)
PDF 04 Jun 26 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) MT: MT to Nancy Reagan (death of her husband) ["History will view him as one of America's greatest Presidents"]
PDF 13 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Order of Service ("The Funeral Service of of The Right Honourable The Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven LG, OM, FRS") [MT's ceremonial funeral at St Paul's Cathedral]

Documents lie at the core of this website, each one dated and sorted chronologically (by default) in search results. Most are images in PDF format of original paper documents scanned or filmed for the site. There also transcripts of speeches and interviews, press articles, photos, videos, and more. The document database contains tens of thousands of items and permits complex searching.

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

Guides are articles about key events and topics. Many were written to accompany annual releases of Mrs Thatcher’s private and party papers at the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge.

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