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PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) France: Élysée menu (lunch with Mitterrand) [to discuss European Council meeting, Middle East, East/West relations] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economic policy: MT letter to Professor Brian Griffiths (MT attacked at IEA lunch) [“It was a bit of a bumpy ride!”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Michael Alison minute to MT (“Mail on Sunday article about your PPS!”) [Falkender criticism; MA already moving to a more active Commons role] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s Visit to Hungary“) [press briefing - MT insists on not minimising 1956] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Trade and Industry ("Coal-firing Scheme") [MT wants review of the coal-firing scheme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tebbit) [competition policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: NIO Establishment Division circular (“Visits to Northern Ireland by the Prime Minister - Instructions for use of codeword”) [“Operation Equity”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe (future of the Crown Agents) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Richard Luce minute for Paul Channon (credit for Libya) [agrees to offer if rivals do; MT endorses 'reluctantly'] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO record of conversation (Baroness Young, Minister of State - US Congressional Delegration) [Grenada, Falklands-Argentina, Middle East, enlargement of EC, NATO, terrorism] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (Future of Hong Kong: HMG’s public position) [policy paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Summary of conclusions at the Prime Minister’s meeting with Hong Kong Unofficials on 16 January”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster minute for MT (“The Argentine and the Falklands”) [restoration of commercial links] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute for Coles (“Relations with Argentina”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Goodall minute for MT (“OD: Northern Ireland Electricity Service: Possible Sale of Electricity Generating Sets to Argentina”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Goodall minute for MT (“Argentina/Falklands - Next Steps with the Alfonsin Government (OD (84) 1)”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ridley minute for MT (“Argentina/Falklands: Next Steps”) [restoration of the Air Services Agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Sir Geoffrey Howe minute to Peter Rees ("FCO Expenditure Problems") [how to make progress on outstanding issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Heseltine minute to Howe ("Defence Communications Centre (DCC)") [staff reduction: "I have decided that the inspectors' proposals should be pursued, recognising the risk that there will be industrial action as a result"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT (Promotion blockages in the Civil Service) ["You... specifically asked for my views on two points: the reality of the [low] morale argument: and the reality of the link between reduced career prospects and Civil Service efficiency"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Competition and Privatisation") [candidates for privatisation; market implications of the proposed programme; legislative implications; proposal to transfer all except "special" shares to Treasury] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") ["Commission... ought to be able to pay up to 90 per cent of our refunds... and, indeed, the outstanding £42 million risk-sharing money, by the end of March. We shall watch the position closely"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Public Expenditure White Paper: Net Contributions to Community Institutions") ["if we broke the link [in the White Paper, with 1983 refunds], we might well be asked whether the £42 million had in practice been written off"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Department of Agriculture record of conversation (meeting with the Danish Minister of Agriculture) [Jopling, Kofoed; officials: pricing policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gow, Mayhew) ["Latent Damage and Defective Housing": legal position] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 270 to FCO (2322Z) ("Visit to the United States by the Irish Prime Minister") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 274 to FCO (2342Z) ("LAF action in the Shuweifat Gap") [MNF opposition to proposed action; US expresses pragmatic view in private] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Alan Walters note to MT ("Young Workers Wages") ["Young Workers Scheme has been quite successful"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Scott Lithgow") ["If ever there was a case for not bailing out a public sector disaster, this is it"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Scott Lithgow") [MT's conditions for meeting with STUC] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Scott Lithgow") [background; papers; key questions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to Rees ("Britoil Contract at Scott Lithgow") [latest position on dispute with British Shipbuilding] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Heseltine minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow") [comments on Younger proposals for recovery initiative in Inverclyde area] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal) to Miss Wallace ("Electricity Prices") [lines to take] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Butcher, Barry Jones MP) [British Aerospace & employment in Deeside] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 letter to John Pennington (acquisition of FBC Group by West German company Schering) [benefits of encouraging foreign investment & of UK investments abroad] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to Lord Bridge (Sarah Tisdall case) [views sought on case for referral to Security Commission] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Welsh Office letter to No.10 ("Government Response to Committee on Welsh Affairs - Water in Wales") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("OD: East-West Relations") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hungary: Coles letter to C.J. Chetwood (MT visit to Hungary) [MT will visit Wimpey site] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hungary: FCO notes for MT (“Points for use in private conversations in Budapest”) [talk with Kádár; MT declines to raise German unification] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek letter to Charles Douglas-Home (complaint about missing copies of The Times )
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute for MT (“Competition and Privatisation: E(A) (84) 3”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute for MT (“Competition Policy”) [Tebbit unhappy with new proposals; MT sides with him against Armstrong] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior statement (Hennessy Report) [escape from the Maze] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO (“The Canadian Politican Scene”) [“Canadians are tired of Mr Trudeau”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Barry Jones) [redundancies in British Aerospace] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: David Trippier minute to MT (impact of Huntley and Palmer closure) [plans underway to estabish enterprise agency in Knowsley] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Angola: MT letter to President Dos Santos of Angola (bilateral relations) [conflict in South Angola, South African military operations] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Patrick Jenkin minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Reviews: Urban Programme") [problems of social and economic deprivation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: MT letter to President Dos Santos (British mercenary prisoners) [message of thanks for forthcoming release] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: MT letter to President Dos Santos (relations between the UK and Angola) [trade; conflict in Southern Angola; South African role in the conflict] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Spain/Gibraltar") [reply to request for "advice on any further steps which might be taken in support of efforts to sell RAPIER to Spain"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Institute of Fiscal Studies: Study on EC Budget") ["Our concern is... that the IFS figures can easily be misinterpreted by those opposed to the Government's negotiating strategy"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [post-Stuttgart negotiations; EC enlargement; ESPRIT information technology programme; Jopling meeting with Danish counterpart; Anglo-Italian summit; Steel Council; Fisheries Council; French farmer protests] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Gow letter to MT ("Defective Housing") [private sector] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Younger, Walker, Jenkin, Tebbit, Rees, Redwood) ["Scott Lithgow"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Sir William Lithgow letter to No.10 ("Why Scott Lithgow Deserves To Live") [sends them his letter to the Financial Times] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Teachers' Superannuation Scheme (TSS) (England and Wales)") [key points in advance of meeting to discuss Joseph's case for maintaining employee contribution rate at 6% and for seeking the increase required entirely from employer contributions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howe minute to Peter Walker ("Prospects for World Oil Market") [tactical options in event of a price collapse] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hungary: Draft MT speech for Lázár dinner (first draft, further annotated) [“The chairs at Geneva have already stayed empty too long”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: FCO minute to No.10 (“Opening of the Joint European Torus (JET)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Adam Ridley minute for Chancellor (“Visit to Federal German Chancellery: January 12 1984”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Budget, competition policy, pay, currency, Treasury Ministers and Lloyds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Space: President Reagan letter to MT (manned space station programme) [suggests collaboration & that NASA head meets with MT] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industry: David Trippier minute to MT (impact of Huntley and Palmer factory closure) [plans underway to establish enterprise agency in Knowsley] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Caroline Ryder minute to MT (“Whitsun Recess”) [clash of events with proposed meeting with TUC delegation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague to FCO (“Possible Visit by Dutch Prime Minister”) [Lubbers view on dates; van den Broek would come too] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“Non-Domestic Rating Revaluation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Goodall to MT (“Consequences of an Escalation of the Iran-Iraq War (OD(EM) (84) 1)”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Denis Thatcher letter to Coles (his visit to South Africa: Colin Brandt) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“The Stansted Inquiry”) [misunderstanding about the Environment Secretary’s statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: 8th round of talks: first day”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Hong Kong Government telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong”) [Adley MP: Kuomintang investigation] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague letter to No.10 ("Mr Lubbers/Mrs Thatcher") ['Time' magazine: article on recent MT visit to Netherlands/austerity measures/deployment of cruise missiles] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite") ["[Brittan] feels that Sir Antony Part has exceeded his remit in offering advice on issues which go well beyond the question of transmission standards"; draft reply rebutting Part's criticisms of DBS project handling] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Efficiency Unit letter to Heseltine (targets for management and efficiency improvement) ["I think that you personally may be interested to know about the overall response to my letter... your approach in MOD is absolutely in the right direction... I would like to offer my help"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie letter to Brittan ("Report of the Joint Review Group (JRG) on Employment Opportunities for Women in the Civil Service: Programme of Action in Response to its Recommendations") [Trade Union concerns; Programme & policy statement by PQ/draft press notice; costs] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: MT message to Prime Minister Gandhi (Republic Day) [congratulations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 307 to FCO (2350Z) ("Lebanon") ["Congressional worries about the Marines' role in Lebanon"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (meeting with the Prime Minister) [MT rules out attendance of a wider group of local community representatives] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley minute to MT (Hoverspeed ferry company receivership) ["if the company closes there will, regretfully, be a loss of some 600 jobs... [but] privatised companies must stand or fall by their own efforts"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO telegram 22 to UKE Berne (1052Z) ("Relations with Argentina") [conditions for talks; proposed agenda; public presentation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 0295 to FCO (0435Z) ("President Reagan's State of the Union Address") [main points] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Oil") [tactical options in event of a price collapse] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 letter to Mrs Elizabeth Charles (MT visit to Hungary) [no time to meet with Church leaders] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hungary: Draft MT speech for Lázár dinner (first draft, annotated) [MT: “I think that at some point we must make clear how much we value our way of life and that there could be no retreat from it”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 3rd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Timing of Non-Domestic Revaluation) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Jopling memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 2 (Liquid Milk Prices and the Future of Milk Farming) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe message to UKE Paris (“Visit by Monsieur Dumas”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO Steering Brief (“Visit of the PM to Hungary: 2-4 Feb 1984”) [overview & objectives] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hatfield minute to Taylor (“Destruction of the IRA”) [proposals for new security arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Barclay minute to Department of Employment (Liverpool community programme scheme) [proposed MT visit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 306 to FCO (2347Z) (“State of the Union address: President Reagan and the US budget deficit”) [“he does not wish to make hard economic choices in an election year”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome to FCO (“Anglo Italian Summit: 26-27 January: Falklands”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram for Civil Commissioner of the Falklands ("Relations with Argentina") [declassified Jan 2014]

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

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