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PDF 83 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: Parsons minute to Coles ("Grenada") ["It is becoming increasingly obvious that [the US] had been planning the Grenada move for some time"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) France: French Ambassador to London, Emmanuel de Margerie, letter to MT (thanks for hospitality at Downing Street) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Grenada) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Australia: Prime Minister Hawke of Australia letter to MT (appointment of new Australian High Commissioner to the UK) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Lebanon: King Hussein of Jordan letter to MT (situation in the Lebanon; Hussein's letter to Reagan) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: Prime Minister Seaga of Jamaica letter to MT (explanation of military action against Grenada) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada message to MT (heightened tension in East-West relations) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: President Gayoom of the Maldives message to MT (Maldives opposes invasion of Grenada) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan) [obscenity laws] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Grenada: McFarlane briefing for President Reagan (call MT to smooth differences) [declassified 2000]
Text 83 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Grenada: Reagan phone call to Thatcher (record of conversation) [declassified 2000]
Text 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Professor Donald Longmore letter to No.10 (Griffiths Report) [Consultant Clinical Physiologist at the National Heart Hospital: criticism of Report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Nationalised Industry References to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission") [1983 & 1984 Programmes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Department of Trade & Industry letter for Coles ("Turkey: Diesel Electric Locomotives") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Royal Family: UKE Beijing telegram 1090 to FCO (0300Z) ("Possible Visit by Duke of Edinburgh") [advice regarding request from World Wildlife Fund for Duke to accompany delegation to China in his capacity as President of WWF] [declassified Nov 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 minute to Jenkin PS ("Possible Visit by the Prime Minister to the International Garden Festival") [request for advice on the proposal] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Greece: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Visit of Prime Minister of Greece: 4 November") [proposed agenda, expect meeting to focus on EC issues, bilateral relations] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO (“Disarmament negotiations: Canadian position on French and British missiles”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Butler minute for Turnbull (MISC 99 “Star Chamber” update) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Howe PS letter to Biffen PS (“Publication of monthly PSBR figures”) [move to focus on public sector rather than central government borrowing] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("Contacts with France and Germany on EC issues") [Council of Europe, 4-6 December] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Canadian High Commissioner letter to MT (East/West relations) [text of Prime Minister Trudeau's address to Guelph University] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Paris ("Lebanon: Meeting of MNF Foreign Ministers in Paris 27 October") [record of conversation] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Cairo telegram to FCO ("Lebanon") ["The Egyptians are mounting an ambitious diplomatic effort to capitalise on the emotions aroused by the Beirut bombings with a view to reactivating the peace process through the Reagan initiative or some variant"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: President Mubarak letter to MT (peace in the Middle East) [proposals for reviving Reagan peace initiative following bomb attack of 23rd October on Multinational Forces] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT/security: FCO Security Department minute ("Security Brief for Prime Minister's Visit to New Delhi for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 23-30 November 1983") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("AFZ officers") [release] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: Howe minute to MT ("Sale of RAF Hunters to Zimbabwe") [counter-argument for proceeding with sale despite Heseltine concern in his minute to MT regarding "clear moral and presentational difficulties... at a time when ex-RAF officers are being monstrously treated in that country"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Barney Hayhoe PS letter to No.10 (Parliamentary Debate on the Civil Service) ["Government's achievements on manpower and the search for efficiency and effectiveness will form the core of the Minister's speech"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF: forthcoming Bundestag debate") [scheduling delayed as opposition insist on more than one day for the debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Pay Review Bodies") [report on E(PSP) committee meeting: terms of reference of the Review Bodies; exchanges between MT and the Chairmen] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Grenada/Lebanon: McFarlane background briefing (“regarding the President’s address”) [Soviet probes] [declassified 2010]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: UKE Paris to FCO ("Grenada") [Howe meets with Schultz: Shultz reports that Cuban presence on Grenada "turned out to be larger and more ominous than the US had estimated"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada) [situation in Grenada; Trudeau suggests general Commonwealth call for truce] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3174 to FCO (2153Z) ("Grenada: The Future") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 31st (Parliamentary Affairs, Grenada, Lebanon, EC Budget) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Younger minute to MT ("Wales Rate Support Grant 1984-85") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: Hugh Thomas letter to MT (US action in Grenada) ["now that it has occurred, & has been reasonably successful, may I suggest that we do make the best of it"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: Shipley note for the record ("The 'Peace' Movement") [report on CND demonstration] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT message to Reagan (meeting of NATO's Nuclear Planning Group) [future size of NATO's nuclear stockpile] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Grenada) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) British Telecom: Redwood minute to Turnbull (information on BT service for MT's speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Lebanon: President Mubarak of Egypt letter to MT (situation in Lebanon) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (Anglo-Irish Summit programme) [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: No.10 internal minute (“John Selwyn Gummer”) [advice on television & radio fee offers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: EXCO”) [Cradock: “I am disturbed at the developments in EXCO”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1172 to FCO (0026Z) (“Secretary Genrals report: Falklands”) [appeals for dialogue and offers services as intermediary] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 1803 to UKE Washington (1440Z) (“Falklands at the General Assembly”) [concerns about US policy] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Tebbit letter to Tom King (British Shipbuilding: pay & redundancies) [negotiations with unions; strike action] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to Rees ("Britoil Contract at Scott Lithgow (SL)") [case for advising SL to renegotiate contract for what would be the shipyard's last order before closure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Conservative Research Department briefing ("Debate on British Shipbuilders (Borrowing Powers) Bill on Tuesday 1st November 1983") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: David Barclay minute to MT ("Fluoride in Water") [options for legislation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("British Telecom Draft Licence") [summary; analysis; conclusions; Government's future policy on competition in telecommunications] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("BT Draft Licence") [MT authorises circulation of draft Government statement on future competition policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: FCO briefing for MT ("World Leadership of Soviet Jewry") [human rights abuses] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Coles ("COCOM: Computers") [declassified 2015]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit minute to MT ("National Training Commission") ["The need for an initiative of this kind to bring education closer to the world of work and training has been long recognised"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Whitelaw (MISC 99: Education and Science) [student grants] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to MT ("East/West relations") [analysis "as we approach the first phase of INF deployment"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Dutch 1984 budget: civil service pay") [report] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Zimbabwe": Rifkind visit; sale of RAF Hunters; aid; detained Air Force officers; programme loan agreement] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Indian Minister for External Affairs: 1 - 4 November") [US invasion of Grenada; MT visit to India/Commonwealth HoG meeting; Steering Brief] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: No.10 minute to MT ("CHOGM") [Heads of Government meeting in Goa & New Delhi: MT programme & statement to Indian media] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: No.10 briefing for MT (“Political expenditure by companies and Trade Unions”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Brittan minute to MT (“Withstanding an oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [comments on report - whether Emergency Powers Act 1920 should be amended] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (upcoming meetings with Gregson and Armstrong on miners' pay and power station endurance) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to MT (Media Meeting agenda and Press Digest) [Grenada] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to MT ("BBC World Phone-In - Sunday, October 30, 1983") [briefing] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Portugal: Prime Minister Soares of Portugal letter to MT (request for accession of Portugal to the EEC) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: MT letter to Robert Maxwell-Hyslop MP (delay in delivery of letter from Home Office to Maxwell-Hyslop) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: MT letter to David Owen (Owen believes SDP representative should be invited to the Cenotaph remembrance ceremony) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for Coles (finalising arrangements for Anglo-Irish Summit) [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Jenkin PS note to No.10 (“PSA: restructuring”) [Property Services Agency: consultation with trade unions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: MOD minute to No.10 (Hawk trainer aircraft sale to Kuwait Air Force) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“KMT [Kuomintang] activities in Hong Kong”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS briefing to No.10 (Hong Kong) [briefing for Michael Alison meeting with Adley] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Letter to the Prime Minister from Mr Trudeau: Hong Kong) [Chinese Foreign Minister’s visit to Canada] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Reaction to the elections in Argentina”) [proposed UK government official reaction] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Falklands: possible visit by Argentine next-of-kin”) [MT disagrees with Howe’s proposal] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Oct 29 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Oct 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3214 to FCO (2220Z) ("Lebanon: Message from President Reagan") [Oliver Wright, Lawrence Eagleburger record of conversation: US response to bomb attack of 23rd Oct on Multinational Forces; Eagleburger's forthcoming visit to Israel] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [arms sales to Argentina] [published 2015]
PDF 83 Oct 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) St. Kitts and Nevis: Prime Minister Simmonds of St. Kitts and Nevis letter to MT (appointment of new High Commissioner to the UK) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: dinner with Yao Guang”) [record of conversation: Cradock, Guang] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Oct 30 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Oct 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3225 to FCO (2040Z) ("Grenada: Short Term Conclusions") [thoughts on US intervention and how to deal with the US in the future] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3226 to FCO (2042Z) ("Grenada: The Longer Term") ["the Congress is collectively insulted by the absence of consultation"] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ministers: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Ministerial conflicts of interest) [David Trippier: Royal Marines] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Pay Review Bodies") ["putting less weight on comparability"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Greece: Nikos Kyriazides letter to John Coles ("Visit of Greek Prime Minister: 4 November") [proposed guest list, reception invite for MT] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister Soares letter to MT (Accession of Portugal to the EC) ["Portugal's treaty... should be signed earlier than Spain's... This would be the logical result of the separate consideration of each candidature and its appreciation on its own merits"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Alex Fletcher letter to Biffen ("European Economic Interest Groupings") [House of Lords EC Scrutiny Committee involvement in consultation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (Law of Trespass) [drafting of new Bill] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Greville Janner MP & delegation of the Presidium of the World Conference on Soviet Jewry) ["World Conference of Soviet Jewry": human rights abuses] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Lord Hailsham (review of the prison adjudication system) [terms of reference] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("National Training Commission") [reassignment of funding & responsibilities for further vocational education and for employment services] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Michio Watanabe, member of Japanese Diet) [trade & economic relations; corruption charges against former Prime Minister Tanaka] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Director General of the Japanase International Trade Policy Bureau letter to Alan Walters (Japanese market access: promotion mission) [Japanese Government Ministry of Trade and Industry request for mission leader to meet with MT] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3238 to FCO (2336Z) ("Lebanon") [responsibility for bomb attack of 23rd Oct on Multinational Forces] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Lebanon: Message from President Reagan") [draft reply to Reagan letter concerning bomb attack of 23rd Oct on Multinational Forces] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("INF: demonstration in The Hague) [report] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Independent Broadcasting Authority record of conversation (MT, Ingham, members of IBA) ["Internal note of discussion at lunch with the Prime Minister 31.10.83"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Heseltine ("Obligations of Civil Service Managers and Noting of Files") [MT "content with the [Standing Group on Industrial Action] proposals relating to obligations but had reservations about the recommendation that there should be no change in the policy that industrial action is not formally recorded"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("CHOGM: Programme for Mr. Thatcher") [Heads of Government meeting in Goa & New Delhi] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Armstrong-Gregson) ["Enduring a coal strike"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Energy Efficiency Office press release (“Our Crusade to Save Cash”) [campaign launch] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: No.10 record of conversation (MT-King-Tebbit-Gummer) ["Political contributions by companies"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 letter to Welsh Office ("Rate Support Grant 1984-85: Wales and Scotland") [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: Hugh Thomas minute to MT (Thomas "perturbed" by MT's line on the Grenada invasion) ["I cannot help thinking that the U.S. action was a blessing; and not a blessing in disguise"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Mauritius: Prime Minister Jugnauth of Mauritus letter to MT (appointment of new Mauritian High Commissioner to the UK) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Portugal: Prime Minister Soares of Portugal letter to MT (request for accession of Portugal to the EEC) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Jim Molyneaux (MT's meeting with the Taoiseach) [MT's meeting with Fitzgerald has no implications for constitutional status of Northern Ireland] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: MT letter to David Owen (Owen believes SDP representative should be invited to the Cenotaph remembrance ceremony) [further response] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Science: MT letter to Sir Andrew Huxley, President of the Royal Society (need to postpone MT's Royal Society admission ceremony) ["I need hardly say that this incident does not detract one jot from the honour which I feel in having been elected to the Fellowship"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Molyneaux (Anglo-Irish relations and Northern Ireland’s position) [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Coles note to MT (Anglo-Irish Summit Joint Studies review) [MT note: “Would you ask Michael (Alison) to go through this very carefully before I decide”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“Economic Summit 1984”) [arrangements Queen’s state dinner] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: press coverage”) [UK/China talks] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: MT message to Pierre Trudeau (Hong Kong) ["We shall keep you in the picture as the talks proceed"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger letter to Rees ("Britoil Contract at Scott Lithgow") [case for supporting British Shipbuilding to keep shipyard open] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tebbit, King, Young, Armstrong) ["National Training Commission": reassignment of funding & responsibilities for further vocational education and for employment services] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Whitelaw ("MISC 99: Education and Science") [university current expenditure & proposed cuts; student grants] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Anglo-Irish Summit: Joint Studies Review") [MT comments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Tehran telegram to FCO ("Threat to UK presence in Lebanon") [anonymous phone call in wake of recent bomb attacks on US/French forces] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to Heseltine PS ("Lebanon: UK contribution to the Multinational Force (MNF)") [extension of deployment] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("INF Delivery Timetable") ["I am... enclosing for you only a summary of Mr Heseltine's three conversations... with Mr Weinberger on 27th/28th October"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to Heseltine ("Defence sales to Libya: Saladin spares") ["I found it necessary to delay political approval for this export license in September, following an intemperate Libyan threat to give active support to the IRA. We now need to decide whether to go ahead"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Lawson minute to MT (“Withstanding an oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [comments on report - should use more service drivers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Heseltine-Tebbit-Younger-King-Armstrong-Gregson) ["Endurance in the Event of a Miners' Strike"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Coles minute for MT (“Date of Anglo/German Summit for Spring 1984”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: US Ambassador to London J.J. Louis letter to MT (thanks for farewell wishes and No.10 visit) ["In spite of the rather rough treatment I have received from R.R., I am going back to the U.S. to help him get re-elected"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Butler minute to MT ("Falklands Dinner at Northwood: Tuesday 1 November") [notes for speech and menu] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT speech for Falklands Dinner at Northwood [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT speech for Falklands Dinner at Northwood [with MT annotations - page missing] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Turkey: MT message to Prime Minister Ulusu of Turkey (Turkish earthquake) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Trade: MT letter to President Diouf of Senegal (response to invitation to FIDAK trade fair) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hong Kong: MT letter to Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada (future of Hong Kong) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Ambassador) [Anglo-US relationship] [declassified 2014]
Text 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Canadian Students") [higher fees for international students] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Community Programme") ['Benefit-Plus' & 'Workfare' schemes; reforming the CP; Voluntary Projects Programme] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Future Development of Community Programme") [options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: George Younger letter to Tebbit (revision of the Assisted Area Map) [Travel to Work Area data] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: No.10 record of conversation (1510Z) (MT-Michio Watanabe MP of Japan) ["Call on the Prime Minister by Mr. Watanabe": message from Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan; politics and economics of Thatcherism; political situation in Japan; Grenada; sanctions against USSR; Anglo-Japanese relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 letter to Lawson PPS (“Publication of monthly PSBR figures”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (MISC 99) [current status of Keith Joseph negotiations on education budgets] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph) ["Public expenditure survey - education"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKE San Jose telegram to FCO ("Nicaragua: post Grenada") ["Continued Contra raids and US intervention in Grenada have considerably increased tension in Nicaragua] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Summit: 7 November") [briefing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Summit: call on the Taoiseach") [Goodison, FitzGerald record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Anglo-Irish Summit: meeting with Taoiseach) [Armstrong, FitzGerald record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal procedure: No.10 minute to MT (powers of the Contempt of Court Act 1981) [allegations against third party in court trials: case involving Edward Heath] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 letter to Waldegrave PS (abolition of the metropolitan authorities) [arts funding; implication of abolition for Lord Lieutenants] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with the Chancellor”) [public expenditure including student grants; NIC; Ferdy Mount's policy White Paper proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Narasimha Rao) [Indian Minister for External Affairs: US invasion of Grenada; MT visit to India/Commonwealth HoG meeting; bilateral with Mrs Gandhi] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The next President of the European Commission") [candidates: "should probably come from one of the Big Four... a good German would probably be best for us"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Howe meeting with Andreotti; 1984 draft EC budget; German paper on future financing & EC budget inequity; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Post Stuttgart Negotiations: Meeting of Ministers, 9.30am 4 November") ["to review... [UK] negotiating situation for the Special Council on 9-12 November"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: North memo for McFarlane ("Call from Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick") [has "re-established rapport" with MT] [declassified 2005]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Cockfield letter to Butler ("Mansion House Speech") ["I have serious reservations about describing us as a "Reforming Government"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Liberia: Samuel Doe of Liberia letter to MT (request for debt relief) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Commonwealth: Prime Minister Muldoon of New Zealand letter to MT (thoughts on the international economy prior to New Delhi Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Commonwealth: Prime Minister Muldoon of New Zealand letter to MT (thoughts on the international economy prior to New Delhi Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Loh letter to Coles (Hong Kong Observers) [presentation to Peking] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) International economic policy: President Samuel Doe of Liberia letter to MT (economic, social and political conditions in Liberia) [request for aid] declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Grenada: State Department assessment of damage done to US image in Europe [declassified 2002]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: Peter Ricketts minute to No.10 (“Iran-Iraq: Sale of Arms”) [analysis of British policy] [declassified 2014]
Text 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Buchanan-Smith letter to Lamont ("Britoil Contract at Scott Lithgow") ["If Britoil are prepared to negotiate... it would be a mistake not to steer BS into this course of action"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Ferdinand Mount & Andrew Turnbull (Nationalised Industries Chairmen's Group proposals) [details; handling] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: George Younger letter to Tebbit ("Review of Regional Economic Policy") [White Paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Greece: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Greece: The Noel-Baker Estate") [Noel-Baker negotiations with Greek government, situation of British property holders] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: John Coles minute to MT ("Mr. Papandreou") [during meeting Papandreou wants to concentrate on EC issues, should raise concerns on British property holders] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Robert Armstrong at 0830 on Friday, 4 November") [candidate to head Police Department in the Home Office; leak to 'Guardian' newspaper regarding Cruise deployment, and decision on Government legal action] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to MT ("UK/Soviet and East/West relations") [MT requests redraft of attached paper, to exclude references to her forthcoming visit to Hungary and her possible meeting with Andropov, before circulation to OD committee] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Greville Janner MP/President of the Commonwealth Jewish Council letter to MT (persecution of Jews in Zimbabwe) [request for MT to intercede with Mugabe] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: MT letter to Sonny Ramphal (CHOGM: response to Mrs Gandhi’s address of welcome) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury briefing to No.10 (Public Expenditure Survey 1983: Defence) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit internal minute to PS (“Public Expenditure: Defence”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“Economic assumptions”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Fowler PS letter to Rees PS (“Social Security programme”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Heseltine PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (“Privatisation and competition”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("Public expenditure survey: university current expenditure") [proposed compromise between MISC 99 recommended £50 million cut and Keith Joseph's resistance to it] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [Robert Armstrong, Dermot Nally: Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Council: Co-ordinating Committee: final text of report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT message to President Reagan ("US casualties in Beirut") [tribute ceremony] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT letter to President Mubarak (Lebanon and the Middle East) [thoughts on the way forward for negotiating peace in wake of bomb attacks on US/French forces] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Security at the British Embassy, Beirut") [contingency measures following recent bomb attacks on US/French forces] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Sir Antony Part letter to Brittan ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite: Technical Transmission Standards") ["a high level political approach... might now clinch the French Government's acceptance of the C-MAC packet system as the single European standard"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Copenhagen telegram to FCO ("Denmark/INF") [details of Danish Parliament debate on nuclear arms control] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to President Mitterrand (European Council: post-Stuttgart negotiations) [appointment of senior official for bilateral contacts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS minute to No.10 ("Meeting with Ian Stewart") [Economic Secretary: proposed meeting with MT to discuss European policies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe) ["Grenada"; MT requests paper on "various claims made by the United States during the Grenada crisis and our own estimate of the validity of those claims"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [despite some lack of clarity about Irish ideas, "Officials nevertheless argue that it would be premature to dismiss Dr Fitzgerald's ideas out of hand"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 32nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Grenada, Lebanon, Argentina, Arms Control, EC Budget, Unemployment Figures) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to Sherbourne ("Speaking Notes") [arrangements for issuing speaking notes to Ministers and others] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Joint Report of the Steering Committee of the AIIC to the Anglo-Irish Summit on Anglo-Irish Contacts and Co-Operation [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Admiral Staveley (thanks for Falklands dinner at Northwood) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Zambia: MT message to President Kaunda of Zambia (congratulation on re-election as President) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT message to Reagan (pleased that UK Ambassador to Washington will join Reagan at Fort Le Jeune ceremony) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: MT letter to Prime Minister Mara of Fiji (last Fijians leave the British Army) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT letter to President Mitterrand (bilateral contacts for decision-making in advance of Athens European Council) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Lebanon: MT letter to President Mubarak of Egypt (situation in Lebanon and the Middle East) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: MT letter to Geoffrey Howe (thanks for excellent service by FCO since beginning of Grenada crisis) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Jimmy Savile (plans for MT visit to Stoke Mandeville hospital) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Visit of Spanish Foreign Minister: Remarks on Hong Kong”) [“Questions of sovereignty and territorial integrity could not be open for discussion”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Jenkin minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (Property Services Agency restructuring) [proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [“Argentine next-of-kin”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Elections in Argentina”) [“preliminary assessment of the results”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Arts and amenities: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Lord Gowrie) [funding for the Royal Opera House and Royal Shakespeare Company] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Ministry of Defence briefing for MT ("Visit by the Indian Minister of Defence") [points to make; biog; background] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Tim Flesher minute to MT (possible lunch with Trudeau) [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Tebbit minute to MT ("Competition Policy in Telecommunications") [draft statement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Statement on Future Competition Policy in Telecommunications") [comments on draft Tebbit statement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Statement on Future Competition Policy in Telecommunications") [comments on draft DTI statement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Howe minute to Tebbit ("Cable and Wireless and British Telecom") [stipulation that Chair/Chief Executive of C&W be UK citizen: contravention of EEC Treaty] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Chairman of British Nuclear Fuels PLC (opening of new Company Headquarters in Risley) [MT's preference to visit Capenhurst uranium enrichment plant instead; accepts invitation to open HQ on advice of officials, but still keen to try to fit in Capenhurst to her programme during visit to North West] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Papandreou) [situation in Cyprus, EC Athens summit and budget, Greece/Turkey, Lebanon] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Papandreou) [NATO, EC Athens summit, EC budget, European Parliament elections, Falklands UN resolution, arms control] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong) [leak to 'Guardian' newspaper regarding Cruise deployment; MT decides against Attorney General instituting proceedings] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry letter to No.10 (human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: the Alexander Paritsky case) [latest development] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe PS letter to Coles (“Cyprus: Possible Turkish Cypriot Declaration of Independence”) [“we believe our reactions should be coloured by the need to be seen to fulfil our treaty obligations”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (“Public expenditure: Education - universities) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Heseltine, Rees) [“Public Expenditure Survey 1983: Defence”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Heseltine letter to Whitelaw (“Ministerial Group on Public Expenditure (MISC 99): Defence programme”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“MISC 99: draft Report”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Public Expenditure Survey 1983: Defence”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("National Training Commission and related matters") [concerns about No.10 record of recent meeting, in regard to his Department's powers & responsibilities for further vocational education] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Student grants") ["possible alternative packages": options] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Student Awards - alternative packages") [alternatives to Keith Joseph proposal] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (Public expenditure: universities) ["whether to endorse the proposed £50 million cut... in 1986/87 which the MISC 99 group is recommending"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland: Ulster Polytechnic bomb explosion") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to James Molyneaux MP (Prime Minister's letter of 31st October on her meeting with Taoiseach) [apology for letter's leak to press before receipt by Molyneaux] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit: milk super-levy") ["While we, like the Irish, have expressed reservations about the super-levy, our respective positions are based on diametrically opposite strategic objectives"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Summit: possible Statement to the House of Commons") ["This will be the first Anglo-Irish Summit for two years, following a particularly difficult period in Anglo-Irish relations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: MT letter to President Reagan (terrorist attacks on the Multi-National Forces) [retaliation & reconciliation] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Lebanon") ["The Prime Minister asked that thought be given to what our reaction should be if the US took retaliatory action following the bombing of their marine headquarters on 23 October"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brittan letter to Heseltine ("Cable Bill: the Question of Reserve Ministerial Powers") ["My conclusion is that we should not seek to take powers of this kind"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Bundestag debate on INF: latest position") [deployment of missiles] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms") ["in light of your wish... that this should be treated as a routine matter... I have asked [David Trippier]... to make recommendations to me by the end of the year"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Lamont, Ian Stewart, John MacGregor, Michael Butler, David Williamson, Robert Armstrong) ["European Community: post-Stuttgart negotiations": EC Budget inequity; agriculture; new policies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Net Payments to European Community Institutions: Autumn Statement and Public Expenditure White Paper") [proposals/options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Tebbit minute to MT (“Withstanding an oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [comments on report - more ambitious plan needed] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (informed of MT decision to visit) [outline of plan] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (Bullard confirms MT decision to visit) [“I expressed our great joy”] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Net Payments to European Community Institutions: Autumn Statement and Public Expenditure White Paper") [projection of net payments to EC; MT: "this year's figure turned out to be very embarrassing"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3332 to FCO (0553Z) ("Grenada") ["The Americans continue to express regret about the lack of any adequate consultation"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Williamson minute to Coles ("Post-Stuttgart Negotiations: Confidential Discussions with the French and Germans") [EC budget negotiations] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Lebanon: MT letter to Reagan (attack on US Marines barracks in Beirut) ["I was somewhat relieved to note that George Shultz made it clear that there would be no hasty reaction on your part by way of retaliation for the attacks on your Marines"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Soviet Union: MT letter to Chief Rabbi Jakobovits (MT receives delegation from World Conference on Soviet Jewry) ["Their words brought home to me once again the oppression your people suffer in the Soviet Union"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Ian Paisley (thanks for letter) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ingham note to No.10 (The Crown Agents and the UK interest) [declassified 2014]
Text 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: Thatcher letter to Reagan (Lebanon) [summary declassified 2000]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 3308 to FCO (0445Z) (“US Middle East Policy”) [appointment of Donald Rumsfeld as the Middle East envoy] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1851 to FCO (“American arms for Argentina”) [conversation between Oliver Wright and Kenneth Dam] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Arts and amenities: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Gowrie) [funding for the Royal Opera House and Royal Shakespeare Company] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Arts and amenities: Lord Gowrie letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Financial scrutiny of the Royal Opera House and Royal Shakespeare Company”) [Priestley report] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Nov 5 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Reagan message to MT (bombing of US Marine base in Beirut, Lebanon) ["Those who committed this atrocity cannot be allowed to strike again"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT message to Andropov (deployment of US Cruise Missiles to UK; Geneva arms control negotiations) [released 2013]
Text 83 Nov 6 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: President Reagan message to MT (terrorist attacks on the Multi-National Forces) [retaliation & long-term considerations] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to FCO ("Grenada and the US") [report on US behaviour in Grenada; need to win hearts and minds] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Lebanon: Reagan message to MT (attack on US Marines barracks in Beirut) ["Decisions on the appropriate U.S. response will give careful thought to the consequences of any actions we might consider"] [released 2013]
Text 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Vekataraman) ["Indian Minister of Defence": UK credit for defence procurement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Rolls Royce RB 211-535 Engine Programme") [launch aid] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Rees letter to Lamont (Scott Lithgow/Britoil Contract) ["we would be prepared to back... [the Chair] on a decision to terminate"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries ("Legislation in the 1984/85 Session") [request for Ministers' proposals; guidance notes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 letter to Tebbit PS ("Future Competition Policy in Telecommunications") [MT's requested changes to Tebbit draft statement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Tebbit letter to Patrick Jenkin (Future Regional Industrial Policy: Draft White Paper) [Assisted Areas Map] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Royal Family: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Royal Visits to China: The Duke of Edinburgh") [MT approves Duke's visit in his capacity as President of World Wildlife Fund] [declassified Nov 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: John Coles letter to Michael Bourdeaux (repression in Soviet Union) [MT likely to continue on a selective basis to help give publicity to a small number of special cases] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Fishing Industry: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Fishery Protection: Inshore Aerial Surveillance") [defensive briefing for PMQ: case for purchase of US Cessna 404 Titan in preference to British alternative] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("Anglo/German Summit: East/West Relations") [supplementary briefing on Andropov's health, following his failure to appear at October Revolution celebrations] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO (“Cyprus problem: confidential consultations”) [Denktash made clear that a UDI was not imminent] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Tebbit briefing for MT (Export opportunities in India) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Lord Home letter to MT (defence of territories) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Rees letter to Alick Buchanan-Smith (“Ministerial Group on Public Expenditure (MISC 99): Energy industries) [“could lead to a public row with the industries”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation ("MT, FitzGerald") [Northern Ireland: Sinn Fein/elections; the Ireland Forum/Unionism] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Prior, FitzGerald, Spring, Barry, Nally & others) [EC: Athens summit; Budget; CAP; Irish sheepmeat; Windscale pollution; Grenada; new policies; Irish milk industry; Spanish & Portugese admission to EC; EMS; Kinsale gas deal; Lebanon/Syria; Northern Ireland: growth of support for Sinn Fein; 'Weekend World' programme; Ireland Forum; unionists; wording of joint communique/date & location of next meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Prior, Spring, Barry, PHC Eyers, Michael Lillis) [EC: Irish milk industry/EC milk surplus/super-levy; EC Budget issues; lead-free petrol; air transport; European Parliament report on agricultural surpluses; Windscale; Grenada; Irish sheepmeat industry; Northern Ireland: Sinn Fein; Dublin's role in future government; RUC/Gardai/joint policing; European elections/Sinn Fein; UN debate on Falklands] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Weinberger message to Heseltine ("Request for British assistance") ["With your country's experience in responding to sophisticated terrorist devices... [we] would appreciate any assistance you could provide"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet attitude to INF negotiations") [Geneva talks: strategy advice in event that Soviets walk out of talks upon deployment of cruise missiles to Europe] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute for Armstrong (“Anglo-German Summit, 8-9 November 1983: Game Plan”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute to No.10 (“Possible Seminar of British and FRG Private Secretaries”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Parliamentary Counsel letter to No.10 (“Simplifying Tax Legislation: Mr. Rowland”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada, etc: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Deputy Secretary of State, Kenneth Dam-Howe-Bullard-Burt-Streator-Coles) [US intervention in Grenada, INF deployment, Lebanon, Falklands and Argentina, Iran/Iraq War] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(83) 34 (Public Expenditure Survey 1983) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Parsons notes for speech (the international scene) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Anglo-Irish summit communique [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Chinese Remarks to Thorn”) [“By putting an end to the colonialist era, Britain would enhance her reputation”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Chinese Remarks to Thorn”) [“By putting an end to the colonialist era, Britain would enhance her reputation”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (“ International Financial Scene”) [survey] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury background briefing (“Ministerial Statements”) [digest of statements on the economy, Oct-Nov 1983] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (“RSG and Rate Limitation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (Falklands at the General Assembly) [assessment of likely support for Argentine resolution] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Arms for Argentina”) [Howe advises against use of anti-semitism allegations to dissuade US from arms sales] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Private visitors from Argentina”) [Howe recommends discretion] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Grenada: USE Rome to State Department (“Deputy Secretary Dam’s meeting Nov 7 with PM Thatcher”) [partially declassified 2010]
Text 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Sir Terence Beckett, CBI Director-General, letter to MT (opening address to CBI Conference) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: John Moore letter to Tebbit ("Competition Policy and Telecommunications") [comments on Tebbit draft statement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo/Soviet Relations") [new date for postponed Rifkind/Kornienko talks] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Soares (Accession of Portugal to the EC) ["Our interest [is] in an outcome which will ensure that no Member State is asked to bear a financial burden disproportionate to its means, and that agriculture expenditure is brought under effective control"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKHC Ottawa telegram 601 to FCO (2315Z) ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr Trudeau on 11 November") [East/West relations; Grenada; CHOGM; Hong Kong] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Trudeau (East/West relations and international security) [acknowledges points raised in his letter of 26 Oct, and looks forward to their meeting on 11 Nov; text attached, of Trudeau's speech at Guelph] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Anthony Parsons minute to John Coles ("Soviet Prisoners in Afghanistan") [proposal to grant UK asylum to some of the prisoners: potential snags] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury record of conversation (National Insurance contributions) [Chancellor of the Exchequer, Fowler, officials] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Edwards letter to Rees (“Public Expenditure Survey”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MT minute to Keith Joseph ("National Training Commission") [MT clarifies & endorses No.10 record of recent meeting with which both Joseph and King were unhappy in regard to their concerns about their respective Departments' powers & responsibilities for further vocational education] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO telegram to UKE Dublin ("Anglo-Irish Summit: Taoiseach's press conference") [summary of main points] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3362 to FCO (2340Z) ("Lebanon: possible US retaliation") [Reagan public comments about US response to the attack] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Lebanon: US retaliation") [French position] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Bonn ("Lebanon") [press line in event of US retaliation for 23 October bomb attack] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 559 to UKE Washington (1950Z) ("Lebanon: possible US retaliation in collusion with Israel") [Howe outlines concerns further to 23 October bomb attack] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Bonn ("US retaliation") [Howe outlines concerns further to 23 October bomb attack] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Bullard minute to No.10 ("Lebanon: possible message to President Reagan") [draft message from Chancellor Kohl to Reagan further to 23 October bomb attack on US/French forces] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: President of the World Maronite Lebanese Union message to MT (terrorist attacks against the Multinational Forces) [condemnation] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Coles ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Royal family: MT letter to HRH Princess Margaret (Lord Mountbatten memorial statue) [thanks for letter and lovely photograph; "I could wish our own amateur efforts came out like that"; ceremony "so right and so unforgettable"] [declassified Feb 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Personnel Work in the Civil Service") [findings of study into suspected "gross disparity in the number of people employed... compared with... private sector"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 3364 to FCO (2345Z) ("Ceausescu's letters on INF") [Geneva arms reduction negotiations with Soviet Union] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF: new US proposal and Romanian letter") [Geneva arms reduction negotiations with Soviet Union] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Rome record of conversation (MT, Deputy Secretary Dam) [Argentine certification] [published 2015]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Heseltine minute to MT (“Withstanding an oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [comments on report - risk of use of servicemen] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Younger minute to MT (“Withstanding an oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [comments on report - agree objective is to withstand long strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry note (call from UKE Budapest) [prompt reply needed to Bullard] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Minister Várkonyi minute to Comrade Horn (MT visit) [plans to announce] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [East-West relations, US foreign policy, Middle East, Grenada, Allied cooperation, arms supplies for Argentina] [declassified 2015]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson-Stoltenberg) [international issues, FRG and UK economies, EMS] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Alan Walters minute to MT ("J.M. Keynes, "Monetary Reform" 1923") [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Alan Walters article in The Washington Times ("Debt For Sale") [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Sherman draft passage for MT's speech at Lord Mayor's Banquet (reforms made by MT's government; future reforms) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Mount note to Butler (David Young wishes to speak to MT about the future direction of policy) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Portugal: MT letter to Prime Minister Soares of Portugal (MT supports Portuguese EC membership bid) ["I sympathise with your sense of frustration at the sometimes slow and tortuous progress of your negotiations with the Community"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT letter to Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada (East-West relations) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: MT letter to Commonwealth Secretary-General Shridath (future for Grenada) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“MIT: Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Yao Guang”) [“Yao was generally defensive”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Central Office letter to Alison (visits by overseas party leaders) [proposed meetings with MT] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Chief Whip minute to Ministers (“Ministers in charge of Departments”) [complaints from MPs about delay in receiving replies from Ministers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Howe minute for MT (“ Brazil”) [wants to consider new export credits] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKE Moscow to FCO (“Middle East: Soviet Comment”) [press report] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKE Amman to FCO (“Jordan-Middle East”) [King Hussein’s interview: Jordanian policy] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (“South Atlantic surrender documents”) [public display and archiving] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKHC Bridgetown (“Falklands at the General Assembly”) [Argentina condemns US-led invasion of Grenada] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Rome (“Falklands at the General Assembly”) [plea to Italy to abstain from vote on Argentine resolution] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Paris (“Falklands at the General Assembly”) [plea to France to abstain from vote on Argentine resolution] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Falklands at the General Assembly) [France minded to support Argentine resolution - MT urges abstention] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of phone conversation (Robin Butler-Chief Whip) [Labour request for "Short money"; "row brewing" over Police and Criminal Evidence Bill Committee] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Tim Flesher minute to MT (kidney and bone marrow patients) [line to take] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("CBI Conference") ["My general impression is of a growing confidence in the business community that things are getting better"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow/Britoil Contract") ["There is a dispute between colleagues on the way forward"; MT's view] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKHC Ottawa telegram 602 to FCO (1940Z) ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr Trudeau on 11 November") [East/West relations: Reagan reply to Trudeau initiative; Trudeau meeting with Nakasone] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1275 to FCO (1350Z) ("Mr Trudeau's East-West Initiative") [Pravda summary of Trudeau speech] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury record of conversation (Public Expenditure Survey 1983: gas & electricity prices) [Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alick Buchanan-Smith, officials] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [public expenditure] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Public expenditure: energy industries”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Public Expenditure Survey 1983”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (prison education) [Committee report "...disappointing and rather unabalanced..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Public expenditure: universities") [argument against further savings] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Department of Educaton briefing for MT ("Public expenditure: universities") [scope for savings; MT castigates "disgracefully inadequate" briefing] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Summit on 7 November 1983") [White Paper on documents approved by the Summit] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: President Reagan message to MT (terrorist attack on US forces) [interim message regarding US response to the attack] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [public expenditure; energy prices; NICs; Industry Act forecast; EC contribution; RSG] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: No.10 letter to Department of Trade and Industry ("Intellectual property rights and innovation") [revised draft document for review before MT's laying of report before Parliament] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Alick Buchanan-Smith letter to Howe ("Energy Council") [report on attendance to represent UK at latest session] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs: Commission Paper on Budgetary Imbalance") ["proposes a new method allocating expenditure in the Community budget... we reject this attempt to manipulate the figures"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") ["cynical and prejudicial proposal to redefine expenditure... in order to make... [UK] budgetary imbalance appear half its actual size"; Energy Council; Industry Council; Research Council/ESPRIT; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [Anglo-German consultations, plenary session: East-West relations, defence, Middle East, European Community issues, Allied cooperation, transportation industry] [declassified 2015]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Ingham minute for MT (“Press Conference”) ["very important you play down references to Grenada, which is becoming symbolic of rift, and look to the future"] [declassified 2015]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson-Federal German Finance Minister Stoltenberg) [European Community issues: budget, expenditure, common agricultural policy] [declassified 2015]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [INF deployment and relations with the US, presidency of the European Commission, developments in the German economy, EC negotiations, East-West relations, bilateral relations] [declassified 2015]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Hailsham minute to MT (dealing with the Soviet Union; East/West relations) ["I am sure we have been wrong to avoid Ministerial and other contacts. The USSR is our enemy. It is to our advantage to study him at first hand"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Christopherson minute to MT ("Pre-CHOGM CoI Television Interview") [brief for interview] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: No.10 note to Ingham (circulation of transcript of MT's interview with David English) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Aid: President Banda of Malawi letter to MT (International Development Association and IMF funds) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKE Athens (“ Future of Hong Kong”) [“the Chinese still suspect us of trying to engineer a ‘co-administration’ of Hong Kong after 1997”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Ambassador’s meeting with Yao Guang”) [“I do not think we should let the Chinese rush us into further concessions”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Ricketts minute to Coles (“Future of Hong Kong”) [Cradock’s meeting with Yao Guang] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Armstrong minute to Coles (“JIC Assessments on Hong Kong”) [MT “does not wish the circulation list to be extended in this way”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Heseltine minute to Howe (“RN Task Group Deployment to Hong Kong”) [“Cancellation of INVINCIBLE’s visit would come as a bitter disappointment”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Alan Walters minute to MT (“US economy and inflation in 1984”) [“by the end of 1984 the inflation rate will reach 6% and might even be as high as 9%”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to Robert Armstrong (“Economic Summit”) [MT’s meeting with Kohl: discussion of dates, prospects for European election results] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (“Your Meeting with Graham Bright”) [Video Recordings Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (Anglo-US security services cooperation) [reopening relationship with National Security Adviser] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: David Barclay No.10 internal minute to John Coles (“Falklands at the UN”) [list of expected abstentions on Argentine resolution] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Arts and amenities: Rees minute to MT (“Financial scrutiny of the Royal Opera House and Royal Shakespeare Company”) [Priestley report] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting With Sir Robin Ibbs") [achieiving greater efficiency in the public sector] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: No.10 minute to MT ("Brian Crozier: Prize for Political Courage Presented by Politique Internationale") [papers passed to No.10 by DT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS letter to John Coles ("Prime Minister's meeting with Mr Trudeau: 11 November: Future of Hong Kong") [will keep Canadians in picture on Sino-British talks] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Prior letter to Rees ("Harland and Wolff Ltd: Blue Star Line Order") [outline of terms & case for their acceptance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: John Moore letter to Kenneth Baker ("Telecommunications Competition") [sale of Cable & Wireless shares; new national obligations on Mercury; Mercury/POEU case] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Robin Butler minute to MT (Prime Minister's election as Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn") [confirmation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: MT letter to Prime Minister González (re-establishment of democracy in Chile) ["will continue to work to advance the cause... without interfering in Chile's internal affairs"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Inland Revenue Manpower and the Black Economy") [proposed increase; draft PQ reply] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Heseltine minute to MT ("Leak to the Guardian on Cruise Missiles") [urges attempt to recover leaked document from 'Guardian' in order to identify source of leak] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (involvement of police and Director of Public Prosecutions in leak inquiries) [line to take for PMQs, regarding confusion of DES leak with leak regarding Cruise missiles] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Mount minute to MT ("Restrictions on Conveyancing for Reward") [Policy Unit memo on 'breaking the solicitors' monopoly'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mozambique: President Machel of Mozambique letter to MT (thanks for visit to UK) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3381 to FCO (0035Z) ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr Trudeau") [details of Trudeau's letter to Reagan, and Reagan's probable response] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE The Hague telegram 325 to FCO (1505Z) ("Trudeau's East/West Initiative") [Netherlands reaction to Trudeau proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr Trudeau: 11 November") [summary of briefing pack: East/West relations; Grenada; CHOGM; Belize; Hong Kong; bilateral issues] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: No.10 briefing (meeting with Gordon Brown) [closure of Fisher Controls factory and Cowdenbeath unemployment] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Whitelaw letter to Rees (Public Expenditure Survey 1983) [“substantial increases in agreed expenditure between Surveys are highly undesirable”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: Coles minute for MT ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [draft text of the speech during lunch at No.10] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("INF numbers") [lines to take on US position for MT meeting with Trudeau] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Romanian proposals on INF") ["The key question is whether the Romanians are playing the maverick in the Warsaw Pact or acting as stalking horse for the Russians"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers) ["INF": deployment and negotiation with Soviet Union on reduction] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Turnbull minute to Eatfield (“Withstanding an oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [PM agrees objective is to withstand a long strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry to Hungarian Embassy London (MT visit) [requirements for briefing] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Net Payments to EC Institutions"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3383 to FCO (0045Z) ("Grenada: US Opinion") ["US opinion has continued to solidify behind the President"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 33rd (Kincora Boys Homes, Grenada, Foreign Affairs, EC Budget, EC Affairs, Public Expenditure Survey 1983, Economic Situation and Prospects) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Italian PM Craxi letter to President Reagan (INF) [seeks response before parliamentary debate on 14 Nov] [declassified 2011]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Most Confidential Record to Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 33rd (Economic Situation and Prospects) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Butler (response to speech by Enoch Powell) ["he revived his old canard that the Northern Ireland Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office were engaged in a conspiracy to work towards the creation of a united or a federal Ireland"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Mozambique: President Machel of Mozambique letter to MT (thanks for visit to UK) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Chile: MT letter to Prime Minister Gonzalez of Spain (situation in Chile) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Grenada: MT letter to Prime Minister Seaga of Jamaica (military intervention in Grenada) ["I am as sad as anyone that this difference arose between us. But I believe that we must now look to the future"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“ Future of Hong Kong”) [“premise that both sovereignty and the right of adminstration will pass to China in 1997”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Ricketts minute to MT (“Future of Hong Kong”) [“the Chinese reacted reasonably favourably to the line which our negotiators took at the meeting on 19/20 October”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industry: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gordon Brown) [closure of Fisher Controls factory and Cowdenbeath unemployment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“Economic Summit 1984”) [French line on possible dates; preparations and arrangements; political and economic issues to be discussed] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Houston/Cropper minute (“Sub Group on Policy for European Elections” meeting) [Rifkind group; “Political Climate For Elections”] [released 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Agriculture: No.10 minute to MT (“Home Grown Cereals Authority”) [MAFF response to MT concerns] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 3395 to FCO (2305Z) (“Weinberger on Argentina and Grenada”) [arms supplies to Argentina] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO (“Falklands at the General Assembly”) [Japan declines to support UK position] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office letter to FCO (Alfredo Spilsinger) [business partner of Lord Mayor with contacts in Argentine government] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to MT (UN General Assembly vote on the Falklands resolution) [France to abstain - decision linked to ‘SKYNET’] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Chairman of Cable & Wireless PLC letter to Tebbit (Joint Venture company) [MT taking “close interest”] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robin Ibbs, Robert Armstrong, Ian Beesley, Ferdinand Mount, John Redwood) [achieving greater efficiency in the public sector] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: No.10 letter to FCO ("Politique Internationale") [seeking advice on whether MT should accept award for "political courage"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science & Technology: Cabinet Secretary minute to MT ("Annual Review of Research and Development") [key issues in science and technology policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) Ministers: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (ministerial conflicts of interest) [clearance given for Nick Ridley exhibiting and selling watercolours] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Tim Flesher minute to MT ("Chronically Sick and Disabled Act (Amendment Bill)") [major features; argument against the Bill; financial considerations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1012 to FCO (0845Z) ("Trudeau's Meeting with Kohl 10 November: East West Relations") ["may provide useful background for... [MT's] meeting with Trudeau later this morning"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Trudeau, Fowler, Acland) [working lunch; NATO summits; venue for next CHOGM meeting; Grenada; Trudeau proposal for conference of the nuclear powers ] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Trudeau, Fowler) [East/West relations; Trudeau proposal for conference of the nuclear powers ] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: MT letter to Prime Minister of New Zealand (“CHOGM and the international economy: letter from Mr Muldoon”) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (“Prime Minister’s briefing for CHOGM: Friday 18 November”) [Heads of Government meeting: briefing session] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO briefing to No.10 (“CHOGM: Meeting with Mrs Gandhi”) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Arms control and disarmament”) [MT presses for Ministerial meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (potential contract with major US company) [conversation between Robert Armstrong and Lucas Industries] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Nick Ridley (“British Airways privatisation”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph, Lord Cockfield, Rees) ["Universities' current expenditure"; deal struck with Treasury to enable savings; MT irate at not being properly briefed for meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 (Northern Ireland's status as part of the UK: response to DUP) [draft reply to Paisley MP, Robinson MP and McCrea MP] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute to Alison (Anglo/Irish bilateral) [question regarding Parliamentary procedure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Taoiseach FitzGerald letter to MT (meeting of 7th November) [letter of thanks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO telegram to UKE Dublin ("Anglo/Irish summit: Community topics") ["Following is a summary of Community topics discussed in the Prime Minister's meeting with Dr Fitzgerald and in separate talks which I and Mr Prior held with the Irish Deputy Prime Minister (Spring) and the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Barry)"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Lebanon: US retaliation") [speculation on US response to bomb attack of 23 October] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: Coles minute to FCO ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [Mrs Planinc's speech during lunch at No.10] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [steering brief, non-aligned movement, East/West, Southern Africa, Indo-China, Middle East, arms control, bilateral defence, developing countries, Balkans, EC, bilateral including cultural relations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Coles ("Visit of the Yugoslav Prime Minister") [arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Coles ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [the Yugoslav delegation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Coles ("Visit of Yugoslav Prime Minister") [arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: UKE Belgrade telegram to FCO ("Visit of the Yugoslav Prime Minister to Britain 15-18 November 1983") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to Brittan ("Responsibility for Discipline in the Civil Service") [comments of particular points in the proposed guidance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Ridley minute to MT (“Withstanding an oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [CCU should be authorised to make a more ambitious plan] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) US: Coles minute to Armstrong [MT doubts McFarlane’s value as an interlocutor; thinks US advance notice of Grenada quite inadequate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Monetary Policy: Treasury briefing "Interpretation of Monetary Conditions: November [1983]" [released 2012]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Sherbourne notes (meeting with Special Advisers) [topics covered] [released 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Ryder minute to MT (request to open Thatcher Court in Dartford) [risks charge of fostering “cult of personality”, MT insists, due to personal connection] [released 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Gregson briefing for MT ("Strikes in essential services") [upcoming meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Gaisman minute to MT ("CHOGM: Hair Appointments") [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Ireland: Taoiseach Fitzgerald letter to MT (thanks for meeting) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“ Future of Hong Kong”) [“need to clarify our present strategy and objectives”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Hong Kong: Development of the Governmental Structure”) [“there are growing signs of public interest in greater participation in the running of Hong Kong”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Ricketts letter to Coles (“Future of Hong Kong”) [Cradock’s meeting with Yao Guang] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Tebbit minute for Lawson (‘Brazil’) [the financial package: his statement in Bonn] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Falklands”) [Baroness Young meeting with President Belaunde of Peru] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Arts and amenities: Cabinet Office letter to Andrew Edwards (Development Sub-Committee) [secretariat] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Nov 12 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan letter to MT (Japanese Market Access Promotion Mission) [letter of introduction to Yohei Mimura, President of Mitsubishi Corporation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Japan: Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan letter to MT (Japanese trade mission to the UK) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Turkey: Prime Minister Ulusu of Turkey letter to MT (earthquake in Turkey) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong”) [“the need to keep EXCO with us and to avoid giving the impression to them that we are giving away points too soon”] [declassified 2013]
Text 83 Nov 13 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: Poindexter memorandum for McFarlane (0450Z) (planned raid in Lebanon retaliating for US Marine barracks bombing in Beirut) [consulting MT and others] [declassified Spt 1999 - Jul 2010]
Text 83 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Peter Rees minute to Geoffrey Howe ("BBC External Services: The Pay Problem") [should rigorously scrutinise BBC spending plans] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("British Policy in Antarctica: Minerals (OD(83) 15)") [approach to Anarctic Treaty negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: No.10 internal minute (Guangdong Nuclear project: Lord Rhodes and Lord Kadoorie request meeting with MT) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Howe minute to Tebbit ("British Telecommunications Articles of Association") [stipulation to make majority of BT Board British: contravention of EEC Treaty; possible European Court case] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Future Regional Industrial Policy: Draft White Paper") [text for comments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Rees letter for Channon ("Turkey: Diesel Electric Locomotives") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan (Anglo-Japanese relations) [MT's meeting with Watanabe; Prince Hiro of Japan studying at Oxford] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to MT ("East-West Relations") [paper for OD committee] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Greville Janner MP/President of the Commonwealth Jewish Council letter to MT (persecution of Jews in Zimbabwe) [follow-up to request for MT to intercede with Mugabe] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MT letter to Rees (Public Expenditure Survey 1983) [letter of thanks for job well done] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Coles (COCOM - Computers: MT's reaction to Tebbit's letter) [declassified 2015]

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