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81 Mar 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Overseas Aid: Prime Minister Mara of Fiji letter to MT (Sugar Protocol to the Lomé Convention) [market access of ACP States to European Community; closure of Tate & Lyle's Liverpool sugar refinery] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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81 Mar 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Opinion poll: Britto minute (party private poll results) ["the most unpopular budget for 30 years"] [released 2012] |
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81 Apr 7 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
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81 Apr 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil Service: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Civil Service Pay") [thoughts on resolution of the Civil Service pay dispute] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Apr 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
India: MT letter to Indo-British Association (MT’s visit to India and the Arabian Gulf) [“Mrs Gandhi was marvellous”] [declassified 2012] |
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81 May 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: Alexander minute to MT ("Arab/Israeli Dispute") [Carrington's case "for making an effort to move the PLO towards the conditional recognition of Israel's right to exist within secure boundaries"] [declassified 2011] |
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81 May 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 1395 to FCO (2100Z) ("Northern Ireland Hunger Strike") [Ted Kennedy's statement on Sands' death] [declassified 2011] |
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81 May 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Northern Ireland: MT letter to the Lord Mayor of Belfast (thanks for letter) ["May I say how much I admire you"] [released 2012] |
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81 May 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil Service: Soames minute to MT ("1980 Scrutiny of Departmental Running Costs") [declassified 2011] |
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81 May 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Arts: Gow minute to MT ("Chairmanship of the Arts Council") [Channon wishes to appoint Alistair McAlpine as Chairman of the Arts Council] [released 2012] |
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81 May 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: No.10 letter to FCO ("BBC External Services") [MT agrees to early Ministerial discussion of Carrington's proposals on expenditure cuts] [declassified 2011] |
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81 May 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Northern Ireland: Whitmore letter to Father McCreesh (Raymond McCreesh's hunger strike) [declassified 2011] |
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81 Jun 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil Service: Le Cheminant briefing for MT ("Civil Service Pay Dispute: Next Moves (E(81) 62)") [declassified 2011] |
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81 Jun 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: UKE Baghdad to FCO ("Israeli Attack on Nuclear Plant") [Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation: meeting of the Ten to clarify details of attack] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Jun 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Carrington minute to Nott ("Defence Programme: White Paper") [comments on draft: Gibraltar dockyard] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Jun 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (latest developments regarding hunger strike at HMP Maze and Alison's meeting with Irish Commission for Justice and Peace) [declassified 2011] |
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81 Jun 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: FCO internal minute (“New Italian government”) [Spadolini coalition] [released Dec 2015] |
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81 Jul 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil Service: Vereker minute to MT ("Civil Service Dispute") [plan for bringing the dispute to an end] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Jul 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Movement of Coal to Power Stations") [additional coal moving to power stations] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Jul 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Arts: Stephens minute to MT ("Royal College of Music Centenary Celebration: 28 February 1982") [Stephens: "May I please ask you to reconsider your decision [to attend]"] [released 2013] |
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81 Jul 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil Service: Lord President's Office letter to No.10 ("1980 Scrutiny of Departmental Running Costs") [response to MT's feedback] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Jul 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil Service: No.10 letter to Department of the Environment ("Scrutiny of Departmental Running Costs") [MT requests presentation by Heseltine and his key officials on cost control] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Jul 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Middleton (“July Money Supply Figures”) [declassified 2011] |
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81 Aug 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gibraltar: UKE Madrid to FCO (“M.I.P.T. : Secretary of State’s dinner with Perez-Llorca” ) [Lisbon Declaration negotiations] [declassified 2012] |
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81 Sep 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [state of play in Anglo-Argentine dispute] [declassified 2012] |
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81 Sep 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil Service: No.10 letter to HMT ("Recovery from the Civil Service Strike") ["[MT] is very concerned at the very bad prospective CGBR for September and October"] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Sep 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: GJW Government Relations letter to John Coles (Trident and other projects) [Marconi’s problems competing for US defence contracts] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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81 Sep 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Ireland: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland: ICRC Report on Prisons") [progress report on No.10 request for diplomatic dialogue] [declassified Jan 2014] |
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81 Sep 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: Lankester minute to Alexander (Chancellor's minute on European Monetary System) [EMS; MT: "Personally, I do not think the case for joining has been made. I am [therefore] against"] [declassified 2012] |
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81 Oct 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil Service: Bancroft minute to MT ("The Re-Organization of the Central Departments") [abolition of the CSD; "I believe that the re-organization will make the Service a less efficient instrument to serve the Government of the day"] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Oct 15 Th |
Press |
Major |
Commentary (The Times) |
Economy: "Impassioned plea by Heath gets short shrift from Tories" (attacks government at party conference) |
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81 Oct 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Robin Harris minute to MT and Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Selsdon Group "Fringe" Meeting Addressed by Mr. Nigel Lawson on Thursday 15th October") [report of Lawson address on economic policy] [released 2012] |
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81 Oct 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Economic Policy and Public Expenditure (C(81) 50 and 51)") [comments on Chancellor of the Exchequer's paper] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Oct 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Economic Policy and Public Expenditure (C(81) 50 and 51)") [declassified 2011] |
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81 Oct 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 3170 to FCO (1359Z) ("Arab/Israel") [Haig discusses Prince Fahd's Eight Points for Arab-Israeli framework for peace with Saudi Foreign Ministry] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Oct 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Jordan: FCO briefing for MT (King Hussein's call on the Prime Minister) [multinational peacekeeping force in Sinai; Lebanon/Palestine; Dead Sea Canal; Israeli excavations in Jerusalem; Iran/Iraq war; arms sales/contracts] [declassified Dec 2011] |
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81 Oct 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: CIA paper for NSC (“Possible Allied Response to US Strategy on the Pipeline”) [declassified 2004] |
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81 Oct 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Fearn minute to Ure ("HMS Endurance") [possible moth-balling of HMS Endurance rather than sale] [declassified 2012] |
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81 Nov 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Fearn minute to Ure ("HMS Endurance") [draft minutes from Luce to Carrington and from Carrington to Nott to protest at withdrawal of HMS Endurance] [declassified 2012] |
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81 Nov 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Palliser PS letter to Ure ("HMS Endurance") [explores possibility of British Antarctic Survey ships filling in for Endurance] [declassified 2012] |
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81 Nov 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Wade-Gery note circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 51 (Poland: Economic Assistance) [declassified 2011] |
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81 Nov 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: MT letter to Senator Richard Lugar (plans for BBC External Services) [released 2012] |
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81 Nov 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Economic Aid for Poland (OD(81) 51 and 52)") [declassified 2011] |
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81 Nov 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Iraq: MOD to No.10 (“Gulf Patrol”) [briefing the Sultan of Oman, port visits] [declassified 2012] |
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81 Nov 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Luce PS minute to Fearn et al ("Withdrawal of HMS Endurance") [Luce no longer wishes to press MOD to reverse decision to withdraw Endurance] [declassified 2012] |
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81 Nov 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Peter Cropper record of meeting ("Conservative Party Finance Committee - 17 November") [analysis of the UK's current economic position by Professor Dahrendorf] [released 2012] |
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81 Nov 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: Pattison minute to MT (Atkins statement on EC Foreign Affairs Council) [declassified 2011] |
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81 Nov 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gibraltar: Carrington minute to MT (“Gibraltar” ) [closure of naval dockyard] [declassified 2012] |
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81 Dec 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MOD minute to MOD Ministers and Officials ("Sale of HMS Endurance") [possibilities for selling HMS Endurance] [declassified 2012] |
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81 Dec 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: UKE Cape Town to FCO (“Call on Prime Minister”) [situation in South Africa, relations with the UK] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jan 8 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Joseph minute to MT (impact of children's television on school children) [proposes new study] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jan 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
MT: Ingham minute to Whitmore ("Mark and Press") [Mark Thatcher's disappearance during Paris-Dakar rally] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jan 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: MT message to Reagan (Washington air crash) [shock and sympathy] [released 2013] |
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82 Jan 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Washington air crash and disappearance of Mark Thatcher) [released 2013] |
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82 Jan 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Wages Councils") [curbing of powers] [declassified Jan 2014] |
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82 Jan 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: Biffen PS letter to No.10 (Poland: martial law declared) [implications for UK trade of international sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jan 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Appointments: No.10 press release (Nicholas Fairbairn resigns as Solicitor General for Scotland) [released 2013] |
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82 Feb 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchquer, Ridley, Sir Raymond Pennock, Sir Terence Beckett & others) [CBI: Budget representations] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Feb 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Coal: Lawson minute to MT ("Power Station Coal Stocks in February and March") [declassified 2012] |
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82 Feb 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter (Michael Grylls study group) [“their ideas have not turned out to be so brilliant as to attract us”] [released 2017] |
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82 Feb 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [British and Argentine negotiating positions prior to New York talks - Carrington copy] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Feb 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Fearn minute to Ure ("Falkland Islands and the United States") [briefing for US Secretary for Inter-American Affairs] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Feb 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 letter to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [MT comment on Carrington's minute: "the wishes of the Islanders are paramount"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Feb 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires teleletter to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [account of Lord Buxton's discussions with Argentine Foreign Minister Costa Mendez] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Feb 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: UKE Rome minute (“Mr Young’s call on Dott Mechini (PCI)”) [PCI internal problems, relations with CPSU] [declassified July 2015] |
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82 Feb 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Ministerial talks on the Falkland Islands in New York (First Session) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 57 to FCO (1742Z) ("Falklands Talks: Argentine Press Comment") [Argentine press comment on Anglo-Argentine talks in New York] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 58 to FCO (1755Z) ("Falklands Talks") [Argentine statement following Anglo-Argentine talks in New York - Carrington copy] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 60 to FCO (1735Z) ("Falklands Talks") [further Argentine press comment following Anglo-Argentine talks in New York] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Confidential Annex to Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 8th (UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Governor Falkland Islands telegram 29 to FCO (1350Z) ("Falkland Talks") [Falklands Governor Hunt reports on response of Falklands Councillors to Argentine statement on New York talks] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 letter to FCO ("Falkland Islands") ["On her copy of Buenos Aires telegram no. 60 of 3 March the Prime Minister minuted: "we must make contingency plans""] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (need to uprate supplementary benefit heating additions) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Hansard |
Economy: 1982 Budget (Howe 4) |
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82 Mar 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 848 to FCO (2110Z) ("Falkland Islands") [visit of US Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs to Buenos Aires] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Indonesia: President Soeharto of Indonesia letter to MT (International Tin Agreement) [released 2013] |
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82 Mar 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Hong Kong: No.10 profile ("Sir Yue-Kong Pao CBE LLD JP") [released 2013] |
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82 Mar 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Hungary: Bank of England record of phone conversation between Deputy Governor and Treasury (“Hungary”) [seeks government guarantee; warned as to US view] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) |
Argentine Junta: Williams note for meeting with Costa Mendez (?c1400Z) ("Speaking Note") [warns of ministerial decision that HMS Endurance would continue to South Georgia to remove Davidoff party] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands") [Luce's draft statement to the House of Commons] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) |
Argentine Junta: Carrington message to Costa Mendez (1928Z) (proposed resolution) [willingness to see Argentine ship used to remove Davidoff party] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 94 to FCO (2130Z) ("Illegal Landing on South Georgia") [Williams meets with Costa Mendez to discuss Argentine presence in South Georgia: "the men must go"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
India: No.10 record of conversation (1440Z) (MT, Carrington, Biffen, Brittan) [“Thermal power station for India”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Peter Shipley minute to Nick True (Easter weekend trouble expected in Brixton) [National Front, left-wing groups] [released 2013] |
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82 Mar 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Governor Falklands telegram 51 to FCO (1941Z) ("South Georgia") [responding to UKE Buenos Aires telegram 101, denies going beyond lines laid down by FCO in dealing with the press] [declassified Jun 2017] |
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82 Mar 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) |
Argentine Junta: Carrington message to Costa Mendez (c2130Z) (further proposed resolution, "ultimate effort of goodwill") [willingness to regularise Davidoff party if they report to Leith for formalities] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Brasilia telegram 51 to FCO (1230Z) ("South Georgia") [important to prevent Brazil "from lining up automatically with the Argentines"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Brasilia telegram 51 to FCO (1230Z) ("South Georgia") [asks for telegrams to be copied to UKE Brasilia so as to give Brazilian government "our version of events" and prevent them automatically lining up with the Argentinians] [declassified Jun 2017] |
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82 Mar 27 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Prime Minister: MT engagement diary ("Prime Minister's Engagements for the Week Beginning Saturday, 27 March, 1982") [plan for week pre-Falklands; the week that never was] [released 2013] |
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82 Mar 28 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO telegram 590 to UKE Washington (2055Z) ("South Georgia") [modification to Carrington-Haig message] [declassified Jun 2017] |
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82 Mar 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: US Secretary of State Haig letter to Carrington (1802Z) (US efforts regarding Argentine landing on South Georgia) ["we have a greater chance of influencing Argentine behaviour if we appear to them not to favour one side or the other" - US text] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Parliament: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“MPs’ pay”) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 366 to FCO (0510Z) ("Falkland Islands") [good results of meeting of UN Security Council - "we got as much out of the council in one day as we could have done"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Carrington telegram 51 to UKE Brasilia & other posts (2200Z) (Falklands: Carrington's and Nott's opening statements at a press conference in the FCO) ["Port Stanley is now occupied by Argentine military forces"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Foreign Office Legal Adviser minute for Fearn ("Falkland Islands: Implications of a Declaration of War against Argentina") [depends essentially upon the determination of the parties; Article 51 right to self-defence does not require declaration of war] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 3 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: (1019Z) [Falkland Islands] |
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82 Apr 3 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (State Department) |
Falklands: USE Buenos Aires to State Department (1540Z) (GOA suggests US Ambassador seek meeting with Galtieri) ["please advise"] [declassified 2002] |
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82 Apr 4 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MODUK signal to UKMILREP Brussels and others (2248Z) ("Sitrep No.3 on Falkland Islands as at 042200Z") ["Argentinian deployment; Own Forces; Operation Corporate] [declassified Jun 2017] |
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82 Apr 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 174 to FCO (1326Z) ("Falklands and Time Scale of Argentine Intentions") ["we refused to face the fact that our encouragement of total intransigence from the Islanders involved a physical risk to them"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO guidance telegram 51 to certain missions and dependent territories (1000Z) ("Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands") [summary of international reaction] [declassified Jun 2017] |
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82 Apr 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Colvin note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 5 (Rules of Engagement) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Moscow telegram 181 to FCO (1435Z) ("Falkland Islands MEZ: Soviet attitude") [lengthy questions by Soviets, who claimed Article 51 did not apply in this case] [declassified Jun 2017] |
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82 Apr 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT letter to Edmund Vestey (thanks for account of Argentine reactions to British actions) [released 2013] |
|
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82 Apr 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MT message to EC leaders (1730Z) ("Falklands Crisis: message of thanks") ["deeply grateful" for actions taken] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 14 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: (1335Z) [Falkland Islands] |
|
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82 Apr 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO Legal Adviser minute for Gillmore ("Possibility of Argentine action against the RN Task Force") [no legal need for further warning to Argentinians; no legal need for MEZ around South Georgia or further warning, but agreed following discussions with MOD to draft possible announcement if needed] [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Apr 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1316 to FCO (2210Z) ("Argentine request for satellite coverage of Falkland Islands") [technical data on LANDSAT] [declassified Jun 2017] |
|
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82 Apr 17 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Haig message for Pym (0404Z) (negotiations with Argentina) [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
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82 Apr 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT letter to John Cheek (Cheek's ideas about long term solution to Falklands problem) ["We shall give these very careful attention...since they come from an elected representative of the Islanders"] [released 2013] |
|
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82 Apr 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Haig letter to Pym (the latest text of a draft agreement on the Falklands crisis) [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
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82 Apr 20 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs (1415-1430Z) |
|
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82 Apr 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: UK Ambassador to Bonn, Jock Taylor, letter to Coles (US Ambassador to Bonn, Arthur Burns, expresses admiration for MT) [Burns: "Great Britain's Lady is showing courage in a discouraged world"] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 22 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs (1415-1430Z) |
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82 Apr 24 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 15th (1715Z) ("Diplomatic and Military Situation") [proposals brought back by Pym from Washington - agreed message to Haig urging him to put them to Argentina first] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 25 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Ingham MSS) |
Press Office: MoD and No.10 joint press statement (1605Z) (Falkand Islands) [attack on Argentine submarine - "Unattributably we added that the submarine was on the surface but of course was in a position to fire torpedos [sic]"] [this copy released 2013] |
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82 Apr 25 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Ingham MSS) |
Press Office: MoD press statement (1700Z) (Falklands) ["British forces are now ashore in South Georgia"] [this copy released 2013] |
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82 Apr 25 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Ingham MSS) |
Press Office: MoD press statement (1900Z) (Falklands) [Argentine submarine alongside jetty at King Edward Point, "smoking, leaking oil and listing to port"] [this copy released 2013] |
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82 Apr 26 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UK Ambassador to the UN letter to President of the UNSCR (British recapture of South Georgia) [Britain acting in self-defence under Article 51] |
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82 Apr 26 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC Stmnt (1431-1506Z) [Falkland Islands] |
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82 Apr 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Coles minute to Ingham ("Appeal by UN Secretary General") [response to Perez de Cuellar's statement on Falklands situation: Parsons doesn't want HMG "to leak that the Secretary General apologised for this statement"] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 27 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs (1415-1430Z) |
|
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82 Apr 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO telegram 854 to Haig (1230Z) (Pym requests US assistance in heading off "support for any unhelpful and unacceptable resolution" in the UN Security Council) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO telegram 75 to UKE Berne (1515Z) (message for Argentina to be relayed by Swiss) [warning that TEZ established without prejudice to right of self-defence under Article 51 of the UN Charter] [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Apr 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Ian Gow minute to Michael Grylls (“Study Group on Bank Lending”) [problem of corporate industrial financing] [released 2017] |
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82 Apr 29 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: (1443-1506Z) [Falkland Islands] |
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82 Apr 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 601 to FCO (1946Z) ("Further notification to Argentina") [draft response to Argentine claim Britain could not enforce TEZ under Article 51] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Governor of the Bank of England) (0900Z) [Falklands impact - situation better than might have been expected, but fragile, "could deteriorate rapidly in the event of dramatic, and not immediately successful, action in the Falklands"] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Apr 30 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Argentine Ambassador to the UN letter to President of the UNSCR (reply to British notification to Council of recapture of South Georgia) [denies Britain had a right to act in self-defence under Article 51] |
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82 May 1 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Argentine Ambassador to the UN letter to President of the UNSCR (British air attacks) [repulsed by Argentine forces in self-defence under Article 51] |
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82 May 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MT letter to President arap Moi of Kenya (thanks for support) [declassified 2012] |
|
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82 May 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT letter to President Moi of Kenya (thanks for support) [released 2013] |
|
|
82 May 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: HMT letter to FCO ("Falkland Islands: US Measures Against Argentina") [need to urge US to take financial measures against Argentina] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 4 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs (1415-1430Z) |
|
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82 May 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Haig telegram 1600 to Pym (0415Z) (Haig urges UK compromise and accept US peace proposal) [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Ingham MSS) |
Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1600Z) (PM's day, Falkland Islands) ["We emphasised that we had given no ultimatum nor set any deadline, though we repeated the point about the need to avoid being shunted into a siding while the Argentines played for time"] [released 2013] |
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82 May 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit (SAPU) paper - SAPU(82) 17 (1800Z) (Pym press conference, sporting links with Argentina, 'Are We At War?') [released 2013] |
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82 May 9 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO telegram 371 to UKMIS New York (1600Z) ("Falklands") [UK willing to cooperate with UN Secretary-General's peace negotiations; Pym sets out UK demands] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT letter to Astronomer Royal Professor Martin Ryle (Falklands crisis) ["I cannot agree with you that the illegal occupation of the Falkland Islands is a relatively minor event"] [released 2013] |
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82 May 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 426 to FCO (1655Z) ("Falkland Islands: Arms Sales to Argentina") [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 May 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: FCO note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 38 (Argentina: Possible Boycotts Against UK Trade and Industry) [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: MT letter to Henry Kissinger (thanks for sending copy of your book) [released 2013] |
|
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82 May 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Visits of M Mauroy and President Mitterrand") [inclusion of Channel Fixed Link on agendas] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 May 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Pym memorandum circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 51 (Falkland Islands: The New York Negotiations) [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Pym memorandum circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 51 (Falkland Islands: The New York Negotiations) [text as annotated by MT] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 15 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKREP Brussels telegram 180 to FCO (0700Z) ("Falklands: Community Sanctions") [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 May 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Hugh Thomas memorandum for MT (phone conversation with PM Ulloa of Peru) [Galtieri needing to consult with civilian parties now, creating opportunity for concession British?] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 51st Meeting/82 (1030Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required) [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO notes of 51st Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (1030Z) (Exocet, Submarines, Argentine Aircraft Carrier, sinking of merchant ships, Port Stanley Airfield, Blindfire/Rapier) [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Aid: Prime Minister Premadasa of Sri Lanka letter to MT (International Year of Shelter for the Homeless) [released 2013] |
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82 May 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Argentine peace proposals ("Argentine Counter-Proposals of 19 May") [released 2013] |
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82 May 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 58th Meeting/82 (0800Z) (Operation Corporate, Intelligence, Own Forces, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Cancellation of JMC 823, Air Defence) [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Cabinet Office letter to MOD (OD(SA) on special operations) [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0530Z) (0630, 27 May) [amended Irish draft adopted as Resolution 505] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 29 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MOD statement (events at Darwin and Goose Green) [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 May 29 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (CIA) |
Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable (1130Z) ("UK-Argentina: British Military Gains") [capture of Goose Green] [declassified 2007] |
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82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 60 (Argentine Prisoners of War) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("Falklands: OD(SA) on 4th June") [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO letter to MOD ("Bombing of the BRITISH WYE") [further information about Argentine attack; Wye was supply fuel to task force] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: Coles minute to FCO ("Falklands: SITREPs") [arrangements for transmission of diplomatic and military SITREPs to MT while attending Versailles G7 Summit] [released 2013] |
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82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 31st (1000Z) (Falkland Islands, Iran-Iraq War, Community Affairs, Index-Linked Pensions) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 51st (0815Z) (Political and Military Issues) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign policy: Pym and Lawson paper circulated to OD Committee - OD(82) 51 ("British Policy in the Antarctic: Minerals") [extract with MT comment: "I hope this has been done in consultation with the BAS?"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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82 Jun 6 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Middle East: Israeli PM Begin to President Reagan (Israeli invasion of Lebanon) [compares to British action in Falklands] [declassified 2015] |
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82 Jun 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit (SAPU) paper - SAPU(82) 30 (military and diplomatic developments) [released 2013] |
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82 Jun 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Middle East: President Reagan draft letter to Israeli PM (questions Israeli invasion of Lebanon) [urges ceasefire] [declassified 2015] |
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82 Jun 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 2092 to FCO (2330Z) ("Arms Supplies to Argentina") [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Jun 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 54th (0900Z) (Military Issues) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: MT message to King Hussein of Jordan (Israeli-Lebanese conflict) ["There can be no justification for Israel's action"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("European Community Appointment: Director General for External Relations") ["there has been a history of strained relations... very much in British interests that... [this] key post... should continue to be filled by a Briton"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
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82 Jun 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1001 to FCO (2025Z) ("Falklands: Cessation of Hostilities") [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Jun 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: William Clark letter to MT (thanks for luncheon during Reagan's visit to the UK) [released 2013] |
|
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82 Jun 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia letter to MT (congratulations on victory in the Falklands) [released 2013] |
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82 Jun 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT letter to George Thomas [?] (thanks for message on success in Falklands) ["We never doubted that we would win"] [released 2013] |
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82 Jun 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Reagan message to MT (congratulations on victory in the Falklands) ["A just war requires a just peace"] [released 2013] |
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82 Jun 20 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Opinion Polls: Britto note ("Public Opinion Background Note 118") [weekly survey note; Falklands crisis] [released 2013] |
|
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82 Jun 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Nott-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["The Defence Programme"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Whitmore minute to Armstrong (MT agrees to reduction of number of OD(SA) meetings) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT message to Prime Minister Thapa of Nepal (role of Gurkha troops during Falklands conflict) [released 2013] |
|
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82 Jul 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Australia: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia message to MT (sale of HMS Invicible to Australia) [Fraser confused by MT's alternative offer of HMS Hermes] [released 2013] |
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82 Jul 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Attorney General's Chambers to MOD ("Possible Breaches of International Law: Plastic Mines") [possible Argentine contraventions of UN Weaponry Convention and the Geneva Convention] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jul 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: MT letter President Zia of Pakistan (Israel-Lebanon conflict) ["I fully share your alarm at the tragic events in the Lebanon"] [released 2013] |
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82 Jul 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Woman") [briefing for interview with Joan Reader of 'Woman' magazine] [released 2013] |
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82 Jul 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT letter to George Robertson MP (answer to Parliamentary Question on repatriation of war dead was not leaked) [released 2013] |
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82 Jul 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar ("National Coal Board Objectives") [draft objectives letter to new NCB Chairman] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jul 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Whitmore minute to Armstrong ("Warning of Argentine Military Action") [US satellite coverage of Argentina] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Aug 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government machinery: Tebbit letter to Brittan (“Rayner scrutiny of the General Employment Service”) [declassified 2012] |
|
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82 Sep 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Butler minute to Frank Cooper (MT suggests Falklands Dinner) [possible guest list] [released 2013] |
|
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82 Sep 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 ("City of London Salute to the Task Force - 12th October 1982") [MT: "It looks as if my speech is not really needed"] [released 2013] |
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82 Sep 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Armstrong minute to Butler ("Falklands Campaign Dinner") [guest list with MT's comments] [released 2013] |
|
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82 Sep 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT letter to Lady Moore, wife of the Queen's Private Secretary (thanks for lunch at Balmoral) ["[Balmoral] is a different world"] [released 2013] |
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82 Sep 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Trivial |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Photographs of MT receiving Falklands coin from Spinks ("Falkland Coin Presented to Prime Minister") [released 2013] |
|
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82 Sep 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Armstrong minute to Butler ("Falklands Campaign Dinner") [proposed revisions to guest list] [released 2013] |
|
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82 Oct 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Ingham letter to Douglas Millar, Clerk to the Defence Committee ("The Handling of Press and Public Information During the Falklands Conflict") [declassified 2012] |
|
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82 Oct 8 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Butler minute to MT ("South Atlantic Dinner: Monday 11 October") [arrangements] [released 2013] |
|
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82 Oct 8 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Ingham minute to MT ("Falklands Dinner - Media") [arrangements] [released 2013] |
|
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82 Oct 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Falklands Dinner draft seating plan [released 2013] |
|
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82 Oct 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
China: No.10 record of conversation (“Guang Dong Nuclear Project: a conversation with Lord Weinstock”) [MT’s meeting with Ziyang; Kadoorie’s pro-French bid favoured over Marshall’s pro-USA bid] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Oct 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Butler letter to Mottram, MOD ("Falkands Dinner") [dinner "gave a lot of pleasure to those who attended it and...seems to have avoided the many opportunities for giving offence"] [released 2013] |
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82 Oct 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chinese Church leaders) [situation for Christians in China, place of religion in society] [released 2013] |
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82 Oct 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: HMT letter to No.10 ("European Community Budget: Withholding") [report on comments by Tugendhat] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Oct 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong Cradock telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [declassified 2012] |
|
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82 Oct 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands at the General Assembly") [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Oct 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial policy: Lord Cockfield letter to Jenkin ("ALCAN/BACO") ["I... [do] not propose to refer the [ALCAN takeover] bid to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Oct 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: MT letter to Laurens van der Post (thanks for copy of your book) [released 2013] |
|
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82 Nov 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Economy: Alan Walters diary [“Opening of Parliament - Queens Speech completely mistaken by Press as indicator Spend Spend Spend”; steel subsidies][released 2012] |
|
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82 Nov 3 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on Address] |
|
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82 Nov 9 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
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82 Nov 11 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
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82 Nov 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Conservative Research Department Briefing Note No. 38, 1982 Series ("The Truth About Local Government Expenditure") [released 2013] |
|
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82 Dec 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 51st (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC, Northern Ireland, Economic Affairs, Industrial Affairs, Cable Systems) [declassified 2012] |
|
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82 Dec 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Ireland: Taoiseach Fitzgerald letter to MT (message on Fitzgerald's election as Taoiseach) [need for cooperation on "tragic situation in Northern Ireland"] [released 2013] |
|
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82 Dec 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Gow note to Enoch Powell (Powell's quotes about MT and Falklands) [Gow's Christmas present to MT] [released 2013] |
|
|
82 Dec 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Environment: Heseltine minute to MT ("Five Year Forward Look") [Department of Environment plans for the next five years] [released 2013] |
|
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82 Dec 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Israel: MT letter to Michael Fidler MP (Conservative Party Parliamentarians to make official visit to Israel) ["the people of Britain and Israel remain bound by a common commitment to democracy and freedom"] [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Jan 9 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Christopherson message to Ingham (television arrangements for MT's arrival at Falklands: BBC and ITN pooling) ["Love to Penguins"] [declassified 2013] |
|
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83 Jan 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Brian Walden Show") [brief for MT's appearance on LWT's 'Weekend World'] [released 2013] |
|
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83 Feb 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Possible visit by representative of Hong Kong and Shanghai bank”) [declassified 2013] |
|
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83 Feb 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government machinery: Lord Hailsham minute to MT ("Centrally Co-ordinated Efficiency Exercises 1983: the Scrutiny Programme") [Lord Chancellor proposals] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
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83 Feb 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Tim Flesher minute to MT ("H Committee: Corporal Punishment in Scotland") [reaction to ECHR case: Younger proposing blanket ban in public sector schools in Scotland; Keith Joseph proposing right for parents to exempt their children] [released Dec 2014] |
|
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83 Feb 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Italian Prime Minister Fanfani) [East-West relations, arms control, the Williamsburg summit, Anglo-Italian round table] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 28 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for The Sun |
|
|
83 Mar 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
General Election: Policy Group on the Promotion of Enterprise Report: 'Everyman a Capitalist' [1983 Election Manifesto] [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Mar 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
General Election: King letter to Howe (1983 manifesto: environment, housing, urban policy, rural policy and wildlife, local government and finance, heritage) [draft suggestions] [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Mar 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Arts: Priestley minute to Gow ("Special Financial Scrutiny of the Royal Opera House and the Royal Shakespeare Company") [arts subsidies] [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Mar 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversations (MT, King Hussein; MT, Khaddam) ["Arab League visit"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Mar 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Drafting material for Presidency conclusions ("European Council: political cooperation subjects") [European Council, 21/22 March] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Apr 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Italy: Prime Minister Fanfani of Italy letter to MT (Fanfani's speech on occasion of final session of the Trilateral Commission) [released 2013] |
|
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83 Apr 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: MT letter to Amir Al-Sabah of Kuwait (Iran-Iraq war) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Apr 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: MT letter to Sheikh Khalifa of Qatar (Iran-Iraq war) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Apr 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury paper for No.10 (“Sterling and the Election Approach”) ["political" risks between now & election, plus options if downward pressure develops] [declassified 2013] |
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83 May 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local government: GLC Leader of the Opposition letter to MT (General election campaign: role of the GLC Conservative group) [request for meeting with MT] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 May 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic policy: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (“Information about public expenditure”) [review of how information is gathered and used] [declassified 2013] |
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83 May 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
General Election: Ingham minute to Gow (BBC Today programme struggling to get in touch with Ministers) [Gow: "Appropriate corrective action has been taken"] [released 2013] |
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83 May 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Conservative Party |
Conservative General Election Manifesto 1983 |
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83 May 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Butler briefing for MT ("Regional TV Interviews") [released 2013] |
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83 May 23 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC Wales |
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83 May 23 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for HTV |
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|
83 May 23 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech in Cardiff |
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|
83 May 25 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
General Election Press Conference |
|
|
83 May 28 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: Dinner menu for G7 Williamsburg summit [with MT notes on arms control] [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Trudeau (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [apologies for having to depart Summit early due to Election campaign commitments] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl (MT sorry for leaving G7 Williamsburg summit early) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT Engagement Diary |
|
|
83 Jun 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gibraltar: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Gibraltar") ["Spanish Government intend to link the proposed referendum on NATO both with EC accession and with progress over the Gibraltar issue"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
EC: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl (thanks for organisation of Stuttgart European Council meeting) [released 2013] |
|
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83 Jul 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: UKA Rome despatch (“Italy Elections: June 1983”) [reasons for shock DC vote decline, possible collapse of De Mita attempt to make DC a classic centre right party] [declassified Jan 2010] |
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83 Jul 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Fowler note to MT (expenditure on health and child benefit) [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Jul 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Spicer minute to MT ("Modernisation of the Conservative Party") [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Jul 30 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Côte D'Ivoire: President Houphouet-Boigny of Côte D'Ivoire message to MT (thanks for hospitality during visit to London) [in French] [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Aug 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Sri Lanka: MT letter to Prime Minister Gandhi of India (situation in Sri Lanka) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Sep 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign policy: No.10 letter to Lord Thomas of Swynnerton (meeting at Chequers on 8 September to consider East/West relations) [background papers by academics] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Sep 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Employment: Mount minute to MT ("A Strategy for Jobs") [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Sep 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Whitelaw PS ("Making the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme Contributory") [correspondence relating to Lawson paper for Cabinet on public sector pensions policy] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
83 Sep 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Ministers: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Ministerial membership of Lloyd's) [conflict of interests: Minister of Agriculture] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
83 Sep 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: Armstrong minute to MT ("1984 Economic Summit: Meetings with Mr Trudeau and President Reagan") [discussing plans for G7 London summit] [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Sep 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan) [first meeting: Lebanon, East/West, arms control, KAL007, INF, Belize, US supply of arms to Argentina] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Oct 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT letter to Prime Minister Muldoon of New Zealand (thanks for New Zealand Navy's assistance with joint patrol operations) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Oct 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Lebanon") [King Hussein, UK Ambassador, French Ambassador: record of conversation: Multinational Force policy following bomb attack on 23rd October; conference on Lebanese national reconciliation] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Oct 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Lebanon: President Mubarak of Egypt letter to MT (situation in Lebanon) [released 2013] |
|
|
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] |
|
|
83 Nov 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Japan: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone (UK-Japan relations) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Nov 14 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
|
|
83 Nov 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cyprus: MT letter to President Evren (Turkish Cypriot UDI) [“we cannot deny their right to self-determination”] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Nov 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Commonwealth: Howe telegram to UKHC New Delhi (Cyprus: recent developments) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Nov 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKHC New Delhi ("Lebanon") [situation report; Falklands; Bangladesh; UN/arms control] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Dec 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Hugh Thomas letter to MT (conversation with Argentinian Ambassador to US) [Raul Alfonsin would like “to end the state of war between us”] [released 2014] |
|
|
83 Dec 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Bullard minute to Howe PS ("European Council: political co-operation items") [Middle East; Cyprus; Central America; Argentina; Afghanistan] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
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83 Dec 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government Machinery: No.10 Policy Unit minute to No.10 (“The Future of the Crown Agents”) [declassified 2014] |
|
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83 Dec 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl (formal invitation to G7 London summit) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Dec 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Contracting out Catering at the Civil Service College, Sunningdale") ["This particular bit of "privatisation" will save us about 45 directly employed staff and about £90,000 a year"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
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|
83 Dec 20 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
83 Dec 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Nationalised industries: No.10 minute to MT (Audit Commission) [cover note referring to an AC manual which "illustrates some of the horrors the AC has uncovered"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Dec 22 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
83 Dec 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 1717 to FCO (0120Z) ("Lebanon: role of UN forces") [John Thomson, Perez de Cuellar: record of conversation] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
84 Jan 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Angola: President Dos Santos letter to MT (eighth anniversary of People's Republic of Angola proclamation of independence) [thanks for MT message of congratulations] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
84 Jan 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Hungarian National Archive) |
Hungary: Hungarian Economics Ministry to Foreign Ministry (MT visit) [economic issues briefing for Lázár meeting with MT] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013] |
|
|
84 Jan 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Howe message to UKE Paris (“Visit by Monsieur Dumas”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
84 Feb 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Treasury paper (London Summit) [Walters comments] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
84 Feb 8 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Small Business Bureau Conference |
|
|
84 Mar 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: FCO minute for Coles (“Anglo-German Summit: 2 May 1984”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
84 Apr 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Overseas Aid: MT letter to President Nimeiri of DR Sudan (UK contributions to the International Development Association) [IDA 7: funding negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
84 Apr 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("AT&T") ["Closer relationships... [with] AT&T... likely to give our companies a better chance of succeeding in an increasingly competitive world market place"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
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|
84 Apr 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Home Affairs: Michael Jopling letter to MT (“Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers - review of policy”) [declassified 2014] |
|
|
84 Apr 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Nicaragua: Leader Ortega of Nicaragua telex to MT (UN Security Council) [request to support resolution of “condemnation of the escalation [of] aggression against our people and territory”] [released 2014] |
|
|
84 Apr 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Nicaragua: President Ortega letter to MT ("Nicaraguan Ports") ["We trust... that your government will support the draft resolution submitted by Nicaragua at the Security Council"; vote has already taken place, with UK abstaining, by time letter reaches No.10] [declassified Nov 2016] |
|
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84 Apr 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Alan Walters draft (material from "Britain's Economic Renaissance") [clearance sought for publication] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
84 Apr 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Local government: Alan Greengross letter to MT (opposition to GLC ‘Paving’ Bill) [“constitutional arguments … will so muddy the water that it will make your Government’s job more difficult”] [released 2014] |
|
|
84 Apr 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign policy: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("British Policy in Antarctica: Minerals") [request for clarification of minute] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
84 May 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Army manpower") ["... it is my objective to make the most effective use of the very considerable resources we devote to defence"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
|
84 May 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Liverpool") ["I now have to reach a decision on a controversial set of proposals from Liverpool to close all its existing 25 county secondary schools and to establish 17 new... comprehensive schools... I thought I should let you know what I propose"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
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84 May 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Environmental affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Whitelaw, Walker, Tom King, Younger, Ridley, Jopling, Rees, Lamont, Waldegrave, Robin Nicholson) ["Environmental Pollution"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
84 May 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT Engagement Diary |
|
|
84 May 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("The EC Budget: Kohl/Mitterrand meeting, Saarbruecken, 20 May") ["indications that parameters for a budget settlement were discussed... [possible] secret negotiation before the European elections"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
84 May 31 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Netherlands and INF") [deployment of cruise missiles: Dutch Cabinet decision expected imminently; MT advised on timing of call to Lubbers] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
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84 Jun 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT (Gas Industry Privatisation) [export regime; privatisation options] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
84 Jun 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: President Kaunda letter to MT (Botha’s visit to the UK) [declassified 2014] |
|
|
84 Jun 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Northern Ireland: Butler note to MT (future of Ireland meetings) [Alison’s request to attend] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
84 Jun 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Trade: E.W. Pegna, Managing Director of Portman Limited, letter to MT (requests UK government support for British Promotion to J.C. Penney Company) [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
84 Jul 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Hungary: No.10 minute to MT (farewell visit from Hungarian Ambassador) [MT: "I really must see him. I had such an interesting visit"] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
84 Jul 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic policy: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("Sealink: Statement by the Secretary of State for Transport Wednesday, 18 July") [text; "I have today given my consent... to the sale of Sealink (UK) by BR to a subsidiary of Sea Containers Ltd"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
84 Jul 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Coal, etc: Redwood minute to MT ("Local government, industrial disputes & the far left") [improve NCB presentation] [released 2014] |
|
|
84 Jul 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Electricity Prices") [proposed separately identifiable surcharge after miners' strike ends, would be seen as "the cost of Scargill"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
84 Jul 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin) [“Abolition: Counter Obstruction”] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
84 Aug 3 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks visiting Dartford ("No U-turn for me") |
|
|
84 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, Michael Bishop) ["CAA Review: British Midland Airways"; Civil Aviation Authority review of the implications of British Airways privatisation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
84 Sep 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Coal: David Hart note for MT ("Winning the war against Scargillism") ["There is an enemy within. We are at war"] [released 2014] |
|
|
84 Sep 19 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Letter to George Foulkes MP (General Belgrano) |
|
|
84 Sep 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“The Durban Six”) [current situation, aide memoire] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
84 Sep 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to Armstrong (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Armstrong’s talks with Nally] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
84 Oct 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Coal: MT letter to R.B. Giusti (miners’ strike) [“The treatment of intimidatory pickets is for the judgement of the local police”] [released 2014] |
|
|
84 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Ian Stewart letter to Howe ("1984 Supplementary Budget, Implications of Inter-Government Agreement") [timing & options for seeking Parliamentary approval of extra financing] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
84 Nov 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Nick Ridley letter to Jenkin (“GRE assessment for joint boards”) [“appalled… [with] the Bill as it will be introduced”] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
84 Nov 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Local authority capital controls”) [declassified 2014] |
|
|
84 Nov 24 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: UKE Washington telegram 3503 to FCO (0335Z) ("New York Council on Foreign Relations") [Volcker visit to London] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
84 Nov 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Urban Policy Machinery (Misc 104(84)10)”) [proposals for management structure to “enable the Government to get better value for its spending in the inner cities”] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
84 Nov 26 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
The Second Carlton Lecture ("Why democracy will last") |
|
|
84 Nov 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("US/Soviet relations: the Shultz/Gromyko meeting") [meeting of the four ambassadors on 28 November: record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
84 Dec 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: MT speaking notes (1922 Committee Christmas 1984 speech) [“Get on with the job we were elected to do”] [released 2014] |
|
|
84 Dec 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 51st (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014] |
|
|
84 Dec 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Hong Kong: N0.10 briefing cards for MT (“Meeting with Deng Xiaoping”) [with MT annotations] [released 2014] |
|
|
85 Jan 29 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
85 Feb 4 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
City: Sir Nicholas Goodison speech to Insurance Institute of London (regulation of financial services in UK) [White Paper proposals] |
|
|
85 Feb 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Powell ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the USSR: Consarc Engineering Limited") [declassified 2015] |
|
|
85 Mar 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Department of Trade & Industry letter to No.10 ("BL Privatisation") [privatisation of Unipart and Land Rover] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Mar 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Aerospace: FCO telegram 408 to UKE Washington (1400Z) (“Laker”) [British Airways negotiations with Exim Bank] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
85 Mar 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("BNOC") [supports Walker's draft announcement to Parliament on run-down of BNOC; pipeline/royalty in kind] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Mar 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Industrial Policy: Letwin minute to MT ("Wages Councils") [comment on King paper; need for "robust presentation of the argument against Councils"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Mar 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (preparation for meeting with Ministers on football hooliganism) [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Mar 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MT letter to President Reagan (Geneva Talks) [value of consultations; her Moscow talks with Gorbachev] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
85 Mar 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil Service: Rees minute to MT ("Assassination and Death in Service") [views on FCO/Treasury report's recommendations & further options] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Apr 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 note of conversation (Julian Bullard phone message) [message to Horst Teltschik delivered; Britain left out of three-way consultations between FRG, French and Italians] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Apr 11 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference in Indonesia |
|
|
85 Apr 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Timothy Flesher minute to Rees PS (Public Expenditure Survey) [options for reductions] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Apr 30 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
85 May 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Drugs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Drug Abuse - Weekend Update") [political strategies; legislation to enable forfeiture of assets; summary of research findings] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 May 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Energy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Walker) [“Sir Robin Nicholson and UKAEA”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 May 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Redwood and Letwin minute for MT ("Local Government Finance Reform") [DOE 'Specifiction Report' - "a number of unpleasant effects ... Unless some of them can be sorted out this reform is unattractive"] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 May 22 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Women’s Conference |
|
|
85 May 24 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Radio Interview for IRN (domestic politics) |
|
|
85 May 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Sports journalists/MT-Chairman of Liverpool Football Club/MT-Football Association) [Heysel Stadium disaster and football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Jun 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
China: Charles Powell to Howe PS ("Talks with the Chinese Premier: Trade and Economic Issues") [MT "takes the view that we are unlikely to succeed in securing major contracts in China unless we are in a position to offer soft loans"] [released 2017] |
|
|
85 Jun 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKE Lisbon telegram to FCO (“Secretary of States bilateral with Shultz: Southern Africa”) [sanctions against South Africa “ineffective and damaging”] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
85 Jun 10 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference for regional lobby correspondents |
|
|
85 Jun 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Employment: Warry minute to MT ("Professor Vincent's Paper") [encouraging entrepreneurship to create jobs] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Jun 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("European Fighter Aircraft") [Heseltine requests issue be raised by MT in bilateral discussions at Milan summit] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Jul 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Multi Department Review of Office Accommodation Management") [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Jul 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("BSC Strategy (E(A)(85) 45 & 50") [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Jul 30 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC2 Newsnight |
|
|
85 Sep 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Mexico: MT message for President Miguel de la Madrid of Mexico (earthquake in Mexico) [offer of UK aid] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
85 Oct 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: President of the Confederation of British Industry letter to MT (Commonwealth Conference) [congratulations on MT taking firm line on sanctions] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 11 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
|
|
85 Nov 17 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for London Weekend Television Weekend World |
|
|
85 Nov 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Anglo-Irish Agreement: Speech in the debate”) [draft] [released 2015] |
|
|
85 Nov 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 minute to MT (“Royal Academy visit - 14.30 hrs, 27 November; press arrangements”) [declassified 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 26 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Anglo-Irish Agreement] |
|
|
85 Dec 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Secretary of State for Social Services minute to MT (“Local Government Finance”) [domestic rates reform] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Jan 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (FCO) |
Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1985 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007] |
|
|
86 Jan 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with the Chancellor) [the markets, Budget, Green Paper on Personal Taxation] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Jan 26 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Politics, Westland) [43 per cent think she should resign, 48 per cent stay] [released Jan 2017] |
|
|
86 Jan 28 Tu |
Press |
Major |
Her Majesty's Government |
Green Paper on Local Government Finance ("Paying for Local Government") [origins of Community Charge] |
|
|
86 Feb 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Westland: Wicks minute for MT (draft response to Owen letter) [refusing demand for disciplinary action against Powell and Ingham] [declassified 2016] |
|
|
86 Feb 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Washington telegram 428 to FCO (2300Z) ("Arms Control: US Response to Gorbachev's Proposals") [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Feb 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (British Leyland) [Cabinet rebellion against another American takeover] [released 2017] |
|
|
86 Mar 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (MT meeting with Weinberger) [Stealth technology; determined to show perseverance in disputes with Congress over Nicaragua] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
86 Mar 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("Meeting between Commission and Argentine Foreign Minister") [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Mar 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Hansard |
Economy: 1986 Budget (Lawson 3) |
|
|
86 Mar 24 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for The Times |
|
|
86 Mar 25 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
86 Mar 27 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
86 Apr 15 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
86 Apr 15 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC Stmnt: [US bombing of Libya] |
|
|
86 Apr 16 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [US bombing of Libya] |
|
|
86 Apr 28 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Written Interview for Newsweek International (Libyan raid) |
|
|
86 May 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Justice: Cabinet Office briefing for Whitelaw ("Prison officers' industrial action") [situation report & key issues for Whitelaw meeting with MT] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
86 May 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Education: No.10 minute for MT (“Indoctrination in Education”) [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 May 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Israel: UKA Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit: Occupied Territories") [controversy over MT comments on alternative leadership to PLO, during May 1986 visit] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
86 May 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Egypt: Charles Powell minute to MT (proposed meeting President Mubarak's national security advisor) [MT agrees to meeting, to balance her recent visit to Israel] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
86 Jun 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: FCO flash telegram to UKE Pretoria (“European Council: South Africa”) [MT message for President Botha] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Jun 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Turkey: RIPA letter for Powell ("Visitors from Turkish Prime Minister's Office") [declassified July 2016] |
|
|
86 Jul 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil Service: Richard Luce PS letter to No.10 (Civil Service reforms) [speaking note for MT, to raise in Cabinet] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Jul 31 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Energy: Walker letter to Ridley (“Energy Efficiency in the Civil Estate”) [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Aug 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Aerospace: John Moore PS letter to Howe PS (“UK/US air services”) [assessment of alternative options in event of negotiations failing] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Sep 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: MT letter to President Mitterrand (death of Henry Moore) [thanks for condolence] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
86 Sep 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Greece: MT message to Andreas Papandreou (death of Kanellopoulos) [condolences to family and Greek people] [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
|
86 Oct 4 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: President of Jei-Ai Publishing Co. Ltd letter to MT (sanctions against South Africa) [copy attached of the company's letter to Archbishop of Canterbury: case against sanctions, and proposed alternatives] [declassified Feb 2016] |
|
|
86 Oct 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Manpower: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Measures to Alleviate the Effects of Major Redundancies”) [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
El Salvador: MT message to President Duarte (earthquake) ["We have already sent in emergency assistance from Belize and more help is on the way"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
86 Oct 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2619 to FCO (0330Z) (“President Reagan’s television address”) [“we’re closer than ever before to agreements that could lead to a safer world without nuclear weapons”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Japan: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Japanese financial consultation, 27 October") [trade relations & investment] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
86 Nov 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: US Embassy London to State Department (British deny an arms control initiative with France & Germany) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
86 Nov 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: US Embassy Vienna to State Department (Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting - day 1) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
87 Apr 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 808 to FCO (1240Z) ("Secretary of State's Meeting with Shultz, 9 April: Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow") [Howe, Shultz: record of conversation] [released Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 May 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Julio Maria Sanguinetti message to MT (Venice Economic Summit) [message on behalf of the Cartenga Group, in Spanish] [released July 2016] |
|
|
87 Jun 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 letter to Lieutenant Sethia (disclosure of extracts from his Falklands diary) [in litigation] [declassified 2016] |
|
|
87 Jul 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1394 to FCO (0010Z) ("US/Soviet Relations") [next Shultz/Shevardnadze meeting in Washington likely to immediately precede MT visit] [released July 2016] |
|
|
87 Jul 16 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to 1922 Committee |
|
|
87 Jul 29 We |
Press |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Liberal Party political broadcast [by-election victories] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Nov 12 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
87 Dec 15 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
88 Jan 21 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
88 Jan 22 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for L’Express magazine |
|
|
88 Feb 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: MT to Julian Amery (thanks for letter) ["the time is not now - but we must wait upon events"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Feb 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Regional Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Inner cities") ['Action for Cities' media launch] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
|
88 Feb 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Nationalised industries: Secretary of State for Energy minute for Margaret Thatcher ("Electricity Privatisation") [draft statement and White Paper ] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
|
88 Mar 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Hansard |
Economy: 1988 Budget (Lawson 5) |
|
|
88 Mar 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
PM's Tours Abroad: DTI letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey: Speech at Lunch at Istanbul") [minor changes suggested] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
88 Mar 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Education: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 ("Opting out in Scotland") [involvement of parents in the management of schools] [declassified 2016] |
|
|
88 Apr 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: Italiam PM De Mita letter to MT (her letter of congratulations on becoming PM) [thanks] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
88 Apr 19 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
88 May 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: No.10 conversation record (MT-Chairman of British Satellite Broadcasting) [BSB seeking assurance that further extra-terrestrial channels would not be operational before 1995; MT declined to promise] [declassified Feb 2016] |
|
|
88 May 19 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
88 May 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Health: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ("Review of National Health Service") [revised work programme] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
|
88 May 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: FCO Economic Relations Department to Lawson PS ("Chancellor's Debt Initiative") [US, French, Canadian views] [released July 2016] |
|
|
88 May 25 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Women’s Conference |
|
|
88 May 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
NHS: Cabinet Office minute to Paul Gray ("Review of National Health Service") [revised work programme] [released July 2016] |
|
|
88 Jun 19 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (Toronto Economic Summit sessions, 19-21 Jun) [MT, Mulroney, Mitterrand, Kohl, De Mita, Takeshita, Reagan, Delors] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
88 Jun 19 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Wicks notes for record of conversation (Toronto Economic Summit sessions, 19-21 Jun) [MT, Mulroney, Mitterrand, Kohl, De Mita, Takeshita, Reagan, Delors] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
88 Jun 19 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (Toronto Economic Summit, dinner 19 Jun) [MT, Mulroney, Mitterrand, Kohl, De Mita, Takeshita, Reagan, Delors] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
88 Jun 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (Toronto Economic Summit sessions, 19-21 Jun) [MT, Mulroney, Mitterrand, Kohl, De Mita, Takeshita, Reagan, Delors] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
88 Jun 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Wicks notes for record of conversation (Toronto Economic Summit sessions, 19-21 Jun) [MT, Mulroney, Mitterrand, Kohl, De Mita, Takeshita, Reagan, Delors] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
88 Jun 21 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (Toronto Economic Summit sessions, 19-21 Jun) [MT, Mulroney, Mitterrand, Kohl, De Mita, Takeshita, Reagan, Delors] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
88 Jun 21 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Wicks notes for record of conversation (Toronto Economic Summit sessions, 19-21 Jun) [MT, Mulroney, Mitterrand, Kohl, De Mita, Takeshita, Reagan, Delors] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
88 Jun 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Ridley letter to Chief Secretary (Local Authority Capital: Consultation Document) ["The issues you have identified are not new"; urges not delaying publication] [declassified Feb 2018] |
|
|
88 Sep 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Bank of England letter to Treasury ("Indexed-Linked Gilts and the RPI") [no change in Bank's view] [declassified Feb 2018] |
|
|
88 Sep 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (FCO) |
Europe: Stow (DTI) to John Kerr (MT Bruges speech) [“pretty dim view” of draft sections] |
|
|
88 Sep 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (FCO) |
Europe: Hawtin (MoD) to Charles Powell (MT Bruges speech) [comments on draft] |
|
|
88 Sep 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (FCO) |
Europe: Charles Powell to FCO (MT Bruges speech) [final draft - “PM now broadly content with it”] |
|
|
88 Oct 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news) [interest rates, mortgage tax relief, Rover/BAe, Heysel stadium disaster, Barlow-Clowes report, IRA media interviews] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Nov 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, President, students, soccer, economy) [Cabinet to decide whether Lawson should face censure motion over meeting with Sunday Lobby] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Nov 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cyprus: Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with President Vassiliou") [declassified Jul 2021] |
|
|
88 Nov 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
South Africa: FCO to No.10 ("Request for an Interview with the Prime Minister from the Editor of 'Beeld'") [opportunity for MT to set out opposition to apartheid and need for SAG to grasp the reform nettle] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Dec 8 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
89 Jan 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (FCO) |
Cold War: UK Embassy in Warsaw to FCO (1988 Annual Report on Poland) [declassified 2007] |
|
|
89 Jan 22 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Afghanistan: UKE Kabul telegram 51 to FCO (0400Z) ("Kabul: Contingency Planning: Probably Closure of French Embassy") [details] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
89 Mar 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Environment: MT draft speech (Ozone Conference) [need to raise public awareness, commit to practical steps, strengthen international organisations] [released Mar 2019] |
|
|
89 Mar 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Legal procedure: Gray minute for MT ("The Legal Profession in Scotland") [Rifkind redraft still not sufficient for Lord Chancellor; MT demands he meet Mackay's points - "The consequences of not doing so would be very obvious"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
89 Mar 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to Paul Gray (Non-EC Control of Cable and Local Delivery Operators) [discussion at meeting] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
89 Mar 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to Newton PS ("TV Licensing Organisation: New Business") [TVL competition for subscription work] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
89 Apr 13 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
89 Apr 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office (George Soros) [request for a meeting with MT to discuss Eastern Europe] [released Dec 2016] |
|
|
89 May 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Brunner MSS) |
Monetary Policy: Alan Walters message to Karl Brunner memorial |
|
|
89 May 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Peru: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Peru: Visit of Sr Mario Vargas Llosa") ["Peru has fallen into ever-deeper political and economic chaos over the past few years"] [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
|
89 May 31 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Glasgow Herald |
|
|
89 Jun 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Gorbachev's visit to FRG 12-15 June") [advance briefing of UK, US, France by Teltschik; draft joint declaration referring to "common European house"] [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
|
89 Jun 14 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference concluding European Election campaign |
|
|
89 Jun 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (Kohl-MT) [Kohl call briefing on Gorbachev visit to FRG] [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
|
89 Jun 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
NHS: Ian Whitehead minute to MT ("Services for the Mentally Ill") ["money did not follow the patient"] [released Dec 2016] |
|
|
89 Jun 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Australia: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("Commonwealth Secretary Generalship, and Mr Hawke's Visit") [support for Nigerian, Australian candidates] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
89 Nov 4 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Alan Clark letter to Charles Powell (invitation to participate in Royal United Services Institute discussion: 'Western Policy Towards the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe") [Charles Powell: "I think it is probably better now. I fear he will say something outrageous"] [released Dec 2016] |
 |
89 Nov 24 Fr |
Multimedia |
Major |
Archive (Bush Library) |
White House photos: MT visiting Bush at Camp David (arriving 3) |
|
|
89 Nov 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Environment: Chris Patten minute to Geoffrey Howe ("Environmental Protection Bill") [litter, hazardous sites, payments to outside bodies, dogs] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
89 Dec 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: Prime Minister Lubbers letter to MT (reappointment as Prime Minister of the Netherlands) [letter of thanks for MT congratulations] [declassified July 2017] |
|
|
90 Jan 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Margaret Thatcher interviewed about Ronald Reagan [released 2002] |
|
|
90 Jan 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Slocock conversation record ("Diary meeting") [MT turns down interview on Christianity & Conservatism; "B. Ingham worries about your forays into religion and morality"] [released Feb 2020] |
|
|
90 Jan 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: Christopher Prout press statement (MT-European Democratic Group meeting) ["These are historic times for Europe"] [released Feb 2020] |
|
|
90 Feb 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bush Library) |
Cold War: Bush-Kohl phone conversation (procedural) [declassified] [38K scan] |
|
|
90 Feb 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to Waddington PS ("ITN Shareholdings") [provision for a 51 percent shareholding] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
90 Mar 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Canada: Charles Powell minute to MT (call from Mulroney) [Mulroney said "if you think you are currently unpopular, you should take a look at his position"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
90 Mar 10 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Canada: MT message to Brian Mulroney (thanks for support) ["We have both got things right by sticking to our guns"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
90 Apr 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Paul Gray minute to Waddington PS ("Mr. Ken Hargreaves MP's Ten Minute Rule Bill") [MT approves rejection of bill in line with policy against introduction of national lotteries] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
90 Apr 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (NSA) |
Middle East: US Ambassador (London) telegram to Secretary of State Baker (Iraqi supergun affair) [declassified 1993] |
|
|
90 May 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
NHS: John Mills minute to MT ("Community Care") [dangers of proposals for the level of community charge] [released July 2017] |
|
|
90 Jun 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: Hurd minute to MT ("Visit to Jordan and Saudi Arabia: 30 May - 3 June") ["The two Kings... see the peace process grinding to a halt... and the Americans failing to grasp the full danger"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
90 Jul 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: Joining the Exchange Rate Mechanism") [latest Treasury forecast; entry into ERM] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
90 Aug 6 Mo |
Press |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Gulf War: Bush-Thatcher meeting in Washington [memoirs extract] |
|
|
90 Aug 19 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO (“Foreign Nationals in Kuwait”) [list of 81 British citizens taken from hotel] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
90 Aug 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bush Library) |
Gulf War: White House record of phone conversation (1316-1326Z) (President Bush-MT) [updating - situation at UN, necessity of acting to stop ships, if necessary under Article 51] [declassified Jun 2013] |
|
|
90 Aug 21 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference on Gulf situation |
|
|
90 Aug 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2013 to FCO (2355Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: next steps in New York") [Bush reluctantly granting Russian request for 48 hour moratorium on interdiction of Iraqi shipping; if no SCR by then, will act under Article 51] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
90 Aug 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Muscat telegram to FCO ("Vice-Chief of Defence Staff's visit") [account of requests to Sultan by Dick Cheney; Omanis fear being "swamped by US forces"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
90 Aug 26 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks at Chequers on the Gulf crisis ("I believe that sanctions, given a time, will work very effectively, provided everyone abides by them") |
|
|
90 Sep 1 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for TV-AM Frost on Sunday |
|
|
90 Sep 6 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Gulf Crisis] |
|
|
90 Sep 6 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Letter to Paddy Ashdown MP (Gulf crisis) |
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90 Sep 30 Su |
Press |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Gulf War: MT-Bush meeting in New York [memoirs extract] |
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90 Oct 1 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for CBS (visiting New York) |
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90 Oct 1 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for NBC (visiting New York) |
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90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2589 to FCO (2355Z) ("The Gulf: authority for the military option") ["US Administration considered that Article 51 gave sufficient authority... [but] it would be much easier to obtain Congressional acquiescence ... [if] authority given by the international community"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: the Gulf") [UN resolution; letter to Emir of Kuwait: Article 51; Primakov peace mission; US intentions; British communities at risk; Saudi views; meeting with Mitterrand; Iraqi intentions; sanctions; Chief of Defence Staff meeting with Gen Powell; Iraqi missiles] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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90 Oct 30 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC Stmnt: [Rome European Council] ["No no no"] |
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90 Nov 9 Fr |
Press |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Gulf War: MT meeting with Jim Baker (reinforcing British deployment) [memoirs extract] |
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90 Nov 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Resignation: Prime Minister Kaifu statement (parting thoughts) [“a rare leader of firm convictions”] |
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93 Apr 13 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC (attacks British policy towards Bosnia) |
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93 Apr 14 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
HL PQ [Bosnia] |
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93 Sep 20 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Lecture to the National Legal Center for the Public Interest |
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93 Oct 4 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Chatham House Conference on Saudi Arabia |
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93 Dec 8 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Scott Inquiry |
Evidence to the Scott Inquiry (Arms for Iraq) |
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94 Jan 29 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Ireland: FCO telegram 80 to UKE Washington (1423Z) ("Gerry Adams") [Visa issue - Hurd rang Christopher, who noted strong political pressure from Senators Mitchell, Kennedy & Moynihan] [declassified Dec 2018] |
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94 Feb 3 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech on President Reagan’s 83rd birthday |
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95 Aug 4 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to the Aspen Institute ("Managing conflict - the role of international intervention") |
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96 Oct 1 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to the European Foundation ("Freedom, Economic Liberty and the Rule of Law") |
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97 Apr 10 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech in Finchley |
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97 Nov 25 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks launching her Collected Speeches |
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98 Oct 1 Th |
Press |
Minor |
Collins (Christopher) |
Editorial policy of site: Preface to Complete Public Statements of Margaret Thatcher, 1945-90 on CD-ROM (Oxford University Press, 1998) |
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03 Jan 26 Su |
Press |
Major |
Commentary (The Times) |
Obituary: Younger [George] (1931-2003) [Scottish Secretary 1979-86, Defence Secretary 1986-89] |
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05 Nov 19 Sa |
Press |
Minor |
Commentary (The Times) |
MT: “Lonely Black looks in vain for friends in need” (US fraud charges) |
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07 Sep 16 Su |
Press |
Major |
Commentary (Sunday Times) |
MT: “Rudy Giuliani mocks Hillary claim to be Iron Lady” (MT role in US presidential election) |
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