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PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT (“Future of the Polytechnics”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Ridley) [education without LEAs] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker PS briefing for MT (“Education without LEAs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Jeffrey Archer resignation, Labour party divisions, tax cuts, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Peter Warry minute to MT ("Peacock Report: Initial Parliamentary Handling") [independent producers, privatising radio] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: MT message to Bob Hawke (social security protocol) [indexation of pension payments] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Anglo-French Summit") [Chirac proposes "working supper", MT agrees; arrangements & timings] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Washington telegram 2742 to FCO (2330Z) ("Afghanistan: Soviet Withdrawals") ["Administration conclude... largely a sham, and plan to go public with the evidence shortly"; details] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT (Soviet military space flight failure) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2734 to FCO (2200Z) ("Reykjavik Aftermath") [declassified 2015]
PDF 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]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Department of the Environment letter to Cabinet Office ("Leak investigation: local government finance") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc (Scotland) Bill: Caravans, Huts and Chalets") [treatment as second homes] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Edwards minute to Norman Fowler ("Social Security and the Community Charge") [rebating system for Scotland] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Hailsham minute to Willie Whitelaw ("E(LF): Community Charge - Framework of Duties and Penalties") [resource implications of appeals system] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Stredder to MT ("Community Charge: Enforcement of Registration") [head of household to provide information to registration officer] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2739 to FCO (2315Z) ("FRG/South Africa") [Michael Jenkins, Chester Crocker record of conversation: "wished to float two ideas... possibility of instituting regular UK/US/FRG trilateral discussions... [and] a public declaration of principles"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“Lamb imports: message from Mister Gummer”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Teachers’ pay and conditions of service: MISC 122 (86) 15th meeting”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Ridley PS letter to No.10 (“MISC 122”) [effect of teachers’ pay award on local government rate increases] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MacGregor minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay: staging of settlement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT (“School teachers’ pay and conditions - legislation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2734 to FCO (2200Z) (“Reykjavik aftermath”) [Acland discussion with Reagan: “The President said that he understood British and European concerns about the imbalance in non-nuclear forces”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (EC and UK differences on Syria, Jeffrey Archer, teachers’ pay) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Biffen PS letter to Cabinet Office (Lord Privy Seal’s draft speech for the Westland debate) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Younger PS letter to No.10 (Westlands debate) [draft opening speech] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Shultz telegram to Reagan (LRINF zero zero option accepted by MT) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nicholas Edwards minute to Douglas Hurd ("Green Paper on Radio Policy") [impact of proposals on Welsh radio] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet National Day Reception") [Ministerial representation] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Young Enterprise”) [“David Young described it as the most impressive event he had seen since he entered politics”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2754 to FCO (2300Z) ("Geneva NST") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Nicholas Ridley minute for MT ("Acid Rain: Draft EC Directive on Large Combustion Plants") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Williamson minute for Powell ("Large Combustion Plants: Possible Discussion in E(A)") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKMIS New York telegram 1150 to FCO (0225Z) ("Security Council: ICJ/Nicaragua") [report on outcome of UN resolution vote: "A three-way split between the five western members of the Council is always a bad result"; No.10 unhappy with comments] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc (Scotland) Bill: Collective Community Charge") [treatment of mobile persons] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Norman Fowler ("'Paying for Local Government': Suggested Exemptions from the Community Charge for Residents of 'Homes' and Hostels") [keep residents liable] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Zambia/Zimbabwe: overflights") ["intention to break air links with South Africa... likely to increase the pressure to ban overflights of these countries by British Airways"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Cabinet 30 October: Public Expenditure") [timing of discussions] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Star Chamber: Latest Position") [near settlement on all programmes except Scotland] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to Nigel Wicks ("Public Expenditure") [possible Star Chamber meeting] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Meeting between Vice President Andriessen and Sir Michael Franklin”) [objectives and tactics on beef and milk] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Attorney General letter for Douglas Hurd (protection of rape victims) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [public spending: Scottish expenditure, health and national insurance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Tactics on teachers”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Teachers’ pay, duties and conditions of service (C (86) 21)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 21 (School Teachers’ Pay, Duties and Conditions of Service) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (murder trial, Syria, housing, teachers’ pay) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Conservative Central Office analysis (BBC news coverage of US Libya raid) [coverage "far from being balanced, fair and impartial"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: MT message to Bob Hawke (voyage from Britain to Australia) [congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: MT message to Bob Hawke (America's Cup) [unable to attend competition] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Treasury minute to DTI ("ATP: Cyprus") [Chief Secretary willing to consider the project] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: MT letter for Julian Amery MP (his meeting with Denktash in Cyprus) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (impact of running costs and manpower controls on reducing unemployment and public expenditure) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit to Washington: Arms Control") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO telegram 1884 to UKE Washington (1700Z) (Kampelman's call on Mr Renton: Reykjavik arms control talks) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2769 to FCO (2230Z) ("Administration Arguments on the Abolition of Ballistic Missiles") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Edwards minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Community Charge: Framework of Duties and Offences") [penalty for individuals who repeatedly refuse to supply information] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Stredder to MT ("Social Security and the Community Charge") [help for people on low incomes] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("The South African Scene") [situation report: "After two months absence... I find little has changed here except perhaps for the worse"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Howe PS ("Autumn Statement") [presentation arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to John Pearman (“School teachers’ pay and duties”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 (“Teachers’ pay”) [statement to Parliament] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker PS letter to No.10 (“Schoolteachers’ pay and conditions in England and Wales”) [statement to Parliament] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2768 to FCO (2200Z) (“Post-Reykjavik arms control negotiations”) [“Unsatisfactory discussion with Poindexter”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Law Commission report (“Family Law. Illegitimacy (Second Report)”) [proposed new rules] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Norman Tebbit to Marmaduke Hussey (analysis of BBC coverage of Libya raid) [questions “whether an increasingly subjective and confrontational style of BBC news coverage is appropriate for a public service broadcasting system”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Conservative Central Office analysis (“Media Monitoring”) [detailed comparison between BBC and ITN coverage of US raid on Tripoli] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands fisheries, Westland, teachers’ pay) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn saving telegram 15 to FCO ("Federal German Economy") ["American pressure for a reduction of interest rates has eased"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to FCO ("Arms Control: Washington Meeting") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Arms Control in Europe: The Way Forward") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Channon minute for Ridley ("Acid Rain: Draft EC Directive on Large Combustion Plants") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Douglas Hurd minute to Willie Whitelaw ("E(LF): Community Charge: Framework of Duties and Offences") [proposal for enhanced penalties] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO telegram 1897 to UKE Washington (1700Z) ("South Africa: UK/US/FRG tripartite talks") ["arguments for a political initiative... UK and US responded cautiously"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: Draft Report to Cabinet") [virtually impossible position from which the Chamber were asked to start their work] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: Scotland") [attempt to convince Rifkind he could defend further reductions] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Future of the Polytechnics”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT (“Education without LEAs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Publicity of teachers’ pay”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Publicity of teachers’ pay”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Walker (“Contract Energy Management”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (teachers&rsdquo; pay deal, BBC Libya libel case, law and order, health) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Richard Luce PS letter to No.10 (“Progress Report on multi-department review of accommodation: further action”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Improving Management in the Civil Service”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("M. Gisgard d'Estaing") [last encounter was distinctly irritating] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Bonn telegram 924 to FCO (1710Z) ("FRG/Soviet Relations") [diplomatic rift] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 923 to FCO (1655Z) ("Kohl Interview with Die Welt") [disarmament issues] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington letter to FCO ("Shultz's San Francisco Speech: 31 October") [Reykjavik summit/arms control; next steps: "distinctly worrying"] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Arms Control") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Younger, Lawson) [arms control in Europe: the way forward] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Younger, Lawson) [arms control] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2788 to FCO (2355Z) ("Post-Reykjavik Arms Control Discussions") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2783 to FCO (0122Z) ("The Approach to Camp David") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Strategy Group minute ("Minutes of the Strategy Group. Seventh Meeting: Monday 3rd November 1986") ​​​​​​​[forward political diary, BBC bias, law and order] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Douglas Hurd memo ("Notes for the Home Secretary's presentation on law and order - Strategy Group - 3 November") [objective: "to maintain public confidence in the Government's policies and to seek to build a partnership between the public and the formal criminal justice system"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: MacGregor minute for Ridley ("Acid Rain: Draft EC Directive on Large Combustion Plants") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor of the Exchequer") ["[his] objectives are to reassure the markets and avoid tying his hands for the Budget. Your objectives are to reassure the markets and to tie the Chancellor's hands so far as possible to a very prudent PSBR"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to MacGregor PS ("Autumn Statement") [draft oral statement] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (hostages freed, Ireland, Jeffrey Archer, Knowsley by-election) [released 2017]

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