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PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Department of Employment minute to Turnbull (Blackpool Travel to Work Area status) [assisted areas defined using TTWAs] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on Blackpool Assisted Area status) [MT “said that the criteria which had been used to draw up the map were as objective as possible”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Hailsham letter to Patrick Jenkin ("Proposed new clause in the Abolition Bill") [enough on our plates without this, but will bow to business managers] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Rate Support Grant Debate 16 January 1985: Commitments for 1986/87") [meeting to agree form of words for Jenkin; MT thought they went too far, but in event they were not needed] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Whitelaw PS ("1985 Public Expenditure White Paper") [publication date] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Lawson minute to Tebbit (“White Paper on Financial Services”) [Treasury points] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Anglo-German Summit Consultations, 18 January”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO letter to No.10 (“Anglo-German Summit: Belgian INF Deployment”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe minute for MT (“European Community: Your Meeting with Chancellor Kohl”) [FCO thoughts on handling of Community issues] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Letwin minute (“Local Government: Countering the Far Left”) [propaganda campaign against rate capping] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Employment: Department of Employment briefing for MT (Blackpool Assisted Area status) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Employment: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Peter Blaker MP, Norman Miscampbell MP) [meeting on Blackpool's loss of Assisted Area status] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: MT message to President Reagan (exchange market situation: coordinated intervention) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute to MT (“Rules of Engagement in the South Atlantic”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 71 to FCO (1300Z) ("Indo-British Relations") [Foreign Ministry's capacity to do Britain "mischief"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 69 to FCO (1130Z) ("Visit by Indian Prime Minister") [postponement of Gandhi's trip to London] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Hurd-Armstrong & others) ["Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell note to MT (Meeting with John Hume: Hurd's suggested points to make) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKDel Strasbourg telegram 008 to FCO (1529Z) ("Italian Presidency's Opening Statement to the European Parliament") [intergovernmental conference on institutional reform; Dooge Committee; People's Europe; 1985 EC Budget; UK refund; Budget discipline; internal market; EMS; CAP; vehicle exhaust emissions; EC enlargement; external policies] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Our 1984 Abatement and the Provision of Supplementary Finance in 1985") [options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Delors inaugural Presidency speech on EC integration; Jopling report on agricultural structures/milk levy; Anglo-German bilateral: EC budget; miners' strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Oreja) [Secretary-General of the Council of Europe: programme for next 5 years; terrorism; role of Council of Europe in distinction to EC; East/West; Middle East; Latin America; Malta/Turkey; Cyprus; Northern Ireland; MT proposal for human rights cases Ombudsman; MT visit to Strasbourg to address Council of Europe Assembly] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: MT letter to President Kaunda of Zambia (response to request for UK support for Special Fund for Africa) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Coal Industry Dispute - Early Report for 16 January”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Possible visit to Britain by Mr Kadar") [General Secretary János Kádár; "his visit could play a significant part in the East/West dialogue"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT (Widdicombe Committee) [not supplying details of assumptions to authorities] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("GLC Propaganda on Ratecapping") ["increasingly unscrupulous" campaign against Abolition Bill] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to Whitelaw PS ("Rate Support Grant Debate: Commitments for 1986/87") [opening debate] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Gowrie letter to Patrick Jenkin (Abolition Bill) [proposed "counter-obstruction clause"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Powell minute to FCO ("Israeli Military Equipment for Argentina") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Howe PS minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure White Paper") [cuts to overseas services] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Whitelaw-Brittan-Jenkin-Biffen-Fowler etc) [government's economic and social policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Jopling (“Review of the CAP”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food record of conversation (price-fixing; milk quotas; and German stance towards CAP) [Jopling, Danish Minister of Agriculture] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Robin Nicholson minute for MT (“Anglo-German Summit - Space Station”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 minute for MT (“Anglo-German Summit”) [overview of briefing plan] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 16 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Baroness Elles MEP, Vice-President of the European Parliament, letter to Walker (European Parliament's Huckfield Resolution on trade unions) [Resolution condemns 'repressive acts against trade unions'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler note to Richard Hatfield (miners’ strike reports requiring action) ['Can you please reassure the Prime Minister that, in the absence of action by us, these reports do not simply lie unpursued?'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Jenkin minute (“GLC propaganda on ratecapping”) [“we are precluded in the short term from the most desriable course of action which would be to legislate to stop such advertising”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague to FCO (“Visit to Chequers of The Netherlands Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs”) [Dutch view of talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO Protocol Department minute (“Visit by The Netherlands Prime Minister and Foreign Minister: 26-27 January”) [request for protection & programme] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Lawson memoirs) Economy: Reagan letter to Thatcher (sterling crisis) [published 1992]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: President Reagan message to MT (exchange market situation: coordinated intervention) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Attorney-General letter to Nick Ridley (“Debate on Inspector’s Report on Stansted-Heathrow Terminal Inquiries”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Leon Brittan minute to Nigel Lawson ("BBC Accounts") [departs from standard accounting practice] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to Leon Brittan ("BBC Accounts") [BBC practice enables it to appear to be hard up] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Brittan PS minute to Charles Powell ("Sikh Demonstration - 20 January") [estimated attendance, involvement of Chauhan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Letter from Lord Aldington: Westland Helicopters") [propsects look better] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [revised British proposal for Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-John Hume MP-Hurd) [Anglo-Irish talks; situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: David Barclay minute to MT ("Civil Service Retirement and Re-employment Policy") [legal advice on amendement of the Civil Service Pension Scheme to exclude the possibility of a lump sum followed by re-employment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Beach Report on the Protection of Military Information") [Government response] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Lord Young ("Provision for Students") [Lord Young's proposed restriction on entitlement to supplementary benefits] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Burnham (P&S)") [schoolteachers' pay & conditions of service negotiations: latest position; teaching standards assessment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: George Younger minute to MT ("Agriculture and Conservation") ['voluntary' approach vs. intervention; the Scottish perspective; planning controls; Landscape Conservation Orders/compensation; SSSIs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Whitelaw, Jenkin, Joseph, Havers, Baker, Gummer; Ingham, Sherbourne, Letwin, Turnbull) ["Rate financed propaganda"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Publication of 1985 Public Expenditure White Paper") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Robin Butler ("Hoddinot Report/Public Expenditure White Paper") [publication arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Brittan PS (Public Expenditure background note) ["sticking to the plans" essential to economic policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 2nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, coal strike) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC101(85) 1 (Local Authority Assistance to the National Union of Mineworkers) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 17 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Ankara telegram to FCO (“Cyprus”) [“concern about Turkish motives is on this occasion exaggerated”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe APS letter to No.10 (“Cyprus”) [“the situation is much less polarised than President Kyprianou had thought”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Cyprus High Commission statement (UN talks) [“an orchestrated effort is being made by certain circles of the U.N. Secretariat to put the blame on the Greek Cypriot side for the failure of the High Level Meeting”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Powell minute for MT (“Visit of Netherlands Prime Minister”) [arrangements & invitees] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (Chancellor’s call from Washington: G5 meeting on exchange market) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: UKE Washington telegram 152 to FCO (2315Z) (text of announcement issued to press by Don Regan after G5 meeting) [commitment to work toward greater exchange market stability] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute (“Monthly Monetary Report: December-March”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Nancy Reagan to MT (thanks for Xmas gift) [hope she enjoyed Dec 1984 Camp David visit] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Monetary policy: John Redwood minute for MT (“The dollar/sterling exchange rate”) [dollar not yet weakening] [released 2015]
Text 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT ("Scrutiny of Burdens on Firms") [advice on creation of inter-departmental group of Ministers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Booth minute to MT ("Public Order Review") [comment on Review: "This is a workmanlike analysis"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: No.10 minute to MT ("Home Improvement") [Green Paper on private sector housing improvement policy; MT: "I am horrified at some of its proposals"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Agriculture and Conservation") [pros & cons of legislation; Landscape Conservation Orders; costs: investment in preservation of landscape by diverting savings made elsewhere; Halvergate Marshes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Agriculture and Conservation") ['voluntary' approach vs. intervention; compensation; planning controls; Landscape Conservation Orders; preventing drainage of the Broads/Halvergate marshes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Future of the Royal Dockyards") [analysis of Heseltine proposals for contracting-out of management; recommendation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Using Private Enterprise in Government") [endorsement of Rees' contracting-out proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Employment: Prime Minister Craxi of Italy letter to MT (Italian conference on technological innovation and job creation) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Dean Dove Limited") [options for recovery of regional aid funding; risk of legal action against DTI] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Type 22 Frigates") [arrangements for Cabinet discussion of Heseltine's proposal to award Frigate contract to Cammell Laird] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: National Security Planning Group minutes (1600Z) ("Response to Threat to Lebanon Hostages") (NSPG 0105) [conditions for retaliatory strikes] [declassified Jul 2004]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Heseltine, German Defence Minister and others) [chemical weapons/arms control; INF; conventional defences; defence expenditure; SDI ; WEU; SP70; MLRS; EFA; Franco-German/Italian options for UK purchase of anti-armour helicopter; ALARM] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Rees PS letter to Patrick Jenkin PS ("Local Authority Capital Expenditure in England and Wales 1985-86") [suggests shorter consultation period; lay orders much earlier] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Turnbull ("Capital Expenditure") [presentation of the government's case] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Howe PS ("Public Expenditure White Paper: FCO") [can't accept anything that implies figures for FCO programmes are not fixed] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling letter to Ridley (management of farming in UK) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Federal President von Weizsaecker) [Anglo-German Summit: East-West issues, bilateral relations] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [tete a tete: German domestic scene, UK economy, international economic questions, East-West relations, SDI, commemoration of the 40th anniversary of VE Day, Falklands-Argentina] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [plemary: future development of the Community, financial issues in the Community] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Washington telegram 155 to FCO (0015Z) (“Environmental Controls and Automobiles”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 minute for MT (“H Committee Last Week”) [commercial surrogacy] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Kinnock letter to MT (proposes energy review) ['would clearly serve the national interest'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 minute for MT (“Moon Dust”) [ranks with toothbrush once used by Napoleon] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 18 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 3rd Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler minute to MT (“Miners’ Strike”) [updates from Walker for discussion with MT: secret NUM discussions with NCB; proposed TUC statement on strike; proposed parliamentary debate on strike; Kinnock letter] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: FCO letter to Charles Powell (“Afghan Aid for British Miners”) [report on Afghan trade unionists' handing over of cheque to NUM] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Budd letter to Charles Powell (“Visit to UK by Canadian Prime Minister”) [dates of proposed visit have changed] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 25 to FCO (0200Z) (“Cyprus: high level meeting”) [“got off to a difficult start with the two sides in apparent deadlock”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 letter to Howe PPS (“Cyprus”) [proposed letter from MT to prevent UN talks stalling] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 letter to Howe PPS (“Cyprus”) [“We have let the Secretary-General know that we stand ready to help”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“H committee last week”) [surrogacy, Shops Act, ethnic monitoring in the civil service] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Sue Goodchild minute for Powell (“Visit of Netherlands PM - Saturday, 26 January”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Policy Unit minute for MT (“BA Privatisation and US Anti-Trust Suits”) [possible courses and options] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 (former Lieutenant N. Sethia’s Falklands diary: publication) [HMS Conqueror & General Belgrano] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 19 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler minute to MT (draft TUC plan for the coal industry: Walker's response) ['Walker must not allow himself to be manoeuvred into a position in which he is morally committed to welcoming...an unsatisfactory TUC statement'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) [miners' strike: TUC proposals for future of the coal industry; NCB-NUM discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Anglo-German Summit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Anglo-German Consultations 18 January”) ["an especially harmonious summit, which got a good press here"] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: UKE Washington telegram 173 to FCO (0006Z) (“Meeting of Five Finance Ministers in Washington: Background Briefing by Chancellor of the Exchequer”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 20 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 34 to FCO (0350Z) (“Cyprus: high level meeting”) [“Secretary General is to put yet another compromise formula to the two sides”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Monetary policy: MT letter to David Eccles (dollar/sterling exchange rate) [“If Europe could be rid of Socialism for the forseeable future, our currencies would become much more attractive”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Clarke minute to MT ("Ministerial Responsibility for Marriage Guidance Funding") [no pressure from outside government to make the change, so "rather pointless to do it"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Peking telegram 77 to FCO (0822Z) ("Visit by CLP Delegation: Meetings with Chinese Leaders") [future of Hong Kong; Guangdong Nuclear Project] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Supreme Soviet Visit: UK/Soviet Relations") [Gorbachev was well received, visit will have raised UK standing in Gorbachev's eyes, security issue, trade] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell note to MT ("Gorbachev") [speaking notes on east-west relations, regional problems, arms control, NUM contacts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell note to MT (interpreter's comments on Gorbachevs) [Mrs Gorbachev's demeanour, outlook, comments on husband] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Nicholas Edwards minute to MT ("Agriculture and Conservation") ["our present policies are already moving towards a better balance... the case for extending planning or other controls is not made out"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Turnbull minute to MT (“Lunch at Lloyds”) [subjects to raise; DTI briefing] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Public Expenditure Survey) [spending blocks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Brittan PS ("1985 Public Expenditure White Paper (CMND 9428") [publication date] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nigel Lawson minute to Peter Walker (""Public Expenditure White Paper") [impact of miners' strike on figures for 1984-85] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Howe minute to Rees ("Turkey: Second Bosphorus Bridge") ["The Turks will certainly consider it very odd if we do not pull out all the stops to secure this business and will begin to question the seriousness of our oft-repeated wish to participate fully... in their economic rehabilitation"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC101(85) 3rd (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food record of conversation (EC agricultural policy) [Jopling, Belgian Minister of Agriculture] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: MT letter for Sir Julian Bullard (thanking for the arrangements for the Anglo-German Summit) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: MT letter for Chancellor Kohl (thanking for the talks and hospitality) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 21 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB record of conversation (NCB-NUM Representatives) [miners' strike: NCB and NUM consider potential resumption of discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Wybrew minute to Redwood (“Coal Dispute”) [statistics on striking miners and coal production: 'The picture is encouraging...'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (call from Irene McGibbon of Miners' Wives Back to Work Campaign) [concern about NCB-NUM talks: 'working miners will be sold short'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Hatfield minute to Butler (reports on the strike: follow-up actions) ['I can confirm that those responsible for producing these reports are well seized of the need to be alert to the opportunities for follow-up action'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 36 to FCO (0305Z) (“Cyprus: high level meeting”) [“It remained for the Secretary General to salvage what little he could”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 40 to FCO (2335Z) (“Cyprus: high level meeting”) [“Secretary General… relying too much on constructive ambiguity”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 letter to Howe PPS (“Cyprus”) [“we could not intervene directly in fast-moving negotiations in New York without a direct request from the Secretary-General”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 2 (Legislation on Commercial Surrogacy) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 letter to Tebbit PS (“Lunch at Lloyds”) [subjects to raise; DTI briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“Cable”) [need to counter “flagging interest”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Norman Tebbit minute to MT (“Future British Space Programme”) [UK involvement in the international space station project] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“British Airways Privatisation and US Anti-Trust Suits”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 minute to MT (“Anglo-Italian Summit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: Powell letter to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit") [MT rejects Italian proposal for summit on 16/17 May; prefers autumn; seeing Craxi at Bonn in May] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Secretary minute to Powell (Giscard d'Estaing visit to UK) [MT cannot meet with d'Estaing due to clash with Finchley Carnival] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Secretary ("Ministerial Responsibility for Marriage Guidance Work") ["the Prime Minister prefers not to disturb the present arrangements"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 note to MT (Scrutiny of burdens on firms) ["There has been jockeying for position by Sir Robin Ibbs and Lord Young"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 33 to FCO (1100Z) ("Anglo-Irish Relations") [Taoiseach "pleased" at reports of MT meeting with Hume] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on Armstrong meeting with Taoiseach] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Heseltine minute to MT ("Aftercare Of An Army Agent") [successful resettlement of agent from Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: UKE Ankara telegram 47 to FCO (1000Z) ("Secretary of State's Visit: Further High-Level Exchanges") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Tebbit minute to MT ("Austin and Pickersgill") [British Shipbuilding to make 675 Austin and Pickersgill workers redundant] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to S.Y. Chung (Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong) [thanks for gift following MT visit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Home Secretary draft statement to the House of Commons ("Brighton Bomb") [this copy released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Heseltine minute to MT ("Non-combatant evacuation from Germany") [in event of major international crisis] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Request by the Nicaraguan Vice-President to call on the Prime Minister") [Powell: "There is probably something to be said for seeing him, and delivering some home truths which he won't hear elsewhere in London"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Keith Joseph minute to Patrick Jenkin (Widdicombe Committee) [possible members] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull note to MT ("Inquiry into Local Government Practice and Procedures") [possible members] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Howe PS minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure White Paper: FCO") [Howe will not make further adjustments to FCO programmes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: MT letter for Federal President von Weizsaecker (thanking for the conversation) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Lawson minute for MT (the Paris Club multilateral meeting on Argentine debt) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland PS minute for Lawson (“Competition Policy”) [review of the marketing boards] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 22 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB press release (“‘Think Again’ Call to Miners Leaders”) ['we do not want another round of talks in which the NUM yet again persist with their one impossible demand'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Washington telegram 190 to FCO (2352Z) (“Cyprus”) [“restraining Denktash”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe PPS letter to No.10 (“Cyprus”) [“The outlook is uncertain”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO (“Cyprus problem”) [need to “persuade the Turkish government not to lose patience and to continue to keep Denktash on a tight rein”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Tebbit note circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 3 (The Order for Type 22 Frigates 13 & 14) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: John Cope letter to Brittan (“Shop Hours and Sunday Trading”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Whitelaw minute to MT (“The Shops Act: Late Night and Sunday Opening”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: MT message to President Reagan (foreign exchange markets) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Home Office ("Scrutiny of Burdens on Business") [MT "is keen to see progress to remove as many obstacles to entrepreneurial activity as possible"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: MT letter to Sir James Cleminson, President of the CBI (CBI Presentation on Pay) [MT supports CBI initiative] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Downing Street: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (BBC documentary on the 250th Anniversary of Prime Minister's official residence in 10 Downing Street) [security concerns] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Peter Rees ("Review of Student Support") [postgraduate awards; UK-wide joint consultative paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Pay (England and Wales)") [Burnham Committee negotiations: line to take on arbitration] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Patrick Jenkin, Jopling, Rees, Whitelaw, Younger, Gummer, Waldegrave, Stradling-Thomas) ["Agriculture and Conservation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with Kohl; Howe report on meeting with Dumas to discuss work of Dooge Committee & agricultural price fixing; European Parliament enquiry on policing of miners' strike; Committee on People's Europe: a 'postage stamp for Europe'; Foreign Affairs Council: EC enlargement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Future of the Royal Dockyards") [Heseltine proposals for contracting-out of management] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Type 22 Frigates (C(85) 3)") [Cabinet discussion of Heseltine proposal to award Frigate contract to Cammell Laird] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Type 22 Frigates") [comment on Heseltine proposal to award Frigate contract to Cammell Laird; recommends that both orders go to Swan Hunter] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Keith Joseph letter to Tom King ("House of Lord Select Committee on Science and Technology: Sub-Committee on Education and Training for New Technologies") [Joseph proposal to assume co-ordinating role for Government White Paper response to Committee's extensive and wide-ranging recommendations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: Anne Sloman letter to Ingham (profile of MT) [wants programmes “to contain some meat about the way Mrs. Thatcher operates as Prime Minister”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: Ingham minute to MT (“Hugo Young/Anne Sloman Profile”) [“they do not wish to interview the Prime Minister, as they suggested they might at the outset”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to Jenkin PS ("Inquiry into Local Government Practices and Procedures") [possible members] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Leon Brittan letter to Patrick Jenkin ("Local Government Bill: Counter-obstruction") [agrees further measures necessary, but against creation of a criminal offence] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Brittan-Rees-Armstrong-Middleton) [difficulty acheiving goal of holding expenditure constant] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("The Pharmaceutical Industry") [control over the drugs budget] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Armstrong minute for MT (“Legislation on Commercial Surrogacy (C(85)2)”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Norman Fowler minute for MT (“Commercial Surrogacy”) [disagrees with majority view at H Committee] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) National Health: Douglas Hurd letter to Whitelaw (“Commercial Surrogacy Bill”) [points for discussion at H] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute for No.10 (“National Savings”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: FCO minute to No.10 (“Relations with Argentina”) [decision on debt rescheduling] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 23 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Media: Anne Sloman, BBC Special Current Affairs Editor letter to No.10 (BBC radio profile of the Prime Minister) [resumé of previous profiles on Howe and the Civil Service] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Media: Ingham minute to Butler (“Hugo Young/Anne Sloman Profile”) [BBC radio profile of the Prime Minister: access to No.10 ruled out] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Fowler minute to MT (“Newcastle shiftworkers dispute”) [“This long dispute has been costly but it has achieved an important result in demonstrating our determination to make change where change is necessary”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: King minute to Joseph (“Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [hopes “any support that we give in extra resources is additional to a substantial switch programme within the universities and colleges themselves”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: King minute to Rees (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“I can justify contributing £1m in 1985/6 provided that the other economic departments do the same”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague to FCO (“Visit of Netherlands Prime Minister to Chequers, 26 January”) [Lubbers' unprecedently powerful position in Dutch politics] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“Space Policy - E(A) Meeting January 24”) [significance, expenditure, handling] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Gregson minute to MT (“Space Policy ”) [proposal for a new space programme] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Powell letter to Cabinet Secretary (Giscard d'Estaing visit to UK) [MT cannot meet with d'Estaing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Public Order Review") [review of the Public Order Act 1936; foreign policy implications] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Visit by Indian Prime Minister") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: Charles Powell minute to MT (Anglo-Chilean relations) [MT request to be consulted by FCO on any future statements by the Ten & about UK position at UN on matters affecting Chile] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Chilean relations") [Howe "does not consider that the steps mentioned in your letter represent a significant distancing of ourselves from Chile"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("Scottish Teachers' Pay") [independent review of pay vs. independent reviews of pay & conditions of service; disruption in schools] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Armstrong minute to MT ("Orders for Frigates") [record of proposal agreed at Cabinet: frigate orders to Swan Hunter and additional help for Cammell Laird] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("World Bank's Special Facility for Africa") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Rees letter to Channon ("The Second Bosphorus Bridge") [warned that your earlier decision to give priority to Airbus order would result in "difficult decisions because it would pre-empt almost all the available cover in a bad market"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Richard Hickmet MP letter to MT ("Second Bosphorus Bridge, Turkey") [represents securing of the contract as vital for the UK bidder, for UK prestige, and for employment in the North East of England; requests meeting with MT] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 3rd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, coal strike, exchange rates, Type 22 Frigates) [Heseltine dissents from Type 22 decision] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 letter to FCO (“Chemical Weapons/Gorbachev”) [record incomplete] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 minute to MT (“Chancellor Kohl’s visit to Chequers”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 24 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-King-Gregson) [“Coal Dispute”: NCB-NUM talks; NUM’s 'position still fell a long way short of what was needed for a satisfactory settlement'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: FCO letter to Charles Powell (“Sequestrators’ Action”) [sequestration of NUM funds: interference by the Luxembourg Government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NUM Secretary Heathfield letter to NCB Director of Industrial Relations Ned Smith (miners' strike: NUM willing to negotiate with NCB) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Ankara telegram to FCO (“Cyprus SYG’s initiative”) [“risk… that the Turkish Assembly will pass an unhelpful resolution on Cyprus, has not materialised”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Cyprus: Messages from the Prime Minister”) [Howe believes it would be right “to encourage Kyprianou to a greater sense of realism”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO briefing for MT (“Visit by Netherlands Prime Minister: 26 January”) [EMS likely to be raised] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to Turnbull (“Funding Meeting”) [briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO telegram to UKHC Nicosia (“Cyprus”) [conveys MT message to Kyprianou with instructions: “disappointed that it proved impossible to make further progress at the high-level meeting in New York”] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute to MT ("Meeting with the Prime Minister, 28 January") [background note in advance of meeting; East/West relations; SDI; arms control; Middle East; Central America; India; China; Southern Africa] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Booth minute to MT ("Freedom of Information/Open Government: Local Government (Access to Information) Bill") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO letter to Powell ("Possible Visit by Chinese Prime Minister to Hong Kong") [MT agrees to visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO letter to Powell ("Hong Kong: Joint Liaison Group") [proposed membership of group and UK appointees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Land Rover-Leyland") [privatisation of Leyland Trucks and Land Rover; issue of foreign ownership] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: MT message to Rajiv Gandhi (Republic Day) [elections demonstrated attachment to democracy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on Armstrong-Nally talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Heseltine ("1985 Pay Negotiations for Non-Industrial Civil Servants") [details of latest offer] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow telegram 108 to FCO (1325Z) ("US/Soviet Relations: Follow-Up to Geneva") ["It remains to be seen whether the Russians will agree to the time and place proposed by Washington"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Arms Control") [cover minute/advice, with FCO/MoD briefing attached] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Downing Street: Robin Butler minute to MT ("250th Anniversary of No, 10 Downing Street") [MT asked for her views on proposals for what the documentary should cover] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("Burnham (P&S)") [arbitration; alternative proposals on teachers' contracts/conditions of service] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Future of the Royal Dockyards: the Privatisation Option") [case for privatisation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Employment: Gerald Steele letter to MT (article on "Employment Trends in Britain and the USA") ['I watched your ITV interview last night...I think you might have been better briefed'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Younger letter to Fowler ("NHS Supervisory Board") [NHS management in Scotland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Butler minute to Armstrong ("Orders for Frigates") [amendments to Armstrong's record of proposal agreed at Cabinet] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Legislative Programme 1985/86") [recommended priority Bills] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Bank of England letter to Turnbull (“Lunch at Lloyd’s”) [“Lloyd’s will need a Chief Executive and Deputy Chairman who is independent of the market”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("De Lorean Motor Cars Ltd: possible claim against the auditors, Arthur Andersen & Co") [policy implications of treble damages claim] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 25 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 4th Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT (“The Coal Dispute”) [future of the coal industry and resolution of the miners' strike: 'Let’s not snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Wybrew minute to MT (“Coal - Millstone or Miracle?”) [future of the coal industry: 'The immediate human costs of [re-structuring the industry] would be large, but so would the corresponding gains in competitiveness'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 Duty Clerk note to Turnbull (views of “Miners’ Wives Back to Work Campaign” on NUM-NCB talks) ['there should not be a rushed settlement'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (Welsh Secretary attending MISC101) [will press to attend regularly in the future] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: FCO letter to Charles Powell (“Luxembourg: NUM Receivership”) [talks with Luxembourg Ambassador over apparent Luxembourg intervention in sequestration of NUM funds: 'the [Luxembourg] government’s concern was not to intervene politically'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB representative Spanton letter to NUM Secretary Heathfield (miners' strike: NUM-NCB negotiations) ['essential to draft the parameters of the discussion at an informal meeting'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 46 to FCO (2100Z) (“Cyprus”) [“Turkish permanent representative is not without hope that the situation can be salvaged”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Bank of England letter to Turnbull (“Lunch at Lloyd’s”) [“Lloyd’s will need a Chief Executive and Deputy Chairman who is independent of the market”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 briefing (meeting with Robert Kilroy-Silk MP on unemployment) [MT said “the long-term problem on Merseyside was the apparent lack of anything resembling an enterprise culture”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 briefing (meeting with Kilroy-Silk on unemployment) [MT said “the long-term problem on Merseyside was the apparent lack of anything resembling an enterprise culture”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO minute for Powell (“Prime Minister’s Talks with Lubbers: Environment”) [last minute speaking note on vehicle emissions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town to FCO (“State President’s Speech at Opening of Parliament”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“A ‘ Bear Squeeze’ on Speculators against Sterling”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 26 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Ankara telegram to FCO (“Cyprus: Prime Minister’s message”) [“the Turks are prepared to give the Secretary General a little more time”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Europe: No.10 record of conversation (MT meeting with Lubbers) [European Community, Common Agricultural Policy] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jan 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Dutch Foreign Secretary Van den Broek) [enlargement of the Community, Polish Church agricultural scheme, management of Community aid projects, Southern Africa, UNESCO, Middle East] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prime Minister Lubbers of The Netherlands - tête-à-tête) [East-West relations, arms control, the SDI, Sleipner gas, EC issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prime Minister Lubbers of The Netherlands - plenary) [Common Agricultural Policy, future of the Community, integrated Mediterranean programmes, European Space Agency, international economic questions] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 27 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 27 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Beijing telegram 113 to FCO (0858Z) ("Cocom: China") [Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls: Chinese call for end to Cold War restrictions] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Senior Management Development Programme") [progress report; performance targets] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("40th Anniversary of Victory in Europe") [MT advised to add to agenda for Cabinet in order for quick decision to be reached on Heseltine proposals for marking of the anniversary] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Downing Street: No.10 letter to BBC (BBC documentary to mark 250th Anniversary of the Prime Minister's official residence in 10 Downing Street) [preliminary discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science: Armstrong minute to MT ("Life Sciences Conference to be Hosted by France 18-22 April 1985") [British nominees to attend] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (Dean Dove Ltd) [proposal to neutralise illegal regional aid by conversion to EC loan; Dean Dove writ served against DTI, claiming damages] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Rate Limitation: Finalisation of Precept Limits for Precepting Authorities") [proposals for local authorities] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Leon Brittan letter to Patrick Jenkin ("New burdens on Local Government") [need "rigorous assessments of the costs and benefits of new initiatives", without straight-jacket] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC101(85) 4th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 28 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT (NCB chairmanship) [possible candidates] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Francis Noel-Baker letter to MT (Cyprus Neutral Group Initiative) [“my predictions about the failure of the ‘proximity talks’ was right”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Bishop of Liverpool letter to MT (“Training Places on Merseyside”) [“the emphasis of the adult training strategy has been a deliberate shift from those in the greatest need”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town to FCO (“State President’s Speech”) [President Botha’s statement at the opening of Parliament] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Interest Rates and the Budget Deficit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor-Deputy Governor of the Bank of England) [interest rates and the exchange rate] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Brittan-Booth) ["Public Order Review"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("40th Anniversary of the End of the Second World War") ["proposals as to the form which a national celebration... might take"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington letter to Howe ("Strategic Defence Initiative") [UK involvement in research programmes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 296 to FCO (1810Z) ("Foreign Affairs Council 28-29 Jan: IMPS") ["Record of Lunchtime Discussion": EC enlargement & IMPs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan (meeting of the 2000 Group in Japan: fostering non-governmental contacts between Japan and the UK) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Letwin minute to MT ("Enterprising Young People") [information about young people who have recently started businesses] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Armstrong minute to MT ("Orders for Frigates") [report to Cabinet on resolution of dispute between Heseltine and Tebbit over frigate orders] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("Post Office: 1984 Corporate Plan and Objectives") ["My main reservation... is that neither gives enough prominence to some of the important policies which we are expecting the PO to pursue"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: Butler minute to Armstrong (“Hugo Young/Anne Sloman: Profile of the Prime Minister”) [MT “not in favour of people in No.10 giving interviews about the work of this office”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Rees letter to Patrick Jenkin ("Rate Limitation: Finalisation of Precept Limits for Precepting Authorities") [ILEA - has doubts, but for you and Keith Joseph finally to decide] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cradock minute to Powell ("Argentine Arms Purchases") [MT: Argentina is determined to rebuild its military strength] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Ridley ("Channel Fixed Link") [assessment of private consortia progress "towards a credible scheme"; Government terms] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: DTI to Lord Privy Seal’s Office (statement to Commons & press notice) [final drafts] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 minute to MT (“Chancellor Kohl’s visit in May”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 29 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO (“Meeting with Denktash: 29 January”) [“Denktash insistent that elections take place before a new high level meeting”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (Peter Jay interview) [current affairs, 10 years’ leadership] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Media: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (“Hugo Young/Anne Sloman: Profile of the Prime Minister”) [BBC radio; MT “not in favour of people in No.10 giving interviews about the work of this office”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Barney Hayhoe letter to Fowler (“Newcastle shiftworkers dispute”) [lessons to be learnt] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“Education and training for new technologies”) [House of Lords report on “the ability of the UK educational system to support new technologies important to the economic future of the nation”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Rees letter to Brittan (“Shop Hours and Sunday Trading”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: McFarlane (& others) letters to Thatcher (SDI briefing) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Peter Rees minute to Treasury (“Landscape Special Development Orders (LASDO) and ‘a better future for the Uplands’”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 (“Israeli Military Equipment for Argentina”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Hugh Thomas letter to MT ("Conversation with Monsieur Raymond Barre") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit of Iraqi Foreign Minister to London") [urges that MT invite Tariq Aziz to visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("H Committee: In-Service Training for Teachers") ["proposals should be accepted only if... money can be found from within the existing education budget"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chairman of the National Advisory Body ("Future Planning of Higher Education") [reconstitution of National Advisory Board; guidance for NAB on Government's concerns & priorities] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chairman of the University Grants Committee ("Future Planning of Higher Education") [student numbers; subject balance; research; rationalisation; staffing; recurrent grant; external financing; capital receipts; efficiency; cooperation with National Advisory Board ] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Pay (England and Wales)") [report on Burnham Committee proceedings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("European Community: Craxi") [date for meeting to discuss European enlargement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with Lubbers on 26 January; Foreign Affairs Council, 28-29 January] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit record of conversation (MT, Heseltine, E(A) Committee) ["E(A) Discussion: Royal Dockyards"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("MISC 109: Extending the Coverage of Disqualification of Councillors") [should be considered by the Widdicombe Committee] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food record of conversation (export of British sherry) [Jopling, Spanish Ambassador] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 30 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson note to MT (“Tests to be applied to a proposed settlement of the coal dispute”) [points to be conceded, secured and rejected] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO (“Call on Kyprianou: 30 January”) [“Kyprianou keen to keep up the momentum by pursuing his proposal for a new high level meeting”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brittan letter to Tebbit (“Prospects for the Cable Industry”) [“the overall position is far from promising”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Ridley letter to Brittan (“Shop Hours and Sunday Trading”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Parliamentary Affairs: Shops legislation”) [Parliamentary debate on deregulation of opening hours] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan minute to MT (“Shops Act: Late Night and Sunday Opening”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Hugh Thomas minute to MT (“Dinner with Doctor Keywirth”) [the SDI research programme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Robert McFarlane message to MT (SDI) [forwards letters from Weinberger and Abrahamson] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Secretary of State for Environment PS letter to No.10 (“Inspector’s Report on Stansted-Heathrow T5 Inquiries”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: David Barclay minute to MT ("Army Medal Office") [waiting times for campaign medals: MT unhappy with draft reply signed off by Lord Trefgarne] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn telegram 85 to FCO (1630Z) ("German Views on Arms Control") [report on Federal Arms Control Ambassador's talks in Washington] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 briefing for MT ("Arms Control: Briefing Meeting, Chequers, 2 February") [summary of purposes & detailed outline of main points] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Rees ("Management of Higher Education") [academic tenure; change within existing resources; closures; demand for higher education; closure of pharmacy department at Heriot-Watt] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Walker minute to MT ("Sleipner") [negotiations with Norway over gas imports from Sleipner field; Walker recommends turning down deal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Press Office minute to MT (lunch at Lloyd’s) [arrangements for visit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Department of Trade briefing (Lunch at Lloyd’s) [future role of the Chief Executive] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Redwood minute to Turnbull (“Lloyd’s”) [“Disclipinary proceedings have been taken against certain members, and others are pending”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Turnbull minute to MT (“Lunch at Lloyd’s”) [issue of Chief Executive position] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: Armstrong minute to Butler (“Hugo Young/Anne Sloman: Profile of the Prime Minister”) [“it would put serving civil servants in an impossible position if they were to take part”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Federal German economy") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: President Ortega letter to MT (visit of Vice-President Ramirez to the UK) [the Contadora Process; US policy] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("Local Authority Propaganda") [introducing an emergency bill would be difficult] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("Inquiry into Local Government Practices and Procedures") [announcement of Widdicombe Committee] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Kenneth Baker letter to Keith Joseph ("The developing political crisis in our cities") ["The hard Left ... really do hope that the Government can be brought down by widespread action in the inner cities"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 4th (Parliamentary Affairs, Type 22 Frigates, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, coal strike, unemployment & exchange rates, commercial surrogacy) [Wakeham returns after Brighton Bomb injuries][declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: ‘Tip’ O'Neill letter to MT (address to Joint Meeting of Congress) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Memorials: No.10 minute for MT (“Unveiling of the Memorial to WPC Fletcher”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson minute for Jopling (“Competition Policy”) [review of the marketing boards] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 31 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Office of the Chief Secretary letter to No.10 (“Coal Strike and Spring Supplementary Estimates”) [costs of the coal strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Ankara telegram to FCO (“Cyprus”) [“Turkish position is pretty unyielding”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe APS letter to No.10 (“Cyprus”) [“The word “unitary”… appears to upset the Turks and Turkish Cypriots”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economy: Press Office minute to MT (lunch at Lloyd’s) [arrangements for visit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Tebbit PS briefing for MT (Lunch at Lloyd’s) [future role of the Chief Executive] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 internal minute: Policy Unit to Turnbull (“Lloyd’s”) [“Disciplinary proceedings have been taken against certain members, and others are pending”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Lunch at Lloyd’s”) [issue of Chief Executive position] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Media: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Hugo Young/Anne Sloman: Profile of the Prime Minister”) [BBC radio; “it would put serving civil servants in an impossible position if they were to take part”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Howe, Younger, Biffen, Brittan, Hurd) [“Interception of Communications Bill”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: McFarlane memo for Deaver (arrangements for MT visit to Washington) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Bear Squeeze”) [engineering a rise in the cost of funds to impose loses on market speculators] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute for MT (“EMS”) [joining the European Monetary System wouldn't solve Britain’s currency problems] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD letter to No.10 (“Strategic Defence Initiative”) [technical aspects from published sources] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD letter to No.10 (“Strategic Defence Initiative: Effectiveness Against Cruise Missiles”) [MOD remain sceptical] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT messages to Weinberger, Abrahamson and McFarlane (SDI) [thanks for briefing on technical progress] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Michael Havers to MT (congratulations on censure debate speech) [“A marvellous performance!”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Scrutiny of Burdens on Firms") [policy options for "bonfire of unnecessary burdens"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Indo-British Relations: Westlands Helicopters Contract") [Sikh extremism, consequences if contract lost] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 156 to FCO (1115Z) ("Indo-British Relations: Westlands W30 Contract") [need for clarification of Gandhi's attitude] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Chilean relations") [MT opposed to proposed EC message to Chilean Government urging resumption of political dialogue with democratic opposition groups; UN resolution] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: No.10 briefing for MT ("Lord Young's Mission") [MT reception/photocall with Lord Young, Chinese Ambassador and leaders of UK industry due to participate in the trade mission] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("China: Supply of Submarine Equipment") [MT agrees to proposed limited relaxation of submarine equipment sales embargo, following successful conclusion of Hong Kong negotiations, and favours going further] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Meeting/Reception for Lord Young's Visit to China, Monday 4 February") [points to make] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Budget") [recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor") ["to discuss the Chancellor's thinking on the Budget"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: David Barclay minute to MT ("Acid Rain: Your Reply to the Nordic Prime Ministers") [MT agrees to press statement reproducing main points of her reply to PM of Iceland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Willetts minute to Barclay ("Road Traffic Accident Charges") [recovering NHS costs associated with road traffic accidents from insurers; Fowler wishes to recover more; Willetts: "big row for small money"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Turnbull minute to MT ("Sleipner") [negotiations with Norway over gas imports from Sleipner field; Walker recommends turning down deal; next steps] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Sleipner Gas Contract") [supports Walker in rejecting gas deal with Norway; future gas imports and export regime] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler minute to MT ("Social Security Review") [Green Paper; assessment of the proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Social Security Review") [key questions to put to Fowler at MISC 111] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 133 to FCO (1245Z) ("The Soviet Leadership") [indications from Party leadership schedules of Chernenko's illness] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 record of conversation (“Prime Minister’s Lunch at Lloyd’s”) [MT “said it was essential for Lloyd’s not only to eliminate malpractice but to be seen to have done so”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Heseltine minute for Tebbit ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to USSR") [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Local Authority Propaganda and Abuse") [GLC appeal, terms of Widdicombe inquiry] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Oliver Letwin minute to MT ("Local Authority Propaganda and Abuse") [immediate legislation would probably regarded as an attempt to muzzle critics] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Caroline Ryder note to MT (GLC Abolition) [meeting with Lady Porter] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl (Sale of German torpedoes to Argentina) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: George Bush Sr. letter to MT (MT address to the Joint Session of Congress) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“1985 CAP price fixing: German reaction to Commission proposals”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: MT letter for Chancellor Kohl (possible supply of German torpedoes to Argentina) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 1 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 5th Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Oxford degree) [Oxford, Kinnock criticised] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Howe minute to FCO ministers (“Liaison between the FCO and the party”) [agreement with chairman to “share as much information as possible”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chairman of Lloyd’s, Chief Executive of Lloyd’s) [MT: “essential for Lloyd’s not only to eliminate malpractice but to be seen to have done so”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“The sums involved in Sir Keith’s scheme are very small as a proportion of the provision of about £1.4 billion for universities’s current expenditure”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute (“Financial Markets Report”) [January 1985] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl (German arms supplies for Argentina) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Feb 2 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Feb 2 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Indo-British Relations: Westlands Helicopters Contract") [postponement of negotiations not connected with concern about Sikh extremists] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 2 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: FCO telegram 141 to UKHC New Delhi (1500Z) ("Indo British Relations") [MT is following developments in the Westlands case] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 2 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 356 to FCO (0135Z) ("Soviet Compliance with Arms Control Agreements") [summary of report to Congress] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 2 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell letter to FCO (“Proposed new Canadian High Commissioner”) [date of announcement] [declassified December 2014]
Text 85 Feb 3 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Feb 3 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson) [budget prospects, including scope for tax cuts, PSBR, NIC reforms] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 3 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) [European Monetary System: case for joining the Exchange Rate Mechanism] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Feb 3 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Field Marshal Sir Edwin Bramall letter to MT (UK-US relations) [MT visit to US] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 3 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 360 to FCO (0205Z) (“The United States FY86 Budget”) [“contains few surprises”] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Review of BBC External Services") [publication of report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Review of BBC External Services") [presentation of government's view] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Howe-Irish Foreign Minister Barry-Hurd & others) [Anglo-Irish talks on Northern Ireland; Armstrong-Nally talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong-Nally talks: remit of proposed Intergovernmental Council] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("European Community: Annual Review for 1984") [Howe's views & copy of Sir Michael Butler's report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Heseltine minute to MT ("Using Private Enterprise in Government: Competitive Tendering") [comments on Peter Rees proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Enlargement") [reply addressing MT concerns about the implications for the UK] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Sleipner") [supports Walker in rejecting gas deal with Norway; future gas imports and export regime] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Howe minute to MT ("Sleipner") [supports Walker in rejecting gas deal with Norway; concern about relations with Norway and NATO allies] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw) [legislative programme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“Meeting with Sir Douglas Hague - 5 February”) [new and existing Research Councils] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Regimes in Detention Centres") ["...programme of work to establish a consistent regime for the whole detention centre system... with a view to enhancing the role of detention centres as a distinctive feature of the penal system commanding the confidence of the courts."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 letter to Department of Defence (Prime Minister's Questions) [briefing: late submissions] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to Jenkin PS (Widdicome Committee) [terms of reference] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to Jenkin PS ("Local Authority Propaganda") [question of rate financed propaganda to be referred to Widdicombe inquiry] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to Jenkin PS ("MISC 109: Extending the Coverage of Disqualification of Councillors") [issue to be referred to Widdicombe inquiry] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Rees letter to Patrick Jenkin ("Inquiry into Local Government Practices and Procedures") ["generally content"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC101(85) 5th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 4 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong minute to Walker (sequestration of NUM assets) [Armstrong's contacts with representative of sequestrators; concern that contact will be disclosed in court proceedings; involvement of Security Services in tracing NUM assets] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Havers-Brittan-Armstrong-Steel-Hosker) ["Coal Dispute: Sequestrator's Action in Dublin": discussion of case; concern at risk of disclosure of Security Service meeting with representative of sequestrator] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MT letter to Pauline Linton of Miners' Wives Back to Work Campaign (miners' strike: NCB-NUM talks) [MT addressing Linton's concerns: 'there can be no fudging of the central issue, and no betrayal of the working miners'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: MT letter to Francis Noel-Baker (UN talks) [“We continue to support the UN Secretary General’s efforts”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (“Week Ahead” & Press Digest) [coal strike: colliery closures, return to work] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science: Robin Nicholson briefing for MT (“Meeting with Sir Douglas Hague - 5 February”) [new and existing Research Councils] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Urban Policy and Programme Review”) [“on balance publication would not be the right course”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Fowler PS (“Newcastle shift workers’ dispute”) [“welcomes Mr. Fowler’s intention to discuss the lessons to be learned”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Walker letter to Whitelaw (“Legislative Programme 1985/86”) [future of UK Atomic Energy Authority] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Cabinet Office record of conversation (meeting to discuss presentation of government economic & social policy) [progress report on initiative to date] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (“Economic & Social Policy Presentation: Ministerial Meeting, Feb 5, 1985”) [pay bargaining & education expenditure] [released 2015]
Text 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO letter to Powell (resignation of member of Hong Kong Executive and Legislative Councils) ["perhaps unprecedented" for a resignation before expiry of term of office] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Percy Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Lord Young's Mission to China") ["suggest that we.... reaffirm our interest in military as well as civil sales"; MT agrees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Rees minute to MT ("Cover for Arms Sales") [latest Quarterly Report on Defence Sales: identifying "export credit cover beyond what... [is] prudent in the light of ECGD's deteriorating finances"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Robin Butler minute to Charles Powell ("Sale of Ptarmigan to the United States") [Lord Weinstock noting that media creating false impression of "a struggle between a wholly British and a wholly French system"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels 409 telegram to FCO (2005Z) ("Ad Hoc Committee for a People's Europe, 4/5 February") [report on proceedings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science: Armstrong minute to MT (Life Sciences Conference to be hosted by France) [British nominees to attend] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Patrick Jenkin letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Competition in the Provision of Local Authority Services") [draft consultation paper] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Sleipner") [supports Walker in rejecting gas deal with Norway; rejects recommendation that BGC opens negotiations with potential gas suppliers immediately] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Report on the Review of Social Security") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("MISC 111") [Report on the Review of Social Security: structural reforms; new rates of benefit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science: No.10 record of conversation (“Research Council Appointments”) [“concern about the apparent shortage of people with the requisite skills, attitudes and time to serve on the Councils”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("Widdicombe Inquiry into Local Government Practices and Procedures") [agreement on terms of proposed inquiry] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Jenkin PS minute to David Barclay ("Abolition of the GLC: Future Use of County Hall") [any new owner would want to carry out extensive work] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bosphorus Bridge") ["Michael Fallon, MP, and Richard Hickmet, MP... to press the case for credit cover and ATP help for Cleveland Bridge to win the contract... They are up against heavily subsidised Japanese competition"; DTI & Treasury at odds: key points] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Michael Fallon MP, Richard Hickmet MP) ["Second Bosphorus Bridge": credit cover and ATP help for Cleveland Bridge to win the contract] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to ‘Tip’ O'Neill (invitation to address the Joint Meeting of US Congress) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 385 to FCO (0348Z) (“Prime Minister’s visit: Christian A Herter Award”) declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Policy Unit minute for MT (“Competition Policy - E(CP) Meeting, 7 February 1985”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 5 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Henry Steel letter to Butler (“NUM: Sequestrators”) [update on proceedings in Dublin; concern about disclosure of HMG and Security Service meeting with representative of sequestrators] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (Liaison committee) [upcoming events] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Douglas Hague, Robin Nicholson) [“Research Council Appointments”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Council of Europe: Ministerial Conference on Human Rights”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin letter to Rees (Liverpool City Council capital expenditure) [proposed warning letter] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“it is essential that the private sector make a full contribution in cash and in kind”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Cabinet Office minute to Joseph (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [possibility of “redeploying resources freed from reductions in arts provision outside the universities”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Letwin minute to MT (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“if money is to be spent it should go first to the schools whilst better concrete evidence is accumulated for making any major switch in universities”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Geoffrey Pattie minute to MT (“ESA Ministerial Conference: Rome 30-31 January 1985”) [the European space policy] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 109 to FCO (1700Z) ("Barre: Request for Call on Prime Minister") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT ("Burdens on Business: The Compliance Costs Scrutiny") [advice on response to recommendations of report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 175 to FCO (0540Z) ("Indo-British Relations") [acting FM could use his influence against Westlands-Chauhan linkage] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT (Army Medal Office: waiting period for campaign medals) [defence of MoD handling & draft reply to Robert Maxwell, revised at MT's request] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Rees letter to Adam Butler ("Inertial Navigation System for Harrier GR5") [outline of reasons for choosing Ferranti over Litton] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Pay (England and Wales)") [Burnham Primary & Secondary Committee and Further Education Committee negotiations: maximum Government offers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Dates of EC Councils of Ministers") [scheduling] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Tebbit discussions on EC matters with Cockfield; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Contracting-out in Local Government") [MT concurs with advice to endorse Jenkin proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Clark PS letter to No.10 (report on meeting between Alan Clark and members of Conservative One Nation Group) [discussion of 'Jobs Ahead' pamphlet] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 158 to FCO (1345Z) ("Soviet Leadership") [latest indications regarding Chernenko's health & Gorbachev's possible succession] [released Dec 2017]

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

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

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

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