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PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to MT ("INF/START merger") [feasibility study] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Privatisation of Jaguar") [options; recommendations; handling brief] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by King Hussein") [diary arrangement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Heseltine, Howe, Luce, Bramall) ["Lebanon": BRITFORLEB; Multinational Force; UN involvement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Prime Minister Hawke letter to MT (evacuation of Australian staff) [thanks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Rees letter to Prior ("Harland and Wolff: Corporate Plan") [options for future of the shipyard] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Scott Lithgow") [British Shipbuilders' conditional agreement for sale of shipyard to Trafalgar House] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow") [British Shipbuilders' conditional agreement for sale of shipyard to Trafalgar House] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The DTI and Industrial Strategy") [recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("The Polygraph") [GCHQ pilot scheme] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to Peter Rees ("LOA in Germany") ["The tone of... [your minute to the Prime Minister] suggests a mechanistic approach to LOA which I really cannot accept"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Pay Negotiations 1984") [latest position; difference between Scottish and English negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("ESPRIT") [line to take on EC R&D] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Call by Monsieur Davignon on the Prime Minister") [Sheerness Steels's breaches of Article 58 quotas; EC Budget: UK's 1983 refunds; funding for ESPRIT/US dominance of IT market; new EC policies; Alphasteel, South Wales; candidates for next President of EC Commission; EC agreement on energy measures package; MT speaking note] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Monetary Policy: Treasury briefing "Interpretation of Monetary Conditions: February [1984]" [released 2012]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Hugh Thomas minute for MT (“Conversation with Monsieur de Margerie” [French Ambassador]) [“He thought we were at a cross road.”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Robin Harris note to Stephen Sherbourne (Long-term Public Expenditure Green Paper) [presentation] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Tony Garner paper (“Strategy Paper: The Alliance Parties”) [“it will be easier to convince the electorate that the Alliance parties are dangerously incompetent, than that they are dangerously extreme”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (talk with FCO contact) [UK relations with Eastern Europe] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry minute (‘Information’ on MT visit) [press communiqué?] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (meetings with other Eastern bloc ambassadors) [their views on MT visit] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Extract from Biffen Lobby Briefing (Biffen comments on Budget Cabinet: "no lively debate, just unctuous self-satisfaction") [Turnbull: "The Chancellor is angry"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: CRD briefing (“Debate on the Hennessy Report on the escape from the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland”) [the report and government action; contentious points; ministerial responsibility] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodall draft record of conversation (No.10 meeting) [“A crucial precondition for any package of measures must be the Irish Government’s willingness - and ability - to deliver an acceptably formal and binding commitment to waive the Republic’s claim to the North”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 note to MT (Volcker’s views on US economy) [article on deficit threat] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robin Butler minute to MT (Economic Summit) [draft discussion paper for personal representatives, proposed amendments] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Howe minute for MT (“Nigerian Debt: Possible Further Coup”) [Turnbull: "valid up to a point", but don't permit toothless programme for fear of one] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 letter to Howe PS (“Future of Hong Kong”) [working paper on constitutional arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: briefing our European Community Partners”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Lord Whitelaw) [pending legislation: potential problems] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Brittan PS letter to Jenkin (“Abolition Paving Bill”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 11 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing ("Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow for President Andropov's Funeral: Hong Kong") [determined to cooperate to build on Chinese proposals, progress in talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing ("Meeting with President Zia Ul Haq of Pakistan") [Soviet position on Afghanistan, Pakistan's nuclear programme, tensions with India] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing ("Meeting with Mrs Gandhi, Prime Minister of India") [security situation, Indo-Pakistan relations, IDA 7, aid programme] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 84 Feb 12 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Rees PS minute to Howe PS ("Proposed Review of the BBC External Services") [review of efficiency and effectiveness] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 111 to FCO (0630Z) ("Lebanon") [situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing ("Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow for President Andropov's Funeral: Japan") [visits, effects of Andropov's death, Nissan investment in Britain] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tickell minute to PS Permanent Under-Secretary ("EMS and EMU") ["it is better to have a guiding hand from within rather than try to influence it from without"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Community Agriculture: Green Rates and Positive Monetary Compensatory Amounts") ["attached extract... does set out rather precisely how this question is viewed in the Commission and in the seven member states which do not have positive monetary compensatory amounts"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Community Agriculture: Green Rates and Positive Monetary Compensatory Amounts") ["how this question is viewed in the Commission and in the seven member states which do not have positive monetary compensatory amounts"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Community expenditure programmes and control of United Kingdom public expenditure") ["three issues which will allow a long term and better system"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Rolls-Royce: Performance Related Bonus Scheme") [details] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Tel Aviv telegram 37 to FCO (1410Z) ("Israel/Lebanon") [abrogation of 17 May agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Damascus telegram 83 to FCO (1015Z) ("Lebanon") [Syria situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 118 to FCO (1445Z) ("Lebanon") [reconciliation government] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram 119 to FCO (1500Z) ("Lebanon") ["prospects for UN involvement in Beirut"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: David Barclay draft telegram to John Coles, Prime Minister's Party ("Lebanon: MNF Coordinating Committee") [British representation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Lebanon Evacuation") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Tonga: King Tupou IV letter to MT (Stabisoil) [acknowledgement of MT letter] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 202 to FCO (1609Z) ("Central Committee Plenum: Foreign Policy") [Chernenko's election, Tikhonov speech on peaceful cooperation, military situation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 201 to FCO (1300Z) ("Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko") [background on Chernenko: "essentially a man of the party apparatus ... a far less impressive figure"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing ("Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow 13/14 February East/West Relations") [need to restart arms control talks, need for political understanding, bilateral relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing ("Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow: Middle East") [situation in Lebanon, Arab/Israel dispute, Iran/Iraq conflict] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Davignon) [Sheerness Steels's breaches of Article 58 quotas; EC Budget: addressing root problems and the issue of disposal of accumulated surpluses; funding for ESPRIT/US dominance of IT market; future of the EC/funding] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Efrem Yankelevich (medical treatment abroad for Mrs Elena Bonner-Sakharov) [outcome of UK Government's request to Soviet authorities] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Co-Chairs of the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry letter to MT (human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: the Anatoly Shcharansky case) [hope that MT can achieve breakthrough with new Soviet leadership] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute (diary) [“the issues confronting the Government over 1984”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham letter to John Gummer (“BBC Radio 4 ‘Any Questions?’”) [ban on appearances by ministers] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Barbara Bush letter to MT (visit to Chequers) [“thrill of a lifetime”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador Prague to Foreign Ministry (Czech party press) [Czech criticism of MT visit, implicitly critical of Hungarian government also] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute for MT (“Training for Jobs”) [Rees-Jenkin disagreement over funding] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: King minute to MT ("Strikes in Essential Services") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: FCO minute for Turnbull (“Argentina: Commercial Bank Lending”) [Howe’s comments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: UKE Warsaw to FCO (“Press Comments on Prime Minister’s Visit to Hungary”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: MOD minute to No.10 (“Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia”) [the French-Saudi Arabia arms deals and the British sales prospects] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong”) [working paper on constitutional arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: working paper on civil aviation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley PS letter to Howe PS (Panamanian freight tax) [Ridley looking for refund following UK exemption but Lawson and Howe opposed] [declassified 2013]
Text 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Mario Soares) [MT visit to Portugal; entry to EC; internal situation; relations with US; Africa; South Africa] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure White Paper - Briefing") [questions and answers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: OECD Secretary-General note ("Ministerial Conference on The Longer-Term Performance of OECD Economies: Challenges Facing Governments") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Barclay ("DBS") [Direct Broadcasting by Satellite: latest position on joint project; advice against providing Government reassurances on protection from competition and tax liabilities ] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT (independent national radio) [enabling legislation via Cable & Broadcasting Bill; dispute with Treasury about financing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Department of Education briefing for MT (visit of Indian Minister of State for Education, Culture and Social Welfare) [aid & trade for new technology in schools] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Sale of Westland Helicopters to India") ["whether... aid proposal should be approved for commercial and political reasons"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Jaguar") ["some blocking mechanism to prevent foreign take-over after flotation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Privatisation of Jaguar") ['management buy-out' option] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Privatisation of Jaguar") [background; main issues; sale to foreign manufacturer; flotation options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 154 to FCO (0110Z) ("Lebanon: UK Proposals") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 152 to FCO (0100Z) ("Lebanon: French Initiative") [reactions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 516 to FCO (2303Z) ("Lebanon") [situation report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Moscow telegram 209 to FCO (0856Z) ("Message to President Reagan") [advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram 177 to UKE Moscow (1250Z) ("Message to President Reagan") ["What is needed now from the Americans is an assurance which the Syrians can trust"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Pay: King letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (cashless payments and repeal of the Truck Acts) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("BGC's negotiations for Sleipner Gas") [UK gas exports] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Younger PS letter to Biffen PS ("Shipping Subsidies for the Scottish Islands") ["announcement is likely to be controversial"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: FCO letter to Cabinet Office (Sarah Tisdall case) [summary of internal security measures in wake of the case] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Wales: Chris Butler letter to Alison Ward (Welsh water charges court case) [“English consumers resented bailing out the Welsh consumers”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations brief (Executive Committee meeting) [resolutions from constituency/area associations] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry minute (talk with Czech Ambassador) [asks for explanation of Czech press criticism of MT visit] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Ronald Dumas card for MT (thanking for conversation & sending orchids) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe message to UKE Paris (“Visit of President Mitterrand: 5 March”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Rees (“Training for Jobs”) [public expenditure and local authority finance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute for Turnbull (“Argentina: Commercial Bank Lending”) [ministers in the dark] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan meeting with Neil Kinnock (briefing & background papers) [declassified 2002]
PDF 84 Feb 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO record of conversation (“The Prime Minister’s Meeting with Mr Chernenko in February”) [UKE Moscow to FCO telegram] [declassified 2014]

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

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