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PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Monday 22 October 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("MISC 101(84) 45th Meeting: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to DHSS ("Payments to Striking Miners for Mortgage Interest") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Turner letter to MT (Brighton bomb) [“how glad we were you escaped without injury”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: UKE Budapest telegram to FCO (“Visit to Britain of Matyas Szuros, Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson letter to Dennis Skinner MP (Bank of England’s decision to rescue Johnson Matthey Bankers company) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 3147 to FCO (1906Z) (“Defence Sales to Iran”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Gowrie minute to MT ("Review of Support Services for Research and Development: Progress Report") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Tom King minute to MT ("Training Loans") [proposed scheme for adults] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Tom King minute to MT ("Employment and Training Measures 1985-86") [revised proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 3293 to FCO (1015Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit") [MT visit to Hong Kong following signature of Agreement will have more impact in period before Christmas] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cradock minute to Powell ("Hong Kong Party") [proposed guest list for party to celebrate Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3159 to FCO (0445Z) ("The Presidential Campaign") [report on second & final televised debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Burdens of Regulation on Small Firms: Enterprise") [Transport measures] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("Cross Channel Link") [disagreement over public expenditure forecast; National Coal Board expenditure & investment post-strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Fowler letter to Whitelaw ("The Queen's Speech: The Water (Fluoridation) Bill") [mention of the Bill to be dropped, pending outcome of fluoride safety concerns investigation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Summit: Ashford Castle, Republic of Ireland") ["proposals on participation by Ministers and officials at the meeting"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [Alfonsin's interview with Mitterrand, the Falklands dispute, delivery of new destroyers and a submarine to Argentina] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Falklands") [the UN vote: "Genscher will personally decide how FRG votes at last minute"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Brussels telegram to FCO ("Falklands Debate") ["Belgium will probably again abstain in this year's Falklands debate at the UN"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Falklands and Alfonsin's Visit to Paris") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("IDEM Study - Stage 1 Report and the Way Forward") ["disappointment that the Steering Group are minded to drop the SIDEM proposal... The major advantage of electronic mail... is speed... where speed is important, so is security"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland (thanks for message) [“The wickedness of this terrorist act serves only to reinforce our determination to defend our peaceful and democratic way of life”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 45th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Mr. Concannon") [miners' strike: position of Nottingham miners] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 23 October 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: DHSS letter to No.10 (extract from Supplementary Benefit Handbook on trade disputes) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Fowler letter to Walker (social security benefits: consequences of NACODS strike) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Ian MacGregor letter to Lord Shawcross (NACODS dispute: MacGregor proposes meeting) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MT letter to Malcolm Edwards (miners' strike) ["The nation is indebted to you for what you have done to enable our economy to be kept at work"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT ("Prolonging Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Whybrew and Young minute to Turnbull ("Power Station Supplies and Fuel Imports") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") ["[I] continue to believe that the process we are engaged on represents the least unpromising way forward on the Northern Ireland question"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Labour: Sherbourne note for MT (Neil Kinnock) [he “is no better after the break than he was before”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish relations: Northern Ireland”) [“there has been a marked increase of realism and lowering of expectations on the Irish side”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1199 to FCO (0035Z) (“Cyprus: Secretary General’s initiative”) [“if pressed Denktash would be prepared to go first to “approximately 30 percent” and ultimately to exactly 30 percent”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to Turnbull (“Funding”) [gilts hit hard by oil price & NACODS, nothing to report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute (“Monthly Monetary Report: September to December”) [sharp rise in broad aggregates in September, M0 in target range] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: David Owen letter to Lawson (Bank of England’s decision to rescue Johnson Matthey Bankers company) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: MT letter to Prime Minister Craxi of Italy (thanking for the gift) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Chairmanship of the British Technology Group") [candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Peter Rees letter to John Butcher MP (tax incentives to industry to support education and training) [encourages Committe to consider existing tax reliefs rather than proposing new ones] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 internal minute ("CBI Conference") [enhanced security for MT's attendance following Brighton Bomb] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("British Shipbuilders Privatisation and Defence") [Type 22 frigate orders: "Clearly the manner of placing these orders into yards with gross shipbuilding overcapacity and on the point of privatisation is going to be critical"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Jenkin minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: comment on Rees' proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: comment on Rees' proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Autumn Statement and BT") [Statement to be delayed due to legal requirement for full disclosure of material information relevant to the flotation; effect of the delay on the public launch of the flotation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: MT letter to Prime Minister Willoch of Norway (air pollution) [“strong grounds for concern and effective solutions have to be found”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: Prime Minister Hermannsson of Iceland message to MT (Nordic countries statement on air pollution) [urges UK to “adhere to the proposals”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: Prime Minister Lange of New Zealand letter to MT (Law of the Sea Convention) [“signature binds the United Kingdom to nothing”, opportunity change “what you do not like”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Ivory Coast: MT letter to President Houphouet-Boigny of Ivory Coast (utility supplies) [consortium assistance with gas plans] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Director-General of the British Council letter to MT ('Whitty boys: boarding school fees' case; FCO proposal for financial management/policy review) [MT: "...must pay [their fees]. It is not a matter of law - but of doing the only decent thing"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [senior staff appointment; the £1 coin; trade figures; partnership taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKDEL Strasbourg telegram to FCO ("Alfonsin's Speech to European Parliament") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Hesletine minute to Willie Whitelaw ("The Defence Programme") [objections to decreases in spending 1986-88] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: MT letter to Prime Minister Willoch (air pollution) [UK policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Attorney General letter to Cabinet ("New European Commission") [allocation of portfolios] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with Craxi & Mitterrand; Howe report on Foreign Affairs Council; EC enlargement; tariff cuts for developing countries; EC budgetary discipline; Jopling report on Agriculture Council; EC Budget Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Prime Minister Lange letter to MT (UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["signature binds the... [UK] to nothing and it gives you an opportunity to play an effective role in changing what you do not like"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley minute to MT ("Fixed Link Across the Channel") [market interest & French Government position] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (thanks for being at Brighton) [“which has cost our friends so dear”]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Michael Colvin (thanks for message) [daughter Amanda “remembered to bring out the speech”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 24 October 1984") [miners' strike: NACODS strike called off] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy paper ("Endurance and a NACODS strike") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [plan for informing Unionist parties of Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT on Howe's minute: "Her general comment is that she is becoming very pessimistic about this exercise"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit by Mr Gorbachev") [proposed arrangements for Gorbachev visit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Alan Greencross to David Mellor (Greater London Council) [“facts on restructuring”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Sherbourne minute for MT (points raised at Central Office meeting) [local government, security at Central Office] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Secretary PS minute to Charles Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Hurd meetings with Irish and Northern Irish leaders] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1213 to FCO (2315Z) (“Cyprus: Secretary General’s initiative”) [de Cuéllar “trying to increase the pressure on the two sides but so far without success”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Keith Joseph letter to Edwards (“Corporal Punishment in Schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute for MT (Van Der Post suggests MT meet South African Leader of the Opposition) [SAG won't like but no sustainable objection since you have met Botha] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (detention orders against people in British Consulate in Durban) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban and Coventry”) [detention orders against people in British Consulate: British-South African relations] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: MT minute to Ministers in Charge of Departments (Implementation of Improvements in the Financial Management of Advisory and Other Public Bodies) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Moore letter to Jenkin ("E(DL)(84)4. Unused Land and Empty Housing") [Treasury note to follow up Jenkin paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Training Loans") [comments on Tom King's pilot scheme proposal] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 letter to Rees PS (Kenneth Whitty: compensation for dependants) [details of award calculation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: recommended line to take to 'round off...correspondence' between ministers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Ethiopia: MT telegram to Taoiseach FitzGerald of Ireland (famine) [EC aid] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute: Policy Unit to Charles Powell (European Monetary System) [case against UK joining the Exchange Rate Mechanism] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Falklands at the UN General Assembly") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("1983 Refunds") ["expect to.. [be paid] in the course of today"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 34th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Coal Industry") [miners' strike: no details of planned pit closures in the Soviet Union] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Polish Coal Industry") [miners' strike: no details of planned pit closures in Poland] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Thursday 25 October 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Malcolm Edwards letter to MT (thanks for letter) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Conservative Party Members' Brief ("Coal Industry Dispute") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Soviet National Day Reception") [responding to October Revolution anniversary invitations from Soviet Ambassador] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: NIO record of conversation (Hurd meeting with Barry and Noonan) [security, extradition, procedures] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO minute to No.10 (“Call by Matyas Szuros, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party, on MT”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome to FCO (“Anglo-Italian Summit: Press Reactions”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (Government Purchasing) [papers; proposals; issues; main points for discussion; handling] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Cockfield) ["Chairman of BTG"; British Technology Group] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Percy Cradock, 29 October") [his move to JIC chair; BMD; Gorbachev visit; MT Peking visit; Middle East] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Rees minute to MT (Training Loans) [comments on Tom King consultative document] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Rees minute to MT (changes in provision for employment and training measures) [presentation & management of annual Survey outcomes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (changes in provision for employment and training measures) [timing of announcement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3195 to FCO (2206Z) ("US Presidential Campaign") [state of play] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Ian Stewart minute to MT ("Friendly Societies Bill") [background to urgent legislation "to validate some 300,000 insurance contracts issued by friendly societies"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen letter to Whitelaw (First Report from Select Committee on Procedure: Short Speeches) [debate to be held on proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen minute to MT ("House of Commons Select Committee on Procedure") [Government evidence for Committee's general enquiry into Public Bill procedure] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Jenkin (new ILEA: future use of County Hall) [Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to MOD ("A Naval History of the Falklands Campaign") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Powell minute for MT ("Falklands Vote at the UN") [MT's draft messages to EC Heads of Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1221 to FCO (0107Z) ("Falklands at the UN") [the Argentine draft of the agreement has been tabled] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1222 to FCO (0035Z) ("Falklands at the UN") [text of Argentine draft resolution] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Jopling minute to MT ("MISC 106: R&D Expenditure") [proposed cuts in spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Wybrew minute to MT ("Energy - Contribution to Public Expenditure Savings") [British Gas, elecricity industry] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 note (internal): Roche to Flesher ("Acid Deposition") [Hansard extract: "concern on all sides of the House about the apparent lack of immediate Government action"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Community Budget Discipline") [outstanding points & proposed resolutions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: MT letters to Mrs Anne Hopkins (her letter about strike violence) [“so vivid .. so moving ... simply appalling that you ... should have to suffer so much”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute to No.10 (“Anglo-German Summit on 2 November: Sir Julian Bullard’s First Impressions”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Friday 26 October 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to HMT (PQ on the cost of the miners' strike) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("MISC 101 (84) 46th Meeting: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Warry minute to Turnbull ("Coal Dispute") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks") [Hurd's thoughts on talks with Irish Ministers: "I found the outcome rather depressing"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Discussions") [full record of Hurd talks with Irish Minister] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute to MT ("Lunch for Mr Gorbachev") [MT agrees to small lunch with Gorbachev] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Sherbourne note for MT (meeting with John Gummer) [vice chairman, Conservative Research Department, Gordon Reece] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Talks”) [“some of the talking was quite tough and I found the outcome rather depressing”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1229 to FCO (2357Z) (“Cyprus: Secretary General’s initiative”) [de Cuéllar “no significant movement”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Geoffrey Pattie minute to MT (“Anti-misting kerosene”) [“a fuel additive which will prevent aircraft crash fires”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT (“Seminar on Local Government”) [Jenkin review] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 27 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3203 to FCO (0306Z) ("US Congressional Elections") [analysis & predictions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Falklands: Alfonsin's Visit to Italy") [Alfonsin put great pressure on Craxi to vote for the Argentine resolution] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 28 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 28 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 3204 to FCO (0353Z) ("Laker Consultations") [negotiations for "a permanent arrangement to prevent the US antitrust laws undermining the smooth working of the bilateral aviations relationship"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 28 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Fowler letter to Rees ("Supplementary Benefit for Strikers") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 28 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Waldegrave, Terry Heiser, Oliver Letwin, Turnbull) [“Local government finance”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Rees PS letter to No.10 ("1983-84 Scrutiny of Running Costs") [PQ; publication] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gowrie, Heseltine, Jenkin, Ridley, Rees, Lamont, Raison, Ibbs, Baroness Young, Tony Newton, David Waddington) ["Government Purchasing"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Cradock & Powell) [East-West relations, Middle East, Southern Africa, SDI, arms control, China, Pakistan and Germany] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("CBI Conference") [enhanced security following Brighton Bomb: Police advise that it is unsafe for MT to attend reception] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: David Mellor PS letter to No.10 (Drug Misuse) [copy of 'aide-mémoire' briefing pack] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Cammell Laird") [Type 22 Frigate orders should not be given to Cammell Laird] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Leon Brittan, Whitelaw, Biffen, Wakeham) [Police and Criminal Evidence Bill: MT opposed to Lord Scarman's proposed amendment on racial discrimination] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("The Flick Affair and political corruption in the FRG") ["Following Barzel's resignation, the Opposition... have turned their guns on the Chancellor"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Review of Anglo/German relations: appointment of Mr Nigel Forman MP") [does not go ahead following MT criticism of Howe's choice] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UK Ambassador Bonn minute to Head of Chancery ("Chancellor Kohl") ["By moving a Wagnerian soprano out of the way I was able to get a chair next to Kohl's... we must persevere in the attempt to understand [him]..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Hurd minute to Rees ("Short Brothers PLC") [adjustment for increase in EFL; RAF trainer contract; proposal for small manufacturing facility in West Belfast] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: FCO telegram to UKE San Jose ("Nicaraguan election observers") [details of British Parliamentary delegation] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Powell minute to FCO ("Falklands Vote at the UN") [MT's messages to EC Heads of Government: decided against sending one to Mitterrand] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Berne telegram to FCO ("Relations with Argentina") [Federal Councillor Aubert's account of his visit to Buenos Aires] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Armstrong letter to Whitmore (History of the naval campaign in the Falklands) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Hesletine minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Ministerial Group on Public Expenditure (MISC 106): The Defence Programme") [spending settlement for 1985-88] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("MISC 106: State of Play") [progress made in "what we knew would be an extremely difficult task"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Ministerial Group on Public Expenditure (MISC) 106 Foreign and Commonwealth Office Programmes") [demands on FCO resources] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Charles Powell minute to MT ("FCO Expenditure") [impact of exchange rate fluctation and overseas inflation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Scrutiny of internal talent: promotion blockages") ["You wanted to be sure we were doing all we could to bring on able junior staff"; progress report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("My Appointment as a European Commissioner") ["contention that my membership of the House of Lords disqualifies me"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("Ad Hoc Committee on Institutions") [MT "hopes that... [UK] support does not extend to the introduction of majority voting and is also dubiuous about taking on a formal commitment to consult"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("European Council") [key points to relay at upcoming meeting of Foreign Ministers in Ireland, including Howe's desire to have an official present at meetings to take minutes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Attorney-General letter to King (“Part II of the Trade Union Act”) [NACODS’ ballot revealing need for amendment of Act] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 46th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Monday 29 October 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Bill Robinson briefing paper ("Economic Background to the Coal Dispute") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Rees letter to Brittan ("Miners' Dispute: Policing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to DHSS ("Payment of Strikers' Housing Costs") [miners' strike: MT's comments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Meeting with Working Miners") [miners' strike; MT: "it will be difficult to refuse" to meet working miners groups] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Rees ("NCB Deficit Grant") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Policy: Sherbourne minute (meeting with Special Advisers) [question of manifesto for third term “would get away from coal and would allow the discussion to range fairly widely”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Coles (“Call by Lord Moran”) [Moran “will no doubt wish to discuss the ways in which Britain could pay more attention to Canada”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO minute to No.10 (“Call by Matyas Szuros, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party, on MT”) [possible visit by Hungarian Foreign Minister] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“The Association of London Authorities”) [legal issues] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Jenkin letter to Lord Hailsham ("24th Report of the Law Reform Committee Latent Damage") [recommendations; follow-up] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 3221 to FCO (2159Z) ("Laker") [Wright, Dam: record of conversation: US/UK consultations on future arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Chairman of the European Democratic Group (VAT and foodstuffs) [offers assurances that UK government will not impose VAT on UK foodstuffs, and that EC will not enforce imposition] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT ("Planning System") [response to Sir John Sainsbury's proposals for reform] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: DHSS letter to No.10 ("The Health Service in England: Annual Report 1984") [press notice on publication of report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: Overseas Development Administration letter to Powell ("VSO and Oxfam") [Government funding for Voluntary Service Overseas and Oxfam] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lord Hailsham minute to MT ("House of Commons Select Committee on Procedure") [review of evidence submission procedure] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Wakeham PS letter to No.10 (Government precedence for opening Debates on Government days) [MT concern about Labour opening recent debate on unemployment] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen minute to MT ("Release of Documents to Select Committees") [review of rules & conventions; Tebbit agrees reluctantly to Biffen proposals, following recent disagreement between Govt and Committee over release of British Shipbuilders documents] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Central America: National Security Council Minutes (1930Z) ("Contadora Process") (NSC 0110) [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UK Ambassador Bonn minute to Head of Chancery (for circulation as necessary) ("Breakfast with Strauss") [doesn't go down well] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Falklands") [the Greeks have decided to abstain at the UN vote] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Brussels telegram to FCO ("Falklands") [Belgium to abstain on the Falklands resolution as in previous years] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Tam Dalyell MP letter to MT (circumstances surrounding the sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robin Nicholson minute to MT ("MISC 106: R&D Expenditure") [group did not recommend that spending should be halved] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") ["a substantial shortfall has emerged"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Public Expenditure) [different categories of spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) [gas and electricity industries and spending savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Howe-Lawson-Rees) [FCO spending savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Hesletine minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Public Expenditure Survey") [latest proposed figures are an improvement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984") ["the remaining task is formidable"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("Ad Hoc Committee on Institutions") [MT "alarmed by some of the ideas which are being aired in this committee"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham note to MT (good interview with Birmingham Post ) [“‘Mrs Thatcher: the unshakeable PM’”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Channon memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 31 (Tornados for Turkey) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: David Williamson minute for Charles Powell (“Anglo-German Summit”) [counter German sense of British negativity about EC] [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-King-Alison-Smith-Butler-Turnbull) [miners' strike: latest developments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 30 October 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lamont letter to Rees ("Miners' Strike: Policing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: BBC news transcript ("Miner/Iain Bain") [miners' strike: report on attempt of Iain Bain to return to work] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Payment of Strikers' Housing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Gordon Reece note to MT (“Director of Publicity’) [“need a man or woman with imagination, class and an outstanding political flair”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Women: MT letter to Florence Nagle (thanks for gift) [“deeply impressed by all that you have achieved in working for the rights of women”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 note to Department of the Environment (“Meeting with the Bishop and Archbishop of Liverpool”) [request for briefings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries (“Ministerial Correspondence and Memoranda for Cabinet and Cabinet Committees”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Antony Acland (Parliamentary Private Secretaries and the media) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban”) [detention orders in British Consulate: next steps] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Matyas Szuros, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers) [economic reform in Hungary, UK-Hungarian relations, East-West relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MT letter to Lord Rothschild (Local government finance and functions) [request for ‘outside’ expertise] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull (“RSG settlement 1985/86”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Ridley PS letter to Howe PS ("Aviation and US Antitrust: The 'Laker' Issue") [report on talks with US] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 845 to FCO (1530Z) ("Death of Mrs Gandhi") [announcement on new PM, identity of assailants, religious violence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 843 to FCO (1010Z) ("Mrs Gandhi") [confirmation Gandhi "died as a result of the injuries received in the assassination attempt"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKE Islamabad telegram 676 to FCO (0815Z) ("Assassination Attempt on Mrs Gandhi") [President Zia statement: "heard with deep shock and horror the news"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell note to MT (Mrs Gandhi's death) [making a statement would be an important mark of respect] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Mrs Gandhi's Death: Reaction of UK Sikhs") [MT statement, message to Ranjiv Gandhi] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Lamont letter to MT ("Austin Rover") [strike action threatened] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Malaysia: MT message to Prime Minister Mahathir of Malaysia (best wishes on installation of new Yang di-Pertuan Agong as Malaysian Head of State) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Justice: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Prison Service industries and farms") [reforms] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Adam Butler minute to MT ("Redundancies at the Royal Ordnance factories") ["Already the Trade Unions have announced plans for 'walk out'... No doubt, this has much to do with their antipathy towards our privatisation proposals..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with Chancellor”) [Walker; public expenditure; post-mortem on unemployment debate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 (MT's draft reply to George Foulkes: the sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Falklands at the UN General Assembly") [France to maintain its abstention] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Taoiseach letter to MT (Falklands vote at the UN) [gives MT notice that Ireland will abstain] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Dr David Owen MP letter to MT (circumstances surrounding the sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [how to resolve outstanding issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Rees) [social services, agriculture, defence] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: Defence") [figures for 1986-88] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: FCO Programmes") [overseas aid, FCO Diplomatic Wing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Tebbit PS ("PES 1984") [ECGD programme 1986-88] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Social Security Programme") [Fowler committed on total size of savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Tornados for Turkey") ["whether the revised BAe proposals are acceptable and what the division of credit exposure should be between public and private sector sources"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Government Response to the Tenth Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution") ["a rare opportunity to present the more positive stance... which was agreed... at the meeting you chaired on 17 May... [including] a stronger statement on nuclear power"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Parliament's Budget Committee. U.K Compensation for 1984") ["an amendment putting U.K compensation on the expenditure side of the 1985 Budget"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [1983 refund; UK membership of EC; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 minute to MT ("Fixed Link Across the Channel") [advice for Ridley on line to take for his meeting with French Transport Minister] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local Government: Sherbourne minute to MT (“Mr Freddie Weyer”, GLC Conservative councillors) [meeting to urge them not to resign in May] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 31 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Stan Orme MP letter to Walker (secret document on pit closures in the North East) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Stan Orme MP (secret document on pit closures in the North East) [miners' strike: "I must say Arthur Scargill is like a bus driver to the Labour Party. He takes you for a ride almost every day"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Willetts minute to Turnbull ("Payments of Strikers' Housing Costs") [miners' strike; MT and Fowler comment on Willetts' proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Summit: Venue") [threat assessment and proposed venue] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Meeting of Ministers: Northern Ireland") [brief for meeting with Howe and Hurd] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Hurd-Armstrong-Andrew-Goodall-Cartledge) ["Anglo-Irish Relations: North Ireland"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Charles Powell minute for Michael Alison (Mikhael Gorbachev’s visit) [“We are hoping that the Prime Minister can unveil it in her speech in the Debate on the Address”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to Northern Ireland Secretary PS (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“a risk that the result of the talks might simply be to step up violence rather than reduce it”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Meeting of Ministers: Northern Ireland”) [Armstrong-Nally talks; Anglo-Irish Summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [briefing ahead of ministerial meeting on Armstrong-Nally talks, Anglo-Irish Summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Foreign Secretary PS (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [position paper for Armstrong-Nally talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Summit: Venue”) [in aftermath of Brighton bomb, suggests event be held at Chequers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Turnbull note to MT (Jenkin’s opening shot) [approval for Liverpool City Council sports hall projects under the urban programme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban”) [Ambassador meeting Botha "was treated to some stern words about the Durban Consulate"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Inland Revenue minute for Treasury & MP (“Distribution of Personal Wealth”) [general trend towards greater equality interrupted in 1981-82] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson letter to David Owen (“Sterling and the EMS, Johnson Matthey Bankers”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Middleton, McMahon and officials) ["Intervention, the reserves and official borrowing"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 849 to FCO (0550Z) ("Aftermath of Mrs Gandhi's Death") [composition of new Cabinet, allegations of wider conspiracy, Indian general election] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 854 to FCO (1011Z) ("Law and Order Situation") [violence in northern India, attacks on religious sites] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 3247 to FCO (1800Z) ("Meeting with Shultz") [India/Pakistan, US/Soviet relationship, Laker, Middle East, Central America] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Mrs Gandhi's Funeral") [briefs on UK/India relations, Indian internal and external affairs, bilateral meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Mrs Gandhi's Funeral: Foreign Attendance") [bilateral meetings arranged, to be arranged] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Mrs Gandhi's Funeral: Bilateral Meetings") [priorities, as time will be limited] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Peter Warry minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Helicopters for India") [Westland order had Gandhi's backing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: MT letter to Sir Terence Beckett, Director-General of the CBI (CBI Conference: MT unable to attend due to Indira Gandhi's funeral) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Job Weighting for Permanent Secretaries) ["I should very much prefer not to have to make recommendations to Ministers without reference to the TSRB"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MT letter to Robert Rhea of McDonald's Hamburgers Ltd (the planning system: problems and need for reform) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: David Barclay minute to Robin Butler ("Hampton Court") [addressing MT's doubts about Patrick Jenkin's proposal for Government-granted leases on flats] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Hurd PS letter to Home Office ("Elections (Northern Ireland) Bill") [introduction to House of Commons] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1260 to FCO (0230Z) ("Falklands: Caputo's Speech") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("MISC 106: Agriculture R and D Expenditure") [options for reducing spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Wybrew minute to MT ("Energy and Expenditure Savings") [aim for £2.2bn of savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT ("The Public Expenditure Scorecard") [Walker not waiving on corporation tax] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Lawson-Heseltine) [provision for Defence for 197-88] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Walker minute to Willie Whitelaw ("LFR 1984") [gas and electricity industry bids] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Kinnock (European Commission: allocation of portfolios) [Development Commissioner; MT: "it is for the new British Commissioners themselves to make clear to M. Delors the responsibilities they would wish to exercise"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Farewell Call by Viscount Davignon") [end of term as European Commissioner; Howe advice to MT to receive call: "we still need his help on Research and Development and shipbuilding aids"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 35th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Assassination of Indira Gandhi, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Tornados for Turkey) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Department of Education & Science statistical bulletin (“School Standards and Spending: Statistical Analysis”) [November 1984] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Thursday 1 November 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Lord President's Office ("Payment of Strikers' Housing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to DHSS ("Supplementary Benefit for Strikers") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [briefing on Armstrong-Nally talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's comments on draft position paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) West Germany: John Gummer minute for MT (MPs’ visit to Bonn) [meeting with Helmut Kohl] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 minute to Jenkin PS (Liverpool sports halls projects) [MT “asked why, if the three sports halls are being financed under the Urban Programme, the Government cannot turn them down while the City Council is failing to put its house in order”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (“Report of the Committee of Inquiry into proposals to amend the Shops Act”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute for MT ("Bishop Tutu") [Lambeth Palace ask if you want to see him; CDP sure not, given difficult relations with Botha; MT agrees] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Abolition: Trading Standards and related functions in metropolitan counties”) [statutory provision] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Anglo-French Summit: 29/30 November") ["positive aspects of our bilateral relations on which to focus public presentation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 3361 to FCO (1015Z) ("PM's Visit to China to Sign the Agreement") [Y.K. Pao wishes to be invited to signing ceremony] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO letter to Powell ("Hong Kong Legislation") [legislative implications of Hong Kong Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 867 to FCO (0711Z) ("UK Sikh Reaction to Mrs Gandhi's Murder") [feeling in Indian government "running very high against Britain" following Chauhan's appearance on BBC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: UKE Washington telegram 3258 to FCO (0025Z) ("Funeral of Mrs Gandhi") [Shultz's delegation, hopes for meeting with MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: FCO telegram 158 to UKE Bahrain (1752Z) ("Purported IRA Threat to Prime Minister") [call claiming IRA will send gunman to New Delhi] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: FCO telegram 770 to UKHC New Delhi (1650Z) ("Visit by the Prime Minister for Mrs Gandhi's Funeral") [phone call claiming there will be an attack on MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: FCO telegram 782 to UKHC New Delhi (1940Z) ("UK Sikh Reaction to Mrs Gandhi's Murder") [meeting with acting High Commissioner to explain "steps we are taking to discourage inflammatory statements by Sikh extremists"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: FCO telegram 773 to UKHC New Delhi (1712Z) ("India Bilateral Aid Programme") [say nothing to Ranjiv Gandhi which could be taken as commitment to expanding or renewing existing programme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: FCO telegram 782 to UKHC New Delhi (2036Z) (letter from BBC Chairman to MT) [broadcast by Chauhan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: FCO telegram 785 to UKHC New Delhi (1900Z) ("UK Sikh Reaction to Mrs Gandhi's Murder: Indian High Commission") [will examine statement attributed to Chauhan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: FCO telegram 778 to UKHC New Delhi (1700Z) ("UK Sikh Reaction to Mrs Gandhi's Murder") [remarks by Chauhan: "she deserved it", "Sikhs will never forget it, what has been done to them"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: FCO telegram 780 to UKHC New Delhi (1859Z) ("Chauhan Extradition") [Indian request, on the grounds of anti-Indian activities] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: FCO telegram 772 to UKHC New Delhi (1445Z) ("UK Sikh Reaction to Mrs Gandhi's Murder") [MT statement "expressing her repugnance at reactions by Sikh extremists here"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: FCO telegram 774 to UKHC New Delhi (1925Z) (possible bilateral with Malaysian Deputy PM) [British trade contracts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: MT letter to Stuart Young (BBC coverage of comments by Sikh extremists) [damaging to bilateral relations, dangerous to security of British citizens in India] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Stuart Young letter to MT (BBC coverage of comments by Sikh extremists) [BBC is "fully aware of its responsibilities"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: MT letter to Sir James Cleminson, President of the CBI (CBI Conference: MT unable to attend due to Indira Gandhi's funeral) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("Government Response to the HoC Environment Select Committee's Report on Acid Rain") [text of draft response] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("Government Response to Tenth Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution") [proposed final draft response] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: Prime Minister Hawke of Australia letter to MT (Law of the Sea Convention) [Australia’s decision to sign, importance of UK participation] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: MT letter to Prime Minister Lange of New Zealand (Law of the Sea Convention) [reviewing developments, will take into account points made] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to Taoiseach FitzGerald (European Council, Dublin, 3/4 December 1984) [MT presses for Budget issue to be included in agenda] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure: Energy") [how to secure Walker's agreement on savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Wybrew minute to David Barclay ("Energy and Expenditure Savings") [energy demand, capital expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Howe PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("FCO Expenditure") [record of meeting with MT] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: Gas and Elecricity EFLs") [Walker hopes to persuade industries to reduce their bids] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Attribution in Cabinet and Cabinet Committee Minutes") ["given the prevalence of leaks, it is clearly important to interpret the rules strictly"; MT concerned that aspects of current guidance "go flatly against collective responsibility" - requests meeting with Armstrong to discuss] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Attribution in Cabinet and Cabinet Committee minutes") [Lawson query regarding individual attributions in minutes of OD meeting on sale of Tornado to Turkey] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Lange (UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["You urged that the UK should sign... and draw attention to the advantages offered by it in areas other than seabed mining"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Prime Minister Hawke letter to MT (UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["it is only by signing... and participating fully in the work of the Preparatory Commission that Western countries will able to continue to influence the development of the Law of the Sea"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howe minute to MT ("Channel Fixed Link") [advice for Ridley on line to take for his meeting with French Transport Minister] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Friday 2 November 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Havers letter to Francis Bennion (conspiracy prosecution against Scargill) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Armstrong (Box 500 report: transfer of funds to the NUM) [miners' strike: The PM "has asked urgently if you could consider urgently whether there is any way in which these developments could be prevented"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Stan Orme MP letter to Walker (secret document on pit closures in the North East) ["I was shocked and disheartened by the frivolous tone of your response to my letter yesterday"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Rees letter to Fowler ("Supplementary Benefit for Strikers") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker press statement (miners returning to work) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Stan Orme MP (secret document on pit closures in the North East) [miners' strike: "It is not a 'hit-list', but an engineers' assessment of the current position"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Cartledge briefing for MT ("Ballistic Missile Defence: UK Policy Towards the US Strategic Defence Initiative (Meeting of Ministers on 7 November at 4 p.m.)") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Stalin's Daughter") [reports that Stalin's daughter has returned to USSR from UK] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Merseyside Task Force letter to Liverpool City Council (“Liverpool Partnership Programme - new sports centres”) [Jenkin gives approval for Urban Programme assistance toward cost] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BISBA to FCO (“Coup Rumours”) [Argentine internal situation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 (“Foreign Affairs Committee: Belgrano Inquiry: Mr. Charles Wallace”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: FCO telegram 788 to UKHC New Delhi (1100Z) ("Laker: London consultations 1/2 November") [summary] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: COI London telegram 003 to Information Item Addressees (0719Z) ("Princess Anne and Mrs Thatcher lead British Mourners") [size of British delegation is evidence of Britain's support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: COI London telegram 006 to UKHC New Delhi (2240Z) (summary of Sunday papers) [coverage of Indira Gandhi's funeral] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: COI London telegram 001 to UKHC New Delhi (0020Z) (summary of Saturday papers) [religious violence in India, Indian politics] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: COI London telegram 005 to Information Item Addressees (1950Z) ("British Prime Minister Speaks of Special Understanding with Mrs Gandhi") [praise for Gandhi, thoughts on funeral, religious groups] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 98 to COI London (0046Z) ("Princess Anne and Mrs Thatcher lead British Mourners") [size of British delegation is evidence of Britain's support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: UKE Bahrain telegram 231 to FCO (0645Z) ("PM's Return Journey from New Delhi Communications") [opening of communications link] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 99 to COI London (1700Z) ("British Prime Minister Speaks of Special Understanding with Mrs Gandhi") [praise for Gandhi, thoughts on funeral, religious groups] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 891 to FCO (1745Z) ("Prime Minister's Press Conference: Saturday 3 November") [MT's "enormous respect for" Indira Gandhi, responses to press questions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: FCO telegram 789 to UKHC New Delhi (0040Z) (press reports of Chauhan's statements) ["India Gandhi deserved to die and her son and successor ... would suffer the same fate"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO telegram 788 to UKHC New Delhi (1100Z) ("Laker: London Consultations 1/2 November") [progress made on agreement to allow inter-airline discussions on tariffs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Press Conference and Media Issues") [arrangements, likely questions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Rajiv Gandhi) [death of Mrs Gandhi, statements by Sikh extremists, ] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong message to Powell (draft communique and statement of position for Anglo-Irish summit on Northern Ireland) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Shultz) [funeral of Indira Gandhi, terrorism, Cold War, Laker case] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 84 Nov 4 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi record of conversation (MT-Paul) [Mrs Gandhi's funeral, Chauhan's statements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan) [India; Japanese economy; Hong Kong; Japanese coal strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Hong Kong Legislation") [legislative implications of Hong Kong Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 letter to Sir Alistair Frame (RTZ's activities in Portugal) [background for forthcoming visit of Prime Minister Soares] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Tebbit PS letter to Patrick Jenkin PS ("BT Share Issue") [purchase of shares by Government Ministers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Job Weighting for Permanent Secretaries") [Lawson "concerned that... [MT] should have a clear appreciation of the risks before deciding to proceed [with asking Top Salaries Review Body to examine the issue]"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to David Trippier ("Small Business Loan Guarantee Scheme") [options for future of the Scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Pay (England and Wales)") [report on Burnham Committee meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Government Response to the Environment Select Committee's Report on Acid Rain") [proposed amendments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Department of Transport letter to No.10 ("Competition Act 1980: References of Nationalised Industries to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission") [Ridley suggests post-audit of London and South East sector of British Rail] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Tebbit PS letter to Jenkin PS ("BT Share Issue") [guidance for Ministers & Treasury staff on purchasing shares] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: Prime Minister Lubbers of the Netherlands letter to MT (Law of the Sea Convention) [Netherlands’ objections, signature not a ratification] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-German relations") ["We have recently been working rather effectively with the French on some Community issues. It is with the Germans, curiously, that we face almost more difficulty in establishing a working relationship."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 letter to David Steel MP (Queen's Speech on the Opening of Parliament) [advance copy] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: Powell briefing for MT (Visit by Yugoslav Foreign Minister Dizdarevic) [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Willie Whitelaw minute to Keith Joseph ("MISC 106: Agricultural R&D Expenditure") [should not be a separate line of reductions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Jopling minute to Peter Rees ("Report on Agricultural Development and Advisory Services") [Professor Bell's report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Walker PS minute to Cabinet Office ("Report of the Ministerial Group on Public Expenditure (MISC 106): Gas and Electricity Industries") [latest position] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Walker PS ("Report of the Ministerial Group on Public Expenditure (MISC 106): Gas and Electricity Industries") [agreement reached] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (handling of Cabinet) [inability to squeeze anything more out of Walker] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [gas and electricity industries] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention") [notes the risks of signing, but endorses FCO advice to do so; MT rejects advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Prime Minister Lubbers letter to MT ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention") ["Signing the Convention does not imply acceptance of the seabed regime"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention: Future Options") ["the question is whether... [UK] interests would be better served... inside the Convention process as a signatory, or outside it as a non-signatory"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Robin Butler minute for MT (“Eve of Session Dinner” - procedure) [Cabinet Secretary to read out Queen’s Speech; no Loyal Toast] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 32 (Public Expenditure 1984) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong minute to Butler (Box 500 report: transfer of funds to the NUM) [miners' strike: "Steps are being taken to prompt journalistic inquiries of Mr Scargill" regarding Soviet provision of aid] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Monday 5 November 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Record of conversation (Willetts-Tony Newton) ["Strikers' Benefits"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [account of Armstrong-Nally talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Forthcoming Summit") [arrangements for summit: to be held at Chequers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Fitzgerald) ["EC/ACP Negotiations: Size of EDF VI"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's comments on draft communique and statement of position] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Governor of the Bank of England) [Johnson Matthey; David Owen] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Hoskyns letter to MT (letter from Laurent Murawiec of the Schiller Institute) [concerns about the rise of the Green party in West Germany] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Paddy Ashdown MP letter to MT (possible CIA operation against British companies in the computer technology field) ["very serious questions which ought to be investigated"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Ambassador Wright despatch to Howe ("1984 US Presidential Election Result: What Will Reagan Do?") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Nicholas Edwards minute to MT (UK trade and industrial opportunities in the Far East) [thoughts following visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Commemoration of the End of the Second World War") [issues; proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("40th Anniversary of the End of the Second World War") [proposals in regard to Service in Westminster Abbey] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 letter to Patrick Jenkin PS ("Government Response to the Environment Select Committee's Report on Acid Rain") [MT content with draft response, subject to comments from colleagues] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Patrick Jenkin letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Contracting Out of Local Government Services") [draft announcement of compulsory tendering regime] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: FCO Parliamentary Clerk letter to No.10 ("White Paper - Hong Kong") [publication of Independent Monitoring Team & Assessment Office reports] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department ("Argentine Intent to Retake Falklands") [published 2015]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 note to MT ("UNLOSC") [UN Convention on the Law of the Sea; MT notes she is strongly opposed to signing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Jenkin memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 33 (Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Housing) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: MT message for Chancellor Kohl (bilateral relations: the forthcoming Anglo-German Summit) [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 6 November 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Armstrong (Box 500 report: transfer of funds to the NUM) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Gow letter to MT (cuts to the housing programme) ["any reduction in housing spending below baseline will lead to avoidable higher expenditure and to avoidable hardship later on"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Gregson briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure: Housing Programme") [brief for meeting with Jenkin to discuss cuts to housing programme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Redwood minute to MT ("Housing Expenditure") [argues for further reductions: "We should be robust about increasing council house sales and reducing the level of new build"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Trippier minute to MT ("Repackaging of DTI Assistance Schemes") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [arrangements for Chequers summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Conservative Central Office press release (“Two New Vice-Chairmen For Conservative Party”) [appointments consequent upon September Ministerial changes] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT note to Ronald Reagan (congratulations on election victory) [“You can count on Britain to work closely with you in meeting the challenges which lie ahead”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 550 to FCO (1000Z) (“Cyprus: Secretary General’s initiative”) [“Kyprianou not prepared to give Perez de Cuéllar a yes or no answer”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Government Purchasing") [foreword to report; publication] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Middleton, Governor of the Bank of England) [reporting system between Treasury & the Bank of England; Dunlop] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to David Barclay ("Scrutiny of BBC External Services") [transmission of scrutiny report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 3401 to FCO (0950Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: Prime Minister's Visit to Peking") [importance of Hong Kong perception] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3322 to FCO (2240Z) ("US Election Results") [analysis] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to President Reagan (1057Z) (US Election results) [personal message of congratulations; arms control seminar] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Ambassador Wright despatch to Howe ("The 1984 US Presidential Election: Why Reagan Won") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The Next US Administration") [summary of Ambassador Wright's assessment of likely policies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Government Response to the Tenth Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution") [redraft, at MT's request, to make line on nuclear energy more robust] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1045 to FCO (1330Z) ("Anglo-German Relations") [Bullard, Teltschik: record of conversation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [famine relief; EC Budget discipline; Research Council, 6 Nov; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Signature of the Hong Kong Agreement: Sir Y K Pao") [MT doubtful that Pao can be persuaded not to attend] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to Private Secretaries ("Legislation in the 1985/86 Sessions and 1986/87 Sessions") [request for Ministers' proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: Chancellor Kohl of FRG letter to MT (sympathy) [“enclosed a personal gift for you”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl of FRG (talks) [Dooge Committee, defence cooperation] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: German Ambassador to the UK letter to MT (Prime Minister's interview for Die Welt, November 2 1984) ["...right when she said the identity of the European states must be preserved... [FRG however now convinced of need to formalise] cooperation between EC states. This was particularly true in foreign policy..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Anglo-German relations") [future of the European Union] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl (bilateral talks) [future of EC; Dooge Committee; internal market/job creation; defence/NATO/Brussels Treaty] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yugoslav Foreign Minister Dizdarevic) [Yugoslav economy, debt rescheduling, East/West relations] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (The economic policy of the Netherlands Government) [despatch from former Ambassador, Sir Philip Mansfield] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 Lobby Briefing (publications, Yugoslavia, environment/local government debate, US elections) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: DTI letter to No.10 (“Financial Services”) [replies on five points raised by No.10] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Chancellor Kohl letter for MT (sympathy at the attack in Brighton) ["my sympathy and my horror at the attack on your life"] [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 7 November 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Havers letter to Francis Bennion (conspiracy prosecution against Scargill) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Ian Lloyd MP (the miners' strike and the future of the coal industry) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Heseltine-Rifkind-Stanley-Armstrong-Acland-Whitmore-Cradock-Fieldhouse-Goodall-Cartledge) ["Ballistic Missile Defence: United Kingdom Policy towards the US Strategic Defence Initiative"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Hailsham-Rees-Bailey-Gregson) ["Public Expenditure"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984 (C(84) 32 and 33)") [MISC 106 public expenditure proposals: outstanding issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Jopling minute to MT ("MISC 106: Agriculture and R&D Expenditure") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Jenkin-Gow-Whitelaw-Gregson) ["Housing"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) ["Public Expenditure: Gas and Electricity EFLs"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Willetts minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Cabinet") ["some ammunition for Cabinet"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Forthcoming Summit") [MT's comments on proposed arrangements for Chequers summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT telegram to President Reagan (his re-election) [“will be a great tonic and reassurance for all America’s friends”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 briefing for MT (“Call by American Ambassador”) [Reagan’s priorities for second term, MT meeting with Shultz, Freddie Laker case, IRA] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Thatcher telegram to Reagan (congratulations on his reelection) [declassified 1998]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Van Zyl Slabbert) [detention orders against people in British Consulate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (British Consulate in Durban) [urges ending public standoff] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) International economic policy: CIA National Intelligence Estimate 3-84 ("The Political Repercussions of the Debt Crisis on Major LDCs") [Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Nigeria, the Phillipines, Venezuela] [declassified 2009]
Text 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: No.10 letter to US Embassy, London (Laker case) ["the procedure if British Airways were to plead no contest"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: No.10 (partial) record of conversation (MT, Ambassador Price) [Laker case: indictments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Home Office letter to Powell ("Hong Kong Legislation") [legislative implications of Hong Kong Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Hong Kong: White Paper on Further Development of Representative Government") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Rajiv Gandhi message to MT (Indira Gandhi's funeral) ["Your presence was a source of strength to us"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Alasdair Milne letter to Pushkar Johari (Mrs Gandhi's Murder) [regrets at coverage of Chauhan's comments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Robert Armstrong: 0930 on Friday, 9 November") [job weighting for Permanent Secretaries; attribution in Cabinet minutes & the conventions of collective responsibility] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to No.10 ("Loan Guarantee Scheme") [options for future of the Scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Howe minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Government Response to the House of Commons Environment Select Committee's Report on Acid Rain") ["we must continue to coordinate very carefully the presentation abroad of our policy on this issue"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3645 to FCO (1902Z) ("Ad Hoc Committee on Institutions (Dooge Committee) 7/8 November 1984") ["Nature of Report to European Council": record of conversation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Committee on People's Europe") [report on first meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Sir Anthony Jolliffe) [City of London Business in the Community Initiative] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: DHSS letter to No.10 ("Restrictions on NHS Prescribing") [law change to require prescription of generic drugs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Chancellor Kohl of FRG telegram to MT (talks) [Dooge Committee, foreign affairs] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: Prime Minister Craxi of Italy letter to MT (proposed conference on technological innovation) [arrangements for event in Venice, April 1985] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Geoffrey Pattie letter to Rees ("Moratorium on applications for support for innovation") [draft answer to Written PQ] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: UKE Lisbon telegram to FCO ("Visit to London by Portugese Prime Minister 20 - 23 November: economic background") [EEC; Portugese economy; UK market share, investments and potential contracts] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: UKE Lisbon telegram to FCO ("The Portugese scene at the time of Dr Mario Soares' visit to London (20 - 23 November)") [politics; economy; Presidential election in 1985] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKE San Jose telegram to FCO ("Migs for Nicaragua") [summary of current state of play amidst mounting Soviet/US military tension] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKE San Jose telegram to FCO ("Nicaragua: election results") [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: Powell note to MT ("Nicaragua") [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 36th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, US Presidential Election, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Public Expenditure Survey 1984, Economic Situation and Prospects) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Thursday 8 November 1984") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Robert Maxwell) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Rees-Younger-Edwards-Hurd-Armstrong) ["Territorial Expenditure"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Nicholson minute to MT ("Report on Agricultural Development and Advisory Services") [charging for ADAS's services] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [Irish Government under pressure over proposed British location of Anglo-Irish summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [amended draft communique] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Sherbourne letter to John Gummer (technology at Central Office) [problems, solutions] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Turnbull minute to Armstrong (Liverpool City Council obligations) [“All the evidence points to a repeat of Liverpool’s challenge over the coming year”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, US Ambassador) [Reagan’s domestic priorities for second term, goals on East/West relations and arms control] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Julian Amery MP letter to Michael Heseltine (All Party delegation visit to the Falklands report) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Middleton, Governor of the Bank of England) [Autumn Statement; SIA; CLCB reaction to £1 note/coin decision] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Gas Turbines for the Delhi Electric Supply Undertaking (DESU)") [dispute in Whitehall about a possible ATP offer] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Ingham minute to MT ("Manufacturing Industry") ["the notion is abroad in industry that manufacturing is numbered among the things about which you do not care"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Charles Powell ("The late Kenneth Whitty") [assassination & death in service; compensation for widow] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Greece: MT message to Andreas Papandreou (European City of Culture) [will discuss UK attendance at Athens inauguration ceremony] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Conservation of the Broads' Landscape") [options for preventing farmers ploughing: grant aid vs grazing grant] [declassified Dec 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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