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PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: MT message to Bob Hawke (Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act) [cannot arrange a permanent loan] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: MT message to Bob Hawke (Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act) [cannot arrange a permanent loan] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Williamson minute for Jay ("Revised Responsibilities of European Commissioners after Enlargement") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Publication of 1986 Public Expenditure White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“European Community: UK Presidency”) [FCO advice about contacts with other EC Heads of Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT (“European Community: United Kingdom Presidency”) [objectives] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Baker minute for MacGregor (“Local Authority Capital Overspend 1985-86”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: MT letter to Prime Minister Willoch of Norway (Norwegian Government’s views on acid rain) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Charles Powell minute (“Westland”) [Heseltine letter to Lloyds; CDP "encouraged DTI to counter-brief hard"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MoD minute to Charles Powell (“Torpedo Orders”) [press release, briefing on production order for Stingray] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter to David Horne (MD Lloyds Bank) (HMG's procurement plans for military helicopters) [no MOD requirement for Blackhawk, no export prospects] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: DTI fax to No.10 (“Westland”) [DTI briefing material on MT’s letter to Sir John Cuckney etc] [released Jan 2017]
Text 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: President Reagan letter to President P.W. Botha (presses case for reform) [declassified 1999]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury minute (“Budget Preparations: Private Office Guidelines”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Charles Powell minute (“Westland”) [Cuckney rang - Sikorsky offer improved, board "would strongly recommend it and would mount a strong campaign in support of it"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Charles Powell minute (“Westland”) [original of CDP minute on securing a letter from the Solicitor-General - "I think this is worth doing but don't place great reliance on it"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks (Lord Hanson's position) [MT would wish to see Hanson letter to Wyatt] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ('Westland') [call from Cuckney: Sikorksky offer improved, but "they have now shot their bolt"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ('Westland') [follow up to Chequers discussion - Solicitor-General finds Heseltine letter contains a "material inaccuracy"; Powell suggests Solicitor write to Heseltine requiring correction] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI letter to Powell ('Westland') [encloses briefing for DTI press office on MT letter to Cuckney & "Future European Collaboration"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 5 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ('Westland') [call from Cuckney: board decision to recommend Sikorksky offer] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("Britain to buy German APCs for Berlin") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Rate reform: safety nets") ["Kenneth Baker has cunningly revised the 'safety net' so that it gives fewer bonuses to the North and makes life easier for London"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 letter to Whitelaw PS ("Local government finance") [reply to Whitelaw minute of 23 Dec 85] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Tebbit letter to Baker ("Water Privatisation - White Paper") [commends the draft case for privatisation and highlights points "...where the draft needs to be presented [more] convincingly..." including water metering] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute (“Guide to Expenditure Work in the Treasury”) [franchising and private finance proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Hurd minute for MT (“Roskill Report”) [detailed assessment] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Brittan letter to Lawson (“Lloyd’s and the Financial Services Bill”) [MT ‘very sceptical’ about the proposal; "wait for Roskill"] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with the Chancellor) [the markets, Budget, Green Paper on Personal Taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 briefing for MT (bilateral with the Chancellor on budget and taxation issues) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Whitelaw (“Teachers’ pay dispute in England and Wales”) [recent developments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe minute to Hurd (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [UK “should not be left behind by other European governments and companies”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ("Prime Minister") [attaches "Fact Sheet"; important it should not be seen as a No.10 document] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter to David Horne (MD Lloyds Bank) (Solicitor-General's letter) [no correction needed to Heseltine's earlier letter to Horne] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Norgrove minute for Powell ('Charles') [Heseltine quoted on news calling Solicitor-General's letter "an astonishing piece of legal pedantry"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Westland Board circular to shareholders and press release (EGM 14 Jan 1986) [board recommends Sikorsky offer] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute to Armstrong ('Westland') [commisions reply to Ashdown letters] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell letter to Foreign Secretary's PS ("Westland: Comments by Commissioner Narjes") [records Howe's commitment to investigate comments] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Solicitor-General letter to Heseltine ('Westland') ["material inaccuracies" in Heseltine's earlier letter to Horne which he should correct; Powell annotates it "very satisfactory"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter to Solicitor-General ('Westland') [no "material inaccuracies" needing correction] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI letter to Powell ('Westland') [encloses briefing over last few days at MT's request, plus 24 Dec note on NH90 project] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine PS letter to Powell ('Westland') [Heseltine wants government "to express again the preference it originally held for a European minority stake"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Crime Prevention Seminar”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for MT (“Economic Summit 1986”) [preparatory meeting report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Arms Control and the US/Soviet Summit") [consultations with experts: arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("French industrial policy") ["The essential fact is that the thirty years from 1945 to 1975... brought France's first full industrial revolution"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Brooke PS minute to No.10 (“Our 1000 MECU Abatement”) [last instalment received] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: MacGregor minute for Brittan (“Fraud”) [agrees need for increases in DTI manpower] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Lawson letter to Brittan (“Lloyds and the Financial Services Bill”) [not sure inquiry best ; do not rule out including it in Bill right away] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Chief Whip's office minute for Norgrove (“Roskill Report”) [right of the Chairman and members of a Committee to raise the matter in the House] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: Lord Young PS minute to Brittan PS (“1986 Budget”) [employment issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [company’s decision overshadowed by Heseltine letter] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Younger letter to Hurd (“Popplewell Report”) [Inquiry into safety and control at sports grounds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd letter to Whitelaw (“Popplewell Report: controls on alcohol in executive boxes and restaurants”) [Inquiry into safety and control at sports grounds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Kenneth Baker letter to Hurd (response to the final report of the Popplewell Inquiry into safety and control at sports grounds) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor) [markets driving up base rates; decision to wait till following day] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: UKE Rome telegram to Foreign Office (Italian statement about Westland) ["implications of great relevance to the process of European collaboration"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Unwin minute for Powell (replying to Heseltine letter of 6 Jan) [assesses his claims about 9 Dec E(A) decision on NADS] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks ("Draft speaking note on Westland") [for MT in cabinet - "We cannot go on like this"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for Wicks (improved European offer) [to be announced at 1600] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Westland: Ingham minute for MT (cabinet tomorrow) [arrangements for briefing press: "It will be important to move quickly on Westland"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MT letter to Paddy Ashdown (reply to his letters) [Powell and Armstrong drafts] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Solicitor-General letter to Heseltine ('Westland') [glad that Heseltine is confident his earlier letter was accurate, judgment his responsibility; concern at leak however] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, numerous officials, police, outside figures) [“Note of Prime Minister’s Seminar on Crime Prevention”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Rhodes Boyson letter to John Moore ("Short Bros PLC") ["...after a decade of losses, we had hoped for sustained profits in this and future years"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 ("The South Atlantic Fund") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (reform and negotiations) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group visit; Botha's forthcoming address to Parliament; South African govt strategy to address violent conflict] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Channel Fixed Link") [programme, timetabling] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: President Denktash of Northern Cyprus letter for MT (establishment of the EEC-Cyprus customs union: negotiations) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Department of Trade & Industry record of conversation ("Meeting with Sir Raymond Lygo: 8 January 1986") [Leon Brittan, Geoffrey Pattie, Lygo: Westland] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Key Archive (South African DFA) South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (encouraged by his response to EPG) [declassified ?2005]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Policy Unit minute for MT (“Roskill Report”) [agrees with Hurd] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan, Lawson, Governor of the Bank of England) [agreement to set up narrowly focussed enquiry into Lloyd’s] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Roskill Report”) [litmus test of government determination to tackle fraud] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT (“Future of the Top Salaries Review Body”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Kenneth Baker letter to Cable Authority (financial ideas) [extension of enterprise zones to parts of the cable system] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Addison (“ITAP report on cable systems”) [handling of Government response and outstanding issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [“The story off the boil”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Kenneth Clarke letter to Hurd (Popplewell Inquiry report on safety and control at sports grounds) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Markets”) [interest rates moving up a little after rate rise] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT,Chancellor, Governor, Eddie George) [decision to increase base rates by 1 percent in response to market pressure; resist firmly any further pressure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: MT speaking note for cabinet ("a word about Westland") ["We cannot go on like this … even questions of fact should be cleared through the Cabinet Office"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: FCO telegram to UKE Rome (Italian statement about Westland) [tell them "not helpful for governments to make statements about matters of this kind which are internal to the UK"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ("Westland: Cabinet Discussion") [revised draft speaking note] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for Cabinet Office (request to concert replies to PMQs by Austin Mitchell MP) [encloses] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell letter to Heseltine's PS ('Westland') [MT refuses to reopen decision to express no preference between offers; drafts also] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Chairman of the Association of District Councils letter to MT (seminar on crime prevention) [courtesy letter for invite to MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for December 1985") ["...the improvement visible since the beginning of the autumn has continued."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker minute to MT ("Local government finance Green Paper foreword") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local government finance studies: draft Green Paper") ["The proposal likely to attract the greatest public interest - and the fiercest political controversy - is that to replace domestic rates with a community charge"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("South Africa") [details of Reagan's newly-formed "South Africa Working Group" and of its proposal for twenty black College Presidents to visit S. Africa and to meet with MT in London on their way back] [declassified Feb 2016]
Text 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: State Department memorandum for NSC (“AID program in South Africa”) [declassified 1999]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Sir Peter Green letter to MT (Brian Sedgemore allegations about Lloyd’s and Janson Green Agency) [rebuttal] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Brittan, Lawson, Hurd, Havers, Mayhew, Wakeham, Leigh-Pemberton) [decisions on Roskill Report] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Baker memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 1 (Local Government Finance Studies: Draft Green Paper) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 1st (Parliamentary Affairs, Westland, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Economic Affairs, Local Government Finance Studies) [Heseltine resigns; confidential annex on local government finance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Cabinet Office) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 1st (extract on Westland affair) [Heseltine resigns] [declassified 2010]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT (“ITAP report on cable systems”) [handling of Government response and outstanding issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT speaking notes (necessity of restoring collective responsibility) [“must restore govt’s standing & observe conclusions of 19th Dec”] [released Jan 2017]

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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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