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PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Contacts with the Soviet Union") [Gromyko and Gorbachev accept invitations to visit UK] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO to UKE Pretoria (“President Botha’s Letter to the Prime Minister”) [Durban Consulate situation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 minute to MT (“Anglo-Italian Summit”) [dinner for Craxi: speech] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-French Summit: 29-30 November") [programme; Ministerial participation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Reagan letter to MT (Hong Kong Agreement) [importance of Agreement to US interests] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Redwood minute to MT ("Jobs and Pay") ['If there were no social benefits and inadequate private philanthropy, no labour cartels, and enough honest money around, there would be little unemployment'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: UKE Washington telegram 3103 to FCO (2206Z) ("Brighton Bombing: US Media Comments") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Autumn Statement/BT, the exchange rate and the oil market, the prospects for public expenditure; appointments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [foreign debt, Beagle and Falklands disputes, human rights] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Heseltine minute for MT ("A Naval History of the Falklands Campaign") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: George Foulkes MP letter to MT (circumstances surrounding the sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Treasury assumptions) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Meeting with Secretary of State for Scotland") [territorial needs assessment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Rees, Gowrie, Robin Ibbs, Robert Armstrong, Peter Middleton) ["Inspection and Management Consultancy in Departments"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Own Resources Advance") ["will enable the Commission to pay us the bulk of our 1983 refunds this month... we do not consider the advance a legal obligation... will therefore have to be made... from the Contingencies Fund"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("European Community: Chairmanship of the Ad Hoc Committee on a People's Europe") [candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT report on meeting with Delors; other EC business] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Archbishop of York (thanks for message) [“The last months have indeed been a strain, and there is more to come. I shall be very thankful if we can secure total condemnation of violence”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 17 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Employment (request for King to supply list of trade unionists for MT to invite to No.10) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-King-Gregson) [miners' strike: response to NACODS' decision to strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT ("Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: response to NACODS' decision to strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Payments to Miners for Mortgage Payments") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong argues that Sir John Hermon, the Lord Chancellor and the Attorney General should be included in secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland") [speaking to Northern Ireland parties about secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [thoughts on giving advance warning to Unionist parties about secret Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Foreign Secretary PS minute to Charles Powell (“Northern Ireland”) [risks of speaking to Northern Ireland parties ahead of Anglo-Irish summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Charles Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Nally talks: package of security arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodison record of conversation (“Anglo-Irish relations”) [FitzGerald “regarded it as absolutely essential that HMG should be seen to be taking action on the ground in Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3110 to FCO (2254Z) (“Irish Gun-Running”) [US Customs action against ship owner] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 3110 to FCO (2254Z) (“Visit to Ireland by United States Bishops”) [“Everyone they had met had placed their hopes for political change on the Anglo-Irish Summit”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Hong Kong: Reagan letter to Thatcher (welcomes Sino-British agreement) [declassified 1998]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban”) [“the Consulate could become a Mecca for international opposition to the South African Government”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO minute to No.10 (“Anglo-Italian Summit: Joint Press Conference”) [introductory statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Conservatism: No.10 press notice (“No.10 Policy Unit”) [staff list] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: David Barclay minute to MT ("Office of the Social Security Commissioners") [transfer of administrative responsibility from DHSS to Lord Chancellor's Office] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: President Duarte message to MT (in Spanish) [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("CSCE: Budapest Cultural Forum") [appointment head of UK delegation] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: David Trippier letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Small Business Loan Guarantee Scheme") [lessons learnt & the future of the Scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: David Trippier letter to Robin Ibbs (Scrutiny of Administrative and Legislative Burdens) [study plan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Heseltine letter to Norman Lamont ("Privatisation of Warship Building") ["need for decisions on... [warship and refit] orders to be taken before the sales documents for the warshipbuilding yards can be finalised"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Rees minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: Rees believes H Committee proposals too timid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Charles Powell note to Robin Butler (Brighton Hotel Bombing) [crush injuries medical specialists] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Leon Brittan letter to Howe ("Soviet Prisoners of the Afghan Resistance") [applications for political asylum: cooperaton with US & EC on resettlement] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: MT letter to Marks and Spencer manager (thanks for practical help, support) [“everyone looked so elegant”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Buckingham Palace (Anglo-Irish Summit: Republic of Ireland, 18/19 November) [request for permission to attend] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Argentina: Assessment") [Alfonsin's visit to the United States, Argentine foreign debt, Beagle and Falklands disputes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Argentina: Economic Restrictions") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Prime Minister of the New Zealand letter to MT ("Falklands at the UN") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Younger) [territorial blocks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Sir Jack Lyons (thanks for message) [“the lovely orchid plant … does indeed help to relieve the sense of sorrow which I inevitably feel”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Lord Dacre (thanks for message) [“Yes, it was a terrible experience, the full realisation of which only began to sink in two days afterwards”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Field Marshal Bramall (thanks for message) [“very deply touched … the last few days have been difficult indeed, and letters such as yours have been more help than I can say”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: MT letter to Hayek (thanks for leather bound edition of The Road to Serfdom ) ["It means so much to me"]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 33rd (Brighton Bomb, Security in Parliament, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Economic Affairs) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Brittan letter to Rees ("Miners' Dispute: Policing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Thursday 18 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler note to MT (draft letter from NCB Regional Managers to members of NACODS) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Paul Foot article for the Daily Mirror ("Hart in the right place?") [miners' strike: David Hart's involvement in the National Working Miners' Committee] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: possible Chequers meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th 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 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker press statement (Walker's response to Kinnock's claims about NCB's '20 pit hit list') [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [account of secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (record of conversation between UK Ambassador to Dublin and Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [Powell: "This shows Dr Fitzgerald wildly over-optimistic...we are in a different world following the Brighton bomb"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [thoughts on giving advance warning to Unionist parties about secret Anglo-Irish talks; MT: "'the bomb' has slowed things down and may in the end kill any new initiative"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (“Northern Ireland”) [“anxious that neither you nor I should be accused later of misleading the Unionists”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [talks with Irish leaders] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“We agreed that the exchanges were continuing on a basis of no commitment by either side”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Walker minute to MT (“Collaboration with the United States on energy research and development”) [“there are prospects of combining R&D resources to achieve results which benefit both our countries”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries (“Ministers’ Weekend Addresses”) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Gowrie PS letter to No.10 (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster’s responsibilities) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: No.10 minute to MT (“VIP Visitors: Carriage of Arms by Bodyguards”) [recommendations in advance of visit by President Mitterrand] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Mexican Ambassador letter to MT (London Economic Summit) [message from Latin American leaders on trade, financing and debt] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, terrorism, Brighton bomb attack] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: MT letter to Italian Minister of Defence (participation in the British-Italian Summit) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("El Salvador: Visit to Britain by Senor Licenciado Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes, Minister of the Presidency") [meeting between Duarte and FMLN/FDR "opens up a real prospect of national reconciliation"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: UKE San Jose telegram 405 to FCO (1900Z) ("El Salvador: Duarte/Guerilla Talks") ["Negotiations would inevitably be protracted"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Peking telegram 2627 to FCO (0429Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: Prime Minister's Visit") [Chinese Government welcomes MT's proposed visit to sign Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 3266 to FCO (1030Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: Report on Public Opinion") ["Reactions remain generally favourable, though various areas of concern continue to be the subject of comment"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Greece: Andreas Papandreou message to MT (European City of Culture) [progress on Athens preparations, invitation to inauguration ceremony] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: supportive of Rees' proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Redwood minute to MT (response to David Owen MP article on job creation) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to Prime Minister González Márquez (Accession of Spain and Portugal to the EC) ["I share your concern at the slow progress of the negotiations"; Gibraltar] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Geoffrey Pattie) ["British Telecom": share options for management] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Chancellor Kohl of FRG letter to MT (meeting with Gummer) [cooperation, Exercise Lionheart, budget] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT telegram to Spanish PM González (accession of Spain and Portugal) [“some of the issues outstanding are difficult and politically sensitive for member states] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (working together) [Conservative Party delegation visit to Bonn; defence; EC budget; future of EC; meeting in November] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Address to the European Parliament by the President of Argentina") [a suggested press line] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands at the UN: New Zealand") [MT's draft letter to the New Zealand Prime Minister] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Prior PS (public expenditure discussions) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("OD: Tornados for Turkey") [export credit support proposals: "dramatic increase in both the total contract value of the order... and the resulting... [UK] credit exposure"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Stewart letter to Howe ("1984 Supplementary Budget, Implications of Inter-Government Agreement") [timing & options for seeking Parliamentary approval of extra financing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Sir Arthur Hockaday (NATO strategy) [follow-up to Chequers seminar; MT rejects Hockaday's criticism of Trident] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Draft communiqué (Chequers meeting of Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Council) [annotated by MT] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Charles Powell to Michael Gorman (the Margaret Thatcher Rose) [MT recalled it "with pleasure"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Hugh Thomas (thanks for message) [“The terrible explosion at Brighton last week has inevitably cast a long shadow”] [released 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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