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PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Younger letter to Joseph (“Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“I am prepared, in the light of the willingness of other Ministers with ‘economic’ responsibilities to contribute to the switch”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: FCO telegram 408 to UKE Washington (1400Z) (“Laker”) [British Airways negotiations with Exim Bank] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: FCO record of conversation (Howe-US Ambassador) [Laker Airways situation: possible solutions & BA’s offer] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: UKE Washington telegram 783 to FCO (0325Z) (“Laker”) [British Airways negotiations with Exim Bank] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Gordon Reece to MT (conversation with Larry Lamb) [ways to improve British PR in the US] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Flesher minute for MT ("Drinks with ACPO" - senior police) [they had cold feet last summer for fear of over close identification with govenment during strike; ok now strike over] [released 2015]
Text 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Foreign Minister of Hungary) [General Secretary János Kádár visit to UK; arms control; EC; Hungarian & Soviet economies; Chernenko] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: MT letter to President Ortega (Nicaragua, the US and the Contadora process) ["(we) remain convinced that the Contadora process presents the best opportunity to achieve a peaceful solution to the crisis in the region"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Younger PS minute to Tim Flesher ("Revaluation and Rate Support Grant (Scotland)") [draft statement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Raymond Barre) [economic prospects, political situation in France, EC issues] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Secretary minute to MT ("Capital Tax Reliefs for Heritage Property: Proposed Transfer of Responsibility from Treasury to Inland Revenue") [recommends she approve] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Gowrie minute to MT ("Capital Tax Relief for Heritage Property: Proposed Transfer of Responsibility from Treasury to Inland Revenue") [does not oppose change] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Treatment of members of Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service (HMOCS) in Hong Kong") [arrangements for pension provision] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Howe-Hurd views on Armstrong-Nally talks and possible Anglo-Irish agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks: Joint Courts") [Northern Ireland Lord Chief Justice opposes Anglo-Irish joint courts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [next steps and decision points in Armstrong-Nally talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: MT message to President Pinochet (earthquake in Chile) [offer to assist with relief measures] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chile at the UN") [case for voting in favour of latest UN resolution criticising human rights violations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Robert Maxwell (Army Medal Office: waiting period for campaign medals) [defence of the Government's record; invitation to visit Medal Office] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Confidential") [original title "Budget - Secret" scored out; "Selling this Budget is going to be difficult": proposed lines to take on public expenditure, income tax reform & pensions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Budget Proposals") [income tax; national insurance contributions; business taxation; tax reform; minor measures; total cost; PSBR] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute to Whitelaw ("Budget Presentation") [proposed lines to take for Lawson's Budget speech, on costs, to be borne by the public, attributable to Arthur Scargill's leadership of the miners' strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: John Moore PS letter to No.10 ("Water Privatisation") [measures in hand] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Prime Minister Willoch of Norway letter to MT (decision of UK Government not to agree Sleipner gas deal with Norway) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Cyprus: Prime Minister's Meeting with Kyprianou: 8 March") [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 8th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, coal strike & teachers dispute, unemployment) [coal strike ended] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 6 March 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Ricketts letter to Charles Powell (UN statue to commemorate International Youth Year) [risk that if MT agrees to send a message for inscription “various other respectable and equally deserving organisations from UK and other countries may seek similar treatment”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Labour: MT note on Kinnock (report of Kinnock visit to NATO) [“Pushover for the Soviets”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 minute to Department of Education (The Switch to Engineering and Technology) [MT’s thoughts on the timing of the announcement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Terence Conran, Nigel Whitaker) [shop hours] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: UKE Washington telegram 798 to FCO (0715Z) (“Laker”) [BA negotiations with Exim Bank] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 (“Falkland Fisheries”) [international fishery regime in the south-west Atlantic: FAO assistance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: Leon Brittan to MT (lunch with Archbishop & Terry Waite) [very helpful to have Waite’s insights into Libyan activities] [released 2015]
Text 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for February 1985") ["...a fall in industrial production and a deterioration in the balance of trade. Otherwise, the picture was largely unchanged..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Robert Armstrong minute to Robin Butler ("Financing the BBC") [possible chairmen for inquiry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Norman Tebbit minute to MT ("Financing the BBC") [appointment of Peacock review] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Jerry Wiggin letter to MT (Westlands Helicopters for India) [feelings of constituents] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 124 to FCO (1115Z) ("Anglo-Irish Talks") [Irish press reporting of Irish Foreign Minister Barry comments on talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: An Anglo-Irish Parliamentary Body") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Protection of Police in RUC Buildings") [response to Newry mortar attack] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Hurd-Armstrong & others) ["Anglo-Irish Relations": Armstrong-Nally talks; intergovernmental consultation on Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: FCO briefing for MT ("Farewell Call by Chinese Ambassador") [character analysis/background to appointment; proposed topics of discussion] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Hurd minute to Heseltine ("RAF Trainer") [merits of Shorts' Tucano bid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Downing Street: Robin Butler minute to No.10 colleagues ("250th Anniversary of No.10 - BBC TV Programme") [No.10 conditions for granting permission to film] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker (Budget issues affecting oil) [details of resolutions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Department of Education briefing for MT (meeting with Baroness Cox to discuss radical education initiatives) [background material] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rees PS letter to Keith Joseph (controlling public expenditure: teachers' pay recommendations) [request for Treasury concerns to be taken into account in Keith Joseph/Younger's joint paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Walker minute to MT ("BNOC") [announcement of run-down; scheduling of legislation to enable abolition; Government pipeline system/national security; royalty in kind] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Booth minute to MT ("Planning Inquiries") [delays at public inquiries; need for reform] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: DHSS letter to No.10 ("Health Charges") [statement on expanded NHS patient charges] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("GEC and the Subsidy Machine") [analysis of position of General Electric Company] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Kyprianou of Cyprus) [UN negotiations over Cyprus] [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to S.E. Asia: Speeches") [criticism of FCO drafts; preliminary work by No.10] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: FCO to UKDEL IMF-IBRD Washington (“Sensitivities”) [debt rescheduling] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Budget proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 8 March 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Wybrew minute to MT (“Coal Dispute - Endurance, and New Colliery Review Procedure”) ['We are now in a unique position to succeed'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Rebuilding Power Station Coal Stocks”) [options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Rees letter to Walker (“Miners Redundancy Pay and Pensions”) ['I was disturbed to hear that there is a possibility of miners being eligible for pension in respect of periods on strike'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: MT letter to Lord Hanson (end of strike) ["We have shattered the myth that the miners can always bring a government down"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph letter to Tebbit (“Increasing the output of engineers and technologists”) [“It is essential to secure some increase in intakes to universities this autumn to show that the Goverment is taking decisive action”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BISBA to FCO (“Armed Forces Reshuffle”) [situation in Argentina] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Mar 9 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 9 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Ranjiv Gandhi message to MT (MT's stop-over in Delhi) [issues causing concern] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: UKE Washington telegram 848 to FCO (0155Z) (“Laker Settlement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 854 to FCO (0400Z) (“US-Soviet Arms Control Negotiations: US Approach”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Mar 10 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 10 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin paper ("London Boroughs Forum") [perceived need for a body "speaking for London" on planning and land issues] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 10 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (US-Soviet talks on arms control in Geneva: US objectives) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lady Porter minute to MT ("GLC Abolition and Westminster's Role") [Westminster pleased to take on London-wide functions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lady Porter minute to Kenneth Baker ("GLC Abolition and Westminster's Political Role") [GLC mis-information likely to give the government trouble] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Treasury ("Capital Tax Reliefs for Heritage Property") [MT approves transfer of responsibility from HMT to Inland Revenue] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hailsham minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks: Joint Courts") ["I see no future" in proposal for Anglo-Irish joint courts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO minute to No.10 ("Possible Visit by the Prime Minister to Turkey") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Percy Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("President Chernenko") [death and funeral plans, delay to arms talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (Gorbachev's election) [aim of building confidence between east and west] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: MT message to Andrey Tikhonov (Chernenko's death) [has deprived Soviet Union of an "experienced leader"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howe minute to Peter Walker ("BNOC") [no objections to Walker announcing abolition of BNOC, subject to informing other interested governments in advance; anticipates negative reactions from oil producers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: UKRep Brussels telegram 921 to FCO (1933Z) ("Commission Programme for 1985. Environment, Transport and Consumer Protection") [summary] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 913 to FCO (1925Z) ("Commission Programme for 1985") [analysis of key proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Prime Minister's Speech on World Economic Issues") [No.10 synopsis, to serve as basis for drafts of speeches, for MT tour of South East Asia] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Ex-Services' Association of Singapore letter to No.10 (Prime Minister's Visit to Singapore) [expression of disappointment that MT's schedule unable to allow time for attending memorial ceremony] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (Poland) [UK declines to join Polish Catholic Church Agricultural Scheme] [declassified Jun 2023]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Howe minute to Tebbit ("A New GATT Round") ["[Our] overriding interest... is to preserve the system of comparatively free trade represented by the GATT. Perhaps the main threat... is the mounting [US] protectionist pressure... The French and the Italians are instinctive protectionists, which we and the Germans are not"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: UKE Cairo telegram 139 to FCO (1105Z) ("President Mubarak's Visit to France: Egyptian Press Reaction") [PLO/Israel peace process] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Walker-Tebbit-Havers-Bottomley-Gregson-Redwood) [modified Colliery Review Procedure: next steps in implementing NACODS-NCB agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Walker-Gregson-Redwood) ["Rebuilding Power Station Coal Stocks"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Coal: Alison letter to Walker (“Mr Brian Askew”) [candidate for NCB chairmanship] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell note to Ricketts (UN statue to commemorate International Youth Year) [MT regards request for a message to inscribe as “a rather strange request”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Sir Percy Cradock minute to No.10 (“Attempted assassination of Air Marshall Hine”) [German authorities investigate possible act of terrorism] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (affirms “personal commitment ... to serious negotiations”)
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 letter to FCO (“Death of President Chernenko”) [arrangements to attend funeral] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKDEL NATO telegram 94 to FCO (1349Z) (“US-Soviet Nuclear Arms Control Talks: Briefing at North Atlantic Council by US Team”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute to No.10 (“Proposed Visit to the UK of Mr. Paul Nitze”) [opportunity to discuss the Geneva talks] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Spain: High Level Visits") [scheduling/prioritising of respective visits by King Carlos, President Chadli & King Hassan II; Howe meetings with Moran re Gibraltar; MT visit to Madrid] [declassified Jul 2016]

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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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