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| 87 Jun 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | General Election/broadcasters: MT letter to Lady Bullard (thanks for letter re: election interviews) ["the most difficult election I have ever had"] [released Oct 2017] |
| 87 Jun 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: MT message to Colonel Sassou Nguesso (Venice Summit) ["the importance that we all attach to promoting Africa's development"] [released Dec 2016] |
| 87 Jun 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: MT message to General Ershad (Venice Summit) ["we gave high priority to the need for Summit countries to stimulate growth by reducing imbalances and coordinating their economic policies"] [released Dec 2016] |
| 87 Jun 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: MT message to Julio Sanguinetti (Venice Summit) ["I share your concern about the continuing imbalances in the world economy"] [released Dec 2016] |
| 87 Jun 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Media: Press Digest for MT (state of the parties post-election, government policies) [released 2017] |
| 87 Jun 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [markets & intervention; spending on science & technology] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jun 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: MT message to General Eyadema (Venice Summit) ["The problems of developing countries, particularly those with heavy debt burdens, were discussed at length"] [released Dec 2016] |
| 87 Jun 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: MT message to UN Secretary-General (Venice Summit) ["we gave high priority to ways of achieving stronger world economic growth"] [released Dec 2016] |
| 87 Jun 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(87) 21st (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jun 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Parliament: Bernard Ingham briefing for MT ("Sunday Telegraph - Bruce Anderson interview") [inner cities, Scotland, community charge, arms control; stress choice is between CC and revaluation] [released 2017] |
| 87 Jun 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Media: Press Digest for MT (government policies) [released 2017] |
| 87 Jun 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | General Election: MT letter to Dr John Murray (thanks for congratulations) ["I appreciated it - especially your typical frankness"] [released Oct 2017] |
| 87 Jun 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Inner Cities") ["programme of work... fills me with gloom in its implication that the new Committee will head down the same barren road as its predecessor"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jun 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Chernobyl: Norgrove minute for MT ("Contingency plans for a nuclear accident") [recommends publication next Tuesday; MT agrees] [released Dec 2017] |
| 87 Jun 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: MT message to Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane (Venice Summit) ["developing country issues, particularly those of African countries, were discussed in detail"] [released Dec 2016] |
| 87 Jun 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | G7: Lord Young letter to Graham Wilkins (Venice Economic Summit) [trade policy, agriculture] [released Dec 2016] |
| 87 Jun 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: Ridley letter to Major ("A prudential regime for local authorities") [progress report] [declassified Oct 2016] |
| 87 Jun 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("E(LF)") [MT agrees to have a DOE official on hand to answer technical questions on comunity charge; grants] [declassified Oct 2016] |
| 87 Jun 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Queen's speech) [released 2017] |
| 87 Jun 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Inner Cities") [strategic advice] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jun 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Regional Policy: Ridley letter to Channon ("Canary Wharf: progress report") [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jun 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Commonwealth: Powell letter to Robin Renwick ("CHOGM and South Africa") [Heads of Government Meeting] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jun 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Commonwealth: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("CHOGM: Agenda") [Heads of Government Meeting] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jun 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Enterprise "Road Show"") ["The proposal is a method of putting... investors and young businessmen together"; MT sceptical but content for proposal to be given further consideration] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jun 27 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative party: Peter Morrison to MT (Central Office) ["your concern to get Central Office and the Party machine back on the right track is both possible ... [and] not that difficult to achieve"] [released 2017] |
| 87 Jun 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("Non-commercial conditions in local authority contracts: local labour") ["form of words signalling the Government's commitment to the use of local labour in inner city projects"] [declassified Oct 2016] |
| 87 Jun 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Regional Policy: Central Office of Information letter to Ingham (inner city schemes) [Departmental coordination] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jun 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Prime Minister/Lord President: Wicks briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Lord President: Items for the Agenda") [water privatisation, housing, community charge - plans to counter Conservative opposition] [released Jul 2017] |
| 87 Jun 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit (internal) minute to Wicks ("Phoenix and inner cities") ["If we can get enough bandwagons rolling, they will create their own energy and momentum"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jun 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | EC: Brussels European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
| 87 Jun 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | USSR: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("USSR Supreme Soviet session: Report by Ryzhkov on economic reform") ["the Soviet Union had fallen behind in a number of important areas of science and technology"] [released 2017] |
| 87 Jul 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: David Norgove minute to MT ("Transition to the Community Charge") ["The argument is at present going the way of the opponents of the community charge, which is receiving virtually no support in Parliament, in the press or even from Conservative controlled councils"] [released Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Opting-out of ILEA") [Education Bill; timescale; compulsory break-up of ILEA; issues associated with opting out] [declassified Oct 2016] |
| 87 Jul 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Opting-out of ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Media: Press Digest for MT (EC summit, domestic politics) [released 2017] |
| 87 Jul 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Baker minute to MT ("Higher Education pay and conditions") [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Alan Walters, Brian Griffiths) [EMS: Walters even more strongly against full membership than he was before, "if that were possible"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Whips' note ("Totals") [list of for, against, doubtful and not contacted yet MPs] [released Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("Opting-Out of ILEA") [manifesto commitment to allowing boroughs to opt out, "we would look foolish if we were to change it now"] [released Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Transition to the Community Charge") [doing without a transitional period, opting out, fallacies, capping, annual elections in London] [released Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("The New Local Authority Grant System") [a single grant is preferable, payment of grant] [released Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rating") [operation of the non-domestic rating pool, paying for transition, empty commercial property, duty to consult business] [released Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Argentina/Falklands" - danger that fisheries talks would end up with Argentina raising sovereignty] [declassified 2016] |
| 87 Jul 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Media: Press Digest for MT (government's relationship with the media, insider dealing, child abuse) [released 2017] |
| 87 Jul 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | General Election: Willetts notes ("Reflections on our conduct of the election campaign") ["We won despite our campaign, and Labour lost despite theirs"] [released Oct 2017] |
| 87 Jul 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Midland Bank") [restructuring package & its implications] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) [bid from the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank for the Royal Bank of Scotland] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Community Charge: Transitional Arrangements, ILEA and London") [possible phased transition, safety net, high rates in London] [released Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(87) 22nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No 10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Major-Walker-Ridley-Waddington-Griffiths-Ingham) [MT "stressed the need for the Government to put across the case for the reform of local authority finance more effectively"] [released Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Andy Bearpark minute for MT ("Diary meeting: Tuesday 1 September") [Archer invitation, suppers in July, meeting with disabled children, Bar Association invitation, Women of the Year lunch, etc] [released 2017] |
| 87 Jul 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Heath attack on government policies, law and order, insider dealing) [released 2017] |
| 87 Jul 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Inner City") ["terms of reference... are completely lacking in imagination... with notable exceptions... we have failed with existing policies"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Inner Cities: work programme") ["risk of friction between Departments... is a valid concern. But if your inner cities initiative is to have any chance of an impact it must not be based on the highest common denominator amongst Departments"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("The New Grant System") [decisions needed on whether to have single or two separate grants, how to pay the grant to local authorities, discretion in distribution of grants] [released Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: John Moore minute to Nicholas Ridley ("The New Grant System") ["my unease about the high profile which the needs assessments will have under the new system"] [released Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative party: Tebbit to Stephen Sherbourne (article in "Campaign") ["What the voters thought of the election ad circus"] [released 2017] |
| 87 Jul 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Community Charge: Katharine Ramsay conversation record (Conservative backbench Environment Committee) [Ridley defends poll tax; Heseltine, Gow, Young criticisms] [released Oct 2017] |
| 87 Jul 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Official Reserves") [updated figures of assets and liabilities; intervention added $7.5b in May] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Biffen's criticisms of government, Labour divisions, inner cities) [released 2017] |
| 87 Jul 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Media: Press Digest for MT (government policies, industry, Labour) [released 2017] |
| 87 Jul 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Community Charge: Archie Hamilton minute for MT (Conservative backbench Environment Committee) [ministers did "extremely well", "will have stopped the rot going any further"] [released Oct 2017] |
| 87 Jul 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [public expenditure; Parliamentary candidature of Special Advisers] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Regional Policy: Ridley PS letter to Lord Young PS (inner city issues) [copy of Ridley draft speech to the Greater London Area Conservative Political Centre; No.10 not satisfied with draft] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Regional Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Inner Cities: work programme") [MT not satisfied with draft paper] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Regional Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Inner Cities: work programme") ["the effect may be to make Departments feel rather more under attack from the Study than had been envisaged"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Regional Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Urban Policy: E(UP) (87) 1st Meeting") ["to agree on a work programme to be put in hand without delay"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to No 10 ("The New Grant System") [format of the proposed community charge demand note] [released Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: John Moore minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Transitional Arrangements") [period of transition, impact on revenue, effect on government spending] [released Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Prime Minister/Social Services: Wicks briefing for MT (meeting with John Moore) [wants to talk before holidays about his plans for the department] [released Jul 2017] |
| 87 Jul 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Baker briefing for MT ("Interim Advisory Committee membership") [teachers' pay & conditions] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Baker minute to MT ("Teachers pay and conditions") [Chair for the Interim Advisory Committee] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Canary Wharf") ["The Master Building Agreement is ready, but the Consortium cannot raise the necessary finance"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Middle East: Thatcher letter to Reagan (urge Iraqis to stop attacking Iranian tankers) [summary declassified 2000] |
| 87 Jul 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rating") [operation of NNDR pool] [released Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Whitelaw note circulated to Cabinet - CC(87) 12 (The Legislative Programme 1987-88) [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Baker minute to MT ("Teachers' pay and conditions: Green Paper") [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Media: Press Digest for MT (domestic politics, rates, industry) [released 2017] |
| 87 Jul 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour Shadow Cabinet, Ken Livingstone) [released 2017] |
| 87 Jul 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Brian Griffiths minute for MT (“Education: Lessons from America”) [ways to follow up William Bennett's work as US Secretary for Education] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US: US State Dept draft schedule (MT visit to Washington) [meetings with key personnel 16-17 July 1987] [declassified 2013] |
| 87 Jul 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(87) 23rd (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, The Legislative Programme) [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("E(LF): Transition to the Community Charge") [effect of the new system on domestic ratepayers, transitional measures, speed of transition, special arrangements in London] [released Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: MT letter to Bill Galloway (American diplomat who arranged her 1967 US visit) ["I have been eternally grateful for the wonderful experience it gave me"] [released Oct 2017] |
| 87 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Prime Minister/Northern Ireland: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Defence Secretary: Northern Ireland") [CGS's concerns about army's role in NI and constraints on it; thinks army "may even be losing the battle"] [released Jul 2017] |
| 87 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("Reform of local government finance") [detail of action to be taken in response to No.10 request to "put across the case... more effectively"] [declassified Oct 2016] |
| 87 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("1988/89 RSG Settlement") ["The Chancellor feels very strongly that the settlement E(LA) is moving towards would excessive and damaging to the control of public spending"] [declassified Oct 2016] |
| 87 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 ("Lieutenant Sethia: Production of Diary") [declassified 2016] |
| 87 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: MOD minute to Cabinet Office ("The Royal Navy and the Falklands War") [declassified 2016] |
| 87 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Baker letter to Whitelaw ("Expenditure level of the ILEA in 1988-89") [Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Ken Livingstone, MPs' pay) [released 2017] |
| 87 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Regional Policy: Ridley letter to Channon ("Canary Wharf") [proposed take-over of the project by Olympia and York] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Walker PS minute to MT ("Introducing the Community Charge") [spending choices, phasing out rates] [released Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Ken Clarke minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rating") [cost of transition, rating of empty commercial property, future revaluations, duty to consult business] [released Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: David Norgove minute to MT ("Transition to the Community Charge") [issue of overlap with domestic rates, phasing out of safety nets, surcharge on non-domestic properties in London] [released Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Bernard Ingham minute to David Norgrove (presentation of the charge) ["importance of the Department doing nothing to arouse the criticism of its 'propaganda' effort"] [released Feb 2016] |
| 87 Jul 11 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Jamaica: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Visit to Jamaica: Speech") [Bob Marley] [released Oct 2017] |
| 87 Jul 11 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Visit to Washington") ["The task is at least to disguise the weakness of American leadership and to restrain any inclination to erratic and ill-thought out initiatives"] [released Oct 2017] |
| 87 Jul 11 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Charles Powell conversation record ("Seminar on the Soviet Union") [MT meets academics at Chequers; enthusiasts vs sceptics] [released Oct 2017] |
| 87 Jul 12 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Nigel Wicks ("Toronto Economic Summit 1988") [preparatory meetings of Personal Representatives planned; who should succeed Armstrong as MT's representative] [released July 2016] |
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