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PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Robin Nicholson ("MISC 119 and Public Expenditure Settlement") [reallocation of provision] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-MacGregor) [Star Chamber decisions, market response] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: implementation of Nassau Agreement") [import of Krugerrands; computer exports; oil exports; nuclear exports; arms imports] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howe minute to Ridley ("Channel Fixed Link: Liberalisation") [restrictions on lorry traffic: negotiations with the French] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 minute for MT (“Gifts to the Prime Minister”) [updated procedure] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKE Washington telegram 3031 to FCO (2100Z) (“Volcker’s Visit to Argentina”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Brittan letter to Keith Joseph (“Grant-aided schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“cost of student support… remains so much higher in the UK than in many other countries”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Midday Supervision”) [draft announcement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (National Union of Teachers industrial action) [request for meeting with MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Alison note to David Waddington (Sunday Trading) [critical points made to MT; she wants them discussed with Hurd and Wakeham] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Economic regulation of airports”) [“CAA should be the prime regulators of all core activities”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine letter to John MacGregor (“MOD Running Costs”) [ongoing dispute over proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: John MacGregor letter to Hurd (“BBC accounts”) [MT favours public criticism of accounting practice rather than ordering the BBC to change the practice] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Whitelaw minute to MT (E(LF) Committee meeting: local authority capital expenditure) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT (“UK Participation in Strategic Defence Initiative Research”) [CDP: he fears officials unpicking his agreement with Weinberger] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Brittan minute to MT (“UK Participation in the SDI”) [anxieties about terms][declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary minute to MT (“Strategic Defence Initiative Research: United Kingdom Participation”) [timing of announcement - MT wants to consider in relation to Ptarmigan] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science & Technology: No.10 minute to MT (publication of ACARD report on exploitable areas of science) [publication of MT's letter at front of report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Secretary minute to MT (value for money targets in Government) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT ("Urban Policy") [scrutiny of urban policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT (value for money targets in Government) [meeting with Sir Robin Ibbs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: King minute to MT ("Dolours Rea (nee Price)": 1973 Old Bailey bomber) [King proposes to alter conditions of release; MT opposes: "do nothing. She got out of prison on a false pretence"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell (President Mitterrand's visit) [Rainbow Warrior affair, New Caledonia, UN Falklands resolution, east-west relations] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO telegram 366 to UKRep Brussels (1300Z) ("Inter-Governmental Conference") [informal report on outcome of Franco-German summit, 7-8 Nov] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement: message from Bud McFarlane) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: King minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Negotiations") [suggested further amendments to Anglo-Irish Agreement, with Powell covernote] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: President Reagan message to MT (US/Soviet Summit) [agenda; thanks for MT support] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Robert Armstrong conversation with Monsieur Attali) [French political scene: forthcoming elections] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1986-87") [Banking Bill] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 letter to Lord Hailsham PS (State Opening of Parliament: the Queen's Speech) [circulation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ingham letter to Home Office (State Opening of Parliament: the Queen's Speech) [Speaking Note for circulation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("MISC 120: Housing") [gulf between spending group and Baker] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: Housing") [meeting with Baker] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Asset Sales and the Reserve") [sale of British Gas] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: MacGregor PS note to John Wakeham (housing programme) [private sector provision] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howe minute to Ridley ("Channel Fixed Link: Consultation") [endorses Ridley's proposed approach; "essential... that we avoid... a public inquiry"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley minute to MT ("Channel Fixed Link: Assessment of Proposals") [details; key points] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Secretaries’ note circulated to Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 12 (“Lessons of the miners’ strike: draft second report to ministers”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Secretaries’ note circulated to Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 13 (“Lessons of the miners’ strike: second report to ministers”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Alan Walters) [Walters: "thought policy was if anything a little tight, rather than loose"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Secretary of State for Energy minute for MT (his conversation with Sir Peter Emery: Nigerian debts) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKDEL IMF to FCO (“IMF: Problem Countries”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit letter to MT (experimental scheme for involving parents in schools in Croydon) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tom King minute to MT (“Midday Supervision”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Alison note to David Waddington (Sunday Trading) [update on backbench misgivings - Graham Bright] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Sunday Trading (Shops Act)”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (failed UK bid for battlefield communications contract) [brief summary declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (“Abolition of the Greater London Council - Thamesmead”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Lawson minute to MT (“UK Participation in SDI”) [agrees with Brittan that MISC117 should consider draft agreement with US in detail] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Howe minute to Hurd (“Entry clearance from Bangladesh”) [review of visa policy, and handling of representations by MPs] [declassified 2016]
Text 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ibbs-Beesley) [scrutiny programme and efficiency in government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Armstrong-Harland) [intelligence sharing, South Africa, agriculture, economy] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EUREKA; InterGovernmental Conference; steel & other EC/US trade; famine relief; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Howe-King-Spring-Barry) ["Anglo-Irish Negotiations"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1469 to FCO (1700Z) ("Secretary Shultz in Moscow - 4/5 November: Summit Prospects") [record of conversations: Gorbachev, Shultz, Shevardnadze, McFarlane, Dobrynin, Hartman; and Shultz, Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1469 to Deskby (1730Z) ("US NAC Briefing on Shultz's Moscow Talks") [details] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Jobs”) [comments on Lord Young’s proposed new initiatives] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Meeting on Jobs”) [employment and enterprise strategy: Lord Young’s proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation ("Record of a discussion on ship design, held at Ship Department, Bath on Wednesday, 6 November 1985") [Christopher Monckton, Nicholas Owen, Rear Admiral Hugh Thompson, Brian Wall, Simon Webb, John Cox] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ministry of Defence letter to Parliamentary Counsel ("Armed Forces Bill 1986") [publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury briefing for MT ("ERM") [Exchange Rate Mechanism: Q&A] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Falklands - Trial of Military Commanders") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1985 (C(85) 26)") [agreement on planning totals] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Kenneth Baker ("Public Expenditure Survey: Housing") [provision and allocation] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Norman Fowler ("MISC 120: Health and Personal Social Services") [settlement of programme] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Nicholas Edwards ("'Territorial' Implications of Local Authority Overspending in England") [proposals cause great difficulty] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Public Expenditure") [speaking note for Cabinet] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Public Expenditure: Housing") [agreement with Baker] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa and the Commonwealth") ["I have yet to meet anyone in the Government or among ordinary South Africans who relishes the prospect of a Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group... coming to South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO telegram to UKHC Lusaka ("Eminent Persons Group") [assessment of current support amongst African governments for the Commonwealth Group] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 briefing for MT ("Channel Fixed Link") [Ridley request for meeting to discuss bids, concerns about public opposition, and traffic restrictions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Briefing on Queen’s Speech (subject notes) [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Keith Joseph minute for Norman Fowler (“AIDS”) [establishment of a national epidemiological surveillance centre] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Anglo-German summit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [enterprise and employment, handling of Cabinet] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No. 10 (midday supervision proposals) [announcement to Parliament] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 26 (Public Expenditure Survey 1985) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Running Costs: Progress Report”) [“Mr Heseltine made a great fuss about this exercise”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“MOD Running Costs”) [proposed agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Policy Unit minute to Norgrove (“BBC accounts”) [MT favours public criticism of accounting practice rather than ordering the BBC to change the practice] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKA Rome despatch to FCO ("The Achille Lauro Affair") ["the most lasting effect in Italian eyes may be the memory of her unhappy experience at US hands"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: Charles Powell to Italian Ambassador (Confindustria) [MT has no time to record message; Lord Young happy to do so] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [curtailment of education services: proposed actions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Whitelaw minute to MT (“SDI Research: UK Participation”) [work of cabinet committees addressing concerns] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 letter to MOD (“SDI Research: UK Participation”) [MT's views on official group report and reactions from colleagues] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: MT letter to Premier Zhao Ziyang of China (Guangdong Nuclear Project) [hopes for successful conclusion of negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Possible Questions and Answers") [presentation of Agreement by British and Irish governments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Taoiseach Fitzgerald letter to MT (Anglo-Irish talks and Agreement) [concerns over Intergovernmental Conference and Secretariat] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Mayhew minute to MT ("Proposed Anglo/Irish Agreement") [addresses possible judicial review of Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Practical Matters") [signing and presentation of Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Reply to Sr Suarez's Letter Concerning the Europe/Latin American Institute (IRELA)") [MT finds it 'incomprehensible' that it takes so long to produce a reply] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (“Government Support for Local Enterprise Agencies”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Young, Lawson, Tebbit, MacGregor, Kenneth Clarke) [“Enterprise and Employment”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter for Gorbachev (arms control: negotiations with the United States in Geneva) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: MT letter to General Secretary Kádár (visit to UK) [courtesy letter] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Heseltine PS letter to Biffen PS ("The Parliamentary Maritime Group") [dispute regarding an invitation from the Group to the Chief of Naval Staff to address it, initially declined by Heseltine over concerns of setting a precedent] [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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