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PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: MT message to Bob Hawke (America's Cup) [unable to attend competition] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Treasury minute to DTI ("ATP: Cyprus") [Chief Secretary willing to consider the project] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: MT letter for Julian Amery MP (his meeting with Denktash in Cyprus) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (impact of running costs and manpower controls on reducing unemployment and public expenditure) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit to Washington: Arms Control") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO telegram 1884 to UKE Washington (1700Z) (Kampelman's call on Mr Renton: Reykjavik arms control talks) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2769 to FCO (2230Z) ("Administration Arguments on the Abolition of Ballistic Missiles") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Edwards minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Community Charge: Framework of Duties and Offences") [penalty for individuals who repeatedly refuse to supply information] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Stredder to MT ("Social Security and the Community Charge") [help for people on low incomes] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("The South African Scene") [situation report: "After two months absence... I find little has changed here except perhaps for the worse"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Howe PS ("Autumn Statement") [presentation arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to John Pearman (“School teachers’ pay and duties”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 (“Teachers’ pay”) [statement to Parliament] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker PS letter to No.10 (“Schoolteachers’ pay and conditions in England and Wales”) [statement to Parliament] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2768 to FCO (2200Z) (“Post-Reykjavik arms control negotiations”) [“Unsatisfactory discussion with Poindexter”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Law Commission report (“Family Law. Illegitimacy (Second Report)”) [proposed new rules] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Norman Tebbit to Marmaduke Hussey (analysis of BBC coverage of Libya raid) [questions “whether an increasingly subjective and confrontational style of BBC news coverage is appropriate for a public service broadcasting system”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Conservative Central Office analysis (“Media Monitoring”) [detailed comparison between BBC and ITN coverage of US raid on Tripoli] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands fisheries, Westland, teachers’ pay) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn saving telegram 15 to FCO ("Federal German Economy") ["American pressure for a reduction of interest rates has eased"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to FCO ("Arms Control: Washington Meeting") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Arms Control in Europe: The Way Forward") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Channon minute for Ridley ("Acid Rain: Draft EC Directive on Large Combustion Plants") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Douglas Hurd minute to Willie Whitelaw ("E(LF): Community Charge: Framework of Duties and Offences") [proposal for enhanced penalties] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO telegram 1897 to UKE Washington (1700Z) ("South Africa: UK/US/FRG tripartite talks") ["arguments for a political initiative... UK and US responded cautiously"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: Draft Report to Cabinet") [virtually impossible position from which the Chamber were asked to start their work] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: Scotland") [attempt to convince Rifkind he could defend further reductions] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Future of the Polytechnics”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT (“Education without LEAs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Publicity of teachers’ pay”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Publicity of teachers’ pay”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Walker (“Contract Energy Management”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (teachers&rsdquo; pay deal, BBC Libya libel case, law and order, health) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Richard Luce PS letter to No.10 (“Progress Report on multi-department review of accommodation: further action”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 31 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Improving Management in the Civil Service”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("M. Gisgard d'Estaing") [last encounter was distinctly irritating] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Bonn telegram 924 to FCO (1710Z) ("FRG/Soviet Relations") [diplomatic rift] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 923 to FCO (1655Z) ("Kohl Interview with Die Welt") [disarmament issues] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington letter to FCO ("Shultz's San Francisco Speech: 31 October") [Reykjavik summit/arms control; next steps: "distinctly worrying"] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Arms Control") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Younger, Lawson) [arms control in Europe: the way forward] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Younger, Lawson) [arms control] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2788 to FCO (2355Z) ("Post-Reykjavik Arms Control Discussions") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2783 to FCO (0122Z) ("The Approach to Camp David") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Strategy Group minute ("Minutes of the Strategy Group. Seventh Meeting: Monday 3rd November 1986") ​​​​​​​[forward political diary, BBC bias, law and order] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Douglas Hurd memo ("Notes for the Home Secretary's presentation on law and order - Strategy Group - 3 November") [objective: "to maintain public confidence in the Government's policies and to seek to build a partnership between the public and the formal criminal justice system"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: MacGregor minute for Ridley ("Acid Rain: Draft EC Directive on Large Combustion Plants") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor of the Exchequer") ["[his] objectives are to reassure the markets and avoid tying his hands for the Budget. Your objectives are to reassure the markets and to tie the Chancellor's hands so far as possible to a very prudent PSBR"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to MacGregor PS ("Autumn Statement") [draft oral statement] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (hostages freed, Ireland, Jeffrey Archer, Knowsley by-election) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 1117 to FCO (1403Z) ("Lamb Exports to France") [French assurances that special controls have been lifted] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Michael Jopling minute to Geoffrey Howe ("French Actions Disrupting UK Lamb Trade") [contracts cancelled, imposition of special customs checks, targetting of French apples imports] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Vienna record of conversation (2030Z, telegram 169) (Howe, Shevardnadze) ["Human Rights": individual cases; Syria; Libya; Falklands fishing dispute; MT visit to Moscow] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: FCO record of conversation ("Afghanistan") [Janet Young, Lord Cranborne] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Shultz message for Howe ("Post-Reykjavik Proposals on Arms Control") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn to FCO ("European Arms Control Coordination") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Vienna to FCO ("Bilateral Meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister: Arms Control") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2802 to FCO (2100Z) ("Shultz/Shevardnadze Meeting in Vienna") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD record of telephone conversation (Younger, Weinberger) [post-Reykjavik] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS note to David Norgrove (Autumn Statement) [revised draft] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Star Chamber: Report to the Cabinet") [toughest and most unpleasant negotiations he had faced] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling letter to MT (the future of British agriculture) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Douglas Hurd letter for Attorney General (protection of rape victims) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Geoffrey Dickens MP (child abuse) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Geoffrey Dickens MP (child abuse) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“European Council: Dinner for Heads of Government”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: UK Ambassador Washington letter to Lord Young (Conference on Private Sector Initiatives) [White House organisers disappointed by low British participation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Saudi Arabia, Labour shadow cabinet, hostages freed, economy) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Patrick Mayhew minute to Michael Jopling ("French Actions Disrupting UK Lamb Trade") [regards Jopling's proposal as dangerous, could request EC Commission proceedings] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKDEL NATO letter to No.10 (UK Security Policy Post-Reykjavik) [thoughts on the changing nature of US/Western European relations] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Vienna to FCO ("Secretary of State's Bilateral with Shultz: Arms Control") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram to MOD (0200Z) ("JCS Views on the Reykjavik Proposal for the Elimination of Ballistic Missiles") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2804 to FCO (0850Z) ("Mid-Term Elections") [foreign policy section of presidential stump speech] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Walker minute for MT ("Acid Rain: Draft EC Directive on Large Combustion Plants") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw (non-domestic rates) [poundage options] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [heavy burden of the Star Chamber] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rifkind PS minute to David Norgrove ("Autumn Statement Publicity") [presentation of the settlement reached] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: USE London to State Department ("Mrs Thatcher's visit to Washington") [Charles Powell saying MT had no intention of seeking a joint statement; "no draft communiques would be up her sleeve"] [declassified 2007]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: UKE Washington telegram 2815 to FCO (2340Z) (“US Conference on Private Sector Initiatives”) [MT unhappy about low level of British participation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 22 (Public Expenditure Survey) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Stephen Sherbourne minute for MT (“The BBC”) [stronger and weaker aspects of BBC response to CCO complaint] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Conservative Central Office statement (Tebbit on alleged BBC bias) [initial reaction to BBC response; promises fuller analysis later] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (public spending, industry, teachers’ pay) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: State Department telegram to London Embassy (US-UK next steps on Syria) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: US Embassy Buenos Aires to State Department (Argentine policy) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: US NATO Mission to State Department (Howe-Shevardnadze meeting) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: US Embassy Bonn to State Department (Germans approached by Argentina over Falklands) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: US Embassy London to State Department (British deny an arms control initiative with France & Germany) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Summary Schedule for MT visit to Reagan at Camp David [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Ridgway briefing for Secretary of State Shultz (meeting with Foreign Secretary Howe) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 6 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: MT message to Bob Hawke (visit to Australia) [accepts invite] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 6 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 1135 to FCO (1159Z) ("Anglo-French Summit: 21 November") [programme, French delegation] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 6 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: FCO telegram to UKE Paris ("Anglo/French Summit") [programme, UK delegation, internal market issues] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: Andreas Papandreou message to MT (Falkland Islands) [UK should "spare no effort ... for the peaceful and negotiated solution" of fisheries issue] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Charles Price note to Charles Powell (sends to MT Wall Street Journal article -"British Lion Mustn't Spit Out Nuclear Teeth") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Edwards minute for Ridley ("Acid Rain: Draft EC Directive on Large Combustion Plants") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Ridley minute for Walker ("Acid Rain: Draft EC Directive on Large Combustion Plants") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Rifkind minute for Ridley ("Acid Rain: Draft EC Directive on Large Combustion Plants") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [Soviet Ambassador requesting a meeting with MT] [declassified Jul 2017]

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