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PDF 86 Nov 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO telegram 566 to UKE Bonn (1500Z) ("European Consultations Post Reykjavik") ["off-the-record brain-storming session before the WEU Ministerial meeting"] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Shultz briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Common Agricultural Policy: Beef and Dairy Products”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Queen’s speech, latest polls, Knowsley by-election, teachers’ pay, Robert Armstrong) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to the US, 14/15 November") [key points on arms control] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("SALT Limits") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn to FCO ("Arms Control Negotiations: Implications for European Security") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ken Clarke minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Non Domestic Rates") [transitional arrangement to avoid outcry from businesses] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Rifkind PS minute to Stewart PS ("Review of Law Affecting Banking Services") [membership of review team] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands at the UN") [MT's draft letter to Chancellor Kohl] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 2885 to FCO (2310Z) ("Falklands Fisheries: Multilateral Solution") [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter for Chancellor Kohl (resolution on Argentina/Falklands in the UN) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("South Africa") ["FRG still pursuing idea of a joint political initiative... [with] US, UK" ] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Channon PS minute to MacGregor PS ("RDGs") [announcement of delay in payment] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Channon PS ("RDGs") [public spending provision for regional incentives] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 1203 to FCO (1824Z) ("France and the Middle East") [criticisms of French policy, French objectives for Lebanon, Arab/Israel dispute, inconsistencies in approach] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKA Paris despatch to FCO ("Cohabitation and Chirac") [cohabitation between Chirac and Mitterrand is generating more friction but unlikely to break down in near future] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: John Stanley PS letter to No.10 ("PQ by Mr Beith, 4th November") [apologies for failure to note Charles Powell's amendment to draft reply on arms control/Reykjavik] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Howe, Edwards, Tebbit, King, Jopling, Ridley, MacGregor, Rifkind, Channon, Waldegrave) [alternative uses of agricultural land and sources of rural employment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Public Expenditure Treatment of ERDF Receipts by Privatised Industries”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“European Council: meeting with the Belgian Prime Minister”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Kenneth Clarke minute to MT (“London European Council: 5-6 December”) [business and jobs; completing the internal market] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 37th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Defence: Charles Thomas briefing for Shultz (meeting with MT) [Camp David agenda, arms control] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Caroline Ryder note for MT (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["Latest weather reports are that it is getting colder and it would be advisable for you to take a coat"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT notes (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["Alarmed by suggestion to eliminate in 10 years all strategic ballistic missiles … Security of West in danger"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT briefing cards (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["CAN'T trust RUSSIANS when taking a few tanks & columns out of Afghanistan - surely you wouldn't trust them over ballistic missiles"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Stephen Sherbourne minute for MT (“The Chairman and the BBC”) [has warned Tebbit that MT would prefer him not to send his letter to BBC; suggests she see him in person] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Nigel Wicks minute for MT (points for meeting with Tebbit) [“I see a danger of some elements of this episode repeating the Westland troubles. A colleague with an obsession, doing things difficult to reconcile with collective responsibility”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Paying for Local Government - Non-Domestic Rates") [freezing and indexing only a temporary solution] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc (Scotland) Bill: Collective Community Charge") [calculation of rate, operation of system] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Unified Business Rate") [Ridley proposes uniform poundage] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Gordon Borrie minute to Stewart PS ("Review of Law Affecting Banking Services") [pleased at proposed liaison group] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands Fisheries: OAS Resolution") [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT message for Chancellor Kohl (draft resolution on the Argentina/Falklands at the UN) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove minute to Hurd PS ("Extension of ITV Contracts") [MT agrees with three year extension] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: Prime Minister's Briefing Meeting, 5pm Thursday, 20 November") [arrangements, attendees] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS (Anglo/French Summit) [MT approves proposed UK delegation and programme] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Poindexter briefing for President Reagan (MT visit) ["concerned about the strategic implications of your Reykjavik proposals"] [declassified Jul 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Luxembourg record of conversation (0100Z) (Younger, Genscher, Andreotti, Spandolini, Giraud, Woerner, Chalker, Van den Broek, Van Eekelen, Tindemans, Bosson) ["WEU Ministerial Meeting: European Security Post Reykjavik"] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“CAP Reform Paper”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (State Department) Cold War: Shultz Evening Reading Item for Reagan ("My meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher") [MT expressed extreme concern about the potential impact of the proposals made at Reykjavik ] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Stephen Sherbourne minute for MT (Hurd-Kaufman correspondence) [briefing for PMQs] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Stephen Sherbourne notes on conversation (meeting with Tebbit on BBC) [main points discussed] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Knowsley by-election, teachers’ pay, unemployment, Reagan-Gorbachev) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 15 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE Washington telegram 2904 to FCO (2138Z) ("Prime Minister's meeting at Camp David: arms control") [MT's statement after the meeting, agreed with President Reagan] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 15 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Civil Service long-term pay arrangements”) [advises proceeding with the data collection which would underpin the Government proposals, in anticipation of their being accepted by the Unions, failing which “all bets would be off”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2908 to FCO (2200Z) ("Camp David: Arms Control") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 16 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (FBI) US: FBI airtel (“Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - Victim”) [arrest at time of Nov 1986 Camp David visit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2920 to FCO (2030Z) ("Camp David: Arms Control") [Shultz speech "Nuclear Weapons, Arms Control and the Future of Deterrence"] ​​​​[declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the markets; the City: "further scandals unavoidable"; teachers' pay; "prospects for a more buoyant economy"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Paying for Local Government: Non-Domestic Rates") [proposal for a uniform poundage] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Paying for Local Government: Suggested Exemptions from the Community Charge for Residents of 'Homes' and Hostels") [exemptions to be kept to the absolute minimum] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Scottish Rates Bill") [timetable for legislation] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Channon PS minute to Ridley PS (statement draft) [publication on rates and limits] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("Rate Support Grant Settlement 1987/88") [proposed measure to help "those counties who are losing grant this year compared to last"] [declassified Oct 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Griffiths note to MT (surprising Patrick Minford article) ["Has Lawson made a U-turn?"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute for Powell ("Argentine Offer to Declare Cessation of Hostilities") [latest Reuters and BBC monitoring reports] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to Douglas Hurd (ITV contracts) [IBA two year extension] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Channon minute to Douglas Hurd ("Extension of ITV Contracts") [length of proposed extension] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Maputo telegram 298 to FCO (0900Z) ("Visit of Chancellor Kohl") [issues in southern Africa, South Africa sanctions, FRG views on visit] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ridley minute to MT (“Public Expenditure and the European Regional Development Fund”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (visit to US, Iran, teachers’ pay, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: US Embassy London to State Department (British party reaction to Reykjavik Summit) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Arms Control: Speech by Mr Shultz") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2930 to FCO (2352Z) ("Arms Control: Speeches by Shultz and Weinberger") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Channon PS briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with Mr Saito: 16.30 19 November") [industrial collaboration; trade imbalance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nigel Wicks minute to Rifkind PS ("Local Government") [timetable for Scottish bill] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("National Non-Domestic Rate: Treatment of Buoyancy") [how to treat growth in total rateable values] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office to MT ("E(LF) 6th Meeting") [non-domestic rate, exemptions] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Norman Tebbit ("World Television Service") [private sector will be given chance to make proposals] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Douglas Hurd ("World Television Service") [BBC proposals] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Ministry of Defence briefing ("Anglo-French Summit: Nuclear Weapons Dialogue") [British Trident programme is unaffected by Reykjavik] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo/French Summit") [position on EC issues, nuclear cooperation, arms control, east-west relations, terrorism] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo/French Summit: Briefing Meeting") [aims for the Summit: agriculture, defence, R&D, terrorism, EC] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 1226 to FCO (1629Z) ("Anglo-French Summit, 21 November: Scene Setter") [tensions between Mitterrand and Chirac, differing UK/French views on Middle East, cooperation on arms control, EC Presidency] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Michael Jopling minute to Patrick Mayhew ("French Actions Disrupting UK Lamb Trade") [possibility of stepping up inspections of apples imports, prospect of EC Court action] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to John Fretwell (request to meet Leotard) [falls below level at which MT normally willing to receive foreign visitors] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Former Prime Minister: Howe PS letter to Lord Wilson PS (Visit to the Soviet Union) [MT requests that Lord Wilson be advised personally in regard to his request to stay at UK Embassy in Moscow] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1500Z) ("Chile") (NSC 0139) [transition to democracy; outstanding economic program; Reagan's suggests Pinochet State Visit, Shultz demurs ("He has done monstrous things")] [declassified Nov 2004]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell note to MT (the new generation of Leadership in the USSR and its impact on East/West relations) [copy of a speech by French Foreign Minister, in advance of MT's meeting with him] [released July 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Kenneth Clarke minute for Whitelaw (“AIDS and Employment”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Channon minute to MT (“E(A), 20 November - EC R & D Framework Programme”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute for MT (“The Internal Market”) [ways to unblock current measures during UK Presidency] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (royals “snubbed” in Saudi Arabia, teachers’ pay, industry, economy) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Arms Control: European Coordination") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2934 to FCO (2345Z) ("President Reagan's 18 November Speech") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2933 to FCO (2335Z) ("US Post-Camp David Speeches") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT message for Chancellor Kohl (her meeting with President Reagan) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Channon, President of the Kiedanren, Japanese Ambassador) [industrial collaboration; trade imbalance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Nov 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to MT ("Community Charge: Possible Exemption for the Mentally Handicapped") [a vulnerable sector of society] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Indexation of Non-Domestic Rates") [indexing poundage to RPI] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office to MT ("Exemptions from the Community Charge") [Scottish Bill exemption for "mentally handicapped"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office to MT ("Non-Domestic Rates") [allowance for bouyancy, indexation] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Stredder to MT ("E(LF): Thursday 20 November") [non-domestic rate, exemptions] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Wicks minute to Howe PS ("World Television Service") [MT agrees right way forward is through the private sector] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 19 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nicholas Edwards minute to Douglas Hurd ("Extension of ITV Contracts") [agrees with three year extension] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 19 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to Hurd PS ("Extension of ITV Contracts") [Tebbit agrees with three year extension] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Nov 19 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Moore PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo French Bilateral: Shipping") [shipping policy package at EC Transport Council] [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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