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PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (his defence of Gaborone raid) ["I shall reply with equal frankness"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Keith Joseph minute to MT (local authority expenditure for education) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Meeting of OD at 9 am on Friday 12 July: Strategic Defence Initiative Research (SDI): United Kingdom Participation”) [OD(85)15] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Policy Unit minute for MT (“SDI Research: UK Participation”) ["Our participation is worth a high price and the Americans expect to pay one"] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Royal Family: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Broadlands Archives Settlement") [transfer to Southampton University of papers of Lord Mountbatten] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with M. Giscard d'Estaing") [ERM; French elections; European balance of power; European/US economies; future of EC; defence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Argentina: Response to Lifting of Import Restrictions") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Biffen) [need to show strength and coherence on public spending] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT ("Department of Employment Group: Value for Money Seminar") [Youth Training Scheme and Community Programme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Department of Environment letter to No.10 (involvement of British Servicemen in football hooliganism) [various unofficial reports but only two recorded incidents] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Mark Addison minute to MT ("Further Extension of Unified Grading in the Civil Service") [MT agrees to endorse Keith Joseph's objection to inclusion of fringe bodies in the scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: King Hussein letter to MT (credit terms for Defence equipment) [letter of thanks "for your personal interest in this matter"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Quarterly Report on Defence Sales and Prospects 1st January to 31st March 1985") [Charles Powell notes: "Not a very promising outlook"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Rees letter to Leon Brittan ("Confiscation of the Profit of Drug Trafficking") [concerns regarding potential increase in public expenditure] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Mark Addison minute to MT ("Drugs") [funding for extra police officers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: John Moore PS letter to No.10 ("The Success of Privatisation") [text of John Moore speech to City audience] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram 598 to FCO (1655Z) ("European Security and Anglo-French Relations") [Kohl/Mitterrand talks; "Need for care in presenting British policy to Europeans on related Alliance issue[s] such as UK participation in US SDI research"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) [miners' strike and situation in the coal industry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Meeting of OD on Friday 12 July at 9a.m. Supplementary Brief on the Defence Secretary's minute (MO 26/1) of 10 July") [handling of Heseltine proposal for coordinating Government exploitation of modern advanced technology] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 24th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Situation & Public Expenditure 1986-87 & 1988-89, Review of Student Support) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Inland Revenue Practices”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: NUCAS minutes (Executive Committee meeting) [Brecon by-election, economic situation, Executive Committee elections, agent’s salary, Property Review Committee report, rules, Federation of Conservative Students, party conference] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Grey Gowrie letter to Rees (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [“I hope we can give Birmingham the support necessary to ensure that their application for ERDF grant succeeds”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Tebbit letter to Brittan (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [reluctant to abandon DTI policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute for MT (“Southern Africa: Statement by the Ten”) [no EC statement issued at Milan; better off without one] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing) [ERM; French elections; French economic & European policies; future of EC; trade; defence; Soviet Union] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nicholas Owen minute to MT ("Public Spending: How to Hold the Baseline") [if the Treasury gives any more ground, it will jeopardise scope for tax cuts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute ("Public Expenditure Presentation") ["the argument that no further cuts can be made because we have already gone too deep is discredited"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT (public spending round) ["People are confused about the central aim of economic strategy"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Capital Expenditure Contracts") [Efficiency Unit report on time and cost overruns on capital projects] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 note to MT (House of Commons statement on Deregulation White Paper) [Ingham concerned at choice of Ray Whitney MP to give statement; MT: "We can't let [him] do it...He won't have a chance"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 letter to Macfarlane PS (meetings with football authorities and football writers and commentators) [football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Promotion Blockages") [remedial measures: details of proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Review of the University Grants Committee") [terms of reference of UGC efficiency review committee; MT keen that Chairman & membership selection will ensure "a group which is likely to approach the task energetically"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Teachers' Pay") [support's Keith Joseph's position; views on likely length of industrial dispute; additional finance, 1986-87] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister Craxi letter to MT (European action to combat cancer) ["an initiative that could stand to symbolize... the joint efforts of the Community in the fields of advanced research"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Havers ("Anglo-Irish Talks about Northern Ireland: Joint Courts") [suggests Havers meeting with Irish Attorney General] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Meeting of OD(I) at 4.45p.m. on Monday 15 July Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Coal Industry Structure") [future of the coal industry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Conservation: Our Record And The Way Ahead”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Gaborone raid) [values "constructive dialogue"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (“Local Authority Contracts”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Willetts minute to MT (“Monetary Policy”) [“your last meeting killed over-funding as an instrument of monetary policy”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (overfunding, money market and interest rates, bank lending) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2110 to FCO (2340Z) (“US-Soviet Geneva Talks: START”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [EU "Joint Statement by the Ten on Southern Africa"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Powell (“Joint Ten Statement on Southern Africa”) [proposed EC Code of Conduct] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jul 13 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Jul 14 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jul 14 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 95”) [“It is too early to attempt to draw any conclusions with regard to the post-Brecon trend of support for the main parties”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit 1986”) [dates] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UK ambassador to West Germany letter to Howe ("Agriculture in the Federal Republic of Germany") ["...has damaged the credibility of its commitment to financial discipline and to reform of the CAP."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the 12th and 13th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee") ["Although the terms of the Treasury minute are in no way controversial, extraneous factors could lead to its publication receiving some attention in the press"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Education (Corporal Punishment) Bill") [".. a note setting out the options available to us following our defeat in the House of Lords..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 internal minute ("Department of Employment Group: Value for Money Seminar") [Youth Training Scheme and Community Programme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Ibbs ("Capital Expenditure Contracts") [MT authorises Ibbs to discuss report with Permanent Secretaries] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Multi Department Review of Office Accommodation Management") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 note to MT (House of Commons statement on Deregulation White Paper) [John Moore MP to deliver statement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gowrie, Barney Hayhoe, Robert Armstrong, John Chilcot, Peter Ewins) [promotion blockages in the Civil Service] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Heseltine ("Government Evidence to the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (AFPRB)") ["unhappy with your decision to retain references to the Government's 1979 commitment to "full comparability""] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Whitelaw ("Grant Aided Schools") [paper outlining scheme for "setting up, on an experimental basis, of new independent primary schools"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (Permanent Representative to the EC) [apppointment of David Hannay; request for meeting with MT to discuss InterGovernmental Conference] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Meeting of OD(I)") [points for discussion; status of Anglo-Irish agreement; joint courts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ingham minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Channel Fixed Link") [question of which side of the road vehicles will drive on] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Tebbit minute to MT (“Vehicle Emissions”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“1986 UK Presidency of the Community: site and dates of European Council”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson minute for Pym (“The Cost of Unemployment”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS minute to No.10 (“British Airways: Laker litigation”) [line for Ministers to take on proposed settlement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to No.10 (Laker litigation) [settlement of the Laker case a first step toward BA privatisation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe minute to Brittan (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [“I should like the FCO to be actively involved in future discussions”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters briefing for MT (“Monetary Policy - Objectives of Meeting on 16 July”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT (Ballistic Missile Early Warning System at Fylingdales) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prime Minister Fabius) [phone call proposing informal meeting, to which MT agrees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Jenkin ("Compensation arrangements") ["...proposals... for a number of legislative and administrative changes which I believe would help reduce opposition and delay... to public development proposals..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nicholas Edwards minute to Peter Rees ("1985 PES Report: DTI Chapter") [reduction in regional spending] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Football") [football hooliganism: advance copy of interim Popplewell Report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Heseltine minute to MT ("Future Management of the Royal Dockyards") [decision to proceed with commercial management] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Rifkind PS letter to all Government Ministers PS's ("Future Development of the Community") ["I attach a short note of HMG's line... in the aftermath of the Milan European Council"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on latest meeting with Nally] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("BSC Strategy (E(A) (85) 45)") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Warry minute to MT ("British Steel") [argues against purchase of Alphasteel and for closure of Ravenscraig hotstrip mill] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("A Channel Fixed Link: Matters Requiring Decision") [frontier controls; security guidance/costs; duty-free facilities; price controls; compensation in event of 'political' cancellation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Channel Fixed Link") [comments on Ridley proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with the Chancellor”) [inquiry into JMB, cuts in oil production] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 19 (Top Salaries Review Body: Report No 22) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (Liaison committee) [upcoming events] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Trevor Skeet MP, Gerard Vaughan MP) [meeting on UK participation in High Energy Particle Physics] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting of Ministers: Human Rights”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Rees letter to Jenkin (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [“I am unhappy about overt government support for a scheme where the economic benefits are uncertain”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin letter to Rees (“Local Authority capital expenditure 1986/7 - treatment of capital receipts”) [MT “made clear that there could be no question of depriving local authorities of the right to spend over time the full amount of those receipts which they have already generated”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: LDCC letter to MT (LDDC annual report and accounts) [“we cannot offer certainty of ultimate ownership or long leasehold to prospective investors since we are currently unable to agree acquisition terms for the Port of London Authority land which satisfy the Treasury”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brittan letter to Tebbit (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [“I do not see a case for seeking to insist on a British satellite in any future project”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor-Governor) [monetary policy: overfunding, reducing the Bill Mountain, money market operations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (thanks for dinner at No.10) [with the Annenbergs] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Whitelaw minute for Brittan (“Deregulation - lifting the burden”) [arguments to circulate to MPs] [released 2015]

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