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PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("EFA - President Mitterrand's Letter") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ministry of Defence letter to Parliamentary Counsel ("Dockyard Services Bill") [publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: MT letter to Peter Emery MP (Select Procedures Committee review of the format for Prime Minister's Questions) ["... having given further thought to your proposals, I see very considerable difficulties... I believe... [present] arrangements represent the best available balance between the desire of the House to question the Prime Minister and the burdens which the system imposes on the Prime Minister and her staff"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury briefing for MT ("ERM") [Exchange Rate Mechanism: cover letter & Lawson paper arguing case for joining ERM] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Treasury (Autumn Statement) [draft speaking note] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Mbabane telegram to FCO ("Swaziland: South Africa and the Commonwealth") [British High Commissioner Reith, Prime Minister Bhekimpi: record of conversation] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit") [French motives, Channel link, Falklands, Inter-Governmental conference, east-west relations] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Anglo-French Summit") [participants, arrangements, press conference] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Taoiseach Fitzgerald (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [response to Fitzgerald's message: Intergovernmental Conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [final drafts of Anglo-Irish Agreement, joint press release and summit communique] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [draft message to Taoiseach Fitzgerald] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (Anglo-Irish Summit: suggested message to US Administration to advise on timing) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [draft message to Taoiseach Fitzgerald] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell note to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement: draft message to Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [Powell comments on latest amendments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("BGC Privatisation - Meeting with Peter Walker") ['you might like to probe the balance that is being struck between consumer and investor. Could it be said that the Government has been captured by Denis Rooke?'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Norgrove minute for MT (“Lloyds”) [Hay-Davison resigns as chairman] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Lawson letter to Brittan (“Takeover Panel”) [not wholly convinced by his arguments but “obviously for you to judge”] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Alison minute to MT (lunch for speechwriters) [allocate one Monday lunch for event with “outsiders”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Alison minute to MT (1922 Committee) [Onslow asks for a December speech, MT refuses - speak to Executive instead] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Younger (“Running Costs Control”) [“I see no need to make any statement about pay assumptions in running costs limits until details of departmental figures have been announced”] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 letter to Kenneth Baker PS ("The Sainsbury Group") [briefing request for follow-up meeting on "...simplifying and speeding up the planning process"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Home Office letter to Parliamentary Counsel ("Animals (Scientific Procedures) Bill") [introduction & publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("The Exchange Rate Mechanism") [Lawson's arguments for joining EMS, and counter-arguments] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("ERM") [Exchange Rate Mechanism: summary of briefing papers & attendees; concern about Lawson pre-meetings with attending Ministers] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (85) 5th ("The Local Domestic Tax") [distributional impact; Scottish and Welsh aspects; property vaulation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Arms Sales to Argentina") [a message to Shultz to "remind him of our firm view that the supply of American arms to Argentina would be against our interests"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands at the UN General Assembly: Policy Options") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Kenneth Baker minute to John MacGregor (New Towns' receipts) [disposals are running well] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["Were it not for you admirable efforts, I would have had no hesitation in rejecting the Nassau initiative outright"; alternative proposal] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Buchanan-Smith PS letter to Biffen PS ("Establishment of Oil and Pipelines Agency") [Parliamentary announcement of successor body to BNOC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: UKE Ankara telegram 502 to FCO (1250Z) ("Ozal's Visit to the UK") [Ozal formally accepts invitation; had given him "great pleasure"] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Gas Privatisation") [state of play: Department of Energy and HM Treasury positions on gas privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler minute to MT ("Social Security Reform") ["I would like to discuss with you informally the options open to us and their political consequences"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Fowler") ["wants to make sure you understand the political difficulties of the proposals he is being pushed into making... You are not willing to see public expenditure figures threatened"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Meeting with Norman Fowler") [Social Security reform: White Paper: proposed workaround to avoid internal government disagreements becoming public] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: MT letter to Jim Prior MP (first Cryo Magnetic Resonance Imaging system in Japan) [proposal that MT visit during her trip to Japan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (South African DFA) South Africa: President P.W. Botha to MT (cannot cooperate with Commonwealth initiative; alternatives) [declassified ?2005]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 3rd (“Lessons of the miners’ strike”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO letter to UN Associations of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (resolutions on South Africa) [“we do not support the extreme language of parts of the texts, the calls for sanctions”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (“Football Spectator Violence”) [progress report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Rate Reform”) [recent developments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Bank of International Settlements statement (election of a new Vice-Chairman) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“Maldives: Access to EC/Male Hospital”) [duty-free access to European market, High Commissioner’s visit to new hospital site] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for October 1985") ["inflation is at its lowest level for 13 years, but the overshooting of the money supply target is causing concern."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Leigh-Pemberton, Whitelaw, Biffen, Tebbit, Wakeham, Brittan, Sir Peter Middleton, Sir Terence Burns, Mr Eddie George, Professor Brian Griffiths) ["Membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the EMS"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [thought they would get a battering in the press] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("The Autumn Statement") [market response] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Internal situation") [report on detentions, incidents and deaths] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT (Capital Expenditure Contracts) [tackling time and cost overruns on major projects] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (scrutiny programme and efficiency in Government) [future role of the Property Services Agency and implementation of value for money principles] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: Participation: 18 November") [latest version of programme] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: InterGovernmental Conference") ["a note on areas where we would want to avoid majority voting and those on which we could accept it with equanimity"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [InterGovernmental Conference, 11 Nov; steel trade with US; coal industry; upcoming meetings; draft 1986 EC Budget] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland Affairs") [Anglo-Irish Agreement: handling] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks Dublin 13 November") [report on Armstrong's latest round of talks with Nally] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefings for MT ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Prime Minister's Briefing for Party Leaders") [brief for MT meetings with Kinnock, Steel and Owen, Molyneaux] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Ingham minute to MT ("Northern Ireland - Cabinet") [media presentation of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation (E(A) (85) 65)") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Norgrove minute to MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation") [dispute between HM Treasury and Walker] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("BGC Privatisation") [assessment of Walker's privatisation package] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1490 to FCO (1330Z) ("Geneva Summit, 19/21 November: Final Preparations") [attendees; topics; media arrangements; outcomes] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler, Tony Newton) ["MISC 111": Social Security reform: "discussion centred on the number of gainers and losers under the proposals"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Department of Health and Social Security minute for No.10 (“Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [autumn statement, fraud, Lloyd’s and the City] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Brittan minute for MT (“Nigeria: Proposed Oil-Debt Agreement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Teachers’ Pay”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to MT (“SDI Participation”) [next steps in UK participation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to MT (“SDI Participation”) [draft agreement with US] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by Johannes Rau, SPD candidate for Chancellor in the 1987 FRG elections") [MT agrees to Howe advice that she meet with Rau during his UK visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ingham letter to PS Chief Whip ("Televising the Commons") [MT: "I get more and more worried about this prospect"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Portugal: Prime Minister Cavaco Silva letter to MT (appointment as Prime Minister of the Portugese government) [reply to MT message of congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Adley MP) [Adley advises that "The best way... of encouraging... dialogue... would be to talk to the ANC"; MT "appalled by the recent pronouncements of Mr Tambo"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: Participation") [revised list of plenary attendees] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit") [want impression to go out of "a reasonably functioning Anglo-French cooperation"] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 993 to FCO (1701Z) ("The Anglo French Summit") [Mitterrand press conference prompted by French internal issues] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKREP Brussels telegram 3845 to FCO (1730Z) ("The Inter-Governmental Conference (IGC)") [possible treaty revision, confusion from plethora of proposals, tactic of constructive cooperation] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3845 to FCO (0900Z) ("The Intergovernmental Conference (IGC)") [review of draft Treaty on Political Cooperation negotiations & UK strategy] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1090 to FCO (1700Z) ("IGC: German Cabinet meeting") [detail of conclusions reached, regarding desired outcomes of InterGovernmental Conference] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit: Inter-Governmental Conference (IGC): Amendment to Article 107 (Exchange Rate Provisions) of the Treaty") [Lawson's proposed line to take in his forthcoming discussions at ECOFIN & with German Finance Minister, and for MT talks with Mitterrand] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3144 to FCO (2015Z) (Anglo-Irish Agreement: text of Reagan statement) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit: Discussion with the Taoiseach") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Ingham minute to MT ("Northern Ireland - Your Joint Press Conference") [Anglo-Irish Agreement: handling of media presentation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit: Press Conference") [Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Norgrove note to MT (possible sale of Emley Moor Colliery to miners) ['The NCB seem genuinely to be trying to be helpful to the Emley Moor miners'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT (meeting with Robert McFarlane to discuss President Reagan's address to NATO on the US/Soviet summit) [arrangements] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 32nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs) [most confidential record discussions of Northern Ireland & teachers’ pay] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Jopling letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Eggs Authority”) [abolition] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("MBFR") [Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions: Vienna negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to President Mitterrand (a five nation collaborative project for the European Fighter Aircraft) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [EC press statement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3164 to FCO (1655Z) ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [summary of President Reagan/Speaker of the House of Representatives joint press conference; UK Ambassador to the US, Oliver Wright: "In view of past and likely future rows, we might as well make the best use we can of harmony on this issue"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3167 to FCO (1700Z) ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [Congressional Friends of Ireland statement: message of support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3165 to FCO (1700Z) ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: statement by the President") [transcript] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [transcript of statement from the Quai] [declassified Dec 2014]

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