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PDF 86 Jul 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa, Commonwealth Games controversy, Westland, domestic politics) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Younger PS letter to No.10 (relations between Government and the media in wartime) [security sensitivities over MOD-commissioned academic studies] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Richard Luce letter to Nick Ridley (“Privatisation and Quangos”) [“we should consider at an early stage the most cost-effective and defensible arrangements”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Edwards letter to Ridley ("Rate Support Grant settlement - 1987/88 unallocated margins") ["The device has worked well in Wales and I see no technical difficulty if you were to adopt a similar scheme..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa/France") ["France's "double role" on the sanctions issue"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe minute to MT ("South Africa") [report on visit to southern Africa] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute (internal): Fergusson to Prendergast ("ComGEP: Mrs Helen Suzman") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: "very critical... of Lord Barber for putting his name to the report"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Channon PS letter to Howe PS ("South Africa: EC Code of Conduct: White Paper") [resumption of plans to publish, following postponement during State of Emergency in S. Africa; circulation of intended final draft for comments] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Southern Africa") [cover minute referring to paper by officials "on the countries in the area which have important economic links with... South Africa" ] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to Shevardnadze (UK/Soviet relations) [follow-up to meeting, and acceptance of Gorbachev's invitation to visit USSR] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1500Z) ("Military Purposes Served by Nuclear Testing") (NSPG 0136) [value of testing; need to give the people the facts] [declassified Feb 2006]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Channon minute to MT ("The Rover Group") [latest bids/proposals] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: MT message for Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi (the posting of Drug Liaison Officers to Delhi and Bombay) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [the Public Expenditure Cabinet, the markets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson minute for MT (increases in public expenditure & press comments) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: MacGregor memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 18 (1986 Public Expenditure Survey) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa, Commonwealth Games controversy, Northern Ireland, local government) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Select Committee on Defence: Westland report) [MT on press leaks: “We do nothing. This report is like any other”] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Westland: Cabinet Office minute to Ingham (Select Committee on Defence: Westland inquiry) [promotion of Brittan’s former PPS] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting on Football”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: John MacGregor letter to Lord Hailsham (“Criminal Legal Aid Remuneration”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Peter Mellor letter to MT (labour costs) [“pay is now the key problem of the British economy”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1879 to FCO (2300Z) ("US Response to Soviet Geneva Arms Control") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Call on Chancellor Kohl") [UK Ambassador record of conversation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Treasury Solicitor letter to No.10 ("Osprey Limited and Anor v British Shipbuilders and Others") ["... the risk that one of the parties will try to involve Monckton or a current member of the Policy Unit is reduced if... there is no factual evidence which is not to be found elsewhere in the Plaintiffs' possession"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: MT message to Prime Minister Lubbers (formation of the new Netherlands government) ["Congratulations, and best wishes for your second term"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Attorney General's Legal Secretary minute to MOD ("Lieutenant Sethia - Diary") [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: General Obasanjo letter to MT (Geoffrey Howe's mission to South Africa) ["exercise in futility"; Powell: "a disappointing and frankly unacceptable reply"; MT notes that it was Obasanjo who had suggested to her that she try to persuade Botha to release Mandela] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 note to MT (Lord Whitelaw statement on South Africa) [repudiation of media allegations] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 letter to Channon PS ("South Africa: EC Code of Conduct: White Paper") [No.10 clearance for publication subject to views of colleagues] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [Howe visit to Southern Africa; Ewen Fergusson visit to South Africa/meeting with Pik Botha; public presentation of UK stance; further measures; Commonwealth Review Meeting] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Julian Amery MP memorandum to Howe (Foreign Secretary's visit to South Africa) [proposal for Botha & Buthelezi to agree to work together as a forerunner rather than as a consequence of Mandela's release; memo forwarded by Amery to MT for her personal attention in advance of Howe's trip] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Centre for Policy Studies letter to MT ("The Commonwealth and Economic Sanctions") [background reading material in advance of Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: MT thank you letters (EXPO 86) [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Visit to Vancouver: Travel by British Airways Concorde") [costs, passengers] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("The Rover Group") [latest proposals/bids; next steps] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Rover Group") [latest proposals/bids/status of operating companies: comments, advice, recommendations] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Walker (“Handling of Community Energy Matters During UK Presidency”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute for MT (“Public Expenditure”) [briefing for the Cabinet discussion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay”) [information leaks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment report (“The Implications of the New Data on the Releases from Sellafield in the 1950s for the Conclusions of the Report on the Possible Increased Incidence of Cancer in West Cumbria”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Fowler PS letter to Walker PS (“COMARE Report on Sellafield”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa, Queen’s intervention in Commonwealth Games controversy, profit related pay, unemployment) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Ingham minute to MT (“Westland Report - media handling”) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Legal Secretary to the Attorney General letter to No.10 (“Report of the Select Committee on Defence on Westland”) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, Ridley, David Mitchell, football authorities representatives) [hooliganism, ground safety] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKDEL Washington telegram 1891 to FCO (1830Z) ("US Response to Soviet Geneva Arms Control Proposals") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Chairman of the Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development letter to MT (1986 Annual Review of Government funded R&D) [contribution towards wealth creation; summary key ACARD concerns] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Geoffrey Pattie minute to MT (Government funded R&D) ['Pull through' scheme; R&D Framework Programme; EUREKA] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Moore (Birmingham City Council) ["...abuses of contractual process..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT (Royal Commonwealth Society: invitation to give an address on South Africa) [MT declines] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Kaunda letter to MT (South Africa) ["your rejection of comprehensive sanctions is of great concern to me and my colleagues in this region... I do not believe that Geoffrey Howe's trip to South Africa can achieve anything"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 (Commonwealth: detention without trial) [information requested by No.10: note on Africa; note on India & Sri Lanka] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington record of conversations (2359Z) (Howe, Shultz; Howe, Lugar) [US measures against South Africa; negotiations with South African Government; US investment in/withdrawal from South Africa; Commonwealth meeting; Congresional action; US ban on landing rights] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO telegram to UKE Harare ("South Africa: statement by the Prime Minister") [texts of MT & Howe statements to Parliament on 17th & 16th respectively; Howe visit to South Africa] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Nigel Wicks (EXPO 86) [Cabinet Office will pay for PM's reception] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Hong Kong: Future Position of the Governor") [MT agrees to retention of a British Governor until 1997, on condition that the retention is optional] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Channon, Whitelaw, Ridley, Tebbit, Wakeham, Morrison) ["The Rover Group": actions agreed in regard to latest proposals/bids/status of operating companies] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Letter from Dutch Prime Minister”) [summary of ‘The Unfinished European Integration’ report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Brooke minute to MT (“1987 Community Budget: Budget Council Meeting, 21-22 July”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Hurd letter to Whitelaw (“Roskill”) [Serious Fraud Office] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to No.10 (withdrawal of the Architecture Course at Huddersfield and North East Lonndon Polytechnic) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Ingham minute to Whitelaw (“Handling of the COMARE Report”) [nuclear power health risks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 28th (Royal Wedding, Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Economic Affairs, economic prospects and public spending) [most confidential annex on Turks & Caicos Islands] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John Moore PS letter to No.10 (“BAA privatisation”) [restructuring and chairmanship] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Richard Luce PS letter to No.10 (Civil Service reforms) [speaking note for MT, to raise in Cabinet] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa, alleged change of policy on sanctions, east/west, public spending) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“The Westland Report - media handling”) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1913 to FCO (2350Z) ("Secretary of State's Discussion with Shultz: East/West and Arms Control") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw (Rate Support Grant settlement, rate limitation and capital spending) [statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Argentina") [Caputo's visit to Berlin, sale of German torpedoes to Argentina] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington record of conversation (2346Z) (Howe, Shultz) [arms for Argentina] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("FLS meeting") [messages from Howe to delegations] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("South Africa: Chancellor Kohl's views") [Ambassador Bullard record of conversation with Kohl: "ready to help at any time": MT annotation: "we must take up this offer"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: South African Embassy letter to No.10 (President Botha's letter to the Prime Minister) [cover note only, referring to an enclosed original copy of letter dated 1st July] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington record of conversation (2045Z) (Howe, Reagan, Shultz) [extradition treaty; South Africa: sanctions; Communist penetration of the ANC; Soviet Union/Gorbachev] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Dr. James Barber letter to MT (development programme for black South Africans) [details of proposal "in contrast to the negative approach of punitive sanctions"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker PS letter to No.10 (“Teachers’ pay and duties: England and Wales”) [ACAS talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“COMARE”) [investigation of nuclear power health risks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Ridley minute to MT (“Unified Pollution Inspectorate”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (by-election, secretarial allowances, South Africa, Commonwealth Games) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (South Africa, Commonwealth conference, by-election, MPs’ allowances) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Wicks minute to Ingham (“Westland Reports - media handling”) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Internal situation") [update on the State of Emergency] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT (Foreign Secretary's visit to Washington) [US stance on sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 19 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Efficiency Unit note to Duty Clerk (“Targets report”) [‘The Use of Value for Money Targets 1985-86’] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (the latest Soviet arms control proposals) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn to FCO ("US Response to Soviet Geneva Arms Control Proposals") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Chairman of the British Council (Annual Report) [notes "personal interest in the Council's activities overseas"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Strategy Group minute ("Minutes of the Strategy Group. Fourth Meeting: 21st July 1986") ​​​​​​​[readiness of party organisation ahead of election] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Germany: Helmut Kohl message to MT (release of Rudolf Hess) ​​​​​​​​​​​​​[appeal for grant of pardon] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Edwards PS letter to Whitelaw PS ("Welsh Rate Support Grant settlement 1987-88") [statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Portugal: Armstrong minute to No.10 (Portugese Minister of Agriculture visit to House of Commons) ["found himself sitting next to a well-known Portugese revolutionary leftie" invited by Biggs-Davison] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (Powell, Soviet Ambassador) [Soviet economy, arms control, MT's visit to Washington, possible visit by Gorbachev, Afghanistan] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to General Obasanjo (South Africa) ["surprised that you believe... [Howe's] visit is being seen as an "exercise in futility". I recall... you clearly saw further direct contact as useful... general economic sanctions... would not be effective"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: MT minute to Paul Channon ("Regional Briefing for Ministers") [requests that Channon's Department takes lead in coordinating, as originally proposed by Channon] [released Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister of the Netherlands (Scientific Council for Government Policy’s Report on European integration) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Jopling (“Cereals Set-Aside”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 (“Teachers Pay”) [state of play on dispute] [declassified 2014]

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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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