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PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa, Queen’s position, Westland, economy) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [Royal Wedding, lead up to Recess, South Africa] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Younger letter to Chairman of ACARD (links between defence research and industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Cabinet Office minute to Chief Whip (“Response to Select Committee on Defence Reports on Westland”) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Department of the Environment letter to No.10 (Luton Town’s proposals for Football Cup arrangements) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Chairman of Football Association (crowd behaviour and safety at football grounds) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Mary Whitehouse letter to MT (meeting with Home Secretary: legislation on obscenity) [“never been more disappointed in any meeting with any Minister”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Arms Control Discussion with Mr. Nitze") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO briefing for MT ("Arms Control: Discussion with Ambassador Paul Nitze, 22 July") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Paris to FCO ("US Response to Soviet Geneva Proposals: Nitze Visit") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Treasury record of conversation ("Scottish RSG settlement 1987-88") [MacGregor, Ridley] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 (Scottish Rate Support Grant settlement) [statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Tambo letter to Howe (Secretary of State's visit to South Africa) ["would be honoured to meet you, outside of... [the] context of your current mission"; MT inclined, in light of the stance taken by Tambo/ANC to Howe visit, not to offer an early meeting] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Lucas Mangope message to MT (Address to the Bophuthatswana Parliament) [call on South African Government and ANC to engage in talks] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: John Howard letter to MT (sanctions against South Africa) [Leader of the Opposition in Australian Parliament supports MT's stance] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: Sir Robert Crichton-Brown letter to Treasury (sanctions against South Africa) [analysis from Zimbabwe leaf tobacco company of effects on the Front Line States] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Gorbachev letter to Whitelaw (East/West relations) [plea for constructive relations] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 899 to FCO (1530Z) ("Foreign Minister Genscher's Visit to Moscow: Community Briefing by German Political Director on Talk with Gorbachev and First Session with Shevardnadze") [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Unipart & Leyland Bus") [key issues] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Leyland Bus") [management buy-out] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“1987 Community Budget: Budget Council 22 July 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [teachers’ pay, the markets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to MT (“Future of theTop Salaries Review Body”) [interdepartmental group paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay and duties: England and Wales”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Hurd letter to John Moore (“Air traffic distribution in the London area”) [regional services] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Treasury minute to No.10 (‘Guardian’ report) [comments attributed to Permanent Secretary of the Treasury regarding political neutrality of civil servants] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Richard Luce letter to No.10 (Seventh Report from the Treasury and Civil Service Committee on ‘Civil Servants and Ministers: Duties and Responsibilities’) [Government response: publication of White Paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: Charles Powell minute for Ingham (Graham Turner interview) ["on no account" publish in full before Commowealth Conference: 'Please!'] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa, whodunnit to discover Palace briefer, Commonwealth Games) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Cabinet Office minute to Attorney General (Westland inquiry) [disclosure of the Solicitor General’s letter] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“The Reports of the Select Committee on Defence on Westland”) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tebbit, Biffen, Wakeham) [Select Committee on Defence: Westland report] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson letter to Conservative MPs (current economic situation and prospects) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Walker letter to Richard Luce (privatisation of British Gas: consumer protection) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Department of Employment briefing for MT (meeting with Ralph Howell MP: Workfare/Restart) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Arms Control") [a draft message to President Reagan] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Arms Control: President Reagan's Proposed Response to Mr Gorbachev") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Strategy Group minute ("Minutes of the Strategy Group. First Meeting: 23rd June 1986") ​​​​​​​[manifesto, public relations, preparations for election] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("The Future of Development Plans") [consultation paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO record of conversation (Howe, P.W. Botha) ["A difficult and at times heated discussion... Botha said that he was not clear what the purpose of... [Howe's] mission was, and would not have received him but for his regard for [MT]... [Botha read] from a prepared statement"; sanctions; Mandela; suspension of violence ] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Pik Botha) [sanctions; Mandela; negotiations; "Botha said that he felt betrayed. He was tempted to think that there was a hidden agenda and that some Europeans... [were] actually resigned to seeing a Marxist government installed in South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: USE London to State Department ("Thatcher desire to see the President before any summit with Gorbachev") [Powell says she may propose mid-Nov visit, possibly over a weekend] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) National Health: Malcolm Rifkind minute for Norman Fowler (“AIDS Campaign”) [timing problem for Scotland] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKDEL IMF telegram to FCO (“IMF: Mexico”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Channon PS letter to No.10 (“Minet Holdings plc”) [investigation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 minute to MT (“Roskill”) [Fraud Trials Committee report: Hurd statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute for MT (“Acid Rain - E(A), 24 July”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Edwards minute to MT (“Proposed New Pollution Inspectorate”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Acid Rain”) [correspondence with Lord Marshall] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: MacGregor minute to MT (“Proposed New Pollution Inspectorate”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Royal Wedding, South Africa, Palace row, Commonwealth Games) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Attorney General minute to Cabinet Office (Westland inquiry) [his statement on disclosure of the Solicitor General’s letter] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Wicks minute to Ingham (“Westland - Immediate Response”) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (“Reports of the Select Committee on Defence on Westland”) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Ralph Howell: Workfare”) [unemployment policy and benefits] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Younger minute for MacGregor ("Airborne Early Warning") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (Geneva negotiations: the latest Soviet proposals on arms control) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to President Reagan (Geneva negotiations: President Reagan's response to Soviet proposals) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("NAC Briefing: US Response to Soviet Arms Control Proposals") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Francis Tombs") [1986 Annual Review of Research & Development] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Professer Faulkner letter to No.10 ("Short fat vs long-thin frigates") [letter to the Sunday Times criticising David Giles and the Hill-Norton committee] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Chancellor Kohl letter for MT (Supply of German torpedoes to Argentina) [Powell: "A very helpful response from Chancellor Kohl"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute to MT ("Interview with Graham Turner") [in present form article risks "exposing you to sharp criticism for dealing too vigorously with Southern African problems at a very sensitive moment", but Sunday Telegraph resisting changes; MT - interview "obtained on a FALSE BASIS"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO record of conversation ("Call on the Secretary of State by Mr Sam Motsuenyane, Chairman of National African Federated Chamber of Commerce") [Howe, Moberly, Motsuenyane, Kutumela, Ramakobya: sanctions; ANC/violence against black business community; negotiations] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Confederation of British Industry (CBI) press release ("South Africa") [Charles Powell notes risk of CBI statement on sanctions being read as "British industry opens the door to measures against South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) New Zealand: David Lange message to MT (EC trade) [thanks for support on dairy access debate] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Channon PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Statement on Unipart and Leyland Bus") [sale of 75% shareholding in Unipart to private consortium; management of Leyland Bus] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling letter to Ridley (“Cereals Set-Aside”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: President of the National Farmers’ Union letter to MT (Common Agricultural Policy) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Walker minute to MT (“Proposed New Pollution Inspectorate”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Jopling letter to MT (“Proposed New Pollution Inspectorate”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 29th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Charles Powell letter to MT (thanks for defending her officials in speech) ["characteristically brave and generous of you"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Royal Wedding, South Africa, Palace row, domestic politics, Commonwealth Games) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“ACARD - meeting with Sir Francis Tombs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Ingham minute to Wicks (Westland reports) [briefing notes to media] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Tam Dalyell letter to MT (Westland Select Committee reports: adjournment debate) [calls on MT to appear rather than delegate] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Ingham minute to Wicks (“Westland”) [press briefing on Select Committee reports] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd PS letter to No.10 (“Football hooliganism - statistics for attendances, arrests and ejections in 1984/85 and 1985-86”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Judge King-Hamilton (legislation on obscenity) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Griffiths minute to MT (“Sterling M3”) [Greenwells Monetary Bulletin article on fast sterling M3 growth] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Real Training, Real Skills, Real Jobs - visit to the Construction Industry Training Board”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ralph Howell MP) [unemployment policy and benefits] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chairman of ACARD, Chief Scientific Adviser) [1986 Annual Review of Research & Development] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MacGregor letter to Whitelaw ("Local authority capital controls") ["Clearly we must take action to bring this expenditure under proper control"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 note to MT (statement released by a Council of Anglican Churches in South Africa) [condemns apartheid; opposes sanctions, violent protest and ANC] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Buildings: No.10 briefing for MT ("Richmond Yard") [cover notes & Department of Environment options paper; MT remains firmly opposed to FCO staff moving in to the building] [released Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Trade with Japan") [MT meeting with Ministers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Meeting with Graham Day on Monday") [sale of Unipart and Leyland Bus; Austin Rover; Leyland Trucks - talks with Paccar/DAF] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Jul 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Conservative Political Centre press release (“Save Our Schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Proposed New Pollution Inspectorate”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Treasury internal minute (‘Why are principals leaving the Treasury?’) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland, Defence Select Committee, 1922 Committee, Palace row) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Robin Ibbs minute to MT (“Public Accounts Committee Report on Rayner Scrutinies”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jul 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (US response to Soviet arms control proposals") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO record of conversation ("Record of a discussion between the Secretary of State and Pieter de Lange, Rector of the Rand Afrikaans University and President of the Broederbond") ["growing acceptance of the need for ANC participation at the negotiating table... Afrikaners were ready for new thinking and for innovative leadership... Any peaceful settlement needed to bring in the extremes [of left and right wing]"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 27 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO record of conversation (Secretary of State Meeting with Justices of the Supreme Court) [sanctions; ANC; detainees; legal system; independence for the homelands] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cradock minute for Powell ("Arms Control: President Reagan's Message to Mr Gorbachev") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jul 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1987 to FCO (2300Z) ("Geneva Nuclear and Space Talks: President's Letter to Gorbachev") [declassified 2015]

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