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PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“The Selbourne Affair”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT (“Education without LEAs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Academic Tenure”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 34th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 35th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, teachers’ dipsute) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 36th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Public Expenditure Survey 1986) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1243 to FCO (0745Z) (“Expulsion of US diplomats from the Soviet Union and measures to restrict US Embassy activities”) [five declared persona non grata, all locally employed staff to be withdrawn] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1245 to FCO (1200Z) (“US/Soviet relations: television address by Gorbachev”) [Gorbachev “insisted that his package of arms control proposals remain on the table”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Tory support up, NUT strike, local government, BBC libel case) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“The Scrutiny Programme”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: State Department instructions to Paris Embassy (conventional arms control) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("BBC") [proposal to transfer control of BBC] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit: 21 November") [fitting in Chirac; date, timings] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 900 to FCO (1535Z) ("Kohl's Visit to Washington") [Kohl took a firm line on nuclear disarmament] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Julian Amery MP letter for MT (lunch for Prime Minister Sadik el Mahdi) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO telegram 1843 to UKE Washington (1605Z) (Geneva negotiations) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2710 to FCO (0200Z) ("Geneva NST: Developments since Reykjavik") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2715 to FCO (2100Z) ("Geneva NST") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Brian Griffiths minute ("Strategy Group. Bias at the BBC") ​​​​​​​["Is it advantageous for the Chairman to launch a major attack?"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Nicaragua") [UN resolution on Inernational Court of Justice verdict regarding US arms sales to Iran: "The Foreign Secretary is reluctant to accept your view"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("E(LF): Community Charge - Appeals") [role of the courts] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Powell minute to MT ("Options for Dealing with Incursions into the FICZ by Argentine Commercial Vessels and Naval Auxilaries") ["not very satisfactory"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to Powell ("Falkland Islands Fisheries") [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: Star Chamber") [latest in the negotiations] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“European Regional Development Fund”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT (“Education without LEAs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Teachers Duties and Conditions of Service”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MacGregor letter to Rifkind (“Teachers’ pay”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind letter to MacGregor (“Teachers’ pay”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (racism case, social security, latest polls, BBC) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Ministry of Defence briefing to No.10 (Westland debate) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Robin Ibbs, Kate Jenkins) [Efficiency Unit central scrutiny programme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 25 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: President Duarte message to MT (earthquake) [request for aid] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 25 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Washington telegram 2724 to FCO (1645Z) ("Chancellor Kohl's Visit to the US") [Reykjavik and arms control main issues, also discussed South Africa and Middle East] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 25 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Julian Amery MP letter to Howe (Amery-Denktash conversation in Cyprus) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 25 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Michael Alison minute to MT (“Mark’s wedding”) [“the media event of 1987”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 26 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Ministerial Group on Broadcasting Services: 30 October 1986") [indexing licence fee, independent producers, radio policy] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 26 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Bush to MT (arrangements to meet) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Waddington PS minute to Hurd PS ("Peacock Report: Initial Parliamentary Handling") [debate timetable] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Geoffrey Howe (World TV service) [ITN should be allowed to tender] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Bob Hawke message to MT (America's Cup) [competition off Western Australia] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Strategy Group minute ("Minutes of the Strategy Group. Sixth Meeting: Monday 27th October 1986") ​​​​​​​[Queen's Speech and Autumn Statement] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, Lord Young, Waldegrave, Howard, Hartley Booth, Sir John Sainsbury & colleagues) ["Planning: the Sainsbury Group"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Malcolm Rifkind (rebate scheme) [possibility of fixing a ceiling on the level of charge for which rebates should be available] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to Cabinet Office ("Falklands Fisheries: Enforcement Implications") [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to Nigel Wicks ("Public Expenditure") [concerned about issue of electricity prices] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Mark Addison ("Infrastructure Spending") [sector by sector figures] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Sommer memo for Poindexter ("Your Meeting with Ambassador Acland: Ocobert 28, 3:00 pm") [Acland conveying MT's view of Reykjavik; telegram of his 23 Oct conversation with Shultz] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Ingham minute for Willetts (“AIDS”) ["certainly a feeling abroad that the Government is doing too little … that the Prime Minister is acting as a break on educational publicity"] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Willetts minute for Bearpark (“AIDS”) ["probably the most important public health issue this century"; measures to remove perception of failure to respond] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Luxembourg telegram to FCO (“Foreign Affairs Council: financing of the Community - increase in own resources”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT (“Future of the Polytechnics”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Ridley) [education without LEAs] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker PS briefing for MT (“Education without LEAs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Jeffrey Archer resignation, Labour party divisions, tax cuts, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Peter Warry minute to MT ("Peacock Report: Initial Parliamentary Handling") [independent producers, privatising radio] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: MT message to Bob Hawke (social security protocol) [indexation of pension payments] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Anglo-French Summit") [Chirac proposes "working supper", MT agrees; arrangements & timings] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Washington telegram 2742 to FCO (2330Z) ("Afghanistan: Soviet Withdrawals") ["Administration conclude... largely a sham, and plan to go public with the evidence shortly"; details] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT (Soviet military space flight failure) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2734 to FCO (2200Z) ("Reykjavik Aftermath") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Japanese financial consultation, 27 October") [trade relations & investment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Department of the Environment letter to Cabinet Office ("Leak investigation: local government finance") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc (Scotland) Bill: Caravans, Huts and Chalets") [treatment as second homes] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Edwards minute to Norman Fowler ("Social Security and the Community Charge") [rebating system for Scotland] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Hailsham minute to Willie Whitelaw ("E(LF): Community Charge - Framework of Duties and Penalties") [resource implications of appeals system] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Stredder to MT ("Community Charge: Enforcement of Registration") [head of household to provide information to registration officer] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2739 to FCO (2315Z) ("FRG/South Africa") [Michael Jenkins, Chester Crocker record of conversation: "wished to float two ideas... possibility of instituting regular UK/US/FRG trilateral discussions... [and] a public declaration of principles"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“Lamb imports: message from Mister Gummer”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Teachers’ pay and conditions of service: MISC 122 (86) 15th meeting”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Ridley PS letter to No.10 (“MISC 122”) [effect of teachers’ pay award on local government rate increases] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MacGregor minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay: staging of settlement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT (“School teachers’ pay and conditions - legislation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2734 to FCO (2200Z) (“Reykjavik aftermath”) [Acland discussion with Reagan: “The President said that he understood British and European concerns about the imbalance in non-nuclear forces”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (EC and UK differences on Syria, Jeffrey Archer, teachers’ pay) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Biffen PS letter to Cabinet Office (Lord Privy Seal’s draft speech for the Westland debate) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Younger PS letter to No.10 (Westlands debate) [draft opening speech] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Shultz telegram to Reagan (LRINF zero zero option accepted by MT) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nicholas Edwards minute to Douglas Hurd ("Green Paper on Radio Policy") [impact of proposals on Welsh radio] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet National Day Reception") [Ministerial representation] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Young Enterprise”) [“David Young described it as the most impressive event he had seen since he entered politics”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2754 to FCO (2300Z) ("Geneva NST") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Nicholas Ridley minute for MT ("Acid Rain: Draft EC Directive on Large Combustion Plants") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Williamson minute for Powell ("Large Combustion Plants: Possible Discussion in E(A)") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKMIS New York telegram 1150 to FCO (0225Z) ("Security Council: ICJ/Nicaragua") [report on outcome of UN resolution vote: "A three-way split between the five western members of the Council is always a bad result"; No.10 unhappy with comments] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc (Scotland) Bill: Collective Community Charge") [treatment of mobile persons] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Norman Fowler ("'Paying for Local Government': Suggested Exemptions from the Community Charge for Residents of 'Homes' and Hostels") [keep residents liable] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Zambia/Zimbabwe: overflights") ["intention to break air links with South Africa... likely to increase the pressure to ban overflights of these countries by British Airways"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Cabinet 30 October: Public Expenditure") [timing of discussions] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Star Chamber: Latest Position") [near settlement on all programmes except Scotland] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to Nigel Wicks ("Public Expenditure") [possible Star Chamber meeting] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Meeting between Vice President Andriessen and Sir Michael Franklin”) [objectives and tactics on beef and milk] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Attorney General letter for Douglas Hurd (protection of rape victims) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [public spending: Scottish expenditure, health and national insurance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Tactics on teachers”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Teachers’ pay, duties and conditions of service (C (86) 21)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 21 (School Teachers’ Pay, Duties and Conditions of Service) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (murder trial, Syria, housing, teachers’ pay) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Conservative Central Office analysis (BBC news coverage of US Libya raid) [coverage "far from being balanced, fair and impartial"] [declassified Dec 2016]

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