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PDF 86 Sep 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Tom King PS letter to Douglas Hurd (“Roskill”) [prosecution of serious fraud in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Owen rules out merger with Liberals, Rover shake-up, economy) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Sep 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 minute to MT (“Defence Committee: Westland plc”) [Government response to report] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 952 to FCO (0040Z) ("Cyprus") [Secretary-General has a 'very difficult time with President Kyprianou'] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Sep 28 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: IMF Managing Director letter for MT (thanking for her support) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 28 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKE Washington telegram 2466 to FCO (0800Z) (“IMF Managing Director”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Nicholas letter to Norman Tebbit (BBC World Service) [ITN concern at use of licence fee money] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: ITN Editor letter to Norman Tebbit (World TV service) [see no reason why public money should be called upon] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister's Tours Abroad: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Prime Minister's Visit to the Soviet Union": timing & programme] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute for MT ("Conference on Disarmament in Europe (CDE)") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: No.10 minute to Howe PS (French Diplomatic Advisor visit to London) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("French Ambassador's farewell call on the Prime Minister: 17.30 on 30 September") ["current major concerns are terrorism and [Lebanon]"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Ministry of Defence (Inquiry into hull forms for warships) [offer of impartial assistance from Det Norske Veritas] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Baker paper circulated to E(LF) - E(LF) (86) 7 ("Students and the Community Charge") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley paper circulated to E(LF) - E(LF) (86) 9 ("Introducing the Community Charge") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Chief Secretary PS record of conversation (MacGregor-Ridley) [water, PSA, housing] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: USE London to State Department ("Visit by Prime Minister Thatcher to Washington") [Powell says MT thinking of 14-15 Nov; visit "a la December 1984"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT (“European Community Beef Regime”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Department of Health and Social Security Permanent Secretary letter to No.10 (“Performance Related Pay for Grades 2 and 3”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Richard Luce minute to MT (“Defence Committee: Westland plc”) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Griffiths minute to MT (“Interest Rate Policy: Hysteria and Fundamentals”) [let exchange rate fall and keep intervention to absolute minimum] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Oil Prices - Short-Term Outlook”) [guesses that prices will move up to $20 in 2-3 months] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Middleton, Cassell, Blunden, George; afterwards MT-Lawson phone call) ["The Markets" - MT: "much of the present hysteria in the markets had been whipped up by the media"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Eastside Cable") [Docklands development] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: George Younger message to Andre Giraud (nuclear defence) [bilateral exchanges on politico/military, strategic and technical matters] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: George Younger letter to Andre Giraud (defence issues) [possible cooperation on politico/military and strategic matters, on technical matters] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MacGregor minute for MT ("European Fighter Aircraft") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute for MT ("Arms Control in Europe: The Way Forward") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute for MT ("Falkland Islands Fisheries: Relations with Argentina - OD Meeting at 3:00 pm on Thursday 2 October") [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: USE London to State Department ("British Elections") ["our stake in the outcome of that election cannot be overstated"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Alternative Uses of Agricultural Land and Sources of Rural Employment”) [MT rejects funding bid: “there isn’t any more money”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling minute to Lord Young (“Removal of barriers to business in Europe”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MacGregor minute for MT (“1986 Public Expenditure Survey”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute for MT (“Public Expenditure”) [briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 (“Teachers’ pay: the Main report”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet Relations: Gorbachev’s approach march to a summit”) [“the indications are that he sees the potential gains as outweighing the risks”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet pre-summit”) [advice to Reagan] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Gorbachev message to MT (proposed US-USSR summit) [“the whole process of Soviet-American dialogue was in need of a serious impulse”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Reagan message to MT (US-USSR to hold summit in Reykjavik) [“symbolically important that Mr. Gorbachve suggested holding the meeting on the soil of a member of the NATO alliance”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: MT message to Reagan (US-USSR summit in Reykjavik) [“I see this as a very positive step”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Shultz message to Howe (announcement of US-USSR summit in Reykjavik) [“we believe that progress in U.S.-Soviet relations is possible, and we remain committed to achieving it”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2487 to FCO (2242Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [US, Soviet aims for Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour party divisions, row over cancellation of Falklands play) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Jerry Wiggin MP letter to MT (the future of Westland helicopters) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting of Ministers: Obscenity Legislation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Economic Secretary, Middleton, Deputy Governor, Eddie George) ["The Markets" - intervention to continue but at "absolute minumum"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn to FCO ("Short-Range INF") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Social Security and the Community Charge") [flat rate addition would have worse effect on work incentives] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office to MT ("Introducing the Community Charge E(LF) (86) 9") [transitional arrangements, rate rebates] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: David Norgrove note to Lord Bruce-Gardyne (MT's Guildhall speech) [possible topics] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("1987/8 Rates") [expectation of local authority spending] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Stewart-Middleton-Cassell-Blunden-George) [Bundesbank swap; Bank of England intervention; base rates] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Powell minute to MT ("Falkland Islands Fisheries") [the Argentine/Soviet agreement] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Robert Armstrong ("Star Chamber") [proposed membership] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure As a Proportion of GDP") [our record is not good] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Cabinet: Public Expenditure") [sticking to policy of strict spending control] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: John Kerr note (asks White House to explore 14/15 Nov visit) ["main purpose to discuss US-Soviet summit"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Sommer memo for Poindexter ("Mrs Thatcher's Request to Meet with the President") [suggests a small Friday meeting in Washington; do not break President's weekend] [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Sommer memo for Poindexter ("Mrs Thatcher's Request to Meet with the President") [acknowledges President "wants to do the event at Camp David"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations: prepatory summit”) [“External and internal developments since the Geneva summit have increased the risks inherent in a visit by Gorbachev to the USA”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2439 to FCO (2200Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [“Initial press verdict on latest developments reasonably positive, with spotlight shifting from Daniloff to Reykjavik”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Bill Davis memo (conference material) [“Don’t, please go into too much detail”] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour party conference, Reagan-Gorbachev summit) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: MT letter to David Stevens (Dartford Bridge) [private sector financing] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1159 to FCO (1430Z) ("Controversy Over Gorbachev's Internal Policies") [Pravda editorial: "signs... [of] anxieties that Gorbachev's campaign for "glasnost" and democratisation might risk underminining the Party's authority"] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Rifkind letter to John MacGregor (“Cost Effectiveness of Public Expenditure Measures Related to Employment”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Douglas Hurd minute to Willie Whitelaw ("E(LF): Community Charge: Framework of Duties and Offences") [enhanced penalties] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 draft for MT ("Speaking note on interest rates") [for ?Cabinet - danger of large increase in rates] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe minute to Channon ("Voluntary ban on new investment") ["We are bound, as Presidency, to allow our [EC] partners time to try to reach a common position... I would [however]... wish us to announce our measures in the next few days"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-MacGregor-Griffiths) [right to put a large share of blame on local authority mismanagement] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Rifkind minute to MT (“Alternative Uses of Agricultural Land and Sources of Rural Employment”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Douglas Hurd letter for Whitelaw (anonymity of rape victims from the time of complaint) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT (“City Technology Colleges”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to Ridley (“Education of No Area Pupils - funding arrangements”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“City Technology Colleges”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Committee of Inquiry for Scotland report (“Main Report on Teachers’ Pay and Conditions of Service”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 32nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Ingham minute for MT ("Your speech: further ideas") [seven points to bring out] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: David Hart draft (“The conference speech”) [“We know that if Britons are free to choose and exercise their responsibilities they will begin again to feel that good, old-fashioned feeling - pride in themselves and their country”] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour party conference, BBC chairman, industry, east-west summit) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Chairman of Westland plc letter to MT (future of Westland) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Biffen, Wakeham, Armstrong) [Defence Committee: Westland plc: Government’s response] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Defence Committee: Westland plc”) [Government’s draft response] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1500Z) ("South Asia and the Weinberger Visit") (NSC 0138) [relations with India & Pakistan] [declassified Oct 2010]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Nicholas Ridley letter to Kenneth Clarke (“Measures to Alleviate the Effects of Major Redundancies”) [proposed advisory group] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (Reykjavik summit) ​​​​​​​[hopeful for results on arms control] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("The Markets") [Bundesbank swap agreement] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Exchange Market Intervention") [changes in the reserves since 1979] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Markets") [Walters believes monetary conditions are not bad; thinks interest rates "horrendously high", fiscal policy "too loose"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2519 to FCO (0015Z) ("US/South Africa") ["Senate overrides President's veto. Santions bill now US law"; details] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT (“Education of No Area pupil - funding arrangements”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Education Bill: Sex Education at School”) [‘Clause 26’] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“US/Soviet meeting in Reykjavik: message to President Reagan”) [“I think the President’s eyes may glaze a bit”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: MT message to Gorbachev (proposed US-USSR summit) [“it should be possible to reach agreements … on reductions in arms”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Paris telegram 981 to FCO (1541Z) (“Reykjavik summit: French reactions”) [“The government continues to be nervous of US concessions on INF”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“US-Soviet Meeting in Reykjavik: Message to President Reagan”) [“The INF field contains at present the best prospect for an agreement (though not at Reykjavik)”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“US/Soviet Reykjavik meeting”) [agree to proposed use by Reagan of UK Ambassador’s residence in Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2520 to FCO (0018Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [“US view that the meeting should give impetus to work in hand, but should not itself involve negotiation on texts”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour party conference, US sanctions against South Africa, BBC chairman, economy, industry) [released 2017]

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