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PDF 86 Aug 24 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Bill Davis memo (conference speech) [“We do not need a new Margaret Thatcher. What we need, I suggest, is a better understanding of the one we’ve got”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Aug 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Prime Minister Nakasone letter to MT (Conference of high-level experts on education) [invitation to all OECD members to nominate attendees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Kabul telegram 187 to FCO (1020Z) ("Kabul SitRep, 19-25 August 1986") [Army and Independence Day celebrations] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Aug 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Edwards letter to Peter Morrison (EC integrated operations: proposals for steel areas) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“European Community: United Kingdom Presidency”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Walker minute for MacGregor (“PES 1986 - Departmental Manpower Ceiling and Running Cost Limit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Home Office letter to No.10 (“Roskill”) [action against fraud] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Ridley letter to Walker (energy saving in public offices) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: UKHC Harare letter to FCO ("Zimbabwe's real policy on sanctions") ['suicide', 'madness' , "just words"; "I am surprised that the British, who taught us hypocrisy, should find our attitude surprising"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Aug 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Commonwealth Heads of Government letter to President Reagan (Nassau 'Accord on South Africa': conclusions of the Commonwealth Review Meeting) [summary & outline of further measures] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Aug 27 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Mark Addison minute to Hurd PS ("Peacock Report: ITV Contracts") [two year extension] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Aug 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO record of conversation ("OVATION: Record of Meeting with the Prime Minister of New Zealand") [?Oleg Gordievsky, Lange] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Aug 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1030 to FCO (1000Z) ("Prime Minister's Reply to Gorbachev's Letter of 10 July") [Marshall, Kovalev: record of conversation] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Aug 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Kabul telegram 188 to FCO (0915Z) ("Kabul: Major Ammunition Depot Explodes") [details] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Aug 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Channon letter to Lord Young (“Removal of Barriers to Business in Europe”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: John Moore letter to Walker (“Energy Efficiency in the Civil Estate”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Peter Brooke letter to Hurd (“Staff Inspection”) [value for money review] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Fowler PS letter to No.10 (“Benefits for the Long Term Unemployed and for Young People”) [international comparison] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKMIS Geneva telegram 63 to FCO (1433Z) ("Conference on Disarmament: Summer Session") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Aug 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: UKMIS Vienna telegram 12 to FCO (1555Z) (International Atomic Energy Authority briefing) [Chernobyl: post-accident review meeting, "serious and well-prepared presentations by the Soviet experts"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Aug 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Chief Scientific Adviser minute for MT ("Sulphur Emissions, Acid Deposition and Fresh Water Ecosystems: Current Scientific Understanding") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Aug 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa internal: state of emergency 10 weeks on") ["relatively successful so far... dilemna of when to lift emergency unlikely to resolve itself... little success in changing black attitudes"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Aug 29 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn saving telegram 11 to FCO ("Federal German Economy") ["renewed US pressure for a reduction of German interest rates"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Aug 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with the Chancellor) [education, foreign currency borrowing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (present legislation on obscenity) [meeting with Mary Whitehouse] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 31 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young letter to John MacGregor (“Cost Effectiveness of Public Expenditure Measures Related to Employment”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 31 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) [law on obscenity] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 31 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: FCO report (“Scrutiny on Output Measurement in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Diplomatic Wing) and at Overseas Posts”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Annual Review of the Government funded R&D") [MT approves publication] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Norway: British Council letter to Mr. Thatcher (visit to Norway) [work of the Council in Norway] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Chester Crocker) ["Shultz... ready to see Tambo"; Congress/Administration: respective positions on further sanctions; coal imports; arms embargo; funds to develop regional transport links in South Africa] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [“Schools - the way ahead”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (TUC, party policies, reshuffle) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Sep 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [MT approves foreign currency borrowing but fears adverse press] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Tom King minute to MT (“Reviews of Non-Departmental Public Bodies”) [the Northern Ireland programme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Paying for Local Government") [Scottish local authorities and the Green Paper] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Lord Shackleton letter for MT (the Antarctic: British role, research & environment) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Johannesburg telegram to FCO ("Chief Buthelezi's speech") [Buthelezi "ideas that the Government should make a distinction between Nelson Mandela... on the one hand, and the ANC... on the other... [and] should release Mandela... but not unban the ANC immediately"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (new visa rules, TUC strike ballots, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Sep 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“HMG Foreign Currency Borrowing”) [briefing for floating rate note issue the following day] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2249 to FCO (2355Z) ("Arms Control: US/Soviet Geneva NST Talks") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Interdepartmental Working Party minute to Jopling (“Alternative Uses of Agricultural Land and Sources of Rural Employment”) [report commissioned by MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“European Community: Postal Charges”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit letter to Lord Young (local recruitment difficulties and benefits for the long-term unemployed) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2263 to FCO (1900Z) ("US/South Africa: sanctions") ["Uncertainty about next US steps persist... A Presidential initiative would still have to go a good way towards the substance and mood of the Senate bill if it were to make for a sustainable veto"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury record of conversation (MacGregor - Attorney General) [public expenditure survey: Crown prosecution service] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury record of conversation (MacGregor - Younger) [public expenditure survey: defence] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Treasury briefing for MT (“Schools - The Way Ahead”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa sanctions, Commonwealth Summit, Tebbit’s position) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Sep 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 minute to MT (“Benefits for the Long Term Unemployed and for Young People”) [MT request for international comparison] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chairman of Ferranti Defence Systems Ltd.) [Ferranti and the European Fighter Aircraft] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Norway: No.10 briefing for MT ("Visit to Norway") [acid rain; East/West issues; trade barriers; South Africa; restraints on oil production] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Ministerial Steering Committee on Economic Strategy, Sub-Committee on Economic Affairs, 4 pm, 10 September - Acid Rain") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("E(LF)") [proposals for rebating system] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to Lord President's Office ("Paying for Local Government") [MT interview on Scottish bill] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 note to MT (requests from South African visitors for meetings with MT) ["[Howe] hopes [they] will change your views. I really don't think you need see them"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("EC Foreign Ministers' informal weekend: South Africa") ["[Howe's] letter (attached) sets out how he proposes we handle the question of restrictive measures... we should go for rapid adoption of the Hague measures at the Foreign Affairs Council on 15/16 September"; key points from Charles Powell, Teltschik conversation on the subject] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation ("EC Foreign Ministers' informal weekend: South Africa") [Charles Powell, Horst Teltschik: "Kohl... not yet ready to endorse formally further restrictive measures... crucial consideration... was close co-ordination with... [US] and Japan"; Howe visit to Washington] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Green Pound”) [exchange between MAFF and the Treasury] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Brian Griffiths minute for MT (“The London Oratory School”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Jopling letter to Walker (energy saving in Government offices) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“BA privatisation”) [“what is at stake is the credibility of the Government’s successful privatisation programme”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Civil Service Numbers”) [latest figures: overall reduction, on course to meet April 1987 manpower target] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa sanctions, Commonwealth Summit failures, Tebbit rift with Downing Street) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Sep 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: John Moore letter to Lord Young (“Removing Barriers to Business in Europe”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Institute of Directors letter to MT (‘black economy’ and confusion about the tax system) [tax amnesty proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Whitelaw letter to Ridley ("The Future of Development Plans") ["...streamlining the... system and... the issue of a consultation document..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Community Charge") [Ridley wants to explore scope for speedier transition] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Prime Minister Charles letter to MT (action agaisnt apartheid) ["my views on apartheid... diametrically opposed to yours... better to have a short and very painful period [of sanctions]... than a long drawn-out... confrontation"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Bernard Ingham minute to Norman Tebbit (meeting Radio 3) [improving radio broadcasting output] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: DTI minute to Treasury ("ATP: Extension to Dhekelia 'B' Power Station in Cyprus") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Sep 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 minute for MT (“AIDS”) [leaflet for every household: MT "My first reaction is against - but await other comments"] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Morrison letter to Biffen (“EEC Directive - airborne noise emitted by household appliances”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2295 to FCO (2300Z) ("Arms Control: Nitze/Karpov NST Talks") [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT letter to President Mitterrand (death of Henry Moore) [thanks for condolence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Channon ("The Future of Development Plans") ["...particularly important to ensure that planning authorities make proper provision for the needs of industry..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Jopling ("The Future of Development Plans") ["...protection of agricultural land..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Norway: UKE Oslo telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit: the Norwegian scene") ["Labour government entering critical phase as austerity budget debate approaches... on defence and foreign policy, Norway's commitment to Western positions is basically sound... the offshore industry is the immediate victim of the low oil price..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Ingham minute for MT ("Acid Rain") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Wybrew minute for MT ("Acid Rain - Emission Controls at CEGB Power Stations") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: RMR Limited minute to Waldegrave ("Environmental Pollution Control") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Social Security and the Community Charge") [arrangements for those on low incomes] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Norgrove note to MT (new charge) [speed of transition to new system] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Hurd minute for Whitelaw (“AIDS - Public Education”) ["We must not put ourselves in the position of having neglected our duty when the duty was clear"] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“European Community: draft budget for 1987”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [interest rates, IMF annual meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury record of conversation (MacGregor - Norman Fowler) [public expenditure survey: health and personal social services] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury record of conversation (MacGregor - Douglas Hurd) [public expenditure survey: Home Office] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute for MT (“Seminar at Chequers”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Daniloff: comment”) [“The Russians may well have miscalculated”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2296 to FCO (1700Z) (“Daniloff”) [Reagan described the detention “as an outrage and as a ‘violation of the standards of civilised international behaviour’”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Nissan plant opens, NUM, Labour economic policies) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Sep 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Michael Alison note for MT (junior ministerial appointments) [list of possible candidates among centre-right backbenchers] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Sep 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT letter to Prime Minister Chirac (bomb attack on the Hotel de Ville, Paris) [expressions of sympathy and solidarity] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Secretary of State for Environment PS minute to Cabinet Office (tackling the problem of acid rain) [draft press notice] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Willie Whitelaw ("E(LF): Community Charge - Framework of Duties and Offences") [civil penalties or criminal sanctions] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Rifkind paper circulated to E(LF) - E(LF) (86) 5 ("Community Charge: Possible Reliefs and Tax Concessions") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 86 Sep 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute ("Extension of ITV Contracts") [contract period for DBS] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Green Pound”) [no support in OD(E) for Jopling’s case] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling letter to Howe (“Green Pound”) [declassified 2014]

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