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PDF 84 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 letter to FCO ("Forged Recording of a Telephone Conversation Between the Prime Minister and President Reagan") [MT may wish to refer to tape in Panorama interview; seeks information on source of recording] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to NIO (“Northern Ireland: Haagerup Report”) [Barry “said it offered new hope to the people of both traditions”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO telegram to UKE Dublin (“Border Road Closures”) [Prior to Barry: “Our security forces have … been making a thorough survey of crossing points”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Nick Ridley PS letter to Cabinet Office (“OD: Its sub committees and official committees”) [areas of discussion for Transport Secretary] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong PS minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit: Meeting with Mr Trudeau”) [advantages of meeting Trudeau during the Summit, as requested; suggestion of possible dates] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO to No.10 (“Iran-Iraq: Chemical Weapons”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: press coverage”) [Jardine Matheson company quitting Hong Kong] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: visit by EXCO unofficials to London”) [“have now reached a critical point”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Nationality”) [“[EXCO] see a satisfactory resolution of this issue as crucial”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT (“London Regional Transport”) [GLC-appointed Chief Exec to be retained] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 31 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 31 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKE San Jose telegram to FCO ("Nicaragua: mining of ships") ["The toll is now four merchant vessels damaged in last month plus two Nicaraguan fishing boats... Nicaraguan MoD... saying mines are US manufactured"] [declassified Nov 2016]
Text 84 Apr 1 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Prime Minister Muldoon of New Zealand telegram to MT (CAP impact on New Zealand) [Council’s proposal not acceptable, projected loss of revenue] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 ("Argentina/Falklands") [Heseltine supports Howe's proposals for a revised approach to talks with Argentina] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Young, Tom King, Alan Walters, Alan Peacock, Douglas Hague, Patrick Minford, Quinlan, Redwood) ["Unemployment"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Robert Muldoon message to MT (EU agriculture ministers' meeting) [proposals on dairy not acceptable] [declassified Dec 2016]
Text 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("40th Anniversary of D-Day") [French aware that wartime allies who are now members of Warsaw Pact could try to exploit celebrations] [released Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 ("Falklands: Allegations of Landings by Destefanis") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Treasury minute to FCO ("Argentina/Falklands") [Lawson agrees with the new approach to talks with Argentina] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Geoffrey Howe minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Survey") [how proposals affect foreign policy objectives] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lord Gowrie minute to Peter Rees ("Public Expenditure Survey") [aim of reducing cost of administering programmes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("Capital Allowances: transitional arrangements for certain regional projects") ["[EC] Commission's challenge... it is disappointing that this problem has arisen but I agree with your proposed approach although I would like to suggest a slightly different presentation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to Rees PS ("Proposed Review of the BBC External Services") [public presentation, terms of reference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Professor Alan Peacock letter to MT (employment) [follow-up to Chequers seminar; paper on reducing working week hours to improve employment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("British Leyland 1984 Corporate Plan: Leyland Trucks: E(A)(84)19)") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Privatisation of Jaguar - E(A) on 4 April") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Leyland Trucks - E(A) on 4 April") [privatisation of Leyland Trucks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("Mr. Fowler's Statement on Social Security Reviews") [summary of Statement to Parliament & its reception] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 minute to Keith Joseph PS (meeting on scientific research) [advances & research: date; attendees] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("ES at 12.00 on Tuesday 3 April: Trade Policy") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Surface-to-Surface Guided Weapons for the Royal Navy") [proposal that contract should go to US firm in preference to BAe] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen letter to Whitelaw ("Parliamentary Pension Scheme") [proposed Government concessions to MPs' demands for amendments to the Bill] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 6th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Coles minute for MT (“Koenigswinter Conference”) [MT’s message] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Heseltine, Weinberger) [INF basing, cruise missiles, Iraq/Iran, common MBFR position] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong) [“Chief Executive, Property Services Agency”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“Argentina”) [rescue package] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Hong Kong: visit of EXCO Unofficials”) [“deeply dissatisfied”; talks “crucial”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: Agenda Item 2”) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Hong Kong: public statement on the future”) [Howe visit to Hong Kong & China] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“OD(K) future of Hong Kong: agenda item two”) [Howe visit to Hong Kong & China] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“OD(K) future of Hong Kong: meetings with Unofficial Members of the Executive Council”) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Bermuda: MT letter to Premier John Swan of Bermuda(refuses request to attend Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [“Earlier requests for attendance from territories which have not achieved full independence have been turned down”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Biffen letter to Jenkin ("Misc 95: Education in London") [new Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with Chancellor”) [European Commission Presidency; public expenditure priorities; Wytch Farm; recent exchange rate movements, unitary tax] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO (President Alfonsin's speech at Lujan to commemorate 2 April) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: George Younger minute to Peter Rees ("Scottish Block") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("AT&T") ["Closer relationships... [with] AT&T... likely to give our companies a better chance of succeeding in an increasingly competitive world market place"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to MT ("Study Group of Incentives for Membership of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)") [final report, proposing a "technical assistance fund"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Rees letter to Heseltine ("Statement on the Defence Estimates 1984") [draft White Paper: "a very positive document. We have an admirable story to tell on defence"; further comments on specific points] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT ("Environmental Pollution") [main issues; general policy & presentation; timing of major presentational initiatives; specific issues; next steps; handling] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson, Howe, Ian Stewart, Michael Butler, Brian Unwin, David Williamson, Geoffrey Fitchew, David Hannay) [EC future financing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: President of the Confédération Fiscale Européene telegram to MT (future of the EC) [message to prime ministers of EC member states in support of the ideal of the EC] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("The European Community's Budget: the reformed financing system") [review of objectives & their presentation at the European Council; UK refund & negotiating aims] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Efficiency Unit letter to DHSS ("Handbook of Good Practice: Service to the Public") [Handbook commended & brought to attention of MT] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Abolition of Control Over Port Development) [reasons not to delay announcement despite MT fears of dock strike] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Port of London Authority: Pay for Registered Dock Workers") [status of negotiations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mauritius: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Official Visit of Prime Minister of Mauritius") [confirmation of date] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Privatisation of Jaguar (E(A)(84) 18)") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 letter to Department of Trade & Industry (MT meeting with Director-General of the CBI) [Sir Terence Beckett seeks MT's attendance at CBI Conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Portugal: UKE Lisbon telegram 115 to FCO (0915Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit") ["ICL's interest in a tender for computers"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: UKE Athens telegram 179 to FCO (1630Z) ("Attack on Member of Joint United States Military Assistance Group (JUSMAG)") [assassination attempt on a Sergeant] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Teachers' Pay) [latest positions on negotiations in Scotland and in England & Wales] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: MT letter to Willy Brandt and Shridath Ramphal (International Development Association funding negotiations) [Independent Commission on International Development Issues: the Brandt Commission] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: MT letter to President Nimeiri of DR Sudan (UK contributions to the International Development Association) [IDA 7: funding negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Alison note for MT (invitation to Sunday lunch) [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Sherbourne letter to Alfred Sherman (his role) [“how to describe for public consumption your association with the Prime Minister”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Sherbourne note on Alfred Sherman (visit to Argentina on behalf of Daily Telegraph ) [MT annotated: “He must make it clear that he does NOT represent me in any way”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC 101(84)7th Meeting") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: John Hamilton letter to MT (Liverpool council budget) [“Liverpool’s plight does not derive and never has derived from circumstances in Liverpool alone”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Lawson PS minute to John Coles (“Economic Summit: Australian Participation”) [too expensive to send emissary to Australia; OECD Summit would be a good opportunity to discuss matters with Australian counterparts] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Michael Jopling letter to MT (“Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers - review of policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Howe to MT (“Iran-Iraq”) [UK contingency planning arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Abolition of Greater London Council and Metropolitan County Councils”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Nicaragua: Leader Ortega of Nicaragua telex to MT (UN Security Council) [request to support resolution of “condemnation of the escalation [of] aggression against our people and territory”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: President Ortega letter to MT ("Nicaraguan Ports") ["We trust... that your government will support the draft resolution submitted by Nicaragua at the Security Council"; vote has already taken place, with UK abstaining, by time letter reaches No.10] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Denzil Davies (sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite") [case against awarding a monopoly; MT requests meeting of key Ministers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Defence Estimates 1984") [comments on Heseltine White Paper; "show's Michael's determination to come to grips with the management problems"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Statement on the Defence Estimates 1984") [background to Heseltine draft White Paper; handling; conclusion] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Sale of the Government's Residual Shareholding in Associated British Ports Holdings") [announcement; details of sale arrangement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson, Howe, Ian Stewart, Michael Butler, Brian Unwin, Crispin Tickell, Geoffrey Fitchew, David Williamson, David Hannay) [EC future financing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Whitelaw, Wakeham, Brian Unwin, David Hannay, David Williamson) ["Reform of Community's Financing"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [negotiations on reform of EC finance system/UK refund; Lawson report on Finance Council of 2 April; Jopling report on Agriculture Council; Foreign Affairs Council; joint European TORUS project] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Community Budget: Estimates of United Kingdom Net Contributions and Refunds") [statistics & analysis] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Whitelaw letter to Hailsham ("Legislative Programme 1985/86") [invitation to bid for two available spaces for Bills; Petroleum Bill] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: Prime Minister Gandhi letter to MT (Sri Lanka) ["The escalating situation... calls for immediate action and it would be good if you could use your great influence"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Surface-to-Surface Guided Weapons for the Royal Navy") [support for Heseltine proposal that contract should go to US firm in preference to BAe] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Alan Walters minute to Andrew Turnbull ("DLT Clause 117") [concern that Finance Bill clause could impair security of existing mortgages] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: National Economic Development Council record of conversation (Lawson, Tebbit, Tom King, Keith Joseph, Waldegrave, Buchanan-Smith, Donald Barron, Terence Beckett, Walter Marshall, JS Cassels, George Jefferson, Campbell Fraser, JJR Pope, JS McFarlane, RE Waterhouse & others) [economic strategy & the 1984 Budget; UK labour market; review of the sector assessments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Jopling letter to Alison (defending CAP agreement) [“Overall the package is not unfair to Britain compared with other States”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: MT letter to Lord Hunt of Tamworth (thanks for words of support) [Oman/Cementation case] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 7th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit”) [invitations to heads of government: responses received and awaited] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Alan Walters draft (material from "Britain's Economic Renaissance") [clearance sought for publication] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Abolition of the Greater London Council and Metropolitan County Councils: MISC 95 report”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT letter to US Ambassador Charles Price (opening of Cabinet War Rooms) [thanks for “the charming gift of a Churchill tankard”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Prime Minister Schulter of Denmark letter to MT (Denmark nominates Henning Christophersen for Commission President) [“wish to preserve the Commission as a politically important institution”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) France: MT telegram to President Mitterrand of France (visit to UK) [possible meeting] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT note to Barbara Bush (thanks) [“delightful” book and poster] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Tam Dalyell letter to MT (sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Jenkin, Tom King, Tebbit, Walker, Younger, Ridley, Jopling, Rees, Waldegrave) ["Environmental Pollution"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Environmental Pollution") [follow-up to "MT's two questions at this morning's meeting which I was unable to answer fully"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister Schlüter letter to MT (President of the European Commission) [Denmark's candidate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Whitelaw, Wakeham, Robert Armstrong, David Hannay, David Williams, Geoffrey Fitchew) ["Reform of the Community's Financing"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Reform of the Community's Financing") ["attached telegrams from our Permanent Representatives in Brussels are very relevant to the meeting"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Scrutinies and Value for Money") [progress report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Governor of the Bank of England, Middleton) [PSBR; funding policy; publication of money supply figures; timing of the next year's Budget; Walters departing] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Alan Walters minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Unemployment") [proposal to address long-term adult unemployment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: David Barclay minute to MT ("H Committee") [fluoridation; NHS recruitement advertising; parental influence over schools; education support grants] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Report of the Review Body for Nursing Staff, Midwives, Health Visitors and Professions Allied to Medicine") ["two reports... the recommendations are troublesome in each case"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: David Barclay minute to MT ("H committee") [fluoridation; NHS recruitment advertising; parental influence over schools; education support grants] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Conservative Research Department briefing ("The Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill - Second Reading - Wednesday, 14th April 1984") [abolition of GLC & MCCs; future of ILEA] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen PS letter to Whitelaw PS (Oral Statements in the House of Commons) [reminded of need to adhere to procedure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Conservative Research Department briefing ("Telecommunications Bill") ["Consideration of Lords Amendments Monday 9th April 1984"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKMIS New York telegram 250 to FCO (2240Z) ("Mrs Kirkpatrick's Visit") [Falklands statement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Civil Service Pay Negotiations 1984") [options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Heseltine ("1984 Pay Negotiations for Non-Industrial Civil Servants") [follow-up to preliminary assessment of factors bearing on the negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: David Barclay minute to MT ("H Committee") [fluoridation; NHS recruitment advertising; parental influence over schools; Education support grants] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Parliamentary Pension Scheme) [MT opposed to proposal to stage 9% increase in contributions, given the generosity of the increase in benefits] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Turnbull letter to Normington (“Balance of power within Trade Unions”) [MT requesting paper on subject] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Religion: MT letter to Archbishop of York (Prayer Book Protection Bill) [shall “make clear the strength of the Government's opposition”; “importance of the Church of England doing all it can”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 14th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Abolition of the GLC) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Home Office letter to No.10 ("Forged Recording of a Conversation Between the Prime Minister and President Reagan") [Brittan advises against making reference to tape recording: "though it is a blatant forgery, some would insist on believing otherwise"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [report by the Bank of England] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: Heseltine minute to MT (Arms supply request from Syrian Minister of Defence) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: visit by Governor and Unofficials to London”) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS briefing to No.10 (“Hong Kong: Prime Minister’s meeting with EXCO Unofficials: 6 April 1984”) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Coles briefing for MT (the UK reply to Argentina regarding bilateral talks over the Falklands) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Belgrano: Eleven Questions by Mr Tam Dalyell MP") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Berne ("Relations with Argentina") [next steps towards the normalisation of bilateral relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Berne ("Relations with Argentina") [sovereignty and agenda] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Berne ("Relations with Argentina") [normalisation of bilateral relations: UK response to Argentina] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Heseltine minute for MT ("Falkland Islands: Further Capital Costs") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("1984 Public Expenditure Survey Guidelines") [setting the baseline] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [ministers' views on guidelines] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Airports policy Movements at Heathrow - and Privatisation") [analysis of Ridley proposals in consultation paper for E(DL) committee ] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Walker) ["Wytch Farm": difficulties regarding sale] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Bilateral meeting between the Prime Minister and President Mitterrand") [record of conversations between Howe, Cheysson & No.10, Morel on line to take with media] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("British Policy in Antarctica: Minerals") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: John Coles letter to Ambassador Beatriz (new constitution) [welcomes approval by Constituent Assembly and announcement of elections] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: Ambassador Beatriz message to MT (new constitution) [welcomes approval by Constituent Assembly and announcement of elections] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Andrew Turnbull briefing for MT ("Employment/Unemployment") [for MT 'Panorama' interview] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Manpower Services Commission letter to Alan Walters (young people in the labour market) ["the background information you requested"; Director of MSC response to 'Guardian' article] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Warren Cooper message to Geoffrey Howe (New Zealand butter) [Irish position, compromise arrangement] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Department of Trade & Industry briefing for MT ("Meeting Between the Prime Minister and Sir Terence Beckett on 11 April 1984") [CBI Conference; economic issues; electricity prices; Coal Strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to MT ("British Shipbuilders: job losses at Cammell Laird) [imminent announcement; implications for Merseyside of rejecting Cammell Laird bid for Type 22 frigates order] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Portugal: 17-19 April") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Mrs Jeane Kirkpatrick") [views on the Falklands war; Nicaragua debate in UN Security Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Mrs Jeane Kirkpatrick") [interview with Sunday Times; US internal political scene; UN; Central America; Lebanon and Arab/Israel; Iran/Iraq; USSR; NATO; Falklands; personality note] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Pay (England and Wales) 1984") [report on Burnham Primary and Secondary Committee negotiations; line to take for Burnham Further Education Committee meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: John Redwood minute for MT (Stock Exchange consultative document on its future) [“many dangers in accepting Gower”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy report ("CEGB Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC 101(84)8th Meeting") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Coal Industry Dispute: Presentation for Panorama") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute for Armstrong (“Anglo-German Summit: 2 May 1984”) [Anglo/German relations, German internal situation, EC affairs, transatlantic and East/West relations, defence, arms control] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Norman Fowler minute for Tebbit (“Competition Policy: DHSS Response to DTI Initiative”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO letter to No.10 ("Forged Recording of PM-Reagan Telephone Conversation") [origin of recording unclear: CIA considers KGB unlikely; press attribute tape to punk band CRASS] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to John Coles (“Economic Summit: Australian Participation”) [“Hawke clearly remains frustrated at being denied access to Summits”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister letter to MT (“EC-Hungary”) [Hungary-EC trade cooperation, foreign investment and credits for Hungary] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: dinner with Zhou Nan: 5 April”) [“not an encouraging conversation”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Michael Havers, Luce, Acland, Cradock, Youde, S.Y. Chung) [“Meeting with the Unofficial Members of EXCO”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong: Agreement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe telegram to Hong Kong Government (“Future of Hong Kong: visit to London by EXCO Unofficials”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS briefing for MT (“Hong Kong: Prime Minister’s meeting with EXCO Unofficials, 6 April 1984”) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lawson letter to Ridley (“London Regional Transport”) [retention of GLC-appointed Chief Exec] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (malpractices in local government in England) [Labour “using local government… to attack… national government”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 7 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKE Washington telegram 1146 to FCO (0156Z) ("Nicaraguan Ports") ["French offer on mine-sweeping... the [US] Administration are infuriated"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Apr 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Berne telegram to FCO ("Relations with Argentina") [Caputo's reactions to the British Government's communication] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 8 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT telegram to Prime Minister Muldoon of New Zealand (CAP obligations, impact on New Zealand) [milk regime] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: MT message to Robert Muldoon (EU agriculture ministers' meeting) [will have UK's support in seeking a five-year arrangement] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Apr 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (1800Z) (MT, Jeane Kirkpatrick) [chemical weapons; Soviet concerns about risk of surprise US nuclear attack; the Gulf; Soviet penetration of Iran/Nicaragua; Lebanon; MT visit to Hungary; Eastern European support for USSR in event of war; US election campaign] [declassified Jan 2014]
Text 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: John Houston note for Geoffrey Howe (“Manifesto of European Socialists”) [“Labour have supported it with several specified reservations”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Germany: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl of FRG (Rudolf Hess) [“not a matter which the three Western allies can decide without the agreement of the Soviet Union”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure Survey") [MT thinks 1986/7 provision should be uplifted] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Turnbull ("Wytch Farm") ["The Government's objective is to obtain the best price for the [British Gas] disposal... There is no need to reopen the bidding to others... We do not consider the Government can be accused of bad faith in its dealings with the Dorset Group. Failure to complete a deal is a normal commercial risk... The Budget has significantly changed the value of Wytch Farm"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Walker) ["Wytch Farm": "difficulties which have arisen over the sale"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Howe ("Next President of the European Commission") [French/West German candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (Secretary of State for Northern Ireland: alleged remarks concerning European Budget) ["Attached is the press release for what seems to be the relevant occasion"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe record of conversation (Foreign Affairs Council, Luxembourg, 9-10 April: EC budget imbalances) ["completely unproductive"; summary of proceedings; outline of objectives going forward] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("Employment") [Special Employment Measures; YTS occupancy around the UK regions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Department of Employment briefing for MT (YTS, youth employment & relative pay) ["two briefing notes... for Panorama this evening"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 minute to Fowler PS ("Review Body for Nursing Staff, Midwives, Health Visitors and Professions Allied to Medicine") [handling of response to Reports] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: MT message to Indira Gandhi (Westland helicopters) ["would be a striking demonstration of the joint benefits flowing from our aid programme"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Howe ("Brunei and Maldives Bill") [admission to Commonwealth] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Travelling Expenses of Spouses of Civil Servants") [guidance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 minute to Murray ('Encounter' interview with Zinoviev) [MT request for copy] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet 'Peace' Letters") [advice regarding possible reply to Tereshkova letter published alongside MT's own in 'Komsomolskaya Pravda'] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet Fears of a Preemptive Nuclear Attack") [MT request to see American studies on likely course of developments on the ground in the early stages of a nuclear war] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Tebbit minute to MT ("Surface to Surface Guided Weapon") [agreement, with qualifications, to Heseltine proposal that contract should go to US firm in preference to BAe] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Law Officers' Department letter to No.10 ("Miss Sarah Tisdall") [background to decision not to prosecute 'Guardian' for publication of leaked memo, relating to deployment of Cruise missiles] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("British Waterways Board - Objectives") [proposals for reform] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury Minute Replying to the 10th, 11th and 12th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee, 1983-84") [publication; background note; clearance] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Biffen, Wakeham, Gummer) [MPs' pensions: MT reluctant to accept proposal to stage 9% increase of contributions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Alan Greengross letter to MT (opposition to GLC ‘Paving’ Bill) [“constitutional arguments … will so muddy the water that it will make your Government’s job more difficult”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Special Advisers: Sherbourne minute for MT (“Meeting with Lord Beloff”) [replacement of ILEA] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Heseltine memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 14 (Statement on the Defence Estimates 1984) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 8th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“Economic Summit: Australian Participation”) [Hawke will not attend, should leave to Germany to decide on Australia’s participation at next summit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong letter to Howe (“London Economic Summit: German Request for Additional Minister”) [Japanese objections] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: MT letter to John Hume (Milk production: the supplementary levy arrangements for Northern Ireland) [allocation of the milk quota] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (letter to MT from Hong Kong Self Salvation Movement) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Whitelaw minute to MT (“Abolition of the Greater London Council and the Metropolitan County Councils: the Arts”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Pacific: Prime Minister Hawke of Australia letter to MT (regional associations) [organisation, outside participation] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Tebbit minute for MT ("Falkland Islands: Further Capital Costs") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Jenkin ("Draft Circular on Teacher Training") ["to establish a Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education"; MT agrees with Jenkin concern of creating impression "that we expect local authorities to contain extra expenditure within the existing PES provision... particularly... when the Rates Bill is before Parliament"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Prime Minister Hawke letter to MT (South Pacific Regional Organisations) [proposed visit to London of a Committee of Ministers of Foreign Affairs from four members of the South Pacific Forum, to examine various implications of establishing a Single Regional Organisation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("British Policy in Antarctica: Minerals") [request for clarification of minute] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Terence Beckett: 11 April 1984, 1130 HRS") [CBI Conference; economic issues; Coal Strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Meeting Between Prime Minister and Sir T Beckett") [DTI brief on electricity prices] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Heseltine letter to Tebbit (warshipbuilding: order for Type 22 frigates) [Heseltine/Tebbit dispute over implications for Merseyside of rejecting Cammell Laird bid] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 minute to Howe PS (Prime Minister's Visit to Portugal) [Oporto British School] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: President Jayewardene letter to MT (Sri Lanka Aid Group) ["our development strategy and our external assistance needs"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Heseltine, Whitelaw, Robert Armstrong, Patrick Wright, "C") ["Soviet concern about a surprise NATO attack"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to DTI (“The Stock Exchange & the Gower Report”) [“concerned about the proposals in the Gower Report”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: CRD briefing ("The Policing of the Miners' Dispute: 10th April 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC 101(84)9th Meeting") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB press release (""No Justification for Hardship and Disruption": NCB Chairman on the Facts about the Coal Dispute") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Industry and Coal Stocks") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior letter to Elles (Haagerup report) [“appreciation of all your efforts to secure a reasonably favourable outcome”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (“Northern Ireland prisons”) [“some prison officers were so intimidated by fear of attack outside the prison that they were turning a blind eye to some of the rules”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO to No.10 (“Iran-Iraq: Supply of Chemicals”) [export control] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKDEL NATO to FCO (“Iran-Iraq: Contingency Planning”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: G. Howe to MT (“Iran: Supply of Defence Equipment”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (“Local Government spending: Policy Unit proposals”) [“search for economy and effectiveness”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: MT message to Chancellor Kohl of FRG (London economic summit) [delegations] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Coles minute for MT ("Belgrano: Mr Dalyell's Letter") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Belgrano") [a letter by Mr Dalyell to MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 ("The Belgrano") [a letter by Mr Dalyell to MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 minute to FCO (Potential sale of the Falkland Islands Company to Mr Jack Hayward) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 375 to FCO (1835Z) ("Relations with Argentina") [Caputo's call on the UN Secretary-General] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to MOD ("Falkland Islands: Further Capital Costs") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Jenkin minute for Heseltine ("Falkland Islands - Further Capital Costs") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Spain: Rapier") ["You asked for background on the Spanish Government's recent decision to buy the Franco-German Roland missile system in preference to Rapier"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Statement on the Defence Estimates") [Heseltine's amendments to his White Paper; handling of its publication] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Next President of the European Commission": French/West German candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Paisley MP letter to MT ("EC 1984-85 Farm Price Agreement and Related Measures") ["Northern Ireland has been disadvantaged vis-a-vis the Irish Republic"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Foreign Secretary's Statement on the Foreign Affairs Council") [EC budget; 1983 refunds] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UK Ambassador to France letter to FCO ("EC Budget negotiations") ["an impression... of how matters look from Paris"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe record of conversation (Howe, Tugendhat) ["European Community: Budget imbalances": Howe clarification of comments at Luxembourg Foreign Affairs Council: "We were not insisting that the Commission should play the role of arbitrator, but leaving them the option"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Reform of the Community's Finances") [David Williamson, Etienne Davignon: negotiations with the French; MT meeting with Mitterrand] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [reform of EC financial system; EC budget shortfall for 1984; Council of Ministers: trade issues; meeting of Social Affairs Ministers; joint European Torus (JET) project] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Sir Terence Beckett, Director-General of the CBI) [international economic outlook, CBI Conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to Portugal") [600th anniversary of the Treaty of Windsor] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Non-Industrial Civil Service Pay Negotiations 1984") [Government strategy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe minute to MT ("Proposed Visit to the Soviet Union by the Secretary of State for Energy") [suggestions regarding timing of visit; MT notes that dealing with coal strike must be top priority] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Geoffrey Pattie PS minute to No.10 (Guided Weapons for the Royal Navy) [copy of statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Value for Money in Defence Procurement") [recent Heseltine initiatives; comments on Essential Defence Technologies report recommendations; advice on next steps] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Possible Message to the New Soviet President") [draft message of congratulations from the Queen, tempered at MT's request; Chernenko's inauguration speech] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Anonymous note to MT (attack on her leadership, supposedly from a Conservative MP) [“how dare you, a grocer’s daughter, bring our great Party into the dust?”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute for MT (programme to mark fifth anniversary) [suggests briefing for Sunday papers] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Redwood minute for Cockfield speech (wider dispersion of wealth and freedom) [“Individuals in this country are already quite wealthy but often do not know it”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: President of Israel (Chaim Herzog) letter to MT (enjoyed frank conversation) [Israel election; invites MT visit] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economic policy: No.10 briefing for MT (visit to Docklands) [media; London Docklands Development Corporation; BT, DLR; includes MT thank you letters] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 9th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson minute for Tebbit (“Competition Policy: Taxation Aspects”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Francis Noel-Baker letter to No.10 (proposed sale of land to Greek Government) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [current situation and possible developments] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to Howe PS (“Economic Summit: Australian Participation”) [action unlikely to “mollify” Hawke, but MT wonders whether Hawke should be invited to visit later in the year] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Argentina: Bank Lending”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Robin Butler to Peter Middleton (Alan Walters text) [assessment for publication] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Peter Veress, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Trade) [Hungary-EC, economy, USSR] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKE Muscat to FCO (“Gulf Contingency Planning: Omani Reactions”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs - Supplementary Brief”) [allocation of the milk quota] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong: transition period”) [MT: “Very worrying - shows their true colours”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Belgrano: Peruvian Peace Proposals") [Tam Dalyell's questions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Tam Dalyell (sinking of the Belgrano) [not true that "the Belgrano was attacked in order to destroy the prospects for peace negotiations"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Tebbit minute to MT ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite (DBS)") ["the project to launch DBS has suffered repeated delays... [further] delay of even 2-3 weeks may lose the chance of a 1987 launch... This is a high-cost, and a high-risk venture"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Rees minute to MT ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite (DBS)") ["The broadcasters' apparent reluctance to commit themselves suggests to me that we too should tread warily"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite") [Tebbit opposed to delay in launch of project if time for consideration is allowed for Lord Cockfield's suggested modifications; MT: "I agree with Lord C. very strongly"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("The DBS Project") [Direct Broadcasting by Satellite: proposed modifications to avoid risk of Government financial commitment; "We came into office convinced of the merits of the free market economy"; MT concurs] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brittan minute to MT ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite (DBS)") ["fully agree with [Tebbit]... delay in reaching decisions until 1 May would seriously undermine the chances of success of the joint project"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury letter to Cabinet Office ("Forecast of UK net contribution to Community Budget: excess customs duties and levies") [concerns regarding different sets of forecasts - Treasury and Cabinet Office - provided to No.10] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson, Ortoli) ["EC Budget: Discussion with Vice President Ortoli": forecast for 1984; shortfall; savings; budgetary imbalance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Ridley ("10 May Transport Council: Unfair Commercial Practices in Shipping Services") [response to French proposal] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Attorney General's Chambers letter to No.10 ("Cabinet 29 March 1984: Item 3: Community Budget and United Kingdom Refunds") [revision to minutes: clarification of advice given during meeting regarding legal obligation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: President Mitterrand letter to MT (visit to Chequers, 5 March 1984) [note of thanks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("British Policy in Antarctica: Minerals") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Portugal: 17-18 April") [UK's non-participation in the Lisbon International Trade Fair] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Meeting on Scientific Research") [date; venue] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: Department of Health briefing for MT ("Dinner for United Nations Organisations on 16 April") [MT draft statement on population control, to be delivered at Dinner for UN Administrative Committee on Coordination] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Heseltine) [promoting competitiveness in Defence procurement; NATO contracts for France] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Jim Prior ("Tenure in the Universities") [legislation to revise of terms of academics' employment: line to take on new or amended charters or statutes in light of planned merger of the New University of Ulster and Ulster Polytechnic; Whitelaw concerns about legislative schedule] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Keith Joseph letter to Whitelaw ("Corporal Punishment") ["within the limits set by the European Court of Human Rights, we should give schools the right to choose... [however] we can expect the Bill to receive a stormy reception, and... we could see corporal punishment disappear from all but a minority of maintained schools"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: National Union Executive Committee minutes (Central Council, European & Local government elections) [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 15th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Industrial Affairs, Statement on the Defence Estimates 1984) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC101(84)10th Meeting") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Anglo-German Summit: 2 May 1984”) [briefing arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Keith Joseph letter to Whitelaw (“Corporal Punishment”) [reactions to consultative document] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, etc) [“underlying the crisis over Liverpool’s finances there was an atmosphere of growing violence which was exacerbated by the violence of language in local politics”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Milk: Quota-Superlevy Scheme”) [agriculture ministers agree “equality of misery”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 minute to MT ("Incentives for Membership of the Non-Proliferation Treaty") [MT doubts the wisdom of 'technical assistance fund' proposal for developing countries] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to MT ("MBFR") [Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction: revised text of Western negotiating objectives] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The CAP and the Community's Own Resources") ["This point ought to be given more prominence in the media... that... agreeing in principle to increase the Community's own resources... [does not entail that the Government] has thrown away the one negotiating opportunity to halt run-away CAP expenditure"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Stewart PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by MEPs") ["to see how our 1982 budget refunds are being spent"; MT unhappy about timing of visit] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("European Community") ["Following our talk, I have been reflecting overnight about how best to take the negotiations forward"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Guinea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Republic of Guinea") [background to military coup; draft MT message to new government] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Jobs") ["I have recently been visiting some UK companies to hear their views on the working of the labour market"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ministers: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Appointment of Lord Lyell") [membership of Lloyd's] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (warshipbuilding: order for Type 22 frigates) [Heseltine/Tebbit dispute over implications for Merseyside of rejecting Cammell Laird bid] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Gas Privatisation") [detail of disagreement with Treasury over his draft paper proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: UKE Lisbon telegram 141 to FCO (1330Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Portugal") [analysis of internal political & economic situation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 minute to MT ("Portugal") [MT visit; MT speech to British-Portugese Chamber of Commerce] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 letter to Bristol City Council (the economic and cultural union between Bristol and Oporto) [thanks for information provided for forthcoming MT visit to Oporto] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: Ingham minute to MT ("Portugal - Interviews") [schedule; lines to take; key issues/questions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) United Nations: Sue Goodchild minute to MT ("United Nations Dinner Monday, 16 April") [guests] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Monetary Policy: Treasury briefing "Interpretation of Monetary Conditions: April [1984]"
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 10th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB press release (""The Pits Are Open for Work" Statement by Coal Board Chairman") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [the markets, nurses’ pay, Director General of NEDC] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) US: US Embassy London letter to No.10 (photograph of the Prime Minister and the President) [request that MT sign and inscribe] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to Robert Armstrong (“London Economic Summit: Media Handbook”) [MT’s message on the merit of Summits held since 1975] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Possible Visit by the South African Prime Minister”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: call on Zhou Nan on 13 April”) [Howe in China; MT: “seems as if the Unofficials were right in their judgement”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO briefing to Howe PS (“Future of Hong Kong: Secretary of State’s visit to China: Agreement”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 14 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: UKE Lisbon telegram 001 to FCO (1230Z) ("Prime Ministers Visit to Portugal") [NATO; East/West relations; Africa; Central America; Latin America; Gibraltar; Hong Kong; East Timor; Macao; Iran/Iraq] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 208 to FCO (0924Z) ("Thatcher-Chernenko Talks in Moscow") [differences between Britain and Soviet Union, arms talks, talks with Zia-ul-Haq] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 84 Apr 15 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Bermuda: Premier John Swan of Bermuda letter to MT (Commonwealth Heads of Government meetings) [disappointed cannot attend, “we have much to learn … about the workings of independent nations”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to MT ("Western European Union (WEU)") ["... background and state of current discussions of the role of WEU" for Defence White Paper] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Michael Heseltine minute to Peter Rees ("D-Day: 40th Anniversary Celebrations") [arrangements, indemnities] [released Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO record of conversation (Howe-Genscher; "40th Anniversary of D Day") [Gencscher hopes that speeches will "reflect awareness of the need to look more to the future than to the past"] [released Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Foreign Affairs Select Committee: Falklands Inquiry") [MT: "I find it astonishing"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Coles minute to Cabinet Office ("Argentina: Military Capability") [MT's comment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Scrutinies and Value for Money") [Research Councils] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Lord Gowrie letter to Jopling (Efficiency Studies of Common Activities) [proposals; registries/office technology; integration of exercises] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 letter to Foreign Secretary PS ("British Policy in Antarctica: Minerals") [approach to Antarctic Treaty meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO letter to No.10 ("No-Passport Excursions: France") [French desire to amend no-passport excursion arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Professor Donald Longmore letter to Sir Hector Laing (invitation to the Prime Minister to open the National Heart & Chest Hospital's CORDA NMR Unit) ["your putting the case personally to... [MT] is the best way of explaining the importance of this prestigious project"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Tim Flesher ("Pesticides Legislation") ["an urgent need... Extending the scope of the proposed Pollution Bill... [would produce] a much better balanced Bill"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 minute to FCO (Prime Minister's Visit to Portugal) [note on aspects of the historical background to MT visit] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Portugal: Portugese Accession to the EEC") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: John Coles note to MT (International Conference of Population: the World Population Plan of Action) [final draft of MT statement, to be delivered at Dinner for UN Administrative Committee on Coordinaton, on 16 April: UK "fully subscribes to the principles"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("UK/Soviet Relations") ["revised guidelines for contacts between British Ministers and Soviet representatives in London"; "other areas where we are moving forward... [towards] increased contact at all levels"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Ministerial Contacts with the Soviet Union") ["social and business contacts between Ministers and the Russians in London... modified guidelines"; Ministerial visits to USSR] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("Teachers' Pay (England and Wales) 1984") [Government negotiating line/ceiling for pay settlements; arbitration] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: John Coles minute to MT ("East-West: A New Initiative?") [MT unimpressed by 'Finlandisation of Europe' proposal] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) WW2: Alison note to Lord Trefgarne (memorial service oration to Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris) [MT: “I am NOT the right person to do it”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: David Hart note for MT (“The Inevitable Conflict”) [“the motivation will be opposition to your policies in general and you in person”; against concessions to avoid strike] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) France: President Mitterrand letter to MT (thanks for book on Chequers) [character of residence] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 11th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("CEGB Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC 101(84)11th Meeting") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Department of Trade and Industry briefing (meeting with Liverpool councillors) [“if Liverpool City Council fail to decide on a valid budget and rate as soon as possible, then Liverpool’s problems would not be eased but made far worse”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: MT draft letter to John Hamilton (Liverpool council budget) [“The interests of the people of Liverpool … cannot be advanced by the adoption of an illegal rate”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 letter to US Ambassador to West Germany (speech to the Industrie Club: ‘The American Trade Deficit in Perspective’) [MT: “applies your customary clarity & wisdom to the enormous issues that face us”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Michael Quinlan essay: ‘The ethics of nuclear deterrence: a criticism of the United States bishops’ letter’) [revised text for possible publication] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Secretary of State’s discussions with Wu Xueqian on 16 April”) [Howe visit to Hong Kong & China] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 letter to Jenkin PS (abolition of the GLC and the MCCs) [MT&#58 “Excellent - we must push ahead vigorously”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Association of London Authorities”) [GLC association with ALA unlawful] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Rates Bill: exclusions from operation of general rate limitation scheme”) [“political trouble” if mishandled] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: No.10 note (Prime Minister's visit to Paris, 4 May) [briefing meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Scrutinies and Value for Money") [contracting out major aircraft repair; Service pay; Meteorological Office] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Guinea: MT message to Prime Minister Traore (appointment as Prime Minister) [democracy in Guinea] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Deregulation and Simpler Government") [recommendations; MT: "very generalised"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Gas Privatisation") [advice on how to proceed, following prolonged dispute between Treasury & Department of Energy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ridley letter to Whitelaw (legislative proposals on airports) [ATM limit at Heathrow; Civil Aviation Bill; conversion, into company form, of local authority airports] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soares, Hugh Byatt, Crispin Tickell, Mota Pinto, Jaime Gama, Antonio Marta) [UK investment/trade; accession to EC; EC budget; fisheries; NATO/Third World relations with West] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soares, Barata) [Libyan Embassy situation in London; Iran/Iraq; Portugese economic policy; Central America; Southern Africa] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soares, Byatt, Tickell, Pinto, Gama, Marta, Themido & others) [trade/investment; accession to EC; EC reforms; fisheries; NATO] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Letwin minute to Turnbull (“Unions and the workforce”) [“How can we help reduce unionisation still further?”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: No.10 briefing cards (“Official Talks: First session (bilateral and EC matters)”) [trade and tax; Portuguese accession; budget; fisheries and agriculture] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Turnbull-John Stanley) [Parliamentary Question and Answer on military and civilian involvement in miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO letter to Coles (draft programme for Anglo/German bilaterals) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Quadripartite Consultations: London Economic Summit”) [obstacles to reaching agreement on a declaration on democratic values] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town to FCO (“Visit by P W Botha”) [Botha’s acceptance of MT’s invitation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town to FCO (“Visit by P W Botha to Europe”) [arrangements & Southern Africa issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Secretary of State’s visit: lunch with Zhou Nan”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Secretary of State’s meeting with Zhao Ziyang: 17 April”) [Howe visit to Hong Kong & China] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Secretary of State’s discussions with Ji Pengfei on 17 April”) [Howe visit to Hong Kong & China] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (Attorney General’s right to refer cases to the Court of Appeal for an opinion as to sentence) [proposed legislation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: President Reagan letter to MT (fiftieth anniversary of the British Council) [message of congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: Fishing") [draft reply to a letter by Coalite Group's Chairman] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Heseltine letter to Tam Dalyell (sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite: Joint Project") ["[Brittan] believes it may be helpful to offer the following comments on the two... modifications suggested by [Lord Cockfield]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chemical weapons: US draft Treaty") [analysis & text of Richard Luce media statement "welcoming the US initiative"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (enterprise and entrepreneurs) [paper & a report on Policy Unit visit to UK regions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Keith Joseph letter to Whitelaw ("Final Report of the Review Group on the Youth Service") [results of consultation on Report; MT: "Do we have to have yet another Advisory Body"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("British Shipbuilders: Objectives") [comments on Tebbit's draft objectives submitted to MT on 29 March] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soares, Byatt, Tickell, Gama, Marta, Themido & others) [NATO; Africa; East Timor; Macau; relations with US; disarmament; Central America] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Freitas do Amaral) [current Portugese political situation/economic policies] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Barney Hayhoe PS letter to No.10 ("TSRB Pensions - Fringe Bodies") [calculation of pensions for senior staff] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science: Nicholson minute to MT ("Life Sciences Conference, 19-21 March, Toyko") [report on conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Police: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Brittan ("Police Pay") [need for the proposed review to addresse the dramatic increase in police costs in recent years] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Gregson briefing to MT (“Strikes in essential services”) [reforming NHS unionisation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Monetary policy: Wood minute for Chancellor & Permanent Secretary (“Monetary prospects”) [released 2012]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 situation report ("Coal Dispute, Situation 18.4.84") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood and Pascall minute to MT ("The Coal Industry") [NUM decisions on ballot and national strike, miners' opinion and public opinion, winning a prolonged strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) US: Reagan message to MT (50th anniversary of British Council) [“It has set high standards in the art of cultural diplomacy for free countries around the globe”] [declassified 2005]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Lawson minute to MT (“London Economic Summit”) [focus for British interests: world economic recovery; US policies; supply side policies; Japanese capital markets; protectionism; international debt] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO telegram to UKE Paris (“London Economic Summit: Bilateral Meetings”) [proposed times and dates for meetings with fellow leaders] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe to UKE Cape Town (“Visit by P W Botha”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Secretary of State’s discussion with Deng Xiaoping”) [Howe visit to Hong Kong & China] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: visit by the Secretary of State: press statement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [Howe visit to Hong Kong & China] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: discussion with Zhou Nan”) [Howe visit to Hong Kong & China] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe telegram to UKHC Canberra (“Future of Hong Kong: briefing our Allies”) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (“Children in Care”) [MT rejects independent boarding schools proposal] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to MT ("British Council finances") ["We need to reach a decision on this quickly or we shall face a major Parliamentary row"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Genscher's Visit to Argentina") ["stressed the need for the Argentines to start talking with HMG"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note for the record (Turnbull-Minford call) [Minford's IEA paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (EC financial negotiations) [report of comments attributed to Mitterrand by French ambassador] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Leon Brittan minute to Norman Tebbit (TV licences and hotels) [installation TV sets in multiple rooms on payment of a single fee] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brittan PS minute to Tebbit PS (TV licences and hotels) [additional fee structure] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Brittan letter to Ridley ("Implications for the United Kingdom of the French Lorry Drivers' Blockade") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 letter to Ambassador Byatt ("Compensation for British Farms") [not discussed by MT during her visit to Portugal] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Eanes) ["Visit by the Prime Minister to Portugal": accession to EC; USSR; Hong Kong; Macau; Portugese economy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson, Baker) ["BT: Capital Structure + RPI-X"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Review Body Reports") [summary of additions to pay bill; circulation; meeting with Ministers; press/PQ line] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Leon Brittan letter to Lord Bethell (Afghanistan: Resettlement of Soviet Prisoners) [applications for political asylum: sponsorship] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Coal Dispute") [miners' strike weekly report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Cyprus: Contingency Planning”) [“while we should be prepared for any eventuality, we should try to prevent the UK being drawn into possibly dangerous exposed positions”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [speaking note for ministers: objective “must be to encourage common sense to prevail so that the council makes a legal rate at its meeting”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: consultation with EXCO”) [Howe visit to Hong Kong & China] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary’s visit to Peking”) [meetings with Chinese leaders] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 note to MT ("Nottingham Miners") [Nottingham Council backs miners' strike; decision challenged as unconstitutional] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Secretary of State’s discussion with UMELCO”) [“an hour of persistent questioning by UMELCO”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“transcript of question and answer session at Secretary of State’s press conference”) [Howe visit to Hong Kong & China] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Secretary of State’s visit to China and future of Hong Kong”) [Howe recommends change of strategy] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 21 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 21 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: press coverage”) [Howe’s statement during visit] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 22 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 84 Apr 23 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Netherlands/INF") [Dutch Cabinet decision imminent on deployment of cruise missiles; advice on timing of MT call to Lubbers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Secretary of State’s statement and press conference”) [“deep concern and anxiety here”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Stephen Sherbourne minute for MT (draft foreward to manifesto) [“vital that Britain’s voice remains strong in Europe”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Pacific: MT letter to Prime Minister Hawke of Australia (single regional organisation) [“We have maintained a close interest in the way thinking has developed”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Singapore: Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore message to MT (MT visit) [“There is much we can discuss, since our views of the world have much in common”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Netherlands/INF") [main points from US Embassy briefing summarising US/Dutch talks since end of March] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Hawke (South Pacific Regional Organisations) ["Committee of Ministers of Foreign Affairs from four members of the South Pacific Forum, to examine various implications of establishing a Single Regional Organisation... We will be pleased to receive the Committee in London"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 letter to Overseas Development Administration ("Portugal: Technical Assistance") [MT request for amount to be increased following her visit to Portugal] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: MT letter to Charles Read ("IBM and BT: ITAP Report") [acknowledgement of IT Advisory Panel report sent by Post Office Director of Information Technology] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 briefing for MT (BT regulatory regime) ["disagreement between the Chancellor and Mr. Tebbit on the DT pricing formula"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Allan Stewart letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Pay Negotiations 1984") [details of pay settlement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Sherman memo for MT (“Don’t Trust The NCB Too Far”) [“I doubt whether they will have told you that dereliction is proceeding in many areas faster than reclamation”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Monetary policy: Governor Bank of England letter to MT (thanks for dinner) [discussion with IMF MD, Jacques De Larosière] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Buckley briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC 101(84)12th Meeting") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy report for No.10 ("Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Flesher minute to MT ("Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Michael Jopling minute for Lawson (“Competition Policy: Taxation Aspects”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hungary: Hungarian Minister of Foreign Trade letter to MT (Hungarian-British trade cooperation) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Luce minute to MT (“The future of Hong Kong”) [Howe’s statement during visit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary’s visit to Hong Kong”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to Biffen ("Statement of the Defence estimates 1984") [date of publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure Priorities") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO telegram to UKE The Hague ("Netherlands/INF") [record of "A meeting of the SCG 'Quint', minus the Netherlands, [which] took place in the US NATO delegation office... to consider... what, if anything, the other basing Allies can do... to help... [Netherlands] towards an acceptable outcome"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chancellor of the Exchequer's proposed amendments to Presidency texts on budgetary discipline, budget imbalances and own resources") [Howe comments on the amendments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with Portugese PM; negotiations on reform of EC financing system; 1984 EC budget shortfall; MT upcoming meetings with Kohl & Mitterrand/UK refund] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 letter to Home Office ("Implications for the United Kingdom of the French Lorry Drivers' Blockade") [MT agrees to detailed contingency planning for Dover] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: President Jayewardene letter to MT (inauguration of the Victoria Dam) [invitation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Malaysia: MT message to Prime Minister Mahathir of Malaysia (good wishes on assumption of office of new Yang di-Pertuan Agong as Malaysian Head of State) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 12th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB advertisement ("To keep the record straight: Here is the National Coal Board's Side of the Story:") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (response to MT's querying of power station endurance figures) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 minute for MT (“Anglo/German Bilaterals - DTI Representation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 minute (Liverpool rate problems) [“we are faced with the likelihood that Liverpool will eventually set an illegal rate”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 11 to FCO (“Outlook for the US budget deficit: Chief Secretary’s visit to Washington”) [consensus that deficit reduction package will pass Congress but deficit still likely post-November elections] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Waldegrave PS letter to No.10 (“Copthall Stadium”) [“the Government may be criticised locally if the project fails”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Ministry of Defence to FCO (“Iran-Iraq War: Guidelines for Loan Service Personell”) [declassified Jan 2014]
Text 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Jim Prior note to Geoffrey Howe (manifesto) [“must admit to considerable disappointment about its political tone”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Stephen Sherbourne note to John Houston (manifesto) [MT’s amended foreward] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Portugal: MT message to Prime Minister Soares ("Accident at Valongo") [condolences] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Visit of Argentine Foreign Minister to Paris: 24 April") ["Falklands discussed; but no evident shift in Argentine position"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Your Meeting with Sir Keith Joseph") [large spending programmes not being examined radically enough] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Netherlands/INF") [MT declines to send proposed draft message to Lubbers regarding his Cabinet's forthcoming decision on cruise missile deployment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Bus Industry") [Ridley proposals to extend deregulation: "Only the persistent frustration of market forces could have produced a situation such as we now have"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Community Budget negotiations: 1984 Budget shortfall") [briefing note for question time in Commons] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Ridley letter to Younger (control of harbour development) [Falmouth proposal] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Rees letter to Fowler ("Social Services Inspectorate (SSI)") [disagreement over most effective way to achieve value for money] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Nurses and Midwives Council letter to MT (Pay Review Body recommendations) [notes staff overdue pay increase; asks when Report will be published] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European Elections: Jim Prior letter to Sir Geoffrey Howe (draft manifesto) [“I must admit to considerable disappointment at its political tone”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: David Hart note for MT ("Impressions from the coalfield") [Notts & Sheffield] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 16th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Student Incursion into Iranian Embassy, Libyan People's Bureau in London, Miners' Strike, The Observer) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute to No.10 (“Anglo-German Summit on 2 May”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (“New Ireland Forum”) [“The report is disappointing”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on situation in Liverpool) [“the meeting did not favour legal action by the Attorney General”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“London Economic Summit: Possible British Initiatives”) [liberalisation of capital markets and trade in services; social services; air transport; international standards; export subsidies] [released Dec 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).

Guides are articles about key events and topics. Many were written to accompany annual releases of Mrs Thatcher’s private and party papers at the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge.

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