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PDF 85 Jul 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO briefing for MT (“Prime Minister”s Meeting with Chief Mangosutho Buthelezi, 2 August 1985”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Sir Raymond Lygo letter to Tebbit (the European Fighter Aircraft negotiations: his comments) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Tebbit minute for Heseltine ("European Fighter Aircraft") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute for Tebbit ("European Fighter Aircraft") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prime Minister Fabius) [social/economic matters; French elections; EC; Channel link; South Africa; Falklands; Defence; international debt; Japan; Gorbachev's visit to France; China] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) USSR: FCO research note ("MS Gorbachev: A Biographical Note") ["Gorbachev belongs to a new generation ... [but] has made his entire career in the Party apparatus, whose cautious and secretive methods have not been relaxed"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Department of Employment (scrutinies of the Youth Training Scheme and Community Programme) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO telegram 784 to UKE Moscow (1716Z) ("Secretary of State's meeting with Shevardnadze") [bilateral relations in political and trade fields, UK-Soviet relations, US-Soviet relations, arms control] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Electricity Prices and Large Industrial Consumers") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Third Tranche") [comment on Walker's approach to third tranche coal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Turnbull minute to MT ("Third Tranche Coal") [comment on Walker's approach to third tranche coal: 'the way Mr Walker has gone about this subject is unsatisfactory'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger minute to MT ("Electricity Prices for Large Industrial Consumers") [supports Walker's proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe press conference transcript ("Press Conference Given by the Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, in Helsinki, on Thursday, August 1, 1985") [Meeting of Foreign Ministers: 10th anniversary of Helsinki Final Act: human rights & East/West relations; Howe's account of his meetings with Shultz and Shevarnadze] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Nicholas Winterton MP letter for Lawson (economic and employment situation in the UK) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Keith Joseph, Whitelaw, Younger, Edwards, Hurd, King, Jenkin) [latest position on teachers’ pay dispute] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (Safety of Sports Grounds) [circular] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Chairman of Football Association (safety of sports grounds) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute to MT (“Meeting with Chief Buthelezi”) [he looks for you to endorse his approach] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Reform of Local Authority Finance-Meeting with Victor Rothschild”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“MISC 109: Edinburgh”) [extra spending power, UK Commissioners Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: David Owen letter to MT (Johnson Matthey Bankers inquiry) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("European Fighter Aircraft") [draft message from MT to Prime Minister Gonzalez of Spain] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute for MT ("European Fighter Aircraft") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for MT (European Fighter Aircraft) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for MT (European Fighter Aircraft: agreement with Germany and Italy) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Prime Minister Gonzalez of Spain (the European Fighter Aircraft negotiations) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Central Statistical Office minute to No.10 ("Advance release of Index of Production data") [MT approves addition to circulation list] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Invitation to the Prime Minister to visit Korea") [MT agrees provisionally to short visit en route to or from Tokyo economic summit] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands/Argentina: Message from Caputo") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("World Council of Churches/Falklands") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Howe minute to Brittan ("Drugs Misuse") [welcomes Brittan's proposals for a National Drugs Intelligence Unit & a Steering Group of senior officials; requests FCO representation on the Group] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("Grant Aided Schools") ["we need to consider whether any necessary experimentation cannot be in less elaborate and costly ways"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on Armstrong's latest meeting with Nally] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Department of Trade and Industry letter to No.10 ("BSC Strategy: Announcement") [long-term strategy for British Steel] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy (telephone call from MacGregor: suggested MT meeting with Nottinghamshire miners) [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: McFarlane telegram to USE Pretoria (demands “bold & concrete steps”) [declassified 1999]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Ingham minute for MT (“Presentation&rdquo) [thoughts at tne end of a rather difficult political year] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute to MT (“Late Payment of VAT”) [“securing public acceptance”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay”) [pay offer agreement with Secretaries of State for Education and Scotland] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Addison (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [“the argument about whether it must be a British satellite is not wholly resolved”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (CCTV on sports grounds: lack of equipment and delivery delays) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: MT letter to David Owen (Johnson Matthey Bankers inquiry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Helen Suzman) [isolation or sanctions would be counterproductive; value of incremental change] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chief Buthelezi) [MT afterwards "wondered whether he was a strong enough character to provide real leadership"] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 3 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Economic Secretary to the Treasury minute to MT (“MISC 109: Edinburgh”) [rate reductions, commissioner legislation] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 4 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 98”) [Alliance support up from 28 percent to 35 percent compared with start of the year] [released 2015]
Text 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tom King (“Enterprise Allowance Scheme”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Manpower: Jopling letter to Tom King (training services for overseas nationals abroad) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Ministerial Group to look at R&D") [research & development: "...the key question for now is who should chair the Group"; MT defers decision pending Cabinet reshuffle] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: MT letter to Peter Emery MP (Select Procedures Committee review of the format for Prime Minister's Questions) ["... a matter for the House... and I should, of course, be willing to fall in with [its] decisions... For my part, I have no complaint to make about the existing arrangements..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: MT letter to Prime Minister González (Contadora Health Plan: international conference) [British participation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Falklands") [a joint statement by the Argentine and British Councils of Churches] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Patrick Jenkin PS letter to John Moore PS (Review of Privatisation Prospects for the Next Parliament) [Environment candidates] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Conservative MPs (teachers’ pay dispute) [state of play] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Teachers’ pay”) [briefing note for Press Offices] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (BBC) Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Management minutes (“Real Lives”) [Milne: Real Lives "had to hit the air if this place is to run properly"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Tam Dalyell MP (government’s position) [“the sinking of the General Belgrano was a necessary and legitimate action in the Falklands campaign”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Dalyell (government’s position) [“the sinking of the General Belgrano was a necessary and legitimate action in the Falklands campaign”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Heseltine minute to Howe (“FAC report on the events surrounding the weekend of 1st/2nd May 1982”) [“the main charge is that the Government displayed excessive caution in its handling of information”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MoD report (“FAC report on the events surrounding the weekend of 1st/2nd May 1982”) [“the main charge is that the Government displayed excessive caution in its handling of information”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: President Cossiga to MT (election) [thanks for message of congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (visit of EC ministers) [welcome on assumption no right to interfere implied] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“MISC 109: Edinburgh District Council”) [rate reductions, commissioner legislation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Sir Laurens van der Post letter to MT (his visit to South Africa) [offers to take message; No.10 wary] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa: Message from President Botha to the Prime Minister”) [Shultz letter to Howe opposing visit of European FMs to SA early this month] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 6 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("1985 Annual Review of Government funded R & D") [defensive line to take, and MT gives go-ahead to publish] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Tebbit letter to Hurd ("Arthur Andersen") [Government position on using the firm for audit or consultancy work in context of ongoing court case against Andersen over failure of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 6 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Tebbit letter to Whitelaw ("Copyright Licensing") [photocopying of copyright material] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tim Flesher minute to MT ("BBC Board of Governors") [withdrawal of Real Lives programme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (BBC) Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Governors minutes (special meeting to discuss “Real Lives”) [DG attends; Young comments BBC "in turmoil"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT (“Cable television”) [Information Technology Advisory Panel: follow-up to report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 6 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“South Africa: Situation Round-Up”) ["generally quiet weekend"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2325 to FCO (0030Z) (“Message from President Botha to the Prime Minister”) [US says Botha to make major speech on 15 Aug, Pik Botha to brief in advance London, Washington & Bonn; US thinking movement on Mandela] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“South Africa Internal”) [National MP outlines government policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Department of Trade and Industry minute for FCO (“UK Policy towards South Africa”) [Tebbit agrees further studies needed] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Tom King minute to MT (the Community Programme & tackling unemployment) [progress report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Manpower: Rhodes Boyson letter to Tom King (“Industrial Training Boards and Overseas Training”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Flesher (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [dates & arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Brittan letter to Jenkin (prison accommodation) [No.10: "The Home Secretary is convinced that extra capacity is required despite the Government's concern to develop alternatives to custody and encourage the courts to use them."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Adam Butler PS letter to No.10 (Short Bros PLC: RAF Basic Trainer programme) [MT concerns about struggling company's ability to fulfil the contract] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Tom King letter to Peter Rees ("Long Term Unemployment") [additional staff to combat benefit fraud] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Government Emergency Communications System") [transfer of responsibility from DTI to Home Office] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Julian Amery MP (Special Operations) [response to Amery's case for enhanced powers to combat terrorism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Mark Addison minute to MT ("Confiscation of the Proceeds of Drug Trafficking") [advice on response to Brittan, following his clarification of why he believes fines will work more effectively than forfeiture, in face of MT doubts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Tim Flesher minute to MT ("Bonn Economic Summit: Drugs") [points of concern to be relayed to Foreign Office in order to be raised at the Summit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Armstrong minute to Cabinet Office (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [arrangements and a possible visit to Vancouver] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (BBC) Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Management minutes (special meeting to discuss “Real Lives”) [Milne gives account of BBC meeting with Brittan; draft statements by him] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Tebbit PS (“ITAP report on cable systems”) [MT would like DTI to update response to the report following talks with BT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (his coming speech) [hopes for "a significant step forward for all the people of South Africa"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Message to the Prime Minister from President Botha”) [debates whether MT should meet Pik Botha; draft message] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Department of Employment letter to No.10 (scrutinies of the Youth Training Scheme and Community Programme) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Downing Street: Mark Addison minute to MT ("No.10's 250th Anniversary") [invitation to NSPCC children] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: George Younger PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Review of Privatisation Prospects") [Scottish candidates] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Jopling PS letter to John Moore PS ("Review of Privatisation Prospects for the Next Parliament") [Agriculture candidates] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [preparation for further Armstrong meeting with Nally; draft communique] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversations (MT, Flesher; Flesher, MacGregor's) [re: MacGregor suggestion that MT meet with Nottinghamshire miners; he "took the news [that MT will not meet with miners] greatly amiss and averred that the Prime Minister has unnecessarily lost two friends"] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Aug 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: McFarlane email to White House (Vienna meeting with Pik Botha) [declassified 1999]
PDF 85 Aug 8 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (BBC) Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Management minutes (“Real Lives”) [Chairman clashes with Director-General; DG's statement revised] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Chairman of the Football Association letter to MT (public order at matches) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Closed Circuit TV: Football Trust”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Geoffrey Pattie minute to MT (“British National Space Centre”) [organisation and funding] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Carrington to MT (Washington & SDI) [apart from Reagan, European fears much better understood] [released 2015]
Text 85 Aug 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Mark Addison minute to MT (external competition to recruit direct entry Principals) ["Lord Gowrie's minute does not make out much of a case"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Ministry of Defence briefing for MT ("Saudi Arabia - Tornado") [background to Prince Bandar's request for meeting with MT] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Tebbit minute to MT ("Electricity Prices and Large Industrial Consumers") [comments on Walker's proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler minute to MT ("Reform of Social Security") ["progress and next steps following the... Green Paper"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit letter to Keith Joseph ("Industry Year 1986") [DoE measures & DTI speaking notes to assist in "getting the message across"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“FCO communications”) [“Treasury and FCO officials have reached a satisfactory agreement which the CSU have now accepted”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Neil Macfarlane letter to Department of the Environment colleagues (“Football Violence and Safety”) [package of measures agreed between Government and football authorities] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“South Africa: Situation Report on Unrest”) [Durban townships, government claims hooligan element] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to the UN Secretary-General (the UNICEF Resolution) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa”) [Pik Botha trails President Botha’s speech in Durban 15 Aug; MT hopes for "a great advance"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (Addison, Laurens van der Post) [what to say during his visit - rely on personal judgment following long talks with MT] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 10 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Aug 11 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 100”) [“the lowest level of Conservative support found in any survey conducted by Gallup since December, 1981”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Aug 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Ian Stewart letter to Heseltine ("Multi-Departmental Review of Budgeting") [progress] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Edwards minute to MT ("Electricity Prices and Large Industrial Consumers") [comments on Walker's proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Walker minute to MT ("Electricity Prices and Large Industrial Consumers") [response to Chancellor of the Exchequer's comments] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Aug 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: McFarlane email to White House (planning for policy announcement) [declassified 1999]
Text 85 Aug 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 minute to MT (train crash in France) [message of thanks from Prime Minister Fabius for MT letter offering condolences] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Brittan minute to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1985-86") [confiscation of drug traffickers' assets] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Electricity Prices and Large Industrial Consumers") [response to Walker's proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa”) [plans for response to President Botha’s speech in Durban 15 Aug] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 14 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Secretaries’ note circulated to Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 11 (“Coal supplies to power stations”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: MOD minute to MT (“British National Space Centre”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Adam Butler minute to MT ("Quarterly Report on Defence Sales and Prospects 1st April to 30th June 1985") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“President Botha’s Speech of 15 August”) ["not as positive as we had been led to believe it would be"] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 16 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: King Fahd bin Abdulaziz al Saud letter to MT (Middle East peace process & sale of Tornado/Hawk aircraft) [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury internal minute to Chancellor of the Exchquer (“Profit Sharing, Co-operatives, Two-tier Wages and Jobs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Scottish Office letter to No.10 (“Football Hooliganism: installation of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 17 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prince Bandar bin Sultan al Saud) [sale of Tornado/Hawk aircraft; Middle East peace process] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: William Davis memorandum for MT (brief comments on common criticisms of government) [out of touch - big three "grey, dull, uninspiring, self-righteous, and smug"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 101”) [“the lowest level of Conservative support since late 1981”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Williams Davis paper for MT (media charges against her) [suggested rejoinders] [released 2015]
Text 85 Aug 18 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Nicholas Scott letter to Leon Brittan ("Confiscation of the Profits of Drug Trafficking") ["you asked whether orders made by English and Welsh courts against offenders who hold assets in Northern Ireland will be enforceable here"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Presentation") [advocates need for MT to make more proactive use of Parliament for putting across Government policy] [released Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Treasury record of conversation (trade and economic issues) [Geoffrey Littler, Japanese Ambassador: Western concerns about capital inflow/outflow imbalance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Japanese Embassy letter to MT (JAL passenger air crash) [acknowledgement from PM Nakasone of MT condolences] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: McFarlane letter to MT (President found your comments helpful) [declassified ?2000]
PDF 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi letter to MT (apartheid) [case for "effective political and economic pressures"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Flesher minute for MT (‘Presentation’) [ways of making better use of the Commons] [released 2015]
Text 85 Aug 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: John Moore letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1985-86 and 1986-87") [Building Societies and Banking Bills] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger minute to MT ("Ravenscraig") [Scottish response to announcement of long-term strategy for British Steel] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute for Chancellor (“National Institute Economic Review for August”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to No.10 (“British Airways: Laker litigation”) [settlement “will dispose of one of the major legal problems which have been delaying privatisation”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker’s PS minute to Joseph (“GLC County Hall”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Tebbit PS letter to Cabinet Office ("The Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation and Opening of Parliament") [amendments to the drafts] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("1985 Survey: Scotland and Northern Ireland") [over-provision in the territorial blocks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: MT notes (annotated list of ministers) [plus Ingham's list of junior ministers who "might go"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Sherbourne minute for MT ("very personal views") [reshuffle, Parkinson, PR advice for Lawson, backbenchers, do very few formal political tv interviews] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Wolfson notes ("Ministerial changes") [drop Hailsham, Joseph, Jenkin; leave Walker; Heseltine for DTI?] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 102”) [sharp contrast between Gallup and Marplan polls] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Department of the Environment letter to No.10 (“New UEFA Rules”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Department of the Environment letter to No.10 (“Football Progress Report”) [public order & safety] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: George Younger minute to MT (“MISC 109: Edinburgh”) [budget reductions] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 23 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 23 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to Private Secretaries ("Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation and Opening of Parliament") [circulation of revised drafts for comment] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz al Saud (sale of Tornado & Hawk aircraft to Saudi Arabia) ["We consider this an extremely important order"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to King Fahd bin Abdulaziz al Saud (sale of Tornado/Hawk aircraft and the Middle East peace process) [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Mark Addison minute to MT ("Education Seminar") [programme; arrangements; Ministerial attendees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (“Space”) [formation of a British National Space Centre] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC New Delhi to FCO (“India: South Africa”) [Rajiv Gandhi feels so strongly on sanctions he is writing to MT] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 24 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Mark Addison minute to MT ("An update after the Prince's Visit") [Prince Sultan of Saudi Arabia visit to UK; report on his meeting with Defence Sales; reaction to letters from MT for himself & King Fahd] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Mark Addison minute to MT ("The Daily Mail Story") [article alleges an investigation and a report submitted by police to No.10; police, Home Office & No.10 deny knowledge] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Aug 25 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO telegram 374 to UKE Jedda (0600Z) ("Tornado and Hawk") [cover message for MT letters to King Fahd & Prince Sultan] [declassified Jul 2015]
Text 85 Aug 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Gorbachev letter for MT (the cessation of nuclear weapon tests) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Mikhail Gorbachev message to MT (nuclear weapons tests) [announcement of moratorium, seeks a decision on a universal ban] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Kohl/Mitterrand meeting on 24 August: German impressions") ["...convergence of views on long term objectives, but agreement on few if any concrete points."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: No.10 minute to MT ("Request for a Meeting by Lord Kadoorie") [Guangdong Nuclear Project] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: MT letter to Secretary General Ramphal (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Nassau) [MT's comments on the Agenda] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Mark Addison minute to MT (letter from Gorbachev) [content is said to be urgent, timing for receipt] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Jedda telegram 506 to FCO (0800Z) ("Message to King Fahd and Prince Sultan") [delivery] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Edwards PS letter to Howe PS (European Parliament examination of the impact of 'steel crisis' in South Wales) [Edwards invited to give evidence to Committee] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Hurd-Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland) [Anglo-Irish agreement: joint courts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: MT letter to Managing Director of Nissan (Invitation to open manufacturing plant in Sunderland) [accepts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Gowrie minute to MT (points arising from conversation on Friday) [his successor, other appointments] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Tebbit letter to MT (offers his thoughts) [drop Jenkin, Rees, possibly King; bring back Cecil; Lamont as Chief Secretary; move Heseltine] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Parish Councils”) [misuse of power] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 811 to FCO ("Hetman") [Ambassador's paper for Foreign Secretary - essential to maintain dialogue] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe PS minute to Mark Addison ("Call by our Ambassador in Moscow on Mr Gorbachev") [Cartledge summoned; speaking note agreed on bilateral relations, east-west understanding; UKE Moscow tel 1109 28 Aug 0725Z] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd PS minute to Biffen PS ("Ministerial Dealings with Sinn Fein Members") [any request for a meeting should be refused] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Anglo-Irish agreement: marching season in Northern Ireland; joint courts; Ulster Defence Regiment; Anglo-Irish summit and communique; expenditure fund in Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Department of Health and Social Security minute for No.10 (“Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome”) [current state of play & educational leaflets] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: South African Embassy to No.10 (statement by SAG) [black communities at Kwangema and Driefontein will not be forced to move] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Lord Rothschild letter to President Botha (Rothschild meeting with Worrall and de Kock) [Botha needs urgently to announce that he has decided to renounce apartheid] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD letter to No.10 (“SDI Research: UK Participation”) [possible British terms] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: South African Embassy in London letter to Powell (“KwaNgema and Driefontein”) [statement by the Deputy Minister of Development and Land Affairs] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Treasury paper ("PES 1985: Home Office Additional Bids") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Possible Machinery of Government Changes") [transfer of responsibilities from DTI to Dept. Employment; Dept. of Employment approach to unemployment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT (achieving value for money in Government) [need for Ministers to commit to the task] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Downing Street: Mark Addison minute to MT ("250th Anniversary") [anniversary of PM's residence: invitation to NSPCC children; MT fears too late] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: McFarlane email to White House (political message & South African financial crisis) [declassified 1999]
PDF 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Wicks minute to MT ("Possible machinery of government changes") [discussion among officials following talk with MT yesterday] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [South Africa, DTI inquiry into JMB and Ansbacher, EMS] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Neil Macfarlane letter to MT (“Football: progress report”) [tackling hooliganism; safety and finance] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Tom King PS letter to No.10 (“‘Skip Ahead’ - Care Discussion Document”) [response to Conservative backbenchers’ study] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute to No.10 ("Call on Gorbachev by Sir Bryan Cartledge") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Federal Germany economy") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: John Gardiner of the Laird Group Plc letter to MT (Metro-Cammell Limited: production of trains for Kowloon-Canton Railway and British Rail) [seeks support from UK Government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Howe PS minute to Mark Addison ("The Sinking of the British Greenpeace Ship Rainbow Warrior") [allegations of French involvement, enquiry findings] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Dolours Rea (nee Price)") [1973 Old Bailey bomber found living in London in breach of release condition; Hurd proposes to alter condition; MT opposes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cold War: Heseltine PS minute to Howe PS ("Ministerial Contacts with the Soviet Union") [invitation to Defence Secretary from Soviet Ambassador, asks for views] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Heseltine ("Government Evidence to the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (AFPRB)") ["striking the right balance between comparability and other vital factors"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("MSE") [UK bid for Mobile Subscriber Equipment US contract: latest position; draft message for MT to send to Reagan] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Heseltine letter to Tebbit (privatisation of Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Limited) [options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("European Community, InterGovernmental Conference: Discussions with M. Santer and M. Dondelinger, 30 August 1985") [Jacques Santer, David Williamson, Robin Renwick, Dondelinger: record of conversation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Hurd-Goodall) [Anglo-Irish agreement: negotiating position; joint courts; Ulster Defence Regiment; summit communique; attitude of SDLP] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Molyneaux-Paisley-Hurd) [Anglo-Irish agreement: Molyneaux and Paisley make proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Leon Brittan letter to Howe ("Macau") ["The favourable position of Macanese of Portugese nationality as compared with Hong Kong... as regards right of entry to the United Kingdom once Portugal accedes to the Community... we can expect a major row in due course"; complains at Home Office only being alerted to the issue by FCO after Treaty of Accession had been signed by Portugal] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Department of Education and Science briefing for MT (“Teachers’ pay, England and Wales”) [state of play] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Nick Ridley (“Privatisation programme”) [timing of BA sale, announcement that sale will go ahead in 1986] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Forced Removals”) [black communities at Kwangema and Driefontein will not be forced to move] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“South Africa: Internal Situation”) [atmosphere worsened in black and coloured communities following indiscriminate detention of school children] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Keith Joseph minute to Kenneth Baker (“GLC County Hall”) [relocation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: MT personal minute to Secretary of State for Scotland (“MISC 109: Edinburgh”) [thanking for the message] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [JMB and Ansbacher] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [banking supervision] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute for Powell (“Discussion Paper on Policy towards South Africa”) [cover note] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute for Norgrove (“Lord Rothschild: South Africa”) [draft reply for MT] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Aug 31 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Aug 31 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO telegram to UKE Paris ("French rail crash") [message of sympathy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 31 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: MT message to Prime Minister González ("French rail crash") [condolences] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 31 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Wicks minute to MT ("Regional policy") [Gregson thinks if regional policy goes to Employment, so must responsibility for inward investment] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 31 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (NSA) Nicaragua: North-Poindexter emails (possible approach to MT) [declassified 1987] [114K scanned image]
Text 85 Sep 1 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: MT notes ("Action for Sunday") [final stage of planning - who to see/call, etc; names, including PPSs] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: MT notes (thoughts for press?) [top three look 'tired'; "Cecil not returning"; "13 yrs old"; "Team - Bcing - good image"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: MT notes ('Employment') [responsibilities being moved] [released 2015]
Text 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Prime Minister Gonzalez of Spain letter to MT (construction of the European Fighter Aircraft: Spanish participation) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove note to MT ("1985 Survey: Scotland and Northern Ireland") [proposed spending cuts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Charles Powell note to MT ("Ptarmigan/MSE") [UK bid for US contract: unconfirmed report of action following MT message to Reagan] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Proposed United Kingdom Action Against the Commission in the European Court of Justice") [annual premium for sheep; MT "delighted" with shift to "more aggressive policy" with regard to EC Commission/European Court] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Strategy for the Coal Industry”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO letter to UKREP Brussels ("EC Enlargement Negotiations") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1128 to FCO (1500Z) ("Gorbachev's Interview with Time Magazine: Comment") [summary & analysis] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: No.10 notes (gameplan) [final stage of planning - who to see/call, etc; names, including PPSs] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Armstrong minute to Wicks (possible machinery of government changes) [draft Note for Editors] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Draft press notice ("Ministerial Resignations and Appointments") [last minute adjustments written in] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Wicks note for MT (Hurd reservations about wholesale changes at Northern Ireland Office) [warns Chief Whip not to move Scott & Patten as well as himself] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby briefing (reshuffle) [12.30 & 6.50pm briefings, with attached note "Reshuffle 1985"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer APS letter to No.10 (“Press Advertisment: Keith Package”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Gummer letter to MT (regrets at leaving CCO, accepts new job, her vital role) ["you ought not to entertain thoughts of the kind you raised latterly with me"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: No.10 note for the record (“The 21 limit on the number of Cabinet Ministers”) [“Mr Tebbit will not count against the 21 limit”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa: Bishop Tutu”) [suggests he meet MT during his visit to the UK] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO to UKE Luxembourg (“Political Committee Meeting: 3-4 September: South Africa”) [resist claim SA financial crisis improves case for economic sanctions] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO to UKE Bonn ("Gorbachev Speech on Arms Control") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Department of Trade and Industry - the next moves") [British Leyland privatisation; new brooms] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT ("Value for Money Targets") [Private minute to MT: Ibbs "encouraged by progress" but "still some way to go"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT ("Value for Money Targets") [report on the use of value for money targets] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to No.10 (work of the Efficiency Unit) [better communication required to ensure Unit can provide input on relevant issues] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: New Zealand High Commission minute to Charles Powell (meeting with Harland) [new appointment] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 811 to FCO ('Hetman') [family question, free travel area, effect on morale of retaliations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Charles Powell minute to Caroline Ryder ("Commonwealth Secretary-General") [scheduling of meeting with MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("HETMAN") [inconceivable Russians will release HETMAN's family, expulsion of Soviet officials, impact on Anglo-Soviet dialogue] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mozambique: FCO letter to No.10 ("Possible Visit by President Machel of Mozambique") [Powell annotation to MT: 'I know that you have a soft spot for Machel. But there is really nothing more that we can offer him'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2457 to FCO (2130Z) (“US-South Africa”) [US policy on SA "in tatters" since July, "now even worse"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Lord Rothschild (his letter to President Botha) ["succinct and helpful"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“JMB and Ansbacher”) [briefing] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (jobs strategy) [MT irate about handling of meeting requests] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Nuclear Testing: Message to the Prime Minister from Mr Gorbachev) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("EMS") [European Monetary System: possible dates for seminar] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("1985 Public Expenditure Exercise") [timetable, composition of Star Chamber] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT ("Implementation of Scrutinies") [requests permission to publish report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT (value for money in Government) [comment on minutes from Robin Ibbs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Armstrong-'C'-Duff) [decision not to pursue release for HETMAN's family and to expel 25 Soviet GRU agents; line to take for the press; message to Reagan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT ("HETMAN") [decisions needed for meeting - whether to press further for release of HETMAN's family, number of expulsions of Soviet officials, etc] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Noonan letter to Douglas Hurd (court proceedings) [seizure of IRA money] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (privatisation programme: BA) [proposed press line on delayed sale] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1137 to FCO (1330Z) ("US Senators' Meeting with Gorbachev") [Gorbachev, Sen. Robert Byrd, Sen. Sam Nunn & others: record of conversation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["US/Soviet Summit": MT message to Reagan in advance of Summit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone (Airbus A300-600 aircraft) [possible All Nippon Airways contract] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe (“VAT Margin Scheme on Secondhand Goods: Reasoned Opinion”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Attorney General’s Legal Secretary letter to No.10 (nationalisation cases in European Court of Human Rights) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Richard Faulkner MP letter to Ingham (Report of the Football League: Working Party on Membership Cards) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Press Office minute to No.10 Policy Unit (“Shoot!”) [proposed MT article on football hooliganism for children’ comic] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Rome to FCO (“Visit by Troika to South Africa”) [Andreotti found visit "positive and very useful"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe) [Ten might want to "study measures" against South African Government; MT rejects phrase] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (“Local Authority Capital Expenditure 1986-7”) [analysis of the No.10 Policy Unit proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor-Attorney General) [JMB and Ansbacher] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Private Secretaries ("Value for Money Targets") [Efficiency Unit report on targets] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 internal minute (issues for Efficiency Unit advice)[Private Office to "to be on the lookout" for relevant issues] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra telegram 612 to FCO (0800Z) ("Resignation of Mr Peacock as leader of the Australian Liberal Party") [Howard elected leader] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Turkish Prime Minister Ozal letter for MT (Assistance for Turkey's admission in EDU) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Lord Hanson letter to MT (Hanson Trust activities in Canada) [request for MT to arrange personal introduction to PM Mulroney] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Ministry of Defence letter to John MacGregor (Defence sales: credit arrangements: Turkey) ["I share... [Howe & Channon's] disappointment at the cautious figure of £50M that has been proposed"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Heseltine minute to Tom King ("Contingency Plans for a Political Strike in Northern Ireland") [possibility of reinforcement from outside Northern Ireland, situation in prisons] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Policy Unit minute to MT (“Strategy for the Coal Industry”) [comment on Chancellor of the Exchequer's strategy proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: UKE Cairo telegram 585 to FCO (0930Z) ("Egypt: Cabinet Reshuffle") [report on resignation of Prime Minister Hassan Ali and on his successor Dr. Ali Lufti] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: Howe minute to Leon Brittan ("Egyptian Projects: Considerations for the Prime Minister's Visit") ["Our two Departments have differed... I am now writing to propose an approach which takes account of the various interests involved"] [released Jul 2018]
Text 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: McFarlane memorandum (public diplomacy programme to sell US policy towards South Africa) [declassified 1999]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (BBC) Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Governors minutes (“Real Lives”) [approved airing of the programme in October following statement agreed with Board of Management that reference procedures failed in this case] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Ottawa to FCO (“Canada and South Africa”) [Mulroney cautious on economic sanctions in tv interview] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Rajiv Gandhi (situation in South Africa) [does not share his view about economic sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Local Authority Capital Spending 1986-7”) [borrowing allocations] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Gorbachev (arms control issues: Geneva negotiations with the US) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Powell ("Carbon-Carbon Technology: USSR") [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for August 1985") ["...large external trade deficit for July... annual rate of inflation down... industrial production fell... unemployment increased slightly..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute: Policy Unit to Norgrove ("ARG borrowings") [British Leyland privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Tessa Gaisman minute to MT ("Mr McLay, Leader of the New Zealand Opposition Party") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Request by New Zealand for provision of a Diving Officer to assist in investigating the sinking of the Greenpeace vessel 'Rainbow Warrior'") [assistance, responsibility for sinking] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("HETMAN: Timing of Action") [case for delaying action until senior minister present in London] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("HETMAN") [Soviet intelligence activities in UK, expulsions of officials, restrictions on staff] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("HETMAN") [MT wants press statement not "to mince words" - the Russians were caught red handed in intelligence activities; reluctantly agrees to wait until 12 Spt, but with contingency plans to act sooner] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Secret Intelligence Service letter to Charles Powell ("HETMAN") [HETMAN told of MT's decision not to pursue further attempt to release his family] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Secret Intelligence Service letter to Charles Powell ("HETMAN") [digest of HETMAN's most significant reporting to be passed to the French Government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd PS minute to Mark Addison ("Proposed BBC Programme 'Real Lives'") [media should not give "gratuitous publicity to terrorists"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to David Norgrove ("NEDC Membership") [National Economic Development Council: Lawson invitation to Kenneth Baker to make up the five-Minister Governnment representation; "a waste of time"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("US/Soviet Summit") [MT criticises FCO draft of letter to President Reagan as "worse than useless"; Powell offers options for redraft] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Geneva Arms Control Talks: Western Strategy") [cover minute for FCO paper] [released Dec 2014]
Text 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: President Reagan letter to President P.W. Botha (explains US measures) [declassified 1999]
Text 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: State Department memorandum to McFarlane (following up US measures) [declassified 1999]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 briefing for MT (“MISC 66: Ministerial Group on Civil Service Pay Negotiations”) [MT agrees to advice that she should chair meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Home Affairs & Queen’s Speeches And Future Legislation committees) [proposed changes after reshuffle] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO to UKE Pretoria (Secretary of State’s radio interviews on South Africa) [transcript of Q&A] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“National Savings Interest Rates”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Governor) [an inquiry into Johnson Matthey Bankers (JMB)] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe minute to MT (“Geneva Arms Control Talks: Western Strategy”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Sep 7 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell letter to Colin McColl ('HETMAN') [MT touched by message from Gordievsky, replies to him; concern for his security and well-being] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: MT message to Oleg Gordievsky (decision on Gordievsky's family) ["we had to face up to the reality of the kind of people with whom we are dealing"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: National Security Decision Directive (“United States policy towards South Africa”) (NSDD-187) [declassified 1991]
Text 85 Sep 8 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Heseltine letter to Sir Edward du Cann (Parliamentary Maritime Group: invitation to Sir John Fielding) [invitation from the Group to the Chief of Naval Staff to address it, declined by Heseltine over concerns of setting a precedent] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science & Technology: Sir Henry Chilver letter to MT ("Exploitable Areas of Science") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Charles Powell minute to MT ("CHOGM: Bilateral Meetings") [Howe's recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("HETMAN") [agreed texts on expulsions; press briefing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office minute to Langdon ("Reform of Social Security") [consultation; White Paper] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: No.10 letter to Treasury ("The Yen") [addressing the imbalance in Japan's world economic role] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: White House Press Office Fact Sheet (“President’s decision on South African measures”)
PDF 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Teachers’ pay”) [package to be offered to Teachers’ Panel] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe minute to John MacGregor (“BBC External Services: Three Year Funding”) [the proposal “is central to the Perry review and BBC agreement to your proposals for current expenditure removes the last major obstacle to its implementation”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2542 to FCO (2045Z) (“US-South Africa”) [Reagan signs executive order introducing sanctions against South Africa] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Bonn to FCO (“US Sanctions against South Africa”) [FRG taken by surprise, unlikely to introduce economic sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“South Africa: Internal Situation and Prospects”) [pressures mount on SAG, but little sign of flexibility from Botha] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2543 to FCO (2345Z) (“US-South Africa”) [Crocker says no change in US opposition to mandatory UN sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2535 to FCO (0830Z) (“US-South Africa”) [Reagan to sign executive order distancing USG from apartheid while avoiding economically destructive measures] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Secretary of State for Wales minute to MT (“Local Authority Capital Expenditure 1986-87”) [Kenneth Baker’s proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Michael Jopling minute to MT (“Northern Ireland Agriculture and Fisheries: Transfer of Responsibility for certain MAFF Expenditure”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: MT personal minute to Baker (securing value for taxpayers' money) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: MT personal minute to Brittan (securing value for taxpayers' money) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: MT personal minute to Hurd (securing value for taxpayers' money) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: MT personal minute to King (securing value for taxpayers' money) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: MT personal minute to Luce (securing value for taxpayers' money) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: MT personal minute to Young (securing value for taxpayers' money) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to Ibbs ("Implementation of Scrutinies") [MT approves publication of report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Booth minute to No.10 ("Birmingham Riot") [report on Handsworth riots] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: MT message to David Lange ("Rainbow Warrior") [support of British experts in investigation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Charles Powell minute to Cabinet Office ("CHOGM: List of Briefs") [briefing arrangements; speaking notes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: FCO record of conversation (Howe, General Yar'Adua) ["Relations with Nigeria": repayment of ECGD debt by payment in oil] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay”) [Burnham Management Panel meeting: Government’s offer] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to MT (membership of Cabinet Committees) [effect of recent Ministerial changes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Financial Secretary’s membership of Queen’s Speeches and Future Legislation Committee”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Control of Civil Service Running Costs”) [extension of targets introduced in 1984] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute for MT (“Seminar on South Africa: 13 September”) [Chairman’s notes on main issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Chief Secretary to the Treasury minute to MT (“Local Authority Capital Expenditure 1986-87”) [Kenneth Baker’s proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT (“Local Authority Capital Expenditure 1986-87”) [agrees with Kenneth Baker’s proposals] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Powell ("Carbon-Carbon Technology: USSR") [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nicholas Ridley minute to John MacGregor ("Driving Examiners") [no public expenditure implications of proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Responsibilities of Treasury Ministers") [following reshuffle] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Booth minute to No.10 ("Birmingham Riot - Cabinet Discussion, Thursday 12 September") [Handsworth riots] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell note to MT ("HETMAN") [timing of actions tomorrow] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Robert Armstrong briefing for MT ('HETMAN') [speaking note for cabinet - timetable for expulsion of Soviet agents; announcement of Gordievsky's defection] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Tornado for Saudi Arabia") [Prince Sultan's visit to UK: lunch; MT queries status of negotiations] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: John A. Edwards telegram to MT ("US Defence Secretary, Forthcoming Vote - Ptarmigan Plessey Contract") [update on bidding for US contract] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [first meeting of the InterGovernmental Conference, 9 Sep; Budget Council, 17-18 Sep; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("British Irish Association") [Association agree to postpone annual meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks: Northern Ireland") [report on latest round of talks with Nally] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks: Northern Ireland") [joint courts and Ulster Defence Regiment: Irish Government 'trembling on the brink of an agreement'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Walker (“National Coal Board: Sir Robert Haslam's Salary”) ['in the last resort and to secure the appointment, I would accept the need for you to go up to £150,000'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("US/Soviet Summit") [redraft of letter to President Reagan] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph) [teachers’ pay] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Young letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Teachers’ pay”) [recommends accepting package offered by employers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“EC-South Africa: Cessation of Oil Exports”) [Powell: FCO forced to admit you are right, though tries hard not to] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Nelson Mandela”) [deterioration in his health - MT agrees private approach to SAG] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to MT (“Foreign Currency Borrowing”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria minute for Howe (“South Africa: Edging backwards into Reform”) [27 Sep Fergusson cover note to Powell regrets "so much blood on the floor over attachés"] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young letter to John MacGregor (“Long Term Unemployment”) [proposal for extra fraud staff] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Gorbachev letter to President Reagan (US/Soviet relations & disarmament) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Portugal: MT letter to Prime Minister Soares (Viseu rail accident) [message of condolence] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: MT message to President Duarte (kidnap of Duarte's daughter) ["I pray that she may be released unharmed quickly"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office (new management board for Ordnance Survey) [proposal to reorganise structure] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: David Lange message to MT (sinking of Rainbow Warrior) [help of British experts in investigation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1163 to FCO (1340Z) ("Expulsion of Soviet Personnel from UK") [British Ambassador spoke with Suslov; read speaking note then said PM and Foreign Secretary wished recent improvement in Anglo-Soviet relations to be "improved and developed further"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Gow minute to MT ("Community Budget for 1986: Budget Council, 17-18 September 1985") ["This minute outlines the approach which I propose to take"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Edwards PS letter to Howe PS ("10th Anniversary of Community Regional Policy and the European Regional Development Fund") [Edwards declines invitation to attend] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-King-Howe-Armstrong) ["Anglo-Irish Talks: Northern Ireland"; line to take in negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to Hatfield (copy of legal advice provided to Scargill by Seifert Sedley Williams solicitors) ['I am not sure how interesting the [advice] letter is, or indeed whether it is genuine'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("North Sea Gas Prices and Jobs") [continuity of employment of gas workers and development of new gas fields] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to President Reagan (US/Soviet Summit in Geneva, November 1985) [countering Gorbachev 'propaganda' campaign; stresses need to aim for substantial outcomes from Summit; SDI/arms control; human rights; Afghanistan; McFarlane pre-meeting with MT] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: General Secretary Gorbachev letter to President Reagan (US/Soviet Summit in Geneva, November 1985) [agenda; desired outcomes; Shultz/Shevardnadze meeting; joint document] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: MT message to Prime Minister Lufti (1630Z) (appointment as Prime Minister) [congratulations] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 27th (Membership, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs, Economic Affairs) [Handsworth riot] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“The CAP: views of FRG Agriculture Minister Kiechle”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Addison minute for MT (“Education Seminar”) [ministerial representation] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKE Washington telegram 2577 to FCO (2000Z) (“Minister (Economic’s) Meeting with Chairman Volcker”) [international debt, monetary policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay”) [negotiations unsuccessful] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: President Cossiga to MT (visit to UK) [has to cancel owing to "sudden build up of internal and international commitments"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Shops Bill: Sunday trading”) [protection against dismissal for refusing to work on Sundays] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKREP Brussels to FCO (“South Africa”) [Commission minded to act under Article 113] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (“Local Government Advertising: H Committee, 11 September”) [misuse of power for political purposes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Environment Secretary PS minute to No.10 (“E(LF) Meeting 23 September”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 minute to MT (“President Cossiga”) [cancellation of his visit to the UK] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: MT letter to President Reagan (advice on his meeting with Gorbachev) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Enterprise Allowance Scheme”) [unemployment qualifying period] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: MT minute to Heseltine ("R & D priorities across Government") ["...MISC 110 should be invited to undertake the further work suggested by the [Ministerial] Group... subject - of course - to general acknowledgement that you are not committed at this stage to... reduction in Government-funded defence R&D..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: MT minute to Whitelaw ("R & D priorities across Government") [membership and remit of the Ministerial Group on research & development, with emphasis on key roles of Brittan and Heseltine; and on key issues of integrating defence & civil industry R&D, and remedying failure of private sector to innovate adequately] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Baker paper circulated to E(LF) - E(LF) (85) 4 ("Second Specification Report") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Secretaries paper circulated to Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 4 ("Second Specification Report") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Booth minute to No.10 ("Birmingham Riot/Policy Unit Report and Analysis") [Handsworth riots] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Home Office letter to No.10 ("Handsworth Riot") [information on Birmingham riots and implementation of the Scarman Report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Charles Powell minute to No.10 Policy Unit (tackling the drug problem: David Mellor's visit to Pakistan) [MT's views on Hurd/Mellor proposal that Hartley Booth accompany Mellor, and Policy Unit suggestion that Booth should take soundings about Extradition Treaty] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("European Community: Inter-Governmental Conference") [report on first meeting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letters to Rev. Ian Paisley MP and Jim Molyneaux MP (Anglo-Irish talks: response to joint letter) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Wicks minute to MT ("Strategy for the Coal Industry") [suggested procedure for carrying forward Chancellor of the Exchequer's strategy proposals 'even if Mr. Walker did not back them'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to David Norgrove ("The Oil Market") [warning of change in Saudi policy on its role in controlling global production] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ingham minute to MT ("Presentation of Policy") ["The problem throughout this Government's life... has been that it has been strong on policy and weak on presentation"; proposals] [released Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Addison minute for MT (conversation with Laurens van der Post: situation in South Africa) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [coal, G5 and dollar, running costs] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“VAT Margin Scheme on Secondhand Goods: Reasoned Opinion”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Conservative MPs (teachers’ pay dispute: Burnham Committee meeting) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (teachers’ pay dispute) [response to rejection of offer] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Civil Service Manpower Numbers: Staff in Post at 1 July 1985”) [“reduction since the Government took office in 1979 is some 18.6 per cent”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“President’s Council Report on Influx Control and Urbanisation”) [widely welcomed by business & PFP] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Ottawa to FCO (“Canada and South Africa”) [Clark’s statement in the Parliament: full sanctions unless "tangible movement away from apartheid"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Brussels to FCO (“South Africa: Withdrawal of Military Attaches”) [Belgium withdrawing accreditation of SA Military Attaché] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (“Local Authority Capital Expenditure 1986-1987”) [the Policy Unit’s proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (“H Committee: Local Government Advertising”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [borrowing request] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Foreign Currency Borrowing”) [HMG dollar floating rate note issue: revised briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (“Policy toward South Africa”) [Chequers seminar] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Sep 14 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1180 to FCO (1905Z) ("Retaliatory Expulsion from Moscow") [analysis of Soviet action - exceeds worst expectations, "savage scale" suggesting they have established the means by which Gordievsky reached the West, but urges ministers to "dispense with the indulgence of counter-retaliation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1176 to FCO (1520Z) ("Retaliatory Soviet Expulsions from USSR") [Ambassador summoned to hear Soviet condemnation and list of 25 British representatives to be expelled] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1179 to FCO (1800Z) ("Expulsions from Moscow") [TASS statement underplaying expulsions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1175 to FCO (1450Z) ("Expulsions: Mr Younger's Visit") [revises view that Younger visit go ahead, given severity of Soviet retaliatory action, which will make bilateral relations difficult for some time] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1174 to FCO (1510Z) ("Expulsion from Moscow") [likely Soviet allegations concerning exfiltration of Gordievsky, best handled in London] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 14 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1173 to FCO (1500Z) ("Expulsion from Moscow") [list of British diplomats and press expelled] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1172 to FCO (1430Z) ("Expulsion from Moscow") [Ambassador summoned to be told British actions "malicious and hostile"; Soviets announced further expulsions] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Sep 15 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 15 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Director-General Secret Intelligence Service letter to MT (summary of intelligence derived from Gordievsky) [Gordievsky touched by MT letter showing concern for his family's safety] [declassified Dec 2014
PDF 85 Sep 15 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("HETMAN") [Soviet response harsh but carefully planned to match UK's original action, suggests further expulsions/restricted travel area with a view to signifying "an end to the matter"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 15 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Brittan) [options for reaction to retaliatory expulsions by Soviets] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 15 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 105”) [three new polls put Labour support at around 35 percent] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 15 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Julian Amery (South Africa, Middle East) [thanks for letter, book, Chequers conversation] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of Kadar") [General Secretary János Kádár visit to UK: Hungarians request more time be set aside for scheduled meeting with MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Inland Revenue paper circulated to Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 5 ("A Modified Property Tax") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Lord Chancellor's Office letter to No.10 ("Handsworth Riot") [Birmingham riots] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Cabinet Office letter to Private Secretaries ("Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Nassau: 16-22 October 1985") [briefing arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1185 to FCO (0900Z) ("Counter Retaliations against Soviet Expulsions") [Ambassador regrets ministers unwilling to follow his advice] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO telegram 889 to UKE Moscow (0430Z) ("Retaliatory Expulsions from Moscow") [no final decision; ministers clear there must be further expulsions from London, but should avoid going into a third round of expulsions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Hurd-Howe and others) ["Retaliation for Expulsions from Moscow" - should go ahead with further expulsions, but choose carefully to avoid further Soviet retaliation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing ("Gordievsky: Second Wave Expulsions") [Howe TV interviews to discuss expulsions of Soviet officials] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: Andreas Papandreou message to MT (bomb attack at Glyfada resort) [Greek shock at attack, hunt for perpetrators, desire to reinforce bilateral relations in all possible areas] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Ian Gow ("Community Budget for 1986: Budget Council 17-18 September 1985") [EC enlargement and the cost of the past; staffing] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Hurd ("European Community Migration Policy") [supports Hurd proposal to take EC Commission to European Court] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]

Documents lie at the core of this website, each one dated and sorted chronologically (by default) in search results. Most are images in PDF format of original paper documents scanned or filmed for the site. There also transcripts of speeches and interviews, press articles, photos, videos, and more. The document database contains tens of thousands of items and permits complex searching.

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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