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PDF 89 Apr 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Crispin Tickell minute to Dominic Morris ("Global Climate Change: Seminar at Downing Street") [outlines of talk] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Ridley PS minute to Charles Powell (follow up to environment conference) [attendance, UK climate initiatives] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell (follow up to environment conference) [Lubbers' hopes for UK attendance] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Environmental Cooperation") [participating in meeting will look like a climb down] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 7 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Dominic Morris minute to Ridley PS ("Global Climate Seminar") [agenda for attendees] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 7 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Dominic Morris minute to MT (Economist report) [equates action with more money from government] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to Paul Gray ("Satellite Television: Complaints from Sky") [progress being made on Sky's key points of concern] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT (Soviet nuclear submarine accident in vicinity of Bear Island, North Sea) [first report] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ken Clarke minute to MT ("Community Care") [need to reach early conclusions on the way forward] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to Robin Butler ("Ministerial Group on Broadcasting Services (MISC 128)") [inclusion of Russell, Rifkind, Howe, Baker] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell message to General Scowcroft (1215Z) (Gorbachev visit to UK) [report on talks with MT: assurance that topics of Nambia & Central America were discussed, as requested] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Conservative Research Department paper ("Why Mr Gorbachev Came to Britain") [Charles Powell's amendments to draft] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 613 to FCO (0800Z) ("Gorbachev Visit to UK: Soviet Media Coverage of Second Full Day") [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: President Gorbachev message to MT (Soviet nuclear submarine accident in vicinity of Bear Island, North Sea) [details; Charles Powell advice on handling] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to President Gorbachev (Soviet nuclear submarine accident in vicinity of Bear Island, North Sea) [thanks for being informed, and congratulations on success of recent visit to UK] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Your Ten Years, Gorbachev) ["Gorbachev goes home to trouble"; "Bush signals USA will hold a steady course in approach and policy towards USSR"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Younger minute to MT ("Low flying in the Federal Republic of Germany") [MT concerned by proposed reduction in training time for RAF pilots] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UK Ambassador Mallaby letter to Howe ("The Federal Republic of Germany: how reliable an ally?") ["There is another burst of doubt in NATO capitals... this despatch considers which doubts are justified"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ingham minute for Lord President ("Televising the House") [urges tight rules; "Television is not concerned with information or reporting: its primary concern is ENTERTAINMENT"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit: Message to President Bush") [Powell redrafts suggested FCO text to give more impressions and conclusions] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Talks with Mr Lubbers: Chequers, 29 April") [topics] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Clarke PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Deputising Services - Current Position") [PAC investigation, Department of Health guidance] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Andrew Turnbull minute to Clarke PS ("NHS Review: Publicity Material") [MT thinks the documents are a valuable source of information] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Sir Roy Griffiths) [policy on community care] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young ("Local Services") [proposed new framework] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Environmental Cooperation") [MT strongly disagrees with advice given on reply to Lubbers; we remain opposed to a new international authority; requests revised draft] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: John Major minute to Cecil Parkinson ("Climatic Change: Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector") [new arrangements for charging energy use] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Cristopher Chope minute to MT (clay pigeon shooting) [arrangements for use of land] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Cradock minute to MT ("Gorbachev's Guildhall Speech") ["In an uninspired speech, one passage struck me, the sharp warning to NATO to drop the idea of modernising tactical nuclear weapons"; full text of speech attached] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Chairman of ICI letter to MT (Gorbachev Visit to UK) [financing for joint industrial ventures] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: National Council for Soviet Jewry letter to MT (Gorbachev Visit to UK) ["you have, with respect to President Gorbachev's visit, done everything we could have expected"] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT to Lord Mayor of London (Gorbachev Visit to UK) ["I should like to express formally the Government's great appreciation for... [the City of London's] generous help"] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Bonn telegram 380 to FCO (1634Z) ("Visit to London by President Gorbachev: German Press Reaction") [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Bonn telegram 377 to FCO (1445Z) ("Gorbachev's Visit to London: FRG Reactions: Arms Control") [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Dugdale briefing ("Interview for Radio Marsden") [questions will be personal] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Malaysia: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("ATP Malaysia: Pergau Hydro-Electric Project") ["As Balfour Beatty now accept, their failure to provide us with accurate cost estimates... has placed us in a very difficult position"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [post-Gorbachev; Howe visit to US; London Information Forum; SNF modernisation/nuclear arms; Namibia] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Dominic Morris minute to MT ("Global Climate Seminar: 26 April") [anotated agenda and programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Ridley PS minute to Dominic Morris ("Global Climate Seminar") [note on main points for each session] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Douglas McClelland minute to Charles Powell (Australian climate research) [approval of programme on greenhouse effect] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: MT message to Gro Harlem Brundtland (ozone layer) [need to keep up momentum towards abandoning ozone depleting chemicals] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit: Message to President Bush") [cover note only, referring to Charles Powell's reworking of FCO draft] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT message to Chancellor Kohl ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit") [account of talks; conclusions] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT message to President Mitterrand ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit") [account of talks; conclusions] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Percy Cradock minute to MT ("Visit to Moscow") [Ambassador Braithwaite proposal that Cradock visit USSR 'open some doors', in his capacity as MT's Foreign Affairs Advisor] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 625 to FCO (0748Z) ("Soviet Submarine Accident") [details of Soviet Defence Minister Yazov interview by 'Izvestia'] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 84 to FCO (1055Z) ("Soviet Submarine") [report on Norwegian investigation into nuclear submarine accident] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Intelligence telegram ("Internal friction among top political leaders in China") [Li Peng on Zhao Ziyang: "I don't see how a person who is always playing golf can know anything"] [declassified ?2014]
PDF 89 Apr 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Docks, Peter Walker, Soccer, Community Care) [unions divided by docks strike ballot] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Paris Economic Summit") [world economy, trade and agriculture, debt, environment, money laundering] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Lord Roll message to MT (Paris Summit) [unofficial meeting, draft documents on macro-economic policy] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("The Community Charge") [getting message across during local election campaign] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ian Whitehead minute to MT ("Community Care. Meeting with Kenneth Clarke") [public expectations of reform proposals are high] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Care") [mistake to follow Griffiths' local authority model] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Royal College Nursing letter to MT (NHS Policy Board) [need for a nursing representative] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Community Care") [government response to Griffiths Report] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John Redwood note ("Community Care") [models for reform] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Nicholas Ridley minute to David Young ("Montreal Protocol") [objective to ensure UK's world leadership is visibly maintained] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Dominic Morris minute to Ridley PS ("Global Climate Seminar: 26 April") [briefing materials needed] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Paul Channon note for MT ("Options for Reducing Greenhouse Gases from Vehicles") [technical improvements, vehicle usage] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Carbon Dioxide and Climatic Change") [energy policies have led to heavy dependence on fossil fuels] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: John Fairclough paper ("Global Climate") [research priorities and coordination, participation in ERS-2] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: President Gorbachev message to MT (Visit to UK) ["As usual, negotiations and personal contacts with you gave food for new thoughts and in general - for optimism"; conclusions as to key outcomes] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting on Economic and Monetary Union") [Delors Report: "Obviously we do not like the Report... [but] it would be unwise to... [exclude] ourselves from further discussion"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Governor of the Bank of England letter to MT ("Economic and Monetary Union") [publication of Delors Report and outstanding issues still to be resolved by the Committee] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Judges, Labour Party Politics, Your Ten Years) ["Judges get a terrible hammering in leader columns for their threatened 'strike'"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Director Conservative Research Department circular ("Euro-Election 1989") [arrangements - David Cameron as 'runner'] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Major (business rate in Scotland) [a generous offer] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Royal College of Midwives letter to MT (NHS Policy Board) [Chief Nursing Officer should be a member] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Clarke) [need to reach decisions on handling of community care] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young ("MISC 128: Monitoring the 25% Initiative") [approves proposed scheme] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: MacGregor PS minute to Dominic Morris ("Climatic Change") [agriculture's contribution to global warming] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: FCO minute to Cabinet Office ("Global Climate") [paper on international handling of climate change] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 390 to FCO (1240Z) ("FRG Cabinet Reshuffle") ["changes may help the coalition turn the corner"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ambassador Zamyatin) [impressions of Gorbachev's visit to the UK] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Bonn telegram 388 to FCO (1042Z) ("Call on Teltschik: Gorbachev's Visit and SNF") [delivery of MT message to Kohl, giving her impressions of Gorbachev's visit to the UK; German/Soviet negotiations on self-determination in Europe; SNF modernisation] [released Dec 2017]
Text 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (National Security Archive) Cold War: Politburo discussion of MT-Gorbachev meeting (document from Gorbachev Archive) [“I like the independence of Thatcher”]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 13th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe) ["Delors Committee Report": agreement of proposed line to take: "economic and monetary union are not possible within the existing Treaty"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Delors Report: meeting at 4.30pm") [Economic and Monetary Union: key issues and line to take in response to the Report] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Peter Walker) ["Judges bow to pressure of public opinion and postpone their meeting on the Green Papers"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths note for MT ("Broadcasting: No.10 meeting on the quality factor") ["little value", "a lobbying exercise by the industry to limit competition"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute for MT ("Broadcasting: local services and Channel 6") [revised proposals for cable to ease entry; drop Channel 6 idea] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute for MT ("Channel 4") [rejects idea of guaranteed income for C4 and ownership by ITC; privatisation "remains an attractive option"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute for MT ("MISC 128: implementing the broadcasting White Paper") [sceptical of Home Secretary's points on quality, power of ITC; Home Office "never that happy with the White Paper"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute for MT ("Broadcasting: ownership") [Home Secretary's proposals designed to "clip the wings of a Murdoch or a Maxwell", but real beneficiaries will be existing franchise holders; "the unacceptable face of a new protectionist Europe"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ken Clarke paper ("Services for the Mentally Ill") [should deal separately with such services] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Community Care") [possibility of a phased approach to reform] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd (terrestrial TV) [should not pursue a 6th channel yet] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("MISC 128: Monitoring the 25 Per Cent Initiative") [case for further action if BBC doesn't cooperate] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Broadcasting") [upcoming meetings, local services, C6] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Ministerial Group on Broadcasting Services (MISC 128)") [local services, ownership requirements, C4] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Broadcasting: No 10 Meeting on the Quality Factor") [broadcasting is a large and gossipy village] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Wakeham ("Environment Committee Report on Toxic Waste: Government Response") [draft response outlines government position] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Global Climate") [Convention, international consensus, CO2, CFCs] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Dominic Morris briefing for MT ("Global Climate") [ministerial meeting to discuss international initiatives, research, domestic action] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Dominic Morris minute to MT ("Global Climate") [difference between Young and Ridley on UK bottom line on Montreal Protocol] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Greg Bourne minute to MT ("Climatic Change Energy Efficiency and the Electricity Bill") [possible concessions to Lords] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Sir Geoffrey Howe paper for MT ("Global Climate") [international handling of climate change in medium term] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Global Climate") [international efforts by UK, measures UK could support] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Seminar on Global Climate Wednesday 26 April") [concern at effect of greenhouse gases on climate] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Global Climate") [international handling, forestry, domestic action, energy] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: World Conservation Union letter to Dominic Morris ("Global Climate Change: Seminar at Downing Street") [outline of talk] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 399 to FCO (1510Z) ("FRG Cabinet Reshuffle: Initial Local Reactions") ["no-one willing to say that Kohl has found the answer"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Lord Rees-Mogg (London Information Forum) [MT agrees to meeting, to discuss broadcasting ban on Sinn Fein] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit") [Charles Powell, Kossov: Soviet criticism of UK interpreter for Howe/Shevardnadze meeting] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Luxembourg telegram to FCO ("Delors Committee Report on EMU: Chancellor's press conference, 17 April 1989") ["we cannot accept the transfer of sovereignty which is implied by the Delors Report"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Sheffield Disaster/Comment, Your Visit, Your Ten Years) ["Horrific pictures on front pages of spectators crushed against wire fence"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Visit of Mr Lubbers") [scheduling of meeting around Hillsborough memorial service & MT meeting with families] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ian Whitehead minute to MT ("Community Care. Ministerial Meeting on 19 April") [Clarke's proposal for a pilot scheme] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ken Clarke note ("Community Care: Care of the Elderly") [central elements for an effective response] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John Moore minute to MT ("Community Care") [difficulties of Clarke's proposed care test] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to Douglas Hurd ("Local Services") [franchises, levy] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Kenneth Baker minute to Douglas Hurd ("Broadcasting in the '90s") [future for educational programming] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to Hurd PS ("Broadcasting: No. 10 Meeting on the Quality Factor") [shouldn't provide focus for lobbying] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to Hurd PS ("Local Services and Channel 6") [announcements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: George Guise minute to MT ("Global Climate") [work on environmental measurement and computer modelling urgent priority] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister") [anticipated details of oral message from Gorbachev to MT] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Percy Cradock minute to MT ("Soviet Criticism of Lenin") [recent articles in Soviet media; "no longer sacrosanct"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 655 to FCO (1537Z) ("Georgia: Dismissal of Republican Leaders") [details of Shevardnadze speech to Georgian plenum, covered by Soviet media] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("CSCE Information Forum") [schedule & background] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Delors Committee Report: first French reactions") ["Beregovoy reportedly favourable... confirming France ready to discuss a new Treaty"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Hillsborough Comment, Your Ten Years) [responses to disaster] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [visit to Washington; SNF modernisation/nuclear arms; Economic & Monetary Union; EC matters; Lebanon] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Roy Griffiths minute to Paul Gray ("Community Care") [disagreement with recommendations on the elderly and mentally ill] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Meeting on Community Care: 19 April") [briefing papers] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John Major minute to MT ("Community Care") [generally sympathetic to Clarke's proposals] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Community Care") [care of the elderly, care of the mentally ill, care in Wales] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 note to MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: 19 April") [chairmanship of Doctors and Dentists Review Body; markets; trade figures] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd (local services) [SMATV regime] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Tony Newton minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Environment Committee Report on Toxic Waste: Government Response") [responses to consultation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Younger PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Global Climate") [not appropriate for MoD to participate in funding ERS-2 programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Petrovsky) [Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister: 'British week' in Kiev; Gorbachev visit to UK; conventional forces reduction negotiations; Soviet elections; Georgia; MT invitation to USSR; Hillsborough] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Hillsborough, Your Ten Years) ["Police allege that drunken fans picked the pockets of Hillsborough disaster victims and kicked, punched and urinated on them"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Ingham minute for MT ("MISC 128 - broadcasting") ["You, of all people, must not go down in history as the person who ruined British television"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Wakeham ("New burdens on local government") ["latest list of Central Government initiatives"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Roy Griffiths and Christopher France paper ("Central Management of the NHS") [proposed structure and method of operation] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 19 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Peter Walker minute to Douglas Hurd ("Local Services") [revised proposals] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Peter Walker minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Environment Committee Report on Toxic Waste: Government Response") [excellent summary of government's position] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Dominic Morris minute to MT (Environment Committee Report on Toxic Waste) ["proposed little of substance that the Government did not already have firmly in hand"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: George Guise minute to MT ("Today's Global Climate Meeting") [temperature change, forests] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Director-General of the Security Service) ["Expulsion of Members of the Soviet and Czech Embassies": handling; publicity; timing] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) China: CIA telegram ("China: student protests escalate") [will probably sharpen dissension within leadership, "may further weaken" Zhao Ziyang] [declassified 2001]
PDF 89 Apr 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Defense Intelligence Agency HQ telegram ("China: student protests") ["an escalation of student protests will most likely trigger a government crackdown"] [declassified ?2014]
PDF 89 Apr 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Hillsborough Comment, Anti-Drugs Trails, Your Ten Years) ["You face a full-scale revolt over Football Spectators Bill"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Bicentennary of the French Revolution: Paris, 13-14 July 1989") [arrangements for events] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: Powell minute for MT (Meeting with the Yugoslav Foreign Minister) ["his ambassador has waged a formidable campaign to get him in"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Yugoslav Federal Secretary") [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Clarke PS minute to Paul Gray ("Central Management of the NHS") [proposals for operation and structure] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-Ridley-Rifkind-Clarke-Major-Mellor-Wilson-Monger-Wells-Whitehead) [policy on community care] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Market Report") [markets were in "a slightly rocky mood this afternoon"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Tomorrow's Economic Figures") [consumer spending figures suggest "some degree of slow down"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young (terrestrial TV) [should not pursue possible C6 for foreseeable future] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: David Young minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Montreal Protocol") [dependent on industry's ability to develop new technologies] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Richard Ryder minute to David Young ("Strengthening the Montreal Protocol on Production and Consumption of Chlorofluorocarbon (CFCs)") [support the proposals] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Paul Channon minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Environment Committee Report on Toxic Waste: Government Response") [no objection to publication] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn saving telegram 5 to FCO ("FRG Economy") [latest figures] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: The Great Britain-USSR Association letter to No.10 ('British Week' in Kiev) [background note] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Treasury record of conversation (international economic assistance for Poland and addressing the management of Communist country economies; Mexico and interest guarantees) [George Soros, Peter Lilley, Mountfield] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 14th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French reactions to the Delors Report") [Prime Minister Rocard comments to the press] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Economic and monetary union: Delors Report") ["Bundesbank is generally satisfied... as yet there is no clear liaison between Frankfurt and Bonn on the way forward and it is not clear what role the Bundesbank will play"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Hillsborough Comment, Membership Scheme) ["Pops treat decision to go ahead with membership card scheme with tactical delay in remarkably low key"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Perks briefing (BBC interview about Lord Whitelaw) [MT's relationship with Whitelaw, his role in government] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yugoslav Foreign Minister) [Yugoslavia's economic and ethnic problems] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Central Management of the NHS") [meeting to review progress of new arrangements] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Central Management of the NHS") [Department of Health proposals] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Broadcasting: Monitoring the 25 Per Cent Initiative") [MT note suggests including clause on BBC requirement in bill] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Meeting of MISC 128: 24 April") [Channel 6, monitoring quality] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("MISC 128: Monitoring the 25% Initiative") [difference in response from IBA and BBC, proposed legislation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Dominic Morris minute to MT ("Global Climate Seminar: 26 April") [will be off the record] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Ridley PS minute to Dominic Morris ("Global Climate Seminar: 26 April") [climate change, greenhouse effect, international responses] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Global Climate") [international efforts, forestry, research, energy] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: No.10 record of conversation (Global Climate seminar) [international handling, forestry, domestic action, energy, transport, agriculture] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Department of Health minute to Andrew Turnbull (Lancet paper) [greenhouse effect] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Paul Silk minute to Dominic Morris (Global Warming Seminar) [published memoranda] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Douglas Hurd minute to Tom King ("Proscription of Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO)") [ample grounds for proscription in Northern Ireland, should not be proscribed in Britain] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 417 to FCO (1030Z) ("Kohl's Political Doldrums") [intention to "jettison a number of unpopular policies"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 23 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to the Soviet Union") [Soviet invites to working meeting with Gorbachev in Kiev, to coincide with British Month, and to pay official visit in late 1990/early 1991] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, EC, Your Ten Years) [pressure mounting over interest rates] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Lennox-Boyd conversation record (Conservative backbench Home Affairs and Sport Committee) ["A lot of fires burning at moment"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute for MT ("Reader's Digest") [magazine has advertised interview with MT] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Anglo Dutch Summit at Chequers: 29 April") [domestic political scene; topics for Chequers] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Central Management of the NHS: Meeting on 25 April") [briefing papers] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Robin Butler minute to MT ("Central Management of the NHS") [relationship between management executive and rest of Department of Health] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ken Clarke minute to MT ("NHS Management: Policy Board") [ready to announce formation of new Board] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: MT letter to Ruth Ashton (NHS Policy Board) [Health Secretary responsible for appointments] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd ("The Choice of Frequencies for MVDS") [issue of a consultative paper] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Kenneth Baker ("Broadcasting in the 1990s") [children's and educational programming] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to Young PS ("MISC 128: Monitoring the 25 Per Cent Initiative") [possible legislation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Future Meetings on Broadcasting") [meeting with ITV representatives] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: UKMIS New York telegram 2 to Cabinet Office (2118Z) ("Global Climate Change Seminar") [US attendee had not received any background information on seminar] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Paul Channon minute to Lord Caithness (EC proposals on CO2 emissions) [should encourage Commission to think harder about action needed] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Geoffrey Howe minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer") [international community expects UK to take a firm lead in strengthening rules] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Department of Energy briefing for MT ("Global Warming: Power Station Efficiency") [past and future performance, projects] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Parkinson PS minute to Paul Gray ("Global Climate") [power stations, waste sites] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury briefing for MT ("Meetings with Prime Minister Lubbers, Chancellor Kohl and President de Mita: the Delors Report") [proposed lines to take] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, SNF) [MT "heading for a showdown with Kohl" over NATO] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Lennox-Boyd conversation record (MT-Chairman of 1922 Committee) ["In the end we will have to bribe the doctors"; coming reshuffle] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [SNF/nuclear arms; South Africa/ARMSCOR; UN Secretary General] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to Norman Lamont ("Business Rates in Scotland") [financing the cost] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to Lamont PS ("Business Rates in Scotland") [presuming authorities will reduce spending] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Treasury briefing for MT ("Meetings with Prime Minister Lubbers, Chancellor Kohl, and President de Mita: the Delors Report") [Lawson's suggested lines to take] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 minute to MT ("Meeting with Mr. Lubbers: 29 April") [attendees; arrangements; programme] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to Clarke PS ("NHS Management: Policy Board") [avoid appointing representatives of particular groups or vested interests] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Rifkind-Clarke-Major-Mellor-Roy Griffiths-Christopher France-Duncan Nichol-Wilson-Monger-Whitehead) [NHS management structure and operation] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: 26 April") [markets/trade figures; computer hacking; Off-shore Supplies Office; Ian Percival (legal aid); sponsorship role in government departments] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young ("Privatisation of the Transmission System") [greater spur to efficiency in the longer term] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to Hurd PS ("Broadcasting Meetings") [small event on quality in broadcasting] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Geoffrey Howe minute to Lord Caithness ("Car Exhaust Emissions Standards") [European Commission proposals] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Dominic Morris minute to MT ("Global Climate Seminar") [arrangements, briefings] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Environment Committee Report on Toxic Waste: Government Response") [amendments to reflect different position of Scotland] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Cabinet Office briefing (Global Warming Seminar) [list of guests] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Ridley PS minute to Andy Bearpark (ozone layer) [proposed Cambridge-IBM modelling project] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 443 to FCO (1545Z) ("FRG Withholding Tax") [domestic 10 percent WHT to be abolished] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to Kenneth Warren MP (British Aerospace Industry partnerships with Soviets) ["events since you wrote have turned out rather better than at one time seemed likely"] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 701 to FCO (0606Z) ("Soviet Assessment of Gorbachev's Visit and of Bilateral Relations") [Ambassador Braithwaite, Foreign Affairs Advisor Chernyayev: record of conversation] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Cecil Parkinson minute to MT ("Visit to the USSR") [report on trade promotion visit] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Environment/Climate, Your Ten Years, Politics) ["You warn Kohl of risks to NATO in West Germany's SNF stand"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Powell minute to FCO ("Prime Minister's Interview with the Daily Times, Lagos") [UK's relationship with African countries] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chief Secretary ("Community Charge capping in Scotland") [Lawson: "The CST must be robust"] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 26 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 letter to Ridley PS ("Role of local authorities") [MT "rather surprised" by Conservative County Council manifesto reference to no further significant structural reforms; was not consulted; requests meeting with Ridley and paper] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Netherlands Prime Minister") [nuclear deterrent; Gorbachev's visit; environment; Southern Africa; EC] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Dutch Prime Minister: 29 April: EC issues") ["additional EC subjects"] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO briefing for MT ("Talks with Mr Lubbers: 29 April") [arrangements; key issues; personality notes] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Nicholas Ridley paper ("Community Care: The Local Authority Option") [proposals for functional and budgetary responsibility] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Crispin Tickell notes for seminar (climate change) [international framework, agreements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Soviet Central Committee Plenum") [clear-out of the old order] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 710 to FCO (1300Z) ("Soviet Internal: CPSU Central Committee Plenum, 25 April") [clear-out of old order] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to David Eccles (European Monetary System) ["Technology has mindlessly created one world... We must all work for intercontinental arrangements"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Delors Report and the EMS") [case against UK membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main Years, Food Blackmail, Global Climate Seminar, Economy) ["Thatcher heads for new row with EC"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Major PS minute to Charles Powell ("UK Economic Summit 1991") [London the only feasible venue] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("Local Authority Current: Treasury Strategy for E(LF)") [Lawson - CST needs to be "very tough"; "would also want to forge an alliance on as many issues as possible with Mr Ridley"] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young ("Choice of Frequencies for MVDS") [important to get decision right] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd (Privatisation of the Transmission System) [publication of report] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Tom King ("Proscription of Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO)") [proscription in Britain would be difficult to justify] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to the Soviet Union") [meeting with Gorbachev in Kiev, to coincide with British Month; MT agrees to Charles Powell requesting assurances from FCO as to the quality of the exhibition] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("International Economic Assistance to Poland") [FCO view on George Soros' proposals] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office (George Soros) [request for a meeting with MT to discuss Eastern Europe] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 15th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Chancellor Kohl, Baby Food) ["Spiked baby food dominates the pops"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Italian PM de Mita) [East/West; SNF; EMU; Middle East; Genoa Exposition; "de Mita's thought processes ... tend to be obscure"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 28 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Care: Meeting on 4 May") [need for a better paper from DOE] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Department of Health paper ("Community Care") [proposals for responding to Griffiths' report] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Clarke PS minute to Paul Gray ("Community Care: Mental Illness") [announcement on four initiatives] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 28 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: David Cope letter to MT (meeting) [need to develop actions now] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Dominic Morris minute to Ridley PS ("Global Climate") [MT seeks further proposals to keep up momentum] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: John Fairclough minute to David Young ("Global Climate: ERS 2") [funding of British contribution to scheme] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Crispin Tickell minute to FCO ("Prime Minister's Seminar on Global Warming") [encouraging words from the US] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Environment") [proposed convention on climate change] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 28 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Environmental Defense Fund letter to No.10 (Global Warming Seminar) [thanks] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 722 to FCO (0627Z) ("Gorbachev's Closing Speech to the Plenum") [report] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 29 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Lubbers, Van den Broek, Ruding) [Europe: nuclear deployment; Delors Report; economic & monetary union] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers, Charles Powell, Merkelbach) [Europe: nuclear deployment; Delors Report; economic & monetary union] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 736 to FCO (0616Z) ("Soviet Internal: Georgia") [briefing for Soviet journalists on 9 April gas attack on citizens] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham briefing for MT ("Press Association interview") ["this interview and pictures will go round the world"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 May 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Tom King letter to MT (congratulations on tenth anniversary of her government) ["this remarkable milestone of achievement"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 May 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: John Coles minute to Charles Powell (Hawke's visit to UK) ["my unrepeatable opportunity to get on to more than conventionally good terms with Hawke"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Crispin Tickell minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Seminar on Global Climate") [notes from which he spoke] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Conservative Party Conservative Campaign Guide 1989
PDF 89 May 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Your Ten Years) [state of prison service] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 note to MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: 3 May") ["The big issue is what you decide to say to him about the Exchange Rate Mechanism .... you were minded to tackle this issue head on"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Environment") [proposed convention on climate change a diplomatic/political exercise] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Cold War: Canadian PM Mulroney letter to President Bush (upcoming NATO summit) ["need for a broad, bold NATO initiative at the Summit"] [declassified Dec 2022]
PDF 89 May 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["UK attitude towards the Delors Report and membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, SNF, Your Ten Years) ["POA say there could be a summer of discontent in Britain's jails"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT speaking notes (1922 Committee lunch for tenth anniversary of her government) ["I remember those early years well. We only had a 43 majority!"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 May 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Community Charge Capping in Scotland") [authorities have used new system as an excuse to increase spending] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Fall of Netherlands Government") [report] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 May 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Environment") [MT hesitant about UK taking lead with proposed convention on climate change] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 3 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: MT message to Tony Cleaver (ozone layer) [proposed World Centre of Competence at Cambridge] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 3 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn saving telegram 6 to FCO ("FRG Economy: Spring Report of the Five Economic Institutes") [inflation in major economies, impact of monetary and fiscal policies] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 3 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to Kenneth Warren MP (President Gorbachev's Visit to the UK) [thanks for information on Soviet views on the visit's success] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 May 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1211 to FCO (0010Z) ("US/Soviet Relations: Baker's Visit to Moscow") [agenda] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 16th (The Prime Minister’s Ten Years in Office, Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs) [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 May 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, SNF, Your Ten Years) [MT's Press Association interview "is described by many as your frankest yet"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT speaking notes (cabinet dinner for tenth anniversary of her government) ["The Marxists thought they would bury us. We have buried Marxism"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 May 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: President Bush letter to MT (congratulations on tenth anniversary as PM) ["You are a daily inspiration"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 May 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT letter to President Bush (thanks for congratulations) [the Bushes "wonderful colleagues and friends"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 May 4 Th Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Dame Barbara Cartland (thanks) [lunch and golden acorn - "I shall need it in the coming days!"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 May 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office conversation record (MT's Global Climate Seminar) [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Clarke PS minute to Andrew Turnbull (examples of waste) [to show the need for change] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Department of Health record of conversation (Clarke-Mellor-Wilson) [new contract for GPs] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Lord Havers minute to MT ("Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act") [alternative proposal to permanently gifting original] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: David Young minute to Nicholas Ridley ("DTI Environmental Programme") [new environmental objectives for DTI] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ridley) [UK role in proposed Global Climate Convention] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO record of conversation ("Quadripartite Meeting of Political Directors, London, 4 May") [Fretwell, Dufourcq, Kastrup, Thomas] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn record of conversation ("European Monetary Cooperation: Delors Report") [HM Ambassador Mallaby, State Secretary Tietmeyer - FRG Finance Ministry] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News) ["You pledge there will be no slowing down as you celebrate your 10th anniversary"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT ("Expulsion of members of the Soviet and Czech Embassies") [Whom to expel? When to act? How to do it? Should you write to Mr Gorbachev? Should we expel the Russians and Czechs together or separately?] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Selwyn Gummer letter to ministers (Registration) [explanatory leaflet for households] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to Paul Gray (press inquiries) [treatment of properties occupied by PM] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robin Butler minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Chairmanship of Star Chamber") [Cecil Parkinson suggested to serve again] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Meeting of MISC 128: 11 May") [committee remit and membership] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("MISC 128: Broadcasting Ownership") [draft announcement outlining main conclusions] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Donald MacDonald minute to Charles Powell (message from Mulroney) [not included] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Dominic Morris minute to MT ("Professor Sir Alan Walters") [debt for nature swops] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 5 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Environment: No.10 record of conversation ("Global Climate Seminar") [global warming 'likely'; "essential to tackle this problem"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Expulsion of Members of the Soviet Czech Embassies") [handling; publicity; timing; message from MT to Gorbachev; effect on W. German thinking over SNF] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: George Guise and John Mills minute to MT ("Greenhouse Effect: Draft European Council Resolution") [could restrict UK's freedom of manoeuvre] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Crispin Tickell minute to FCO ("Global Warming") [draft speech on British action] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Iran, Labour Policies) [Labour executive meets "to determine new policies"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) USA: Charles Powell note for MT (USE London telegrams on Britain) [evaluation of MT's impact, shown on a "strictly personal basis"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 May 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Inspector of Rates minute to No 10 ("Community Charge: Chequers") [deemed a property occupied by the Crown] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Geoffrey Tucker minute to Robin Butler (World Environment Conference) [British committee] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKDEL NATO telegram to FCO ("NAC, 8 May: Secretary Baker's Visit to Moscow") [briefing for NAC on forthcoming visit] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Labour Policy, Iran, NATO, Ortega, Babangida) ["Labour Party's defence policy shambles, disaster etc dominates front pages"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Gray minute for Margaret Thatcher ("community charge liability") [line for the press about her personal liability to charge at No.10, Chequers and Dulwich] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: House of Commons Library minute to Tony Favell ("Community Charge Safety Net") [figures for 1988-89] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Iran; Yugoslavia; USSR; South Africa; SNF/nuclear arms] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 89 May 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT (Local Government and Housing Bill) [Community Charge Registration Officers] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 May 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 note to MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: 10 May") [no need for meeting unless markets demand it; dollar "very strong ... substantial intervention" to defend sterling] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("ITV Licenses: Competitive Tendering") [proposed White Paper changes] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT (Policy Towards Eastern Europe) [Kissinger/Baker proposal for US/Soviet cooperation, and key points forthcoming meetings with Kissinger & Bush] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 10 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters minute to MT ("When 'The Time Will Be Ripe'") ["This note attempts to set out a positive response [to the EMS issue] which will, nevertheless, preserve our position" - copy annotated by MT] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 10 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters minute to MT ("When 'The Time Will Be Ripe'") [proposals to restate British position on ERM entry in positive terms "which will, nevertheless, preserve our position"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 10 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Walters minute to MT ("When "The Time Will Be Ripe"") ["we always appear to be negative [on EMS].... this note atttempts to set out a positive response"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Powell minute to Walters ("Europe") [your idea "ingenious and well worth pursuing. It puts the other Europeans on the spot"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Politics, Community Charge) ["Kinnock wins crucial battle over Labour's defence policy"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: EOG2 minute to Cabinet Office ("Community Charge Registration Form") [Treasury Chambers and nos. 10-12 Downing Street] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to No 10 ("Community Charge Registration Form") [Treasury Chambers and nos. 10-12 Downing Street] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("MISC 128 Channels 3 and 5: The Map of the Clock") [regional map, night hours, C5 franchise] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("British Broadcasting: Diversity, Quality and Public Service Broadcasting") [suggestion that de-regulation would lead to lower quality becoming more difficult to sustain] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Meeting of MISC 128") [competitive tendering, public service broadcasting] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Malcolm Rifkind minute to MT ("MISC.128 Implementing the Broadcasting White Paper") [sensitive issues in Scotland] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Visit to Britain by the Prime Minister of Australia") [ministerial attendees] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Nicholas Ridley minute to David Young ("DTI Environmental Programme") [not possible "to separate out the interests of business and the environment"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: John Major minute to David Young ("DTI Environmental Programme") [cost of the initiative] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bush Library) Cold War: ?State Department biography ("Theo Waigel") ["Joining the Cabinet is a risky move for Waigel", threat to his position from the right in Bavaria] [declassified Dec 2022]
PDF 89 May 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Expulsion of members of the Soviet and Czech Embassies") [handling; publicity; timing] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Expulsion of members of the Soviet and Czech Embassies": handling; publicity; timing] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters minute to MT ("The Dmark, the Dollar and Sterling") ["running down our reserves by buying sterling on a market that is falling because of a fundamental change in monetary conditions in Germany is simply a recipe for losing money"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Genscher) ["Visit of the German Foreign Minister: European Community"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Madrid European Council") ["Spaniards expect EMU to dominate... with declarations on social dimension and debt"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Walters minute to MT ("The Dmark, the Dollar and Sterling") ["It is becoming increasingly clear to the Bundesbank that it (and, above all, Pohl) have greatly misjudged monetary policy"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News) ["Labour Party looking for trouble over the community charge leaflet"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Inspector of Rates letter to Younger PS ("The Community Charge") [decision on what constitutes main residence] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute to EOG2 ("Community Charge Registration Form") [Treasury Chambers and nos. 10-12 Downing Street] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram 217 to FCO (1740Z) ("SNF: Lubbers and Van den Broek's visit to Washington: 9 May") [SNF negotiations] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 May 11 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Wasteful and Restrictive Practices") [examples would be anonymised for use in the House] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 11 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Clarke PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Wasteful and Restrictive Practices") [risk of quoting examples for anonymity] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd (Broadcasting Ownership) [newspaper holdings in DBS] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: George Russell note ("Selecting Licenses - Channel 3") [government and IBA proposals] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 11 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Visit by the Prime Minister of Australia") [participation in ministerial talks] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Catto) [President Bush's 'Open Skies' initiative] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 17th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters minute to MT ("Intervention") ["trying to contain the rise of the US dollar... I can see no justification for our intervention. It had no discernable effect on the out-turn of the market"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Julian Amery MP (Economic and Monetary Union) ["Our approach to [the] proposals is part of our wider campaign to see the [EC] develop along the lines of Britain's relatively free trade, open competition system"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Walters minute to MT ("Intervention") [disapproves of Bank's policy to contain rise of US dollar] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Exchange rate management") [cover note for Walters minutes] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, SNF/Defence, Community Charge, John Moore's Speech) ["Gorbachev offers to withdraw 500 short range nuclear weapons"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Powell minute to FCO ("Video Message for International Digital Communications") [text on Japanese telecommunications] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute for MT ("Councillor Paul Beresford and the Wandsworth problem") ["DOE are unlikely to come up with any radical changes"; Policy Unit urges DOE be pressed to do more; MT agrees] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Community Care") [role of local authorities, social security benefits, local authority homes] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Community Care") [decisions on care and responsibility for budgets] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Care: Meeting on 18 May") [arrangements] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Foreign Secretary PS to Lawson PS ("Guinness Mahon") [Japanese bid for the merchant bank cleared by Chancellor] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to MT ("1989 Survey") [more difficult to find offsetting policy savings than in the past] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [par for the course for Treasury to say the round will be tougher] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("MISC: Broadcasting Ownership") [ownership of DBS, take-over regime] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Broadcasting Ownership") [latest proposals] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Young PS minute to Ridley PS ("DTI Environmental Programme") [booklet published for launch of programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Moscow telegram 794 to FCO (1327Z) ("Gorbachev's Visit to China") [analysis] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("Lecture by Professor Sir Michael Howard") [analysis of the ongoing political/social transition in Eastern Europe & Soviet Union: key points, with full text attached] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT (message from President Bush: US Administration's review of policies towards the USSR) [cover letters only] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKDEL NATO telegram 153 to FCO (1700Z) ("NAC 12 May: Secretary Baker's Visit to Moscow") [Baker's report to NAC & responses from attendees] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 788 to FCO (0619Z) ("Baker Visit to Moscow") [report] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Brunner MSS) Monetary Policy: Alan Walters message to Karl Brunner memorial
PDF 89 May 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Football Trouble, SDP) ["Labour Party and SLD wooing members of SDP... which looks to be in its death throes"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Moore minute to John Major ("Community Charge Capping in Scotland") [increase in charge levels would lead to reductions in rebate entitlement] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Stockton minute to Inspector of Rates ("The Community Charge") [canvass forms] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ken Clarke minute to John Major ("Proposed Newspaper Advertisements to Explain the New GP Contract") [what the contract will mean for patient services] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Lawson PS minute to Clarke PS ("NHS Review: Wasteful and Restrictive Practices") [how the government will tackle the problem] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Royal College of Nursing letter to Ken Clarke (NHS Policy Board) [chasm between commerce and caring in the NHS] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Royal College of Nursing letter to MT (NHS Policy Board) [concern at exclusion of Chief Nursing Officer] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Evening Report") [strength of sterling in light of the budget] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Argentine Presidential Elections of 14 May") [Menem wins by a landslide] [declassified 2017]
PDF 89 May 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to Hurd PS ("MISC 128: Broadcasting Ownership") [newspapers' shareholding, ownership rules] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Dominic Morris minute to MT ("Our Future World" brochure) [MT note doubts if wise to provide message] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: David Young minute to John Fairclough ("Global Climate: ERS-2") [funding of British contribution to scheme] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("British Environmental Initiatives") [proposed Framework Convention on climate change] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Talk with Alan Walters: 17 May") [EMS; intervention & exchange rate management] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, EC, Brewers) [reports of Tory split over Europe] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: Ingham briefing ("Daily Mail interview") ["We appear negative, even hostile, to the EC 16 years after joining it"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham briefing for MT ("Daily Mail interview") [EC - "The UK - and yourself - have a presentational problem. We appear negative, even hostile, to the EC 16 years after joining it"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to Powell ("Soviet Expulsions") [Howe wants to publish names; MT: "This would be a betrayal of my undertaking to Gorbachev"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [SNF/nuclear arms; Argentina; EC; Leon Brittan] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Major ("Community Charge Capping in Scotland") [use of powers] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Community Charge Leaflet") [outcome of the Greenwich case] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Community Charge Leaflet") [judgment that the leaflet was not misleading] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Mayhew minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge Publicity: Leaflet") [presenting the government's case] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Bernard Ingham minute to Paul Gray ("Proposed Newspaper Advertisement to Explain GP Contract") [uneasy at the proposal to spend £150,000 on adverts] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ian Whitehead minute to Paul Gray ("Proposed Newspaper Advertisement - GP Contracts") [crucial that GPs agree to the contract on 21 June] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: 17 May") [markets; informal ECOFIN Council, Delors Report follow-up] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Douglas Hurd ("Privatisation of the Broadcasting Transmission System") [cost to public funds of World Service system] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Peru: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Peru: Visit of Sr Mario Vargas Llosa") ["Peru has fallen into ever-deeper political and economic chaos over the past few years"] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Young PS minute to Charles Powell ("Australia - United Kingdom and Investment Conference on 22 June 1989") [outline programme] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Dominic Morris minute to MT ("Global Climate: ERS 2") [funding for satellite project] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Cabinet Office minute to Paul Gray ("Global Climate: ERS-2") [issues over funding for project] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: David Cope letter to Dominic Morris (Global Warming Seminar) [availability] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversations ("Soviet Union") [Charles Powell, Kossov: SNF negotiations; Soviet chemical agent stockpiles] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Soviet Expulsions") [handling; timing; publicity] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Message from President Bush") [US policy towards Soviet Union; 'Open Skies' proposal;draft reply] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Leon Brittan") ["main purpose... is to get over to him your current worries about the [EC]... its apparent detemination to extend [its] competence into new areas... your concern about [its] failure to honour political agreements... [and] securing genuinely free competition"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, EC, Sino-Soviet Summit) [backbenchers sign motion "supporting your position against undue interference by EC in British affairs"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Lennox-Boyd conversation record (MT-Walters-Turnbull-Gray-Powell) [reformulating her position on ERM entry] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ian Whitehead minute to MT ("Community Care Trusts") [how to achieve local authority control and efficient service on the ground] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ian Whitehead minute to MT ("Community Care. A critique of the papers") ["ministerial views are mixed"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Care: Meeting on 18 May") [papers for discussion] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office minute to Treasury ("Proposed Newspaper Advertisements to Explain the New GP Contract") [not wise for the government to engage in a publicity campaign] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Argentine Presidential Elections: an Afterview") [declassified 2017]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Major) [public expenditure negotiations expected to be tougher this year] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Lord Buxton letter to Brian Griffiths (ITV) [working shareholders and "legalised theft"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("MISC 128: Broadcasting Ownership") [newspaper holdings in DBS, moratorium on takeovers] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Australia") [action taken to give Australia a more prominent place in foreign policy] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Armilla Patrol") [ammunition, role of senior officers, training] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to John Wakeham ("Private Members' Motions - Friday, 19 May: Roger Gale's Motion on Domestic and Satellite Broadcasting") [no need to oppose] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("Gordievsky") [Soviet request to meet Gordievsky] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 809 to FCO (1058Z) ("Soviet Internal: 14 May Re-Run Elections") [results of re-run, following allegations of corruption] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to the Soviet Union") [further details of exhibition in Kiev, to coincide with British Month, prompt MT to delay her decision on inviting Gorbachev to attend, until sufficient funds are in place to make it a worthwhile event] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Mr Baker's NATO Briefing on his visit to Moscow, 12 May 1989") [report] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters minute to Turnbull ("Exchange Rate versus Monetary Targets") ["I adduce that we are not (yet?) ready for anything like a viable fixxed [sic] system... If there are free markets, the ERM will have to change radically"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters minute to Gray (research topics) [monetary union; exchange rates; corporation and economic performance] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan) [Exchange Rate Mechanism; strategy for achieving a free market EC & combating its protectionist institutions; EC Merger Control regulations; state aid to Renault; Harland & Wolff] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, EC, Labour Policies, Televising the House) [interview with MT on her position on Europe, EC position on UK VAT regime] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Perks briefing ("BBC World Service interview") [programmes on the "Thatcher Era", interview to discuss international affairs, the economy, agenda for the future] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Charles Powell note (Ray Seitz cables to new US administration) ["They are heart-warming and compulsive reading. I wish the FCO could write like this!"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to John Major ("Community Charge Capping in Scotland") [increase in local authority spending] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Rifkind letter to Chief Secretary ("Community Charge capping in Scotland") [Rifkind and Ridley 'unhelpful'] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Proposed Newspaper Advertisements to Explain the New GP Contract") [Clarke not persuaded by arguments against adverts] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-Ridley-Rifkind-Clarke-Major-Roy Griffiths-Butler-Wilson-Monger-Wells-Whitehead) [policy on community care] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Peru: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Vargas Llosa) [MT said "the first task would be to restore the authority of Government"] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Dominic Morris minute to MT ("Climate Change") [convention on forestry, CO2 emissions, publicity] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Dominic Morris minute to Cabinet Office ("Our Future World" brochure) [a personal message from MT could be misconstrued] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Dominic Morris minute to Cabinet Office ("Global Climate: ERS 2") [resolution of funding issues] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Climate Change") [growing scientific consensus "that man-made climate change represents a real threat for the future"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Ridley PS minute to Parkinson PS ("Seminar on Greenhouse Effect: Publicity") [release of seminar papers] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet Expulsions") [revised press line, in accordance with MT concern that release of any names or details would be a betrayal of her undertaking to Gorbachev] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Czech Expulsions") [speaking note to be used for Czech ambassador] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Cecil Parkinson PS letter to No.10 (Lukonin visit to UK) [case against MT meeting with Lukonin during his visit, following her agreement to do so at the request of Lord Marshall of Goring, Chairman of Central Electricity Generating Board] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to Gorbachev (Soviet expulsions) ["We have established the practice of speaking frankly... I am writing to you now in that spirit"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 18th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("The Delors Committee recommendations: Netherlands reactions") ["Van den Broek... added a strong appeal for those not in the EMS Exchange Rate Mechanism to join the system"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Labour Programme, EC) ["Chinese peaceful revolt gets top billing again"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NATO: Powell record of conversation ('SNF') [Baker and Scrowcroft put on the spot as to US position] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell letter to Michael Young (Mells Park Conference) ["we continue to feel that any attempt to play a direct role from outside would be unwelcome", MT remains convinced no role for UK in South Africa as "honest broker"] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge Capping in Scotland") [danger of authorities getting away with large increases in spending] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Dulop minute to MT ("Community Charge Capping in Scotland") [selective action would inflame the issue] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("Local Authority Current: paper for discussion with the Prime Minister") [review of DOE draft] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to Clarke PS ("Proposed Newspaper Advertisements to Explain the New GP Contract") [advert would fall outside the conventions for government-funded publicity] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Turnbull) [MT had no intention of criticising Lawson directly; line agreed for the press] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to Brian Griffiths ("Lord Buxton: ITV") [assure Buxton that MT has seen note] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to Paul Gray ("BBC Business and Financial Information Services") [request from BBC to provide additional service] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environment: Robin Butler minute to Patrick Wright (World Environment Conference) [British committee] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Cecil Parkinson minute to MT ("Climate Change") [international initiatives, energy efficiency and privatisation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn saving telegram 7 to FCO ("Federal German Economy") [tax reform, unemployment, business climate] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO record of conversation ("Soviet Expulsions") [Sir John Fretwell, Ambassador Zamyatin] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 826 to FCO (1721Z) ("Expulsions") [Ambassador Braithwaite, Chernyayev record of conversation: "the definitive Soviet response is most unlikely to be as calm as this"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Islamabad telegram 646 to FCO (0630Z) ("Afghanistan") [record of conversation: Ambassador Barrington, Benazir Bhutto: the interim government] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (speech thanks) [humour]
Text 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Key Reagan article Ronald Reagan: Margaret Thatcher & the Revival of the West: Her Real Legacy [external link]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Defense Intelligence Agency HQ telegram ("China - students demonstrating for democracy") ["military will likely be used to restore order"] [declassified ?2014]
PDF 89 May 20 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Lawson unhappy; MT seeks to smooth over public perception of rift in regard to economic policy; efforts to present united front complicated by subsequent No.10 press office advice/actions] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Lawson calls re: press reports of MT's comments on pick-up in inflation and shadowing the DM; press handling] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 minute to MT (Soviet Expulsions) [announcement to media of Soviet counter-expulsions] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 834 to FCO (2321Z) ("Expulsions: comments and further action") [Soviet counter-expulsions; media handling strategy] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 832 to FCO (2138Z) ("Meeting with Kovalev") [UK expulsion of Soviets: official Soviet response] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 829 to FCO (0738Z) ("Expulsions") [UK expulsion of Soviets: official Soviet response] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 20 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) China: UKE Beijing to FCO ("Chinese Internal Situation") [US believes "Chinese Government has decided that there is no way to avoid bloodshed"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 May 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (UK membership of the ERM) [Paul Gray, Nigel Wicks: No.10 request that Lawson publicly clarify his position] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell note to MT (Soviet Expulsions") [collation of recent relevant telegrams] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 835 to FCO (0655Z) ("Expulsions") ["we need to keep our basic objectives and tactics firmly in mind"; Soviet retaliatory expulsion of British journalists] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to George Soros ("A Plan to Solve the Economic Crisis in Poland") [proposals by Soros for review in run up to Paris Club debt negotiations later in the year] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Tit for Tat Expulsions, EC/Inflation) ["People power defies troops in Peking"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Lawson PS minute to Charles Powell (economic and trade relations with Japan) ["Japan would be well advised to adopt strctural reforms in a number of areas"] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 May 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [China/Hong Kong; SNF/nuclear arms; Shamir visit;visas for Turkey; European elections; Diplomatic Service senior appointments] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 89 May 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Registration Officer letter to No 10 ("Community Charge Registration") [form has not been returned] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("Local Authority Grant Settlement 1989") ["aim for sufficient grant ... that will ensure that community charges in the first year can (or could be) set at reasonable levels"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 89 May 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ken Clarke letter to Trevor Clay (NHS Policy Board) [not intended to be representative of health service interests] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: 23 May") [lack of progress on reducing inflation; markets; informal ECOFIN Council] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Why Do We Have 8 Per Cent Inflation?") [Alan Budd's analysis, very similar to Burns's; problems date back to 1985-86; errors not of the Chancellor alone but of Government as a whole] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Douglas Hurd minute to John Major ("Public Expenditure Survey 1989") [prisons, passport department, forensic science service] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Douglas Hurd minute to John Major ("PES 1989: Bids for Local Authority Services") [police, magistrates courts, probation, civil defence, fire service] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Mellor minute to John Major ("Personal Social Services: Specific Grants: PES 1989") [AIDS support grant, training support grant, Children Bill] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Young minute to John Major ("1989 Public Expenditure Survey") [attaches high priority to all the bids] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Dominic Morris minute to Ridley PS ("Climate Change") [need a robust and defensible position on forestry and transport] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 842 to FCO (1417Z) ("Application of Ceiling to British Organisations in Moscow") [Soviet retaliatory measure for UK expulsion of Soviets] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: State Department memcon (Secretary Baker-Chairman Wan Li) [Wan Li: "restoration of stability" necessary for reform and opening outward] [declassified 1996]
PDF 89 May 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO telegram to UKRep Brussels ("Informal ECOFIN, 19-21 May") ["debate on the economic and political implications of... economic and monetary union"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO telegram to UKrep Brussels ("MIPT: informal ECOFIN, 19-21 May") ["debate on the... implications of the process of economic and monetary union"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, EC Launch, Anglo-Soviet Relations, China) ["Power struggles in Peking with Army declining to fire on crowds but regaining some control"] [released Feb 2019]
PDF 89 May 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Major (Capping in Scotland) [issue of a precedent being set] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to John Major ("Business Rates in Scotland") [level of contribution from the Reserve] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("Local Authority Current: note for Mr Parkinson") [Lawson or Major to brief him] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 89 May 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 note to MT ("Talk with the Chancellor: 24 May") [to discuss "latest position on the markets"; MT minded to go along with an interest change if Lawson thinks needed] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Latest RPI Forecast") [another upward revision] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (visit to Australia and New Zealand) [Hawke, economy, science, education] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The Application of a Ceiling to British Organisations in Moscow") [Soviet retaliatory measure for UK expulsion of Soviets] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 89 May 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Expulsion of Members of the Czech Embassy"] [released Jul 2018]

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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