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PDF 85 May 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Turnbull minute to MT (the latest Monetary Bulletin: “extremely critical of current system of monetary control”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Jenkin letter to Whitelaw ("Local Government Bill") [wants to concede "an advisory/consultative planning body in London"; MT: "Why do we need ANOTHER advisory body?"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Jenkin minute for MT ("Situation report on the setting of rates") ["where we stand regarding obstruction tactics by rate limited and other local authorities"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Armstrong minute for Powell ("British Submarines and the Falklands War - Polaris and Others") [a report by Institute of Peace Studies] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Rees PS ("Policy Work in the FMI") [MT endorses Rees's proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Geoffrey Howe minute to Michael Heseltine ("Defence Relations with New Zealand") [policy on nuclear ships visits] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Geoffrey Pattie minute to Peter Rees ("Tornados for Oman") ["need for further improvements to the finance package"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (role of Customs Officers in the prevention of illegal importation of drugs) [MT requests visit to see Customs Officers at work] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Suffolk House Drug Centre staff) [MT visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("Contingency Plans for a Political Strike in Northern Ireland") [government must be "in the strongest position in any trial of strength"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd PS minute to Charles Powell ("The RUC and the Garda Siochana") [dispute over terrorist attack near Newry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Transport Select Committee: Report on the "Buses" White Paper Government Response") ["the proposal for multiple franchises would actually make the bus transport market more restrictive... I reject it absolutely"; draft White Paper attached] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (Summary of Health and Personal Social Services Accounts for the Year 1983/84) [Command Paper; procedure] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Geoffrey Pattie letter to Lord Hailsham (Copyright Bill) [legislative proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Fowler PS ("Social Security Review: Uprating Timing") [Lawson request for clarification of savings costings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local government: Department of Environment note to No.10 (“Liverpool Garden Festival”) [press coverage of reopening] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) US: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Visit to London by Senator Baker”) [MT declines meeting, Howe agrees to meet] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT (“British Participation in Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) Research”) [MT: "The GERMANS have got further than we have. This won't do"] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Howe minute to MT ("China: Nuclear Cooperation Agreement") ["successfully negotiated"; Chinese PM to sign during June visit to UK; IAEA safeguards] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("China - Review of Defence Trade Policy") ["I attach a paper showing the outcome of the inter-departmental review"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("40th Anniversary: Sir J Bullard's Despatch of 21 May") [analysis of how the anniversary played out in West Germany] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: John Hermon letter to MT (death of RUC officers) [thanks for condolences] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 326 to FCO (1200Z) ("Call on Irish Leader of the Opposition") [Anglo-Irish negotiations; UK ambassador meeting with Haughey] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Channon letter to Rees ("ECGD Cover for Turkey") [Kellogg bid] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Department of Trade and Industry minute for No.10 (“Competition Policy: Presentation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) [current position in the coal industry: intimidation of working miners] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Rees letter to Jenkin (“Birmingham Convention Centre”) [no to proposal: “would put further pressure on LA capital expenditure”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Walker letter to MT (Chairmanship of UKAEA) [keen for Robin Nicholson to be appointed to Atomic Energy Authority] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa”) [comments on President Botha’s letter; agrees no reply] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa”) [comments on President Botha’s letter] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury Press Office statement (“Disclosure of Tax Decisions Affecting Government Securities”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Preparations for Milan") [Delors at COREPER] [declassified Nov 2016]
Text 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Visit by Premier Zhao Ziyang: 2-8 June 1985") [briefs prepared by FCO] [released 2017]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Howe PS note to No.10 ("Chinese Prime Minister: Treaty Signing") [agreements on economic, nuclear cooperation: arrangements, press line] [released 2017]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Charles Powell note to Percy Cradock (MT speech to Zhao dinner) [edited version of FCO draft] [released 2017]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Local Government Bill") [review of the Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Privy Council Office minute for Powell (a Grenada TV programme on the sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: UKE Brussels telegram 150 to FCO (0025Z) ("Football: Liverpool v Juventus") [Heysel Stadium disaster: casualty reports and advice on Government response] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: UKE Brussels telegram 151 to FCO (0815Z) ("Football: Liverpool v Juventus") [Heysel Stadium disaster: Belgian response] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: UKE Brussels telegram 152 to FCO (0915Z) ("Football: Liverpool v Juventus") [Heysel Stadium disaster: deficiencies in policing of match] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: UKDEL Strasbourg telegram 113 to FCO (1330Z) ("Violence at European Cup Final: Council of Europe Action") [Heysel Stadium disaster] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: UKE Rome telegram 60 to FLASH FCODistress (1530Z) ("European Cup Final Disaster") [Heysel Stadium disaster: death and bomb threats received at Embassy and consular posts in Italy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: UKE Paris telegram 452 to FCO (1600Z) ("Brussels Football Riote [sic]") [Heysel Stadium disaster: French response] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Safety at Sports Grounds - Brussels") [Heysel Stadium disaster: donation to fund for victims] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Prime Minister Craxi of Italy (Heysel Stadium disaster) ["These terrible events have brought shame and disgrace on those responsible and on their country"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Prime Minister Martens of Belgium (Heysel Stadium disaster) ["These terrible events have brought shame and disgrace on those responsible and on their country"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to President Mitterrand (Heysel Stadium disaster) ["This terrible tragedy has brought shame on those responsible and on their country - it should never have happened"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Macfarlane-Luce-Shaw) [Heysel Stadium disaster: Government's response] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 note to MT (call from Sir Hector Laing) [Heysel Stadium disaster: Laing suggests that MT deliver a Prime Ministerial broadcast] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: MT message to Bob Hawke (Australian bicentenary) [cannot provide original of Constitution Act on permanent loan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Tebbit") [British Leyland: Corporate Plan; British Steel] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Warry minute to MT ("Austin Rover (ARG) - Engines") [draft letter to Honda] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Industrial Air Pollution Inspectorate) [anticipated Waldegrave/Jenkin proposal to transfer Inspectorate back to Department of Environment likely to be resisted by Tom King] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment/Economic Policy: Redwood minute to Addison ("The Dornbusch Lecture") [Rudi Dornbusch's view of government fiscal and monetary policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister González Márquez (Treaty of Spanish Accession to the European Community) [sends apologies for signing ceremony due to President of Mexico's state visit to UK; Howe to represent UK at ceremony] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to Prime Minister Soares (2000Z) (Treaty of Portugese Accession to the European Community) [sends apologies for signing ceremony due to President of Mexico's state visit to UK; Howe to represent UK at ceremony] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Warry minute to MT ("British Steel") [likely steel plant closures and response to end of state aid for BSC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Employment Effects of Increases in Infrastructure Expenditure”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Airports decisions and White Paper”) [statement to Parliament & Parliamentary debate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Possible industrial action by FCO communications staff”) [negotiations and action postponed] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Lord Hailsham letter to Whitelaw (“Family and Matrimonal (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill”) [proposed reforms to child abduction law, recognition of foreign nullity decrees] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Forced Removals in South Africa: Mathopestad”) [assessment & UK response] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Forced Removals in South Africa: Mathopestad”) [assessment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to MT (“Money Policy and the Economy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Johnson Matthey Bankers”) [the Bank’s decision to sue for damages JMB’s auditors] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Percy Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Chinese Prime Minister's Visit") [Hong Kong, trade, international issues] [released 2017]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: UKE Brussels telegram 158 to FCO (1130Z) ("Football: Liverpool v Juventus") [Heysel Stadium disaster: further assessment of measures taken before match to prepare for possible violence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: UKE Rome telegram 540 to FCO (1500Z) ("Liverpool/Juventus") [Heysel Stadium disaster: reaction in Italy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: UKE Brussels telegram 160 to FCO (1540Z) ("Football Violence: Calls by Lord Young on the Mayor of Brussels") [Heysel Stadium disaster] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: UKE Washington telegram 1721 to FCO (1910Z) ("European Cup Final Tragedy: US Media Coverage") [Heysel Stadium disaster] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan minute to Whitelaw ("Football Violence: Legislation on Alcohol") [Heysel Stadium disaster; MT annotation: "drastic action is required"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Home Office letter to No.10 ("Football Violence") [Heysel Stadium disaster; legislation on alcohol, police action, offences abroad] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Robert Maxwell) ["Football Hooliganism"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Sports journalists/MT-Chairman of Liverpool Football Club/MT-Football Association) [Heysel Stadium disaster and football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Press Office minute to MT ("Football Press Digest") [Heysel Stadium disaster and football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Cabinet Office brieing for MT ("Review of Housing Policy: MISC 113(85)36; and the Secretary of State for the Environment's minute of 23 May") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("Presidency of the Sino British Trade Council") [President-desigate to accompany Lord Young on trade mission] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Chief Executive of Turning Point letter to MT (Recommendations on Drugs Service Policies) [list of policy recommendations following MT visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Leon Brittan minute to MT ("Drugs: Meeting on 4 June") ["the attached notes provide a useful guide to Departments' thinking and could serve as an agenda"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("Joint Irish Court") [scepticism about practicability and desirability] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Letwin minute to MT ("Tax Credit for the Long-Term Unemployed") [assessment of Young's proposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Social Security Review) [MT revisions to Fowler's statement to Parliament] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Brittan minute to MT (“Lessons of the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike”) [endorses points for follow-up action] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 14 (Legislative Programme 1985-86) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Turnbull minute to Jenkin PS (Birmingham Convention Centre) [MT has asked “whether the project could be recast to produce more private sector involvement”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Lord Gowrie letter to Tebbit (“Civil Service retirement and re-employment policy”) [“the sooner we can extend the policy of withdrawing the option of formal retirement and re-employment in the same grade throughout the Service the better”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 briefing for MT (future of UKAEA) [Atomic Energy Authority: Chairmanship & business strategy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa-Angola: The Cabinda Incident”) [assessment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Alliance: Sherbourne minute for MT ( Economist quote on football hooliganism) [“the nastiness in Brussels came from youngsters with enough cash to buy the expensive ticket there”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Renwick minute to Fairweather (“Milan European Council") [conversation with head of EC issues at Irish MFA - FitzGerald "very European"] [declassified Nov 2016]
Text 85 Jun 1 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("European Community: Milan European Council") [MT draft reply to Craxi on future of EC: disagrees with Howe on value of inviting Craxi to UK for discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (Heysel Stadium disaster: UEFA meeting) ["UEFA may take a very tough line"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Prime Minister Nakasone letter to MT (Second Bosphorus Bridge Project) [defence of Japanese bid; trade imbalance problem; Charles Powell: "An olive branch, but without yielding an inch"; MT requests detailed analysis of Nakasone's points but opts not to reply] [released Dec 2014]
Text 85 Jun 2 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 2 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) China: FCO note (Visit by Premier Zhao Ziyang) [flower arrangements explained] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (Heysel Stadium disaster: UEFA meeting) [possible bans for English clubs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 note to MT (Heysel Stadium disaster: outcome of UEFA meeting) ["All English clubs have been banned indefinitely from European Competitions"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Rodric Braithwaite minute to Derek Thomas (“Failure at Milan? Press Handling") [UK role constructive, but danger we may become 'scapegoat' if Milan ends in confusion] [declassified Nov 2016]
Text 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Zhao Ziyang) [on Hong Kong MT "said there appeared to be no major outstanding problems"; East-West relations; Sino-US relations] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the 9th to 11th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee") ["... monitoring and control of nationalised industries... introduction of statutory sick pay scheme... defence works in the Falkland Islands... the particular replies... are not, in themselves, newsworthy...] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Legislative Programme 1985-86") ["QL has been finding it difficult to accommodate all the Bills departments require... 1985-86 should represent the core of this Government's programme... to leave the following year or two freer of contentious items..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: King letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1985/86") ["I must resist most strongly the suggestion that the Wages Bill should be deleted from the programme for the next session"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Legislative Programme 1985/86") ["I appreciate the pressures on the next session. But I shall nevertheless want to argue strongly in Cabinet that the Education Bill should remain in the 1985/86 programme... essential for taking forward our policies for raising standards..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Nicaragua") ["Nicaraguan peace proposals put forward during the recent US Congress debate"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs briefing to MT ("Department of Employment Group - Value for Money Seminar on 5 June at 4.00 PM") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Rees minute to MT ("Public Purchasing Initiative (PPI)") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: UKE Brussels telegram 175 to FCO (0900Z) ("Football Vilence [sic]") [Heysel Stadium disaster: Belgian reaction] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Football Association General Secretary, Ted Croker, letter to Macfarlane (National Front involvement in football hooliganism) [extracts from 'Bulldog' magazine] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 letter to Department of Trade & Industry ("BL Corporate Plan") [draft letter to Honda on supply of engines] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine letter to Tebbit (Defence procurement: disclosure requirements and competitive bids) [BAe & the contract for Rapier missiles] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Defence Sales to Jordan") [Heseltine in favour of improving credit terms, to prevent deal going to France or Russia] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Drugs Meeting, Tuesday 4 June") ["Home Office brief contains 7 sets of proposals. You can prompt much more action. What each Department or Authority proposes is summarised below"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting on Drugs Misuse, Tuesday 4 June") [cover minute summarising briefing pack & outlining key objectives of the meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: UKE Athens telegram 257 to FCO (0845Z) ("The Greek General Election") [Pasok win by unexpectedly large margin, growing economic problems] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [further amendments to British negotiating position] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: No.10 letter to Office of the Minister Without Portfolio ("Tax Credit for the Long Term Unemployed") [encourages further consideration of Young's proposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister González Márquez letter to MT (Treaty of Spanish Accession to the European Community) [invitation to attend signing ceremony] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Tebbit) ["BSC": outlook for the British steel industry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler PS letter to Whitelaw PS ("Presentation of Economic and Social Policy: Social Security Review") [findings & recommendations: general speaking note, circulated to Cabinet; summary of Green Paper; Fowler statement to Parliament] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Jopling (“1985 CAP price fixing”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“a pity that… there is no proposal further to encourage sponsorship by industry”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lord Hailsham minute to MT (“Human Rights”) [reducing the impact of the European Convention of Human Rights on British law] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Visit of Mr. Shultz”) [East/West relations; arms control; sanctions against South Africa] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“AEA: industrial pay”) [“the Authority’s pay rates have become uncompetitive”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town to FCO (“Cabinda Incident”) [US-South Africa relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1744 to FCO (2200Z) (“Interim Restraints”) [Reagan’s decisions on SALT II] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to Craxi ("Milan European Council message from Signor Craxi") [MT reply on future of EC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Jopling letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1985/86: Agriculture Bill") ["... if it is not to attract the opposition of the industry, it will need to offer the kind of funding arrangements which the industry is prepared to work with"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: Prime Minister González letter to MT (Contadora Health Plan: international conference) [invites UK to participate] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Value for Money Seminar with Department of Employment: Wednesday 5 June at 1615 Hours") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: UKE Rome telegram 550 to FCO (1530Z) ("Liverpool/Juventus: Visit by Liverpool Delegation to Turin") [Heysel Stadium disaster: visit to be delayed "until feelings in Turin had cooled"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: UKE Rome telegram Distress 64 to FCO (1530Z) ("Brussels Aftermath") [Heysel Stadium disaster: attacks on British organisations in Italy; Italian police assistance sought] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 letter to Home Office ("Football Violence: Legislation on Alcohol") [football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Football - Robert Maxwell") [football hooliganism: Maxwell organising meeting with Labour MPs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Whitelaw, Leon Brittan, Keith Joseph, Peter Rees, Barney Hayhoe, Kenneth Clarke, David Mellor, John Patten, John McKay, Wyn Roberts) ["Drugs Misuse"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Greece: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Greek Elections: Message of Congratulations") [hopes for building on bilateral links during Papandreou's second term] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Alan Clark PS letter to No.10 (response to Sunday Times article on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (“NACODS Overtime Ban”) [miners' strike: NCB and NACODs agreement to avoid overtime ban] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Woodrow Wyatt letter to Ian MacGregor (treatment of working miners by the NCB) [MT annotation: 'Robin - please contact Mr MacGregor immediately about [this]'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Younger minute to MT ("Lessons of the 1984-85 Miners Strike") [comment on Armstrong's minute] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Selling the Benefit Reviews") [key points] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Tim Flesher minute for MT (“Enoch Powell’s Bill”) [Lord Privy Seal's advice on the free vote] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [monetary policy, long-term unemployment, benefit reviews] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Late Payment of VAT and Other Taxes”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Addison note to Butler (Larne harbour) [opening ceremony] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 15 (Pay Review Body Reports 1985) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: UKE Washington telegram 1757 to FCO (2104Z) (“Laker settlement negotiations”) [Laker’s demands] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Heseltine (“Civil Service Industrial Pay Negotiations 1985”) [Gowrie : “the level of pay increases for industrials should remain commensurate with those for the non-industrials who settle before them”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“Monetary Control”) [“monetary policy is not too loose”] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Talks with the Chinese Premier: Trade and Economic Issues") [no problem with No.10's line] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Charles Powell to Howe PS ("Talks with the Chinese Premier: Trade and Economic Issues") [MT "takes the view that we are unlikely to succeed in securing major contracts in China unless we are in a position to offer soft loans"] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Dinner at the Chinese Embassy") [Zhao will give a one minute speech, MT to reply briefly] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Second round of talks with Zhao Ziyang") [issue of soft loans is tricky - "it is open to you to overrule your colleagues"] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for May 1985") ["...a trend of slight deterioration in the economy since the beginning of 1985 is becoming evident."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Rees PS letter to Walker PS ("Nationalised Industries legislation") [discussions with the Nationalised Industries Chairmen's Group] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lord Gowrie letter to Biffen ("Updating of Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975") ["... offices whose holders are disqualified for membership of the [HoC]... an extraordinarily large number... a major review of the Act... did highlight a number of inconsistencies... hence the large number of amendments..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Legislative Programme 1985-86") ["... QL are very worried about the dangers of an initial programme that is too large"; No.10: "... [Whitelaw and Wakeham] fear that this will be a very ragged and difficult discussion] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Chequers Public Expenditure Discussion") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT-King-Morrison-Quinlan) ["Value for Money Seminar: Department of Employment Group"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) New Zealand: MT letter to New Zealand High Commission (death of High Commissioner Walding) ["a sad blow"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Warry minute to MT ("Unipart Privatisation") [British Leyland privatisations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Howe ("OD(85)9: The Security of Small States") [additional funding] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Rees minute to MT ("Defence Sales to Jordan") [willing to approve a "more modest" credit cover increase than Heseltine proposes; opposes softening of the terms of the loan] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to MT ("Defence Sales to Jordan") [stresses need for commercial links, for sake of Jordan's stability and the wider Middle East peace process] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Mark Addison ("Drugs - For Your Information") [World Health Organisation conference in London] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland: Revised British Proposal") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("EUREKA") [terms of reference, objectives, public sector funding; advisory role of business & consumers; Foreign Ministers Council, Stresa; Secretariat costs] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [famine relief; Howe bilateral meetings on development of the EC/intergovernmental conference/UK objectives; European Court verdict on EC common transport policy; Agriculture Council, 27-29 May; Research Council, 4 June; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: King minute to MT ("Long-Term Unemployment") [schemes for tackling unemployment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (Council of Europe Assembly) ["too early for... [MT] to commit herself to visiting the Council of Europe and speaking on... [the theme of terrorism, pending] outcome of... the Council of Europe's expert working group on terrorism"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Hailsham letter to King ("Revision of the NUM Rule Book") [analysis of rule change on authorisation of NUM strike action] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Jenkin minute to MT ("Lessons of the 1984-85 Miners' Strike") [comment on Armstrong's minute] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) [the coal industry and the miners' strike: chairmanship of the NCB; NCB agreement with NACODs; treatment of non-working miners] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("NUM Rule Book") [note for meeting on NUM rule changes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Wyatt letter to MacGregor (treatment of working miners by striking miners and the NCB) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Howe minute to Rees ("ECGD Cover for Turkey") [Kellogg bid] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Prime Minister Özal letter to MT (Second Bosphorus Bridge Project) [UK/Turkish commercial relations in wake of contract going to Japan; possiblity of sub-contract for UK firm] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: DTI Press Office minute (“Draft PPI Press Notice for May”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Lisbon telegram to FCO (“Secretary of States bilateral meeting with Shultz: tête-à-tête”) [arms control: SDI concept] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to No.10 (“Airports policy: Decision letters and White Paper) [Stansted and Heathrow planning applications] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Walker) [“Chairmanship of UKAEA”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: MT letter to Walters (inflation and monetary control) [MT: “I am very worried about M3, the Bill mountain, the rate of inflation and rising property prices”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: State Department Fact Sheet (“The Strategic Defence Initiative”) [direction and scope of the SDI research programme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI)”) [UK participation; pace "may not be adequate"] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell (Premier Zhao's Visit) [speech on Chinese foreign policy: remarks on Hong Kong, Chinese revolution] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: No.10 note to Charles Powell (briefing for Zhao talks) [issue of soft loans - DTI wants to "make it clear that NO facilities would apply to Guang Dong"] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Zhao Ziyang) [Sino-British trade - UK considering soft loans option; Guangdong nuclear power station] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Tebbit PS letter to Charles Powell (IPSECO lobbying) ["we have insisted that they should secure the full commitment of Hawker Siddeley"] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: MT letter to Sir Henry Plumb (Prime Minister's meeting with Manuel Fraga, leader of Alianza Popular) [MT agrees to meeting, following A.P. "signing of an agreement in principle" with European Democratic Group signifying alliance of non-socialist parties in the European Assembly] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Whitelaw PS ("Public Expenditure") [meeting to discuss main issues facing the government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Department of Employment letter to No.10 ("Hard to Fill Vacancies: Note for the Prime Minister") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: FCO letter to No.10 ("Football Violence") [Heysel Stadium disaster: disbursement of Government contribution to disaster fund] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Football Violence: Legislation on Alcohol") [football hooliganism: Brittan's revised proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Ian Woolridge letter to MT (football hooliganism) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) New Zealand: New Zealand High Commission minute to MT (Walding's death) [Mrs Walding touched by message] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("BL/Honda") [Financial Times reports of collaboration cause embarrassment to Honda; Tebbit warns against further leaks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Havers minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [comment on revised British proposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Hurd) ["Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland"; need for a review mechanism in draft Anglo-Irish agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Young minute to MT ("Long-Term Unemployment") [schemes for tackling unemployment: tax credit proposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Henry Plumb (meeting with Señor Fraga of the Alianza Popular) [MT to meet with Fraga, following signing of a conservative alliance agreement in principle between Plumb's European Democratic Group and Alianza Popular] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker minute to MT (“Coal Stock Rebuild at CEGB Power Stations”) [progress report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Edwards minute to MT ("Opencast Coal Act 1958") [transfer of opencast coal mining consents from the Department of Energy to the Department of Environment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-Tebbit-King-Havers-Warry) ["Industrial Relations Legislation: NUM Rule Book"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Tebbit minute to MT ("Lessons of the 1984-85 Miners' Strike") [comment on Armstrong's minute] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("Mercury") [Departmental procurement opportunities] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 19th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, pay review body reports, legislative programme) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling letter to Howe (“1985 CAP price fixing”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Walters letter to MT (“Debt and the IMF”) [paper by Robert Vobel] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Robin Harris minute to Sherbourne (“Long-term themes for speeches”) [“a cock-shy of themes”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) US: US Ambassador briefing for Shultz (“Your meeting with Thatcher”) [“Thatcher wants to raise the Middle East, Salt II observance, and W79 shells”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Lisbon telegram to FCO (“Secretary of States bilateral with Shultz: Northern Ireland”) [UK talks with Irish government; impact of terrorism] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Lisbon telegram to FCO (“Secretary of States bilateral with Shultz: Southern Africa”) [sanctions against South Africa “ineffective and damaging”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“A Conservative Society”) [“the traditional family is supposed to be disappearing. But does the evidence bear this out?”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [monetary policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Lisbon telegram 291 to FCO (0200Z) (“Quadripartite Ministerial Meeting: SALT II Contraints”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) China: Richard Luce letter to Tony Lloyd (Zhao visit itinerary) [no room for a visit to Manchester] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Rees letter to Hurd ("Short Brothers PLC") ["In view of the problems you have described, I accept the need to increase Short's EFL... as an interim measure..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: President Ortega letter to MT (UK support for the Reagan adminstration) ["frank amazement at your open defence of the immoral and illegal"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Clive Whitmore letter to Armstrong (the alleged deployment of a Polaris submarine during the Falklands War) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Football Violence: Disbursement of the £250,000") [Heysel Stadium disaster] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Morale in the Civil Service) [MT sceptical about evidence presented of a widespread and unprecedentedly low morale; regards concerns about Government intentions to privatise certain functions as "nub of the matter"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Tebbit minute to MT ("Defence Sales to Jordan") [opposed to Heseltine request for increase in credit cover amount; "You have instructed ECGD to be more rigorous"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Defence Sales to Jordan") [options for improvements in the terms on offer] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Bus Deregulation") [getting the Government's case across the the public: Nicholas Ridley White Paper; press release] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Grant-Aided Primary Schools") [pilot scheme to establish 12 new state-supported but privately-owned, independent primary schools designed to help raise standards] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [comment on draft Anglo-Irish agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Letwin and Redwood minute to MT ("Long-Term Unemployment") [comment on King's schemes for tackling unemployment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("British Gas Privatisation") [progress report on privatisation exercise] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: UKE Tokyo telegram 415 to FCO (2347Z) ("Bosphorus Bridge: Press Statement by Mr Pattie") [comment on Nakasone letter to MT; criticism of perceived Japanese credit to Turkey in return for export promotion; threat of EC/US countermeasures to address trade imbalance with Japan] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: MT message to President Mubarak (1600Z) (death of Egyptian Prime Minister Mohieddin) [condolences] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Debt: Argentina and Peru”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Inland Revenue letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (“Keith Report implementation”) [proposals affecting Inland Revenue] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lord Advocate letter to MT (“Human Rights”) [reducing the impact of the European Convention of Human Rights on British law] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Middle East: US Embassy London memo for Shultz (“The Secretary’s meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher, June 7”) [King Hussein, terrorism and peace talks] [declassified 2013]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Middle East: Shultz memo for Reagan (“My meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher, June 7”) [MT would not sit down with a Jordanian-PLO delegation “unless the PLO rejected terrirosim”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, George Shultz) [Middle East; East/West relations; economic questions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Mexico: UKE Mexico City telegram to FCO (“Mexican Economy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UK Ambassador Cape Town to FCO (“South Africa: Threats to the Regime”) [short-term assessment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to MT (“Review of Banking Supervision and Johnson Matthey Bankers”) [attaches report, largely agrees; doubts full-scale rescue needed] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson-Stewart-Middleton-George-Walters) [monetary policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Press Office minute to Walters (“Interview with Channel 4 TV”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Lisbon telegram 302 to FCO (0652Z) (“North Atlantic Council Ministerial Meeting, 6 June: Salt II Interim Restraints ”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Lisbon telegram 301 to FCO (0005Z) (“North Atlantic Council Ministerial Meeting, Restricted Session”) [arms control, East-West relations, SDI] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Helmut Kohl message to MT (the European Transonic Wind Tunnel project) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jun 8 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Zhao Ziyang) [importance of improving bilateral, trading relationships, implementation of declaration on Hong Kong] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Premier Zhao message to MT (visit to UK) ["Our talks are useful and fruitful"] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 8 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Westland: Zambian President Kaunda letter to MT (Westland helicopters;) [asks for 12, to be financed wholly by British aid: MT hopes it can be done “very quickly”] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Jun 9 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 9 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 91”) [“it would appear that our support has stabilised at around the 30/31 percent level”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 9 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO letter to No.10 (hung councils) [Alliance “have in fact only enabled Labour to take control in one County”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Meeting with Parliamentary and Congressional wives group for Soviet Jewry") [arrangements & briefing] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) China: Lord Young notes on conversation (conversations with Zhao, Tian) [soft loans, defence sales, education, economy] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: No.10 briefing for MT ("E(A) Discussion: commercial policy towards Japan") [UK position on EC review] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Brittan letter to Whitelaw ("Animals legislation") ["... the only way to retain credibility on this issue is to announce at about the time of the Queen's speech for next session that there will be a Bill in 1986/87. I appreciate that this would be an unusual step..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 letter to Macfarlane PS (football hooliganism: arrangements for 1986 World Cup) [Heysel Stadium disaster] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Department of Trade & Industry letter to No.10 ("BL: Honda") [British Leyland: Tebbit intends to discuss developments with MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Tebbit) ["BL/Honda": developments in British Leyland/Honda negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (British Leyland/Honda negotiations: meeting with Tebbit) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Warry minute to MT ("BL/Honda") [British Leyland: analysis of letter from Honda President] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: MT letter to Prime Minister Pindling (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Nassau, October 1985) [acceptance of invitation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (Recommendations on the Pay and Charges of the Armed Forces from 1 April 1985) ["the Government has decided to implement immediately the full recommendations"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Mark Addison minute to MT ("Confiscation of the Profits of Drug Trafficking") [Leon Brittan's draft legislation; linking of fines to assets; linkage to football legislation on alcohol] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Leon Brittan letter to Whitelaw ("Confiscation of the Profits of Drug Trafficking") [proposal to include legislative measures in the draft Bill on football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Rees letter to Ridley ("Transport Select Committee: Report on Buses White Paper Government Response") [proposed amendments to draft White Paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Grant-Aided Schools") [summary of Keith Joseph proposal to establish 12 new primary schools; advice on response; MT queries why scheme should only apply to primary schools] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Teachers' Pay") [additional resources 1986-87] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [latest British version of Anglo-Irish agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 2184 to FCO (1415Z) ("Internal Market: Commission White Paper") [analysis of draft paper by Lord Cockfield] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("The Prime Minister's Initiative on Deregulation in the European Community: Our VAT Threshold") ["best to go for agreement to the principle of amending the VAT directive to secure a higher limit before proposing a figure, especially one as hight as [your suggested] £50,000"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Alison minute to MT ("Transfer of Working Miners to the Selby Coalfield") [proposal by working miners to take over coalfield] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler minute to MT ("Working Miners") [report on treatment of working miners by the NCB] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation Regulation (E(A) (85) 30)") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: No.10 record of conversation ("Bosphorus Bridge") [Charles Powell, Richard Needham MP: Needham criticism of UK firm's efforts to secure sub-contract; further opportunity for UK firms] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“National Savings: Inter-Linked Issues”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Cabinet Office minute to Treasury (“Argentina”) [a bridge facility has been agreed] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Edwards letter to Tom King (“Training Loans”) [pilot project in Wales] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Butler note to Jim Daniell (reply to Lord Mayor of Belfast) [possible meeting with MT] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Budd letter to Charles Powell (“Message to Prime Minister from former Premier of Ontario”) [“The cordial relations we have enjoyed with your Government have been a source of satisfaction to me”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Alison minute to MT (“Transfer of Working Miners to the Selby Coalfield”) [“is it practicable systematically to transfer large numbers of working miners - as many as 750 - without scandal or disruption?”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Defence: Burt briefing for Shultz (briefing Reagan on your meeting with MT) [“she stressed with me that ceasing to observe the SALT I and SALT II limits would be a ‘major step’ … the greatest nation on earth doesn’t break treaties”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Howe minute to Nick Ridley (“Laker: attempted settlement”) [“sooner we can wind up the civil action… the better, not least for the civil aviation relationship between [UK & US]”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Rees letter to Peter Walker (”AEA Bill: Coverage”) [“viable areas which could either become joint ventures with the private sector or be floated off in total”] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Gorbachev to Reagan (stock reply to 30 April Reagan letter) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Adam Thomson letter to MT (sale of Airbus 310 aircraft) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“European Council, Milan: 28/29 June") [Italian presidency documents for Council] [declassified Nov 2016]
Text 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Tebbit letter to Jopling (embargo on imports from Argentina) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Department of Transport letter to No.10 ("Implementation of Efficiency Scrutinies") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Football Association and Football League: 12 June") [Heysel Stadium disaster] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Ridley minute to MT ("European Cup Final: British Transport Police Report") [Heysel Stadium disaster] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [latest British version of Anglo-Irish agreement as being sent to Irish government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Development of the Community: Prime Minister's Questions") [lines to take; report on Foreign Ministers Council, Stresa] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Long-Term unemployment (Minutes from the Secretary of State for Employment of 5 June and the Minister Without Portfolio of 6 June") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Tebbit-Jenkin-Fowler-King-Edwards-Ridley-Rees-Young-Morrison-Stewart-Wiggins-Letwin) ["Long-Term Unemployment"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Tebbit minute to MT ("BSC Strategy") [future of Ravenscraig and Alphasteel] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Edwards minute to MT ("Lessons of the 1984-85 Miners' Strike") [comment on Armstrong's minute] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Ridley minute to MT ("Lessons of the 1984-85 Miners' Strike") [comment on Armstrong's minute] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Patrick Jenkin letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Social Security Review: Public Service Pensions - Part-Timers") ["I am concerned that the proposal... could add significantly to local authority current expenditure"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 letter to Department of Health and Social Security (Social Security Review) [party held by MT for members of the Review team] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Policy: Robin Harris minute to Sherbourne (“The Special Adviser Network and Other Matters”) [“prior notification between Special Advisers of forthcoming announcements and events … [not] a practical proposition”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industry: John Butcher PS letter to No.10 (future of Manchester Steel) [MT unhappy with draft reply to Frank Field MP] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to John Wakeham PS (“Debate on airports policy, Monday 17 June”) [text of the motion, early debate in the Lords] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (Laker settlement offer) [“a good outcome”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mexico: Powell minute for MT (“Meeting with President of Mexico”) [FCO briefing, card prompts for meeting itself] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Turnbull minute to MT (Liverpool finances) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: David Willetts minute to MT (“Johnson Matthey”) [handling the problem in the House of Commons] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to President Reagan (SALT II) [welcomes US decision to observe existing strategic arms agreements] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation ("Prime Minister's meeting with Parliamentary wives for the release of Soviet Jewry") ["confidential approaches … more likely to have some effect than highly publicised approaches"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT speaking notes (meeting with Parliamentary and Congressional wives group for Soviet Jewry) [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Milan European Council: Kohl's speech to Action Committee for Europe") [future of EC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Milan European Council: tax harmonisation") [MT not prepared to avoid public criticism of EC proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's briefing meeting for the European Council: 4.30pm, Thursday 27 June") [invitees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: Speaker of the House of Commons letter to No.10 (Prime Minister's meeting with President of the Congress of Deputies of Spain) [scheduling] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT (Trinity House "Mermaid" replacement) [order to be placed with Hyundai in preference to domestic bids on cost grounds] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT (Times article on Department of Trade & Industry efficiency scrutinies) [MT: "I think it would be worth Robin writing to the Times"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Macfarlane minute to MT (football hooliganism: meeting with European Sports Ministers) [Heysel Stadium disaster] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Brittan-Jenkin-Ridley-Macfarlane-Football Association and League Representatives & others) [football hooliganism and the Heysel Stadium disaster] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Butler note to MT (meeting with Football Association and Football League Representatives) [football hooliganism and Heysel Stadium disaster] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Downing Street: Robin Butler minute to MT ("BBC Film: 250th Anniversary of No.10") [High Commissioners visit; reception for children; Denis Thatcher] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Robin Nicholson ("United Kingdom Response to Eureka: Eurotype") ["I am content for the idea of Eurotype now to be floated in informal discussions... subject to a number of conditions and observations"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Howe-Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [Anglo-Irish agreement; joint courts; terrorist prisoners; press leaks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [proposed intergovernmental conference on progress towards European Union; freedom of establishment for architects; vehicle emissions; Finance Council, 11 June; 1985/1986 EC Budgets/UK VAT contribution; Agriculture Council, 11-12 June; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (British Steel negotiations to buy and close Alphasteel for £150 million) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Havers minute to MT ("Lessons of the 1984-85 Miners' Strike") [comment on Armstrong's minute] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Open-Cast Coal") [supports NCB strategy of pursuing open-cast coal mining] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 minute to MT (Social Security Review: uprating) [Fowler statement to Parliament; Cabinet discussion] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Walker letter to Jopling (energy efficiency in Government Departments) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Chairman of British Airports letter to MT (response to Airports Policy White Paper) [‘Stansted go-ahead “excellent news for air transport industry”’] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Whitelaw minute to MT (“E(LA): Rate Support Grant Settlement 1986-1987, England”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [the review of banking supervision and Johnson Matthey Bankers] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science: Department of Education and Science (“Science and Public Expenditure”) [“the Budget is buying less science than it did”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) China: MT message to Premier Zhao's interpreter (Zhao's visit to UK) ["I was most impressed by the clarity and speed of your interpretation"] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chairman's paper circulated to Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 1 ("Composition and terms of reference") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chairman's paper circulated to Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 2 ("Work Programme") [based on Jenkin minute to MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT (public spending round) [better way of negotiating with departments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Department of Transport ("Trinity House: "Mermaid" Replacement") [MT agrees that order should be placed with Hyundai] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Secretary (Times article on Department of Trade & Industry efficiency scrutinies) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Department of Environment letter to No.10 ("Brussels") [Heysel Stadium disaster: spectator accounts of the disaster] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Department of Trade & Industry letter to No.10 ("BL/Honda") [British Leyland: Government response to Corporate Plan; negotiations with Honda] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Tebbit-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["BL/Honda"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson) ["Mr A's proposal to bid for Company X"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Ridley minute to MT ("Reducing Unemployment: Public Sector") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Tebbit-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Alphasteel"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Warry minute to Turnbull ("Alphasteel") [British steel: options to purchase and close Alphasteel or close Ravenscraig] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MT letter to Ian MacGregor (treatment of working miners by the NBC) ["I understand there are many who are still subject to intimidation...I believe everything possible must be done for these brave individuals"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Walker-Younger-Edwards-Jenkin-Armstrong-Wybrew) ["Opencast Coal"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: MT letter to Robert Maxwell (PVC Project at Wloclawek) ["There is a general understanding among Poland's western creditors that none of them should give Poland new credit until arrangements have been completed to deal with past debts"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Tebbit letter to Heseltine (“Westlands ”) [Bristow may drop bid unless government helps more] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 20th (leak, Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson, Keith Joseph, Younger, Edwards, Hurd, Wakeham, Lord Young, Peter Rees) [review of student support] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: NUCAS minutes (Executive Committee meeting) [party conference, Social Affairs Forum, SCUA conference, golf tournament, FCS committee of enquiry, Executive Committee elections] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Science: Department of Education and Science press release (“Science and Public Expenditure”) [“the Budget is buying less science than it did”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Environment Secretary’s PS minute to MT (“Local Government Finance Studies: Follow up to E(LF) Meeting of 21 May”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lawson minute to MT (“Lambeth”) [loan application] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute (“Monthly Monetary Report: May-August”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: FCO briefing for No.10 (“Milan European Council: Steering Brief") [first draft, sent to Cabinet Office] [declassified Nov 2016]
Text 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit 1986”) [Japan’s intention to hold a meeting of Industry Ministers in Tokyo] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: possible Statement by Heads of Government at Milan") [European Council] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 briefing for MT ("Procedure Committee") [review of the format for Prime Minister's Questions] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute for Tebbit ("Embargo on Argentine Imports") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Cabinet on Sunday, 23 June: Public Expenditure Priorities") [the task ahead] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Booth minute to MT (Football Leagues' income/expenditure position) [football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Remarks by the Greek Prime Minister about Britain") [Papandreou comments about English "police state"; should not send congratulatory message on formation of new Greek government, how to handle press enquiries] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Morrison minute to MT ("Young People's Pay") [press releases on connection between pay and jobs for young people] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Fishing Industry: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Future Fisheries Protection Arrangements And Offshore Protection") [proposed meeting of OD committee in July] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Gas Privatisation - Common Carrier Provisions of the Oil and Gas Enterprise Act, 1982") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lord Young ("Study of Tax and Social Security Systems") [addressing Lord Young's proposal for combined tax/benefits system] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit (“Cable Industry: Consortium Relief”) [relaxations to rules to be introduced in Finance Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Gaborone to FCO (“South African Raid on Gaborone”) [details of attack] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Gaborone to FCO (“South African Raid on Gaborone”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town to FCO (“South African Raid on Gaborone”) [Pik Botha’s comments - MT notes PLO still training for international terrorism therefore do not meet] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town to FCO (“South African Raid on Gaborone”) [Pik Botha’s comments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to MODUK (“South African Raid into Botswana”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to MODUK (“South African Raid into Botswana”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Brian Griffiths memo for MT (“UK Monetary Policy and Techniques of Monetary Control”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Turnbull minute to MT (“Monetary Policy”) [advice from Gordon Pepper steer economy by reference to money GDP & exchange rate] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jun 15 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Jun 16 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Biffen, Wakeham) [Procedure Committee proposals for the conduct of Prime Minister's Questions] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Biffen, Wakeham) [Select Procedures Committee review of the format for Prime Minister's Questions] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 1st ("Work Programme") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Rees PS ("Public Expenditure Priorities") [ministers should not approach discussion as departmental advocates] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Priorities") [ministers should not approach discussion as departmental advocates] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor and Chief Secretary") [prospects for the public expenditure round] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Chairman of the Football Association, Bert Millichip (football hooliganism: spectator violence, Heysel Stadium disaster, and Bradford City fire) [Government, FA and Football League actions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: John Patten PS letter to No.10 ("Services for Drug Misusers") ["John Patten proposes to publish shortly information provided by health authorities on the prevalence of drug misuse in their areas and their plans for tackling the problem"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Hurd-Hume) [American funding initiatives, local election results, devolution, joint courts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute to Treasury ("Briefing on Privatisation") ["thanks from the Italian Minister for Industry"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Lessons from the Miners' Strike") [follow-up to Armstrong's minute and ministerial responses] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: FCO letter to Powell ("Visit to London by the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD): 18-19 June") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("National Girobank") [privatisation; selection & salary of Managing Director] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("Social Security Uprating") [draft of Fowler statement to Parliament & summary of key points] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Trade: Howe minute to Rees ("The Iraq-Turkey Pipeline") [BPEC request for ECGD; "I wish the Turks to understand that we remain interested in their market"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Tebbit minute to MT (Second Bosphorus Bridge Project) [UK government reaction to Japanese decision not to award any sub-contract work to UK firm] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI letter to No.10 (“Westland”) [refusing Bristow terms, but suggests alternative to avoid company collapse, seeking urgent No.10 approval] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: MT letter to Chief Scientific Adviser (options for the future of UKAEA) [Nicholson unable to accept Chairmanship of Atomic Energy Authority on terms offered] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell letter to FCO ("Seminar on policy towards South Africa") [MT wants seminar at Chequers c13 Spt; list of questions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Environment Secretary’s PS minute to MT (“Liverpool City Council”) [Liverpool rate fixing: possible Government action] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Michael Howard letter to MT (encouragement) [thanks for lunch; mid-term troubles - key to expose Alliance weakness] [released 2015]
Text 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: MT letter to Frank Field MP (closure of Manchester Steel) [“it is for the industry - whether steel producers or customers - to make proposals for ASW to consider on their commercial merits”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin letter to Edwards ("Circular on Development and Employment") ["The main purpose of this circular is to reiterate clearly that the planning system should not place unjustified obstacles in the way of development"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Peru: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Prime Minister of Peru") [arrangements for meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT message to Prime Minister Martens of Belgium (Heysel Stadium disaster) [sets out UK Government response] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Ingham letter to Macfarlane (meeting with Chairman of Sports Council and Liverpool Football Club) [Heysel stadium disaster and football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Football Violence") [football hooliganism and Bradford City fire: cost of necessary stadium improvements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("European Fighter Aircraft") [report on outcome of recent meetings of partners countries' Defence Ministers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Defence Sales to Jordan") [credit cover: amount & private sector share] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Ridley PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Transport Select Committe: Report on Buses White Paper Government Response") [final draft] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on latest stage of negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Warry minute to Turnbull ("Alphasteel") [British steel: concern that purchase of Alphasteel difficult to defend] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to Armstrong ("Lessons of the 1984-85 Miners' Strike") [follow-up to Armstrong's minute and ministerial responses] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Trade: Rees letter to Channon ("Iraq - Turkey Pipeline") [BPEC bids for ECGD cover] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: UKE Luxembourg telegram 160 to FCO (1953Z) ("EC/Japan") [draft European Council declaration on trade imbalance] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Treasury letter to DTI (“Westland”) [protest at DTI failure to warn Treasury in time for crisis meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Tebbit letter to Westland chairman (DTI conversations with Bristow) [offers made to Bristow; launch aid issue] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 record of conversation (‘Westland’) [late night crisis meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI letter to No.10 (‘Westland’) [developments since ministerial meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Alison note to Sid Cordle (striking miners) [transfers to other pits] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industry: MT letter to Frank Field MP (future of Manchester Steel) [“I realise that this is a very worrying time for the employees”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Gaborone to FCO (“South African Raid”) [a British citizen among the dead] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [the city’s finances, political strategy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Liverpool City Council”) [Jenkin’s minute: proposals and handling] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to MT (funding meeting assessment) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Preparations for the European Council") [Giusti confirms Andreotti seeking IGC] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) EC: No.10 letter to FCO (“European Council in Milan: Bilateral with Signor Craxi") [Craxi not able to come to London before Council, so bilateral to be in Milan at MT's hotel] [declassified Nov 2016]
Text 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: Committee on People's Europe") [Report for European Council in Milan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS note to Andrew Turnbull ("Public Expenditure Priorities") ["We have had an enormous problem on public expenditure"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: FCO letter to Powell ("Possible Message from the Prime Minister to Mr Martens") [Heysel Stadium disaster] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Chairman of the Football Association, Bert Millichip letter to MT (football hooliganism: spectator violence, Heysel Stadium disaster, and Bradford City fire) [response to MT's letter] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Government and lobbying) [request from Lynda Chalker for advice regarding invitation from Business Research International to participate in seminar] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Grant-Aided Primary Schools") [response to MT's query as to why scheme should only apply to primary schools] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [preparation for Milan European Council; EC/Japan; White Paper on completion of common market; EC (Finance) Bill: Own Resources Decision/UK VAT contribution; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [appointments to Police Authority for Northern Ireland; Anglo-Irish agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [points to decide for next steps in Anglo-Irish negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (Anglo-Irish negotiations: position of Unionist parties) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI letter to No.10 (‘Westlands’) [Bristow withdrawing bid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 record of conversation (‘Westland’) [if Bristow withdraws, encourage creditors to instal new management] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Robert Armstrong briefing for MT (“Conflict of Interests in the House of Commons: Lobbyists”) [“possible courses of action to constrain ‘lobbying’ activities by MPs”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Chief Whip APS letter to Cabinet Office (“Questions of Procedure for Ministers”) [legal actions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Rees letter to Peter Walker (“AEA Bill: Coverage”) [“UKAEA powers to take equity shares in non-nuclear manufacturing companies”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Liverpool: Latest Information”) [the city’s finances] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKDEL NATO telegram 169 to FCO (1630Z) (“North Atlantic Council: Briefing on US-Soviet Geneva Talks”) [arms control, space, defence, SDI] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: FCO draft ?telegram (“EC Foreign Affairs Council: Lunch on 18 June/Preparations for the European Council") [Andreotti talks of "a kind of" IGC] [declassified Nov 2016]
Text 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Milan European Council") [future of the EC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Run up to Milan") [European Council: FRG position on future of the EC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Geoffrey Pattie letter to Howe ("United Kingdom response to EUREKA: high technology product warranty scheme") [paper of interest for European Council summit in Milan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Gowrie minute to MT ("Multi Department Review of Office Accommodation Management") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Ingham minute to MT ("The Approach to the Next Football Season") [football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Hurd-Molyneaux) [powers to district councils, future of Assembly, Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO letter to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Briefing the US Administration") [FCO suggests taking 'US Administration a little more into our confidence'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Malaysia: Ridley minute to MT ("UK-Malaysian Air Services") [dispute between British Airways and Malaysian Air Services over request for additional MAS flights to London] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT (meeting with Walter Marshall of the CEGB) [Electricity Council, slow recovery from miners' strike, oil capacity] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: ?No.10 PMQ briefing (Westland) [situation now Bristow bid withdrawn; line to take] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 21st (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, public expenditure) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Brittan minute to MT (“Immigration and the European Convention on Human Rights”) [MT opposes Brittan proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: No.10 record of conversation (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Conservative Friends of Israel”) [British policy towards Israel, possible visit to Egypt and Jordan; PLO delegation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: No.10 briefing (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Conservative Friends of Israel”) [visit to Israel, potential PLO delegation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [possible strike: implications for the Council] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Turnbull minute to MT (“Johnson Matthey”) [Chancellor’s statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Paper on Monetary Policy”) [briefing for MT: inflation, monetary control, international money markets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute (“Banking Supervision and Johnson Matthey Bankers”) [Lawson’s statement] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: MT message to Premier Zhao (Zhao's visit to UK) [talks "have laid the foundation for the continued rapid development of relations between our two countries"] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Run up to Milan: the German approach") [European Council] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to Private Secretaries ("The Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation and Opening of Parliament") [request for contributions to the drafts] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [need to "get away from the reputation for endless cuts"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Booth minute to MT ("Football Finance") [football hooliganism: Football League and Trust income and expenditure] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Department of Environment letter to No.10 (meeting of Working Group on Football Ground Improvements) [football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MOD letter to No.10 (reports of violent behaviour by British Servicemen) [football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Legislation on Alcohol at Football Grounds") [football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Football: Membership Cards") [football hooliganism: concern that football authorities are opposed to cards] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 briefing for MT ("Morale in the Civil Service") [proposed purposes of the meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: MT letter to Secretary General Ramphal (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Nassau, October 1985: Agenda) ["We are studying your suggestions and I will let you have my considered views as soon as possible"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Mark Addison minute to MT ("Grant Aided Primary Schools") [response to MT's query as to why scheme should only apply to primary schools] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Malaysia: Lord King, Chairman of British Airways, letter to MT ("Malaysia") [dispute between British Airways and Malaysian Air Services over request for additional MAS flights to London] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Warry minute to MT ("Professor Vincent's Paper") [encouraging entrepreneurship to create jobs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("NCB Executive Committee Lunch") [suggested questions for MT to put to Committee members] [declassified Dec 2014]

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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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