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86 Apr 30 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Judiciary: No.10 minute to Treasury Solicitor (Richard Holt libel action) [No.10 refuses to be drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 30 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Judiciary: No.10 letter to Murdo Maclean (Richard Holt MP libel action) [“we are in essence rejecting a call for help from a Government backbencher”] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Chernobyl disaster, prison dispute) [“Worst nuclear accident in history”] [released 2017]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Canada: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Expo '86 in Vancouver") [programme issues due to Princess Margaret's determination to attend Royal Ballet] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: FCO briefing for MT (Tokyo Summit: Soviet Nuclear Accident & International Terrorism) [declassified 2014]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: No.10 Policy Unit minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit: US/European Community Trade Dispute”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: No.10 Policy Unit minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit: Agricultural Support and Protection”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Tokyo Economic Summit: Tied Aid Financing”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: UKE Tokyo minute for Prime Minister’s Party in Seoul (“Morupule Project”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: UKE Washington telegram 1150 to FCO (2105Z) (“Tokyo Summit: Oil Stockbuilding”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: No.10 record of conversation (briefing meeting for Tokyo Economic Summit) [declassified 2014]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Justice: Cabinet Office briefing for Whitelaw ("Prison officers' industrial action") [situation report & key issues for Whitelaw meeting with MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Justice: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Prison officers' industrial action) [Whitelaw, Hurd, Tom King, Lord Young, John MacGregor, Michael Havers, John Wakeham, John Stanley, William Waldegrave and others] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) [response to Group's Negotiating Concept] [released 2017]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("British Shipbuilders and the North East") ["I now understand from BS themselves... that the statement planned for 14 May... is likely to reveal plans for redundancies of nearly 4,000... The occasion for this statement is a meeting on 14 May with the unions to begin wage negotiations..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons message to Pik Botha ("South Africa") [calling for "genuine negotiation along the lines envisaged in our negotiating concept"; forwarded to MT by Ramphal by telegram of 6 May] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [Howe "greatly doubts... consensus at the [Tokyo Economic] Summit in favour of a statement on the lines proposed by [President Botha]"; advises MT to wait until after Summit to reply to Botha; draft instructions to Moberly] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Howe minute for Ian Lang (“European Social Fund: 1986 Allocations”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Hurd PS letter to No.10 (“Strasbourg - Proofing”) [European Convention of Human Rights] [declassified 2014]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 18th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Chernobyl, prison dispute, private schools) [released 2017]
86 May 1 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Second Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Property Repayment Services) [funding of major new works] [declassified 2014]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: George Younger minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: Agent Resettlement") [agent has disappeared, a high priority target for PIRA] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (Workfare) [MT request for report on feasibility of introducing a US-style system of compulsion to work or train in return for benefits] [declassified 2014]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Treasury briefing for MT (“Tokyo Economic Summit: Tied Aid Financing”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	G7: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Prime Minister’s Party in Seoul (“Samanala Wewa”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: UKE Tokyo minute for Prime Minister’s Party in Seoul (“Maekawa Report: Japanese Government Follow-up”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: UKE Tokyo minute for Prime Minister’s Party in Seoul (“Maekawa Report: Japanese Government Follow-up”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Howe minute for Prime Minister’s Party in Seoul (“Tokyo Summit”) [IDA 8, Soviet nuclear accident] [declassified 2014]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: US draft (“Terrorism and the Summit Partners: Some Thoughts by the United States”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Justice: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Prison officers' dispute") [situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Department of the Environment letter to No.10 Policy Unit ("Consultations on Planning Applications) ["...Sainsbury Group's concerns about the delay caused by the statutory consultations... and the somewhat unhelpful response that we have had from Lord Young"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Channon letter to Whitelaw ("British Shipbuilders: the next steps") ["... the BS Board feels very strongly... that they should brief the unions..., publicly announcing both the closures and the other major changes in employment practices when they open their negotiations on pay"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: No.10 telegram to MT's party in Seoul (updates) [prisons; nuclear accident; markets; Libya; plutonium; supplementary benefit and mortgage interest; ministerial visit] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Lt Sethia: Production of Diary") [Howe agrees to prevent the diary disclousure] [declassified 2014]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: FCO telegram to UKE Seoul ("ComGEP Review Meeting") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: Governments' efforts to agree an early date] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: No.10 minute to Addison (internal) and Howe PS ("President Botha's Message") [relayed by airborne telegram en route to Tokyo Economic Summit: MT overrides Howe advice: request to revise instructions to Moberly - "too negative": still hopeful of securing a reference to South Africa in the Summit conclusions] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: MacGregor letter to Jopling (“Alternative Land Uses and Employment in the Countryside”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Younger (“Budgeting in Government departments”) [“review shows that we need to look again at some of the basic mechanisms”] [declassified 2014]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Prison dispute, Chernobyl,Northern Ireland) [released 2017]
86 May 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Michael Jopling letter to Howe (“Welfare of battery hens - proposed challenge to Council Directive 86/113/EEC”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Thomas, Giffard) [Tokyo Economic Summit: terrorism] [declassified 2014]
86 May 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	G7: Powell minute for Thomas (Tokyo economic summit: representatives and arrangements) [declassified 2014]
86 May 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: No.10 telegram to MT's party in Seoul (forwarding advice from Chief Scientific Adviser) [avoid saying similar accident could not happen in UK] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: No.10 telegram to MT's party in Seoul (forwarding advice from Walter Marshall) ["without any doubt at all ... the biggest disaster the nuclear industry has had"; re-fueling of some British reactors "comparable in concept"] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Korea: No.10 record of conversation (MT, HM Ambassador, Committee of British Chamber of Commerce) [UK business making inroads against Japan and US; main barriers hindering British trade; Korean investment in UK; cultural exchanges] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 May 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Korea: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prime Minister Lho Shin-yong, Foreign Minister Lee Won-gyeong, Minister of Trade & Industry Kum Jin Ho, HM Ambassador) [UK contracts for Korean defence equipment; Korean infringement of UK industrial copyrights; Double Taxation Agreement; protectionism; democracy] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 May 3 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Korea: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Chun Doo-hwan, HM Ambassador, Ambassador Kim) [strengthening trade links; Marconi/Ferranti contract; constitutional reform; N. Korea; Western solidarity in face of Soviet threat] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 May 4 Su	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [Libya, Middle East, South Africa, Ireland, Japan, East/West relations, Soviet nuclear accident, EC/US, Korea] [declassified 2014]
86 May 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War, Libya, etc: White House record of conversation (MT, Reagan, Shultz, Regan, Poindexter) [terrorism, Libya, Middle East, South Africa, Northern Ireland; G7, trade, East/West, Chernobyl, EC enlargement, South Korea] [declassified 2011]
86 May 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: Armstrong minute for Powell ("Chernobyl: Nuclear Safety") [Japanese propose G7 should issue statement; likely to be on lines we wish] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Policy Unit briefing document (“Tokyo Economic Summit: Soviet Nuclear Accident”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit: General Declaration”) [final draft] [declassified 2014]
86 May 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: FCO minute for Powell (“South Africa: Handling of P W Botha’s Request for a Statement”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Shultz) [arms control] [declassified 2014]
86 May 4 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Japanese Personal Representative Teshima letter to Armstrong (the forthcoming dinner with MT: statement on the safety of nuclear installations) [declassified 2014]
86 May 4 Su	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister's Tours Abroad: No.10 minute to MT ("Cabinet: 26 June") [clash with MT flight plan for European Council at The Hague] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Tokyo Economic Summit: International Terrorism”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Political Declarations”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“G5/G7”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: No.10 record of conversation (Admiral Poindexter-Charles Powell) [the Chernobyl nuclear accident, SDI, nuclear deterrent, Libya] [declassified 2014]
86 May 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Cabinet Office minute to Powell (“Draft Declaration on International Terrorism”) [statements on international terrorism] [declassified 2014]
86 May 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [GATT Round, European Community Budget, CAP, EC/US, East/West relations] [declassified 2014]
86 May 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel: speech") ["...the Prime Minister's stock is very high here... I think [MT] should seek to stretch the limits of what Israelis regard as 'thinkable'"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: No.10 message to MT's party in Tokyo ("Radioactive Milk"; radio interview with Chief Scientific Adviser) [Sellafield readings; radiation levels in milk declining] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [brief bilateral on GATT round, EC budget, CAP, EC/US, East/West relations; Kohl - "Gorbachev was in deep trouble"] [declassified Jul 2017]
86 May 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Tom King letter to Lord Young (promoting enterprise and employment) [proposed new budget measures] [declassified 2014]
86 May 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan) [Economic Summit, bilateral matters, Japanese economic policy, Japan/United Kingdom trade relations, IDA, Economic Summit Seven] [declassified 2014]
86 May 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Ingham minute for MT (“Press Conference; Radio and TV”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: MT notes (“Actions against Terrorism”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Justice: Home Office briefing for MT ("Prisons: Wednesday 7 May, 4.30pm") [prison officers' dispute: "For years, firm management in the prison service has been lacking..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Justice: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Prison Officers' Dispute situation report") ["...talks to take place with the Home Office... the situation in the prisons has stabilised."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Justice: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Prison Officers' Dispute") [prison riots; emergency legislation; union talks with Home Secretary; independent inquiry] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Justice: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Prisons - your meeting with the Home Secretary") ["Your meeting on Wednesday 7 May could authorise progressive changes in the workings of prisons for the next twenty years, or condemn them to a continuation of the present archaic and corrupt system."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Nuclear accident in Chernobyl: round up of Soviet statements and comment") [Powell notes: "poor Soviet performance on their obligations"] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ("Arrangements to cope with the effects on the UK of Chernobyl") [Monitoring of Milk, Water Supplies, Air etc; Interdepartmental Coordination] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Attorney General's Secretary minute for Howe ("Lt Sethia: Production of Diary") [Younger would be justified in seeking to prevent the diary disclousure] [declassified 2014]
86 May 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Nelson Mandela") [report on meeting of "two members of the Opposition Progressive Federal Party... with Nelson Mandela"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons letter to MT (bilateral exchanges) ["planning to return to Cape Town next week... We are concerned about [news of] bilateral exchanges with the South African Government at this time"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Baker letter to Jopling (alternative uses of agricultural land and rural employment) [declassified 2014]
86 May 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (G7 Summit, Libya, Chernobyl, top salaries) [released 2017]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram 252 to FCO (2000Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Expo 86 in Vancouver") [arrangements for Royal Ballet performance] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo/French Summit: Autumn 1986") [possible dates, French hosting, best before December European Council] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: UKE Tokyo to FCO (“Tokyo Summit: Immediate Reactions in Japan”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: Powell minute to FCO (“Economic Summit: Statement”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1218 to FCO (2200Z) ("Geneva Nuclear and Space Negotiations: Round V") [usual uncertainty about Soviet intentions] [declassified 2014]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Justice: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Hurd, Biffen, Tom King, John MacGregor, Lord Young, Michael Havers, John Wakeham, John Stanley and others) [prison officers' dispute] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("British Shipbuilders") ["With privatisation... completed... The preferred BS scenario is now to slim down... This is sure to create both a political and a trade union row... We recommend that the BS proposals be accepted and that David Young comes forward urgently with his measures to help support the North East"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Lord Young minute to MT ("British Shipbuilders: the next steps") ["... impending redundancies... need for us to consider the action that we should take to offset the effects on the worst hit areas of the North East"] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("British Shipbuilders") ["... main issue is whether there is any case for seeking to delay or influence... the proposed announcement by... (BS)... of their intention to close three yards; whether the Government should announce an employment initiative to ameliorate the effects on the North East; and if so, how it should be financed"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute: Monckton to Griffiths ("Hull Forms for Warships: Lord Hill-Norton's Report") [declassified Jul 2016]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Report of the Privileges Committee") ["... leak of the draft Report of the Environment Committee on Radioactive Waste... It is a rather odd principle that a journalist should be punished and the leaker should go free... But, however cogent Bernard's arguments, Government members must be seen to vote in favour of the report, given that the Lord Privy Seal is the Chairman and the Attorney General is a member"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: Ingham minute for MT ("Post Chernobyl Presentation") [impression of buck-passing] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ("Arrangements to cope with the effects on the UK of Chernobyl") [Interdepartmental Coordination - Department of the Environment resisting lead role] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: Soviet Ambassador letter to Ingham (Moscow press conference transcript) [rejects reproach from G7] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: Chief Scientific Adviser minute for No.10 ("Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Incident") [proposed study by Chief Scientists] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Treasury Solicitor minute for Howe ("Lieutenant Sethia: Production of Diary") [outcome of the hearing of the Summons issued by the Observer] [declassified 2014]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Drugs: MT letter for Dutch PM Ruud Lubbers (international co-operation to fight drug trafficking) [declassified 2015]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	City: Channon PS briefing for No.10 (“Big Bang”) [Financial Services Bill] [declassified 2014]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Secretary of General Dental Practitioners’ Association letter to MT (Review Bodies pay awards) [declassified 2014]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Pay Review Body Reports”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Pay Review Body Reports 1986”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Teachers Pay”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Kenneth Baker letter to John MacGregor (“Budgeting in Government Departments”) [“my Department has already gone a long way towards developing the sort of systems envisaged”] [declassified 2014]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [by-election/local elections, Chernobyl, prison officers’ dispute] [released 2017]
86 May 7 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Rifkind letter to Howe (Welfare of battery hens - Council Directive 86/113/EEC) [declassified 2014]
86 May 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Declarations by Candidates in Northern Ireland Elections") [consultation on proposal that candidates take an oath to neither support nor assist activities of proscribed organisations] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 461 to FCO (0015Z) ("Cyprus: Secretary-General's Initiative") [intends to treat Kyprianou's response as a bluff and seek to call it] [declassified Jul 2017]
86 May 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Cyprus") [MT not ready to support any more of the Secretary-General's deadlines] [declassified Jul 2017]
86 May 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Rifkind letter to Whitelaw (Paper for E(LF) meeting: 'Local Government finance studies: Scotland: proposed grant arrangements') ["...changes to the grant distribution arrangements needed with the introduction of a community charge..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Younger PS letter to No.10 (Hull Forms for Warships) ["... Lord Hill-Norton's report... which is very prejudiced, contains nothing new... the suggestions of impropriety... are properly a matter for the courts... principal recommendation... that an... inquiry should be established... We have nothing to hide..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 May 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Energy Secretary Peter Walker) [MT rejects Walker's proposal to visit Moscow for briefing from Soviets] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: MT letter to Walter Marshall (thanks for his letter briefing her on the disaster) ["a real gem, full of insight and wisdom and so invaluble for our briefing for the Summit"] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: FCO letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [civil service paper on "likely effects of political and economic developments in South Africa on the... [UK's] economic stake there"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: MacGregor minute to MT (“Public Expenditure: Prospects for the Survey”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Public Expenditure: Meeting at 9.30 am on Friday, 9 May”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	City: Whitelaw minute to MT (“Roskill Report”) [serious fraud: Government action on report] [declassified 2014]
86 May 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Hailsham, Keith Joseph, Younger, Tebbit, Clarke, MacGregor, Wakeham, Luce, Hayhoe) [review body on pay increases: reports] [declassified 2014]
86 May 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 minute for MT (“Education Bill”) [crime prevention, freedom of speech in higher education, political indoctrination in school] [declassified 2014]
86 May 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 19th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Chernobyl fears, local elections/by-elections, unions, industry) [released 2017]
86 May 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Development of the Property Repayment System”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Letter from Francis Noel-Baker") [declassified Jul 2017]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Workfare”) [“someone can now carry on receiving benefit as unemployed without ever having to go near a job centre”] [declassified 2014]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 (“Training Provided by the Armed Forces”) [MOD article on benefits for the wider economy] [declassified 2014]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: MT letter to UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar (Tokyo Economic Summit: international terrorism, the developing countries, trade protectionism) [declassified 2014]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: FCO minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [letter from UN Secretary General: draft reply] [declassified 2014]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	G7: Booth minute for Powell (“Extradition and Tokyo”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: President Chun Doo Hwan of Republic of Korea letter to MT (Tokyo Economic Summit: the unification of Korea) [declassified 2014]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Justice: No.10 note to MT (prison officers' dispute: PA review) [MT request for report; No.10: "Appendix 9 hints at the abuses."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("The Peres 'Marshall Plan'") ["...Peres is sincere in his belief that a major rescue act is required to prevent further economic collapse in the region, the consequence of which could... bring war closer..."; MT visit to Israel in May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Legal Procedure: Attorney General minute to Younger ("The Calcutt Report") ["...apparent inconsistency..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Local authority spending and rate support grant") ["...the major problem in this year's public expenditure survey"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ('Chernobyl') [Department of the Environment statement; EC debating action on food imports from affected areas] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Yugoslavia: FCO minute to Powell ("New Yugoslav Federal Government: Messages") [declassified Dec 2016]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO minute to MOD ("Falkland Islands: Mine Clearance") [declassified 2014]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Tokyo Summit: declaration on South Africa) ["major practical difficulties in the way of agreeing a statement... short reference to South Africa at the joint press conference... very pleased the the [Commonwealth Eminent Persons] Group has now decided to return to Southern Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-MacGregor-Whitelaw) [public expenditure] [declassified 2014]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (journalism, Chernobyl reactor still smouldering) [released 2017]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (football, by-elections, top salaries, Chernobyl) [released 2017]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Lord Young minute to MT (“Draft White Paper on Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Public opinion and Defence”) [“worrying ignorance of the basic facts on Soviet armaments”] [declassified 2016]
86 May 10 Sa	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram 334 to FCO (2000Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Expo 86") [invitation arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 May 11 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Nimrod AEW") [the forthcoming meeting with Sir Ibbs: agenda] [declassified 2014]
86 May 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Workfare”) [concerns about proposed extension of scheme to those unemployed over 6 months] [declassified 2014]
86 May 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: No.10 minute to MT ("Visit to Israel") [proposed agenda for discussions from Shimon Peres via Israeli Ambassador] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: Cradock minute to Powell ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") ["...worried that our Middle East policy is [coming to be] seen as virtually indistinguishable from that of the United States, even that of Israel..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to Lord Young ("British Shipbuilders (BS): establishment of Enterprise Corporation and other measures to assist the areas hardest hit by redundancies") [declassified Jul 2016]
86 May 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: MT letter to Lord Hill-Norton (Hull Forms for Warships) ["Your report deals with several technical matters on which Ministers obviously cannot express an opinion without professional advice. We are prepared therefore to commission an inquiry"] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 May 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: UKMIS Vienna telegram 79 to FCO (0800Z) (International Atomic Energy Authority briefing) [situation coming under control] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Lord President, Soviet Ambassador) [Chernobyl accident: media coverage & seriousness of the incident] [declassified Jul 2017]
86 May 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Foreign Affairs Council, 12 May 1986: Budget and Own Resources”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Review Body Recommendations”) [pay increases] [declassified 2014]
86 May 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Review Body Reports”) [pay increases] [declassified 2014]
86 May 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet high level consultations”) [Shevardnadze-Hartman talks: Shevardnadze “said that the Soviet Union favoured dialogue but that circumstances were not yet right for a meeting between himself and Shultz”] [released Dec 2015]
86 May 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (public spending policy, Chernobyl, economy, industry) [released 2017]
86 May 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [by-election/local elections, Scottish party conference, Chernobyl, foreign visitors] [released 2017]
86 May 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with Sir Robin Ibbs: Value for Money targets”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Edwards letter to Michael Jopling (“Welfare of battery hens - Council Directive 86/113/EEC”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("'EXPO 86: Vancouver") [need to thin MT's programme down and focus on promotion of British trade] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 May 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 178 to FCO (1300Z) ("The Cyprus Problem: UN Secretary General's Initiative") [declassified Jul 2017]
86 May 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: MT letter for Francis Noel-Baker (Secretary-General's initiative on Cyprus) [the recognition of "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" would 'deepen the divide'] [declassified Jul 2017]
86 May 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Robin Ibbs) [the Nimrod project] [declassified 2014]
86 May 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Justice: Home Office letter to Prison Officers' Association (industrial dispute) [No.10: "To an inexpert eye, there are no signs of a climbdown here."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ('Chernobyl') [new information given to western Ambassadors; "small step ... towards more sensible and civilised behaviour"] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Yugoslavia: MT message to Yugoslav Prime Minister (congratulations on his appointment as the President of the Federal Executive Council) [declassified Dec 2016]
86 May 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("ComGEP visit to South Africa") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: Ramphal account of Group's meeting with Pik Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [the markets, tax and public expenditure, follow up to the Budget] [declassified 2014]
86 May 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Hailsham, Keith Joseph, Younger, Fowler, Tebbit, Clarke, Wakeham, Luce) [“Review Body Reports”: pay increases proposals] [declassified 2014]
86 May 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT (“TSRB”) [review body pay increases] [declassified 2014]
86 May 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 minute for MT (“Education Bill: Political Indoctrination”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Keith Joseph minute for MT (“How to Get Better Schools”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“School Teachers’ pay negotiations in England and Wales”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Judiciary: Treasury Solicitor letter to No.10 (“Mr Richard Holt’s libel action”) [No.10 seeks to avoid being drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
86 May 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (John Biffen’s position, tax concessions, defence statement) [released 2017]
86 May 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robin Ibbs, Kate Jenkins) [value for money targets] [declassified 2014]
86 May 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: John Moore letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation: draft White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Germany: Lord Chamberlain's Office minute to MT ("State Visit of The Pesident of the Federal Republic of Germany and Freifrau von Weizsacker Arrival - Tuesday, 1st July, 1986") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Cyprus") [MT's support for Secretary-General's efforts] [declassified Jul 2017]
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (“Workfare”) [defense of proposed pilot extension of scheme to those unemployed over 6 months] [declassified 2014]
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: UKREP Brussels to FCO (“European Parliament 13 May 1986: Tokyo Economic Summit”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: FCO minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [letters to MT & draft replies: President Ershad of Bangladesh, Trade Union Secretary General, President Sanguinetti of Uruguay, Chairman of ICC UK] [declassified 2014]
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to MacGregor ("Local authority capital expenditure controls") [responses to Green Paper giving rise to need for further consideration] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Channon PS ("British Shipbuilders") [MT approves No.10 suggested amendments to Channon draft statement for Parliament: "... the financial support provided by the Government is as good as the best in the world. The problem is that the orders simply are not there to be won. This is an international problem..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Lord Young minute to MT ("British Shipbuilders: Government Response") ["...package of proposals we have put together to meet the situation created by the impending BS redundancies"] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation ("Hull Forms for Warships") [Lord Hill-Norton, Nigel Wicks] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: Addison minute for MT ('Chernobyl') [accident "could have been much worse"; flaws in Soviet reactor design] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Lord Barber: Group's meeting with Pik Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Review Bodies”) [‘quasi-Cabinet meeting’ to discuss reports] [declassified 2014]
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (MT aiming for election hat-trick, Kinnock, Gorbachev on Chernobyl) [released 2017]
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Young, Clarke, Channon, Michael Howard, John Moore) [“Deregulation White Paper”] [declassified 2014]
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Ridley letter to Lord Young (“Draft White Paper on Deregulation”) [amendments] [declassified 2014]
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Channon letter to Lord Young (“Draft White Paper on Deregulation”) [amendments] [declassified 2014]
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Hurd letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Howe minute to Michael Jopling (“Welfare of battery hens - proposed challenge to Council Directive 86/113/EEC”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“UK’s Relative Economic Performance”) [improvement since 1979] [declassified 2014]
86 May 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1830Z) ("US Space Launch Capabilities") (NSC 0131) [proposed NSDD] [declassified Spt 2017]
86 May 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: MT letter to President Sanguinetti of Uruguay (Tokyo Economic Summit: economic situation in Latin America) [declassified 2014]
86 May 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: MT letter to Secretary General Trade Union (Trade Union Advisory Committee Statement: Tokyo Economic Summit) [unemployment, monetary policy, international economy] [declassified 2014]
86 May 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKE the Hague telegram to FCO ("European political cooperation: political committee: the Hague, 14-15 May: Arab-Israel") [eve of MT visit to Israel, May 1986; UK protests, but outvoted, on prospect of EU President meeting with Arafat] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Mrs Ida Nudel") [MT visit to Israel, May 1986: request for UK to interceded on behalf of Soviet refusenik seeking emigration to Israel] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Chernobyl nuclear accident: Gorbachev's speech") ["little new information and no real reassurance to the Soviet population on health hazards ... no real hint of apology or admission of possible failure or delay in handling the accident"] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Speech by President Botha") [views of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group on the speech; analysis; suggested line to take] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: South African Embassy letter to No.10 (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group and Speech by President Botha) [update on Group's meetings; transcript of speech] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 15 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Hayek MSS)	Conservatism: President Reagan letter to Hayek (Birthday wishes) ["We are all indebted to you..."]
86 May 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Howe PS letter to Hurd PS (“Strasbourg - Proofing”) [European Convention of Human Rights] [declassified 2014]
86 May 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Keith Joseph’s PS minute for Lord President’s Office (“Freedom of Speech in Higher Education”) [Joseph’s letter to the President of the NUS] [declassified 2014]
86 May 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Joseph-Lawson-Whitelaw-Hurd-Tebbit-Baker) [ How to get better schools ] [declassified 2014]
86 May 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 20th (Queen’s birthday, Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Economic Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Lynda Chalker PS letter to Lord Young PS (“Draft White Paper on Deregulation”) [amendments] [declassified 2014]
86 May 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: John Moore PS letter to Lord Young PS (“Draft White Paper on Deregulation”) [amendments] [declassified 2014]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War/Central America: National Security Planning Group minutes (1500Z) ("Central America") (NSPG ?0133) [Contadora process - "We need to take steps not to have a bad agreement signed" (Weinberger)] [declassified May 2006]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: FCO minute for Powell (“Letter to the Prime Minister from the Inter Action Council”) [draft reply] [declassified 2014]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Howe minute for MT ("Arms Control and the UK Contribution") [declassified 2014]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Further liberalisation of the French economy") [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: Policy Unit minute for MT ("The Chernobyl Incident - Contingency Planning") ["some pretty maladroit footwork - especially in the initial stages"] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Treasury minute to FCO ("Mine Clearance in the Falkland Islands") [declassified 2014]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [report on Group's meetings with Mandela & with Pik Botha, and forthcoming itinerary] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal letter to MT (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: meeting of seven Commonwealth Heads of Government for six-month progress review of the Group's work) [date, venue & other details] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Ramphal's views on international economic issues") [Howe "shares... [MT's] irritation... [but] we want to keep Ramphal on board at this critical stage"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Review Body Reports”) [Government’s response] [declassified 2014]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Keith Joseph minute for MacGregor (“Future University Funding”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Brian Griffiths minute for MT (“Audit Commission: Towards Better Management of Secondary Education”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Student Support”) [MT “the timing is appalling”] [declassified 2014]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Tebbit letter to Keith Joseph (“School Teachers’ pay negotiations in England and Wales”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 593 to FCO (1310Z) (“Gorbachev meeting with Hammer and Gale on 15 May”) [Gorbachev “accused official Washington of exploiting the accident to discredit the Soviet Union”] [released Dec 2015]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Judiciary: No.10 internal minute: Flesher to Wicks (“Richard Holt”) [No.10 seeks to avoid being drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (Perth speech, tax and spending, Chernobyl, prisons) [released 2017]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Tories slump to third in polls, unemployment, education, tourism, Chernobyl) [released 2017]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Baker letter to Lord Young (“Draft White Paper on Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 16 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Kenneth Baker letter to Michael Jopling (“Welfare of battery hens - proposed challenge to Council Directive 86/113/EEC”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 18 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	New Zealand: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Younger-O'Flynn) [Five Powers Defence Arrangements, equipment, RCDS, nuclear legislation] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 May 18 Su	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Germany: Charles Powell minute (MT lunch with FRG President) [draft guest list] [released 2017]
86 May 18 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: No.10 minute to MT ("Visit to Israel: speeches") [MT unhappy with draft: "...if I were to make this speech, I should have no chance whatsoever of influencing the government behind the scenes..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 18 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Privatisation: Norman Fowler minute for Lord Young of Graffham (“Picketing at Huyton Local Office, Liverpool”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: MT letter to President Hussain Mohammad Ershad of Bangladesh (Tokyo Economic Summit: declaration) [declassified 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Stoate minute for Wicks ("Arms Control and the UK Contribution") [declassified 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Possible meeting with President Mitterrand") [request for bilateral with MT prior to European Council meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for April 1986") ["mixed"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Germany: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (international nuclear safety conference) ["...co-operation can and should be improved..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: Stephen Sherbourne minute (Scottish conference) [Russell Sanderson feels that MT's speech "has to be followed up, both in policy and presentation"] [released 2017]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Wales: Christine Wall minute ("Your visit to Porthcawl Inshore Lifeboat Station") [arrangements for visit after Welsh conference Q&A] [released 2017]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: Sherbourne record of conversation (MT-Nick Edwards) ["Welsh Briefing (Nick Edwards 16 June 86)"] [released 2017]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Cold War: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (arms control) ["political will alone is not enough"] [released 2017]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKE Washington telegram 1350 to FCO (2340Z) ("US/Syria: Asad interview") [comments on Israel, on eve of MT's visit there in May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: No.10 briefing for MT ("Visit to Israel: briefing meeting") [Occupied Territories; Jordan; EC Presidency; Syria; Lebanon; Anglo-Israeli research foundation; counter-terrorism. arms & oil trade embargo; Argentina] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Channon PS letter to Wakeham PS ("Shipbuilding Debate: 21 May 1986) [Government Motion: "... massive slump in demand... cutbacks in shipyards... package of measures to provide special assistance to those affected"] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("South Africa") [details of the raids on Zimbabwe, Botswana & Zambia and of immediate UK government response] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (South Africa raids on Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia) ["continuation of... violence... as a form of pressure in the negotiating process... need for Governments... publicly to denounce the ANC... certain countries in Southern Africa continue to harbour terrorists... South African security forces were left with no option"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Baker minute to MacGregor (“PES 1986: PSA Expenditure”) [additional bids for expenditure] [declassified 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Pay Review Bodies - Presentation”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Review Body Reports”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Review Body Reports”) [“Discretionary increments for Grades 2 and 3”] [declassified 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Norman Tebbit’s PS minute to No.10 (“How to get Better Schools”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Her Majesty’s Inspectors Report (“Effects of Local Authority Expenditure Policies on Education Provision in England - 1985”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Keith Joseph minute for Whitelaw (factual press notice: HMI report on the effects of local authority expenditure on education) [declassified 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Department of Education and Science minute to No.10 (“University Funding”) [text of Keith Joseph’ statement] [declassified 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Keith Joseph) [funding of the universities] [declassified 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: MacGregor minute for Keith Joseph (“Future University Funding”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1347 to FCO (2305Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [“State believe Gorbachev in bitter mood over Western handling of Chernobyl issue”] [released Dec 2015]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“BA and BCal - economy measures”) [“both airlines are on their toes and responsive to market conditions”] [declassified 2014]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [shipbuilding crisis, unemployment, law and order, nuclear power, education] [released 2017]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (terrorism, tourism, Conservative leadership, pay reviews) [released 2017]
86 May 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Lord Young letter to Ridley (“White Paper on Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("'EXPO 86: Vancouver") [amendments to MT's programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	G7: MT letter to Helmut Schmidt (the Inter Action Council statement: topics relevant to the Tokyo Economic Summit) [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Howe message to No.10 ("Message from President Reagan") [arms control agreements: the suggested public line] [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Howe minute for MT ("Chemical Weapons and Challenge Inspection") [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("Modernization of BMEWS RAF Fylingdales) [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Younger minute for MacGregor (Nimrod AEW: progress report) [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT (violence) [violence should not be used as a bargaining chip] [released 2017]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKE Washington telegram 1353 to FCO (0800Z) ("UK/US analysts talk on Syria: 20 May") ["...main points of agreement reached..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("The Prime Minister's visit: issues: Jordan/PLO") [MT visit to Israel, May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") [required public statements, gifts & other advice for MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's statement on foreign affairs to the Knesset") [Shimon Peres on terrorism, Syria, Lebanon, the Marshall Plan, Egypt, PLO/Jordan; on eve of MT visit to Israel] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKE Cairo telegram to FCO ("Egypt/Middle East") [Egyptian policy on MT forthcoming visit to Israel terrorism, Jordan/Palestine, Taba, Gaza, Syria/Iraq, Middle East development plan] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") ["...it may be helpful to have some background impressions"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: Powell minute to Ingham ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel: Lobby briefing") ["The most important thing about the visit is the fact that it is taking place... we have no illusion that the visit will in itself move the peace process forward significantly"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the Twelfth to Fourteenth and Sixteenth to Eighteenth Reports of the Public Accounts Committee, 1985-86") ["I doubt that the Treasury minute will attract much attention. It is not controversial and there are no particularly newsworthy features"] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nicaragua: Powell letter to Howe PS (Vice President Ramirez of Nicaragua: visit to UK) [request declined for meeting with MT] [declassified Nov 2016]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Falkland Islands Fisheries") [Soviet-Argentine fisheries talks have been broken off] [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South African raids: message from President Botha") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Director General for Foreign Affairs] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: MT letter to Prime Minister Mugabe (South African raid on Zimbabwe) ["inexcusable.... The immediate need is to consider how best to keep... [the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons peace dialogue process] alive"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: MT letter to President Masire (South African raid on Botswana) ["inexcusable.... The immediate need is to consider how best to keep... [the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons peace dialogue process] alive"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: MT letter to President Kaunda (South African raid on Zambia) ["inexcusable.... The immediate need is to consider how best to keep... [the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons peace dialogue process] alive"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 (South African raids on Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia) [advice from Howe] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Baker minute for MacGregor (“PESC 1986 - DOE (central)”) [public expenditure bids - Department of Environment] [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	City: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Roskill Report: Serious Fraud Office”) [Ministerial responsibility] [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Ministerial meeting) [“Review Body Reports”] [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Department of Education and Science minute (“Schools Stretched for Money and Resources, says HMI Report”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Keith Joseph minute for Tebbit (“HMI Report”) [“it is still true that more money is needed”] [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Tebbit minute for Keith Joseph (“HMI Report”) [resources are not the only problem in current education] [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Brian Griffiths minute for MT (“HMI: Annual Report on Schools”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: University Grants Committee minute (“Planning for the Late 1980s: Recurrent Grant for 1986-1987”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Rifkind minute to MT (“School Teachers’ pay negotiations in England and Wales”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Richard Luce PS letter to Howe PS (the role of Ministers in management of the civil service) [current management initiatives] [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Cabinet Office internal note (Pension implications) [pension arrangements in: civil service and NHS; armed forces] [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Civil Service Pay Settlement: implications for the research councils”) [“It is of the utmost importance for science and for our own credibility that we should compensate the Research Councils for the 1986-87 costs of the pay settlement”] [declassified 2014]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Libya: MT to Bob Dole (support for US military action) [“the Administration was right to take firm action against terrorism, and I have no reservations about the part which the United Kingdom was able to play”] [released Jan 2017]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (UK position on South Africa sanctions, defence, industry) [released 2017]
86 May 20 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Hurd letter to Whitelaw (“Public Order Bill: Incitement to Racial Hatred - Broadcasting”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Canada: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Expo '86 in Vancouver") [Princess Margaret and Royal Ballet attendance] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	South Africa: MT letter to President P.W. Botha (Botswana raid) [his government's action "absolutely impossible to understand"] [released 2017]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") [UNSC resolution 425, calling on Israel to immediately withdraw its forces from Lebanon] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Legal Procedure: John Stanley PS letter to No.10 ("The Calcutt Report: Statement") ["...[findings of] independent inquiry into the way in which the Service police carried out their investigation of the eight men [of 9 Signal Regiment in Cyprus] originally accused"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Legal Procedure: John Stanley PS letter to Attorney General PS ("The Calcutt Report: Statement") [final draft: "...[findings of] independent inquiry into the way in which the Service police carried out their investigation of the eight men [of 9 Signal Regiment in Cyprus] originally accused"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Chernobyl: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ("Call by Japanese Charge") [account of Japanese exchanges with Soviets on Chernobyl as mandated at Tokyo G7] [released Dec 2017]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Yugoslavia: Former Yugoslav Prime Minister Planinc message to MT (thanking for successful cooperation) [declassified Dec 2016]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (South African raids on Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe) ["writing to let you know of my vexation and... anger... impossible to understand... immense damage done to your international position and... to the Commonwealth intiative of which you make no mention... astonishing... next few days could be decisive... may be the last chance for a negotiated solution"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“H Committee: Monday 19 May”) [landscape conservation orders, major public inquiries] [declassified 2014]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Public Expenditure Survey: Speaking Note”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Community Budget Strategy”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Your Meeting with Commission: Brussels 21 May”) [main priorities for the forthcoming UK Presidency] [declassified 2014]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [press release on HMI report, foreign currency borrowing] [declassified 2014]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Review Body Reports”) [pay increases] [declassified 2014]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 15 (Pay Review Body Reports 1986) [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Lord Young PS minute to No.10 (“White Paper on Deregulation - “Building Businesses… Not Barriers””) [accompanying leaflet] [declassified 2014]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Whitelaw letter to Hurd (“Public Order Bill: Incitement to Racial Hatred - Broadcasting”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 21 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Hurd letter to MT (Robin Ibbs’ letter on the Animal (Scientific Procedures) Bill) [Mellor singled out for praise] [declassified 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: George Younger minute to Tom King ("Contingency Planning") [plans to keep essential services running are crucial to demonstrating determination that a political strike shall not succeed] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to MT ("Contingency Planning") [MACM plans for provision of essential supplies] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Contingent Planning for Northern Ireland") [maintenance of essential services] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Japan: Channon PS letter to No.10 ("Nissan") [MT to open new UK plant; proposal that would result in significant increase of Japanese cars on the UK market to be rejected] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Sir J Bullard's call on Chancellor Kohl: 28 May") [EC issues; international conference on nuclear safety issues] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Justice: HM Prison Service letter to Cabinet Office ("Prison officers' dispute") [arrangements for police assistance] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKE Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Jordan/Occupied Territories") [MT visit to Israel, May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKE Cairo telegram to FCO ("Egyptian views on Arab/Israel") [MT visit to Israel, May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Israel: Joint Israel Appeal briefing for MT (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) [MT visit to city of Ashkelon, part of "Project Renewal, started in 1978... designed to raise the quality of life in over 100 Israeli communities living below the poverty line"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Presidency meeting with Arafat") [van den Broek meeting in Tunis coinciding with MT visit to Israel, May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") [Israelis expected to ask MT to suggest to King Hussein of Jordan that he engage in secret talks with Israel; MT advised not to comply] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: No.10 minute: Policy Unit to Norgrove ("Paying for local government: 1986-87 Scottish legislation") ["We are planning to move to a non-domestic rate uniform across the whole of Great Britain"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Fleet Support King 20/20") ["You were sceptical of the position that the Royal Navy should be supplied from a small number of large, armed and very expensive ships... I attach a letter from the MOD setting out the arguments for their decision..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT (Sunderland) [MT agrees to meeting with delegation to discuss difficulties facing the area following British Shipbuilders redundancies] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Netherlands: MT message to Prime Minister Lubbers (Netherlands election result) ["congratulations... delighted that the strong lead which you have given on sound finance and defence was recognised"] [declassified July 2017]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South African raids") [draft reply for MT to President Botha; "[Howe] finds... [Botha's] justification for the raids is flimsy... [and] shows no glimmer of appreciation for the risks taken by... [MT] on his behalf"; risk to survival of Commonwealth if sanctions are not enforced in event of Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group's failure to negotiate successfully] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Germany: FCO minute to No.10 (“Interviews with German Media”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“European Community: United Kingdom Strategy and Tactics on the Budget”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: MacGregor letter to Peter Morrison (“ERDF Community Programmes”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Privatisation: Attorney General minute for Norman Fowler (“Privatisation of the Royal Ordnance”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	City: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Roskill Report: Serious Fraud Office”) [Ministerial responsibility] [declassified 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter No.10 (“1986 Review Bodies”) [briefing] [declassified 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: MT letter to Sir Peter Matthews (Government decisions on the AFPRB Report) [declassified 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (“Review Body on Top Salaries”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Treasury staff (“Pay Review Body Reports”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 21st (Cabinet membership, Joseph’s resignation, Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Pay Review) [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Treasury letter to Council of Civil Service Unions (“TSRB 1986”) [Government accepts recommendations for discretionary pay at Grades 2 and 3] [declassified 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Treasury letter to Principal Establishment Officers (“Pay of the Senior Open Structure in the Civil Service”) [note on revised rates of pay] [declassified 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Judiciary: Treasury Solicitor letter to Richard Holt MP’s solicitors (“Holt -v- the Teacher Publishing Company Ltd and others”) [No.10 refuses to be drawn into Holt’s libel action] [declassified 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (reshuffle, Joseph parting shot on education, redundancies and strikes) [released 2017]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Chairman of ACARD letter to MT (“ACARD Report on Medical Equipment”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [MT agreed "a further foreign currency borrowing" this year, ideally in recess] [declassified 2014]
86 May 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: RIPA letter for Professor Griffiths ("Visitors from Turkish Prime Minister's Office") [declassified July 2016]
86 May 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: President Reagan's message for MT (Compliance with Arms Control Agreements) [declassified 2014]
86 May 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: MOD minute to FCO ("Chemical Weapons: Challenge Inspection") [declassified 2014]
86 May 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: MT letter to Julian Amery MP (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) ["...your thoughts about what I might say in Israel"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: Israeli Embassy letter to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) ["...may I take this opportunity to wish you a most successful visit to our country"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute: Wicks to Flesher (All Party Committee on Shipping) [request to meet with MT] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
86 May 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("ComGEP: press leaks") [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; local press report on Group's meeting with Mandela] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Department of the Environment”) [Baker’s National Environment Works Scheme proposal] [declassified 2014]
86 May 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Privatisation: Department of Employment letter for Norman Fowler (the proposed action over picketing at Huyton local office) [declassified 2014]
86 May 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	City: Lord Kimball letter to MT (“Lloyd’s”) [issues of concern] [declassified 2014]
86 May 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	City: MT minute to Whitelaw (Serious Fraud Office) [Ministerial responsibility] [declassified 2014]
86 May 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: MT letter to Lord Plowden (Top Salaries Review Body recommendations) [declassified 2014]
86 May 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 minute for MT (“Indoctrination in Education”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (review bodies, MT speech on economy, industry, deregulation, BBC bias) [released 2017]
86 May 24 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Message for President Reagan: Compliance with Arms Control Agreements") [declassified 2014]
86 May 24 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Powell minute to FCO ("Message for President Reagan: Compliance with Arms Control Agreements") [the proposed response] [declassified 2014]
86 May 25 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: MT letter to Israeli Ambassador to the UK (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) [courtesy letter] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 25 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yitzhak Shamir) [MT visit to Israel, May 1986: PLO, Jordan] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 25 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Shimon Peres) [MT visit to Israel, May 1986: Gazan, Jordan, Syria, Marshall Plan, Iran/Iraq, US role] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1415 to FCO (1700Z) ("SALT Constraints") [President's announcement time] [declassified 2014]
86 May 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (US/Soviet negotiations and arms control issues) [declassified 2014]
86 May 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: MT message for President Reagan ("SALT Constraints") [revised text] [declassified 2014]
86 May 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: MT message for President Reagan ("SALT Constraints") [declassified 2014]
86 May 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: MT message for President Mitterrand and Chancellor Kohl ("SALT Constraints") [President Reagan's announcement on compliance with the SALT II agreement] [declassified 2014]
86 May 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Powell message to FCO (draft message to President Reagan on compliance with arms control agreements) [declassified 2014]
86 May 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT (South African Communist Party) [determination to resist enemies] [released 2017]
86 May 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT ("veiled threats" in previous messages) ["we can never accept the dictates from outside forces"] [released 2017]
86 May 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKA Jerusalem telegram to FCO (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986: Jordan) [Jordanian/Palestinian negotiations with Israel; King Hussein visit to UK in June] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yitzhak Rabin) [MT visit to Israel, May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Palestinian delegation) [MT visit to Israel, May 1986: focus on roles of PLO and Jordan in negotiations with Israeli government] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with Palestinians: 26 May") [MT visit to Israel: focus on roles of PLO and Jordan in negotiations with Israeli government] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Environmental Affairs: Ridley minute for Parkinson ("Acid Rain - Large Combustion Plants Directive") [declassified Jul 2016]
86 May 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Message from President Botha") [Ambassador Moberly, Pik Botha record of conversation: "I said that it was the most depressing interview I had had with any Minister during my four and a half years as Ambassador, first in Israel and then in South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["only a commitment to peace can result in negotiated settlements..."; "[it appears] if we do not accept... [the Group's] "possible negotiating concept" no further proposal will emanate from them... in the light of your own intransigence, I must assume [the Group's, likewise]"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Policy Unit note for press officers ("SALT II Constraints") [declassified 2014]
86 May 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel: talks with Mr. Peres") [confidential documents handed to MT by Peres on Middle East economic development programme and West Bank] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: No.10 letter to Department of Trade and Industry ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel: Industrial Research Foundation") [MT invites Israeli delegation of scientists to UK in response to Peres proposal for Anglo-Israeli project] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Shimon Peres) [MT visit to Israel, May 1986: meeting with Palestinian delegation; West Bank; Gaza; Lebanon; US hostages; Jordan; USSR; SALT II] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Shimon Peres) [MT visit to Israel, May 1986: Egypt; Gaza; Jordan; Syria; Middle East economic development programme; Anglo-Israel reasearch foundation] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Possible Supply of German Torpedoes to Argentina") [MT's draft letter to Kohl] [declassified 2014]
86 May 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Review of the Commonwealth Accord on South Africa") [draft letter of acceptance; "prospects for their mission are not bright... But the total collapse of the Commonwealth Group... would result in intense pressure on us"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Germany: FCO minute to No.10 (“Possible Supply of German Torpedoes to Argentina”) [MT unable to raise at Tokyo G7; message proposed instead] [declassified 2015]
86 May 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“E.C. Questions: Stoltenberg’s views”) [objectives for the UK Presidency] [declassified 2014]
86 May 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [Israel visit, never had it so good comments, South Africa, Sakharov visit, Whitelaw visit to Russia, public spending] [released 2017]
86 May 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (MT’s position on Israel public spending, education) [released 2017]
86 May 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: Tom King letter to Lord Young (“White Paper on Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: Hurd PS letter to No.10 (“Football hooliganism - arrests at football grounds”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	New Zealand: Charles Powell record of conversation (Powell-Viot) [French issues with New Zealand] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 May 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to MT ("The Northern Ireland Assembly") [Assembly is "refusing to carry out any of its statutory functions", should dissolve now] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1438 to FCO (0145Z) ("SALT Limits") [the US formally abandons SALT limits as a factor in strategic force planning (...) domestic reactions muted and confused] [declassified 2014]
86 May 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (SALT II: President Reagan's statement on compliance with arms control agreements) [declassified 2014]
86 May 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit: Palestine reactions") ["...very positive indeed... I report these Egyptian comments as a cross-check on what the Palestinians are saying to us..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKA Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's meeting with Palestinians") ["All greatly appreciated the opportunity to meet Mrs Thatcher, and her comprehension of their concerns"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKA Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit: Occupied Territories") [controversy over MT comments on alternative leadership to PLO, during May 1986 visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Ridley minute to MT ("British Shipbuilders: Government response") ["...[following redundancies] case for an urban development corporation in Middlesborough and dispersal of Government work to the North East..."] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
86 May 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: MT message for Chancellor Kohl ("Arms Sales to Argentina") [declassified 2014]
86 May 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: message from President Botha") ["thoroughly discouraging... no alternative but to continue to support the... [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group] initiative"; Howe advises against MT reply to Botha; discussions with US; sanctions; Pik Botha proposal to meet with "four leading countries of the [EC]" ] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Syria, Libya, terrorism: NSC notes of conversation (NSC officials, Cradock & Acland) [Syria, Lebanon, terrorism] [declassified 2011]
86 May 28 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Commonwealth War Graves Commission minute to MacGregor (“Public Expenditure Survey Committee - 1986 Survey: Department 013 Commonwealth War Graves Commission”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Conversation with Chancellor Kohl: 28 May: EC Questions”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	City: Governor of the Bank of England PS briefing for MT (“Preparations for Big Bang - Market Operations”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (MT’s trip to Israel, litter, industry, terrorism) [released 2017]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Charles Powell note to MT ("Contingency Planning for Northern Ireland") [impact of possible strike action on power stations and utilities] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to King PS ("The Northern Ireland Assembly") [probable leaking of information on dissolution of Assembly] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to King PS ("Contingency Planning for Northern Ireland") [need for a clear idea of how long contingency plans would maintain essential services in event of a political strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("The Northern Ireland Assembly") [concerned the decision to dissolve "will be seen as an essentially negative one"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("Call on the Prime Minister by Mrs E Bonner: 30 May") [human rights] [released Dec 2018]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Workfare”) [concerns addressed regarding pilot extension of scheme to those unemployed over 6 months] [declassified 2014]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKE Cairo telegram to FCO ("The Prime Minister's visit to Israel: Egyptian reactions") ["...welcomes Mrs Thatcher's statements in Israel on the Palestinian right to self-determination but criticises her suggestion that an alternative leadership might have to be found"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: No.10 minute ("Mr Thatcher's visit to Israel") ['thank you' letters] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: FCO minute ("Israel's membership of the EC(E)") [comments made during Thatcher visit to Israel in May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: Yehuda Avner letter to No.10 (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) [courtesy letter and request to speak with Powell at earliest opportunity] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falkland Islands Fisheries: Sinking of a Taiwanese Fishing Vessel") [declassified 2014]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Prime Minister Gandhi letter to MT (tour of African Frontline States) ["[has] reinforced my conviction that time is running out on a peaceful solution... in South Africa... [but] I am not pre-judging the results of [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group's] endeavours"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: MT letter to Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal (Nassau Accord and the work of the Eminent Persons Group: review of progress) ["I... confirm my agreement to the dates, venue and Chairmanship... [the Group's] mission must be given every encouragement to succeed"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("South Africa: message from President Botha") [draft reply: MT "agrees [with Howe] that we should do everything possible to keep the... [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group] initiative alive"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Foreign Minister Botha letter to co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group ('possible negotiating concept' proposal) [detail of "four major questions... about the... concept"; "cannot accept that violence should be discontinued only for as long as negotiations take place"; "not interested in negotiation about a transfer of power"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Howe minute to MacGregor (“Public Expenditure Survey - FCO Programmes”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Attorney General minute to MacGregor (“Public Expenditure Survey: Additional Bids”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Secretary of State for Energy letter to MacGregor (public expenditure requirements) [declassified 2014]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: MT letter to Sir John Greenborough (Review Body for Nursing Staff, Midwives, Health Visitors and allied professions) [declassified 2014]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 minute for MT (“Education”) [meeting arrangements] [declassified 2014]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations: President Reagan’s message to Gorbachev”) [Reagan calls for a second summit] [released Dec 2015]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Civil Service Numbers”) [overall reduction; quarterly figures] [declassified 2014]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to George Younger (“Civil Service Industrial Pay Negotiations 1986”) [“I am mindful that they are employed in areas of great importance for our defence effort”] [declassified 2014]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (public spending, industry, electricity prices) [released 2017]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (Luton membership card scheme) [incompatibility with Football Association rules] [declassified 2014]
86 May 29 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: MT letter to Hurd (Robin Ibbs letter on the Animal (Scientific Procedures) Bill) [“I am so pleased that he wrote”] [declassified 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram 307 to FCO (1835Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Expo") [meeting clash with Royal Ballet opening night] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	New Zealand: UKREP Brussels telegram 1864 to FCO (1730Z) ("EC/New Zealand") [Lange comments on dairy market access issues] [declassified Dec 2016]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to George Younger ("Contingency Planning") [role of troops in prisons in event of a prison strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yelena Bonner Sakharov) [efforts to secure Dr. Sakharov's return to Moscow] [released Dec 2018]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: No.10 briefing MT (“Workfare”) [“requirement to work or train in return for remaining on benefit”] [declassified 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1449 to FCO (0415Z) ("SALT Limits") [declassified 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: MacGregor minute for Younger (Nimrod AEW: progress report) [declassified 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Federal German Economy") [outlook] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") ["King Hussein is very grateful for... [MT's] efforts on Israel and looks forward to their meeting in London on 17 June"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Israel: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Palestinian comment on the Prime Minister's remarks in Israel") ["...some misunderstanding of... self-determination for Palestinians... [and] PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Israel: Mayor of Jerusalem telegram to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) [exchange of courtesies] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Charles Hoste letter to Professor Griffiths (Hill-Norton committee) [clarification of how the committee on naval ship design was formed] [declassified Jul* 2016]*
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Netherlands: Prime Minister Lubbers letter to MT (European Monetary System) ["there is a political aspect apart from the aspect of economic confidence"] [declassified July 2017]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 1463 to FCO (2030Z) ("US/South Africa") [report on current political context surrounding Reagan's anticipated response to South African raids] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Egypt: Charles Powell minute to MT (proposed meeting President Mubarak's national security advisor) [MT agrees to meeting, to balance her recent visit to Israel] [released Jul 2018]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Secretary of State for Social Services minute to Treasury Secretary (“1986 Public Expenditure Survey: Health”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: MOD minute to MacGregor (“PES 86”) [public expenditure survey] [declassified 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Secretary of State for Environment’s PS minute to MacGregor (Department of Environment bids for public expenditure survey 1986) [declassified 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Secretary of State for Scotland minute to MacGregor (“PES 1986”) [his bids for additional expenditure] [declassified 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Department of Transport minute to MacGregor (“PES 1986”) [reviewing requests for additional bids] [declassified 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Lord Chancellor minute to MacGregor (“Public Expenditure Survey 1986”) [requirements for public expenditure in the court service] [declassified 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Meeting with EC Journalists”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Nicholas Edwards letter for Whitelaw (report on the effects of local authority expenditure policies on education in Wales) [declassified 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 minute for MT (“Education: Victor Rothschild”) [declassified 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Lord Young letter to MacGregor (“TVEI Extension”) [Technical and Vocational Education Initiative] [declassified 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1461 to FCO (2130Z) (“Invitation to Soviet defence minister to visit the US”) [“to discuss quote the wide gulf on issues related to each other’s military forces, doctrine and intentions unquote”] [released Dec 2015]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (MT meeting with Mrs Bonner, visit to Israel, South Africa, hippies) [released 2017]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (ship building redundancies, Tory revolt) [released 2017]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (trespass, warship design, litter, Labour party failures) [released 2017]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Private Secretaries (“Value for Money targets”) [report commissioned by MT] [declassified 2014]
86 May 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Home Affairs: MT letter to Chairman of Luton Town Football Club (membership card scheme) [MT welcomes initiative] [declassified 2014]
86 May 31 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Howe message to UKDEL NATO ("Ministerial Meeting of The North Atlantic Council, Halifax 29/30 May: Afternoon Session") [declassified 2014]
86 May 31 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Energy: Mikhail Gorbachev message to MT (post-Chernobyl) ["the first thing that is needed is an early warning system in case of accidents"] [released 2017]
86 Jun 1 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	South Africa: MT message to P.W. Botha (reactions to recent events) ["We ought now to put this behind us"] [released 2017]
86 Jun 1 Su	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Israel: Vice-Chairman of Yad Vashem letter to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, May 1986) [brings attention to incorrect number of deaths quoted by MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jun 1 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [press leak of MT letter to President Botha; MT "extremely angry... confirmed her fear that her communications and conversations with foreign Heads of Government were in general given too wide a circulation"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 1 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["Clearly we were both upset by the other's reaction to recent events. We ought now to put this behind us. What matters is... the hope of progress offered by the... Group's initiative"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 1 Su	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Treasury and Civil Service Committee report (“Proposals for an Appraisal Scheme in the Senior Open Structure”) [“Results of the consultative process”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: Yelena Bonner Sakharova message to MT (MT, Yelena Bonner Sakharov) [message of thanks] [released Dec 2018]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: Charles Powell note to MT (Shevardnadze visit to London) [proposed dates] [released Dec 2016]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Young, Lawson, Tebbit, MacGregor, Clarke) [“Workfare”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("SALT II: Soviet Government Statement") [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Howe minute for MT ("Comprehensive Test Ban (CTB): UK Public Posture") [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("State of Play at Geneva") [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Prime Minister/Lord President: Wicks briefing for MT (bilateral with Whitelaw) [DHSS personnel; visit to Russia; general political position] [released Jul 2017]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: President Kaunda letter to MT (South African attack on UN High Commission for Refugees Camp) ["write to thank you... for your... sympathy and solidarity... following South Africa's wanton and unprovoked bombing"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Clarke letter to Howe (“European Community: United Kingdom initiative on creating conditions for employment growth”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“European Community Budget: Council v European Parliament in the European Court of Justice”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Lynda Chalker letter to Peter Morrison (“ERDF Community Programmes”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Richard Luce minute for MacGregor (“1986 Public Expenditure Survey: Arts and Libraries”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Paul Channon minute for MacGregor (“PES”) [Department of Trade and Industry bids for expenditure] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute for MacGregor (“1986 Public Expenditure Survey: Management and Personell Office (Cabinet Office)”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Privatisation: David Plastow letter for MT (future intentions of the MOD for fighting vehicles procurement) [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Baker minute for MT (“Education - Changing Public Perceptions”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“TVEI Extension”) [Technical and Vocational Education Initiative] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Tebbit letter to MacGregor (“TVEI Extension”) [Technical and Vocational Education Initiative] [declassified 2014]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [hippy trespass, social security, South Africa, Channel Tunnel] [released 2017]
86 Jun 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (litter, unions, industry) [released 2017]

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