Search

Search

Document type: Declassified documents.

Refine this search

Browse PM’s files

Showing items 65501 - 66000 of 75695.
PDF 87 Dec 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("Education, Science and Arts Committee (ESAC) Report on DES expenditure plans") [draft Government response] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Hurd minute to MT ("Safer Cities") [roll-out of the strategy] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 (latest developments regarding the South Atlantic Fund) [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd ("Radio Policy") [commercial licences, regulation] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd ("Specialised Satellite Services") [liberalisation proposals] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Geoffrey Howe ("Council of Europe Ministerial Conference on Mass Media Policy: 9-10 December") [EC draft directive] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: MT letter for President Kyprianou (wishing him a speedy recovery) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to the Raoul Wallenberg Committee (Prime Minister's visit to the Soviet Union: the Raoul Wallenberg case) [UK position on making representations about the case] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Tony Newton letter to colleagues ("Dental Examinations and Sight Tests") [improving the standard of primary care services] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John Major minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("NHS: Supplementary Allocation in 1987-88") [impact of increase in England on Scottish block equivalent] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John Major minute to Peter Walker ("NHS: Supplementary Allocation in 1987-88") [enhancement of Welsh block grant] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John Major minute to Peter Walker ("NHS: Supplementary Allocation in 1987-88") [enhancement of Northern Ireland block grant] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(87) 37th (Illness of the Lord President, Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Retirement of the Secretary of the Cabinet) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Economic Summit: Toronto 19-20 June 1988") [MT has accepted in principle an invitation from Conrad Black] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Economic Summit: Toronto 19-20 June 1988") [Howe's view of MT's speaking invitations and summit timetable] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Economy: US State Dept briefing (“UK - economy at a glance”) [economy, unemployment, monetary policy, trade] [declassified 2013]
PDF 87 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Defence: US State Dept briefing (“UK: terrorism”) [seek UK support for US approaches to GDR, Polish, Bulgarian, Yugoslavian governments “to persuade these countries to sever links with or take active measures against terrorist groups”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 87 Dec 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: CCO agenda (Brooke-MT meeting) [first meeting with Chairman since his appointment] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Inner Cities") [Robert Armstrong, Brian Hayes, Robin Butler, Richard Wilson: staff issues] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 19 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Maxwell) [Maxwell meeting with Chirac, exploring possible expanded programme of youth exchanges] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Walker PS minute to Major PS ("1988 Public Expenditure White Paper") [estimated outturn figures] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove minute to Hurd PS ("Radio Policy") [licensing national commercial radio] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Young PS minute to David Norgrove ("Studies on the Scope Traditional Television Networks") [interference with new service] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Washington telegram 2827 to FCO (2110Z) ("Afghanistan") ["US views on tactics for the next Geneva round and the line Pakistan should take with the Resistance on a transitional government and a ceasefire"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 87 Dec 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: No.10 record of conversation ("Action points following diary meeting on Monday 21 December 1987") [Royal College of Physicians, Kennedy Memorial Trust dinner, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, etc] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT (inner cities: Hartley Booth visit to Washington) [video about urban regeneration campaigner] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 letter to Chief Executive of Business in the Community (involvement of private sector companies in the community) [invitation to MT to deliver keynote address] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd PS letter to Michael Darlow ("Independent Access Steering Committee") [Hurd considering state of negotiations] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to Major ("Education Reform Bill: Additional Items") [grant rate for Travellers' children and refugees] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute ("Draft Article for Sunday Express, 3 January") [points made: look forward with confidence to the future, remind people of changes made, government delivering what people want] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 87 Dec 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-French PM Chirac) [EC; East/West; Middle East; youth exchanges; economic matters; terrorism] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John O'Sullivan and Norman Blackwell minute to MT ("Six Point Plan for NHS Reform") ["the present crisis offers us an invaluable opportunity"] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John O'Sullivan and Norman Blackwell minute to MT ("The Path of NHS Reform") [crisis "has put a sense of urgency behind the idea of reforming the NHS"] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: David Norgrove minute to MT ("NHS") [need a firm framework on timetable and objectives] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: Italian Prime Minister Goria letter to MT (his talks with President Reagan in Washington) [INF treaty; Gulf; depreciation of the dollar; combatting protectionism] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Dec 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to David Norgrove ("Structure of Broadcasting") [IBA resources, networking system] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young ("Specialised Satellite Services") [liberalisation proposals] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: MT message to Tony Eggleton (visit to Australia) [no firm plans] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("The German Economy") ["they have been successful for so long that they dare not change a winning hand"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to Gorbachev (General Secretary's meeting with the Prime Minister, en route to Washington) [exchange of gifts] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 letter to Baker PS ("The National Curriculum") [attainment targets] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: David Norgrove minute to Moore PS ("The NHS") [basic principles on options for the future] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("Overseers") ["as a means of preventing the breakdown of a local authority in financial difficulties... the attached paper sets out the key elements which I would commend"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Nigel Wicks minute to FCO (British Columbia Premier) [meeting with Howe] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Moscow telegram 1897 to FCO (0730Z) ("Afghanistan") ["Comment on evolving Soviet presentation of Afghan policy"; Charles Powell: "A very interesting analysis"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 87 Dec 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 minute (internal) to Ingham ("Inner Cities/Safer Cities") [uncertainty as to whether Safer Cities initiative should be announced jointly with Inner Cities] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John Redwood minute to MT ("Health") [row over the adequacy of funding] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Department of Health report ("Health Service in England: Annual Report 1986-87") [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Thames TV letter to Brian Griffiths ("The Structure of Broadcasting") [oversight of broadcasting content] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 26 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​MT: Guest list ("Boxing Day lunch at Chequers") [family, close colleagues & friends] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 27 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Rates Reform: Local Government Finance Bill") [reduction provision arrangements in Wales] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Nigel Wicks minute to MT (heavy downward pressure on US dollar) [Treasury says UK not planning to intervene] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind minute to MT ("Educational Reform in Scotland: School Management") [parental involvement] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Ken Clarke minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Publicising Government Grants") ["where the Government is prepared to make support available it should take credit for doing so"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 30 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 note to Howe PS (Gorbachev's New Year Message to the Prime Minister) [cover note only] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 2850 to FCO (2215Z) ("US/Soviet Relations") [upcoming meetings] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker PS letter to Walker PS ("National Curriculum - Mathematics Working Group") [membership] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to No. 10 ("Japanese Proposal for Trade Ministers' Meeting at the Economic Summit") ["the Prime Minister attaches importance to keeping Summits small and informal"] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Wicks minute for MT (matter discussed yesterday in her study) [MT might want to discuss "possible dispositions" with senior colleagues, but most ruled out because "they could be in some way involved"] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 31 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn saving telegram 20 to FCO ("FRG Economy") [government package to stimulate investment and growth] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Major PS minute to David Norgrove ("1988 Public Expenditure White Paper") [estimated outturn figures] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 1 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Clothes diary (outfits worn) [1 Jan - 1 Dec 1988] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 3 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Moscow Human Rights Conference") [analysis of White House press statement on proposed conference, and advice on UK response] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Jan 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Michael Darlow letter to Nigel Lawson ("Independent Television Producers") [ITV tax and levy arrangements] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 4 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 conversation record (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [decision to 'uncap' the pound from Monday] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 4 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Community Charge: Criticisms etc") [case against showing safety net element on demand notices] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: UKE Ankara telegram 002 to FCO (1013Z) ("Proposed Visit by the Prime Minister") [Ozal welcomes visit 7-8 April] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Paul Reichmann letter to MT (Canary Wharf development) [invitation to launch of construction project] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Paul Gray note for the file (Gray-Major PS) [publication of White Paper] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to Paul Gray ("Home Affairs Select Committee: Inquiry into Broadcasting") [DSB services] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Michael Darlow letter to David Young ("Independent Television Producers") [competition in supply of programmes] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: MT message to Brian Mulroney (Canada-US trade deal) [congratulations] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Proposed Visit by the Prime Minister to Turkey") [MT concerns that her programme might be restricted on Friday "given that Turkey is a Muslim country"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 7 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("Publication of 1988 Public Expenditure White Paper") [arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Gorbachevs letter to MT (General Secretary's meeting with the Prime Minister, en route to Washington) [thanks for hospitality; New Year greetings] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Jan 7 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Major letter to Baker ("Education Reform Bill: additional items") [specific grant for travellers' children and refugees] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Disclosure of Information and Direct Deductions from Benefit") [income support levels] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ian Grist minute to John Major ("NHS Supplementary Allocation in 1987-88") [monitoring of health authorities' spending] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 7 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Rifkind letter to Ridley ("Community Charge: Disclosure of Information and Direct Deductions from Benefit") [need for such disclosure] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Wakeham minute to Ken Clarke ("Publicising Government Grants") ["the Government does not get credit for these grants"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson letter to Michael Darlow (Independent Production Initiative) [negotiations between producers, ITV levy] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 8 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Contacts with Canada") [possible visits, timing of NATO Summit] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: FCO record of conversation (1030Z) (Howe, Armacost) ["Afghanistan: Armacost's Visit to London": sitrep; Geneva talks; impressions from visit to Islamabad] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 8 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: Lawson PS letter to No.10 ("1988 Budget day") [possible dates; MT: "Just check that the Ides of March are NOT the 15th!"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: President Kyprianou letter for MT (thanking for the good wishes for recovery) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Jan 9 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to Lawson PS (Bundesbank profits) [request for comment on Financial Times report] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 10 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Nigeria: UKHC Lagos telegram to FCO ("Visit by the Prime Minister 7-8 January") ["most successful visit ... establishing "close and friendly relationship with President Babangida"; British press 'deplorable'] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Contacts with Canada") [timing of possible meeting with Mulroney] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKA despatch to FCO ("Annual Review for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) for 1987") [relations with East Germany, economic situation, political situation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("National Curriculum: Report of the Task Group on Assessment and Testing") ["I believe that its recommendations will greatly strengthen our hand"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Whitelaw resignation, NUM, security, economy) ["you leave power struggle open by declining to nominate new deputy Prime Minister"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Rifkind minute to MT (paper on strategy in Scotland) ["level of support is dangerously low for the party of Government"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Italian PM Goria (thanks) [MT now longest serving British PM of 20th Century] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Rabbi Jakobovits (thanks for telemessage) [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Paul Getty (thanks) [thank you for everything you do for our country] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Alhaji Udu (thanks) [arrangements for MT's visit to Nigeria] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Mary Whitehouse (thanks) ["Your own work to promote higher standards and civilised values has been tireless"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT to Michel Camdessus (IMF Structural Adjustment Facility) ["essential that the increased resources now be deployed carefully, in support of strong adjustment programmes"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Industry: MT to Neil Kinnock (BP) [Kuwait Investment Office's holding of BP shares] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Robin Butler minute to Nigel Wicks ("Economic Summit: Sherpa") ["These Sherpas' meetings have got out of hand"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Market Report: 11 January") [MT: "Acquiring MORE DOLLARS?!"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1987 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Young PS minute to Hurd PS ("Memorandum for Select Committee On Home Affairs") [intention to introduce wide-ranging reforms] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT message to Francois Mitterrand (defence cooperation) [concern about separate defence arrangements between France and European countries, more to do bilaterally] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind minute to MT ("Educational Reform in Scotland: school management") ["fundamental objective... immediate replacement of school councils... with bodies at individual school level in which parents are fully involved"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 letter to Baker PS (Task Group on Assessment and Testing) [publication of report] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor of the Exchequer 13 January, 5.30") [the Markets; Governor of the Bank of England; Kuwait/BP/Britoil; forestry] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS, Labour in crisis, industry) [growing crisis on health service policies] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Scotland") [Rifkind argues government should apply policies on housing, education and privatisation "more determinedly in Scotland"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Meeting with Lord Goold: Wednesday 13th January 1988") [to discuss current state of the party in Scotland] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Griffiths-O'Sullivan minute ("Scotland. The Election Result") ["worst result for the Tories since 1945" - "a low reservoir of Conservative support North of the Border"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Community Charge: Briefing Line") [Treasury unhappy with tenor of DOE arguments against relating CC to ability to pay] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Brian Mulroney message to MT (Toronto Economic Summit) ["the dramatic economic developments since we last met would suggest more emphasis on economic discussions"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Sino-Soviet Relations: Gorbachev's Call for a Summit") [analysis of the impact of a recent Gorbachev interview granted to Chinese journal] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news ["NHS continues to dominate"], DTI revamp, industry, NHS, nurses, free food, politics, education, law & order, media, sport) [Tebbit, Heseltine and Brittan combine to criticise government plans to end automatic regional aid grants] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Government: MT to Neil Kinnock (request for file from Macmillan papers) [file is closed but some infomation could be released confidentially] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [MT visit to Africa; Howe visit to Japan; Defence matters; Middle East; Europe] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 88 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to John Wakeham ("Community Charge: Safety Nets") [shifts in tax burden] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Turnbull minute for Chancellor ("Treatment of National Non-Domestic Rate") [Treasury preference for including NNDR in the new planning total, DOE resisting strongly] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Lord Chancellor ("Local Authority Committees") ["the question of balanced representation"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Lord Chancellor ("Response to the Select Committee - Local Ombudsman recommendations") [measures to improve rate of compliance by local authorities] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Ridley letter to Baker ("Education Reform Bill: additional items") ["specific grant for the education of travellers' children and refugees"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("Financial delegation to schools") ['Local Management of School' indepent report] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to Major ("GM schools: enforcing the recoupment charge") [Education Reform Bill: recovery of grants to grant-maintained schools from local education authorities] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to Hurd (Education Reform Bill) [endowments] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker) ["Future of ILEA" (Inner London Education Authority)] [declassified Dec 2015]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Liberals/SDP, NHS reforms, economy, law and order, NATO) [Liberals and SDP in turmoil after fiasco over merger] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John O'Sullivan minute to MT ("NHS: Principles and Reforms") [reforms must meet five criteria] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(88) 1st (Lord Whitelaw, Membership of the Cabinet, Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Media: No.10 letter to Law Officers’ Department (No.10 press office role in ‘Spycatcher’ and related litigation) [case for “Law Officers Department to establish own facilities for dealing with the press”] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Home Office draft memorandum for Commons Home Affairs Committee (DBS inquiry) [overcoming spectrum scarcity; No.10 comments] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("The Rank Organisation and Pay-TV") [costs of satellite TV, standards] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("National Curriculum: Task Group on Assessment and Testing (TGAT) Report") ["the Report's sympathies and conclusions are... disturbing..."] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Liberals/SDP, law and order, Shepherd Bill, NHS, Labour) [Steel's merger shambles] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: O'Sullivan minute for MT ("Footsteps in the fog: the DHSS view") [critique of its paper on NHS reform] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: Moore minute for MT ("The NHS") [DHSS proposals for NHS reform] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Inner cities") ["a note about future work... important that we minimise the scope for further disputes about Ministerial responsiblities"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("The National Health Service") ["we must introduce a more dynamic market into health service"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("The treatment of the Community Charge in the RPI") [Lawson: "lamentably shoddy note from DE" <Department of Employment>] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John O'Sullivan minute to MT ("Young Moore's Almanack: Second Thoughts on the DHSS Paper") [lacks a sharp sense of direction] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John O'Sullivan minute to MT ("The NHS Crisis: A Priorities Approach") ["the NHS is a Socialist institution"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd (independent producers) [contracts, reports by BBC, IBA] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Visit of the Prime Minister to Turkey") [agrees 'Scenario 2' arrangements, on assumption full programme possible on Friday] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 letter to Baker PS (Reorganisation of schools in Ilkeston, Derbyshire) [Conservative M.P. constituency closures; MT: "This case is a terrible mess"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor 19 January") [interest rates/the Markets] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS, Budget, Liberals/SDP, sport, law and order) [Kill or cure for Moore in health row] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Miss Wilson (MT's school records) [would be wrong to release the records] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Clarke minute to MT ("Inner cities") [White Paper, Roadshows & other initiatives] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Sylvia Ostry to Nigel Wicks (second Sherpas meeting) [arrangements] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Major PS minute to Moore PS (spending) [figures used in parliamentary debate] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Moore PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Opposition NHS Debate 19 January 1988") [speech on need for reform] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to Paul Gray ("Independent Production Initiative") [IBA proposals] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Michel Rocard") [French presidential elections, French economy, EC issues, east-west issues] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with M. Rocard") [Rocard's political position, European defence, EC, east-west relations] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("Academic tenure: Commissioners") [appointments to oversee removal of academic tenure in universities under terms of Education Reform Bill] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Whittingdale minute for MT ("Party Political Broadcast") [Tony Jay script - "a great nation on the move ... a new spirit abroad in the land ... The people who came here ten years ago to study the illness now come here to study the cure"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS, health funding, Liberals/SDP, Labour Listens) [Sort NHS out, Moore is ordered] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Scotland") [meeting with Scottish ministers to discuss how to improve the party's position, Rifkind and Policy Unit have prepared papers] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT to Peter Carrington (public lecture on USSR) ["It would be marvellous if you would do it"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Community Charge: Disclosure of Information and Direct Deductions from Benefit") [liability of income-support recipients] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Nigel Wicks minute to MT (CPS enquiry) [danger of conveying official blessing on CPS's work] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Hurd & Rifkind memo circulated to Cabinet - CC(88) 1 (War Crimes) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Contacts with Canada: Commonwealth Committee on South Africa") [UK will not become involved with committee's work] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 060 to FCO (1720Z) ("Shevardnadze's Visit to Bonn: Second Day") [summary & analysis, including media reactions] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms, Budget, Liberals/SDP) [Mixed reviews for John Moore's performance in NHS debate] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Charles Powell minute ("American Television Interviews") [MT's views on INF ratification] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, Fowler, Ridley, Lord Young, Clarke, Channon, Major, Richard Wilson, Eric Sorensen, Hartley Booth) ["Inner Cities": media launch of 'Action for Cities' White Paper] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: No. 10 Press Notice ("Prime Minister's Personal Representative for Economic Summits") [Wicks' appointment] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Hong Kong debate; Crown Agents; Syria; Nigeria; Trident; NATO summit; European Council; Jordan/Tornado; European Commission] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Walker letter to Ridley ("Local Government Bill") [Development Board for Rural Wales] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) Cold War: UK Embassy in Warsaw to FCO (1987 Annual Report on Poland) [declassified 2007]
PDF 88 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Media: No.10 record of conversation (‘Spycatcher’: No.10 press office role) [Ingham, Nigel Wicks, Michael Saunders] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Young PS minute to Paul Gray ("Subscription Television") [could not be acceptably regulated without new legislation] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: White House record of conversation (1445Z) (Reagan-FRG FM Genscher) [INF Treaty; German emigration from USSR; Shevardnadze visit to Bonn - prospects for arms control & reunification; economic issues] [declassified Nov 1999]
PDF 88 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Paisley Grammar School") ["The fight to save [it] from closure would easily mark the turning point of Thatcherism in Scotland"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms, Budget, media, industry) [Moore says militant hotheads can't be allowed to wreck the NHS] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: Charles Powell minute ("Interview with L'Express") ["intended as a curtain raiser for the Anglo/French Summit... and also for the European Council"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Ly Tilney (thanks) [memories] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Art: MT to Amintore Fanfani (thanks) [delighted to receive book of paintings] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT to Gordon Brown (estimated cost of income tax cuts) ["at a time of economic growth, it is quite possible both to cut taxes and to increase the real resources available to the National Health Service"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(88) 2nd (Lord Whitelaw, Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, War Crimes) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Economic Summit: Organisation") [Howe thinks the economic agenda will be particularly important; dislikes idea of a 'retreat' for Heads of Government outside conference centre] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("Public Expenditure White Paper: Letter to Backbenchers") ["keeping public spending under control does not mean arbitrary savings"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Lawson PS minute to Hurd PS ("Independent Production Initiative") [IBA initiative, ITV levy] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young (independent producers) [publication of information by BBC, IBA] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Rocard) [French elections, European defence, CAP reform] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 88 Jan 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MT minute to Rifkind (future of Paisley Grammar School) ["If we act [to prevent closure] it could prove the turning point for the Party's fortunes in Scotland"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Major letter to Baker ("Grant maintained schools: compensation for dismissals") [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms, Alton abortion bill, industry) [nurses' action will only harm patients] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Gray minute to MT ("1988 Budget - your dinner at No.11") [advance sight of Lawson's plans from Treasury, do not reveal your source] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Gray minute to MT ("The stance of economic policy") [unusually difficult to determine at present; fiscal policy "certainly not as tight as it appears at first glance"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell letter to Howe PS ("NATO Summit") [key issues] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 88 Jan 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Kenneth Baker ("Students and the Community Charge") [registration arrangements] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 23 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Wolfson note for MT ("National Health Service") [public convinced there is a crisis; must evolve response before Panorama interview] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 24 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Islamabad telegram 111 to FCO (0753Z) ("Afghanistan: Cordovez's Visit") [report of Cordovez' impressions following his visit to Pakistan] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 24 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) NHS: Ingham briefing for MT ('Panorama') [interview annoucing NHS Review] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Islamabad telegram 117 to FCO (0502Z) ("Afghanistan: New York Times Interview") [interviews with Zia ul Haq and Junejo] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Robert Conquest letter to MT (Soviet leadership) ["no Soviet government foreseeable in the near future seems likely to mount an immediate major threat to us"; Iran; US elections] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Education Reform Bill: Higher Education provision") ["has come under heavy attack from the universities"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("The National Curriculum") [Education Reform Bill; attainment targets] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Scargill re-election to NUM, NHS reforms, Liberal/SDP merger, industry) [Scargill effectively becomes president for life] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: John Wybrew minute for MT ("Electricity Privatisation") ["this Government will be judged on whether electricity privatisation secures lasting benefits for electricity consumers"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Community Charge: Safety Nets") [criticism about arrangements in England] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Community Charge in Scotland: Safety Nets") [safety net to be self-financing] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Disclosure of Information and Direct Deductions from Benefit") [administrative costs] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to Brian Mulroney (Toronto Economic Summit) [possible arrangements for heads of government meetings] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray note to MT ("Reply to Michael Darlow on Independent Access") [dispute between Home Office and DTI] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: UKE Ankara telegram 38 to FCO (1455Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [Turkish suggestions] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Hamilton record of conversation (MT-1922 Executive) [worry at lack of Opposition; MT - "great deal of opp[osition] H. of C., T.V."] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cabinet/MT: Wicks minute for MT (Whitelaw invitation to reception to mark 10th anniversary in office, May 1989) [consider policy towards the event] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms/MT's broadcast, Scargill re-election to NUM, industry, Liberal/SDP merger) [NHS faces huge shake-up] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Terry Perks and Bernard Ingham minute ("Interview with the Star") [questions about: problems facing the NHS, electricity privatisation, capital punishment, violent crime, North/South divide, foreign policy] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Security Services: MT to Tam Dalyell (Cavendish book on intelligence services) [government acted to restrain publication] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: Ingham minute for MT ("Health - presentation") [take advantage of meeting with Moore to show immediate action following review announcement] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Rifkind minute to MT ("Inner Cities") ["publication of a White Paper... raises the question of how to present our urban policy in Scotland"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Economic Summit: Science") [MT "is not particularly enthusiastic about scientific collaboration"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Crown Agents; EC; Middle East; Tornado for Jordan; meetings on Defence; foreign Decorations for Lord Carrington] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Mark Addison minute to Moore PS (infant mortality) [WHO figures] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: David Willets paper for MT ("The National Health Service") [consensus emerging on sensible ways to reform the NHS] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: No 10 briefing for MT ("Health") [reforming the NHS in stages] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("CPS paper on local government") [circulates paper for publication "outlining my views on the future role of local government"; MT: "I am worried about any Cabinet Minister writing such a document"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Northern Ireland: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Northern Ireland Secretary") [John Hume talks with IRA; Stalker/Sampson; contact with the Unionists; redeployment of the army; extradition] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Jan 27 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: UKE Ankara telegram 41 to FCO (0735Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [Turkish suggestions on programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MT letter to Rector of Paisley Grammar School (future of Paisley Grammar) [MT supports opposition to closure] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: 28 January") [interest rates/the Markets; "follow-up work following your dinner with the Chancellor last Sunday"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Hamilton record of conversation ("PUSS's") [Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of States - brainstorming lunch with MT] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 27 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cabinet/MT: MT letter to Willie Whitelaw (thank you for cabinet dinner to celebrate passing Asquith's record) ["What a pity we don't meet together more often for convivial occasions. But perhaps there isn't time"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms, Northern Ireland, journalism, law and order, industry) [MT seen to be getting to grips with the NHS] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office minute ("National Health Service") [should be an internal review of the NHS, with a focus on hospitals] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 27 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley letter to Lawson ("Non-domestic revaluations: forecasts") [asks Treasury permission to update Inland Revenue forecasts and publish a summary] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Northern Ireland: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT - Tom King) [Stalker/Sampson; Sinn Fein/SDLP contacts; contacts with the Unionists; redeployment of the army in NI; extradition with Republic] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Jan 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Anson ("Preparing for the 1988 Survey") [first draft, timetable] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Centre for Policy Studies letter to No.10 (CPS pamphlet on 'opting out' of local education authority control) [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 (school closures in Scotland) [Rifkind statement to Parliament] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Major letter to Baker ("ILEA: Precept maximum for 1988-89") [Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Dec 2015]
PDF 88 Jan 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms, AIDS, industry) [Royal College of Nurses refuse to meet MT] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Cabinet Office ("Economic Summit: Science") [need to tread carefully on proposed international collaboration on scientific projects, MT "has somewhat reserved views"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Moore-Major-Newton-Griffiths-Butler-Wilson-O'Sullivan) [1st meeting of NHS review - public debate about NHS provides an opportunity to tackle its problems] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 28 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("Community Charge: Monks and Nuns") [only £250,000 at stake, not worth further debate] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(88) 3rd (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("Standards in Television") [will have a fight on their hands at European Council] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Call by Premier of Ontario, 3 February") [UK-Canada trade, Canada-US trade, Toronto economic summit, SSNs] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Paisley Grammar School") ["The government's decision to back parental choice ['opting-out'] in Scotland is creating an enormous stir"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Education Reform Bill: Higher Education provisions") [possible concessions "in the light of opposition from university interests"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Charging for school activities") [proposals for Education Reform Bill in response to recent legal challenges] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 29 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT ("Reorganisation of schools in Ilkeston, Derbyshire") [Conservative M.P. constituency closures; MT: "This is the biggest mess I have ever seen"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 29 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: MT letter to Doris Hare (BBC interview announcing health review) [glad she thought Panorama went well, "they are always something of an ordeal"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Birmingham bombers' appeal, NHS, Official Secrets Act) [Anglo-Irish Agreement under renewed strain] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John O'Sullivan to John Whittingdale ("Scottish Spectator") [probable costs and revenue of a Scottish magazine] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Treatment of Members of Religious Orders") [80 percent exemption] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("The Community Charge: Treatment of Members of Religious Orders [E(LF) (88)1]") [extent of exemption] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Robin Ibbs minute to MT ("NHS") [possibility of an Efficiency Unit review] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 29 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Moore PS minute to Cabinet Office (preparations for work on reform) [staff, guidance] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion polls: Ingham note for MT ("Sunday Times opinion poll") [Cons 50, Lab 36, All 12 - paper suggests public wants MT to get on with NHS reform] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jan 31 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn saving telegram 1 to FCO ("FRG Economy") [borrowing projections, likely tax increases] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 31 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("National curriculum: Task Group on assessment and testing") [MT concerned about initial report findings] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 31 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT (Independent Jewish Day School) [MT constituency school's admission to maintained sector as voluntary aided school] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Keith Joseph letter to MT (Trans-Atlantic cable project) [message on Cable & Wireless] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with the Premier of Ontario") [provincial economic outlook] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Chairman of Portals Holdings letter for Ingham (His water treatment company's activities in Turkey) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to Ridley ("Financial delegation to schools") [findings of independent report] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Poland") [departure date; proposed visit to Gdansk shipyard workers' memorial; possible clash with Reagan visit to Poland] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: MT letter to Lady d'Avigdor-Goldsmid (BBC interview announcing health review) ["I hate these interviews. You never know how they are going to turn out!"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms, Liberal/SPD merger, education, industry) [14-point lead in polling] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: MT preface to Michael Butler book (awarded Adolphe Bentinck prize) [Butler's work at crucial stages in negotiations with EC over accession and bduget] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Religion: MT to Robin Maxwell-Hyslop (disruption of prayers in parliament) [deplores the behaviour but any suspension of an MP's pay would be a matter for the Commons] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Religion: MT to Archbishop of Canterbury (Church urban fund) [welcomes the initiative and agrees with Runcie on the importance of partnership with inner city ventures] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rate Transition") [queries Ridley's proposals] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ken Clarke minute to Nicholas Ridley ("National Non-Domestic Rate: Transition") [arrangements should be complete by 1995 revaluation] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ken Clarke letter to Ridley ("National Non-Domestic Rate: Transition") [broadly supports his 24 Feb proposal, but concerned at level] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Lawson proposed 0.5 per cent interest rate increase; MT agreed, subject to no intervention to check rise in sterling above 3DM] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Major letter to Baker ("Grant maintained schools: compensation for dismissals") [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT ("E(EP) meeting on Wednesday, 3 February") [Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Dec 2015]
PDF 88 Feb 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor, 3 February") [the Markets; follow-up to MT discussion with Lord Plowden on TSRB] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Hamilton record of conversation (DTI backbench committee meeting) [CBI hearing: profit-related pay, energy prices] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Hamilton minute for Bearpark ("Showbiz Reception, 18th April, 1988") [proposes inviting actors who played Conservative MPs on TV] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms/nurses' strike, economy, Ireland, Kohl visit) [88 percent of nurses dissatisfied with handling of NHS] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Charles Price (thanks) [gift of "Laughter Lines" book] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Health: MT to Rocco Forte (cutting NHS costs) ["a clear indication that our continuing drive to improve NHS efficiency... is proving very worthwhile"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Africa: MT to Neil Kinnock (visits from Savimbi and Dhlakama) [government has had no approach about possible visits] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's meeting with the Canadian Prime Minister: Economic Summit") [prevention of the laundering of drug money] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [European Council; Angola; Middle East; external television broadcasting by the BBC] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 88 Feb 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Meeting of E(LF) on Thursday, 4 February") [religious orders, disclosure of information] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 2 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Hamilton minute for MT ("Reception to mark the Bicentenary of the Birth of Sir Robert Peel Wednesday, 3rd February 1988") [event at Lancaster House hosted by Hurd] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd letter to Michael Darlow (Independent Production Initiative) [IBA initiative a constructive step] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms/nurses' strike, Kohl visit, Northern Ireland) [nurses joined on picket lines by Labour MPs] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 3 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT to Peter Carrington (public lecture on USSR) [Carrington declines request to deliver lecture, "we shall not find anyone so well qualified"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 3 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Domestic policy: MT to Richard Shepherd (Official Secrets Act) [government's proposals are "effective, enforceable and reasonable"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Treatment of Members of Religious Orders") [defining who gets special treatment] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Students and the Community Charge") [collecting the charge] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office minute to Paul Gray ("National Health Service") [programme for internal review of NHS] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: MT message to Charles Haughey (satellite project) [important day in Ireland's telecommunications history] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: MT letter to Keith Joseph (Trans-Atlantic cable project) [breakthrough for Cable & Wireless] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("ILEA") [statement to Parliament about Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Dec 2015]
PDF 88 Feb 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms/nurses' strike, domestic politics, industry) [Battle of Trafalgar at nurses' strike] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Ingham minute to Cabinet Office (Inner Cities: White Paper) [suggestions for improvement to draft] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: No.10 conversation record ("Privatisation of the Electricity Supply Industry") [MT, Parkinson] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Nigel Wicks (Mexican economy) [information from Mexican Embassy; proposed discussion on debt between G7 and Cartagena countries] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Students and the Community Charge") [registration and payment] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Powell ("Visit by Veselin Djuranovic, Member of Yugoslav Federal Presidency") [he should be offered a Guard of Honor] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Major letter to King ("Grant from the European Community in respect of current expenditure by local authorities") [distribution] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(88) 4th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Guidelines for the 1988 Public Expenditure Survey") [timetable arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Ministerial Group on Broadcasting Services The ITV System and Channel 4: MISC 128(88)2") [postpone decisions on Channel 4] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Ministerial Group on Broadcasting Services Satellite Broadcast Services: Programme Standards: MISC 128(88)1") [non-DBS satellite services, unacceptable services] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Ministerial Group on Broadcasting Services The Publication of Information on Contracts between Broadcasters and Independent Producers: MISC 128(88) 3") [broacasters' reports to OFT] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey: Wreath-Laying Ceremony") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Islamabad telegram 188 to FCO (0822Z) ("Afghanistan Cordovez's Shuttle") ["reports another fruitless visit to Kabul"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Brooke memo for MT ("Tackling the Labour Party") [MT: "I should have preferred our first real attempt at Party 4th term strategy to be positive"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, NHS reforms/nurses' strike, trade unions, energy) [Government considering using health stamps rather than taxation to fund NHS] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Health: MT to Lady Lothian (use of foetal material for research purposes) [explanation of government's position] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Health: MT to Neil Kinnock (NHS reforms) ["the review will be wide ranging and fundamental"; all proposals will be considered on their merits] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Walker minute to MT ("Inner Cities") ["It is my clear view that the urban scene in Wales should not feature in the White Paper"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Ridley letter to Major ("Simplification of urban grants") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Inner City paper") [recommendations for improvement to the draft] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Paul Reichmann: Monday 8 February") [Canary Wharf development/opening ceremony] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: No.10 conversation record ("Privatisation of the electricity supply industry") [MT, Parkinson, Lawson, Young] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Economic Relations Department to Nigel Wicks ("Toronto Summit: Background Papers") [recent declarations, current papers on debt, the Uruguay Round and agriculture] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Toronto Economic Summit: Second Meeting of Personal Representatives, 27-29 February") [list of briefs on likely main economic themes] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Cabinet Office ("Economic Summit: Science") ["there is no enthusiasm on the Canadian side to raise scientific issues at the Summit"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Kenneth Baker minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Students and the Community Charge") [registration arrangements] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John O'Sullivan and Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Visit to Barts: Some Observations") [nursing is becoming increasingly highly skilled] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office briefing ("Health: Meeting of Ministers 8 February 1988") [programme of work for Ministerial group on NHS reform] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("NHS Review: Meeting on 8 February") [work programme for Ministerial group] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Wakeham (Local Government Bill: enabling members of the public to complain directly to local ombudsman) [handling of proposed amendments] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute ("Monthly Monetary Assessment: January 1988") [indicators have been more mixed] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd ("Specialised Satellite Services") [liberalisation proposals] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Soviet Embassy letter to No.10 (General Secretary Gorbachev's Statement on Afghanistan) [timeframe for Soviet withdrawal; Charles Powell: "a characteristically skilful piece of work by Gorbachev. It says nothing new... It is designed to put pressure on Pakistan & the Resistance"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Afghanistan: Visit of Abdul Haq") [MT advised not to meet with Afghan resistance leader; "The Western objective at this stage is to get the Russians to deal directly [with] the Resistance"; MT notes she will meet with President of the Afghan Resistance Alliance, Khales] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Rome telegram 66 to FCO (1030Z) ("Afghanistan: ASC meeting with Zaher Shah") [record of conversaton: ex-King Zahir Shah, Lord Cranborne, Julian Amery MP] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT ("Reorganisation of schools in Ilkeston") [Conservative M.P. complaint about closures in constituency] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Ford strike, industry, economy, budget, NHS reforms) [Ford strike-bound - digs in for long stoppage] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to David Sheppard (thanks) [gift of "Better Together"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Paul Reichmann) [Canary Wharf development] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Department of Trade and Industry ("Inner Cities: co-ordination") [administrative arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [European Council; Middle East; Angola; external television broadcasting by the BBC] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Ken Clarke ("Publicising Government Grants") [financial assistance to industry, regions] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Paul Gray ("Private Finance in Public Expenditure") [request from Civil Engineering EDC] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe) [MT's opposes proposal for BBC External Services to run a TV news service; Howe abandons the idea] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Afghanistan": latest Soviet statement] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Islamabad telegram 207 to FCO (1345Z) ("Afghanistan: Mr Eggar's Call on President Zia") [record of conversation] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Islamabad telegram 205 to FCO (1236Z) ("Afghanistan: Cordovez Shuttle") [report] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Washington telegram 299 to FCO (0151Z) ("Afghanistan") ["Preliminary US reaction to Gorbachev's TASS statement"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1905Z) ("US Options for Arms Control at the Summit") (NSPG 0176) [how to use the Administration's remaining time; negotiating START far harder than INF] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: No.10 minute for MT (Conservative MPs voting to televise the Commons) [ministers' names marked] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Ingham briefing for MT ("Wall Street Journal") [danger of questions driving wedge between MT & Lawson] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Commons TV, electricity privatisation, strikes, NHS reforms) [Strikes knock £8bn off shares] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute ("Wall Street Journal") [areas of interest: economic trends, East/West, global trends, British domestic policy, legacy of Reagan-Thatcher years] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: MT to Nicholas Bethell (Nelson Mandela's release) ["the humanitarian and the political case... is compelling" but not yet sure it would contribute to the end of apartheid] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Inner cities") [finalising of the White Paper for forthcoming media launch; MT not happy with draft] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Ingham minute to MT ("Inner cities - presentation") [advice for forthcoming White Paper media launch] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Clarke PS letter to No.10 ("Inner cities") [amendments to draft White Paper] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks to Howe PS ("Toronto Economic Summit: Second Meeting of Personal Representatives, 27-29 February") [suggests brief on devices which might mitigate fluctuations in stock market] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Rodric Braithwaite minute to Nigel Wicks ("Toronto Economic Summit") ["four main economic subjects are likely to predominate: macroeconomic issues, trade, agriculture, and debt"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Moore-Major-Newton-Griffiths-Butler-Wilson-Monger-O'Sullivan) [2nd meeting of NHS review - "ideas for an internal market in the NHS needed to be treated with caution"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("EMCF Swap") [MT asked about apparent negative impact on the reserves, in fact there was none] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to Young PS ("MISC 128: Independent Producers") [referral of contracts to Office of Fair Trading] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to Young PS ("MISC 128: Independent Producers") [referral of contracts to Office of Fair Trading] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO (Television in the House of Commons) [Mulroney urges MT to resist "at all costs"; CDP - "A bit late: but an awful warning"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Commons tv, law & order/morality, Ford strike, industry, politics, health/NHS, housing, Ireland, EC, Arab/Israel, South Africa) [majority of 54 for televising Commons, seen as personal defeat for MT] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Duke Hussey letter to Denis Thatcher (BBC Today programme - possible libel against MT) ["I really do not know what to say"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Clarke) [Inner cities: media launch of White Paper; revisions to draft] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Luce PS letter to Clarke PS ("Arts in inner cities") [PQ reply: "I am convinced that projects in the Inner Cities must come from the initiative of local and private sector interests"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Sylvia Ostry speech ("Summitry: The Medium and the Message") ["The Challenge confronting Summit leaders at Toronto will be... both familiar and formidable"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Hiroshi Kitamura message to Nigel Wicks (appointment as Sherpa) ["I am looking forward to working with you in the coming months for the preparation of the next Summit"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Clarke letter to Ridley ("Local Government Bill: competition") ["attempts by local authorities to circumvent the... provisions, and the steps you propose to forestall this"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(88) 5th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("Accounting for the Reserves in the UK and Germany") [Bundesbank losses on dollar holdings; complexity of comparing the two countries' positions] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 11 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Paul Gray minute to Wybrew ("Private Finance in Public Expenditure") [paper for seminar] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to Douglas Hurd ("ITV Levy for Contract Extension Period") [move to a levy based on revenue] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [Turkish interest in Zeus electronic warfare system] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Andy Bearpark minute to Charles Powell (US/Soviet ships incident off southern tip of Crimea) [details] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Health: Hamilton minute for MT (Cranley Oslow statement at 1922) [John Moore asking MPs to contact him directly not through DHSS] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Hamilton minute for MT (upcoming votes) ["The advantage of you voting on the Prevention of Terrorism Act is that it strengthens your hand in criticising the Opposition for not supporting it"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Major letter to Clarke ("Action for cities") [White Paper: finalising of draft] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Butler note circulated to Cabinet - CC(88) 2 (Improving Management in Government: The Next Steps) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Valuation of the Reserves") [Treasury notes following MT requests after talking with Walters] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS letter to Paul Gray ("Paper for Economic Cabinet") [economic performance, prospects - "the strongest position for many years"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to Charles Powell ("International Financial Scene") [economic outlook for international debt] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 13 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (AEI) EC: Brussels European Council (Presidency Conclusions)
Text 88 Feb 13 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (European Union) Europe: Brussels European Council (Presidency Conclusions) [external link]
PDF 88 Feb 14 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Mrs Miller Smith (thanks) [impressed by visit to perfumery and gift] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 14 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT to Keith Joseph (dinner in his honour) ["our country owes so much to Keith"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Young PS minute to Paul Gray ("Specialised Satellite Services") [changes will not displace Mercury] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Charles Haughey message to MT (satellite project) [telecommunications cooperation] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Young PS minute to Hurd PS ("MISC: Independent Producers") [monitoring of contracts] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: MT message to John Howard (Visit to Australia) [has yet to think about programme] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO minute to No.10 ("Turkey: Aid Support for Third Bosphorus Bridge") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey" - revised programmes) [lack of time for change of clothes; visit to a sewage plant after Topkapi and Aya Sofia "seems a bit of a let-down"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) PM's Tours Abroad: UKE Ankara telegram 75 to FCO (1333Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [DT programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 42 to FCO (0830Z) ("Presidential Election") [Kyprianou loses; Clerides and Vassiliou compete for the centre vote] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 letter to Baker PS ("Education Reform Bill: charging for school activities and powers of HE funding councils to require repayments") [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("ILEA: debate on 17 January") [Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Dec 2015]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, European Community budget, NHS funding, Budget) [political row over death of Birmingham hole in heart boy] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: MT to Ruud Lubbers (thanks) ["I appreciated all your help and co-operation... over two difficult days"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Health: MT to David Alton (abortion bill) [MPs to make up their own minds; MT will not meet a delegation] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Health: MT to Leon Brittan (CPC pamphlet on health care) ["I am so pleased that you have considered this matter and made your own proposals"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT to Julian Amery (thanks for letter) ["the time is not now - but we must wait upon events"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT to Saddam Hussein (David Mellor's visit) ["a sign of our wish to develop and strengthen bilateral relations"; concerns about continued imprisonment of two British citizens] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT to Sheila McCarthy (son held hostage) ["The important thing is to get the hostages out, and to prevent more innocent people from being taken"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Rodric Braithwaite ("The Third Sherpa Meeting") [proposed change to dates] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to Butler PS ("Cabinet 18 February: Chancellor's Paper on Economic Strategy") [historically strong economic performance in 1987] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: DTI minute to No.10 ("Turkey: Prime Minister's Visit - Portals Holdings") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Cradock minute to MT ("Afghanistan") ["whether we should support the Pakistanis in their insistence on agreement on an interim Government... before they sign a withdrawal agreement"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: No.10 briefing for MT ("Afghanistan") [Pakistani insistence on agreement on an interim Government before they sign a withdrawal agreement] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to Dr. Keith Hampson MP ("Grant-maintained schools") [efficacy of proposed parental ballot to approve a school's application for grant-maintained status] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Wicks minute for MT ("Televising the House of Commons") [do not start with State Opening; security aspects - exhibitionists and terrorists] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to bishops (Albert Hall prom) ["we all enjoyed ourselves enormously"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Butler briefing for MT ("Economic Strategy - C(88)3") [Lawson presenting strategy to cabinet; "generally optimistic picture for 1988"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Paul Reichmann letter to MT (Canary Wharf development) ["To the extent that we are able to expedite Canary Wharf, much further development in the Docklands will follow on its heels"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office minute to Clarke PS ("Inner cities") [text of White Paper] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Pascal Lamy letter to Nigel Wicks (Japanese proposal for meeting of trade ministers) ["We continue to have serious reservations about these proposals"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: James Taylor to Nigel Wicks (dinner meeting) [issues for discussion paper] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Lawson memo circulated to Cabinet - CC(88) 3 (Economic Strategy) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor - 18 February") [handling of Cabinet discussions; Merchant shipping; Britoil Golden share; Budget details] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute ("ITN interview") [likely topics: East/West relations, NHS, the economy, industrial relations, Anglo-Irish relations, televising the Commons] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Civil service: MT to Neil Kinnock (Efficiency Unit report) [much of press reporting has been inaccurate] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT to Bishop Graham Leonard (thanks) [for sending copy of the Declaration of Unity, Witness and Mission] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: MT to Tim Brinton (televising the Commons) [the decision "is causing many people to consider the consequences and all kinds of issues are now being discussed"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NATO: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT visit to NATO - Carrington, Alexander lunch with General Galvin) [MT "rather disheartened by her visit and by the likely difficulties of getting an adequately robust declaration" at future Summit] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Major letter to Lord Young ("English estates: managed workspace in the inner cities") ["I still have considerable reservations over the particular mechanisms you have proposed for engaging the private sector in the property development aspect of this"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Howe visit to USSR; Afghanistan; EC; NATO; Southern Africa] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley to Kenneth Baker ("Students and the Community Charge") [registration arrangements] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: John Moore minute to MT ("Sir Roy Griffiths' Review of Community Care") ["he has reached some wrong conclusions"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young ("Specialised Satellite Services") [licencing liberalisation] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Powell minute for Chairman of Portals Holdings (The company's activities in Turkey) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Visit by French Minister of Defence") [MT thinks a meeting would lead to speculation about nuclear cooperation] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Powell minute to FCO ("Cyprus Presidential Election: 14/21 February 1988") [MT's draft message to the victor] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute for Powell ("Cypriot Presidential Election: 14/21 February 1988") [MT's draft message to the winner] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Afghanistan": Pakistani insistence on agreement on an interim Government before they sign a withdrawal agreement] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Washington telegram 390 to FCO (2340Z) (Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan) [report on visit of Pakistan Minister of State to Washington to coordinate US/Pakistan positions] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 335 to FCO (1130Z) ("Central Committee Plenum") [summary of Ligachev speech critiquing 1984 reforms of Soviet education system] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Baker") [school closures in Conservative M.P. constituency of Ilkeston, Derbyshire] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Northern Ireland, Ford strike, industry) [media criticism of Northern Ireland policy] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Geoffrey Littler (draft minute) [meeting of Sherpas: French and US elections, world economy, macro-economic issues, political] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John O'Sullivan and Peter Stredder minute to MT ("The Griffiths' Report on Community Care") [attractive features and drawbacks] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John O'Sullivan minute to MT (NHS reform) [systems of finance] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Moore PS minute to Paul Gray ("NHS Review") [reading list for Ministerial group] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to Moore PS ("NHS Review") [work programme for Ministerial group, costing estimates] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(88) 6th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Strategy) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Chairman of Portals Holdings minute for Powell (The company's activities in Turkey) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 47 to FCO (0855Z) ("Presidential Election") [odds on Vassiliou] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Central Committee Plenum") [forwards Assessments Staff analysis of Soviet leadership changes] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 349 to FCO (1445Z) ("Central Committee Plenum: Comment") [Gorbachev speech: glasnost/perestroika, political & economic reform, arms control; Ligachev speech; leadership changes] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: White House record of conversation (1130Z) (Reagan-Chancellor Kohl) [INF Treaty and NATO; bilateral relations; EC Single Market; commitment to free trade; nuclear arms control; economic issues] [declassified Nov 1999]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker) ["Mathematics curriculum working party"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("U.S. visit - schools: lessons for the UK") [findings from Professor Griffiths' visit] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("National curriculum: Mathematics curriculum working party") ["The real danger we face is that the national curriculum which we will introduce will not raise standards but enshrine the shibboleths of a failed system."] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker) ["Reorganisation of schools in Ilkeston, Derbyshire"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, MT interview on NHS, Budget, civil service reform) [No more cash for NHS in Budget] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Terry Perks minute ("Interview with the Today newspaper") [questions about: hopes for the 21st century, socialism, opposition, health service, Lords opposition, women in politics] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Ridley letter to Major ("LDDC: Docklands Light Railway, eastern extension") [funding arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Inner cities") ['Action for Cities' media launch] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (tackling litter: press conference for new initiative) [Ridley minute and invitation to MT to attend; No.10 advises against; MT - "I should like to go"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, South African Ambassador Killen) [MT took "delivery of President Botha's reply to her recent message... She then said that she wanted to be frank... Apartheid was a basic grievance and it must go... she was disappointed by [Botha's] reply"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Geoffrey Littler minute to Nigel Wicks ("Summit preparation meeting") [French and US elections, world economy, macro-economic issues] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Meeting of Sherpas") [MT note: issue of "trade imbalances is the most important single thing"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("NHS Review: Meeting on 8 February") [papers for Ministerial group] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) NHS: John O'Sullivan notes ("Notes on the NHS Review") [early days yet, moving towards dedicated health tax with contracting out or competitive local health funds; 12 papers, 103pp] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 21 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Rodric Braithwaite minute to Christopher Roberts ("Japanese proposal for an informal meeting of trade ministers") ["A meeting of the Seven Trade Ministers does risk being seen as some kind of extension of the G7 and Economic Summit machinery"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Douglas Hurd ("External Television Broadcasting") [rejection of BBC's proposal] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 48 to FCO (0830Z) ("Presidential Election") [Vassiliou wins] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Afghanistan") [Howe's Soviet withdrawal & interim government and Western aid; note by David Hart] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Royal Commission of Environmental Pollution minute to No.10 ("The Royal Commission's Twelfth Report") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Land Rover strike, industry, domestic politics, NHS) [Ebullient report from CBI on state of economy] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Clarke) ["Action for Cities": review of draft document for media launch] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Major letter to Ridley ("UDCs - Merseyside and the Lower Don Valley") [feasibility study on extension of proposed areas] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Major letter to Clarke ("Action for Cities") [comments on draft document in advance of media launch] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Fowler letter to Clarke ("Inner Cities information work") [secondment of press officer] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Toronto Economic Summit") [East-West relations expected to be the major political issue, Middle East might also feature] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Cabinet Office to Nigel Wicks ("Economic Summit: Science") [international co-operation] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute to DTI ("GATT: Agriculture: MTR") ["The main pressure for agriculture reform in the Uruguay Round as a whole will no doubt continue to come from the US"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Foreign Affairs Council; NATO summit; relations with USSR; Afghanistan; Waldheim; visit to Morocco] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: NUCAA Western Provincial Area letter to MT (health authorities) [shortage of funds due to years of mismanagement] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to Moore PS ("Sir Roy Griffiths' Review of Community Care") [difficulties in proposed role for local authorities] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Roy Griffiths' Report on Community Care") [proposed role for local authorities] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Nigel Lawson ("ITV Levy for Contract Extension Period") [options for changing levy base] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to MT ("The ITV System: ITN") [inclusion of monopoly reference] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell (World TV) [timing of announcement] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Cradock minute for Powell ("Cyprus: The Elections") [implications of Vassiliou's victory] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 365 to FCO (1510Z) ("Shultz's Visit to Moscow, 21-23 February") [arms control; nuclear testing; Afghanistan] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [Budget package; the markets; MT concerned about import figures] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: Hamilton minute for MT (situation in Afghanistan) [Abdul Haq "says an agreement has been reached on the formation of an interim government to replace the communist regime"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Gaisman to Chief Whips' Office (Chequers lunch for whips) [arrangements] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, air safety, Land Rover, industry, media, NHS) [criticism of Paul Channon] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Scotland") [meeting on how to improve the presentation of the Conservative message and "implementation of radical policies which will break up the 'dependency culture'" which limits Conservative support] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Secretary of State for Energy minute for Margaret Thatcher ("Electricity Privatisation") [draft statement and White Paper ] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Sylvia Ostry to Nigel Wicks (second Sherpas meeting) [programme of discussions] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Rodric Braithwaite minute to Nigel Wicks ("Briefing for Second Sherpas' Meeting") [Summit organisation, world economy, debt, trade and agriculture, financial market mechanisms] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Howe PS ("Meeting of Summit Sherpas in Quebec - 28/29 February") [MT "believes that the most important single task for the Summit is to secure further progress in the reduction of trade imbalances"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Wakeham ("Local Government Bill: disabled employment") [response to House of Lords defeat of proposed amendment] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Major PS minute to Paul Gray ("Chief Secretary's Speech to the PEWP Debate") [changes to NHS Review section] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to Paul Gray ("MISC 128: Concessionary Television Licences") [licences for pensioners and disabled people] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Islamabad telegram 289 to FCO (0906Z) ("Afghanista[n]: Alliance proposals for Interim Government") [details; advice on UK response] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to Hurd (Education Reform Bill) [Baker opposed to proposed statutory power for Commission for Racial Equality to issue code of practice on discrimination & equality in education] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: MT letter to Peter Rost M.P. ("Reorganisation of schools in Ilkeston, Derbyshire") [apology and explanation for circumstances leading to school closures] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Ireland, BBC, Budget, NHS) [Anglo-Irish meeting amidst a sea of troubles] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NATO: Cradock minute for Charles Powell ("NATO Summit: The Continuing Soviet Build-Up") ["Despite smooth Soviet words, the JIC sees no evidence ... that there has been any lessening of the threat"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Fowler PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Action for Cities document") [review of draft document for media launch] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute to MT ("Reply to President Botha") [comments on proposed draft reply] [declassified Nov 2016]

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

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

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

Legend

  • Full Text Full text on site
  • PDF PDF
  • Photo Photo
  • Video Video
  • Audio Audio
  • Info Only Info only (no text available)
  • CD Only Text on CD only