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PDF 86 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 357 to FCO (1935Z) ("East-West Relations and Arms Control") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Nuclear and Space Talks: Council Briefing by Nitze: 12 February") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKDEL NATO to FCO (SCG Quint Meeting: response to Gorbachev's proposal) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute for MT ("Nimrod Airborne Early Warning Aircraft: OD Meeting: 12 February") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Visit of Argentine Parliamentarians, 16-22 February") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Lord Rothschild letter to No.10 (President Botha open letter to media) [South Africa newspaper clipping] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: MT letter for Chancellor Kohl (invitation to nominate UK participants to the Conference on “Neurosciences and Ethnics”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Rifkind minute for MacGregor (“Public Expenditure: 1985-86 Outturn”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilaterals with the Chancellor”) [public expenditure Cabinet, JMB sale, Green Paper on Personal Taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 6 (Disposal of Radioactive Waste) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [Hurd to announce invitation to tenders for contracts] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (fallout from Westland) [“battling Thatcher back on top form”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI letter to Clerk to the Defence Committee (enclosing extracted DTI documents on Westland affair) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Armstrong letter to Sir Brian Hayes (release of DTI documents to Defence Select Committee) [approves] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for Wicks (“Westland: Lord Trefgarne”) [line to take over "mystery shareholders"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Armstrong letter to Clerk of the Select Committee on Defence (corrections to transcript of his evidence) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("US Response to Gorbachev Proposals") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Irish Government reshuffle") [post-Anglo/Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker letter to Whitelaw ("Paying for local government") [request for extension of the consultation period] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Security: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 ("Security classification of the statistical series produced in the Department of Employment") [standardisation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Addison minute for Wicks ('Bilaterals') [timetable for proposed regular one-on-one meetings with cabinet colleagues] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("European Political Cooperation: Political Committee: Presidency meeting with Pik Botha") [press statement: "grave concerns about developments in South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Blank Tape Levy") [MT annotation: "I am very much against a levy"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Bob Hawke message to MT (Australian bicentenary) [gift of a sail training ship] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to George Younger ("Force Levels in Northern Ireland") [political downside of additional reinforcement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT message to Avital Shcharansky (0545Z) ("Message from the Prime Minister to Mrs Shcharansky") [congratulations on the release of her husband, Anatoly Shcharansky, from Soviet imprisonment] [released Jul 2017]
Text 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: Crocker telegram to State Department (talks with Pik Botha in Geneva) [declassified 1999]
PDF 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 6th (British Leyland, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Strategy, Radioactive Waste) [pre-budget economic discussion] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (economy, Westland) [shares at record level, Westland vote to accept Sikorsky rescue offer] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (“Football Hooligans: meeting at DoE, 13 February”) [Giles Shaw, Richard Tracey, Ted Croker, Jack Dunnit, Graham Kelley] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Mexico: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Mexican Press article on alleged investment by the Prime Minister in Mexico”) ["a little nous would have pointed to an on-the-spot rubbishing of the story when it appeared"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd PS letter to No.10 (“Lenient Sentences”) [amended proposal following opposition in Lords] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 383 to FCO (2359Z) ("Arms Control: US Response to Gorbachev's 15 January Proposals") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (Gorbachev's arms control proposals) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: MT letter to Chairman/Chief Executive of Ford (sale of the Austin Rover Group) [courtesy letter to mend bridges after public backlash forces Ford out of the bidding] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Portugal: FCO telegram to UKE Lisbon ("New President") [draft MT messages of congratulation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) [Whitelaw, Malcolm Fraser: "[Fraser's] hunch was that the Group was likely to recommend further action - short of full-scale sanctions"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Mark Addison note to MT ("Blank Tapes") [Whitelaw feels very strongly about proposal] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Prime Minister of Turkey") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Prime Minister of Turkey: 17-20 February") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1512Z) ("Canada") (NSC 0129) [Canada attempting to restrict imports of US films, the President said he could not blame them] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Policy Unit minute for MT (“Private Provision of NHS Facilities”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Michael Howard letter to Michael Spicer (MCC report) [“determining the appropriate regulatory regime for a monopoly… removed from the restraints of the public sector”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Michael Alison minute to MT (drinks with MPs) ["it was thought that the 'ghost' had not yet been laid"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute for MT ("Panorama Interview") [“show the public that you are still fit and well, in charge, and as determined as ever”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Stephen Sherbourne minute (leaders from popular press) [“It is time the Tories got their act together”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (Budget speculation) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Budget) [hopes for tax cuts fade] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Wicks minute for MT (draft response to Owen letter) [refusing demand for disciplinary action against Powell and Ingham] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Younger, Wörner, Bullard and others) [UK forces in Germany; Westland helicopters; NATO; SDI; chemical weapons; arms control; Spain; environmental impact of training, European Fighter Aircraft; SP70; Nimrod AEW; anti-radar drone] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Department of Trade & Industry record of conversation ("Note of a meeting with West Midland MPS to discuss the proposals to return Land-Rover Leyland to the private sector...") [Peter Morrison, Gilroy Bevan MP, Anthony Beaumont-Dark MP, Reginald Eyre MP, Roger King MP, John M Taylor MP] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish relations") [post-Anglo/Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: press interview with the Taoiseach") ["... the Agreement is no threat to [the Unionists]... In fact, [it is] in their best interests"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Parliamentary Body") [post-Anglo/Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Republic of Ireland: political scene") ["When Dr FitzGerald meets [MT] on Wednesday, it will be against a very different domestic political backdrop from... [signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement] last November"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the 29th, 30th and 36th - 38th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee, 1984-85") ["... not controversial... no particularly newsworthy features..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: MT letter to Dr. Anatoliy Fedoseyev (encouraging small enterprise) [measures taken by Conservative government] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Premier Swan ("Bermuda: sanctions against South Africa") ["we remain firmly opposed to economic and trade boycotts"; MT initially reluctant to oppose Bermudan intentions to legislate] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: UKE Luxembourg telegram 31 to FCO (1734Z) ("Foreign Affairs Council, Luxembourg: EC/Turkey") [Greece opposing an early meeting of the Association Council] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO record of conversation (Lady Young, Turkish Prime Minister Ozal) [Turkey/EC; Cyprus] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: The Fraser Institute in Vancouver letter to No.10 (inviting MT to address the Institute during her visit) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“British Presidency of the EC: Organisation of the London European Council”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Teachers’ dispute in Scotland - proposed Inquiry”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“The Teachers Pay Dispute: England and Wales”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay: MISC 66, 19 February”) [options following Unions’ rejection of Government proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Civil Service Manpower”) [“we shall need to exercise continuing restraint in 1986 and 1987 if we are to hold to our published manpower targets”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [“the Government seems unlikely to be making much news”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (dispute at News Corp plant) [violent crowds in Wapping] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks (inquiry into leak of Brittan minutes to Observer and BBC Panorama) [inconclusive, but came from Ministry of Defence; Heseltine had "the strongest motive and probably the best opportunity"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Consultancy, Inspection and Review (CIR) Services in Government Departments”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 internal minute: Policy Unit to PS (“Barristers’ Pay”) [negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("The Party Donations Affair: investigations against Kohl") ["...on suspicion of giving false testimony... this is the first time a formal investigation has been brought against a Chancellor of the FRG in office."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Investigation against Kohl") [on suspicion of giving false testimony about Party donations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local Government: Stephen Sherbourne minute (Local Government Conference) ["Many of our local councillors will be up in arms because of the RSG settlement"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("R & D priorities") ["...resources devoted to defence... are excessive... buying more defence equipment overseas... lower employment [but long term advantages]..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("R & D priorities across Government") [E(A) - MISC119 Report: "...disappointing... There is no shortage of government-funded R&D... the question the report needs to address is whether and why we are short of private sector R&D?"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Chief Scientific Adviser minute to No.10 ("E(A) - MISC119 Report") [vexed by delay in considering the Report's findings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Report of the Ministerial Group on research and development priorities across Government (MISC 119)") ["...improving the efficiency, competitiveness and innovative capacity of the UK economy..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Taoiseach") [Sellafield; Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Dr. FitzGerald") [post-Anglo/Irish Agreement discussions: concerns about Tom King's 'adversarial' approach] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Tom King briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Taoiseach") ["...we must ensure he really appreciates just how strong is the unionist reaction to the [Anglo/Irish Agreement]..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO/Departments of Energy and the Environment briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with the Taoiseach: 19 February") [additional briefing on the recent accident at Sellafield nuclear plant, for meeting on post-Anglo/Irish Agreement discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with the Taoiseach: 19 February 1986") [post-Anglo/Irish Agreement discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong/Nally record of conversation, for MT meeting with Taoiseach to discuss post-Anglo/Irish Agreement negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 briefing for MT ("Legislative Programme for next Session") ["... such an unexciting programme will make it very difficult to convey the impression of a Government with plenty of steam in it..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sierra Leone: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by President Momoh of Sierra Leone") [MT accepts Howe's advice to meet with Momoh] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Spain: Spanish Ambassador letter to No.10 (Mrs Thatcher's television interview) [praises her performance] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute (internal): South African Department to Curran ("South Africa: Ability of the Government to Retain Control") ["getting across to blacks in South Africa and to other third world governments... the [long term] implications of sanctions for themselves"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Mark Addison minute to Whitelaw PS ("Blank Tape Levy") [MT believes proposal will lead to unjustified additional bureaucracy] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Turkish Prime Minister Ozal) [Turkish economy; Iran/Iraq; EC; human rights; Cyprus; British Embassy compound in Ankara] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Sellafield: Press comments”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay”) [“Only two of the civil service unions have agreed to MEGAW: we have to decide whether to impose it unilaterally or let it fall”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 66 (86) 1st Meeting: Civil Service Pay Negotiations”) [negotiating strategy options] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Michael Alison minute to Chief Whip (drinks with MPs) ["you mentioned to me that you would prefer that your Area Whips should not 'mark the card' for me" to cultivate MPs "feeling left out in the cold"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Budget) [MT seen to have hinted that thresholds will rise] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("British Leyland") [MISC 126: GM and other bids] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Morrison PS internal minute to DTI officials (British Leyland) [sale of BL: Morrison to meet with TUC delegation: briefing request] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office internal minute ("BL") [British Leyland: "The Prime Minister decided this morning to set up a small Ministerial Group to consider handling and tactics in relation to the GM bid... following the decisions at E(A)... to support the GM proposals"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Parliamentary affairs") [GM bid for British Leyland; nuclear waste disposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10: Press Officer minute to Ingham & Powell ("Dr. FitzGerald's speech to the press gallery: 19 February) [Sellafield; Northern Ireland: security; terrorism; Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to John Cushnahan (dialogue with Northern Ireland political parties) [post-Anglo/Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Garret FitzGerald) [Anglo/Irish Agreement & the Unionists; Sellafield] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO/Department of Environment briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with the Taoiseach: 19 February") ["...Irish proposal for a European inspection force to monitor Sellafield"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (Prime Minister's meeting with the Taoiseach: 19 February) [Sellafield; Anglo-Irish Agreement/Intergovernmental Conference; European Convention on the suppression of terrorism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland: meeting of Ministers on 20 February") [line to take for MT/Tom King meeting with Unionists regarding Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker letter to Whitelaw ("Rate Support Grant 1986") [Policy Unit: "The 1986-87 settlement turned out so badly because so many levers were pulled to help London... it is the rates for 1987-88 on which the General Election is likely to be fought"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Nationalised industry board members' terms of appointment") [No.10 Policy Unit: "The three year rolling contract would be tantamount to giving... permament tenure... new dismissal provisions do not represent an adequate trade-off... strongly recommend that the rolling contract principal is not endorsed"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Rifkind PS letter to No.10 (Parliamentary Boundary Commission for Scotland: Interim Review of Parliamentary Constituencies) ["... an appropriate consequence of changes in local authority boundaries..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [Eminent Persons Group: report on progress of one week visit: "so far so good"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Visits Abroad") [attendance by Mr Thatcher] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: King PS minute to Charles Powell ("Northern Ireland: Shooting Incident") [death of PIRA member] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“French Reaction to CAP Price Proposals”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Health and Safety Executive letter to No.10 (press notice) [‘Sellafield: HSE Announces Detailed Safety Audit’] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Garret Fitzgerald) [incidents at Sellafield] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Sellafield, economy) [Garret FitzGerald to raise Irish concerns over plant, pound rallies] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Defence Committee letter to Department of Trade and Industry (press release of DTI documents) [encloses copy] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 428 to FCO (2300Z) ("Arms Control: US Response to Gorbachev's Proposals") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, Peter Jenkins of The Sunday Times) [arms control] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: No.10 minute to MT ("Honda") [Peter Walker MP concerned about threat to employment in Midlands posed by rumoured opening of plant in Swindon] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl (message of sympathy & support) [courtesy letter] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Germany: MT message to Helmut Kohl (sympathy) ​​​​​​​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, King, Wakeham) [MT meeting with Molyneaux & Paisley to discuss Unionist position post-Anglo/Irish Agreement: lines to take] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Hurd PS letter to Whitelaw PS (Report on Parliamentary Boundary Commission for England: Interim Reviews of Parliamentary Constituencies) ["The reviews are primarily intended to realign the parliamentary boundaries with altered local government boundaries"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: MT message to Manuel Fraga ("Spain/NATO: possible Prime Ministerial message to Fraga") [effort to avert conservative Opposition's abstention from referendum, which might lead to "the unfortunate precedent that Spanish withdrawal from NATO would establish"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Village Schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 7th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 20 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Ingham minute for MT ("Language/Vision") [“your domination of politics and intellectual argument - need to maintain flow of ideas and for "new and more appealing language … the, to you, hateful word 'vision'”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Sellafield) [safety experts to audit plant, argument over who ordered inquiry] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Lord Hailsham PS letter to Robin Ibbs (“Departmental Responsibility for Tribunals”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Keith Joseph letter to Lord Young (“DE and MSC Programmes for Enterprise, Employment and Training”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("German/Italian summit") [G5; Single European Act; Middle East; INF; East-West relations & Eastern Europe] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Channon PS letter to No.10 ("BL") [briefing for Cabinet colleagues on sale of British Leyland and GM bid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("British Leyland") [GM and other bids] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("B.L.") [sale of British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office internal minute ("BL: MISC 126") [sale of British Leyland: MISC administration] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Tom King PS letter to No.10 (Irish Secretary of the ATGWU: paper on the Anglo-Irish Agreement) ["...has some influence over Neil Kinnock on Northern Ireland affairs"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Kinnock") [advice on proposed attendees for meeting to discuss Unionist position on Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Molyneaux and Dr. Paisley") [the Unionists & the Anglo-Irish Agreement: lines to take] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland") [MT meeting with Molyneaux & Paisley to discuss Unionist position post-Anglo/Irish Agreement: lines to take] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Dr. James Barber (scheme to bring black South African teachers of English to Durham) ["delighted to hear that this is going well"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Ozal: Cyprus") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“European Community: the Agricultural Price Package”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 minute for MT (“Contraceptive Advice and Treatment for Young People under 16”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Education: the long-term”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Young letter to Keith Joseph (extension of Technical and Vocational Education Initiative) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay”) [options] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Lawson memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 7 (Green Paper on Personal Taxation) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (British Leyland, Shops Bill, privatisation of Forestry Commission, Northern Ireland) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (British Leyland) [Cabinet rebellion against another American takeover] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter for MT (arms control: Geneva talks and Gorbachev proposals) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 23 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 485 to FCO (2315Z) ("Proposed US Financial Assistance") [USD250m would be a significant boost to Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 23 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: White House memcon (President Mitterrand-Ambassador Vernon Walters) [possible cooperation over Libya] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Charles Powell minute to MT (message from Chief Whip) [92 Group has not demanded Garel-Jones’ resignation] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT message for President Reagan (President's reply to Gorbachev proposals on arms control) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Arms Control: Response to Gorbachev Proposals") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Taoiseach FitzGerald letter to MT (Prime Minister's meeting with Unionists to discuss the Anglo-Irish agreement) ["...facts and figures on the issues which are causing concern"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with Church of Ireland Bishops") [Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office briefing for MT ("Briefing for the Prime Minister - meeting with Unionist leaders") [Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kinnock) [Anglo-Irish Agreement: assessment of the Unionist position] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Molyneaux and Dr. Paisley") [Anglo-Irish Agreement: the Unionist position] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe PS briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland") [MT meeting with Molyneaux & Paisley: strategy for engaging Unionists in developments post-Anglo/Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (meeting with Molyneaux & Paisley) [contingency lines to take on possibility of reviewing Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Richard Luce letter to Whitelaw ("Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration: scope of proposed Bill") ["The main purpose of the Bill is to extend the jurisdiction of the PCA..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to UKE Cape Town ("Commonwealth Group") [conversation with Lord Barber] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: George Younger minute to Tom King ("Force Levels in Northern Ireland") [deployment of additional battalion cannot become an open ended commitment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Geoffrey Howe minute to Tom King ("Force Levels in Northern Ireland") [presentational handling of sending additional reinforcement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to Charles Powell ("Force Levels in Northern Ireland") [provision of additional infantry battalion] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Willetts minute for MT (“AIDS”) [supports Fowler plans for "explicit and distasteful" ads in Sunday papers; MT: "Do we HAVE to do the section on Risky sex?"] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley minute for MacGregor (“Handling of the 1986 Public Expenditure Survey”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS minute to MT (“UK Presidency: Reporting on the London European Council”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“The Teachers’ pay dispute”) [ballot] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 8 (Legislative Programme 1986-86 and 1987-88) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Channon (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [US visit: “we did not make much headway on aviation and anti-trust”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Northern Ireland Civil Service: Permanent Secretaries”) [MT rejects proposal for same grades and pay as equivalents in Home Civil Service] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [Northern Ireland, teachers’ pay, industry, politics, economics] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour party) [Kinnock would reverse trade union legislation] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd PS letter to No.10 (Winston Churchill M.P.’s Obscene Publications Amendment Bill) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to Trade and Industry Secretary (“Regulation of the Wholesale Money, Foreign Exchange and Bullion Markets”) [Bank of England worries it will lack authority in these markets under the new regulated regime for financial services] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Tom King letter to Hurd (Ministerial Group on Crime Prevention) [membership] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Paris to FCO (arms control: President Reagan response to Gorbachev) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Gorbachev Proposals on Arms Control") [MT's draft reply] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Channon PS letter to No.10 ("BL") [draft MISC 126 paper on sale of British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King, Ian Paisley, James Molyneaux) [Unionist views on Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") ["...wish to avoid... [MT's] visit being used simply to promote Israeli ideas..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Transport: Wybrew briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Nicholas Ridley") [likely topics] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [schedule for visit to S. Africa] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Representations to the SAG") [UKE statement to press, protesting S. African govt actions; attached record of conversation with Deputy Foreign Minister] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: John MacGregor minute to Tom King ("Northern Ireland: An International Fund") [US and Irish demands on funding arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 460 to FCO (2330Z) ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Proposed US Financial Assistance") [announcement of plans for assistance of USD250m over five years] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MacGregor minute for Secretary of State for Scotland (“Public Expenditure: 1985-1986 Outturn”) [“you will not expect me to change my view on this subject”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Baker minute for Lawson (“Public Expenditure White Paper”) [suggestions for public expenditure measures to be included in the Budget] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“European Council: December 1986”) [outline programme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“London European Council”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [indirect tax proposals, employment measures, interest rates, Green Paper on Personal Taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (economy) [shares rise to new peak, Budget tax cuts] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Department of Trade and Industry letter to Armstrong (memoranda for Defence Select Committee) [follow up to Hayes evidence] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Wicks minute for MT (Defence Select Commitee) [Chief Whip saw three Conservtive members of committee & thinks they will now drop plans to call Powell and Ingham as witnesses] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Emmanuel Kaye, Anthony Bamford and the Unquoted Companies’ Group) [employment legislation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Younger minute for MT ("Airborne Early Warning") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Franco-German summit: 27/28 February") ["...nothing very new... [but] a useful event..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("BT") [announcement of new Chairman; and " you may want at MISC 126 to agree a form of words which can be used after Cabinet about the discussions on BL"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Land Rover management buy-out") [figures and offer deadline] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("British Leyland") [MISC 126: bids; timeline for consideration; public presentation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Land Rover Leyland") [MISC 126: bids; timeline for consideration; public presentation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with Mr. Hume") ["...the primary aim should be to bring home to Mr Hume that without the SDLP commitment to political dialogue and devolution, and more wholehearted endorsement of the RUC, the [Anglo-Irish] Agreement could founder..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, delegation of Church of Ireland bishops) [Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute to MT ("European Community aid to Northern Ireland") ["It will look awful if we use EC money for Northern Ireland to reduce our own expenditure on it"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland") [contingencies for possible repercussions from Unionist rejection of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Defence and Overseas Policy Committee sub-committee on United Kingdom relations with the Republic of Ireland OD(I)(86) 1st meeting: Thursday 27 February at noon") ["...expected [EC] aid... extent to which this should be treated as additional to Northern Ireland public expenditure"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker PS letter to Wakeham PS ("Paying for Local Government: briefing notes") ["...wish to keep up the momentum on the successful presentation of the Government's proposals on rating reform..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (briefing on Stealth technology) [precise arrangements in London] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Legislative Programme 1986-87 and 1987-88") ["... a number of politically controversial and weighty Bills"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 letter to John David Taylor MP (Prime Minister's Questions) [transfer of Taylor PQ to Welsh Department] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Inauguration of the new President of Portugal": UK representation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [report on the Group's meeting with Mugabe] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to Geoffrey Howe ("Force Levels in Northern Ireland") [presentational handling of sending additional reinforcement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 472 to FCO (2250Z) ("Anglo/Irish Agreement: Proposed US Financial Assistance") [State Department likely to testify before House Foreign Affairs Committee] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Turkish Prime Minister Ozal) [Parliamentary relations between the UK & Turkey; Turkish Communist Party; Turkish domestic politics] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 213 to FCO (2130Z) ("Cyprus") [progess of negotiations] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: UKE Cairo telegram 129 to FCO (1120Z) ("Egypt Internal Situation") [report on curfew following security forces mutiny] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Whitelaw minute for MT (“Controlling the Spread of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndome (AIDS)”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Secretary of State for Scotland minute for MacGregor (“Public Expenditure: 1985-1986 Outturn”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to MacGregor (“Burnham Primary and Secondary Committee - London Weighting”) [teachers’ pay dispute] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd letter to Whitelaw (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [“role of Government in this enterprise is merely to provide the regulatory framework”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office note for the record (Robert Armstrong’s evidence to the Treasury & Civil Service Select Committee) [role of civil servants; implications of Westland affair] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Northern Ireland) [breakthrough on strike deadlock] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MacGregor letter to Lord Hailsham (“Remuneration of Barristers”) [MT critical of slow negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow minute to FCO ("President Reagan's reply to Gorbachev's 15 January proposals") [arms control] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Gorbachev (his arms control proposals) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (message of thanks) [courtesy note] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (arms control) ​​​​​​​["We need to tackle the causes of the insecurity which make nuclear weapons necessary"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Germany: Helmut Kohl message to MT (thanks) ​​​​​​​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Archbishop Eames (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [outline of Government policy, following meeting with Church of Ireland delegation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, King, Howe, Hurd, Younger, Tebbit, Wakeham) [contingencies for anticipated Unionist strike action in response to Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Hume) [SDLP and Unionist positions following Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the First to Fourth Reports of the Public Accounts Committee, 1985-86") ["... not controversial... no particularly newsworthy features..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: internal") ['state of emergency' situaton report: "It is clear that President Botha's speech at the opening of Parliament has made no difference to blacks among whom further unrest is expected"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 487 to FCO (1800Z) ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Proposed US Financial Assistance") [text of draft bill to provide economic support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 486 to FCO (2330Z) ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Proposed US Financial Assistance") [discussion on purposes of fund, operating procedures] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO telegram 362 to UKE Washington (1645Z) ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Proposed US Financial Assistance") [complicated solution for finding vehicles through which to organise fund, strike in Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: UKE Ankara telegram 119 to FCO (1450Z) ("Turkish Prime Minister's Visit") ["a great success"] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 minute for MT (“H Committee: Tuesday, 25 February”) [AIDS; contraceptive advice and treatment for young people; private rented sector] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO letter to No.10 (“Developments in the European Community: July-December 1985”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Griffiths minute for MT (“Review of Competition Law and Policy”) [Channon’s proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind minute to MT (“Teachers’ dispute in Scotland”) [state of play] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 8th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Affairs, Legislative Programme, tax reform) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Michael Ancram letter to Michael Howard (“Airports Bill: economic regulation”) [“we must avoid an over-zealous approach”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour party) [Liverpool militants] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: H.M. Customs & Excise minute to Chancellor (“Investigation of VAT Gold Fraud”) [JMB involvement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT minute for Younger ("Nimrod") [requesting a thorough investigation of what has gone wrong] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Federal German Economy") [analysis] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local Government: Stephen Sherbourne minute ("Local Government Conference: Saturday, 1st March 1986") [timetable, speech notes, briefings] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Land Rover/Leyland") [request for briefing on GM deal and for more information about alternative bids] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT (Land Rover/Freight Rover buy-out) [MT request for "...evidence that E(A) knew of the management interest... when the decision was take to support Salton"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Which road for Austin Rover?") [options for selling off; "...I cannot believe [the banks] know the full horror of the situation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Rowe & Maw solicitors to MT ("The 'Keep Land Rover British' campaign") [recounts "disappointing" response from General Secretary of TGWU to his proposal that Unions "...be prepared to put up equity ..." for alternatives to GM bid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Land Rover Leyland (LRL)") [alternatives to GM bid, and "possibility of a joint venture between GM and the Management buy-out in respect of Freight and Land Rover"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Morrison letter to Biffen ("Debate on draft EC Directive - Powered Industrial Trucks") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Walker letter to Whitelaw (Gas Bill) ["We have had a very successful Committee stage... and I am determined to see that there will be no Government amendments in the House of Lords"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Petroleum Bill") ["... important implications for the management of our offshore oil and gas resources"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 letter to House of Commons (transfer of Prime Minister's Questions) [procedure for handling of interdepartmental Questions] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: MT letter to Professor Diogo Frietas do Amaral (results of the Presidential elections in Portugal) ["I was always certain that you had a very bright future... I am now even more certain"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Representations to the South African Government") [concerns raised by Moberly about various recent incidents/deveopments; S. African gov respond publicly; MT irate at lack of consultation with No.10] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Egypt Internal Situation") [report on curfew following security forces mutiny] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Norman Tebbit minute for Paul Channon (“Review of Competition Law and Policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Michael Jopling letter for Paul Channon (review of competition law and policy) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit letter to Lord Young (“Technical and Vocational Education Initiative”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay”) [Enquiry aims and ACAS talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Cabinet Office minute (“Privatisation of BA”) [possible exposure to US anti-trust litigation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (Northern Ireland, JMB, teachers, retirement age) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (JMB scandal) [reignited after customs gold bullion swoop] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks (“Defence Committee”) [additional questions the committee wants to ask Armstrong - "a tremendous fishing expedition"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: David Waddington letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation: Fire Safety and MISC 121”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Lord Hailsham letter to John MacGregor (“Remuneration of Barristers”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 1 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo to FCO (“Tokyo Summit: Japanese Preparations for Brocket Hall Meeting”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation ("Northern Ireland") [Kenneth Maginnis MP,Charles Powell: phone conversation about "proposal to defuse the situation" in reference to unionist threat of ongoing strike action on account of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKREP Brussels telegram 686 to FCO (1050Z) ("EC Support for Northern Ireland") [activities of international fund, involvement of EC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Young) [incentives to work] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Department of Trade & Industry briefing for MT (meeting with West Midland MPS about the possible sale of Land Rover-Leyland) ["...future could best be secured in the private sector..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Peter Morrison PS letter to No.10 ("BL: possible alternative bids") [proposed lines to take for Morrison's meeting with Jack Straw on 4 March] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: 'Land Rover management group' letter to MT (offer to acquire the Land Rover group of businesses) [outline of aims] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with Mr James Kilfedder") [negotiations with unionists in wake of Anglo-Irish Agreement and recent day of unionist strike action] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [line to take on unionist day of strike action in wake of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: SitRep") [running account of unionist day of strike action in wake of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland: meeting of OD(I)") [EC aid; unionist day of strike action in wake of Anglo-Irish Agreement; negotiations with unionists] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Baker, Ridley, MacGregor, Wakeham, Giles Shaw, Waldegrave) ["Rates": "...prospective rate increases in... Wirral, Sefton and Bury... options for action..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Department of Environment briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting: 4.00 pm, 3 March") [prospective rate increases in Wirral, Sefton and Bury: options for action] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sierra Leone: FCO telegram to UKHC Freetown ("President Momoh's visit to the UK") [IMF/economic aid] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Representations to the South African Government") [MT "thought that this matter had been handled most unsatisfactorily"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to Charles Powell ("OD(I): Tuesday 4 March: Possible European Community Aid to Northern Ireland") [developments regarding US contribution to International Fund] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Request by the President of Cyprus to meet the Prime Minister") [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“The Teachers’ pay dispute”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay dispute”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [Northern Ireland, Johnson Matthey, British Leyland, teachers’ pay] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Northern Ireland) [police leave cancelled due to threatened strikes] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks (“Defence Select Committee”) [Westland: oral evidence] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury Press Office minute to Economic Secretary (“The Reserves in February 1986”) [press notice] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Call on the Prime Minister by Sir David Orr, Chairman of the British Council: 5 March") [annual report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Stephen Sherbourne minute ("Central Council speech") [MT should set out "'vision' (for want of a better word), your 'agenda for the nineties'"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Unipart") ["...House of Lords judgement which said that manufacturers do not have copyright protection for car spare parts"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Peter Morrison, Gilroy Bevan MP, Reginald Eyre MP, Roger King MP, John Taylor MP, Anthony Beaumont-Dark MP) ["BL": sale of British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. James Kilfedder") [negotiations with unionists, following their strike action in wake of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("OD(I): meeting at 5p.m. on 4 March") [Government response to day of unionist strike action in wake of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sierra Leone: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with President Momoh of Sierra Leone") [IMF/economic aid; 'Silver Sea' affair - abortive coup; South Africa] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sierra Leone: FCO record of conversation (Howe, President Momoh) [IMF/economic aid; 'Silver Sea' affair - abortive coup; South Africa] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the Budget, direct tax; Johnson Matthey Bank] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["South Africa": Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; Cuban withdrawal from Namibia; MT "dissatisfaction about the way in which the recent representations of the South African Government were handled"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Pik Botha letter to Hans van den Broek (European Community Aide Memoire) ["Once again I appeal to European Governments to take a wider and more balanced view of what is happening in South and Southern Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Common Agricultural Policy: price-fixing”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Baker PS minute to No.10 (“European Regional Development Fund”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT (“United Kingdom Presidency of the European Community: July-December 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John MacGregor letter to Nick Ridley (“BA pay”) [objects to levels of proposed increases] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Richard Luce letter to Howe (“Secondments to the Civil Service: Civil Service Commission General Regulations”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Religion: Michael Alison minute to MT ("The Shops Bill") [seeks "informal license to abstain on a few votes"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Northern Ireland) [34 arrested during 24-hour strike] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Defence Select Committee”) [Westland] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Remuneration of Barristers”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Nuclear Arms Control: US Consultation with NAC") [less achieved than hoped] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Nuclear Arms Control: US Consultation with NAC") [lunch discussion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chairman of the British Council) [annual report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Land Rover-Leyland sale") [bids] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Chairman of Ford letter to MT (Austin/Rover bid & future business with UK) [request for meeting with MT or Ministers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Channon PS letter to No.10 ("BL: statement") [Parliament to be informed of bids for British Leyland & appointment of new Chairmen of BL & British Shipbuilders] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Land Rover Leyland") [bids] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office briefing for MT ("Brief for Prime Minister's meeting with Mr Cushnahan") [Anglo-Irish Agreement: negotiations with unionists; conduct of the RUC during strike action] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sierra Leone: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Momoh, Foreign Minister Korona, High Commissioner Sumner) ['Silver Sea' affair; current situation in SL; IMF; West Africa] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Powell minute to MT ("United Kingdom Presidency of the EC") ["The Foreign Secretary's minute... reports the outcome of OD(E)'s discussion on objectives and priorities"; summary of main points & advice; minute attached] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Johannesburg telegram to UKE Cape Town ("Alexandra funerals") [report on the service & attendance; "an atmosphere of extreme tension... and it may well be that violence will break out later today"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (lifting of the State of Emergency) ["I wanted you to know how warmly I welcome the important steps which you have just announced... we shall be working hard to persuade the Angolan Government to play its part"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (South African DFA) South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (welcomes end of state of emergency) [declassified ?2005]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra to FCO (“Proposed Visit to London by the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Hawke”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“The CAP and the FRG”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Jopling, MacGregor) [European Community: agriculture] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler PS letter to No.10 (“AIDS”) [previous No.10 concerns about publicity campaign; MT: "I remain AGAINST certain parts of this advertisement"] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Channon PS letter to No.10 (“Junk Bonds”) [leveraged takeovers and buyouts] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MacGregor letter to Lord Young (“TVEI”) [Technical and Vocational Education Initiative] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Edwards letter to Lord Young (extension of Technical and Vocational Education Initiative) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“The Teachers’ Pay Dispute in Scotland”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Teachers’ Pay Enquiry”) [candidates] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Rifkind note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 9 (The Teachers’ Pay Dispute in Scotland) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Northern Ireland) [RUC behaviour during strike] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“ACARD Report - Exploitable Areas of Science”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Energy: David Norgrove minute to Michael Alison (“Mr. MacGregor”) [MT “would not want an impression to be given that she was in any way dissatisfied with his performance since the end of the miners’ strike”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO telegram 396 to UKE Washington (1230Z) (MT's reply to Gorbachev's proposals: line to take with the North Atlantic Council) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Defence: Hugh Thomas Speech to the Conference on Science and Technology in the Nuclear Age ("Soviet Attitudes to Strategic Defence")
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's Toast at Lunch on Wednesday 12 March") [draft] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King, John Cushnahan) [Anglo-Irish Agreement: negotiations with unionists; conduct of the RUC during unionist day of strike action; InterGovernmental Conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 minute ("Prime Minister's speeches for 1986") [list for internal circulation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Nicholas Elliott") [MT agrees to meeting to discuss his visit to S. Africa, Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons, and how to spend his inheritance] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nicholas Edwards minute to Douglas Hurd ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite") [DBS contract period] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Possible Message to President Mubarak") [MT concurs with FCO/No.10 advice not to send message in wake of security forces mutiny] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Prime Minister Hawke of Australia letter to MT (suggesting that he might visit London) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Morrison letter to Lord Young (“UK Regional Development Programme 1986-90: Job Deficiency Forecasts”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Douglas Hurd letter to Lawson (support for Baker’s proposals on crime prevention) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Young letter to MacGregor (“TVEI”) [Technical and Vocational Education Initiative] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: MT letter to Taoiseach (incidents at Sellafield and radiation pollution in and around Ireland) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 9th (Hailsham’s marriage, British Leyland, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Teachers’ Pay Dispute) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 538 to FCO (2100Z) (“Timing of US/Soviet summit”) [“Press reports of US impatience at Soviet delay in agreeing a summit date are exaggerated”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS minute to Nick Ridley (“BA privatisation”) [“we need to set out properly the issues in the US negotiations, while keeping in something about the current anti-trust cases”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (British Leyland) [takeover bid] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Department of Trade & Industry letter to Clerk to the Defence Committee (memoranda on the Westland affair) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Michael Havers letter to John MacGregor (“Remuneration of Barristers”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Hurd letter to Lord Hailsham (“The Admission of second wives”) [urgent need for restrictive legislation but not compatible with Family Law Bill] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The French elections") ["...France is probably only a week away from electing a Right wing majority to govern with a socialist President..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Anglo/Italian Summit") [arms control; G5; industrial joint ventures; arms sales to Argentina; oil prices; CAP reform; Middle East] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit: internal political scene") ["Government business continues as usual, but the coalition looks jaded. No solution in sight"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit: agenda") [CAP price fixing; Tokyo economic summit; arms control & East/West relations; terrorism; extradition; scientific/industrial collaboration; aid; Anglo-Italian roundtable; Middle East] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Leyland") [attendees and scheduling for Ministerial meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 565 to FCO (2030Z) ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: proposed US assistance") ["...UK/Irish/US talks in Washington on 6/7 March..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Taoiseach FitzGerald (Anglo-Irish Agreement: negotiations with the unionists) ["...our first priority now must be to be seem to make progress as rapidly as possible..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Garret FitzGerald) [phone conversation: FitzGerald relays his concerns about public comments made by unionists and UK govt re: RUC & Anglo-Irish Agreement; and about alleged UK govt messages to US govt underming his visit to US] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("EC/Argentina") ["there should be no question of institutionalising Ministerial meetings without the authority of the Council"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to UKE Cape Town ("Commonwealth Group") [Tessa Solesby record of conversation with Lord Barber; MT interested in report of Groups' 'negotiating concept' proposal to S. African government] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Meeting with President Kyprianou of Cyprus: 3:00 PM Friday 8 March") [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: FCO telegram 78 to UKE Cairo (1530Z) ("Message to Mubarak") [notice that MT has decided against Ambassador Urwick's advice to send message in wake of security forces mutiny] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“FRG and the CAP: Kohl’s Press Conference”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: Secretary-General letter to MT (UN financial crisis) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“BA privatisation”) [“There are compelling reasons to press ahead with the early flotation of BA”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Michael Howard letter to Michael Spicer (airports’ accounts) [“there should be disaggregation only as between the traffic activities and the commercial activities as a whole of each airport”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Civil Service Manpower”) [tallying increases in DHSS staff with government targets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [British Leyland, tin crisis, law and order, Sellafield] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Criminal Justice White Paper) [tackling gun crime] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Cabinet Office letter to Department of Trade & Industry (books on Westland affair) [policy on requests to officials for interviews] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd letter to Whitelaw (“Public Order Bill: controls on alcohol in executive boxes and restaurants at football grounds”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (“Football Spectator Violence and Ground Safety”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 9 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: UKE Cairo telegram 166 to FCO (1625Z) ("Egypt Internal") [report, following security forces mutiny] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (current European issues) [officials from Cabinet Office, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Italian Embassy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Briefing meeting for Anglo-Italian Summit") [defence; terrorism; industrial/scientific collaboration; G5; EC Presidency; CAP; arms sales to Argentina] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Anglo-Italian Summit") [cover letter requesting comments on draft speech for MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Northern Ireland: Taoiseach's telephone call to the Prime Minister") [diplomatic row over FitzGerald allegations that UK officials were trying to undermine his visit to US, in regard to its donation to an 'all-Ireland Trust', after UK concerns of offending unionists relayed to US; MT irate and intent on speaking plainly to FitzGerald] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO record of conversation ("Meeting between the Secretary of State and Mr Barry in Brussels on 10 March: Northern Ireland") [Geoffrey Howe, Peter Barry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet record of conversation (Northern Ireland: negotiations in the wake of the Anglo-Irish Agreement) [Robert Armstrong, Dermot Nally] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet record of conversation ("Anglo-Irish relations: Armstrong/Nally meeting") [Robert Armstrong, Dermot Nally] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 letter to Howe PS (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) ["...a village for deprived children. The writer suggests that... [MT] might find time to visit it..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MacGregor letter to Kenneth Baker ("Local Government Bill, 1986-87 session") [timing of Bill's introduction to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Conservative MPs letter to Kenneth Baker ("Local Government Bill") ["Many of us who worked on this Bill through Committee are deeply concerned about the fundamental changes which have been made by the Lords... will mean the death knell for Conservative politics in every industrial centre"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen PS letter to Private Secretaries ("Debate on the Motion on the Easter adjournment") ["As usual on these occasions, I am writing to all Private Offices to ask for briefing material that the Leader of the House will need when winding up"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("State Opening of Parliament") [proposed dates] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe letter to Pik Botha (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons) ["both the tenor and substance of your government's response to the Group this week is likely to have a significant influence on the future course of the Group's mission"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Norman Fowler minute for MT (“AIDS”) [advertisment material] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 835 to FCO (2150Z) (“ECOFIN Council: 10 March 1986. Budget Discipline/Reference Framework”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Baker letter to Whitelaw (publication of consultation documents on EC Environmental Assessment directive) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“G.C.S.E.”) [Keith Joseph’s proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Lord Young (“TVEI”) [Technical and Vocational Education Initiative] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Teachers Pay Dispute in Scotland”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Chairman of British Nuclear Fuels plc letter to MT (radioactive pollution at Sellafield) [MT response to Fitzgerald] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (“British Airways”) [“A decision tomorrow to postpone privatisation… would damage morale at British Airways”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“British Airways Privatisation and Negotiations over the UK/US Air Services Agreement (Bermuda 2)”) [risks of early privatisation and feasability of ongoing challenge to US anti- trust law] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“BA’s place in the privatisation programme”) [“Privatisation has been and could continue to be one of the most popular and successful measures of Government”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Channon minute to MT (“British Airways Privatisation and Negotiations over the UK/US Air Services Agreement (Bermuda 2)”) [Dept of Transport prospectus on possible exposure to US anti-trust litigation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (UK/US air service agreement) [“before we proceed with the privatisation of British Airways, it is necessary to have a satisfactory agreement”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to John MacGregor (“BA pay”) [BA “to carry out a thoroughgoing restructuring of the workforce in an effort to ensure their long term profitability”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Sherbourne conversation record ("Note following the meeting on Central Council speech") ["We have moved the whole centre of politics"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [British Leyland, tin crisis, teachers’ pay] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour party) [“Kinnock in difficulties”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Stark minute to No.10 (Defence Select Committee: Westland inquiry) [Robert Armstrong oral evidence] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Stephen Sherbourne minute for MT (“Meeting at Chequers on Sunday, 13th April”) [arrangements, attendees] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell (Foreign Secretary draft speech to the Foreign Press Association: Defence, Deterrence and Arms Control ) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit meeting in Florence: Italian press comment") [extradition; terrorism; East/West relations; Tokyo economic summit; nuclear defence; EEC; Middle East] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Stephen Sherbourne minute to Caroline Ryder ("Conservative Women's Conference 1986") [possible lunch and informal speech] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("European Community: Northern Ireland") ["...not prepared to seek a special EC measure in support of the Anglo-Irish Agreement"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker minute to MT ("Water metering") [MT concedes "reluctantly" to Baker proposals aimed at rendering domestic metering more cost-effective] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons") [details of Group's 'negotiating concept' proposal; "would be helpful if the Prime Minister were to send another message to President Botha"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Tim Flesher minute to Charles Powell (Visit to Vancouver) [Princess Margaret's travel arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to George Younger ("Force Levels in Northern Ireland") [deployment of additional battalion, Army protection of RUC stations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to John MacGregor ("Northern Ireland: An International Fund") [relationship of funds to existing resources resources] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“The FRG and CAP”) [Kohl rejects British approach to Common Agricultural Policy reform] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (1420Z) (“1986/87: Christophersen Press Conference”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson minute for Baker (“Public Expenditure White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Sally Oppenheim MP letter to MT (“Gloucester Education”) [grammar school closures] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind minute to MT (“Scottish Teachers’ Inquiry”) [candidates] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (law and order) [concerns over sexual violence] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: John MacGregor letter to Alastair Goodlad (UKAEA: Industrial Pay) [“we must expect a lengthy negotiation”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO briefing to No.10 (Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence) [arrangements for end of summit; note on extradition treaty] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence, tête-à-tête] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence) [Younger, Spandolini, officials] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Home Office record of conversation (Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence) [Hurd, Scalfaro, officials] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Hurd, Younger, Geoffrey Pattie, Craxi, Andreotti, Scalfaro, Spadolini, Granelli) [Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence, plenary] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: MT draft opening statement for press conference (Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence) ["...we found ourselves substantially in agreement..."; deletes joke about Sikorsky helicopter] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("TASS Reaction to Prime Minister's Reply to Gorbachev's 15 January Arms Control Proposals") [negative throughout (...) questioning British commitment to arms control] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo letter for Sir Jeffrey Sterling (“Administrative Reform in Japan”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: FCO minute to No.10 (“Visit of the Australian Prime Minister”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Attorney General’s Chambers letter to No.10 (First Annual Report of the Fraud Investigation Group) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind letter to Lord Young (“Technical and Vocational Education Initiative”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Further Education Teaching Staff Pay Negotiations 1985”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind letter to MacGregor (“Teachers”) [pay dispute: Scotland Inquiry] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Privatisation proceeds 1986-87”) [line to take on postponement of BA sale] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to John MacGregor (“BAA pay”) [a satisfactory offer “against a background of privatisation [and] improved performance”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Northern Ireland) [Loyalist hostility, flags question] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Property Repayment Service (PRS)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute to FCO ("Foreign Secretary's Speech to the Foreign Press Association") [amendments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS)") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The French elections") ["The right are expected to emerge the clear winners... Chirac is the front-runner for Prime Minister..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for February 1986") ["Some encouraging economic results... in the run-up to the legislative elections..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French elections: Mitterrand") ["...undiminished appetite for power... expressed satisfaction about the state of Anglo-French relations..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") [overview of Group's visit to S. Africa] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Ridley minute for Lawson (“Privatisation of the National Bus Company”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT (Closing Universities) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Grant-aided Primary Schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to No.10 (“Scottish Teachers’ Inquiry”) [pay dispute] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 10th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Sellafield) [Waldegrave says nuclear industry must do better] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Hurd letter to Lord Hailsham (“Family Law Bill and second wives”) [MT supports “an early change in the law”] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Economic Summit 1986”) [preparatory meeting report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan's letter for MT (US/Soviet negotiations: new proposals on the verification of nuclear tests) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Foreign Secretary's Speech to the Foreign Press Association") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (MT meeting with Weinberger) [Stealth technology; determined to show perseverance in disputes with Congress over Nicaragua] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Secretary Weinberger") [briefing on Stealth technology] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Defence: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Defence Secretary") ["general political" and defence issues] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("Meeting between Commission and Argentine Foreign Minister") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Lord Barber") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons visit to S. Africa & next steps] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1605Z) ("Libya") (NSPG 0129) [planning response to Libyan threats against US forces in the Gulf of Sidra; possible request to MT for use of UK-based F-111s; NSDD to be drawn up] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: No.10 minute for MT (“Anonymity in Rape Cases”) [Hurd proposals] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Brooke minute to MT (“1986 Community Budget: response to Court’s Interim Measures Decision, 17 March”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 914 to FCO (1547Z) (“U.K Contribution to 1986 Budget”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office internal minute (“Scottish Teachers’ pay dispute”) [comparison with England & Wales offer] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (law and order) [rape and crime statistics] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (MT’s Central Council speech, Frernch National Assembly election) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: UKHC New Delhi telegram to FCO (“Westlands”) [trade deal confirmed] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Lord Young letter to David Waddington (“Deregulation: Fire Safety and MISC 121”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Rifkind letter to Whitelaw (“Public Order Bill: controls on alcohol in executive boxes and restaurants at football grounds”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Hurd letter to Biffen (“Immigration: MPs’ representations”) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Lord Hailsham letter to Biffen (“Family Law Bill”) [polygamy to be addressed separately] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [Budget coverage will dominate] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute for Powell ("Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS)") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The French elections") ["A right wing victory, but much narrower than expected, that leaves Mitterrand considerable latitude..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The French Legislative elections: the results") ["A slender majority for the RPR/UDF, much smaller than they hoped and the socialists feared."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The French elections: the prospects") ["A sharp swing to the right: But with... only a very slim majority... Mitterrand has considerable latitude in choice of Prime Minister"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish relations: Northern Ireland") [line which Tom King should take in further meetings with Molyneaux] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to President Reagan (Stealth technology) [meeting with Weinberger; Nicaragua; South Africa; forthcoming meeting with Reagan at Tokyo G7] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of the President of the Republic of Korea, 7-10 April") [bilateral meeting of economic policy officials] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of President Chun Doo Hwan: 7-10 April") [announcement; programme; dinner; talks] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lord Barber) ["Prime Minister's meeting with Lord Barber": account of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group's visit to S. Africa/'possible negotiating concept'] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Mulroney) [Nicaragua, G5, MT's visit to Canada] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: UKE Cairo telegram 198 to FCO (1130Z) ("Call on President Mubarak") [record of conversation: Urwick, Mubarak: message from MT; recent security forces mutiny/economic recovery; Cairo wastewater scheme; relations with Libya] [released Jul 2018]

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

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

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

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