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PDF 88 May 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection") [UK bid: "a major opportunity to acquire... a priceless Collection at a fraction of its value"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Governor of Bermuda; OECD Ministerial meeting; message to Gorbachev; possible visit to US; meeting with Mitterrand] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 88 May 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Allan minute for Lawson ("RSG Settlement 1989-90") [personal thoughts on tactics - need to be "as mean as possible on provision" because won't be able to shift Ridley much on grant percentage] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 May 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Potter minute for Chief Secretary ("RSG Settlement 1989-90") [Ridley draft paper for E(LA)] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 May 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Ridley & Luce memo circulated to Cabinet - CC(88) 8 (The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 May 18 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell letter to Alan Urwick (Toronto Economic Summit) [Reichmann invitation to MT] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to John Moore ("Concessionary TV Licence Scheme") [presentation of fee increase for pensioners] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 May 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1286 to FCO (2315Z) ("Moscow Summit: Message to the President from the Prime Minister") [advice on drafting] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Robert Conquest") [suggest MT meet with Conquest: "could be useful"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Walker letter to Wakeham ("HMI report: Aspects of Educational Provision in Wales 1986/87") ["the report is, I believe, a substantial improvement on its predecessors"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT ("Academic tenure: vote in the Lord") [Labour amendment to Education Reform Bill to ensure academic freedom of speech] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Addison note for MT (sends leading article from the Sun) ["Ignore 'em Maggie" - attack on Lawson and Howe over sterling] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Sterling, trial failures, health and welfare, education) [Lawson's position on the pound] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Robin Catford minute to MT ("Visit to Holyroodhouse and General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (20/21 May)") [media coverage being stepped up, ceremonial events, background briefing notes] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, Sir Peter Smithers) ["The Thyssen Collection"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Thyssen Collection") [Butler meeting with colleagues from Environment, Treasury & Arts to discuss UK bid] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Canary Wharf/Transportation") [proposed extension of Bakerloo line] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Inner Cities: co-ordination") [review of the role of Cabinet Office Unit] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC New Zealand minute ("June Economic Summit - Toronto. New Zealand Views") ["New Zealand urges the Summit countries to demonstrate at Toronto their determination to tackle the hard questions facing the international economy"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to Ridley PS ("Community Charge: Exemption for Severely Mentally Handicapped People") [scope of exemption and extension to Scotland] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Moore PS minute to Paul Gray ("Implications of the RAWP Review Recommendations for Regions") [impact of applying revised formula] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Miriam Stoppard letter to MT (NHS Review) ["everyone has the right to medical care"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Royal College of Midwives letter to MT (NHS Review) ["no Government can abdicate responsibility for the health of the electorate"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Michael Scholar letter to Eddie George ("Indexed-linked gilts and the RPI") [seeks Bank view of three options] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Channon letter to Wakeham ("Privatisation of local authority bus companies") ["writing to you to set out the situation"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(88) 18th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa: 22 June") [timetable for signing bilateral agreements with Mulroney; speech to Parliament] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Toronto Economic Summit") [proposed UK delegation] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa") [need draft speech for signing bilateral agreements] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's visit to Australia") [choice of aircraft for journey] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: MOD minute to No.10 ("Military Assistance for Turkey") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 88 May 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 858 to FCO (0530Z) ("CPSU Conference: Call on Dobrynin") ["procedures envisaged for elections prior to the Party Conference and for the conduct of the Conference... at pains to dismiss speculation... [of] threat to Gorbachev's position"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Walker minute to MT ("National Curriculum: Curriculum Council for Wales (CCW)") [appointment of Chair] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting of E(EP): 25 May") [assessment & testing] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Labour: Hamilton minute for MT (MT's Commons exchanges with Kinnock) [Skinner said: "She hit him for bloody six all this week. He's not up to it"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, unemployment, Sterling, soccer hooliganism, Wilberforce) [delight over unemployment fall tempered by high lending and inflation fears] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: MT letter to Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza ("Thyssen Collection") [UK proposals for acquisition of Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Thyssen") [UK proposals for acquisition of Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: O'Sullivan minute for MT ("Buying Bureaucracy") [DHSS killing the idea of separating buying from provision] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Health: O'Sullivan minute for MT (enclosed reading) [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Clarke minute to MT ("Action for Cities") [progress report] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UN Secretary-General letter to MT (Toronto Summit) ["the economic situation in many of the poorer countries of the world is still very disturbing"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UK Delegation to OECD telegram to FCO ("OECD Ministerial Meeting: Highlights") ["Clear priority for structural reforms to foster economic growth"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("National Health Service Meeting of Ministers 24 May 1988") [Moore's proposals for separating the buying and provision of health services] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Review of RAWP") [could be controversial and have implications for NHS Review] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to Moore PS ("Review of RAWP") [announcing acceptance of recommendations now could be controversial] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("National Lotteries") [doubts about lawfulness of the scheme] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Moore PS minute to Paul Gray ("NHS Review") [self-governing hospitals] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("NHS Review: Meeting on 24 May") [need to decide if the work is proceeding along right lines] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor, Chief Secretary and senior officials) ["RSG settlement 1989-90: tactics"] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Conrad Black letter to Charles Powell (Economic Summit 1988) [invitation to dinner in Toronto] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Turkey: Powell minute to FCO ("Turkish State Visit") [Turkish side happy to dispense with speeches at lunch] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 22 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Charles Powell minute to Cabinet Office ("Thyssen Collection") [Smithers phone call on Butler visit to Thyssen to discuss UK acquisition of Collection] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 22 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Toronto Economic Summit") [ahead of meeting with Mulroney, provides overview of points which arose from third Sherpa meeting] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Walker PS letter to Wakeham PS ("HMI Report: Aspects of Education Provision in Wales 1986/87") [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Ridley minute for MacGregor ("Third Report of the Environment Committee: Pollution of Rivers and Estuaries") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, MT's Scottish speech, Community Charge, law and order, industry) [MT's use of bible passages] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Butler minute to MT ("The Thyssen Collection") [Robin Butler provides detailed report on outcome of his meeting with Baron Thyssen to discuss the UK proposals for purchase: "the initial reception... has clearly been very favourable"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: Lawson minute for MT ("NHS Review") [practical questions arising from separating purchaser/provider] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ("Review of National Health Service") [revised work programme] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Rodric Braithwaite ("Third Sherpa Meeting") [communique language on: agriculture, trade, environment, terrorism, drugs, sub-Saharan debt] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to Hurd PS ("'National' Lotteries") [doubts about lawfulness of the lottery] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Dr Clive Froggatt letter to MT (NHS Review) ["Rational debate about the National Health Service seldom occurs in public"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Allan minute for PS Chief Secretary ("1989-90 RSG Settlement") [commitments given as to what councils would be expected to raise in first year of CC, 1990-91] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Hurd minute to MT ("Brent: Grant under Section 11 of Local Government Act 1966") ["Our supporters in Brent are naturally worried about the scheme, given the history a couple of years ago"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Home Secretary: Wicks briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Home Secretary") [football hooliganism; Prison Officers' Association; police pay and manpower; Brent and Section 13 grants; broadcasting; Toronto G7 & drugs; General Assembly speech] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Environment: Gray briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Mr Ridley: 24 May") [Thyssen; housing policy - has reservations about Walker's flexi-ownership scheme] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Moore minute to John Major ("Public Expenditure Survey 1988 (Local Authorities): Police Manpower") [demand for high priority services] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Yorkshire TV MD letter to MT (TV broadcasting) [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Powell minute to FCO ("Cyprus") [MT's draft message to Ozal] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Gorbachev (forthcoming US/Soviet Summit in Moscow and the next Communist Party Conference) [thoughts on key issues] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1600Z) ("US Options for Arms Control at the Summit") (NSPG 0190) [Reagan wanting to leave as his legacy "as complete and coherent an arms reduction position as I can"] [declassified Jun 2012]
PDF 88 May 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting of E(EP): 25 May") [assessment & testing: Manifesto commitments] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 May 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Europe: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to the Foreign Secretary ("Presidency of the European Commission") [Howe favouring Delors; case against taking a high profile in his favour against Bangemann who is "most concerned" at FCO preference] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 May 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Community Charge, soccer, nurses, MT's Scottish speech) [Lords poll tax vote] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 May 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 letter to Clarke PS ("Action for Cities") [MT comments on Clarke minute of 31st March] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Gibraltar Inquest; Hong Kong; Airbus project; Hungary; US/Soviet summit; relations with Ireland] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 88 May 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Rifkind PS minute to Mark Addison (health statistics) [operations in Scotland] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("1989-90 Rate Support Grant Settlement for England") [working with DOE on numbers for bilateral with Ridley on 7 Jun] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 May 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: Cradock minute to FCO ("Yugoslavia") [slippage in the BIS bridging loan and the IMF programme approval] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) ["Brent: Grant under Section 11 of Local Government Act 1966"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 May 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Parkinson minute for Howe ("Alternative Civilian Presence on South Georgia") [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 May 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: John Wakeham minute to Douglas Hurd ("Concessionary Television Licence Scheme") [timing of announcement] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 May 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit") [ideas for programme] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 note for the record ("Six monthly monitoring meetings on Education") [Baker prefers bilateral meetings with MT; No.10 agrees] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 May 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("E(EP) Assessment and Testing") [Griffiths policy disagreement with Baker] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 May 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Science: Guise briefing for MT (E(ST) Meeting) [beware "a great new winner picking game masquerading as a new dawn"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 May 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Summit, Lords, moral ascendancy) [moral debate occupies the high ground] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 May 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Lawson PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Toronto Economic Summit") [Lawson "content with the way things are developing on economic topics"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: FCO Economic Relations Department to Lawson PS ("Chancellor's Debt Initiative") [US, French, Canadian views] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: King PS minute to Mark Addison (health statistics) [operations in Northern Ireland] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Moore-Major-Newton-Griffiths-Butler-Wilson-Monger-O'Sullivan) [6th meeting of NHS review] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 25 We Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Economic Summit and Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa: Travel Plans") [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Moore minute to John Major ("PES 1988: Social Security Benefits and DHSS Administration") [proposal for increased spending on benefits] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra telegram 352 to FCO (0545Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit") [meetings with states governments] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 198 to FCO (0950Z) ("UN Secretary-General's Initiative") [favourable reaction of both sides to the UN suggestions] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 May 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1340 to FCO (2202Z) ("Moscow Summit Preview") [key issues & analysis] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Thorneycroft letter to MT (Religious Education in schools) [cover letter for minute on how Education Reform Bill should address conflicting views] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Ridley minute for MacGregor ("Third Report of the Environment Committee: Pollution of Rivers and Estuaries") [draft response] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Europe: Foreign Secretary minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Presidency of the European Commission") [no alternatives to Delors in prospect; we should not oppose his reappointment at Hanover] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Labour Party policies, Rowntree, economy, Summit) [continued coverage of MT's Scottish Conservatives speech] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Paul Gray minute for MT (“Welfare Milk”) [Clarke seeks to abolish free school milk; MT - "NO. This will cause a terrible row - all for £4m"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1352 to FCO (2142Z) ("Toronto Economic Summit: Topics for the Informal Discussion") ["no particular US sensitivities"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1345 to FCO (2236Z) ("Toronto Economic Summit: US Initiative on Drugs") [briefing to focus on anti-narcotics assistance, banking controls, expert working group on drugs] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO telegram to UKE Manila ("Toronto Economic Summit: Toronto") [draft text for meeting of counter-terrorism expert group] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Rodric Braithwaite minute to Nigel Wicks ("Third Sherpa Meeting") [human science frontier] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Christopher Roberts to Rodric Braithwaite ("Summit Communique: Language on Trade Policy") [non-agricultural trade issues] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Rodric Braithwaite minute to Christopher Roberts ("Toronto Summit: GATT Round Dispute Settlement") [made it clear to other Sherpas that MT "was taking a particular interest in the effectiveness of GATT as an institution"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: FCO telegram 898 to UKE Washington (1030Z) ("Toronto Economic Summit: Topics for the Informal Discussion") [impact of demographic changes] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO telegram to Manila ("Toronto Economic Summit: Communique Language: Agriculture") [UK text on agriculture] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Moore ("Project 2000: Student Nurses and the Community Charge") [status of trainee nurses] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Moore PS minute to Paul Gray ("Review of RAWP") [Moore concerned that publishing without a government position on recommendations would be controversial] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Malcolm Rifkind minute to MT ("Review of the National Health Service: A Scottish Perspective") [operational issues of service delivery] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(88) 19th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lord Young letter to Nigel Lawson ("Report on the Stock Market Fall") [Black Monday crash - UK systems stood up well; scepticism as to US "circuit breakers"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO minute for Powell ("Turkish State Visit: Meeting and Lunch with the Prime Minister on 13 July") [toasts] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Sunday Express") [draft Howe article 'My Hopes for the Moscow Summit'] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Gray minute for MT ("Third Report of the Environment Committee: Pollution of Rivers and Estuaries") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Summit, domestic politics, Rowntree, industry) [MT rejects Kinnock's claim that Rowntree decision put 'for sale' sign on British industry] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 May 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Your Edinburgh Speech") ["a best seller", with exceptional demand for copies] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 May 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Visit to General Assembly") [press cuttings on speech] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 May 27 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Rodric Braithwaite ("Summit Communique: Language on Trade Policy") ["need to strengthen the obligation of GATT members to accept the decisions of its dispute settlement procedures"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office minute to Paul Gray ("Review of National Health Service") [revised work programme] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 27 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("NHS Review") [allocations to more successful hospitals] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to Moore PS ("NHS Review") [Froggatt paper on incentives for change in general practice] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 27 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("NHS Review: Meeting on 24 May") [notes to read] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: Treasury minute for Powell ("Yugoslavia: BIS Bridging Loan") [to support the dinar in the first phase of economic reform] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Paul Gray minute to MT ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey") [ministers' bids looked extremely high] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 27 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Turkey: Welsh Office letter to No.10 (Pyrok Limited attempt to use MT's name to promote their products in Turkey) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 May 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Turkish Prime Minister Ozal letter for MT (thanking for the condolence message upon his mother's death) [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 88 May 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Board of Deputies of British Jews") [MT agrees to meeting] [released Dec 2016]
Text 88 May 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan meeting with Finnish President (Koivisto) [declassified 2000]
PDF 88 May 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Speech to the Canadian Parliament") [Mulroney's purpose in inviting MT "unabashedly electoral"; hoping for comments on British economic changes, free trade, strong defence, East/West relations] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 526 to FCO (1125Z) ("Call on French Foreign Minister") [Dumas enthusiastic about bilateral relationship, EC economic and monetary issues, Toronto summit] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 88 May 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKDel NATO telegram 222 to FCO (0637Z) ("US Pre-Summit Briefing of NAC, 27 May") [summary report] [released Jul 2016]
Text 88 May 29 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000]
PDF 88 May 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza letter to MT (sale of the Thyssen Collection) [informs MT that he is to decline UK bid for acquisition in favour of Spain] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 30 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Montevideo telegram to FCO ("Cartagena Consensus Meeting in Uruguay") [proposals on external debt] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 30 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Toronto Summit: Events in the Margins: Possible Call on the Prime Minister by the Premier of Ontario") [federal government wants to keep the (Liberal) provincial government out of the limelight] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to MT ("Transfer of Terrestrial Services to DBS") [discussion with BSB, Channel 4 and BBC2 frequencies] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 May 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 923 to FCO (0910Z) ("Moscow Summit: First Day: 29 May") [report] [released Jul 2016]
Text 88 May 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000]
Text 88 May 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Reagan visit to Danilov Monastery) [declassified 2000]
PDF 88 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: International Chamber of Commerce letter to MT (Toronto Summit) [ICC pre-Summit submission to Heads of Government] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Toronto Economic Summit: French Debt Initiative") ["Details not yet decided, but likely to be compatible with Chancellor's sub-Saharan Africa initiative"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Toronto Economic Summit: French Views") ["Debt and agriculture at top of French priorities"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("German Views on Toronto Economic Summit") ["hope for recognition at Toronto of what the EC achieved on agriculture at the Brussels Council"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Revised Canadian Thematic Paper plus UK Commentary (annotated draft) [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: James Taylor to Nigel Wicks (Toronto Economic Summit) [Thematic Paper] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: US Financial Attache to Geoffrey Littler (Toronto Summit) [paper on drugs] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Sylvia Ostry letter to Nigel Wicks (Toronto Summit) [programme for final Sherpas' meeting] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO telegram ("Economic Summit: French Debt Initiative") [reports of a separate French initiative, similar to Lawson's] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Military Training for El Salvador") ["no significant reason has been offered for reconsidering our original decision"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 516 to FCO (2125Z) ("FRG Economy: Monthly Report for May") ["forecasts for the year as a whole remain low"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 679 to FCO (2230Z) ("Cyprus: Vassiliou's Call on the Secretary-General") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 679 to FCO (2230Z) ("Cyprus: Vassiliou's Call on the Secretary-General") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 679 to FCO (2230Z) ("Cyprus: Vassiliou's Call on the Secretary-General") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 927 to FCO (1140Z) ("Moscow Summit Day Two: 30 May") [report] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (speech thanks) [help with Scottish and Women’s Conservative conferences]
Text 88 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000]
Text 88 May 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (2nd Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting) [declassified 2000]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 letter to Walker PS ("HMI report: Aspects of Educational Provision in Wales 1986/87") [MT content with proposal to publish] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("European monetary cooperation") ["Kohl... [expected] to propose a study... probably to be done by committee of Central Bank governors"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Tumbledown, summit) [Scots Guard officer controversy] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Economic Summit: Japanese Views") [Takeshita "likely to emphasise effectiveness of existing Japanese policies in reducing trade surplus"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC Ottawa to Charles Powell (Toronto Economic Summit) [materials on the Canadian economy] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Rodric Braithwaite (US drugs initiative) [importance of the issue for the US Presidential election] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Toronto Economic Summit") [Mulroney's request that MT open the first meeting of Heads of Government] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO Economic Relations Department minute to Rodric Braithwaite ("Fourth Sherpas' Meeting") [briefings] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO Economic Relations Department minute to Rodric Braithwaite ("Preparations for Toronto") [final deadlines for briefings] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks speaking notes for MT ("Speaking notes for the 14th Economic Summit, last in this series of 7 which began at Versailles in 1982") [East-West relations, world economic situation, structural reform, trade and agriculture, newly industrialising economies and debt] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Economic Summit: 1989") [Attali phone call - French seeking 14 July date for Paris Summit "for obvious historical reasons"; MT disposed to agree] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to John Moore ("Compensation within Income Support for Minimum Contribution to Community Charge") [public spending consequences] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ken Clarke minute to Douglas Hurd (national lottery) [reluctant to leap into any announcement] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: MT letter to Miriam Stoppard (NHS Review) ["I found your account fascinating"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Lord Trafford letter to MT (Chequers meeting) [conscious that one million voters relate to the NHS on any working day] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John Moore note ("Contracting Out") [should do more to encourage people in work to take out health insurance] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: MORI survey report ("Attitudes to Health Care") [results of questionnaire] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Markets") [pound has moved downwards; Lawson will urge 0.5 per cent rate rise tomorrow; "looks right"; MT agreeing] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute ("The Reserves in May 1988") [$676 rise in the reserves, $814m underlying] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Economic Summit, Toronto: Programme") [will accompany MT to dinners] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Economic Summit: Possible Meeting with the Premier of Ontario") [MT rejects proposal; Mulroney would not want to see MT boosting Ontatio Premier's standing] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Economic Summit: Prime Minister's Bilateral with the Italian Prime Minister") [doubtful if proposed time (equivalent of midnight in the UK) would be very wise] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell to Conrad Black (Economic Summit 1988) [thanks for invitation to dinner in Toronto] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Wicks minute to Hurd PS (ITN) [Burnet's proposals] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 935 to FCO (1050Z) ("Moscow Summit, Day 3: 31 May") [report] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1389 to FCO (2155Z) ("Moscow Summit: Verdict of the US Media") [report] [released Jul 2016]
Text 88 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("National system for assessment and testing") [draft Parliamentary answer] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("GCE A levels: Higginson committee report") [MT unhappy with draft Parliamentary statement] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("A City Arts Colleges") [MT unenthusiastic about proposal's reliance on predominantly public funding] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Parkinson minute for Ridley ("Acid Rain - Large Combustion Plants Directive") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Walker minute for Ridley ("Third Report of the Environment Committee: Pollution of Rivers and Estuaries") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Hugh Thomas memo for MT ("Notes for discussion with the Prime Minister") [federalist original thinking done 30 years or more ago; "The "Europe of Nations" has never been carefully worked out, to my knowledge. We could be at a turning point in our history"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Summit, Tumbledown, moral dimension) [generally good reception for Summit outcome] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Terry Perks minute ("Interview with 'Early Times'") [questions about: freedom of speech, education reform, televising the Commons, Glasnost, MT's achievements, Anglo-Irish agreement, unemployment] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute to No. 10 ("Drugs and money laundering") [commentary on UK powers to prevent laundering of drug money] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: FCO Economic Relations Department minute to Nigel Wicks ("Drugs: US paper") [comments on the text] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO Economic Relations Department minute to Nigel Wicks ("Toronto Summit: Aid Targets") ["the present Canadian wording is uncontentious"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: David Skidmore letter to MT ("Breast Cancer Treatment") [no possibility of standardised treatment] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Review of RAWP") [early acceptance of recommendations] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Lawson proposed immediate 0.5 per cent increase in interest rates and MT agreed; possible further 0.5 per cent discussed] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to Douglas Hurd ("Public Expenditure Survey (Local Authorities): Police Manpower") [disappointed question of manpower reopened] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Treasury minute to Andrew Turnbull ("1988 Survey: Departmental Bids") [major items] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("ITN Proposals") [paper by Burnet] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra telegram 380 to FCO (0330Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Australia: Programme for Mr. Thatcher") [arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKDel NATO telegram 230 to FCO (1505Z) ("Reagan Gorbachev Summit: Shultz briefing of NAC 2 June") [report] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 939 to FCO (0815Z) ("President Reagan's Visit to Moscow: Comments") [analysis of outcomes] [released Jul 2016]
Text 88 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: State Department telegram to US NATO Embassies (British nuclear testing policy) [declassified 2000]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: MacGregor minute for Ridley ("Third Report of the Environment Committee: Pollution of Rivers and Estuaries") [comments on the draft response] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: MacGregor minute for Ridley ("Third Report of the Environment Committee: Pollution of Rivers and Estuaries") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Summit, Spycatcher, juries, moral dimension) [coverage of MT's meeting with Reagan, arm's deal] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Charles Powell minute (Toronto Star interview) [aims for Toronto Summit, co-ordination among G7 economies, protectionism, East/West relations] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection") [UK acquisition bid] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKREP EC note for the record ("Toronto: European Council") [EC concerns about US position on agriculture, monetary policy] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe letter to MT (pre-Summit declaration) [leaders should commit to "credible policies to redress the current large and unsustainable imbalances in the world economy"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: FCO Economic Relations Department minute to Lawson PS ("Toronto Economic Summit: 19-21 June 1988") [briefs and speaking note needed] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: FCO Economic Relations Department minute to Rodric Braithwaite ("EC and Toronto Summit") [should resist a meeting before the Summit begins of the four EC Heads of Government: "we speak for ourselves at the Summit"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Community Charge: Exemptions") [homeless, people staying in hostels] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("National Health Service Meeting of Ministers 7 June 1988") [what should be done to encourage growth of private sector in health] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("NHS Review: Tax Relief") [encouraging private medical insurance through tax relief] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John Moore paper ("A Mixed Economy of Healthcare") [fiscal incentives to encourage growth of private sector] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("Meeting with Secretary of State for Environment: discussion on 1989-90 RSG Settlement") [Lawson: "Essential to reach satisfactory bilateral understanding with Mr Ridley before E(LA)"] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("1989-90 Rate Support Grant Settlement") ["We do not believe the [Ridley] proposal represents a good deal for the Treasury"] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Economic Summit: Welcoming Ceremony") [will accompany MT but "give my well-known impression of a Special Branch officer when I get there"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to Canada") [revised programme for arrivals and departures] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Bernard Ingham note to Charles Powell (Economic Summit 1988) [arrangements for press conferences] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa: Wreath") [arrangements, normal practice in Canada, MT's preferences for wreath] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lord Cameron minute to John Major ("1988 Public Expenditure Survey: Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service") [department's financial needs] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) El Salvador: MT message to President Duarte (ill health) ["wish you a speedy and full recovery"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's visit to Australia 1-6 August: Programme") [call with opposition leader, visit to parliament] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's visit to Australia") [possible stop-overs] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Visit to Australia") [proposed programme] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Shultz, John Fretwell, Charles Price, Rozanne Ridgway, others) ["Moscow Summit and Follow-Up"] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Powell minute to MT ("US/Soviet Summit") [draft message to Gorbachev] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Gorbachev (Moscow Summit) [outcomes] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("Governance of polytechnics") [Education Reform Bill] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Whittingdale record of conversation (MT-Hugh Thomas preparatory discussion on speech) ["must be positive in order to knock down federalist ideas ... United Europe but not European Union"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Labour defence policy, Iran, economy, NHS) [Kinnock enrages Left] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: MT to Bishop of London (General Assembly speech) [use of quote "Christianity is about spiritual redemption, not social reform" - "these days it seems to be about the Welfare State only"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Charles Powell briefing ("Interview with Soviet Television") [points of discussion: Soviet-American dialogue, role of Western Europe, Soviet-American summit, meetings with Gorbachev, bilateral relations] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: MT letter to Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza (the Thyssen Collection) [UK acquisition bid] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: O'Sullivan minute for MT ("Reviewing the NHS Review") [risk of a "timid and inadequate" package of reforms] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Brian Mulroney message to MT (Toronto Summit) [pre-Summit meeting: "Your extensive international experience, particularly in relation to Summitry, was of great value to me at this stage in our preparations"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Rodric Braithwaite ("Toronto Summit: Other Issues") [environment, drugs, human frontiers science programme, bioethics] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Rodric Braithwaite minute to Nigel Wicks ("Toronto Summit: Fourth Sherpa Meeting: Trade & Agriculture") [representatives "made little progress on the main economic issues, or on the shape and content of the eventual draft communique"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to FCO ("Toronto Summit: Discussion of Long Term Issues") [education and the labour market, budgetary constraints on education] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Toronto Summit: Final Sherpas Meeting") [changes to the political statement, economic declaration, other issues] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Moore minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Project 2000 - Student Nurses and the Community Charge") [eligibility for discount] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Belstead minute to MT ("Community Charge: Exemptions") [minimum needed to avoid defeat] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of meeting (MT-Moore) [no firm government response to RAWP review should be announced] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Channon letter to Ridley ("PTAs under the new local government finance regime") ["consultation paper... as you requested... [highlighted] option of secession for districts which considered that their PTAs were overspending... most of the replies... have been hostile to the proposal"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to David Young ("Transfer of Terrestrial TV Services to DBS") [proposed transition period] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("Transfer of Terrestrial Services to DBS") [consultations with BSB] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Valery Giscard message to MT (European Monetary Union) [proposed ECB, use of European currency, liberalisation of capital movements, convergence of economic policy] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation ("US/Soviet Summit: Soviet Views") [Charles Powell, Kossov] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKDel NATO letter to MT ("Western Reactions to the Moscow Summit") ["History, I fear, has not equipped the Russians well to escape gracefully from the incubus of state socialism"; analysis & advice] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 965 to FCO (1320Z) ("Ligachev and Perestroika") [report on Ligachev address to car plant workers: "a noticeable hard line speech"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 964 to FCO (1300Z) ("Party Conference: Selection of Moscow Delegation") [report on Moscow City Party Committee meeting, to elect its delegation, attended by Gorbachev] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Julian Sorsby letter to MT ("Board of Deputies of British Jews") [emigration of Rosenstein family: thanks conveyed to MT] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT (President of the World Jewish Congress: position of Jews in the Soviet Union) [request to meet with MT] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor, 8 June") [police pay; National Economic Development Office Director General; taxation of life assurance offices] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Labour Party policies, housing, domestic politics, health) [Kinnock u-turn on defence] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Rodric Braithwaite ("Toronto Economic Summit: The Prime Minister's Speaking Note for the Opening Session") [purpose of the meeting "is for the Heads to describe their main priorities for the Summit"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Ciriaco De Mita message to MT (bilateral) ["It is the intention of the Italian Government to raise the environment problem and to urge a debate on this matter" at the Summit] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: President Mitterrand message to MT (debt initiative) ["It has never been so urgent and necessary to act to assist third world countries"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Rodric Braithwaite minute to Nigel Wicks (Newly Industrialising Economies) ["a lot of work is going on about how best to persuade Korea and Taiwan... to adopt more open economic policies"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [EC Commissioner; Sowan Affair; Communications equipment for Syria; financial & monetary co-operation; Iran; arms for Argentina; House of Fraser] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Project 2000: Student Nurses and the Community Charge") [treatment of full-time student nurses] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Student Nurses") [anomalies within the system] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge: Exemptions") [the homeless, hostels, volunteers] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Community Charge Exemptions") [minimum needed to avoid defeat] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Moore-Major-Newton-Griffiths-Butler-O'Sullivan) [7th meeting of NHS review - tax relief and mixed economy of health care] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury record of conversation (Chief Secretary - Ridley and Howard) ["Discussion of 1989-90 RSG settlement"] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Deputy Governor of Bank of England letter to Lord Young ("Report on the Stock Market Fall") [Bank would prefer him not to publish the report] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 Duty Clerk note to Charles Powell (Toronto Economic Summit) [office arrangements] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young ("Additional DBS Channels") [delay initiating formal action] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths briefing for MT ("Transfer of Terrestrial Services to DBS") [discussions with BSB, BBC, IBA] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT message to Valery Giscard d'Estaing (monetary integration) [unable to meet to discuss his committee's proposals] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO note to No.10 (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung article) [Anglo-German relations, military presence] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 716 to FCO (2230Z) ("Cyprus: UN Secretary-General's Initiative") ['perplexed by an apparent hardening of the Turkish position'] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO record of conversation (Howe, President of Cyprus Vassiliou) [political situation in Cyprus] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MT letter to Lord Thorneycroft (religious education in schools) ["must be based on the old and new testament... I do not believe we should be shy about saying so"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Major minute for Ridley ("Third Report of the Environment Committee: Pollution of Rivers and Estuaries") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Ridley minute for MT ("Acid Rain: Draft EC Large Combustion Plants Directive") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Trade Unions: Hamilton minute for MT (P&O dispute) ["it was really all over for the NUS"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, hanging, civil justice review, Lester Piggott, A-Levels) [MPs reject restoration of capital punishment] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: MT to Bishop of Gloucester (General Assembly speech) ["no previous Government has spent anything like as much as this one on helping those in need"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("The Newly Industrialising Economies (NIEs)") [note on Asian "dragons" (Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong) for summit preparation] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: James Taylor minute to Nigel Wicks (Toronto Summit) [revised thematic paper] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Helmut Schmidt letter to MT (InterAction Council) [prospects for the world economy in the 1990s] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge Exemptions") [homeless people, people in hostels, volunteers] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to John MacGregor (Local Government Finance Bill: Lords Amendments) [horse breeding] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa, 22 June: Programme") [how to spend the final hour of the programme] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Invitation to the Prime Minister to be an Honorary Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada") [a high honour in Canada] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Economic Summit: Possible Meeting with the Premier of Ontario") [FCO accepts that MT should decline the meeting] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to Hurd PS ("Transfer of Terrestrial Services to DBS") [discussions with BSB] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's visit to Australia") [possible walkabout, rural visit] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Gorbachev letter to MT (East/West relations and the Moscow Summit) [assessment of outcomes] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ambassador Popov, Ambassador Grinevsky) ["US/Soviet Summit: Message from Mr Gorbachev"] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 981 to FCO (1150Z) ("Moscow Summit: Politburo Communique") [summary & analysis] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, Lord Belstead) ["Christian religious education"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, MT's speech and Battersea, law and order, defence) [MT's warning to TV to clean up its act, claim that Britain is 'humming', interview on Russian TV] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT ("City Arts College") ["Kenneth Baker's minute... seeks agreement to extending the concept of City Technology Colleges... The Chief Secretary's minute... questions this"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Nigel Wicks (speaking note) [comments relating to agriculture] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell (Italian proposals on the environment) ["We do not want to encourage the Italians to raise specific environmental issues at the Summit"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Brian Mulroney message to MT (Toronto Summit) [OECD trade union advisory committee statement submitted to summit] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Moore minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge Exemptions") [homeless people] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ken Clarke minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Exemptions") [proposal for exempting volunteers] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge Exemptions") [homeless people] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Robin Butler minute to MT ("Review of the National Health Service: Press Articles") [articles contain information that could only have been obtained from sources with access to the review] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley minute to MT ("Local Authority Capital Expenditure and Finance") [draft consultation document] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("Local authority capital expenditure and finance") [draft consultation] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(88) 20th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Invitation to the Prime Minister to be an Honorary Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada") [MT accepts with "great pleasure", but with shortest possible ceremonial] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa: Programme") [not helpful to have main talks with Mulroney before MT's speech to Parliament, which will preoccupy her] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Charles Powell minute to Mackay PS ("Australia Constitution Act") [MT thinks government in danger of being selfish] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Turkey: DTI letter for Powell (Pyrok Limited attempt to use MT's name to promote their products in Turkey) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 233 to FCO (1030Z) ("Cyprus: UN Secretary-General's Initiative") [Camilion puzzled by the signals from the Turkish side] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Mackay of Clashfern PS record of conversation ("Christian Religious Education") [Lord Mackay, Lord Belstead, Lord Denham, Lord Home] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("Education Reform Bill: provision for Further Education students with special educational needs (SEN)") [local education authorities' duties] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to Lord Home (Education Reform Bill: Christanity in religious education, and collective worship) [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") ["The Foreign Secretary considers that the recent events in Poland have if anything strengthened the case... to go ahead with the planned visit"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("European Central Bank and monetary cooperation") ["Germans still favour central bank governors being charged... with a study... about the future... but do not see this squaring with... Mitterand's position... no wish to exclude the UK"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute for MT ("Meeting of E(A): 15 June") [agenda: Severn crossing, acid rain] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: MacGregor minute for Major ("The Third Report of the Environment Committee: Pollution of Rivers and Estuaries") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Ridley minute for MacGregor ("Third Report of the Environment Committee: Pollution of Rivers and Estuaries") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Policy Unit minute for MT ("Acid Rain: Large Combustion Plants Directive") [comments on Ridley's proposal] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Labour Party, rural violence, Toronto summit, NHS) [Kinnock leadership, relationship with unions] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks letter to Rodric Braithwaite ("Toronto Economic Summit: Draft Communique") [encloses "draft of the sort of thing we would like to emerge"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Lawson PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Toronto Summit: PM's Speaking Note for the Opening Session") [consolidated Treasury comments] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Economic Summit: Italian Views") [Italian concern "that US and Canada may seek to push for more than can be obtained on GATT subjects"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Australian PM Bob Hawke message to MT (Toronto Summit) [importance Australia attaches to outcomes on trade and agricultural reform] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Brian Mulroney message to MT (Toronto Summit) [proposed Fur Labelling Regulation] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to FCO ("Toronto Economic Summit: The Prime Minister's Speaking Note for the Opening Session") [education and the labour market, budgetary constraints on education] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Geoffrey Littler minute to Nigel Wicks minute to Nigel Wicks ("Toronto Summit: Thematic Paper") ["structural reform in the UK" passage] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand, Attalli) [US Presidential elections; Toronto Economic Summit: debt, agriculture, terrorism; Presidency of the EC Commission; financial & monetary cooperation; Channel Tunnel; Economic Summit 1989] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to John Moore ("Project 2000: Student Nurses and the Community Charge") [treatment of bursaries] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("NHS Review Work Programme") [timetable for meetings] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to John Moore ("1988 Survey: Social Security Benefits") [bids are substantial, issues with disability, housing benefits] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Peter Walker minute to Douglas Hurd (changes to transmission) [scheduling of programmes in Wales] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra telegram 413 to FCO (0730Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit") [visit to outback] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra telegram 411 to FCO (0400Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit: Briefing") [programme, bilateral matters] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Lord Major of Istanbul letter for MT (Istanbul Urban Expressway) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Madrid telegram 433 to FCO (1725Z) ("MIPT: 9-10 June: Global Trends") [meeting of Foreign Ministers: record of conversation] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Percy Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Afghanistan: Soviet Withdrawal") [conflicting reports over possible halting of withdrawal due to Pakistan violations of the Geneva accord] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Robert Conquest letter to MT (Soviet leadership, perestroika, and foreign policy) [analysis] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 12 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute to No.10 ("Economic Summit, Toronto") [MT's personal arrangements - food, hair, mineral water] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 letter to Baker PS ("Minority religious groups and the maintained sector") [MT comments on Baker paper] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: MacGregor minute for Ridley ("Third Report of the Environment Committee: Pollution of Rivers and Estuaries") [draft response to the Committee: water environment protection zones] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Minister of State for Energy minute for MT ("Acid Rain: Draft EC Large Combustion Plants Directive") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and Amenities: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Thyssen Collection: the Times story") [UK acquisition bid] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Rodric Braithwaite (final Sherpa meeting) [French position on social justice in Economic Declaration] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to Geoffrey Littler ("Mr Nakahara") [Japanese companies] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Royal Institute of International Affairs letter to Charles Powell (Tokyo Club) [proposals for the Toronto Summit] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Bernard Ingham minute to Nigel Wicks ("Economic Summit Briefing") [planned Wicks unattributable briefing on summit; media interest "the lowest I can recall"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Canadian Minister in London letter to Bernard Ingham ("Rules for media briefing") [latest edition from Ottawa] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("German Views on Toronto Summit") [debt, EC views on agriculture] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge Exemptions") [homeless people, people in hostels] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Project 2000: Student Nurses and the Community Charge") [assuming student nurses will come under student criteria] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Butler PS minute to Lawson PS ("Review of the National Health Service: Press Articles") [warn officials and special advisers of dangers of sustained conversations with journalists] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Nigel Lawson letter to Lord Young ("Report on the Stock Market Fall") [no case for publication, would seem "a somewhat feeble and very belated response to October's events"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to David Young ("Additional DBS Channels") [replanning channel allocations] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's visit to Australia") [stop-off in Malaysia: political situation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Professor Baum (Soviet exit visas for Nadgornyi family) [update on case, following MT letter of support] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Ida Nudel") ["You will want to express in person your pleasure at her release and your continued concern for Refuseniks still in the Soviet Union"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) Cold War: Charles Powell to Ronnie Millar (help with Ottawa speech) [please “Ronnie-ize it”]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute for MT ("Acid Rain: Draft EC Large Combustion Plants Directive") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Central Electricity Generating Board minute for Ridley ("Large Plant Combustion Directive") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Gray minute for MT ("Meeting of E(A): 15 June") [acid rain, Severn crossing] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor, 15 June") [ECOFIN Council; Markets; NHS review; European economic summit] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Irish extradition, Denzil Davies resignation, soccer hooliganism) [angry media reaction to government failure in lost extradition case] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Briefing Meeting for the Toronto Summit") [challenge "is to dispel the image of 'the most boring Summit yet'"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks notes (Toronto Summit political communique) [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Sylvia Ostry to Personal Representatives (Toronto Summit) [session on the communique] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Japanese ideas on debt") [might be floated on an informal basis among the finance ministers] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's visit to Ottawa, 22 June: Canadian Nuclear Submarines") ["The tide may be turning against us in our efforts to sell Trafalgar to the Canadians"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Briefing meeting for the Toronto Summit") [need "to concoct a coherent and interesting message"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Lawson PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Toronto Economic Summit: The Prime Minister's speaking note for the opening session") [Lawson's comments on interest rates, US budget deficit, GATT] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Lawson PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Summit: Speaking notes for use in plenary") [Lawson, Littler drafts - debt problems of the poorest countries, trade and agriculture] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: FCO Economic Relations Department minute to Nigel Wicks ("Tokyo Economic Summit: Drugs") [US proposals for "increased anti-drugs collaboration among Summit countries"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Geoffrey Littler minute to Nigel Wicks ("Tokyo Summit: Draft Communique") [inflation, structural reforms of economies, multilateral trading system, international cooperation; international debt] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1504 to FCO (2355Z) ("White House Press Briefing on Economic Issues at Toronto Summit") ["Policy co-ordination, trade issues and international debt said to be main economic topics"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [EC Commissioner; Sowan Affair; financial & monetary co-operation; arms for Argentina; House of Fraser; Iran; extradition (Republic of Ireland); Malaysian Defence Package; communications equipment for Syria] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Community Charge: Churches") [impact on church finances] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Community Charge Exemptions: Volunteers") [danger of repercussions] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Moore ("Compensation within Income Support for Minimum Contribution to Community Charge") [treatment of couples, the under 25s] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lord Belstead minute to MT ("Community Charge: Exemptions") [treatment of volunteers] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Paul Gray minute to Rifkind PS ("NHS Review") [invitation to join ministerial group] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Nigel Wicks minute to Policy Unit ("Review of the National Health Service: Press Articles") [MT "horrified" to read articles "which could only have been prepared with the help of someone with inside knowledge"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley minute to MT ("Community Charge: Churches") [concession] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("The prescribed proportion of capital receipts") ["a note on the extent to which local authorities should be allowed to spend capital receipts in full within the financial year in which they are received" (controlling public expenditure) ] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra telegram 419 to FCO (0700Z) ("Australian Political Situation") [opinion poll lead for federal government] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ida Nudel) [Soviet reforms & the risk of conservative/nationalist anti-semitic backlash against Soviet Jews] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) Europe: FCO Policy Planning Staff notes for Wall (MT speech to College of Europe in Bruges) [“Possible Themes”]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT (City Arts College) ["importance of the entertainment and leisure industries in the economy"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Rifkind minute for Ridley ("Acid Rain - Draft EC Large Combustion Plants Directive") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, football hooliganism, Labour Party, City, economy) [trouble in West Germany as English fans fight with Dutch and German fans] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's visit to Ottawa, 22 June") [objectives on international security, Canadian defence, trade with Canada, drugs] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Speech to the Canadian Parliament") [Canada's role in world wars, Gorbachev's policies] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Chairman HM Customs and Excise letter to Geoffrey Littler ("Toronto Summit: Drugs") ["while we must obviously support the spirit of the initiative, I would counsel some caution"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Canadian Sherpa to other Sherpas (Reagan leading informal session) [economic conditions and economic policies over the last seven years] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Jacques Delors letter to Francois Mitterrand (Toronto Summit) [initiative on debt of the poorest countries] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Toronto and Hanover Summits: Further German Views") ["Germans want two harmonious forward-looking summits but do not expect (or desire) concrete decisions"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Toronto Summit: French Views on Debt and Agriculture") [Mitterrand's debt initiative, agriculture in the GATT round] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1517 to FCO (2215Z) ("Briefing on Toronto Summit given by Secretaries Shultz and Baker") ["Baker predicts that decisions will be taken on debts of sub-Saharan African countries, implementation of a commodity price indicator and structural adjustment problems"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge Exemptions: Volunteers") [subject of controversy] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Community Charges: Churches") [impact on church finances] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Michael Freeman letter to John O'Sullivan (NHS Review) [changing GPs] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) NHS: Nigel Wicks minute to Robin Butler ("Review of the National Health Service") [MT "horrified" to read articles "which could only have been prepared with the help of someone with inside knowledge"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury record of conversation (Chief Secretary - Ridley) ["1989-90 Rate Support Grant settlement"] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chief Secretary ("Local Authority Capital: Draft consultation paper") [MT proposal that authorities with surplus capital should be permitted to lend it to other authorities in their area] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: British Consul-General Toronto minute for Powell ("Conrad Black's Dinner: 7 for 8 p.m., Tuesday 21 June 1988") [arrangements, principal guests] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa 22 June: Programme") [changes to arrangements due to a Canadian parliamentary vote] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nigel Wicks minute to Robin Butler ("Chairman of the Ministerial Commitee on Public Expenditure (Star Chamber)") [Parkinson to chair] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Paul Gray ("Star Chamber 1988") [ministers travelling from overseas] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Peter Walker ("Transfer of BBC 2 and Channel 4 to DBS") [understands need to avoid causing anxiety in Wales] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT (City Arts College) [amendment to draft Bill; Government to remain neutral on proposed College] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Earl of Caithness minute for Lord Young of Graffham ("Deregulation and Environmental Protection") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 conversation record ("Acid Rain: Large Combustion Plants Directive") [Environment Council meeting: negotiating line to take] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Treasury minute to Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ("Third Report of the Environment Committee: Pollution of Rivers and Estuaries") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Hamilton record of conversation (MT-1922 Executive) ["join EMS ... dismantle MIR ... S.E. over heating ... uncertain note - need strategic plan"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, soccer hooliganism, Parliament) [more arrests in Germany] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Jacques Delors letter to Francois Mitterrand (proposals on third world debt) [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Toronto Summit: UK/US Aviation Problems") [Reagan might raise Berlin air services with MT] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Bilateral with Signor De Mita: Toronto, 19 June") [Italian politics and economy, Toronto Summit, European Community] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Toronto Summit: Prime Minister's Bilateral with Chancellor Kohl") [Anglo-German relations, Tornado sales to Jordan, Toronto, Berlin air services] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Signor De Mita") [arms to Argentina, Italian defence policy, Cossiga state visit] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Chancellor Kohl") [Anglo-German relations, football hooliganism, Tornado for Jordan, Toronto Summit, European Council] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Mulroney") ["The main purpose of the talk will be to make a last major attempt to get the Canadians to buy British SSNs; UK pensioners in Canada; decision not to continue with RADARSAT] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Ridley PS minute to Charles Powell (Italian environmental proposals) ["we should discourage discussion of specific environmental issues at the Summit"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Howe PS ("Toronto Economic Summit") [Reagan wants to introduce the informal session with the topic: how will the world look if policies of the past seven years are carried forwards?] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Howe PS ("Toronto Economic Summit") [Newly Industrialising Economies - timing of discussion] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: DTI minute to No. 10 (letter to Delors on state aid to Rover) [for "possible public use in the event of a major public breakdown in discussions with the Commission"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Japanese PM Takeshita message to MT (Japanese overseas development aid) [targets] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Toronto Economic Summit: Japanese Approach to Political Discussions") ["The Japanese regard the Summit as an opportunity to demonstrate Japan's active support for Western political interests"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Canada: Internal Political Situation") ["The Government is showing signs of anxiety as it tries to get key items of legislation onto the statute book before the calling of an election"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Law Society of Upper Canada") [material for MT speech on being made an Honorary Bencher] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ian Lang minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge Exemptions: Volunteers") [reservations about proposals] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Shropshire Community Health Council letter to MT (NHS Review) [closure of hospital unit] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chief Secretary letter to Nick Ridley ("Local Authority Capital Control Regime") [MT proposal that authorities with surplus capital should be permitted to lend it to other authorities in their area] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(88) 21st (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: UKE Ankara telegram 113 to DTI (0640Z) ("Third Bosphorus Bridge and Istanbul Expressway") [state of negotiations] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Afghanistan") [proposed key UK objectives; MT rejects idea of UK support for intra-Afghan dialogue on post-Soviet government] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Moscow telegram 1039 to FCO (1300Z) ("USSR/Afghanistan") ["Further oblique warning to the US in a Pravda editorial, which continues the attack on Pakistan. Soviet denial that troop withdrawal timetable has changed"; details] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, soccer violence, Labour Party, Ireland, Parliament, NHS) [government's five-point package to curb hooliganism] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Rodric Braithwaite minute to Charles Powell ("Toronto Economic Summit: Additional Briefing") [extracts from recent communiques on commitments on agriculture and trade] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Toronto Economic Summit: Prime Minister's Bilateral with Signor De Mita: Tornado for Jordan") ["the Italians are better disposed to the proposed deal than the Germans"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("British Pensions for Canadian Residents") [potential problem may arise while MT is in Toronto] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Toronto Economic Summit: DTI Proposed Fur Labelling Order") [DTI to confirm withdrawal of proposed order on legal grounds] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Fur Marking Order") ["the proposed fur marking order would not survive legal challenge"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Agriculture and the Toronto Summit") ["Our key message must be to give a significant political impetus to the GATT agricultural negotiations"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Cambodia: Prince Sihanouk's Letter") ["we will judge Vietnam by deeds not words"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Law Society of Upper Canada") [MT to be elected an Honorary Bencher] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Hollinger Dinner") [suggested theme of speech as free enterprise and a capitalist economy] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Toronto Summit") [EC joint position on debt initiative (MT: "No"); Reagan speech in informal session; agriculture] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Rodric Braithwaite ("Toronto Economic Summit: Draft Communique") [what we might aim for and fallback positions] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Lawson PS minute to Nigel Wicks (draft Toronto communique) [revised passage on debt of poorest economies] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute to No. 10 ("Toronto Economic Summit: Drugs") [aide memoire on US initiative] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Lawson PS minute to Geoffrey Littler ("Summit: Speaking notes for use in plenary") [revised draft in light of FCO comments; does not contain passages on trade and agriculture or newly industrialising economies] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: DTI minute to No. 10 (briefing on Rover) [meeting with Delors on state aid in relation to BAe offer] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Toronto Economic Summit: Canadian Views") ["The Canadians still hope the Summit will send out a clear signal of determination to promote agricultural reform"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("German Chancellor's Speech to the Canadian Parliament") ["sound on the importance of the Alliance in deterring war, up-beat on the role of the European Community and cautious over agricultural reform"] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("The Markets and Interest Rates") [Lawson wants 0.5 per cent increase later next week] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS note to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa: Reception at 1700 on 22 June") [list of those invited] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to David Young ("Additional DBS Channels") [not the time to be considering DBS re-allocation] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Visit of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, 23 June") [to discuss: Anglo-German relations, European Community issues, security cooperation and arms control] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Percy Cradock minute to MT ("Policy on Afghanistan: Foreign Office letter of 16 June") [thoughts on post-Soviet government & UK aid] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) Europe: FCO Security Policy Department notes for Wall (MT Bruges speech) [“Security/Defence Themes”]
PDF 88 Jun 18 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, soccer violence, Nelson Mandela concert, politics, Toronto summit) [further incidences of hooliganism] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Jun 18 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Brian Mulroney message to MT (Toronto Summit welcome) ["As a veteran of nine previous Summits, you bring an unrivaled wealth of experience and insight to our meetings"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 18 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Sylvia Ostry to Nigel Wicks (Draft Economic Declaration) [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 18 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Tokyo Stock Exchange") ["the Japanese would be unlikely to try to test us"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 18 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7/Canada: Brian Mulroney note to MT (election) ["Conservative won with about 57% of the vote!"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 18 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's visit to Australia") [stop-offs in Malaysia, Thailand] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 18 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: MT message for Turkish Prime Minister Ozal (1215Z) (incident in Ankara) [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 88 Jun 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (Toronto Economic Summit sessions, 19-21 Jun) [MT, Mulroney, Mitterrand, Kohl, De Mita, Takeshita, Reagan, Delors] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Wicks notes for record of conversation (Toronto Economic Summit sessions, 19-21 Jun) [MT, Mulroney, Mitterrand, Kohl, De Mita, Takeshita, Reagan, Delors] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (Toronto Economic Summit, dinner 19 Jun) [MT, Mulroney, Mitterrand, Kohl, De Mita, Takeshita, Reagan, Delors] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-de Mita) [bilateral defence cooperation, Tornado for Jordan, arms for Argentina, proliferation of weapons, Middle East, Latin America, state visit] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [football hooliganism, Anglo-German relations, domestic politics in Germany, acid rain, Tornado for Jordan, financial and monetary cooperation, presidency of EC Commission] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Media: Hurd PS to No. 10 (Conrad Black) [residency in the UK] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: G7 draft statements (Political Declaration) [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 19 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: FCO briefing ("Japan") ["The Japanese are nationalist and instinctively protectionist"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 19 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute to No. 10 (tariffs) [wheat, tropical products] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 19 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Wicks minute to Hurd PS (meeting with BBC) [arrangements] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 record of conversation (Toronto Economic Summit sessions, 19-21 Jun) [MT, Mulroney, Mitterrand, Kohl, De Mita, Takeshita, Reagan, Delors] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Wicks notes for record of conversation (Toronto Economic Summit sessions, 19-21 Jun) [MT, Mulroney, Mitterrand, Kohl, De Mita, Takeshita, Reagan, Delors] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Delors) [Rover Group] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: G7 draft statements (Communique) [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: G7 statement ("Political Declaration") [East-West, terrorism, narcotics] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Mulroney memorandum ("Chairman's Summary of Political Issues") [Middle East, South Africa, Cambodia] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UK High Commissioner to Canada letter to No. 10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa: 22 June 1988: Signature of Bilateral Agreements") [Canadian draft press releases on legal assistance treaty on drug trafficking and air services agreement] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute to No. 10 ("Draft Declaration") [East-West, Middle East, South Africa, Cambodia] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Moore PS minute to Paul Gray ("Review of RAWP") [decisions on resource allocations] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Moore PS minute to Nigel Wicks (breast cancer treatment) [Skidmore letter] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UK High Commissioner Ottawa minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa: 22 June 1988: Proposed Change in Arrival Time") [arrangements; Law Society of Upper Canada] [released July 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to Nicholas Ridley ("1988 Survey: Churches") [political significance of demonstrating support for churches] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Moore minute to John Major ("1988 Survey: Social Security Benefits") [proposed changes to housing benefits] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young ("Additional DBS Channels") [should not commit themselves to introduction of additional services] [declassified Feb 2016]

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

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