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PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to Powell ("Meeting with Mr Molyneaux and Dr Paisley on 30 October") [Anglo-Irish Agreement: arguments against referendum on Agreement in Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Emley Moor") [comment on NCB response to request to sell pit to miners] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell note to MT (BBC interview with President Reagan) [transcript with key passages highlighted] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Reagan letter for MT (The Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR) negotiations: the UK proposals) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("Arms Control: Soviet Violations") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Questions, 29 October") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: FCO briefing for MT ("Call on Prime Minister by Japanese Ambassador: 30 October") [Prince Hiro; trade issues; arms control] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("The Queen's Speech on the Opening of Parliament 1985") [amendment requested by Howe regarding South Africa] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: President Chun Doo Hwan letter to MT (visit to South Korea) [invitation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [discussion of defence spending] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute for No.10 (“National Savings: Indexed-Income Bond”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: John Moore letter to Keith Joseph (tax relief for donations to educational institutions) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Kenneth Clarke letter to Keith Joseph (tax relief for donations to educational institutions) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John Moore letter to Nick Ridley (“Economic regulation of airports”) [“reservations about the functions which you envisage for the CAA”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Lord Young PS (“Ministerial Group on Deregulation”) [proposed membership] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT draft statement to House of Commons (CHOGM and visit to New York) [“We were unanimous in our abhorrence of apartheid”] [declassified Dec 2016]
Text 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (& Kohl) (agrees to shift US view on MBFR talks) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO (“South Africa Internal”) [“ever-increasing cycle of violence”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO (“South Africa Internal”) [dialogue stalemate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO (“Commonwealth Mission on South Africa”) [Botha opposed] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to Heseltine (“SDI Participation: Legal and European Angles”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [“CHOGM: Group of Eminent Persons” - Howe refusing to join, decision to approach Barber, failing which Howe’s nomination to be discussed again] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Peter Lougheed message to MT (new Premier of Alberta) [successor will be committed to maintaining close ties] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: FCO letter to Powell ("Guangdong Nuclear Project") [message from Zhao Ziyang: "difficulties have arisen" in negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Weinstock letter to MT (Guangdong Nuclear project) [difficulties in negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo/French Summit") [proposed revised date for meeting] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [InterGovernmental Conference; Foreign Affairs Council, 22 Oct, incl. tariff reductions & trade relations with Japan and US; EC steel market/British Steel; ECOFIN Council, 28 Oct; Agriculture Council, 21-22 Oct; other recent & upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-King-Jim Molyneaux MP-Ian Paisley MP) [Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland Affairs") [suggesting handling of Cabinet discussion on Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT message for President Reagan (Soviet violations of arms control agreement) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT (Soviet/US arms control negotiations, relations with Malaysia) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Japanese Ambassador to UK) [Prince Hiro; trade issues; arms control] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Kadar") [General Secretary János Kádár's visit to UK] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Treasury ("Nationalised Industries Chairmen's Group") [Dinner with MT on 22 Nov: points for discussion: Government-national industry relations; pay & industrial relations & employment policy legislation ; major planning enquiries; local authority rates] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to George Younger ("Local Authority Expenditure: Scotland: AEG 1986-87") [can't accept proposal to limit penalties at outturn] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Pensions") [savings on SERPS: key figures based on amended Fowler proposals; contracting-out; presentation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Ministerial Group on Social Security: Meeting on 31 October") ["to consider Mr Fowler's revised proposals on SERPS"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: MacGregor letter to Whitelaw ("Social Security") ["Norman Fowler and I have reached an agreement on this programme. I summarise the position in this minute"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT (“Midday Supervision”) [Keith Joseph proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Howe & King memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 25 (Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Wicks minute (“Drugs Bill”) [suggestion that the debate start in the Lords, Whitelaw’s likely reaction] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Michael Howard letter to Lynda Chalker (“Economic regulation of airports”) [CAA powers and responsibilities] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“MOD Running Costs”) [rejects Heseltine arguments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Running Costs: Ministry of Defence”) [unable to agree limit with Heseltine] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Italy: CIA Office of European Analysis talking points (“PLO relations with Italy”) ["pro-Arab, pro-PLO bias of Craxi and Andreotti"; Spadolini sharply critical] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Christopher Tugendhat (Eminent Persons’ Group) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine letter to Caspar Weinberger (terms of British participation in SDI research programme) [recording their discussion the previous day] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Policy Unit minute to MT (“Emergency Aid for Farmers”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Policy Unit minute to MT (“Forestry”) [privatisation of the Forestry Commission’s estate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Commonwealth Secretary-General letter to MT (nominations to the Group of Eminent Persons) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Hurd letter to Howe (“A visa requirement for nationals of Bangladesh”) [review of visa policy, and handling of representations by MPs] [declassified 2016]
Text 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT (value for money targets in Government) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on Armstrong's latest round of talks with Nally] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [comment on Armstrong's latest round of talks with Nally] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Emley Moor Colliery") [comment on viability of proposal for NCB to sell pit to miners] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute for Hurd ("Macau") [advantages enjoyed by Portuguese passport holders in Macau after Portugal's entry into the EC] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Federal German economy") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT, János Kádár) [East/West relations; Gorbachev; arms control/SDI; internal politics & economy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: Howe PS letter to No.10 (General Secretary János Kádár's visit to UK) [draft dinner speech for MT including recollections of her visit to Hungary in 1984; "Hungarian jokes"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Portugal: Mario Soares letter to MT (departure from office as Prime Minister of the Portugese government) [reply to MT] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Willie Whitelaw ("MISC 120: Energy") [construction of Sizewell] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: 1985-86 Outturn") [prospect of an overspend] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: Electricity") [external financing arrangements] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [Treasury may have a little room for manoeuvre] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (South African DFA) South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (account of Nassau CHOGM & way ahead; urges release of Mandela) [declassified ?2005]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 30th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs, Northern Ireland) [Anglo-Irish Agreement accepted] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Review of Student Support”) [“I have always been an advocate of student loans… there is no realistic alternative”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Mid-day supervision”) [Keith Joseph proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Industry, law & order, politics, etc) [“Kilroy-Silk in Common scuffle with Jeremy Corbyn”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Alison minute for MT (“Sunday Trading”) [prospect of “parliamentary war against any Bill which might materialise”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT letter to Edidie Molyneux (Arab boycott) [opposition to boycott] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (BBC) Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Governors minutes (“Real Lives”) [Young hoped GAC discussion previous day had exorcised the ghost of "Real Lives"; Milne agreed] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO ("Achille Lauro: British involvement") ["very minor player" - Gibraltar, SIGINT, Akrotiri] [declassified 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italy internal”) [Craxi government likely to be reconfirmed; Spadolini's Republicans losers from the crisis] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Lord Weinstock letter to Michael Heseltine (“Committee of Public Accounts - Torpedo Report”) [report inaccurate, hostile press commentary, “having a serious adverse impact on the export opportunities for torpedoes”] [declassified Jul 2016]
Text 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (nuclear arms) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Geoffrey Pattie minute to MT (“British National Space Centre: Director General”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“EPG”) [Eminent Persons’ Group] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO (“By Elections”) [results and implications] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [MT sole voice of opposition to sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT (“Strategic Defence Initiative Research: United Kingdom Participation”) [meeting with Weinberger: recommendations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 Policy Unit press line for News Department (“Nomination of Lord Barber to the Eminent Persons Group”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Lord Thomas record of conversations (apartheid, ANC resistance, sanctions; Strategic Defence Initiative) [Thomas, Oliver Tambo; Thomas, Howard Baker] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Booth minute to MT ("Ordnance Survey") [encouraging OS to operate on a more commercial basis] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Anglo-Irish talks: agenda for MT's meeting with King and Howe] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Anglo-Irish talks: response to Armstrong] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“Maldives: Access to EC/Male Hospital”) [surprise at requests for preferential EC fishing access; UK committed to provide equipment needed for new hospital] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (“A Strategy for Enterprise and Employment”) [proposed package of initiatives to stimulate long-term growth and manage the interim unemployment issue] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands Islands Fisheries") [establishment of a multilateral fisheries regime under the FAO] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands/Argentina") [the upcoming vote on the Falklands in the UNGA] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Cabinet") [agreement on all programmes except housing] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [hopes for the round going smoothly] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robin Nicholson minute to Cabinet Office ("MISC 119 and Public Expenditure Settlement") [government research and development] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Star Chamber") [agreements achieved, excepting housing] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Restrictions on press freedom") ["We expect to be pressed to comment on the new measures and to say what we shall do to support the freedom of the press"] [declassified Feb 2016]
Text 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: Poindexter memorandum for Armacost (“Public Diplomacy Program for South Africa”) [declassified 1999]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Sir Nicholas Goodison letter to MT (Financial Services Bill) [need to prosecute financial fraud more vigorously] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Duties and Responsibilities of Civil Servants in relation to Ministers”) [Parliamentary scrutiny] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“CHOGM: South Africa: Mr Gandhi”) [Gandhi’s attempts to correct impression that UK is intransigent and pro-South African] [declassified Dec 2016]
Text 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (channels of communication) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to Policy Unit (“SDI: Architecture Study”) [our SDI policy - sceptical it will work, avoid belief there is alternative to nuclear weapons, secure technology and business] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 2 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 2 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Peking telegram 255 to DTI (0345Z) ("Guangdong Nuclear Project") [message from Li Peng; British terms remain unacceptable] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 2 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to President Reagan ("President Reagan's Briefing of NATO") [MT signs off on Charles Powell's amendments to FCO draft, highlighting her recent meeting with Kadar & his insights into Gorbachev's thinking on arms control/SDI] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 2 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell note to MT (Chief of Defence Staff) [CDS meeting with MT to take his leave] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 2 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: General Secretary Kádár message to MT (visit to UK) [courtesy message] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 2 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 minute to MT (Chief of Defence Staff) [Bramall call to take his leave; Lord Lieutenancy of Greater London] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 3 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 3 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Conservative Political Centre pamphlet (“No Turning Back”) [“The Conservative Party is warned against complacency”] [released 2017]
Text 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Mayhew minute to MT ("Crown Prosecution Service") [proposed remuneration and career progression for prosecuting solicitors] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Anglo-French Summit: 18 November") [arrangements, press conference, participants] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Inter-Governmental Conference") [Charles Powell: "I am alarmed by the number of Treaty amendments which appear to be envisaged"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Geoffrey Pattie ("EUREKA Progress and Prospects") [opposes idea of a dedicated Secretariat] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Ingham minute to MT ("President Reagan's Briefing of NATO") ["your voice will count for more than any other after the de-briefing... we should together consider the kind of media programme... you should undertake"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Robert McFarlane letter to Armstrong (arms control: President Reagan's negotiations with Gorbachev in Geneva) ["God save Margaret Thatcher"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Nuclear Dialogue with the Soviet Union") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (85) 4th ("Local Authority Capital Expenditure in England") [mechanisms, legislation, etc] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nicholas Edwards minute to John MacGregor ("'Territorial' Implications of Local Authority Overspending in England") ["an important question of equity"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Whitelaw PS ("Star Chamber") [latest work] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MacGregor PS ("Public Expenditure: 1985-86 Outturn") [MT concerned at prospect of overspend] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Robin Nicholson ("MISC 119 and Public Expenditure Settlement") [reallocation of provision] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-MacGregor) [Star Chamber decisions, market response] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: implementation of Nassau Agreement") [import of Krugerrands; computer exports; oil exports; nuclear exports; arms imports] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 minute for MT (“Gifts to the Prime Minister”) [updated procedure] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKE Washington telegram 3031 to FCO (2100Z) (“Volcker’s Visit to Argentina”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Brittan letter to Keith Joseph (“Grant-aided schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“cost of student support… remains so much higher in the UK than in many other countries”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Midday Supervision”) [draft announcement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (National Union of Teachers industrial action) [request for meeting with MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Alison note to David Waddington (Sunday Trading) [critical points made to MT; she wants them discussed with Hurd and Wakeham] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Economic regulation of airports”) [“CAA should be the prime regulators of all core activities”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine letter to John MacGregor (“MOD Running Costs”) [ongoing dispute over proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: John MacGregor letter to Hurd (“BBC accounts”) [MT favours public criticism of accounting practice rather than ordering the BBC to change the practice] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Whitelaw minute to MT (E(LF) Committee meeting: local authority capital expenditure) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT (“UK Participation in Strategic Defence Initiative Research”) [CDP: he fears officials unpicking his agreement with Weinberger] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Brittan minute to MT (“UK Participation in the SDI”) [anxieties about terms][declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary minute to MT (“Strategic Defence Initiative Research: United Kingdom Participation”) [timing of announcement - MT wants to consider in relation to Ptarmigan] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science & Technology: No.10 minute to MT (publication of ACARD report on exploitable areas of science) [publication of MT's letter at front of report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Secretary minute to MT (value for money targets in Government) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT ("Urban Policy") [scrutiny of urban policy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT (value for money targets in Government) [meeting with Sir Robin Ibbs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: King minute to MT ("Dolours Rea (nee Price)": 1973 Old Bailey bomber) [King proposes to alter conditions of release; MT opposes: "do nothing. She got out of prison on a false pretence"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell (President Mitterrand's visit) [Rainbow Warrior affair, New Caledonia, UN Falklands resolution, east-west relations] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO telegram 366 to UKRep Brussels (1300Z) ("Inter-Governmental Conference") [informal report on outcome of Franco-German summit, 7-8 Nov] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement: message from Bud McFarlane) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: King minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Negotiations") [suggested further amendments to Anglo-Irish Agreement, with Powell covernote] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: President Reagan message to MT (US/Soviet Summit) [agenda; thanks for MT support] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Robert Armstrong conversation with Monsieur Attali) [French political scene: forthcoming elections] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1986-87") [Banking Bill] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 letter to Lord Hailsham PS (State Opening of Parliament: the Queen's Speech) [circulation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ingham letter to Home Office (State Opening of Parliament: the Queen's Speech) [Speaking Note for circulation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("MISC 120: Housing") [gulf between spending group and Baker] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure: Housing") [meeting with Baker] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Asset Sales and the Reserve") [sale of British Gas] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: MacGregor PS note to John Wakeham (housing programme) [private sector provision] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Secretaries’ note circulated to Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 12 (“Lessons of the miners’ strike: draft second report to ministers”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Secretaries’ note circulated to Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 13 (“Lessons of the miners’ strike: second report to ministers”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Alan Walters) [Walters: "thought policy was if anything a little tight, rather than loose"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Secretary of State for Energy minute for MT (his conversation with Sir Peter Emery: Nigerian debts) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKDEL IMF to FCO (“IMF: Problem Countries”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit letter to MT (experimental scheme for involving parents in schools in Croydon) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tom King minute to MT (“Midday Supervision”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Alison note to David Waddington (Sunday Trading) [update on backbench misgivings - Graham Bright] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Sunday Trading (Shops Act)”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (failed UK bid for battlefield communications contract) [brief summary declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (“Abolition of the Greater London Council - Thamesmead”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Lawson minute to MT (“UK Participation in SDI”) [agrees with Brittan that MISC117 should consider draft agreement with US in detail] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Howe minute to Hurd (“Entry clearance from Bangladesh”) [review of visa policy, and handling of representations by MPs] [declassified 2016]
Text 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ibbs-Beesley) [scrutiny programme and efficiency in government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Armstrong-Harland) [intelligence sharing, South Africa, agriculture, economy] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EUREKA; InterGovernmental Conference; steel & other EC/US trade; famine relief; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Howe-King-Spring-Barry) ["Anglo-Irish Negotiations"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1469 to FCO (1700Z) ("Secretary Shultz in Moscow - 4/5 November: Summit Prospects") [record of conversations: Gorbachev, Shultz, Shevardnadze, McFarlane, Dobrynin, Hartman; and Shultz, Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1469 to Deskby (1730Z) ("US NAC Briefing on Shultz's Moscow Talks") [details] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Jobs”) [comments on Lord Young’s proposed new initiatives] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Meeting on Jobs”) [employment and enterprise strategy: Lord Young’s proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation ("Record of a discussion on ship design, held at Ship Department, Bath on Wednesday, 6 November 1985") [Christopher Monckton, Nicholas Owen, Rear Admiral Hugh Thompson, Brian Wall, Simon Webb, John Cox] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ministry of Defence letter to Parliamentary Counsel ("Armed Forces Bill 1986") [publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury briefing for MT ("ERM") [Exchange Rate Mechanism: Q&A] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Falklands - Trial of Military Commanders") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1985 (C(85) 26)") [agreement on planning totals] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Kenneth Baker ("Public Expenditure Survey: Housing") [provision and allocation] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Norman Fowler ("MISC 120: Health and Personal Social Services") [settlement of programme] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Nicholas Edwards ("'Territorial' Implications of Local Authority Overspending in England") [proposals cause great difficulty] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Public Expenditure") [speaking note for Cabinet] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Public Expenditure: Housing") [agreement with Baker] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa and the Commonwealth") ["I have yet to meet anyone in the Government or among ordinary South Africans who relishes the prospect of a Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group... coming to South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO telegram to UKHC Lusaka ("Eminent Persons Group") [assessment of current support amongst African governments for the Commonwealth Group] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Briefing on Queen’s Speech (subject notes) [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Keith Joseph minute for Norman Fowler (“AIDS”) [establishment of a national epidemiological surveillance centre] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Anglo-German summit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [enterprise and employment, handling of Cabinet] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No. 10 (midday supervision proposals) [announcement to Parliament] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 26 (Public Expenditure Survey 1985) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Running Costs: Progress Report”) [“Mr Heseltine made a great fuss about this exercise”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“MOD Running Costs”) [proposed agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Policy Unit minute to Norgrove (“BBC accounts”) [MT favours public criticism of accounting practice rather than ordering the BBC to change the practice] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKA Rome despatch to FCO ("The Achille Lauro Affair") ["the most lasting effect in Italian eyes may be the memory of her unhappy experience at US hands"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: Charles Powell to Italian Ambassador (Confindustria) [MT has no time to record message; Lord Young happy to do so] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [curtailment of education services: proposed actions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Whitelaw minute to MT (“SDI Research: UK Participation”) [work of cabinet committees addressing concerns] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 letter to MOD (“SDI Research: UK Participation”) [MT's views on official group report and reactions from colleagues] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: MT letter to Premier Zhao Ziyang of China (Guangdong Nuclear Project) [hopes for successful conclusion of negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Possible Questions and Answers") [presentation of Agreement by British and Irish governments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Taoiseach Fitzgerald letter to MT (Anglo-Irish talks and Agreement) [concerns over Intergovernmental Conference and Secretariat] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Mayhew minute to MT ("Proposed Anglo/Irish Agreement") [addresses possible judicial review of Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Practical Matters") [signing and presentation of Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Reply to Sr Suarez's Letter Concerning the Europe/Latin American Institute (IRELA)") [MT finds it 'incomprehensible' that it takes so long to produce a reply] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (“Government Support for Local Enterprise Agencies”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Young, Lawson, Tebbit, MacGregor, Kenneth Clarke) [“Enterprise and Employment”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter for Gorbachev (arms control: negotiations with the United States in Geneva) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: MT letter to General Secretary Kádár (visit to UK) [courtesy letter] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Heseltine PS letter to Biffen PS ("The Parliamentary Maritime Group") [dispute regarding an invitation from the Group to the Chief of Naval Staff to address it, initially declined by Heseltine over concerns of setting a precedent] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 3rd ("The Local Domestic Tax") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [Falklands/Argentina at the United Nations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nicholas Edwards minute to John MacGregor ("'Territorial' Implications of Local Authority Overspending in England") [request for compensation] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Tom King minute to John MacGregor ("Territorial Implications of Local Authority Overspending in England") [proposals could have "deleterious effect on the territorial blocks"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Home Office (Autumn Statement) [arrangements for presentation] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Krugerrands: GATT aspects: Canada") ["have not... taken legislative measures... encouraged a voluntary ban... unlikely... to alter their current stance"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 31st (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Community Affairs, Public Expenditure Survey 1985) [Nassau CHOGM] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Review of Student Support”) [addresses issue of student loans] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John Moore letter to Nick Ridley (“Economic regulation of airports”) [pleased that “the CAA’s powers will be directed at unreasonable discrimination against any class of airport user”] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Implementation of the Keith Report") [collection and enforcement powers of Inland Revenue departments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MacGregor minute to MT ("Crown Prosecution Service") [proposed remuneration and career progression for prosecuting solicitors] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 962 to FCO (1812Z) ("Prospects for the Anglo-French Summit: 18 November") [Anglo-French relations in "a rough patch"] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Negotiations: Prime Minister's Meeting on Saturday, 9 November") [handling of meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Anglo-Irish Agreement: handling of meeting with King, Howe and Armstrong] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3101 to FCO (2100Z) ("Shultz's Visit to Moscow, and Summit Prospects") [analysis] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Senor Suarez (The Europe/Latin American Institute) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1473 to FCO (1015Z) ("October Revolution Anniversary - Speech by Chebrikov") [main points on internal affairs] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1474 to FCO (1015Z) ("Chebrikov's Speech - Summary of Main Points on Foreign Affairs and Defence Policy") [released Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 (“Enterprise and Employment”) [forthcoming announcements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Surplus land sales") [""We were appalled by the total failure of the administration to carry out properly your clear guide on this issue"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1019 to FCO (0045Z) ("Falklands at the UN") ["the battle in the General Assembly has taken place ever since 1982 (...) on terrain defined by the Argentines"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Kenneth Baker minute to Nigel Lawson ("Autumn Statement: Water Authorities") [need to carry out policies with minimum trouble] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Dar es Salaam telegram to FCO ("Eminent Persons Group (EPG)") ["despite scepticism... that any measures short of economic sanctions are likely to influence the South African Government, we believe the Tanzanians are prepared to give it a try"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) Conservatism: Charles Powell to Ronnie Millar (help with Lord Mayor’s Banquet speech) [“It truly makes a tremendous difference”]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute for MT (“Law and Order - Weekend Update”) [MT disturbed at rumours of petrol bombs and Napalm being prepared for use against police] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute for MT (“Law and Order - Weekend Update”) [MT disturbed at rumours of petrol bombs and Napalm being prepared for use against police] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“ERM”) [meeting with Lawson: European Exchange Rate Mechanism] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Economic regulation of airports”) [MT keen to maximise BAA scope for profitability] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“E(LF) (85) 5th Meeting: The Local Domestic Tax”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Rate Reform”) [the E(LF) meeting: assessment] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 9 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1070 to FCO (1020Z) ("Franco German Summit") [report] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-King-Howe-Armstrong) ["Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland"; outstanding points on Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Powell minute to MT (“Johnson Matthey”) [Sedgemore’s allegations against Lawson] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 10 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit") [French motives, Channel link, Falklands, Inter-Governmental conference, east-west relations] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Anglo-French Summit") [participants, arrangements, press conference] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Taoiseach Fitzgerald (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [response to Fitzgerald's message: Intergovernmental Conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [final drafts of Anglo-Irish Agreement, joint press release and summit communique] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [draft message to Taoiseach Fitzgerald] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (Anglo-Irish Summit: suggested message to US Administration to advise on timing) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [draft message to Taoiseach Fitzgerald] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell note to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement: draft message to Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [Powell comments on latest amendments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("BGC Privatisation - Meeting with Peter Walker") ['you might like to probe the balance that is being struck between consumer and investor. Could it be said that the Government has been captured by Denis Rooke?'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("EFA - President Mitterrand's Letter") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ministry of Defence letter to Parliamentary Counsel ("Dockyard Services Bill") [publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: MT letter to Peter Emery MP (Select Procedures Committee review of the format for Prime Minister's Questions) ["... having given further thought to your proposals, I see very considerable difficulties... I believe... [present] arrangements represent the best available balance between the desire of the House to question the Prime Minister and the burdens which the system imposes on the Prime Minister and her staff"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury briefing for MT ("ERM") [Exchange Rate Mechanism: cover letter & Lawson paper arguing case for joining ERM] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Treasury (Autumn Statement) [draft speaking note] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Mbabane telegram to FCO ("Swaziland: South Africa and the Commonwealth") [British High Commissioner Reith, Prime Minister Bhekimpi: record of conversation] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Norgrove minute for MT (“Lloyds”) [Hay-Davison resigns as chairman] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Lawson letter to Brittan (“Takeover Panel”) [not wholly convinced by his arguments but “obviously for you to judge”] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Alison minute to MT (lunch for speechwriters) [allocate one Monday lunch for event with “outsiders”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Alison minute to MT (1922 Committee) [Onslow asks for a December speech, MT refuses - speak to Executive instead] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Younger (“Running Costs Control”) [“I see no need to make any statement about pay assumptions in running costs limits until details of departmental figures have been announced”] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Buchanan-Smith PS letter to Biffen PS ("Establishment of Oil and Pipelines Agency") [Parliamentary announcement of successor body to BNOC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: UKE Ankara telegram 502 to FCO (1250Z) ("Ozal's Visit to the UK") [Ozal formally accepts invitation; had given him "great pleasure"] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Gas Privatisation") [state of play: Department of Energy and HM Treasury positions on gas privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: MT letter to Jim Prior MP (first Cryo Magnetic Resonance Imaging system in Japan) [proposal that MT visit during her trip to Japan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 letter to Kenneth Baker PS ("The Sainsbury Group") [briefing request for follow-up meeting on "...simplifying and speeding up the planning process"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Home Office letter to Parliamentary Counsel ("Animals (Scientific Procedures) Bill") [introduction & publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("The Exchange Rate Mechanism") [Lawson's arguments for joining EMS, and counter-arguments] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("ERM") [Exchange Rate Mechanism: summary of briefing papers & attendees; concern about Lawson pre-meetings with attending Ministers] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (85) 5th ("The Local Domestic Tax") [distributional impact; Scottish and Welsh aspects; property vaulation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Arms Sales to Argentina") [a message to Shultz to "remind him of our firm view that the supply of American arms to Argentina would be against our interests"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands at the UN General Assembly: Policy Options") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Kenneth Baker minute to John MacGregor (New Towns' receipts) [disposals are running well] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["Were it not for you admirable efforts, I would have had no hesitation in rejecting the Nassau initiative outright"; alternative proposal] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler minute to MT ("Social Security Reform") ["I would like to discuss with you informally the options open to us and their political consequences"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Fowler") ["wants to make sure you understand the political difficulties of the proposals he is being pushed into making... You are not willing to see public expenditure figures threatened"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Meeting with Norman Fowler") [Social Security reform: White Paper: proposed workaround to avoid internal government disagreements becoming public] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (South African DFA) South Africa: President P.W. Botha to MT (cannot cooperate with Commonwealth initiative; alternatives) [declassified ?2005]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 3rd (“Lessons of the miners’ strike”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO letter to UN Associations of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (resolutions on South Africa) [“we do not support the extreme language of parts of the texts, the calls for sanctions”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (“Football Spectator Violence”) [progress report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Rate Reform”) [recent developments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Bank of International Settlements statement (election of a new Vice-Chairman) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT (Capital Expenditure Contracts) [tackling time and cost overruns on major projects] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (scrutiny programme and efficiency in Government) [future role of the Property Services Agency and implementation of value for money principles] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: Participation: 18 November") [latest version of programme] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: InterGovernmental Conference") ["a note on areas where we would want to avoid majority voting and those on which we could accept it with equanimity"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [InterGovernmental Conference, 11 Nov; steel trade with US; coal industry; upcoming meetings; draft 1986 EC Budget] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland Affairs") [Anglo-Irish Agreement: handling] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks Dublin 13 November") [report on Armstrong's latest round of talks with Nally] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefings for MT ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Prime Minister's Briefing for Party Leaders") [brief for MT meetings with Kinnock, Steel and Owen, Molyneaux] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Ingham minute to MT ("Northern Ireland - Cabinet") [media presentation of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation (E(A) (85) 65)") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Norgrove minute to MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation") [dispute between HM Treasury and Walker] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("BGC Privatisation") [assessment of Walker's privatisation package] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1490 to FCO (1330Z) ("Geneva Summit, 19/21 November: Final Preparations") [attendees; topics; media arrangements; outcomes] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“Maldives: Access to EC/Male Hospital”) [duty-free access to European market, High Commissioner’s visit to new hospital site] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for October 1985") ["inflation is at its lowest level for 13 years, but the overshooting of the money supply target is causing concern."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Leigh-Pemberton, Whitelaw, Biffen, Tebbit, Wakeham, Brittan, Sir Peter Middleton, Sir Terence Burns, Mr Eddie George, Professor Brian Griffiths) ["Membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the EMS"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [thought they would get a battering in the press] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("The Autumn Statement") [market response] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Internal situation") [report on detentions, incidents and deaths] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler, Tony Newton) ["MISC 111": Social Security reform: "discussion centred on the number of gainers and losers under the proposals"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Department of Health and Social Security minute for No.10 (“Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [autumn statement, fraud, Lloyd’s and the City] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Brittan minute for MT (“Nigeria: Proposed Oil-Debt Agreement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Teachers’ Pay”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to MT (“SDI Participation”) [next steps in UK participation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to MT (“SDI Participation”) [draft agreement with US] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: Participation") [revised list of plenary attendees] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit") [want impression to go out of "a reasonably functioning Anglo-French cooperation"] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 993 to FCO (1701Z) ("The Anglo French Summit") [Mitterrand press conference prompted by French internal issues] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKREP Brussels telegram 3845 to FCO (1730Z) ("The Inter-Governmental Conference (IGC)") [possible treaty revision, confusion from plethora of proposals, tactic of constructive cooperation] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3845 to FCO (0900Z) ("The Intergovernmental Conference (IGC)") [review of draft Treaty on Political Cooperation negotiations & UK strategy] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1090 to FCO (1700Z) ("IGC: German Cabinet meeting") [detail of conclusions reached, regarding desired outcomes of InterGovernmental Conference] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit: Inter-Governmental Conference (IGC): Amendment to Article 107 (Exchange Rate Provisions) of the Treaty") [Lawson's proposed line to take in his forthcoming discussions at ECOFIN & with German Finance Minister, and for MT talks with Mitterrand] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3144 to FCO (2015Z) (Anglo-Irish Agreement: text of Reagan statement) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit: Discussion with the Taoiseach") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Ingham minute to MT ("Northern Ireland - Your Joint Press Conference") [Anglo-Irish Agreement: handling of media presentation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit: Press Conference") [Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Norgrove note to MT (possible sale of Emley Moor Colliery to miners) ['The NCB seem genuinely to be trying to be helpful to the Emley Moor miners'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT (meeting with Robert McFarlane to discuss President Reagan's address to NATO on the US/Soviet summit) [arrangements] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by Johannes Rau, SPD candidate for Chancellor in the 1987 FRG elections") [MT agrees to Howe advice that she meet with Rau during his UK visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ingham letter to PS Chief Whip ("Televising the Commons") [MT: "I get more and more worried about this prospect"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Portugal: Prime Minister Cavaco Silva letter to MT (appointment as Prime Minister of the Portugese government) [reply to MT message of congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Adley MP) [Adley advises that "The best way... of encouraging... dialogue... would be to talk to the ANC"; MT "appalled by the recent pronouncements of Mr Tambo"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 32nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs) [most confidential record discussions of Northern Ireland & teachers’ pay] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Warry minute to MT ("Implementation of the Keith Report") [collection and enforcement powers of Inland Revenue departments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Ian Gow minute to MT ("Assassination and Death or Injury in Service") [improvements to compensation provisions for the dependants of public servants] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT message to Francois Mitterrand (fighter aircraft) [disappointed it did not prove possible to establish a five nation collabroative project] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Meeting with President Mitterrand") [Intergovernmental Conference discussions on: environment and technology, resource transfer, EC Parliament, Commission powers] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: Brief for handling the plenary") [east/west, Falklands, Southern Africa, Middle East, bilateral relations, defence issues] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Anglo-French Summit") [participants, arrangements] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Moore PS briefing for Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: 18 November") [Channel link texts, EC shipping policy] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Intergovernmental Conference: 19 November") [draft Treaty on Political Cooperation: European foreign policy] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker minute to MT ("Restocking of CEGB Power Stations") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1499 to FCO (0820Z) ("Summit Preparations") [US/Soviet summit in Geneva] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3157 to FCO (0236Z) ("The Summit: Presidential Broadcast") [US/Soviet summit in Geneva: details of Reagan address to the nation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3183 to FCO (2000Z) ("Geneva Summit: Regional Issues") [US/Soviet summit: Afghanistan; Nicaragua; Angola, Ethiopia, Cambodia; the Middle East] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3180 to FCO (2356Z) ("Geneva Summit Prospects") [US/Soviet summit: analysis] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Hurd letter for Howe ("Macau") [advantages enjoyed by Portuguese passport holders in Macau after Portugal's entry into the EC] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Jopling letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Eggs Authority”) [abolition] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("MBFR") [Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions: Vienna negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to President Mitterrand (a five nation collaborative project for the European Fighter Aircraft) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone (Prince Hiro) [residence in Britain as an Oxford University student] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [EC press statement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3164 to FCO (1655Z) ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [summary of President Reagan/Speaker of the House of Representatives joint press conference; UK Ambassador to the US, Oliver Wright: "In view of past and likely future rows, we might as well make the best use we can of harmony on this issue"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3167 to FCO (1700Z) ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [Congressional Friends of Ireland statement: message of support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3165 to FCO (1700Z) ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: statement by the President") [transcript] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [transcript of statement from the Quai] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Copenhagen telegram to FCO ("Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs") [message of support & congratulations for Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [message of support & congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Peter Utley ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Paisley & Molyneaux letter to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement) ["On behalf of the Unionist people of Northern Ireland, we protest most vehemently..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Garret FitzGerald) ["Anglo-Irish Sumit"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Chancellor Kohl telegram to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MT letter to Godfrey Bradman (disposal of surplus public sector land ) ["Your ideas are now being worked on... following your meeting with [Kenneth Baker]. He is very much aware of my interest in these matters..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1058 to FCO (0125Z) ("Falklands at UNGA 40") [text of Argentine draft resolution] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Young letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Training Loans”) [proposals for 3-year pilot scheme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: MT message to President Gayoom (EC Lome Convention, Male Hospital) [tariff system is complex so should raise issue with Brussels, will look into request regarding medical equipment] [declassified Dec 2016]
Text 85 Nov 16 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe minute for MT ("Anglo-French Summit") [points to discuss: arms control negotiations, Inter-Governmental conference, Eureka, Channel link, defence] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Press review 16 November") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Hugh Dykes MP telegrams to MT and Taoiseach FitzGerald ("Press release: Hugh Dykes sends telegrams on Anglo-Irish Accord") [congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute for MT (Meeting with the Chancellor) [Lawson wants 15 minutes talk on "monetary amendments to the European Treaty"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Black participation in decision-making") ["The President has invited suggestions on black participation in a restructured President's Council... few blacks seem likely to wish to participate"] [declassified Feb 2016]
Text 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit: Press Conference") [possible opening remarks on: Channel link, arms control, EC issues, Eureka, defence] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe minute for MT ("Your Meeting with President Mitterrand") [Intergovernmental Conference discussions on: environment and technology, resource transfer, EC Parliament, Commission powers] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson) ["Anglo-French Summit: InterGovernmental Conference Amendment to Article 107": monetary provisions of the draft Treaty on Political Cooperation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Prime Minister's statement") [text & MT request for additional information] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: points for answers") [Parliamentary Debate] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["dismayed... that your Government consider that it would be impossible to co-operate... The international pressures for sanctions... will fast gather momentum again"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (South African DFA) South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (dismayed at his reply) [declassified ?2005]
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Terrorism: Hurd minute to Howe (“Tanzanian hijackers”) [hijackers have applied for asylum] [released Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Department of Trade & Industry letter to No.10 ("Visit of Hassan Ali, Iraqi Trade Minister, Week Beginning 25 November") [Powell annotation: "This is a bore. But quite a lot of trade could hang on it"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Home Office record of conversation (Hurd-Joxe) [domestic terrorism and Irish situation, Anglo-Irish Agreement, New Caledonia] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand - plenary session) [Channel link, Anglo-Irish Agreement, Middle East, terrorism, defence issues, trade and industry, research and technology, transport, EC issues] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand) [Channel link, China, east-west relations and arms control, European Council, CAP, EC parliament and treaty, Falklands] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT (Privatisation of the Water Authorities) [advice on handling of forthcoming Cabinet meeting; briefing attached] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("InterGovernmental Conference") [the issue of joint European foreign policy] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 minute to MT (“Training Provided by the Armed Services”) [MT keen to cite its wider social and economic value] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Draft dodgers in Berlin") [implications] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo/Irish Agreement: press review 18 November") ["...Irish political reactions, speculation on the next moves, and... the Unionist reaction and HMG's plans for dealing with it"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Mood in Dublin after the Summit") [Anglo/Irish Agreement: "Sober satisfaction..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [thanks for his congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Prime Minister's statement") [background information requested by MT on the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Call by Korean Ambassador on Prime Minister") [Howe requests MT to accept call in advance of visit to UK by President Chun Doo Hwan and MT visit to S. Korea - "anxious to gain the maximum benefit to British commercial interests... but the Korean peninsula is also... a potential flash-point"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("ECOFIN: 18 November 1985: amendment to monetary provisions of the Treaty") [EU Economic & Financial Affairs Council "divided down middle" re: amendment to Treaty Establishing the EC] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to FCO ("Arms Sales to Argentina") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Home Office letter to No.10 (Hurd meeting with Scarman; report on Handsworth riot) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Anglo-German summit 27 November: meeting with Kohl”) [“as usual he talked a lot, this time mainly about a new biography of himself”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute for No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [the major debtor countries] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: Robin Harris letter to Keith Joseph (“Oil Sales to Israel”) [“Israel does not appear to have any difficulty in securing oil supplies”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine letter to John MacGregor (“MOD Running Costs”) [Heseltine sticks to his guns] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Addison minute for Garden Room (“Delivering petitions to No.10”) [tightening up to avoid ministers bumping into petitioners] [released 2015]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS (visit by Canadian Governor-General) [timing of possible meeting] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Assassination and Death or Injury in Service") [summary of outcomes from interdepartmental review into compensation provisions for dependants of civil servants killed by terrorists] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris record of conversation (MacRae-Joxe) [French internal situation] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3925 to FCO (2005Z) ("InterGovernmental Conference: Brussels 19 November 1985") [report] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Own Resources Decision: UK Notification of Adoption") [to proceed without delay] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Walker minute to MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation") [regulatory regime for gas industry following privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKMIS Geneva telegram 423 to FCO (1434Z) ("Reagan/Gorbachev Summit: News Blackout") [details] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Secretary General of NATO ("Reagan/Gorbachev Summit: News Blackout") [President Reagan to address NATO meeting on outcomes of US/Soviet summit: handling of the meeting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3188 to FCO (0050Z) ("The Anglo-Irish Agreement: US press reactions") ["In American news terms... a one day wonder... guarded optimism"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("The Anglo-Irish Agreement: Dail Debate") [text of the Irish Government motion & Fianna Fail amendment; No.10: "Helpful at least in showing what the Agreement does not do"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: statement by Irish Catholic Bishops") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Jeremy Thorpe (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [courtesy letter of thanks for his congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Senator Orrin G. Hatch letter to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Northern Ireland Office ("Anglo/Irish Agreement: Parliamentary Debate") [draft MT speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Solicitor General PS (Anglo/Irish Agreement: Parliamentary Debate) [letter of thanks for Mayhew's assistance with drafting of speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Prime Minister Mulroney letter to MT (Anglo/Irish Agreement) [congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Tom King letter to No.10 (Anglo/Irish Agreement) ["I am trying to focus on all the pitfalls of the Statement"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Barney Hayhoe letter to Whitelaw ("Social Services Select Committee Report on Public Expenditure") ["The draft reply... [emphasises] the importance of service output rather than expenditure as a measure of NHS growth, and... [highlights] the role of efficiency in achieving service improvements"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands at the UN General Assembly") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Ministerial Group on Social Security Meeting on 20 November 1985 (MISC 111(85)17: Income Related Benefits") [modifications to Fowler's Social Security reform proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: John MacGregor minute to MT ("Social Security Reviews: Income Related Benefits") ["The proposals which Norman Fowler is recommending... cost nearly £300 million more than those we agreed as the basis for the Green Paper... If we get it wrong now, we will have to cope with the consequences"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("MISC111: Social Security Review") [details of two reform package options & their respective costs] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Social Security Reviews: Pensioner Losers") ["Fowler is right that pensioner losers present a real political problem, but... it is not as bad as he claims; and... there is a better way of dealing with it than his proposal"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Social Security Reviews: Family Credit") ["Fowler has not yet made out a strong enough case for spending more"] [released Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: State Department memorandum for NSC (“Public Diplomacy, South Africa”) [declassified 1999]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [autumn statement, fraud, international finance scene] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Lawson minute for Howe (his meeting with Nigerian Financial Minister) [pressing Nigeria to a deal with the IMF] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Howe minute for Lawson (“Nigeria: Your Meeting with the Finance Minister”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Terrorism: Howe minute to Hurd (“Tanzanian hijackers”) [“our decision to allow the Tanzanians to remain in the United Kingdom is a result of undertakings given here in 1982”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Washington minute to FCO (1415Z) ("US/Italy relations in the wake of the Achille Lauro affair") [detailed read-out from State Department] [declassified Jan 2010]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (tea party between the First Ladies) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (dinner table talk) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (impromptu dinner toasts) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (“Liverpool: Progress Report”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Robert Armstrong minute to No.10 (message from McFarlane) [McFarlane proposes to give classified briefings to UK figures] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Security: Armstrong minute for Flesher (GCHQ dispute) [update] [released 2015]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Implementation of the Keith Report"; Inland Revenue collection and enforcement powers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: MT message to Peter Lougheed (retirement as Premier of Alberta) [congratulations] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Environmental Lunch: Conservation and the Future of the CAP") [arguments against the concern "that a reform of the CAP will have damaging effects on the countryside"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Department of the Environment briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Lunch with Conservationists: 25 November 1985") [key issues; attendees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Morrison letter to Rifkind (EC non-quota regulations) [money for Hull, Grimsby, Clwyd, Fraserburgh] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with Mitterrand & Santer; InterGovernmental Conference; ECOFIN, 18 Nov; Transport Council, 14-15 Nov; Agriculture Council, 18-19 Nov; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Brussels, 21 November: President Reagan's Briefing of the NAC") [North Atlantic Council] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Home Office news release (“The Best Way to Deal with Crime is to Prevent It”) [Hurd address to Standing Conference on Crime Prevention] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Dail Debate: Taoiseach's speech") [summary] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Speaker of the US House of Representatives (Anglo-Irish Agreement) ["I would like to thank you for the statement that you made at your joint press conference with President Reagan..."; US financial & economic assistance for Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 note to MT (RUC enquiry into assault on Secretary of State for Northern Ireland) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Parliamentary Debate") [amendments to draft MT speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Treasury briefing for MT ("NICG Dinner with Prime Minister 22 November") [Nationalised Industries Chairmen's Group: privatisation; board appointments; pay & industrial relations; major planning inquiries; local authority rates] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to George Younger ("Housing Support Grant Increase: Offsetting Savings") [increased spending a result of changed economic assumptions] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Social Security Review: Income Related Benefits") ["the essential issue... is whether... it is worth spending another £300 million to reduce the (still very large) number of losers and improve incentives": MacGregor's case vs Fowler's] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to DTI (‘Fraud’) [seeks information] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to Treasury (“Junk Bonds”) [to finance takeovers; MT seeks information] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: MT letter to Sir Nicholas Goodison (Financial Services Bill) [agrees his stress on fraud; lists action in train] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Hobson note for Griffiths (‘Fraud’) [partial typology of financial fraud] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute for MT (“Law and Order: Brixton and Tottenham Riots”) [rumours about preparation of petrol bombs & Napalm for use against police] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Anglo-German summit: 27 November”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Training Loans”) [“an excellent idea. They will introduce the public gradually to the idea of loans instead of grants… [but scheme is] poorly designed”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Public Order Bill: Incitement to Racial Hatred”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 5th Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 6th Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (tea party between First Ladies) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (dinner table talk) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (closing conversation) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Liverpool: Magistrates’s Courts”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [“disturbing signs in today's press that Ministers … getting the jitters about Liverpool”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Banking White Paper”) [the publishing timetable] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Hurd minute to Howe (“Entry clearance from Bangladesh”) [review of visa policy, and handling of representations by MPs] [declassified 2016]
Text 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Tax Amnesty") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Governor-General of Canada") [arrangements for visit] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Falklands at the UN: Call on the Prime Minister by the New Zealand High Commissioner") [Lange considering a change in the NZ vote] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("New Zealand High Commissioner's Call on the Prime Minister on 22 November") [American approach to NZ anti-nuclear legislation] [declassified Jul 2017]

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

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

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

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