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PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: ITCA briefing note for MT ("Where Stands TV?") [a period of accelerating change] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Networking of ITV Programmes") [review of ITV arrangements] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKA Bonn letter to FCO ("Tensions in the Bonn Coalition") ["sharpest exchanges" taking place between CSU and CDU, FDP mainly "watching from the sidelines"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young ("Networking of ITV Programmes") [IBA's commitment to change may have been underestimated] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("Interim advisory committee on school teachers' pay and conditions") [membership] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Society: Terry Perks minute ("Interview with Douglas Keay for Woman's Own") [topics Keay plans to raise] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT (inner cities) ["it is all being co-ordinated by you... [so] not obvious as to who should be the lead Minister] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 annotated agenda and steering brief for MT ("Prime Minister's Seminar on Broadcasting") [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to Ridley PS ("Effects of Domestic Revaluation") [do everything possible to advertise advantages of new system] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Barnet Rates") [change in local contribution] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to John Moore ("Survey: Social Security: Outstanding Commitments") [additional savings still needed] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robin Cook letter to John Wakeham (Social Security) [debate on legislation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to John Moore ("Survey: Income Related Benefit Rates") [cannot exempt income-related benefits from usual survey process] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove minute to Hurd PS ("Prime Minister's Seminar on Broadcasting") [thanks for briefing] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: BBC paper (Seminar on Broadcasting Policy) [threat to BBC from gap between its income and those of ITV companies] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Richard Hooper paper ("The Three T's - Television, Technology & Thatcherism") [impact of changing technologies] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 annotated agenda ("Prime Minister's Seminar on Broadcasting Monday 21 September 1987") [guest list] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Inner Cities Report") [MT meeting with author of report; "now consistent with the Government's philosophical framework, but it lacks substance and misses a few crucial areas"; question of who should have lead Ministerial responsibility for the issue] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Inner Cities Report") [MT meeting with author of report; 'report disappointing' but recommendations could usefully be sharpened] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Ingham minute to Norgrove ("Inner Cities") [best if Ken Clarke took charge of presentation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Hurd letter to Tim Janman MP (intimidation on estates) [concerns raised by Hackney constituent] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Monitoring the National Curriculum") [Baker plans for monitoring by HMI "a quite outrageous proposal"; MT - "utterly ridiculous"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (meeting of E(EP)) [papers on Maintained Further Education and GM Schools] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to George Younger ("Rate Reform: Crown Property") [liability of service personnel living in Crown property] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Major ("Role of the Treasurer") [proposed duties of the Chief Finance Officer] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nicholas Mellerah letter to David Norgrove (Seminar on Broadcasting) [cable technology] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Richard Hooper letter to David Norgrove (Seminar on Broadcasting) [television technology] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Richard Price letter to David Norgrove (Seminar on Broadcasting) [thanks] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Ponsonby minute for Stephen Sherbourne (meeting with Tebbit) ["I understand the meeting did not go too well"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Norman Tebbit to MT (press speculation on his position) ["such pieces have been commonplace"] [released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Ridley letter to Younger (relocation of the Ministry of Defence Quality Assurance Unit) [MT request that MoD officials meet with Teesside Urban Development Corporation following her recent visit to Teesside] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Inner cities") [Whitelaw meeting with MT to discuss allocation of responsibilities for the policy between Departments] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Inner cities") ["one or two quotes which suggest that the tide is beginning to turn"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to David Norgrove ("Wandsworth Rates") [likely impact of council's decisions] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) USSR: UKMIS New York telegram 750 to FCO (0215Z) ("Soviet Foreign Minister's speech, 23 September") [nuclear disarmament, perestroika, security systems] [released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Clarke letter to Walker ("Welsh Development Agency: financial limit") [increase in financial limit] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to MT ("Students and the Community Charge") [definition of students] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to John Moore ("Community Charge Exemptions") ["severely mentally handicapped" in Scotland] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to Howe PS ("Rate Reform: Crown Property") [rate for foreign diplomats] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Younger minute for MT ("House of Commons Defence Committee Report on Implementing the Lessons of the Falklands Campaign: Government Response") [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Jack Cunningham letter to MT (Social Security) [Community Charge and uprating of benefits] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Jeremy Isaacs letter to David Norgrove (Channel 4) [change in status] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cities: Nigel Wicks minute (Met Police report on Hackney) ["a terrifying description of urban deprivation"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cities: Hartley Booth and Norman Blackwell minute ("Phoenix and Inner Cities") ["If we can get enough bandwagons rolling, they will create their own energy and momentum"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT (Metropolitan police report on Hackney) ["one of the objectives of our inner cities policy is to ensure that the benefits of future Dockland-type developments do have knock-on effects. As the Hackney experience demonstrates, that just won't happen: it needs to be made to happen"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 conversation record ("Prime Minister's seminar on broadcasting") [MT, Alan Peacock, Richard Hooper, Charles Jonscher, Michael Grade, David Graham, Jeremy Isaacs, John Whitney; Sir Ian Trethowan, John Birt; Douglas Hurd, David Young, Brian Griffiths, Bernard Ingham, Nigel Wicks, David Norgrove] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Social Security") [child benefit and income-related benefit reductions likely to be most controversial] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("BBC") [MT's speech in Birmingham] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("MISC 128: 29 September 1987") [auctioning of ITV contracts, franchise ownership, C4 changes] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Satellite Broadcast Services: MISC 128(87)6") [regulation of non-DBS satellite services] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT handwritten drafts (party conference) [Inner Cities, Foreign Affairs, Education, Socialism - defeat of, Economics] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Bill Davis memo for conference speech ("Some more thoughts") ["They call it the Thatcher revolution. Well, if that's what it is, let's have more of it"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Christine Wall letter to Stephen Sherbourne (MT visit to Berlin) ["Can I be assured that in future, I am included as part of the PM's party. I simply cannot do my job without being so"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: No.10 record of conversation ("Points arising from diary meeting on Monday 28 September 1987") [newspaper group request, Peel bicentenary, nationalised industries lunch, Lord Mayor's ball, etc] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: MT letter to Chief Executive of Business in the Community (Inner cities) ["the ideas which you expressed in the report are very much in tune with my own"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Rates Reform Bill") [legislation to abolish domestic rates, introduce community, recast non-domestic rating and grant arrangements] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Environment: Norgrove briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Ridley") [inner cities, "I suspect to lobby you about the balance between DTI and DOE"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute for Powell ("House of Commons Defence Committee Report on Implementing the Lessons of the Falklands Campaign: Government Response") [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove letter to Ian Trethowan (Seminar on Broadcasting) [maintaining broadcasting standards] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove briefing for MT ("Broadcasting") [ITV restrictive practices] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: MT letter to David Waddington (Seminar on Broadcasting) [thanks] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd ("ITV System: Networking") [need for a review, independent of the IBA] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("MISC 128: Broadcasting") [a new regulatory structure for broadcasting] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove note to MT (ITV franchises) [ownership of multiple franchises] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Chris Patten draft (MT conference speech) ["There is much more work for us to do. We have to keep the initiative. We have to extend our political support. We have to win and go on winning, the battle of ideas"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 29 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Willie Whitelaw minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Rates Reform Bill") [problems with rating system and transitional arrangements] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 29 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Scottish Involvement in Local Government Finance Bill") [bill has to be capable of carrying Scottish provisions] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Bank of England letter to Peter Middleton ("Interest Rates Over the New Weeks") [market conditions; monetary conditions - case for upward move stronger than case for down] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("1987 Survey: Social Security - Income Related Benefits") [freezing child benefit, new Social Security bill] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Social Security") [reviews of mobility allowance, long-term invalidity benefit] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1600Z) ("US Special Nuclear Materials Production") (NSC 0149) [declassified Oct 2012]
PDF 87 Sep 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Norman Blackwell minute ("Inner cities Report: E(UP)") [local leadership, ministerial coordination, possible White Paper] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: John Redwood minute ("Conference speech") [the country will be "looking for more detailed guidance on how you are hgoing to develop the big issues of the late 1980s: inner city rehabilitiation, the state of the welfare services and continuing economic success"] [released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Harris Research Centre market research ("A report on the survey of the Scottish political scene") [Scottish voters protested because "they felt neglected and forgotten by the Government"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Sep 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Inner Cities report: E(UP)") ["This meeting could mark a watershed in urban policy if it formally endorses a shift from Government-led, cash-based programmes to an approach based on locally-led, self-help initiatives"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Department of Employment") [Fowler believes he would look foolish if other departments received funding increases] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Department of Employment note to David Norgrove ("DE Measures and Unemployment") [conditions for real and sustained employment growth] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [establishment of Star Chamber] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to MT ("1987 Public Expenditure Survey") [establishment of Star Chamber] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Cabinet: Public Expenditure Survey") [avoiding new spending commitments] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Broadcasting Bill") [case for proceeding more slowly with legislative timetable] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Sep 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1325 to FCO (1120Z) ("Gorbachev's Return") [summary of key points from appearance at a bilateral forum in Moscow, followed by analysis] [released Jul 2017]
Text 87 Sep 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: Reagan letter to Thatcher (international conference prospects) [declassified 2000]
PDF 87 Oct 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT notes for party conference speech (Inner Cities, Foreign Affairs, Education, Socialism - defeat of, Economics) [released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: MT draft (conference speech notes) [violence on television, responsibility for standards] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: MT notes (conference speech) [inner cities: history, geography, how to help] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: John O'Sullivan draft (conference speech: inner cities) [planners created "depressing islands of vacuity where muggers rush in and pedestrians fear to tread"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Ronald Millar draft for MT speech ("Section on 'Inner Cities'") ["Real and permanent change will only spring from the ingenuity, dedication and entrepreneurial skills of those who live there"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​Conservative Party: John O'Sullivan speech draft (party conference) [Inner Cities - "muggers rush in where pedestrians fear to tread"] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​Conservative Party: Chris Patten speech draft (party conference) [opening section] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Leadership in inner cities") [proposals] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Inner cities") [correction of figures quotes by MT] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(87) 28th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute for Younger ("House of Commons Defence Committee Report on Implementing the Lessons of the Falklands Campaign: Government Response") [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove minute to Hurd PS ("Timetable for Broadcasting Legislation") [White Paper, independent studies, radio frequencies] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("CSCE") [MT steadfastly opposed to Howe's case for backing French proposal at Vienna Conference for a follow-up human contacts conference in Moscow] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [public expenditure; Washington meetings/CHOGM; the Markets; chairmanship of SIB] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Students and the Community Charge") [exemption limited to students on longer full-time courses] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Lord Young of Graffham minute for Younger ("House of Commons Defence Committee Report on Implementing the Lessons of the Falklands Campaign - Government Response") [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Malcolm Rifkind minute to John Moore (Social Security) [Community Charge liabilites and uprating of benefits] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Survey Prospects") [overall picture, issues outstanding] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [spending targets, programmes not yet settled] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Telephone Call with President Mitterrand") [possible topics: US, German intentions on arms control, defence cooperation, Middle East] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1337 to FCO (1400Z) ("Gorbachev's Speech in Murmansk: Internal") [reports: internal & external] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit to the UK of Dr Koryagin") [MT keen to meet with Koryagin] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO record of conversation ("Quadripartite Meeting of Political Directors: Bonn: 2 October") [John Fretwell, Noiville, Richthofen, Ridgway: Geneva NST/INF; START/ABM; Reagan-Gorbachev Summit; chemical weapons; West/West relations; CSCE; Eastern Europe; Afghanistan; Iran/Iraq; Cambodia/Southern Africa ] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Mitterrand) [Franco-German defence and strategic cooperation, Anglo-French nuclear cooperation] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Draft MT conference speech (Sunday afternoon version) ["If you stop talking and acting like a Conservative, that's the moment you'll get beaten"] [released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Draft MT conference speech (Monday evening version) [sections on enterprise and education: "The socialist era in our national life ... is passing into history"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: John Gummer draft (MT conference speech) ["Socialists like us to be dependent. It increases their influence as it reduces our freedom"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​Conservative Party: MT speaking notes (speech to party agents) ["Tonight we celebrate ... Celebrate not only victory / Conviction - will to succeed"] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: O'Sullivan and Sherbourne drafts ("Inner cities section") [multiple drafts] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: O'Sullivan and Sherbourne drafts ("Inner cities section") [multiple drafts] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to George Younger ("Rate Reform: Crown Property") [position of servicemen living in Crown property] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Whitelaw PS record of conversation (Whitelaw-Moore-Fowler-Wakeham-Major-Howard-Scott) [income-related benefits] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Lawson-Major) [defence, education, aid, Scotland] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 840 to FCO (1740Z) ("FRG Economy: Interest Rates") [rate cuts "may be more psychological than practical"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Draft MT conference speech (Tuesday evening version) [annotated changes to the section on the economy, housing, privatisation] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 6 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Rates Reform Bill") [timetable for passage] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 6 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to Rifkind PS ("Rates Reform: Crown Property") [prisons and hospitals should not be regarded as residential accommodation] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("MoD Forward Purchases") [foreign currency requirement] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Francois Mitterrand message to MT (Franco-German, Franco-British defence cooperation) [rapprochment takes place within framework of the Alliance, nuclear cooperation] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Draft MT conference speech (Wednesday afternoon version) [annotated changes to the sections on the economy, education, inner cities] [released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Draft MT conference speech (foreign affairs passage) [annotated changes on relations with USSR, arms control, Middle East] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nicholas Scott minute to John Wakeham (parliamentary announcements) [child benefit, income-related benefits] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Bob Hawke message to MT (invitation to visit) [bicentenary celebrations, Expo 88] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell letter to Ewen Fergusson ("Proposed Call by Monsieur Leotard on the Prime Minister") [takes Wajsman's claims with a pinch of salt] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Misha Taratuta) [human rights: meeting with refusenik to discuss proposal to hold conference in Moscow] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Draft MT conference speech (Thursday morning version) [new introduction, annotated changes to the sections on the election, education, inner cities, relations with USSR] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Mulroney") [South Africa - "The Canadians seem to want to be more African than the Africans"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 ("Lieutenant Sethia's Diary") [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Gandhi") [India; Heads of Government meeting; Extradition Treaty; terrorism; South Africa; Afghanistan] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with President Kaunda") [South Africa; Zambian economy & debt; AIDS] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO letter to No.10 (Invitation to President Evren of Turkey for State Visit in summer 1988) [MT approves] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO minute to No.10 ("Proposed Visit by the Prime Minister to Turkey") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Professor Chris Donnelly, Soviet Studies Research Centre letter to No.10 (Papers on Arms Control Negotiations and New Technologies in Defence) ["the first is a short abstract... for the Swiss MOD... The second is by an American with whom we work frequently"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Geoffrey Howe ("External Television Broadcasting") [placing BBC and ITN on an equal footing] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prime Minister Hawke) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Kaunda) [MT "rather bridled" at Kaunda's suggestion Africa "not her area"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd ("Networking of ITV Programmes") [IBA's work on the system] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute ("Star") [letter to Lloyd Turner regarding changes to editorial line-up at tabloids, Jeffrey Archer case] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 87 Oct 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Scottish Involvement in the Rates Reform Bill") [should contain the minimum of Scottish provisions] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Moore minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Community Charge Exemptions") [payment of fees to GPs for issuing exemption certificates to "severely mentally handicapped" people] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Transition to the Community Charge") [Ridley to press MT to abandon four year phasing-in of CC] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Christine Wall minute for Nigel Wicks (Tebbit's position) ["the Labour Party are beginning to use the situation to score points"] [released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Norgrove minute for MT ("Intervention") [meeting with Chancellor and Bank officials; Lawson concludes no change in policy till Autumn Statement, if then] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("1987 Survey: Social Security") [announcements which might prove controversial] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("MISC 128") [legislation timetable, ITV, radio, subscription TV] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1745Z) ("Upcoming Shultz-Shevardnadze Meetings in Moscow") (NSPG 0168) [Shultz absent] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 87 Oct 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Wakenham minute ("Television Proceedings in the House of Commons") ["interest in the subject has continued and has been particularly strong since the beginning of the new Parliament"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2205 to FCO (2315Z) ("Summitry") ["Americans... now... thinking in terms of a post-Summit meeting at Heads of Government level"] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 16 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Students and the Community Charge") [concessions restricted to full-time students] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("A new planning total") ["[Ridley] welcomes the approach... [but urges] that the change should be made... [to coincide] with the introduction of the community charge in England and Wales"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("Independent Production Initiative") [BBC and IBA have given the commitments asked for] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Local Government Bill (Competition)") ["consultation paper on the implementation of the competition provision"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to Kenneth Baker ("1987 Public Expenditure Survey: Education") [universities, science, AIDS research] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Talk with President Mitterrand") [Franco-German discussions on defence, French moving away from isolationism, impact on UK policy] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo/Soviet Relations: Public Lecture") [UK candidate: MT favours candidates younger than those proposed by FCO] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Brian Griffiths minute ("Chairmanship of the Party") ["The press are at present doing their best to provoke controversy over the appointment"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Mark Addison minute ("Television Proceedings in the House") [proposed select committee to advise on issue] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the Markets; public expenditure] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 briefing for MT (Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary) [US action in Gulf; developments in Middle East; NATO summit] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 87 Oct 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Lord President: Wicks briefing for MT ("Meeting with Lord Whitelaw") [response to the "Great Storm"; prisons officers' dispute; Star Chamber; health of Lord Chancellor; party chairmanship] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Recent Statistics") [aide-memoire on unemployment; output; PSBR; money; current accounts] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Norman Tebbit to MT (resignation) ["continuing speculation is harmful to you, the Party and Government and I hope that you will not allow it to continue"] [released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NATO: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Possible NATO summit" - Reagan against one before his summit with Gorbachev; possible summit in first half 1988] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Safer cities") [importance of crime reduction for urban regeneration] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Commonwealth Heads of Government; EC; Howe meeting with Shultz; NATO summit; US economy; aid budget] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 87 Oct 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [Star Chamber's work complete] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young ("Networking of ITV Programmes") [draw up criteria against which IBA could develop proposals] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Franco/German Defence Cooperation") [French trying to construct Franco-centric system of European defence, playing games with WEU] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Alan Clark minute to Lord Young (visit to Moscow and Leningrad) [report] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visitors from the Soviet Union") [MT agrees to meetings with academics & delegates, subject to diary commitments] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (conference speech thanks) [“Thirteen years of collaboration is quite an achivement”]
PDF 87 Oct 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Hayek (invitation to dinner at All Souls College, Oxford) [Hayek unable to attend]
PDF 87 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Hamilton-Sherbourne minute ("Your Decision on the Party Chairman") [strong case for David Young, alternative candidates] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Shana Hole minute for Stephen Sherbourne (Tebbit speech) ["We will have many lessons to learn for the next time"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Bernard Ingham minute for MT ("Televising Commons") ["It is only a matter of time before the House is televised"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Nigel Wicks minute to Lord President's Office (televising procceedings in Canadian parliament) [magazine article] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: ​​​​​​​Sherbourne & Hamilton minute for MT ("Your Decision on the Party Chairman") ["David Young is the right man ... if you can agree with him an effective delegation of his referral powers" (as DTI Secretary)] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("E(LF): Community Charge - Transitional Arrangements for England") [Ridley proposals] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(87) 29th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Ian Trethowan letter to MT (Seminar on Broadcasting) [maintaining broadcasting standards] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Nigel Lawson ("Television Licence Fee Increases") [announcement of new fees] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS (Franco/German Defence Cooperation) [MT believes French being forced by circumstances to abandon Gaullist policy of national defence, trying to construct alternative system of European defence] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Federation of Women Zionists of Great Britain and Ireland letter to MT (human rights abuses of Jews in the Soviet Union: Ida Nudel) [thanks to MT for her help & support, on release of Ida Nudel] [released Dec 2016]
Text 87 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT letter to President Reagan (concern at US deficit) [declassified 2007]
PDF 87 Oct 23 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to Fowler ("Opting out of ILEA: consultation document") [Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Dec 2015]
PDF 87 Oct 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Middleton to Griffiths (encloses Treasury autumn economic forecast) [Norgrove notes scope for tax cuts; MT cautious] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Transatlantic inner city revival") ["Visit to USA 24th September - 7th October": findings] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Inner cities") [Ad hoc meeting: "to discuss the overall shape and direction of... policy in the light of Mr Sorensen's report"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 23 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Moore minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Students and the Community Charge") [definition of a full-time student] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Community Charge: Transition") [proposal to allow authorities a shorter transition period or opt out of dual running] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Future of local authority capital controls") ["a new system... to take effect in 1990/91 at the same time as the introduction of the community charge"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 23 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Howe PS (Public Expenditure Survey) [press notices] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell record of conversation (Powell-Bujon) [Chirac's diplomatic adviser talking on European defence issues and cohabitation, Franco-German cooperation, NATO, Franco-British cooperation] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Stephen Sherbourne minute (conversation with David Hart) [possibility of David Young as chairman] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: No.10 minute ("Diary meeting for Monday 26 October") [Young Environmentalists dinner, London Business School dinner, Save the Children carols, etc] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Charles Powell phone conversation record (Powell-Sir James Goldsmith) [post-Black Monday Goldsmith fears "deflationary crisis exactly on the lines of 1929"; suggests steps to avert] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Hong Kong") [HK market down 1/3; crisis in HK Futures Exchange] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler, Ridley, Lord Young, Clarke, Major, Richard Wilson, Eric Sorensen) ["Inner cities: improving targeting and presentation, and encouraging business leadership"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Fowler minute to MT ("Dock Labour Scheme - Transfer of Departmental Responsibility") [MT rejects proposal] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("E(LF)") [transitional arrangements, capital controls] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John Major minute to Tony Newton ("NHS and Medicines Bill") [income generation, training grants] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Tony Newton minute to Willie Whitelaw ("NHS and Medicines Bill") [income generation, local authority training grants] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Tyrie minute for Chancellor ("E(LF) Community Charge - Transitional Arrangements") ["Ridley's plans look even more suicidal than obligatory implementation in 1990-91"] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: David Norgrove note to MT (US economy) [analysis suggesting US monetary squeeze] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to Patrick Mayhew ("1987 Public Expenditure Survey: Crown Prosecution Service") [compromise on manpower savings] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Major minute to Richard Luce ("1987 Public Expenditure Survey: Arts and Libraries") [agreements reached] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Public Expenditure") [planning total will be undershot due to housing sales proceeds] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Broadcasting Legislation: MISC 128(87)10") [timing of legislation, inclusion of ITV and C4 changes in bills] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the Markets & BP] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal) to Bearpark ("Inner City seminar") [key objectives; attendees; timing] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa: CHOGM: press reactions") [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [East/West relations; Hong Kong stock market; Arab/Israel; Franco-German defence co-operation] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 87 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chief Secretary ("Future of Local Authority Capital Controls") [recommends acceptance of Ridley proposals] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) World economy/USA: Treasury minute ("World Economy: Next Steps: Letter to Baker") [draft, making proposals for "a modest dollar realignment" post-Black Monday] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Major note circulated to Cabinet - CC(87) 16 (1987 Public Expenditure Survey) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2301 to FCO (0125Z) ("US economy: reactions to developments on Wall Street") ["unprecedented volatility blamed on twin deficits and programme trading"; likely reduction in growth next year] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd ("Independent Production Initiative") [continue work on legislation as a last resort to compel broadcasters] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("MISC 128 Broadcasting") [creating more competition in TV will not be easy] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("MISC 128 - Reform of the ITV System") [opening ITN to outside investors] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Independent Production Initiative: Minute by the Home Secretary of 16 October") [voluntary arrangement for meeting 25 percent production target] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Reform of the ITV System: MISC 128(87)12, 11, 9 and 8") [outside investors, auctioning of ITV franchises] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet National Day Reception") [Ministerial representation at Soviet Embassy event to mark 70th anniversary of October revolution] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cradock minute to MT ("East/West Relations: Summit and INF Treaty") [speculation on motives behind "Gorbachev's latest maneouvre in resurrecting the SDI precondition for a Summit"] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Mini UDCs") [Urban Development Corporations: "in the light of our current discussions... I should explain briefly how these proposals relate to my other initiatives"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: George Younger minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Rate Reform: Crown Property") [objection to charging service personnel living in Crown property] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley letter to Major ("Local authority capital spending, 1987/88") ["I hope that you will be prepared to increase your suggestion of £75m"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("FRG economy: reactions to developments on the financial markets") ["satisfaction that German financial centres have thus far escaped the more violent fluctuations"; Germans 'unimpressed' by US budget deficit debate disinclined to cut rates] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Japanese reaction to the fall in world stock markets") ["fall in Tokyo less severe than elsewhere"; looking for US action on deficits; fear of loss of confidence in US dollar] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Whitelaw PS ("Timing of the Autumn Statement") [arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Cabinet: 1987 Public Expenditure Survey C(87)16") [Major seeking Cabinet endorsement for departmental settlements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Treasury minute to Bernard Ingham ("Tomorrow's Public Expenditure Cabinet") [agreement on departmental settlements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Bell-Reece memo (party chairmanship) [Sherbourne: "All they have told me is you should go for someone senior, not junior"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Stephen Sherbourne minute (Tebbit resignation) [letter to Tebbit, possible appointment of new chairman] [released 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: ​​​​​​​Sherbourne minute for MT (Party Chairman) [memo by Reece and Bell, offering no names but urging a 'senior' appointment] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Hamilton record of conversation (Environment backbench committee) [most attendees want Community Charge brought in as soon as possible] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 87 Oct 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute to MT ("South Africa") [MT blocks UK Ambassador's proposed meeting with Botha] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Rodric Braithwaite letter to Robert Armstrong ("Toronto Economic Summit: First Meeting of Personal Representatives") [briefing for the sherpas' meeting, which "will be overshadowed by the state of the financial markets and the consequences for the world economy and exchange rate mechanism"] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Ken Clarke minute to Tony Newton ("NHS and Medicines Bill") [seeks more information on income generation proposal] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley Special Adviser conversation record (Conservative Backbench Environment Committee) [views expressed] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(87) 30th (Appointment of the Lord Chancellor, Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 1987 Public Expenditure Survey) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Bridgetown telegram to FCO ("Falklands at UNGA 1987") [Dominican Prime Minister's comments on the Argentine draft resolution] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("MISC 128") [ITV issues] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO minute to Lord President ("Visit of Mr Rauf Denktash, 'President' of the 'Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ('TRNC') 27 October - 4 November") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("ILEA: measures to reduce overmanning") [Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Dec 2015]
PDF 87 Oct 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("National Curriculum") [objects to minutes of E(EP) meeting] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: US Trade Representative to Committee on Ways and Means (trade issues) ["The post-war international trading system is under unprecedented pressure today"] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Rate Reforms: Regional Visits") [progress in explaining the proposals] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("The Community Charge: Social Security Compensation Arrangements") [basis for uprating income-related benefits during transition period] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Women's Refuges") [danger from names being made public] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John Moore minute to MT ("Nursing in London Study") [pay, accommodation, initiatives] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("Structure of Broadcasting") [proposal to replace existing authorities with one body] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("External Television Broadcasting") [BBC plans for a world TV news service] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Bilateral Meeting with European Leaders") [importance of working with the French on EC matters] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn saving telegram 16 to FCO ("FRG Economy") [measures to raise finance for government's tax plans, Lawson's proposals for exchange rate management] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Oct 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Martin Nicholson minute to Mr Hall ("Rift in Soviet Leadership?") [Boris Yeltsin resignation] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Oct 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2344 to FCO (2240Z) ("US/Soviet Relations") ["joint statement [on next steps]... released following Shevardnadze's talks with President Reagan at the White House on 30 October"] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("Education Reform: correspondence with the Church of England Board of Education") [defence of Government policy] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Stephen Sherbourne minute ("Central Office") [MT should visit, meet with new Chairman Brooke, "would be good for general PR, excellent for CCO morale"] [released 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Christine Wall briefing for Peter Brooke ("Your appointment") [advice on dealing with the press] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Ponsonby minute for Archie Hamilton (MT meeting with Brooke) [MT should ring McAlpine, Tebbit, Morrison] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: MT to Norman Tebbit (resignation) ["you were the architect of our historic election victory ... when we secured our third successive term of office"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: No.10 record of conversation ("Points arising from diary meeting for 1988 held on Monday 2 November") [London Business School invitation, Child Achievement awards, tourism conference, speech on single market, etc] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Norgrove minute to MT ("National Curriculum") ["Kenneth Baker's minute is very irritating"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Nigel Wicks (Toronto Summit Personal Representatives meeting) ["it is far too early to judge what will be the main issues for the Toronto Summit or to take positions on them"] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Willie Whitelaw minute to Tony Newton ("NHS and Medicines Bill") [income generation, local authority training grants] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Norgrove minute to Hurd PS ("Structure of Broadcasting") [operation of IBA] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKA Paris despatch to FCO ("Impressions of France") [French views on UK economy, French political situation, defence policy] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 (recent developments in the Soviet Union) [background briefing, on day of Gorbachev speech to mark 70th anniversary of October Revolution] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Dr Koryagin") ["played the leading part in exposing the use of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, and was consequently sentenced to seven years in a labour camp"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT (Gorbachev's Speech on the 70th Anniversary of the Revolution: analyses and reports) ["dull & disappointing"; Soviet Dept reports] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: GDG Murrell to Llewellyn Smith, Soviet Department ("Eltsin") [Soviet press conference confirms resignation; analysis of background & likely consequences] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1574 to FCO (1700Z) ("Gorbachev's 70th Anniversary Speech, 2 November") [perestroika; foreign policy; New Economic Policy] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("The organisation of education in Inner London") [Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Dec 2015]
PDF 87 Nov 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [Autumn Statement: the Markets; Salary Review Body; appointments] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to Robert Armstrong (Toronto Summit - preparatory meetings of sherpas) [MT wants Armstrong to argue for fewer such meetings and to seek support for an "attempt to restore the Summits to something closer to their original conception"] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Willie Whitelaw minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Students and the Community Charge") [exemptions based on course length] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Middle East; Syria; US budget deficit; resignation of Weinberger; Gorbachev's position; EC; China] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 87 Nov 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Visit of Academician Marchuk and Dr. Tolstykh") [meeting with MT] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1583 to FCO (1500Z) ("Shevardnadze's Visit to Washington") [analysis, based on US account of the visit] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Stephen Sherbourne minute to MT (Central Office) [schedule for visit] [released 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Community Charge - Transition") ["Ridley's paper ... much as predicted in The Times yesterday morning"] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Powell ("Visit by Member of Yugoslav Federal Presidency") [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKHC Colombo telegram to FCO ("Falklands at UNGA 1987") [firm instructions sent to the Sri Lankan mission in New York to support HMG] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell (French foreign policy) [French attitude to western defence, German intentions] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Anglo-Soviet Lecture"] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Dr Koryagin, David Atkinson MP) [addressing the plight of dissidents in the Soviet Union] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 4 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Economy: President Reagan letter to MT (concern at US budget deficit) [fell by one third between 1986 and 1987;"my views on the potential harm of increased taxes have not changed"; with supporting documents] [declassified 2007 & 2021]
PDF 87 Nov 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2381 to FCO (2350Z) ("US/Soviet Summit in Washington") [assessment of US mood and expectations & summary of preparatory meetings in run-up to the Summit] [released July 2016]
Text 87 Nov 4 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Reagan letter to MT (concern at US budget deficit) [fell by one third between 1986 and 1987;"my views on the potential harm of increased taxes have not changed"] [declassified 2007]
PDF 87 Nov 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Maintaining momentum on inner cities") ["growing 'mutterings' that we are not following through fast enough... a short round-up of where we are, and what needs to be done"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Autumn Statement: Health") [increased resources for NHS] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Major minute for Chancellor ("Community Charge: Transition") [Ridley proposal: "I don't think we should underestimate the attraction it will have for others"] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(87) 31st (Welcome to the Paymaster General, Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Charles Powell minute to MT ("External Television Broadcasting") [ITN do not think public money should be called on for a world TV news service] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO record of conversation ("Quadripartite Meeting of Political Directors, London, 5 November") [John Fretwell, Ridgway, Noiville, Von Richthofen: arms control; Alliance consultations; East/West relations; regional issues; WEU; US/Spain] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (Education Reform Bill) [passage through House of Lords: 'opt-out' proposals] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal) to Norgrove ("Maximising private/public leverage in inner cities") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Alex Allan minute for Chancellor ("Community Charge: Transition") [draft minute to send MT] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Tyrie minute for Chancellor ("Community Charge: A Modified Safety Net") ["Ridley's latest wheeze"] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("External Television Broadcasting") [MT sees problems in making public funds available to BBC and not ITN] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn saving telegram 17 to FCO ("The Five Institutes Autumn Report") [international financial markets, German economic situation, US economy] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Angela Rumbold minute to MT ("Maintained Further Education: Financing, Governance and Law") [proportion of Governors representing local education authorities] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("Collective worship in schools") [Education Reform Bill] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: No.10 record of conversation ("Points arising from diary meeting for 1988 held on Monday 9 November 1987") [Peel bicentenary dinner, Efficiency Unit reception, National Heritage Memorial Fund, etc] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Inner cities") [White Paper] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Rates Reform Bill") [should be ready for introduction early next month] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to George Younger ("Rate Reform: Crown Property") [liability of service personnel living in Crown property] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Libya; East/West relations; European Council; Irish ratification of European Convention on Suppression of Terrorism] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 87 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Central Office of Information minute to Paymaster-General ("Community Charge publicity: Opposition criticism") [booklet produced before legislation passed] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("E(LF): "Stop" Power for the District Auditor") [consultation/legislation; timeline for introduction of legislation on prudential ratios] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT ("A new planning total") ["you will want to satisfy yourself... that the change can be made without... [suggesting] that the Goverment is less concerned now about controlling local authority expenditure"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lord Stevens) [performance of the markets] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Young PS minute to David Norgrove (Cable TV) [accelerate development of a vigorous broadcasting industry] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to Geoffrey Howe ("External Television Broadcasting") [avoid any arrangement that would put ITN at a disadvantage to BBC internationally] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1613 to FCO (0830Z) ("Prime Minister's Oral Message to Gorbachev") [Gorbachev's response] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT (request from 'The Times' to review Gorbachev's forthcoming book 'Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World') [case for agreeing to request] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to Wakeham ("Education Reform Bill") [schedule] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the Markets] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [Yeltsin's "notorious" speech; Gorbachev's visit to the UK & meeting with MT] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Department of Environment letter to Cabinet Office (Eric Sorensen) [Departmental posting relating to work on inner cities policy] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lawson minute to MT ("Community Charge: Transition") [revised Ridley proposals "still leave us exposed to unacceptable political risks"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Transitional Arrangements for the Community Charge") [problems with earlier proposals, latest scheme] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Community Charge: Transitional Arrangements") [choose to continue dual running or allow as many authorities to go straight to Charge in 1990] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Draft minute for Chancellor to send MT ("Community Charge: Transition") [Lawson comments] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Potter briefing for Chancellor ("E(LF): Transition to the Community Charge") [material to use in cabinet committee] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Whitelaw, Ridley, Major) ["A new planning total"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Geoffrey Howe ("External Television Broadcasting") [not convinced latest proposal meets intended objectives] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("The National Curriculum") [Education Reform Bill] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Hurd letter to Whitelaw ("Safer cities") ["we have consistently emphasised that the responsibility for preventing crime... extends to the whole community... The tasks for the next few weeks are to decide on the areas in which the "Safer Cities" programme should operate"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 11 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Rifkind PS minute to Andy Bearpark ("Publicity for the Community Charge in Scotland") [government information campaign about to begin] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 11 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgove ("Rates Reform Bill") [treatment of service personnel] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John O'Sullivan and Norman Blackwell minute to MT ("Moving Forward on the NHS") [waiting lists, increasing competition, producer power] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Allan minute to Potter ("E(LF): Transition to the Community Charge") [Chancellor wants more briefing for use at ministerial meeting] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 11 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Alex Allan note on Michael Howard speech ("Michael Howard looks at London and the Community Charge") [dual running "is stated Government policy!"] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute ("Money Supply in October: 'First Guess'") [Bank of England provisional figures for M0 and M3] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to Whitelaw (Education Reform Bill) [removal of academic tenure in universities] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT ("Financial delegation to schools") [Education Reform Bill: MT concerned by potential for "LEA's to frustrate the Government's intentions" by influencing school governing body appointments and dismissals] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to Whitelaw ("Education Reform Bill: Publicity") [circulaton of draft text of booklet aimed at improving public perception of Government policy on reform] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Charles Powell conversation record (MT-Rupert Murdoch-Lord Stevens-Conrad Black) [lobbying against VAT on newspapers] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Willie Whitelaw minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Rates Reform Bill") [timetable for getting the legislation ready] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Michael Howard letter to John Wheeler ("Local Income Tax") [figures for local councils] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: John O'Sullivan and Norman Blackwell minute to MT ("Framework for NHS Policy Development") [encourage private provision to expand choice] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Peter Stredder and John O'Sullivan minute to MT ("Nursing in London Study") [staff shortages, pay] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Potter briefing for PS Chancellor ("E(LF): Transition to the Community Charge") [agreed papers for ministerial meeting] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(87) 32nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Financial Affairs) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd ("Structure of Broadcasting") [operation of the IBA] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Academician Marchuk and Dr. Tolstykh") [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Robert Conquest letter to MT (Soviet Political Urgencies) ["a note on the political position... very volatile indeed"; Muscovite reactions to MT television interiews; US political scene] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to Percy Cradock ("US/Soviet Summit") [Powell dismisses Christopher Mallaby proposal, and accompanying advice, for MT letter to issue to Reagan in advance of Summit] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC Wellington telegram to FCO ("Toronto Economic Summit 1988") [sherpa meeting in British Columbia; MT "This is ridiculous. There is no point in having such an early meeting"] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to Ridley PS ("Community Charge: Transition") [outstanding issues] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office paper for ministerial meeting ("Transition to the Community Charge") [detailed briefing for ministerial meeting, with Lawson comments] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 858 to FCO (1700Z) ("FRG Economic Policy") [possibility of bringing forward tax cuts] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1638 to FCO (1440Z) ("Fall of Eltsin") ['Pravda' report: "the most revealing insight into Soviet politics and the frankest and most damning indictment of a living Soviet leader... [since] Krushchev"] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell letter to Professor Chris Donnelly, Soviet Research Centre (Warsaw Pact Proposal to Discuss Military Doctrine with NATO) ["I very much agree that there is a risk of any dialogue... becoming an unprofitable exercise in propaganda... We are therefore taking very great care in considering our response"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 16 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Monetary policy: MT draft speech section (Lord Mayor's Banquet) ["The rain it raineth on the just / And also on the unjust fella"] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Monetary policy: Chancellor's PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Guildhall Speech") [Lawson comments; rejects just/unjust fella] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: President of Senegal letter to MT (environmental pollution by cadmium: EC Commission proposals) [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("Transition to the Community Charge") [decision on arrangements primarily a political one] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to David Norgrove ("Community Charge: Transition") [impact on individuals] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Transition to the Community Charge") [safety net and dual-running] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Transition to the Community Charge") [should be no dual-running] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Potter briefing for Chancellor ("Transition to the Community Charge") [briefing for ministerial meeting] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("Local Government Bill: Homosexuality Amendment") ["two major defects"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Falkland Islands Department report ("Falklands at UNGA 16-17 November 1987") [table of voting intentions] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Wyn Roberts minute to MT ("Education Reform Bill Publicity") [proposals for Wales] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Inner cities") ["Your Chairmanship of EUP, and the breakfast meetings... are key elements here. But I do not believe that you can carry the load by yourself... I share Mr Wilson's doubts about the Ridley/Young proposal, and... There could hardly be a place for Mr Clarke in this machinery... [Ridley's] relations with Mr. Clarke are not good"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Arab/Israel; Falklands; British Council; Hong Kong; European Council] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 87 Nov 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to David Norgrove ("Community Charge Transitional Arrangements") [dual-running] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 17 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ridley-Lawson-Whitelaw-Major-Wakeham-Waddington-Howard) [decision to abandon "dual running"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 17 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Alex Allan note for Chancellor (Ingham briefing) [press coverage of decision to end dual running] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paymaster General letter to Chancellor (end of dual running) [local candidates will not thank us] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 17 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ridley-Lawson-Whitelaw-Major-Wakeham-Waddington-Howard) [Lawson's copy - note for future use MT stating no extra money] [released Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 508 to FCO (1530Z) ("Mrs Chalker's Visit to Paris: 16 September. EC Discussions") [French wish to work for agreement at Copenhagen, future financing, agriculture, budget, taxation] [declassified Jan 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Ambassador Cartledge despatch to Howe ("The 70th Anniversary of October 1917 and Perestroika: Does the Revolution Continue?") ["In this despatch I seek to draw lessons from probably the most testing fortnight of Mr Gorbachev's two and a half years as the Soviet leader"] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("United States/Soviet Summit") [cover note only, referring to circular letter from Reagan to NATO Heads of Government in advance of Summit] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: RTJ Wilson minute to Whitelaw PS (MT, Wyn Roberts) ["Education Reform Bill: Publicity"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 18 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office minute to Whitelaw PS ("Education Reform Bill: Publicity") [comments on draft Baker text] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 18 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office letter to Department of Education and Science ("Education Reform Bill: Publicity") [comments on draft booklet] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 18 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute to PS Chancellor ("Royal Household and Community Charge") [draft letter to send No.10] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Lord President: Wicks briefing for MT (meeting with Lord Whitelaw) [progress in the legislative programme] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Energy: Wicks briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Walker") [NIREX; CEGB chairman's salary] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1125 to FCO (0210Z) ("UNGA 42: Falklands Debate: 17 November") [Argentine resolution adopted; a satisfactory result] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Patrick Cox letter to Mark Addison (Seminar on Broadcasting) [EU draft convention on broadcasting could make channels like Sky unviable] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("MISC 128: Meeting on 25 November Radio Policy: MISC 128(87)13") [regulating, funding independent radio, contractors] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths briefing for MT ("Radio Policy") [new radio authority, funding and ownership, commercial radio] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1657 to FCO (1545Z) ("The Eltsin Affair: A Further Assessment") [Yeltsin's speech at the 21 October plenum "gave Gorbachev no choice but to throw him to the wolves"] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baroness Cox) ["progress of the Education Bill in the House of Lords"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Wyn Roberts) ["Education Reform Bill Publicity"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell record of conversation (CDP-Soviet diplomat Kossov) [possible Gorbachev stopover in Britain en route to Washington Summit; merits of RAF Brize Norton as venue] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Rates Reform Bill") [timetable for legislation] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paymaster General note for Chancellor (end of dual running) [quotes Walpole - "They now ring the bells, but they will soon wring their hands"] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Michael Howard letter to Nick Scott ("Community Charge - members of religious orders") [Lawson raises concerns] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(87) 33rd (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Financial Affairs) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Academician Aganbegyan") [economic reform in the Soviet Union] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("DES and the Government's Inner City initiative") [proposals] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Monetary policy: MT interview for Financial Times [includes unpublished material on shadowing the DM] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Douglas Hurd letter to Nick Ridley ("Local Government Bill: Homosexuality Amendment") [welcomes principle but warns against criminalising opinion] [declassified Oct 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Fowler minute to MT ("Mini UDCs") [Urban Development Corporations: Fowler's perspective on the Ridley proposals] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Peter Walker ("Community Charge: Women's Refuges") [disclosure of information] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Community Charge") [treatment of servicemen, social security] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Alex Allan note for Chancellor (Ingham briefing) [press coverage of decision to end dual running] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Economic Secretary ("Community Charge: Married and Unmarried Couples") [difference in their treatment] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Major letter to Ridley ("DOE/LA1 End-Year Flexibility") ["In the circumstances, I am reluctant to concede higher capital provision for local authorities"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("External Television Broadcasting") [reallocate some of BBC's grant-in-aid to get the service off the ground] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev economic adviser Aganbegyan, Terence Burns) [economic reform in the Soviet Union] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ambassador Zamyatin) [possibility of Gorbachev stopover en route to Washington; King's Cross fire] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 21 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("External Television Broadcasting") [MT thinks Howe's proposals would give BBC an unfair advantage] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 21 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("United States/Soviet Summit: Possible Visit to the United Kingdom by Mr. Gorbachev") [Charles Powell, Kossov: agreement in principle; timing of announcement; arrangements] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 21 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit") ["Some of the main questions on which it would be helpful to have your guidance before setting in hand the detailed arrangements"] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 21 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Possible Visit from Mr. Gorbachev") [provisional acceptance of invite; timing of joint announcement; arrangements] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT (the London Institute) [future] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 23 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: No.10 record of conversation ("Points arising from diary meeting held on Monday 23 November 1987") [National Trust invitation, No Turning Back Group, police conference, women in business awards, visit to Scotland, etc] [released 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Moore minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Disclosure of Information and Direct Deductions from Benefit") [information for local authorities] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 23 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury minute for Economic Secretary ("The Community Charge and Service Personnel: E(LF) on 26 November") [MOD's bizarre arrangements] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Moore letter to Ridley ("Community Charge: Disclosure of Information and Direct Deductions from Benefit") [annoyed that Ridley had circulated a paper on an issue affecting his department without consultation] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Major letter to Whitelaw ("New burdens on local government") ["Despite all our efforts, local authority spending has risen by 10 per cent in real terms over the past two years"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("Further enlargement of the European Community?") [the OD(E) paper] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Soviet Annual Lecture, 27 November") [draft message of support & proposed titles for the lecture series] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Possible Visit by Mr Gorbachev") [announcement; arrangements] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("US/Soviet Summit: Possible Visit by Mr Gorbachev") [Charles Powell, Kossov: Soviet recce of RAF base; announcement] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("US/Soviet Summit: Possible Visit by Mr Gorbachev") [MT's desired arrangements] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Stephen Sherbourne minute to Peter Brooke ("Central Office") [system for notifying Area Offices or constituencies about Ministerial visits] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [preparation for European Council; possible visit of Gorbachev; Duncan Campbell; BBC external television broadcasting; Gibraltar; visit to Nigeria] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 87 Nov 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury draft briefing for Chief Secretary ("Community Charge: Disclosure of Information and Direct Deductions from Benefit") [for E(LF) meeting 26 Nov] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("Rate Support Grant Settlement 1988/89") [announcement & late changes] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Bill Walker MP) [the military in the Falklands] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet Protest About the Observer Article on Raisa Gorbacheva") [advice on follow-up action] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Walker minute to MT ("Education Reform Bill: Publicity") [National Curriculum in Wales] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Ministerial responsibilities for the inner cities") [Ridley unhappy about the perception that Clarke will be taking over responsibility] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: Cabinet Secretary minute for Margaret Thatcher ("Electricity Privatisation") [Lord Marshall and CEGB board threaten to resign if Parkinson proposals adopted] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("E(A): major construction projects") ["ways of reducing delay"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 889 to FCO (1600Z) ("FRG Economy: Annual Report of the Five Wise Men: Federal and Government Reactions") ["Signs that the government is looking for ways out of the growth dilemma"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Possible Visit of Mr. Gorbachev") [Charles Powell, Kossov: announcement] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 Press Office minute to Ingham ("Press Requirements for the Gorbachev Visit") [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 letter to Ridley PS ("Inner cities") [Cabinet Office paper for MT meeting: geographical areas where government work should be intensified] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley) [inner cities: "his dissatisfaction about the proposal that Mr Clarke should take over responsibility"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Richard Needham minute to MT (waiting times) [initiative in Northern Ireland] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(87) 34th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Financial Affairs) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 (MT's draft reply to Bill Walker MP regarding the discussion on the Falklands) [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 871 to FCO (1610Z) ("FRG Economy") [still no signs of authorities departing from existing policy] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ambassador Zamyatin) ["Visit by Mr. Gorbachev": acceptance of invite; press criticism of Raisa Gorbachev; arrangements; programme] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: Addison minute for MT (Commons health debate yesterday) [to a large extent NHS difficulties are result of success not failure] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("United States/Soviet Summit") [possible MT message to Reagan in advance; fear of a replay of Reykjavik; message to Gorbachev rejected] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Brian Griffiths minute for MT ("Exchange Rate Policy") [Treasury pursuing de facto membership of EMS; Feldstein lecture] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Visit to Middlesbrough") ["a particularly depressing community, where the problems of demotivation... and... lack of... leadership make it difficult to see self-ignition occurring rapidly"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Inner Cities meeting: 30 November") ["We are in danger of losing sight of our basic philosophy - that local leadership is the key source of initiative"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Inner cities") [key points] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Toronto Economic Summit") [plus FCO reply; MT "considers there is not sufficient time during summits for a separate retreat, but looks forward to the customary private and informal exchanges with colleagues"] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Rating Reform: Scottish Provisions") [cross-border provisions] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Tony Newton minute to MT (financial pressures on health authorities) [Moore taking stock of options for improving resources] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Whitelaw letter to Channon ("Passenger Transport Authorities under the new local government finance regime") [improving accountability] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("Is a Recession Inevitable?") ["Of course the answer must be no" - but question constantly asked of US and therefore UK] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Bill Walker MP (the military in the Falklands) [have referred his concerns to George Younger] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra telegram 757 to FCO (0600Z) ("Queensland Government") [support for Ahern as party leader] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: UKHC Wellington telegram 521 to FCO (0200Z) ("New Zealand Economy") [package of tax cuts, benefits reforms] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) New Zealand: UKHC Wellington telegram 92 to FCO (0035Z) ("NZ Earthquakes") [scale of impact] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 Press Office minute to MT ("Visit of Mr Gorbachev") [programme] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Bangkok telegram 667 to FCO (0310Z) ("Gorbachev's Visit to Britain") [Cambodia] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("US/Soviet Summit") [proposed amendments to draft MT message to Reagan] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 29 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Douglas Hurd ("External Television Broadcasting") [modest investment justified as part of information effort overseas] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 30 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: No.10 record of conversation (action note from diary meeting) [industrial property campaign, New Zealand HC reception, charity dinner, scouts photocall, business awards, etc] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 30 Mo Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​MT: Hamilton minute for MT (gossip column story) [former owner of Aston Martin] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: Ingham minute for MT ("NHS - presentation") [Opposition exploiting every NHS sob story they can find to divert from lack of policy] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Clarke minute to MT ("Inner cities") ["we are not making full use of... private companies... What is needed is a central contact point"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, Fowler, Ridley, Lord Young, Clarke, Channon, Major, Richard Wilson, Eric Sorensen, Andrew Lean, Hartley Booth) ["Inner Cities": Urban Development Corporations] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Norman Blackwell minute to No 10 ("Health") [financial pressures on authorities] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Norman Blackwell minute to No 10 ("NHS: Nursing Shortages") [top-up incentive payments] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Moore-Griffiths) [MT disturbed at how resources going into the NHS were producing poor results] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chief Secretary letter to Ridley ("Local Government Finance Bill: Fees and Charges") ["very disappointing and puzzling" that bill does not include provisons E(LF) agreed in February] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chief Secretary letter to Ridley ("Non-Domestic Rate Transition") [rejects his 24 Feb proposal] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Nov 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Major letter to Ridley ("Local Government Finance Bill: fees and charges") ["draft Bill... does not include the provision... very disappointing and puzzling to learn that it is not yet ready"] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Edwards PS letter to Wakeham PS ("Welsh Rate Support Grant Settlement 1988/89") [schedule for Parliament] [declassified July 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 30 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Wakeham letter to MT ("Parliamentary Celebration of the "Glorious Revolution"") [arrangements] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 87 Nov 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd ("Broadcasting Spectrum Studies") [pressure to consider additional TV service to share VHF bands] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit") ["a number of points... which arise as a result of a call by the Soviet Ambassador at the Foreign Office this morning"] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 1 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: DP Walker minute to Mr Wilson ("Education Bill") [amendments to draft] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 1 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: DP Walker minute to Mr Wilson ("Education Bill") [amendments to draft] [declassified 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to Whitelaw ("ILEA: application for re-determination of 1988-89 Expenditure Level") [Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Dec 2015]
PDF 87 Dec 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the Markets/interest rates; G7] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Mark Addison minute to MT (banded Community Charge) [defects with the proposal] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Nigel Wicks minute to MT (criticism of the NHS) [ward closures] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 1 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Alex Allan note for Chancellor (Parliamentary situation) [conversation with Murdo (Maclean)] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Dec 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Treasury briefing for Financial Secretary ("L Committee: Local Government Finance Bill") [cabinet committee meeting] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 87 Dec 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation ("Monthly Monetary Assessment: November 1987") [exchange rate and domestic monetary indicators; monetary conditions tightening; annex on M0] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1714 to FCO (1450Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Gorbachev's Interview with NBC") [summary] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge: Women's Refuges") [indirect provision] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Malcolm Rifkind( "Local Government Finance Bill: Scottish Provisions") [transitional arrangements] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Scott minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Local Government Finance Bill Help With Community Charge") [rebates and compensation] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Howe, Lawson & MacGregor note circulated to Cabinet - CC(87) 17 (European Community Future Financing) [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Geoffrey Howe (Council of Europe Ministerial Conference on Mass Media Policy") [programme production, transfrontier regulation] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Douglas Hurd ("Council of Europe Ministerial Conference on Mass Media Policy: 9-10 December") [possible EC directive on broadcasting] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 2 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 916 to FCO (1505Z) ("FRG Economy: Stimulatory Measures") [Bundesbank action, government package criticised] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS (US/Soviet Summit: President Reagan's reply to the Prime Minister) [cover letter only] [released Jul 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr. Gorbachev") [Charles Powell, Ambassador Price] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Mr. Gorbachev's Stopover") [arrangements] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Dec 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 2660 to FCO (2020Z) ("INF") ["Progress in Geneva after five day hiatus": report] [released Jul 2017]

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