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PDF 85 Feb 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (sterling) [“£ perks up late in the day as dollar slid following remarks by Paul Volcker, chairman of the Fed, and good UK trade figures”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Turnbull minute (Scottish rates revaluation) [Goold “now accepts that the revaluation cannot be postponed”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Younger minute to MT (“Legal Aid in Scotland”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 27 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Home Office briefing for MT (“Animals (Scientific Procedures) Legislation”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Leon Brittan minute to MT ("Financing the BBC") [licence fee settlement, establishment of inquiry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Review of BBC External Services") [recommendations on the report's conclusions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Rees PS letter to Department of Environment ("Deregulation of Private Sector Rents") [additional housing benefit costs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: UKE Washington telegram 714 to FCO (0150Z) ("New Zealand/US Relations") [New Zealand policy on nuclear ships' visits] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: John Cushanan letter to MT ("The Northern Ireland Economy") [views of the Northern Ireland Alliance Party] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Michael McAtamney (IRA mortar attack on Newry Police Station) ["yet another chilling reminder of the sacrifices made by the [RUC] in the fight against terrorism"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Lord Gowrie PS letter to Heseltine PS ("VE-Day Celebrations") [Bernard Levin proposal for survivors/family of German Resistance & '20th July' Bomb Plot to be invited] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("White Paper on Schools") [endorsement; summary of key points] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("EC Vehicle Emission Standards") [advice on technology options in context of economic considerations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("E(A) Meeting on Vehicle Emission Standards") [environmental concerns; costs; 'concessions' on present technological options & cost implications] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("European Community Vehicle Emission Standards") [meeting to decide UK line on proposed EC Directive] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Booth minute to MT ("Planning Inquiries") [proposed reforms to the planning system] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 747 to FCO (1935Z) ("Foreign Affairs Council: 28 February 1985") ["Enlargement": "Presidency tabled outline compromise position on fish... mixed response from member states"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Office of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury letter to No.10 ("Nationalised Industries Bill: Observations of the Nationalised Industries' Chairman's Group (NICG)") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Police: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Brittan ("Pay of Police Chief Officers") [Lawson refuses to make an exception to the principle that pay for pension purposes is pay at the time of retirement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Rates and Revaluation in Scotland") [disappointed that Younger is trying to re-open the decision] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Oliver Letwin minute to MT ("Rate Revaluation in Scotland") [Younger's proposed rate rises will have a disastrous political effect] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Whitelaw, Younger, Rees, Alison, officials) ["Rates and revaluation in Scotland"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Jenkin, Baker, Sir Philip Goodhart) [Goodhart's proposal of a parliamentary forum for London] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ken Baker letter to Sherbourne ("Early Warning - Planning in the South") [backbench Conservative hostility to more housing being built in the south east] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 7th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, coal strike & teachers dispute, legislative programme) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 28 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker press statement ('final offer' to NUM on negotiated settlement of coal dispute) [settlement proposed by the TUC and NCB 'will provide miners with the greatest influence they have ever had on the future of any individual colliery'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (sterling) [“Some papers link the return of more than 50 percent of miners and the pound’s bounce back as a ‘double dose of joy’ for you”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lord Hailsham letter to MT (“Human Rights”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Attorney-General's Office letter to Armstrong (Ponting trial) [“the informed assessment is indeed that the source of the leaks from the ‘Crown Jewels’ … was somebody connected with Ponting’s defence”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: AGO letter to Armstrong (Ponting trial) [“the informed assessment is indeed that the source of the leaks from the ‘Crown Jewels’ … was somebody connected with Ponting’s defence”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington letter to Treasury (Volcker testimony to House Banking Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee) [“we are in a real sense living on borrowed money and time”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph minute to Tebbit (polytechnics and “The Switch”) [“possibility that some of the resources for this programme should be allocated to the polytechnics”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph PS minute to No.10 (increasing the output of engineers and technologists) [meeting with industrialists to discuss proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“South Africa”) [population resettlement programmes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO letter to No.10 (“SDI Testing-ABM Treaty”) [timetable for testing being brought forward] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Peter Warry minute to MT ("Financing the BBC") [appointment of Peacock inquiry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Moore minute to MT ("Capital Tax Reliefs for Heritage Property - Proposed Transfer of Responsibility from Treasury to Inland Revenue") [existing arrangements cause delay and confusion] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Housing Improvement Policy") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Rees PS letter to No.10 ("Home Improvement Policy") [suggests providing loans in place of grants] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Monckton minute to MT ("Home Improvement Policy - Grants, Loans or Both?") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Visit of the New Zealand Prime Minister") [Lange's defence policy, ship visits] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (proposal for Anglo-Irish Parliamentary Body) [Conservative backbench interest in scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong-Nally talks; proposes new Cabinet Policy Committee on Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Secretary General of the European Parliament letter to MT (Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of Victory in Europe Day) [adoption of resolution] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Rees minute to MT ("European Fighter Aircraft") ["proposed timetable, and the risk in relation to the BAe sale"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: MT letter to Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (burdens on Business) [proposal to defer introduction of new Consumer Credit Act regulations pending outcome of the Scrutiny of administrative and legislative burdens] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Ethnic Minority Education") [Swann report "ignores the possibility that the social disadvantages of [West Indian] children are themselves in part a product of innate lack of intelligence"; advice on Keith Joseph's proposed response] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Scottish Teachers' Pay") [advice against Younger's latest proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: UKE Bonn telegram 174 to FCO (1606Z) ("French/German Summit 28 February: Vehicle Emissions") [participants; issues to be addressed] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Letwin minute to MT ("Meeting with Tom King") [recommended line to take on employment strategy, the Community Programme and youth training] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Willetts minute to Turnbull ("NHS Supervisory Board for Scotland") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Santiago telegram 048 to FCO (1255Z) (Sir William Harding Visit to Chile, 26-28 February") [assessment of political scene & economy] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Asia") [revised programme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Benefits") [MISC 111: social security savings targets; proposals for reform of social security system] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 275 to FCO (1145Z) ("Chernenko") [report on most recent public appearance: "may have done more harm than good"] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Department of Trade and Industry minute for Powell ("Transfer of Carbon-Carbon Technology to the USSR: Consarc Engineering Limited") [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute for MT ("Local Government Seminar: 31 March") [struggling to keep out 'gate-crashers'; "The aim is to seek a political, rather than a technical, reaction"; MT - "NO further invitations - already TOO large"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Secretaries’ note circulated to Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 1 (“Lessons of the miners’ strike”) [tasked to make “thorough and comprehensive study of lessons”] declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling minute to MT (“Review of the CAP”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 1 March 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 9th Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Education: Letwin minute (“Education: Further Information”) [teachers’s pay, exam reform, non-teaching costs] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Department of Trade & Industry press release (“1985, the year of opportunity for cable TV: Minister praises Swindon Cable”) [“Cable means investment in new technology and new jobs”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Treasury (“Ministerial Group on Deregulation”) [membership] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Queen’s Speeches and Future Legislation Committee membership) [addition of Minister without Portfolio] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Department of Transport minute to No.10 (“Laker: Attempted Settlement”) [negotiations between BA and Exim Bank] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: UKE Washington telegram 730 to FCO (0540Z) (“Laker Settlement”) [negotiations between BA and Exim Bank] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Rome to FCO (“Italian Arms Sales to Argentina”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Alliance: Sherbourne minute for MT ( Times articles on the Alliance) [three part series by George Brock] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Wybrew minute for MT (“Coal Dispute”) [advantages of a return to work without agreement; Turnbull cover note] [released 2015]
Text 85 Mar 2 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 2 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Call by New Zealand Prime Minister, 4 March 10.30 a.m.") [Lange's stance on nuclear weapons] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 2 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: UKE Hungary telegram to FCO ("Hungarian Foreign Minister's visit to London") [General Secretary János Kádár visit to UK; East/West relations; SDI; trade; EC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 2 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO (“Greek Cypriot internal politics”) [“Kyprianou rejects calls for his resignation”] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Mar 3 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 3 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Exchange of Letters with Dr Paisley") [risk DUP will not participate in further talks on devolution unless government goes some way to meet them] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 3 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Hungarian Foreign Minister, 7 March") [General Secretary János Kádár visit to UK; arms control; Hungarian economy/politics; trade;EC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 3 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: MT notes (remarks on end of strike) [“Investment halted/Now start/No compulsory redundancies”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 3 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: No.10 note for MT (end of strike) [Walker & Ingham need to speak with you; Sherbourne sends congratulations] [released 2015]
Text 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Butler ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Security Co-Operation with the Republic") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Whitelaw minute to MT (proposed Anglo-Irish Parliamentary Body) [House of Lords-Irish Senate link] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chile") [case for supporting EC démarche against lack of judicial safeguards for defendants on trial for assassination of the Governor of Santiago] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Beijing telegram 94 to FCO (0330Z) ("Lord Young's Mission: Meeting with Mme Chen Muhua") [Lord Young, Muhua, leaders of UK industry: record of conversation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Confidential") [original title "Budget - Secret": meeting with Lawson to discuss Youth Training Scheme and National Insurance Contributions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Department of Environment letter to No.10 ("Superstores and Planning") [response to Sir John Sainsbury's concerns about planning system: Jenkin agrees to defer statement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Michael Morris MP-Clarke) [limited list of NHS drugs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("The Three Advisers: Terms of Reference and Statement of Procedures") [revised and updated] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Study of Tax and Social Security Systems") [proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Hungarian Foreign Minister") [General Secretary János Kádár visit to UK; East/West relations; arms control; trade; internal economy/politics] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Heseltine minute for MT ("Falkland Islands: Mount Pleasant Airport Opening Ceremony") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: No.10 briefing [for PMQs?] (“NUM Dispute: Key Facts”) [pits working; lost faces; amnesties; criminal cases] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC101(85) 9th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [final meeting - strike ends][declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 4 March 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Lessons of the Miners’ Strike”) [proposal for a study] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT (miners' return to work: line to take) [Redwood's suggestion: 'The return of the miners voluntarily...is an historic victory for common sense'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 6 (Conveyancing by Employed Solicitors) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 minute to FCO (“Sinking of the Belgrano: Disclosure of Information to the Foreign Affairs Committee”) [arrangements for access to “Crown Jewels”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 minute to Howe (“Sinking of the Belgrano: Disclosure of Information to the Foreign Affairs Committee”) [arrangements for access to “Crown Jewels”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: No.10 letter to Whitelaw PS (“Membership of QL”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Butler minute for MT (possible Pertini visit) [suggests she make clear Pertini should decide whether to attend Oxford degree ceremony regardless of Oxford refusing her one; MT agrees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Tebbit minute to Heseltine (“Skill shortages”) [proposals for tackling “the serious, and increasing, shortage of skilled people in high technology industries”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Flesher minute to MT (“Switch”) [MT’s view “that it might be better if the announcement were separate in order to avoid being overwhelmed by the rest of the Budget”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Price telegram to Secretary Shultz (British pressure on US chemical weapons stance) [declassified 2002]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Michael Alison note to MT (anonymous letter from Yorkshire woman) [“thank you for not letting the lights go out … I was dreading light candles & filling hot water bottles”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Department of Trade & Industry letter to No.10 ("BL Privatisation") [privatisation of Unipart and Land Rover] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: FCO telegram 248 to UKE Bonn (1750Z) ("Westlands") ["Indians fishing for more aid"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Beijing telegram 99 to FCO (0210Z) ("Lord Young's Mission") [report: "has gone very well"; "press reports that Lord Young has received less high level attention than the Japanese"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine letter to George Younger ("RAF Future Basic Trainer") [request for Younger's officials not to participate in Equipment and Policy Committee meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Quarterly Report on Defence Sales and Prospects 1st October to 31st December 1984") [Charles Powell notes: "Disappointing... But some useful prospects in the countries you will be visiting at Easter"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Downing Street: No.10 letter to former Prime Ministers (BBC documentary on the 250th Anniversary of the Prime Minister's Official Residence) ["In case you receive... an approach... the BBC have the Prime Minister's agreement to their making this programme"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chairman of the Tory Reform Group letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (the Budget and unemployment) [proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Abolition of BNOC") ["The immediate priority is to scale down BNOC's loss-making participation contracts as fast and as far as possible before legislation is required"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 815 to FCO (2159Z) ("Special Committee for Agriculture: 4-6 March 1985 Price Proposals General Reactions") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Turnbull minute to MT ("Employment Related Policy Announcements") [advice on scheduling of announcements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Education and Training for 14 to 18 year olds (E(A)(85) 14, together with E(A)(85) 8 and 9)") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler) ["Social Security Reviews"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: George Younger minute to MT ("Rates and Revaluation in Scotland") [package to ease the impact on domestic ratepayers; MT - "It is pretty PATHETIC - but Scotland must carry the can"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull briefing for MT (meeting with Lady Porter) ["to discuss her ideas on [Westminster Council's] role in the post-abolition world"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food record of conversation (fisheries aspects on enlargement & the CAP price-fixing) [Jopling, French State Secretary for European Affairs] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 5 March 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Tebbit minute to Joseph (The Switch and polytechnics) [“we should rely on industry’s advice in deciding which, if any, polytechnics should be included within the scope of the exercise”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: David Barclay to MT (departing Private Secretary) [“the greatest privilege to work for you”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Robin Butler minute to Robert Armstrong (Financing the BBC) [possiblity of Peacock as chairman for inquiry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Brittan) [inquiry into financing the BBC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO letter to Powell ("Visit of Barre: 7 March") [background for MT's meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO letter to Powell ("Hong Kong: Joint Liaison Group") [MT "reluctantly" agrees that Governor should not be part of Group] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: MT letter to Lord Kadoorie (Guangdong Nuclear Project: Kadoorie's visit to China) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Lawson-Biffen-Jenkin-Tebbit-Younger-Edwards-Rees-Gummer-Gow-Newton-Monckton-Brearley) ["Home Improvement Policy"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Downing Street: No.10 Security Coordinator minute to Robin Butler ("250th Anniversary - BBC TV Programme") [note of a meeting with producers: uncertainty regarding focus/objectives] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Tom King PS ("Budget Day Press Notices") [request to Departments for confirmation of subject matter of any press notices they intend to release] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Ingham minute to MT ("ITN - Levy") ["concerned lest there is any change in the Budget to the system by which they are financed"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Biffen letter to Younger ("Industrial Action by Scottish Teachers") [rules out classifying the action as a breach of Parliamentary privilege] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Walker, Buchanan-Smith) ["BNOC": options for, and announcement regarding future; privatisation of the Government Pipeline System] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 195 to FCO (1830Z) ("EC Financing") [risk of diplomatic rift over UK abatement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with PM of Belgium; EC enlargement; EC Budget: 1985, own resources decision, UK ECU abatement; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (unused land and buildings in the public sector) [response to MT request for details; advice] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Conveyancing by Employed Solicitors") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: urges more robust approach and rejection of Hailsham's 'wrecking amendment'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Public Inquiries") [delays at public inquiries; the planning system and need for reform] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Letwin and Willetts minute to MT ("Youth Training Scheme") [suggested tactics for ensuring value for money scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Kyprianou: 8 March") [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("South East Asia: Speeches") [topics; initial drafts] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: John Wakeham PS letter to No.10 (bombing of the Grand Hotel, Brighton: Coroner's inquest) [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit to Britain by Mr Kadar") [General Secretary János Kádár: question of a meeting with the Queen] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Jenkin PS to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit") ["we should firmly resist German attempts to suppress or modify" conclusions on the environment] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 6 March 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Goold letter to Alison (Scottish rating revaluation) [“The situation is becoming more serious by the minute”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (Liaison committee) [upcoming events] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to President Duarte of El Salvador (“El Salvador: Human Rights”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Information Technology Advisory Panel letter to MT (“Cable systems”) [Paper with recommendations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“Cable Systems”) [Information Technology Advisory Panel follow-up to 1982 report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“ITAP report: Cable Systems: A re-assessment”) [Information Technology Advisory Panel follow-up to 1982 report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Younger letter to Joseph (“Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“I am prepared, in the light of the willingness of other Ministers with ‘economic’ responsibilities to contribute to the switch”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: FCO telegram 408 to UKE Washington (1400Z) (“Laker”) [British Airways negotiations with Exim Bank] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: FCO record of conversation (Howe-US Ambassador) [Laker Airways situation: possible solutions & BA’s offer] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: UKE Washington telegram 783 to FCO (0325Z) (“Laker”) [British Airways negotiations with Exim Bank] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Gordon Reece to MT (conversation with Larry Lamb) [ways to improve British PR in the US] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Flesher minute for MT ("Drinks with ACPO" - senior police) [they had cold feet last summer for fear of over close identification with govenment during strike; ok now strike over] [released 2015]
Text 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Raymond Barre) [economic prospects, political situation in France, EC issues] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Secretary minute to MT ("Capital Tax Reliefs for Heritage Property: Proposed Transfer of Responsibility from Treasury to Inland Revenue") [recommends she approve] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Gowrie minute to MT ("Capital Tax Relief for Heritage Property: Proposed Transfer of Responsibility from Treasury to Inland Revenue") [does not oppose change] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Foreign Secretary minute to MT ("Treatment of members of Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service (HMOCS) in Hong Kong") [arrangements for pension provision] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Howe-Hurd views on Armstrong-Nally talks and possible Anglo-Irish agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks: Joint Courts") [Northern Ireland Lord Chief Justice opposes Anglo-Irish joint courts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [next steps and decision points in Armstrong-Nally talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: MT message to President Pinochet (earthquake in Chile) [offer to assist with relief measures] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chile at the UN") [case for voting in favour of latest UN resolution criticising human rights violations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Robert Maxwell (Army Medal Office: waiting period for campaign medals) [defence of the Government's record; invitation to visit Medal Office] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Confidential") [original title "Budget - Secret" scored out; "Selling this Budget is going to be difficult": proposed lines to take on public expenditure, income tax reform & pensions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Budget Proposals") [income tax; national insurance contributions; business taxation; tax reform; minor measures; total cost; PSBR] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute to Whitelaw ("Budget Presentation") [proposed lines to take for Lawson's Budget speech, on costs, to be borne by the public, attributable to Arthur Scargill's leadership of the miners' strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: John Moore PS letter to No.10 ("Water Privatisation") [measures in hand] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Prime Minister Willoch of Norway letter to MT (decision of UK Government not to agree Sleipner gas deal with Norway) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Cyprus: Prime Minister's Meeting with Kyprianou: 8 March") [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Foreign Minister of Hungary) [General Secretary János Kádár visit to UK; arms control; EC; Hungarian & Soviet economies; Chernenko] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: MT letter to President Ortega (Nicaragua, the US and the Contadora process) ["(we) remain convinced that the Contadora process presents the best opportunity to achieve a peaceful solution to the crisis in the region"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Younger PS minute to Tim Flesher ("Revaluation and Rate Support Grant (Scotland)") [draft statement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 8th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, coal strike & teachers dispute, unemployment) [coal strike ended] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 6 March 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Ricketts letter to Charles Powell (UN statue to commemorate International Youth Year) [risk that if MT agrees to send a message for inscription “various other respectable and equally deserving organisations from UK and other countries may seek similar treatment”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Labour: MT note on Kinnock (report of Kinnock visit to NATO) [“Pushover for the Soviets”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 minute to Department of Education (The Switch to Engineering and Technology) [MT’s thoughts on the timing of the announcement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Terence Conran, Nigel Whitaker) [shop hours] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: UKE Washington telegram 798 to FCO (0715Z) (“Laker”) [BA negotiations with Exim Bank] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 (“Falkland Fisheries”) [international fishery regime in the south-west Atlantic: FAO assistance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: Leon Brittan to MT (lunch with Archbishop & Terry Waite) [very helpful to have Waite’s insights into Libyan activities] [released 2015]
Text 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Robert Armstrong minute to Robin Butler ("Financing the BBC") [possible chairmen for inquiry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Norman Tebbit minute to MT ("Financing the BBC") [appointment of Peacock review] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Jerry Wiggin letter to MT (Westlands Helicopters for India) [feelings of constituents] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 124 to FCO (1115Z) ("Anglo-Irish Talks") [Irish press reporting of Irish Foreign Minister Barry comments on talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: An Anglo-Irish Parliamentary Body") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Protection of Police in RUC Buildings") [response to Newry mortar attack] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Hurd-Armstrong & others) ["Anglo-Irish Relations": Armstrong-Nally talks; intergovernmental consultation on Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: FCO briefing for MT ("Farewell Call by Chinese Ambassador") [character analysis/background to appointment; proposed topics of discussion] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Hurd minute to Heseltine ("RAF Trainer") [merits of Shorts' Tucano bid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Downing Street: Robin Butler minute to No.10 colleagues ("250th Anniversary of No.10 - BBC TV Programme") [No.10 conditions for granting permission to film] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker (Budget issues affecting oil) [details of resolutions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Department of Education briefing for MT (meeting with Baroness Cox to discuss radical education initiatives) [background material] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rees PS letter to Keith Joseph (controlling public expenditure: teachers' pay recommendations) [request for Treasury concerns to be taken into account in Keith Joseph/Younger's joint paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Walker minute to MT ("BNOC") [announcement of run-down; scheduling of legislation to enable abolition; Government pipeline system/national security; royalty in kind] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Booth minute to MT ("Planning Inquiries") [delays at public inquiries; need for reform] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: DHSS letter to No.10 ("Health Charges") [statement on expanded NHS patient charges] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("GEC and the Subsidy Machine") [analysis of position of General Electric Company] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Kyprianou of Cyprus) [UN negotiations over Cyprus] [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to S.E. Asia: Speeches") [criticism of FCO drafts; preliminary work by No.10] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for February 1985") ["...a fall in industrial production and a deterioration in the balance of trade. Otherwise, the picture was largely unchanged..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: FCO to UKDEL IMF-IBRD Washington (“Sensitivities”) [debt rescheduling] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Budget proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 8 March 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Wybrew minute to MT (“Coal Dispute - Endurance, and New Colliery Review Procedure”) ['We are now in a unique position to succeed'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Rebuilding Power Station Coal Stocks”) [options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Rees letter to Walker (“Miners Redundancy Pay and Pensions”) ['I was disturbed to hear that there is a possibility of miners being eligible for pension in respect of periods on strike'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: MT letter to Lord Hanson (end of strike) ["We have shattered the myth that the miners can always bring a government down"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph letter to Tebbit (“Increasing the output of engineers and technologists”) [“It is essential to secure some increase in intakes to universities this autumn to show that the Goverment is taking decisive action”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BISBA to FCO (“Armed Forces Reshuffle”) [situation in Argentina] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Mar 9 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 9 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Ranjiv Gandhi message to MT (MT's stop-over in Delhi) [issues causing concern] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: UKE Washington telegram 848 to FCO (0155Z) (“Laker Settlement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 854 to FCO (0400Z) (“US-Soviet Arms Control Negotiations: US Approach”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Mar 10 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 10 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin paper ("London Boroughs Forum") [perceived need for a body "speaking for London" on planning and land issues] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 10 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (US-Soviet talks on arms control in Geneva: US objectives) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Treasury ("Capital Tax Reliefs for Heritage Property") [MT approves transfer of responsibility from HMT to Inland Revenue] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hailsham minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks: Joint Courts") ["I see no future" in proposal for Anglo-Irish joint courts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO minute to No.10 ("Possible Visit by the Prime Minister to Turkey") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Percy Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("President Chernenko") [death and funeral plans, delay to arms talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (Gorbachev's election) [aim of building confidence between east and west] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: MT message to Andrey Tikhonov (Chernenko's death) [has deprived Soviet Union of an "experienced leader"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howe minute to Peter Walker ("BNOC") [no objections to Walker announcing abolition of BNOC, subject to informing other interested governments in advance; anticipates negative reactions from oil producers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: UKRep Brussels telegram 921 to FCO (1933Z) ("Commission Programme for 1985. Environment, Transport and Consumer Protection") [summary] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 913 to FCO (1925Z) ("Commission Programme for 1985") [analysis of key proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Prime Minister's Speech on World Economic Issues") [No.10 synopsis, to serve as basis for drafts of speeches, for MT tour of South East Asia] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Ex-Services' Association of Singapore letter to No.10 (Prime Minister's Visit to Singapore) [expression of disappointment that MT's schedule unable to allow time for attending memorial ceremony] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (Poland) [UK declines to join Polish Catholic Church Agricultural Scheme] [declassified Jun 2023]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lady Porter minute to MT ("GLC Abolition and Westminster's Role") [Westminster pleased to take on London-wide functions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Lady Porter minute to Kenneth Baker ("GLC Abolition and Westminster's Political Role") [GLC mis-information likely to give the government trouble] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Howe minute to Tebbit ("A New GATT Round") ["[Our] overriding interest... is to preserve the system of comparatively free trade represented by the GATT. Perhaps the main threat... is the mounting [US] protectionist pressure... The French and the Italians are instinctive protectionists, which we and the Germans are not"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Walker-Tebbit-Havers-Bottomley-Gregson-Redwood) [modified Colliery Review Procedure: next steps in implementing NACODS-NCB agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Walker-Gregson-Redwood) ["Rebuilding Power Station Coal Stocks"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Coal: Alison letter to Walker (“Mr Brian Askew”) [candidate for NCB chairmanship] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell note to Ricketts (UN statue to commemorate International Youth Year) [MT regards request for a message to inscribe as “a rather strange request”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Sir Percy Cradock minute to No.10 (“Attempted assassination of Air Marshall Hine”) [German authorities investigate possible act of terrorism] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (affirms “personal commitment ... to serious negotiations”)
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 letter to FCO (“Death of President Chernenko”) [arrangements to attend funeral] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKDEL NATO telegram 94 to FCO (1349Z) (“US-Soviet Nuclear Arms Control Talks: Briefing at North Atlantic Council by US Team”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute to No.10 (“Proposed Visit to the UK of Mr. Paul Nitze”) [opportunity to discuss the Geneva talks] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Leon Brittan minute to MT (BBC Licence Fee) [BBC proposals, Peacock inquiry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO telegram 329 to UK Delegation NATO (0921Z) ("Death of Chernenko: Attendance") [interim list of funeral attendees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 339 to FCO (1842Z) ("Call on Gorbachev") [arranging short meeting for MT (15 minutes)] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow briefing for FCO (background on Gorbachev) [Gorbachev's election speech, visiting delegations, Dumas talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to Heseltine ("European Fighter Aircraft") ["We are fully agreed on the need to do everything we possibly can to make this major collaborative European project a successful reality"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph, Baroness Cox, Pofessor Arthur Pollard, Dr. John Marks, Oliver Letwin) [role of state schools as centres for excellence; guidance for schools on preventing political propaganda dissemination in schools; effective representation of conservative views via Party & Parliament; structure of higher education/ILEA; compulsory membership of student unions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("BNOC") [supports Walker's draft announcement to Parliament on run-down of BNOC; pipeline/royalty in kind] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Heseltine letter to Peter Walker ("BNOC") [Government Pipeline System: problems posed by privatisation; alternative options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: FCO Parliamentary Clerk letter to Biffen PS ("Oral Statements") [avoidance of oral statements to House during Budget-debating period; requests for exceptions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Co-Chair of the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry (human rights abuses in the Soviet Union) [best wishes to MT for her forthcoming visit to Moscow] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Spain: High Level Visits") [scheduling/prioritising of respective visits by King Carlos, President Chadli & King Hassan II; Howe meetings with Moran re Gibraltar; MT visit to Madrid] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to Robert Armstrong ("Bonn Economic Summit") ["it is not appropriate to set up continuing groups in the Economic Summit"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Hartley Booth minute for MT ("Hackney Council") [trying to get radio tapes of council proceedings refusing to set a rate] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 letter to Howe APS (“Cyprus”) [Kyprianou more optimistic after meeting with de Cuéllar] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing for MT (“Meeting with Mr Gorbachev”) [talks after funeral] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow to FCO (“Election of Gorbachev”) [Chernenko unmourned] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 (“Falklands Fisheries”) [the draft Agreement between the CTC and the Falklands] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Peter Warry minute to MT ("BBC Licence Fee") [schedule for increases] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Leon Brittan minute to Stuart Young (BBC's annual accounts) [important BBC should be seen to be conforming with good accounting practices] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gandhi) [elections, Sikhs, Sri Lanka, Westland helicopters] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 135 to FCO (1012Z) ("Anglo-Irish Talks") [Irish press comment on Hurd remarks in Belfast] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Peking telegram 310 to FCO (0324Z) ("Chernenko's Death") [Chinese attendance at funeral] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO telegram 272 to UKE Moscow (1515Z) (update for MT's press conference) [exchange markets, interception bill, strategic defence initiative, crime] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with Mr. Gorbachev: Speaking Note") [Gorbachev's election, economic management, strategic defence initiative, US-Soviet relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Mark Addison minute to MT (White Paper 'Better Schools' - draft summary for publication alongside the Paper) ["much too long"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Peter Walker ("BNOC") [Lawson comments on draft announcement to Parliament on run-down of BNOC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("Vehicle Emissions: Environment Council, 7 March") [report of meeting ending in impasse; next steps; wider implications, for free movement of goods, of failure to agree; Foreign Affairs Council] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tebbit minute to Howe ("Co-operation with the Dutch on the Internal Market") ["we should not pursue... to the point where it prejudices efforts to form a common position with other, perhaps less tractable, Member States"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC enlargement; EC Budget: 1985 overrun, Integrated Mediterranean Programmes, own resources decision, UK ECU abatement; Environmental Impact Assessment Directive; vehicle emissions; 1985-89 expenditure on financing of agricultural structures; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Parliamentary Affairs: Conveyancing by Employed Solicitors") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: DHSS letter to No.10 (request from US Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association to meet with MT) [PMA objects to limited list of NHS drugs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Privy Council Office letter to Private Secretaries ("Motion on the Easter Adjournment") [briefing arrangements] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO minute to No.10 ("Soviet Statements on Nuclear Weapons") [response to MT query prompted by reference in Gorbachev election speech to complete elimination of nuclear weapons] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hungary: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit to Britain by Mr Kadar") [General Secretary János Kádár; confirmation of dates] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT notes (conversation with Gorbachev) [his remarks to her, her planned remarks to him] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT notes (Chernenko funeral) [jottings to aid writing of her memoir] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Prime Minister González, Carlos Westendorp) [MT visit to Spain; Gibraltar; NATO & EU membership; Gorbachev/Soviet Union] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury internal minute (“‘Alternative Budgets’ 1985”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“North Sea Fiscal Regime: 1985 Budget”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“The Budget: effect on Civil Service manpower”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute to MT (“Draft Green Paper on Personal Income Tax”) [MT disapproves] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“FSBR”) [Financial Statement and Budget Report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: No.10 record of conversation (“Meeting between the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. Mulroney, at the British Embassy, Moscow on 13 March 1985 at 1730”) [Mulroney’s priorities: US alliance and economic relationship; federal-provincial relations; budget deficit; SDI] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Tebbit PS (Information Technology Advisory Panel report) [“re-cabling Britain would generate significant economic activity and stimulate industry”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“1985 pay negotiations for non-industrial civil servants”) [“There are conflicts between our objectives as an employer and what we are trying to achieve nationally with regard to pay”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Vice-President Bush) [Mozambique, arms control, Egypt, Laker case, Soviet Union, Middle East, exchange rates] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Zia-ul-Haq) [Pakistan;Afghanistan] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Machel) [Mozambique, Nkomati Accord & South Africa] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney) [Canada; SDI] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe - Vice-President Bush, Shultz) [Mozambique, Nkomati Accord; Arms Control; Lebanon; Egypt; Laker; Gorbachev; Afghanistan; Exchange Rates; US/Soviet relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with Mr Gorbachev: speaking note”) [talks after funeral] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Ingham minute for MT (“Press Conference”) [media see MT as most important visitor at Chernenko funeral] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez) [MT visit; Gilbraltar; Spanish accession to EC] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi) [Sikhs; Sri Lanka; Afghanistan; Gorbachev; Westland] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT - General-Secretary Gorbachev) [Geneva talks & SDI; Gorbachev: “We must continue to meet and talk to one another and have exchanges of views”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 895 to FCO (0128Z) (“US-Soviet Arms Control Negotiations: US Approach”) [defence, space, START, INF Treaty] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Brittan-Lawson) [review of BBC financing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Letwin minute to MT ("Wages Councils") [comment on King paper; need for "robust presentation of the argument against Councils"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: King minute to MT ("Wages Councils - Draft Consultative Paper") [abolition or reform of Wages Councils] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (Anglo-Irish talks: leaks to Irish newspapers) [suspects leaks come from Irish sources] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe PS letter to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong-Nally talks: scope of British Proposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Job Centre Manager of the Year Award) [MT agrees no significant risk of public criticism and approves the scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr Gorbachev: Briefing of the Ten") [MT never keen to divulge too much on these occasions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: George Younger letter to Heseltine ("RAF Basic Trainer") [outline of the merits of BAe's PC-9 bid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Tebbit letter to Heseltine ("European Fighter Aircraft (EFA)") [stresses need to agree on merits of collaborative strategy and on negotiating tactics, to avoid "exploitation" by France] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("European Fighter Aircraft") ["We recommend that you should, at this juncture, sound a cautionary note"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Ridley letter to Lord Young ("British Airports Authority") [BAA involvement in Docklands STOLPORT; privatisation of BAA] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 minute to Department of Trade and Industry (Anglo-Indonesian Coporation) [Chairman's correspondence with MT, regarding Corporation's problems establishina a new plantation in Indonesia] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell to Master of Churchill College, Cambridge (visit to Brunei) [MT will try to ask Sultan of Brunei for donation to Archive Centre when she meets with him] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury Minute Replying to the 5th Report of the Public Accounts Committee, 1984-85") [proposed Treasury/MoD joint reply; request for clearance; arrangements] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Armstrong minute for Butler (export licence for the carbon-carbon equipment) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10: Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("Review of support for industrial R&D") [MT approves Tebbit's plans but wants the spending reduced even further than proposed, and to scrutinise the proposed budget; also keen to see companies contributing to local communities in return for grant aid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Oliver Letwin minute to MT ("GLC and Westminster: Lady Porter's Letter") [Porter's proposal needs careful handling] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Rees PS letter to George Younger PS ("Rates and Revaluation") [sets out agreed package of offsetting savings to fund increase in domestic rate relief] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT reply to written question (“main achievement of HMG since June 1983&rdquo)
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 9th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, football hooliganism) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKDEL Strasbourg telegram to FCO (“European Parliament Resolution on CAP Prices”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury internal minute (“‘Alternative Budgets’ 1985”) [summary of Shadow Chancellor press statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Walker (“FSBR”) [Financial Statement and Budget Report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO (“Cyprus”) [“the discussions in Geneva had not gone into the degree of substance expected”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Younger letter to Joseph (“Increasing the output of engineers and technologists”) [“I have the most serious difficulty with the almost token recognition of the Scottish universities in your proposed 1985/86 allocations”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Tebbit letter to Joseph (“Increasing the output of engineers and technologists”) [agrees with proposal &ldquothat we give immediate approval to bids of clear academic excellence, where industry has also given a high grading for industrial relevance”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph PS minute to Lawson PS (“Budget Day press releases: The Switch”) [funding found within existing resources] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“The funeral of President Chernenko”) [“The organisation has improved with practice. But this time we were only going through the motions”] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Football Hooliganism") [response to Luton-Millwall football riot] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Powell minute to MT (Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service (HMOCS) in Hong Kong: pensions) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 140 to FCO (1215Z) ("Anglo-Irish Relations") [Armstrong-Nally talks: Irish concerns about Hurd remarks; possible amendment to Irish Constitution] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Lord Young minute to MT ("UK Trade Mission to China and Hong Kong 27th February - 13th March 1985") [report on visit - "enormously worthwhile"; follow-up] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram 209 to FCO (1130Z) ("IMPS") [Integrated Mediterranean Programmes: "non-tilting of structural funds towards the Mediterranean"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community Budget 1985, the Revised Own Resources Decision and the United Kingdom's 1000 Million ECU Abatement") [summary of "the state of the various proposals for establishing a 1985 Community budget"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Maputo telegram 131 to FCO (1136Z) (EC support for peace and stability in southern Africa & aid for Mozambique) [text of letter from Foreign Minister Chissano to Italian ambassador] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 1008 to FCO (1645ZZ) ("Ad Hoc Committee on Institutions (Dooge Committee) Brussels 13/14 March - Final Meeting") [main features in final report, for UK interests; record of proceedings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Lee Kuan Yew") [recollections of first meeting with MT] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Königswinter Conference 1985: 21-23 March") [MT reluctant message of support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Statement on the Defence Estimates 1985") [No.10: "...generally uncontroversial indeed bland..." - Europe within NATO; arms control; Trident] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Michael Havers minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Abolition: Counter Obstruction") [legal difficulties associated with surcharges] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Robin Butler minute to MT (Lord Rothschild) [Rothschild asks to see MT, Butler suspects, "to ask if you want to abolish domestic rates altogether ... (h)e hankers after this"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Redwood briefing for MT (meeting with Lord Rothschild) [Rothschild's thinking] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 note for the record (“Prime Minister: Honorary Degrees”) [MT wary of political risks in accepting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: King minute to Joseph (“Increasing the output of engineers and technologists”) [“it is important for the Government to respond quickly to meet the identified need for additional graduates in shortage subjects”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Addison minute to MT (The Switch to Engineering and Technology) [to be announced at the Budget, impact on meeting with industrialists] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Heseltine letter to Tebbit (“Skill shortages”) [prepared to re-allocate resources to “permit a substantial increase in the number of university students directly sponsored by the Ministry of Defence”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Nicholas Edwards minute to Joseph (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [Welsh polytechnic “capable of the degree of excellence which we are looking for”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Department of Education draft (“New programme will increase engineering and technology places in higher education”) [“a substantial response to requests from industry for an increased output of engineering and technology graduates”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nicholas Ridley minute to Michael Heseltine(“Falkland Islands Trooping Contract for British Airways”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Monthly Note on Public Sector Borrowing”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Rome to FCO (“Italy-Argentina”) [Argentine sabotage of Pertini’s aircraft] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: No.10 note for MT (Airey Neave) [“You said you wished to send flowers to his grave whilst you were Prime Minister”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Mar 16 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to South East Asia") [speeches: latest drafts] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 16 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT memoir (“Return to Moscow”) [personal account of Chernenko’s funeral] [released 2015]
Text 85 Mar 17 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 1016 to FCO (1658Z) ("Foreign Affairs Council, 17 March. Enlargement/Own Resources") [financial arrangements for Spain] [released Dec 2014]
Text 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: DT note to Robin Butler (meeting with Chairman of Luton Football Club) [knows David Evans well] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 364 to FCO (0810Z) ("Westlands") [evaluation by technical experts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: Political Development") [talks with John Hume and Ian Paisley; scope for Anglo-Irish agreement and reception in Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: MT letter to Hu Yaobang ("Aid Trade Provision for China") [Lord Young's trade mission; Zhao Ziyang visit; "delighted that you would like to visit Britain yourself"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine letter to Tebbit ("European Fighter Aircraft") ["Industrial factors, particularly... [BAe's] position relative to the French, will play a large part in determining the way forward"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Downing Street: No.10 Deputy Press Secretary minute to Robin Butler ("BBC programme on No 10's 250th Anniversary") [proposals for filming in No.10] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("BNOC's Prices for March and the Second Quarter") [draft telex for BNOC to suppliers, following announcement in Parliament that BNOC is to be abolished] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("BNOC's Prices for March and the Second Quarter") [supports move to market-related pricing; requests redraft of BNOC telex to suppliers, to "convey greater urgency and enthusiasm about the run-down"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Rifkind minute to MT ("Dooge Committee") [final report: analysis; key features; next steps] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("European Community: March European Council: United Kingdom Initiatives") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service:DHSS letter to Cabinet Office(“‘Sunday Times’ article - 17 March 1985”) [leak of documents on Newcastle DHSS computer strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Rees PS letter to Heseltine PS ("Statement on the Defence Estimates 1985") [amendments] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Rees PS letter to No.10 (“Budget: Public Expenditure”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit (“Taxation of Fringe Benefits - Cars and Petrol”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Goold letter to Alison (Scottish rating revaluation) [rate relief announcement “has done little to stem the flow of critical hostility towards the Party”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Armstrong minute to MT (“Annual Review of Government Funded R&D 1984: Follow up to Arcard’s Comments”) [steps taken to respond to ARCARD report] [released Dec 2014]
Text 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Robin Butler minute to Brittan PS (BBC financing) [appointment of Peacock review] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Booth minute to MT ("Football Hooligans") [response to Luton-Millwall football riot: proposals for action] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (football hooliganism) [meeting with Chairman of Liverpool FC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [revised British proposal for Anglo-Irish talks on 22 March] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations") [revised British proposal for Anglo-Irish talks on 22 March] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("A New Basic Trainer for the Royal Air Force") [Shorts vs BAe: notification of reduction in cost of BAe bid; recommendation still to accept Shorts bid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (BNOC Prices for March 1985) ["We have succeeded in making the announcement on BNOC [abolition] with the minimum of disruption in the market... would be disastrous suddenly to announce a lower price for March"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT ("The Planning System: Sainsbury's Group's Proposals") [detailed response to Sir John Sainsbury's group's report on planning reform] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Geoffrey Pattie letter to Peter Rees ("Postal Business Targets") [replacement targets to run from 1985/86; potential issues of concern to Treasury] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Housing Benefit and Supplementary Benefit") [review proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("MISC 111") [social security review proposals: case for large-scale housing benefit & supplementary benefit savings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 briefing for MT ("OD: 25 March") [Defence White Paper: "... [European Fighter Aircraft] the view is getting about in some quarters - including the press - that the Defence Secretary is so keen on collaboration that we may end up losing out badly on it"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Statement on the Defence Estimates, 1985") ["The statement has good points - willingness to discuss Trident, NATO and arms' control - but it misses a trick on Trident and competition, and goes over the top on European collaboration"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("Local Government Bill: London") [meetings with Goodhart and Greengross on GLC abolition] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Kenneth Baker minute to Patrick Jenkin ("Abolition: Voluntary Bodies: A Trust for London") [aimed at providing reassurance about the future of voluntary bodies] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 10th (public expenditure outturns, budget) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Heseltine memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 7 (A New Basic Trainer for the Royal Air Force) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Barney Hayhoe letter to Tom King (“Trade Union Act 1984”) [“there is a contract of employment between the Crown and civil servants”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Letters to No.10 (lunch with industrialists) [“the switch” and IT skills shortages] [released Dec 2014]
Text 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Lawson (Nigel) Economy: 1985 Budget (Lawson 2) (Hansard)
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 970 to FCO (2330Z) (“Arms Control: US-Soviet Negotiations in Geneva”) [briefing] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan minute to MT ("Football Hooliganism") [criminal law and Home Office response] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chairman of Liverpool FC, John Smith) ["Football Hooliganism"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (preparation for meeting with Ministers on football hooliganism) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Hailsham PS to Howe PS ("Australia Constitution Act 1900") [alternative of a temporary loan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("India: Call on Prime Minister by Mr L K Jha") [Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Sikh extremists] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with Mr. Jha") [Sikh extremists, Sri Lanka] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("India: Westlands Helicopters") [Gandhi's advisers steering contract towards the French] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT (E(A)(85)15: commercial management) [thoughts on the consultative document] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Tebbit PS letter to Heseltine PS ("European Fighter Aircraft") ["a short summary list of some of the issues that may arise"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Tebbit PS letter to Heseltine PS (new Basic Trainer for the RAF) [pitch for Swiss firm/BAe-produced PC9] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("A New Basic Trainer for the RAF") [possible arguments against Heseltine decision to award contract to Shorts; advice to endorse decision; date for privatising Shorts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("A New Basic Trainer for the Royal Air Force") [Heseltine recommendation to award contract to Shorts vs Younger preference for BAe] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Whitelaw letter to Keith Joseph ("Teachers' Pay: Briefing and Publicity") [circulation of updates on UK-wide industrial disputes & pay negotiations to Ministers & backbenchers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("BNOC's Price for March") ["We would side with Peter Walker and not risk impeding progress in the last lap"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("BNOC's Price for March") ["we should move to market related pricing... not convinced that the oil companies would mount a legal challenge"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howe minute to Peter Walker ("BNOC Prices") ["I agree BNOC should move to market pricing"; announcement of BNOC abolition] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Spain/Portugal entry to EC: negotiations; Dooge Committee report to European Council; vehicle emissions; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("The Royal Dockyards: Open Government Document") [options; consultation; draft; recommendations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Royal Dockyards - Open Government Document") [case for commercial management proposal vs full privatisation; OGD as basis for consultation; special employment measures; private sector shiprepair work] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Booth minute to MT ("Sainsbury's Group's Proposals") [Department of Environment report is 'swimming in the right direction in the right pool, but unlikely to reach the other end without your propulsion'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Contributions from the United States to Irish Causes") [MT proposal for a US charitable fund] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Younger minute to MT ("Review of support for industrial R&D") ["We will need to bear the needs of small firms carefully in mind..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit") [German draft of the thematic paper is "thorough and workmanlike" and contains "very little in it which presents us with problems of substance"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howe minute to Ridley ("Channel Fixed Link (CFL)") [Ridley meeting with French Ministers: line to take; EC finance; follow-up work to guidelines for promoters; defence/industrial action considerations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Christopher Monckton minute for Robin Nicholson (“Human life before birth”) [Warnock Report] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Booth minute for John Redwood (Surrogacy, Powell Bill, Warnock Report) [divisions within Policy Unit] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT (“Coal Industry”) [Redwood meeting with Ian MacGregor: NACODS; open-cast coal; NCB Board; redundancies and pit closures; finance and investment programme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 223 to FCO (0001Z) (“Cyprus”) [“The Secretary General says he will need our help with the Turks in the next stage”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Urban Policy”) [“We intend to make a substantial publicity effort, with Ministers present in the various cities, to launch the five City Action Teams”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Advocate letter to Barney Hayhoe (“Trade Union Act 1984”) [“we have never admitted publicly that there is a contract of employment between the Crown and individual civil servants”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Barney Hayhoe minute to MT (“Industrial action in the civil service: use of the Trade Union Act 1984”) [“legal advice is that we have an excellent chance of success”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mayor Feinstein of San Francisco) [“Contributions from United States to Irish causes”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute for Whitelaw (“Economic & Social Policy Presentation: Chairman’s Brief”) [meeting on 25 March to discuss follow up to budget] [released 2015]
Text 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brittan PS minute to Lawson PS ("BBC Licence Fee") [statement on financing the BBC, Peacock review] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Brittan-Jenkin-Younger-Ridley-Macfarlane) ["Football Spectator Violence"; hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Howe PS minute to Hailsham PS ("Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act") [Howe hopes government can go as far to meet request as possible] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act") [temporary loan of document] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: MT message to Bob Hawke (Australian bicentenary) [difficulties providing original Constitution Act on permanent loan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Jha) [Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Sikhs, economic issues] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 398 to FCO (1145Z) ("Westlands") [danger of French taking deal out from under Westland's nose] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Crispin Tickell record of conversation (Tickell-Jha) [Westland helicopters, international monetary conference, trade] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Department of Employment letter to No.10 ("Wages Councils - Consultative Paper") [final copy for publication] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKHC New Delhi telegram 394 to FCO (1115Z) ("Shooting of Soviet Diplomat") [killing in the diplomatic quarter] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("A New Basic Trainer for the RAF") [text of Heseltine statement to Parliament on successful bid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Walker) ["BNOC's Price for March"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [vehicle emissions; entry to EC: negotiations with Spain/Portugal; EC Budget: own resources decision] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Tebbit letter to Heseltine ("Privatisation of the Warship Yards: The Submarine Facilities Project at Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd") [case for retaining public ownership] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Letwin minute to MT ("White Paper on 14-18 Year Olds") [Youth Training Scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["European Council: Middle East"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("European Council") [unemployment/deregulation; Dooge Committee; IMPS; Middle East] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 1077 to FCO (2306Z) ("Foreign Affairs Council: 21 March") ["Own Resources Decision": agreement on revised compromise text] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Patrick Jenkin letter to Peter Rees (Wildlife and Countryside (Amendment) Bill) [cost implications] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler minute to MT ("Social Security Review") [family credit & child benefit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to Robert Armstrong ("Bonn Economic Summit") [MT's thoughts on thematic declaration draft: "we should not be too modest about our record of growth"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Jenkin, Baker, Councillor Alan Greengross) [Greengross's proposal for a successor authority to the GLC; MT "remained completely unconvinced"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [examples of waste and mismanagement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Transport: Department of Transport letter to Cabinet Office (Channel Fixed Link) [working group on guidelines for promoters: efforts of the UK component commended] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 11th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, civil service, RAF trainer) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Stewart letter to Jopling (“Agricultural Price Fixing and Budget Discipline”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph minute to Tebbit (“Increasing the output of engineers and technologists”) [“only those courses which have been awarded a high grading for industrial relevance should be selected for inclusion in the first phase of the programme”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph letter to Younger (increasing the output of engineers and technologists) [“I would be prepared exceptionally to include the bid from Strathclyde as an addition to phase one of the programme”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow despatch to FCO (“The death of Chernenko and Gorbachev’s succession”) [“Despite his pragmatic personal style, [Gorbachev] is a dedicated communist”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute for MT (“Currency Markets”) [dollar-sterling rate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to President Reagan (Geneva Talks) [value of consultations; her Moscow talks with Gorbachev] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 (“Falklands Fisheries”) [multilateral fisheries agreement] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Booth minute to MT ("Football Hooligans") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: MT message to Rajiv Gandhi (Westland helicopters) [losing the contract at a late stage would damage confidence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT copy of speech by Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald (speech to the Diplomatic and Commonwealth Writers Association) [MT annotates passages on Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Drug Report") [Ministerial Group Report's ommission of "need for new penalties against drug racketeers"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 minute to MT ("H Committee: Drugs Abuse") ['proceeds of crime' legislation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Prevention of Drug Misuse") [positive alternatives for young people; gathering intelligence abroad; proceeds of crime] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("White Paper 'Better Schools' - Proposed Ministerial Statement") [draft] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Tom King ("European Social Fund: Part-Time Work Subsidies") [legal challenge to EC decision to limit funds] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Foreign Affairs Council, 17-21 March") [EC enlargement/fisheries sector negotiations with Spain; EC Budget: own resources decision; 1985 Budget overrun; Intergovernmental Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Airports Policy") [summary of papers on airport development in the South East & structure/ownership of airports, in advance of MT meeting with Ridley, Gow, Wakeham and Biffen] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Airports Policy and Privatisation") [analysis of Ridley proposals/advice] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Malaysia: UKHC Kuala Lumpur telegram 166 to FCO (0745Z) ("Proposed Visit of Dr Mahathir") [Prime Minister of Malaysia declines invitation for lunch with MT at Chequers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Flesher minute to MT ("Lord Young") [presentation of White Paper on Youth Training Scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Foreign Affairs Council, 17-21 March") [EC enlargement; own resources & EC Budget] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [European Council meeting: deregulation & jobs; IMPs; Foreign Affairs Council, 28 March] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Fishing Industry: Peter Walker letter to Heseltine ("Offshore Protection Force") [decision to cease Departmental contribution to funding; construction of high security fences at key offshore installations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("BGC Privatisation") [argues for privatisation of British Gas Corporation by 'early 1987'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Civil Aviation: Malaysia and Singapore") [MT concerned about issues raised by Ridley; requests urgent meeting to try to resolve them in advance of her visit] [released Dec 2014]

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

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

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

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