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PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (football, by-elections, top salaries, Chernobyl) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Lord Young minute to MT (“Draft White Paper on Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Public opinion and Defence”) [“worrying ignorance of the basic facts on Soviet armaments”] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 May 10 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram 334 to FCO (2000Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Expo 86") [invitation arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Nimrod AEW") [the forthcoming meeting with Sir Ibbs: agenda] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Workfare”) [concerns about proposed extension of scheme to those unemployed over 6 months] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 minute to MT ("Visit to Israel") [proposed agenda for discussions from Shimon Peres via Israeli Ambassador] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: Cradock minute to Powell ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") ["...worried that our Middle East policy is [coming to be] seen as virtually indistinguishable from that of the United States, even that of Israel..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to Lord Young ("British Shipbuilders (BS): establishment of Enterprise Corporation and other measures to assist the areas hardest hit by redundancies") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: MT letter to Lord Hill-Norton (Hull Forms for Warships) ["Your report deals with several technical matters on which Ministers obviously cannot express an opinion without professional advice. We are prepared therefore to commission an inquiry"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: UKMIS Vienna telegram 79 to FCO (0800Z) (International Atomic Energy Authority briefing) [situation coming under control] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Lord President, Soviet Ambassador) [Chernobyl accident: media coverage & seriousness of the incident] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Foreign Affairs Council, 12 May 1986: Budget and Own Resources”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Review Body Recommendations”) [pay increases] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Review Body Reports”) [pay increases] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet high level consultations”) [Shevardnadze-Hartman talks: Shevardnadze “said that the Soviet Union favoured dialogue but that circumstances were not yet right for a meeting between himself and Shultz”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (public spending policy, Chernobyl, economy, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [by-election/local elections, Scottish party conference, Chernobyl, foreign visitors] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with Sir Robin Ibbs: Value for Money targets”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Edwards letter to Michael Jopling (“Welfare of battery hens - Council Directive 86/113/EEC”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("'EXPO 86: Vancouver") [need to thin MT's programme down and focus on promotion of British trade] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 178 to FCO (1300Z) ("The Cyprus Problem: UN Secretary General's Initiative") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: MT letter for Francis Noel-Baker (Secretary-General's initiative on Cyprus) [the recognition of "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" would 'deepen the divide'] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Robin Ibbs) [the Nimrod project] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Home Office letter to Prison Officers' Association (industrial dispute) [No.10: "To an inexpert eye, there are no signs of a climbdown here."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ('Chernobyl') [new information given to western Ambassadors; "small step ... towards more sensible and civilised behaviour"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: MT message to Yugoslav Prime Minister (congratulations on his appointment as the President of the Federal Executive Council) [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("ComGEP visit to South Africa") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: Ramphal account of Group's meeting with Pik Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [the markets, tax and public expenditure, follow up to the Budget] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Hailsham, Keith Joseph, Younger, Fowler, Tebbit, Clarke, Wakeham, Luce) [“Review Body Reports”: pay increases proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT (“TSRB”) [review body pay increases] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute for MT (“Education Bill: Political Indoctrination”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute for MT (“How to Get Better Schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“School Teachers’ pay negotiations in England and Wales”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Judiciary: Treasury Solicitor letter to No.10 (“Mr Richard Holt’s libel action”) [No.10 seeks to avoid being drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (John Biffen’s position, tax concessions, defence statement) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robin Ibbs, Kate Jenkins) [value for money targets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: John Moore letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation: draft White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Lord Chamberlain's Office minute to MT ("State Visit of The Pesident of the Federal Republic of Germany and Freifrau von Weizsacker Arrival - Tuesday, 1st July, 1986") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Cyprus") [MT's support for Secretary-General's efforts] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (“Workfare”) [defense of proposed pilot extension of scheme to those unemployed over 6 months] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKREP Brussels to FCO (“European Parliament 13 May 1986: Tokyo Economic Summit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [letters to MT & draft replies: President Ershad of Bangladesh, Trade Union Secretary General, President Sanguinetti of Uruguay, Chairman of ICC UK] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to MacGregor ("Local authority capital expenditure controls") [responses to Green Paper giving rise to need for further consideration] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Channon PS ("British Shipbuilders") [MT approves No.10 suggested amendments to Channon draft statement for Parliament: "... the financial support provided by the Government is as good as the best in the world. The problem is that the orders simply are not there to be won. This is an international problem..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lord Young minute to MT ("British Shipbuilders: Government Response") ["...package of proposals we have put together to meet the situation created by the impending BS redundancies"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation ("Hull Forms for Warships") [Lord Hill-Norton, Nigel Wicks] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Addison minute for MT ('Chernobyl') [accident "could have been much worse"; flaws in Soviet reactor design] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Lord Barber: Group's meeting with Pik Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Review Bodies”) [‘quasi-Cabinet meeting’ to discuss reports] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (MT aiming for election hat-trick, Kinnock, Gorbachev on Chernobyl) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Young, Clarke, Channon, Michael Howard, John Moore) [“Deregulation White Paper”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ridley letter to Lord Young (“Draft White Paper on Deregulation”) [amendments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Channon letter to Lord Young (“Draft White Paper on Deregulation”) [amendments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Hurd letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Howe minute to Michael Jopling (“Welfare of battery hens - proposed challenge to Council Directive 86/113/EEC”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“UK’s Relative Economic Performance”) [improvement since 1979] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1830Z) ("US Space Launch Capabilities") (NSC 0131) [proposed NSDD] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT letter to President Sanguinetti of Uruguay (Tokyo Economic Summit: economic situation in Latin America) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT letter to Secretary General Trade Union (Trade Union Advisory Committee Statement: Tokyo Economic Summit) [unemployment, monetary policy, international economy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE the Hague telegram to FCO ("European political cooperation: political committee: the Hague, 14-15 May: Arab-Israel") [eve of MT visit to Israel, May 1986; UK protests, but outvoted, on prospect of EU President meeting with Arafat] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Mrs Ida Nudel") [MT visit to Israel, May 1986: request for UK to interceded on behalf of Soviet refusenik seeking emigration to Israel] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Chernobyl nuclear accident: Gorbachev's speech") ["little new information and no real reassurance to the Soviet population on health hazards ... no real hint of apology or admission of possible failure or delay in handling the accident"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Speech by President Botha") [views of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group on the speech; analysis; suggested line to take] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: South African Embassy letter to No.10 (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group and Speech by President Botha) [update on Group's meetings; transcript of speech] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: President Reagan letter to Hayek (Birthday wishes) ["We are all indebted to you..."]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to Hurd PS (“Strasbourg - Proofing”) [European Convention of Human Rights] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph’s PS minute for Lord President’s Office (“Freedom of Speech in Higher Education”) [Joseph’s letter to the President of the NUS] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Joseph-Lawson-Whitelaw-Hurd-Tebbit-Baker) [ How to get better schools ] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 20th (Queen’s birthday, Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Economic Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Lynda Chalker PS letter to Lord Young PS (“Draft White Paper on Deregulation”) [amendments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: John Moore PS letter to Lord Young PS (“Draft White Paper on Deregulation”) [amendments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/Central America: National Security Planning Group minutes (1500Z) ("Central America") (NSPG ?0133) [Contadora process - "We need to take steps not to have a bad agreement signed" (Weinberger)] [declassified May 2006]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute for Powell (“Letter to the Prime Minister from the Inter Action Council”) [draft reply] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute for MT ("Arms Control and the UK Contribution") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Further liberalisation of the French economy") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Policy Unit minute for MT ("The Chernobyl Incident - Contingency Planning") ["some pretty maladroit footwork - especially in the initial stages"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Treasury minute to FCO ("Mine Clearance in the Falkland Islands") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [report on Group's meetings with Mandela & with Pik Botha, and forthcoming itinerary] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal letter to MT (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: meeting of seven Commonwealth Heads of Government for six-month progress review of the Group's work) [date, venue & other details] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Ramphal's views on international economic issues") [Howe "shares... [MT's] irritation... [but] we want to keep Ramphal on board at this critical stage"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Review Body Reports”) [Government’s response] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute for MacGregor (“Future University Funding”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Brian Griffiths minute for MT (“Audit Commission: Towards Better Management of Secondary Education”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Student Support”) [MT “the timing is appalling”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit letter to Keith Joseph (“School Teachers’ pay negotiations in England and Wales”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 593 to FCO (1310Z) (“Gorbachev meeting with Hammer and Gale on 15 May”) [Gorbachev “accused official Washington of exploiting the accident to discredit the Soviet Union”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Judiciary: No.10 internal minute: Flesher to Wicks (“Richard Holt”) [No.10 seeks to avoid being drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (Perth speech, tax and spending, Chernobyl, prisons) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Tories slump to third in polls, unemployment, education, tourism, Chernobyl) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Baker letter to Lord Young (“Draft White Paper on Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Kenneth Baker letter to Michael Jopling (“Welfare of battery hens - proposed challenge to Council Directive 86/113/EEC”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 18 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Younger-O'Flynn) [Five Powers Defence Arrangements, equipment, RCDS, nuclear legislation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 18 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Germany: Charles Powell minute (MT lunch with FRG President) [draft guest list] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 18 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 minute to MT ("Visit to Israel: speeches") [MT unhappy with draft: "...if I were to make this speech, I should have no chance whatsoever of influencing the government behind the scenes..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 18 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Norman Fowler minute for Lord Young of Graffham (“Picketing at Huyton Local Office, Liverpool”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT letter to President Hussain Mohammad Ershad of Bangladesh (Tokyo Economic Summit: declaration) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Stoate minute for Wicks ("Arms Control and the UK Contribution") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Possible meeting with President Mitterrand") [request for bilateral with MT prior to European Council meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for April 1986") ["mixed"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (international nuclear safety conference) ["...co-operation can and should be improved..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Stephen Sherbourne minute (Scottish conference) [Russell Sanderson feels that MT's speech "has to be followed up, both in policy and presentation"] ​​​​​​​[released 2017]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Wales: Christine Wall minute ("Your visit to Porthcawl Inshore Lifeboat Station") [arrangements for visit after Welsh conference Q&A] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Sherbourne record of conversation (MT-Nick Edwards) ["Welsh Briefing (Nick Edwards 16 June 86)"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (arms control) ​​​​​​​["political will alone is not enough"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Washington telegram 1350 to FCO (2340Z) ("US/Syria: Asad interview") [comments on Israel, on eve of MT's visit there in May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 briefing for MT ("Visit to Israel: briefing meeting") [Occupied Territories; Jordan; EC Presidency; Syria; Lebanon; Anglo-Israeli research foundation; counter-terrorism. arms & oil trade embargo; Argentina] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Channon PS letter to Wakeham PS ("Shipbuilding Debate: 21 May 1986) [Government Motion: "... massive slump in demand... cutbacks in shipyards... package of measures to provide special assistance to those affected"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("South Africa") [details of the raids on Zimbabwe, Botswana & Zambia and of immediate UK government response] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (South Africa raids on Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia) ["continuation of... violence... as a form of pressure in the negotiating process... need for Governments... publicly to denounce the ANC... certain countries in Southern Africa continue to harbour terrorists... South African security forces were left with no option"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Baker minute to MacGregor (“PES 1986: PSA Expenditure”) [additional bids for expenditure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Pay Review Bodies - Presentation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Review Body Reports”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Review Body Reports”) [“Discretionary increments for Grades 2 and 3”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Norman Tebbit’s PS minute to No.10 (“How to get Better Schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Her Majesty’s Inspectors Report (“Effects of Local Authority Expenditure Policies on Education Provision in England - 1985”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute for Whitelaw (factual press notice: HMI report on the effects of local authority expenditure on education) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Department of Education and Science minute to No.10 (“University Funding”) [text of Keith Joseph’ statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Keith Joseph) [funding of the universities] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MacGregor minute for Keith Joseph (“Future University Funding”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1347 to FCO (2305Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [“State believe Gorbachev in bitter mood over Western handling of Chernobyl issue”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“BA and BCal - economy measures”) [“both airlines are on their toes and responsive to market conditions”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [shipbuilding crisis, unemployment, law and order, nuclear power, education] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (terrorism, tourism, Conservative leadership, pay reviews) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Lord Young letter to Ridley (“White Paper on Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("'EXPO 86: Vancouver") [amendments to MT's programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT letter to Helmut Schmidt (the Inter Action Council statement: topics relevant to the Tokyo Economic Summit) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe message to No.10 ("Message from President Reagan") [arms control agreements: the suggested public line] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute for MT ("Chemical Weapons and Challenge Inspection") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("Modernization of BMEWS RAF Fylingdales) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Younger minute for MacGregor (Nimrod AEW: progress report) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT (violence) ​​​​​​​[violence should not be used as a bargaining chip] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Washington telegram 1353 to FCO (0800Z) ("UK/US analysts talk on Syria: 20 May") ["...main points of agreement reached..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("The Prime Minister's visit: issues: Jordan/PLO") [MT visit to Israel, May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") [required public statements, gifts & other advice for MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's statement on foreign affairs to the Knesset") [Shimon Peres on terrorism, Syria, Lebanon, the Marshall Plan, Egypt, PLO/Jordan; on eve of MT visit to Israel] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Cairo telegram to FCO ("Egypt/Middle East") [Egyptian policy on MT forthcoming visit to Israel terrorism, Jordan/Palestine, Taba, Gaza, Syria/Iraq, Middle East development plan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") ["...it may be helpful to have some background impressions"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: Powell minute to Ingham ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel: Lobby briefing") ["The most important thing about the visit is the fact that it is taking place... we have no illusion that the visit will in itself move the peace process forward significantly"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the Twelfth to Fourteenth and Sixteenth to Eighteenth Reports of the Public Accounts Committee, 1985-86") ["I doubt that the Treasury minute will attract much attention. It is not controversial and there are no particularly newsworthy features"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: Powell letter to Howe PS (Vice President Ramirez of Nicaragua: visit to UK) [request declined for meeting with MT] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Falkland Islands Fisheries") [Soviet-Argentine fisheries talks have been broken off] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South African raids: message from President Botha") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Director General for Foreign Affairs] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Prime Minister Mugabe (South African raid on Zimbabwe) ["inexcusable.... The immediate need is to consider how best to keep... [the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons peace dialogue process] alive"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Masire (South African raid on Botswana) ["inexcusable.... The immediate need is to consider how best to keep... [the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons peace dialogue process] alive"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Kaunda (South African raid on Zambia) ["inexcusable.... The immediate need is to consider how best to keep... [the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons peace dialogue process] alive"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 (South African raids on Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia) [advice from Howe] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Baker minute for MacGregor (“PESC 1986 - DOE (central)”) [public expenditure bids - Department of Environment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Roskill Report: Serious Fraud Office”) [Ministerial responsibility] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Ministerial meeting) [“Review Body Reports”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Department of Education and Science minute (“Schools Stretched for Money and Resources, says HMI Report”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute for Tebbit (“HMI Report”) [“it is still true that more money is needed”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit minute for Keith Joseph (“HMI Report”) [resources are not the only problem in current education] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Brian Griffiths minute for MT (“HMI: Annual Report on Schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: University Grants Committee minute (“Planning for the Late 1980s: Recurrent Grant for 1986-1987”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind minute to MT (“School Teachers’ pay negotiations in England and Wales”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Richard Luce PS letter to Howe PS (the role of Ministers in management of the civil service) [current management initiatives] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office internal note (Pension implications) [pension arrangements in: civil service and NHS; armed forces] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Civil Service Pay Settlement: implications for the research councils”) [“It is of the utmost importance for science and for our own credibility that we should compensate the Research Councils for the 1986-87 costs of the pay settlement”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT to Bob Dole (support for US military action) [“the Administration was right to take firm action against terrorism, and I have no reservations about the part which the United Kingdom was able to play”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (UK position on South Africa sanctions, defence, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd letter to Whitelaw (“Public Order Bill: Incitement to Racial Hatred - Broadcasting”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Expo '86 in Vancouver") [Princess Margaret and Royal Ballet attendance] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: MT letter to President P.W. Botha (Botswana raid) [his government's action "absolutely impossible to understand"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") [UNSC resolution 425, calling on Israel to immediately withdraw its forces from Lebanon] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: John Stanley PS letter to No.10 ("The Calcutt Report: Statement") ["...[findings of] independent inquiry into the way in which the Service police carried out their investigation of the eight men [of 9 Signal Regiment in Cyprus] originally accused"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: John Stanley PS letter to Attorney General PS ("The Calcutt Report: Statement") [final draft: "...[findings of] independent inquiry into the way in which the Service police carried out their investigation of the eight men [of 9 Signal Regiment in Cyprus] originally accused"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Cabinet Office minute for No.10 ("Call by Japanese Charge") [account of Japanese exchanges with Soviets on Chernobyl as mandated at Tokyo G7] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: Former Yugoslav Prime Minister Planinc message to MT (thanking for successful cooperation) [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (South African raids on Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe) ["writing to let you know of my vexation and... anger... impossible to understand... immense damage done to your international position and... to the Commonwealth intiative of which you make no mention... astonishing... next few days could be decisive... may be the last chance for a negotiated solution"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“H Committee: Monday 19 May”) [landscape conservation orders, major public inquiries] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Public Expenditure Survey: Speaking Note”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Community Budget Strategy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Your Meeting with Commission: Brussels 21 May”) [main priorities for the forthcoming UK Presidency] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [press release on HMI report, foreign currency borrowing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Review Body Reports”) [pay increases] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 15 (Pay Review Body Reports 1986) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Lord Young PS minute to No.10 (“White Paper on Deregulation - “Building Businesses… Not Barriers””) [accompanying leaflet] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Whitelaw letter to Hurd (“Public Order Bill: Incitement to Racial Hatred - Broadcasting”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd letter to MT (Robin Ibbs’ letter on the Animal (Scientific Procedures) Bill) [Mellor singled out for praise] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: George Younger minute to Tom King ("Contingency Planning") [plans to keep essential services running are crucial to demonstrating determination that a political strike shall not succeed] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to MT ("Contingency Planning") [MACM plans for provision of essential supplies] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Contingent Planning for Northern Ireland") [maintenance of essential services] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Channon PS letter to No.10 ("Nissan") [MT to open new UK plant; proposal that would result in significant increase of Japanese cars on the UK market to be rejected] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Sir J Bullard's call on Chancellor Kohl: 28 May") [EC issues; international conference on nuclear safety issues] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Justice: HM Prison Service letter to Cabinet Office ("Prison officers' dispute") [arrangements for police assistance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Jordan/Occupied Territories") [MT visit to Israel, May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Cairo telegram to FCO ("Egyptian views on Arab/Israel") [MT visit to Israel, May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Israel: Joint Israel Appeal briefing for MT (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) [MT visit to city of Ashkelon, part of "Project Renewal, started in 1978... designed to raise the quality of life in over 100 Israeli communities living below the poverty line"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Presidency meeting with Arafat") [van den Broek meeting in Tunis coinciding with MT visit to Israel, May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") [Israelis expected to ask MT to suggest to King Hussein of Jordan that he engage in secret talks with Israel; MT advised not to comply] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute: Policy Unit to Norgrove ("Paying for local government: 1986-87 Scottish legislation") ["We are planning to move to a non-domestic rate uniform across the whole of Great Britain"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Fleet Support King 20/20") ["You were sceptical of the position that the Royal Navy should be supplied from a small number of large, armed and very expensive ships... I attach a letter from the MOD setting out the arguments for their decision..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT (Sunderland) [MT agrees to meeting with delegation to discuss difficulties facing the area following British Shipbuilders redundancies] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: MT message to Prime Minister Lubbers (Netherlands election result) ["congratulations... delighted that the strong lead which you have given on sound finance and defence was recognised"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South African raids") [draft reply for MT to President Botha; "[Howe] finds... [Botha's] justification for the raids is flimsy... [and] shows no glimmer of appreciation for the risks taken by... [MT] on his behalf"; risk to survival of Commonwealth if sanctions are not enforced in event of Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group's failure to negotiate successfully] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute to No.10 (“Interviews with German Media”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“European Community: United Kingdom Strategy and Tactics on the Budget”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MacGregor letter to Peter Morrison (“ERDF Community Programmes”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Attorney General minute for Norman Fowler (“Privatisation of the Royal Ordnance”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Roskill Report: Serious Fraud Office”) [Ministerial responsibility] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter No.10 (“1986 Review Bodies”) [briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MT letter to Sir Peter Matthews (Government decisions on the AFPRB Report) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (“Review Body on Top Salaries”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Treasury staff (“Pay Review Body Reports”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 21st (Cabinet membership, Joseph’s resignation, Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Pay Review) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Treasury letter to Council of Civil Service Unions (“TSRB 1986”) [Government accepts recommendations for discretionary pay at Grades 2 and 3] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Treasury letter to Principal Establishment Officers (“Pay of the Senior Open Structure in the Civil Service”) [note on revised rates of pay] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Judiciary: Treasury Solicitor letter to Richard Holt MP’s solicitors (“Holt -v- the Teacher Publishing Company Ltd and others”) [No.10 refuses to be drawn into Holt’s libel action] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (reshuffle, Joseph parting shot on education, redundancies and strikes) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Chairman of ACARD letter to MT (“ACARD Report on Medical Equipment”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [MT agreed "a further foreign currency borrowing" this year, ideally in recess] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: RIPA letter for Professor Griffiths ("Visitors from Turkish Prime Minister's Office") [declassified July 2016]
PDF 86 May 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan's message for MT (Compliance with Arms Control Agreements) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute to FCO ("Chemical Weapons: Challenge Inspection") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: MT letter to Julian Amery MP (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) ["...your thoughts about what I might say in Israel"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: Israeli Embassy letter to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) ["...may I take this opportunity to wish you a most successful visit to our country"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 23 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute: Wicks to Flesher (All Party Committee on Shipping) [request to meet with MT] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("ComGEP: press leaks") [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; local press report on Group's meeting with Mandela] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Department of the Environment”) [Baker’s National Environment Works Scheme proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Department of Employment letter for Norman Fowler (the proposed action over picketing at Huyton local office) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Lord Kimball letter to MT (“Lloyd’s”) [issues of concern] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: MT minute to Whitelaw (Serious Fraud Office) [Ministerial responsibility] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MT letter to Lord Plowden (Top Salaries Review Body recommendations) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute for MT (“Indoctrination in Education”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (review bodies, MT speech on economy, industry, deregulation, BBC bias) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Message for President Reagan: Compliance with Arms Control Agreements") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to FCO ("Message for President Reagan: Compliance with Arms Control Agreements") [the proposed response] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: MT letter to Israeli Ambassador to the UK (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) [courtesy letter] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yitzhak Shamir) [MT visit to Israel, May 1986: PLO, Jordan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Shimon Peres) [MT visit to Israel, May 1986: Gazan, Jordan, Syria, Marshall Plan, Iran/Iraq, US role] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1415 to FCO (1700Z) ("SALT Constraints") [President's announcement time] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (US/Soviet negotiations and arms control issues) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT message for President Reagan ("SALT Constraints") [revised text] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT message for President Reagan ("SALT Constraints") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT message for President Mitterrand and Chancellor Kohl ("SALT Constraints") [President Reagan's announcement on compliance with the SALT II agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell message to FCO (draft message to President Reagan on compliance with arms control agreements) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT (South African Communist Party) ​​​​​​​[determination to resist enemies] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT ("veiled threats" in previous messages) ​​​​​​​["we can never accept the dictates from outside forces"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKA Jerusalem telegram to FCO (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986: Jordan) [Jordanian/Palestinian negotiations with Israel; King Hussein visit to UK in June] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yitzhak Rabin) [MT visit to Israel, May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Palestinian delegation) [MT visit to Israel, May 1986: focus on roles of PLO and Jordan in negotiations with Israeli government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with Palestinians: 26 May") [MT visit to Israel: focus on roles of PLO and Jordan in negotiations with Israeli government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Ridley minute for Parkinson ("Acid Rain - Large Combustion Plants Directive") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Message from President Botha") [Ambassador Moberly, Pik Botha record of conversation: "I said that it was the most depressing interview I had had with any Minister during my four and a half years as Ambassador, first in Israel and then in South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["only a commitment to peace can result in negotiated settlements..."; "[it appears] if we do not accept... [the Group's] "possible negotiating concept" no further proposal will emanate from them... in the light of your own intransigence, I must assume [the Group's, likewise]"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Policy Unit note for press officers ("SALT II Constraints") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel: talks with Mr. Peres") [confidential documents handed to MT by Peres on Middle East economic development programme and West Bank] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 letter to Department of Trade and Industry ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel: Industrial Research Foundation") [MT invites Israeli delegation of scientists to UK in response to Peres proposal for Anglo-Israeli project] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Shimon Peres) [MT visit to Israel, May 1986: meeting with Palestinian delegation; West Bank; Gaza; Lebanon; US hostages; Jordan; USSR; SALT II] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Shimon Peres) [MT visit to Israel, May 1986: Egypt; Gaza; Jordan; Syria; Middle East economic development programme; Anglo-Israel reasearch foundation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Possible Supply of German Torpedoes to Argentina") [MT's draft letter to Kohl] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Review of the Commonwealth Accord on South Africa") [draft letter of acceptance; "prospects for their mission are not bright... But the total collapse of the Commonwealth Group... would result in intense pressure on us"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute to No.10 (“Possible Supply of German Torpedoes to Argentina”) [MT unable to raise at Tokyo G7; message proposed instead] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 May 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“E.C. Questions: Stoltenberg’s views”) [objectives for the UK Presidency] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [Israel visit, never had it so good comments, South Africa, Sakharov visit, Whitelaw visit to Russia, public spending] [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (MT’s position on Israel public spending, education) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Tom King letter to Lord Young (“White Paper on Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd PS letter to No.10 (“Football hooliganism - arrests at football grounds”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Charles Powell record of conversation (Powell-Viot) [French issues with New Zealand] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to MT ("The Northern Ireland Assembly") [Assembly is "refusing to carry out any of its statutory functions", should dissolve now] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1438 to FCO (0145Z) ("SALT Limits") [the US formally abandons SALT limits as a factor in strategic force planning (...) domestic reactions muted and confused] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (SALT II: President Reagan's statement on compliance with arms control agreements) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit: Palestine reactions") ["...very positive indeed... I report these Egyptian comments as a cross-check on what the Palestinians are saying to us..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKA Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's meeting with Palestinians") ["All greatly appreciated the opportunity to meet Mrs Thatcher, and her comprehension of their concerns"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKA Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit: Occupied Territories") [controversy over MT comments on alternative leadership to PLO, during May 1986 visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Ridley minute to MT ("British Shipbuilders: Government response") ["...[following redundancies] case for an urban development corporation in Middlesborough and dispersal of Government work to the North East..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT message for Chancellor Kohl ("Arms Sales to Argentina") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: message from President Botha") ["thoroughly discouraging... no alternative but to continue to support the... [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group] initiative"; Howe advises against MT reply to Botha; discussions with US; sanctions; Pik Botha proposal to meet with "four leading countries of the [EC]" ] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Syria, Libya, terrorism: NSC notes of conversation (NSC officials, Cradock & Acland) [Syria, Lebanon, terrorism] [declassified 2011]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Commonwealth War Graves Commission minute to MacGregor (“Public Expenditure Survey Committee - 1986 Survey: Department 013 Commonwealth War Graves Commission”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Conversation with Chancellor Kohl: 28 May: EC Questions”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Governor of the Bank of England PS briefing for MT (“Preparations for Big Bang - Market Operations”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (MT’s trip to Israel, litter, industry, terrorism) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell note to MT ("Contingency Planning for Northern Ireland") [impact of possible strike action on power stations and utilities] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to King PS ("The Northern Ireland Assembly") [probable leaking of information on dissolution of Assembly] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to King PS ("Contingency Planning for Northern Ireland") [need for a clear idea of how long contingency plans would maintain essential services in event of a political strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("The Northern Ireland Assembly") [concerned the decision to dissolve "will be seen as an essentially negative one"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("Call on the Prime Minister by Mrs E Bonner: 30 May") [human rights] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Workfare”) [concerns addressed regarding pilot extension of scheme to those unemployed over 6 months] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Cairo telegram to FCO ("The Prime Minister's visit to Israel: Egyptian reactions") ["...welcomes Mrs Thatcher's statements in Israel on the Palestinian right to self-determination but criticises her suggestion that an alternative leadership might have to be found"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 minute ("Mr Thatcher's visit to Israel") ['thank you' letters] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: FCO minute ("Israel's membership of the EC(E)") [comments made during Thatcher visit to Israel in May 1986] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: Yehuda Avner letter to No.10 (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) [courtesy letter and request to speak with Powell at earliest opportunity] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falkland Islands Fisheries: Sinking of a Taiwanese Fishing Vessel") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Prime Minister Gandhi letter to MT (tour of African Frontline States) ["[has] reinforced my conviction that time is running out on a peaceful solution... in South Africa... [but] I am not pre-judging the results of [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group's] endeavours"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal (Nassau Accord and the work of the Eminent Persons Group: review of progress) ["I... confirm my agreement to the dates, venue and Chairmanship... [the Group's] mission must be given every encouragement to succeed"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("South Africa: message from President Botha") [draft reply: MT "agrees [with Howe] that we should do everything possible to keep the... [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group] initiative alive"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Foreign Minister Botha letter to co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group ('possible negotiating concept' proposal) [detail of "four major questions... about the... concept"; "cannot accept that violence should be discontinued only for as long as negotiations take place"; "not interested in negotiation about a transfer of power"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Howe minute to MacGregor (“Public Expenditure Survey - FCO Programmes”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Attorney General minute to MacGregor (“Public Expenditure Survey: Additional Bids”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Secretary of State for Energy letter to MacGregor (public expenditure requirements) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MT letter to Sir John Greenborough (Review Body for Nursing Staff, Midwives, Health Visitors and allied professions) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute for MT (“Education”) [meeting arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations: President Reagan’s message to Gorbachev”) [Reagan calls for a second summit] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Civil Service Numbers”) [overall reduction; quarterly figures] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to George Younger (“Civil Service Industrial Pay Negotiations 1986”) [“I am mindful that they are employed in areas of great importance for our defence effort”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (public spending, industry, electricity prices) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (Luton membership card scheme) [incompatibility with Football Association rules] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Hurd (Robin Ibbs letter on the Animal (Scientific Procedures) Bill) [“I am so pleased that he wrote”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram 307 to FCO (1835Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Expo") [meeting clash with Royal Ballet opening night] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: UKREP Brussels telegram 1864 to FCO (1730Z) ("EC/New Zealand") [Lange comments on dairy market access issues] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to George Younger ("Contingency Planning") [role of troops in prisons in event of a prison strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yelena Bonner Sakharov) [efforts to secure Dr. Sakharov's return to Moscow] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 briefing MT (“Workfare”) [“requirement to work or train in return for remaining on benefit”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1449 to FCO (0415Z) ("SALT Limits") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MacGregor minute for Younger (Nimrod AEW: progress report) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Federal German Economy") [outlook] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to Israel") ["King Hussein is very grateful for... [MT's] efforts on Israel and looks forward to their meeting in London on 17 June"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Palestinian comment on the Prime Minister's remarks in Israel") ["...some misunderstanding of... self-determination for Palestinians... [and] PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Israel: Mayor of Jerusalem telegram to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Israel, May 1986) [exchange of courtesies] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Charles Hoste letter to Professor Griffiths (Hill-Norton committee) [clarification of how the committee on naval ship design was formed] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Prime Minister Lubbers letter to MT (European Monetary System) ["there is a political aspect apart from the aspect of economic confidence"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 1463 to FCO (2030Z) ("US/South Africa") [report on current political context surrounding Reagan's anticipated response to South African raids] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Secretary of State for Social Services minute to Treasury Secretary (“1986 Public Expenditure Survey: Health”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MOD minute to MacGregor (“PES 86”) [public expenditure survey] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Secretary of State for Environment’s PS minute to MacGregor (Department of Environment bids for public expenditure survey 1986) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Secretary of State for Scotland minute to MacGregor (“PES 1986”) [his bids for additional expenditure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Department of Transport minute to MacGregor (“PES 1986”) [reviewing requests for additional bids] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lord Chancellor minute to MacGregor (“Public Expenditure Survey 1986”) [requirements for public expenditure in the court service] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Meeting with EC Journalists”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Nicholas Edwards letter for Whitelaw (report on the effects of local authority expenditure policies on education in Wales) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute for MT (“Education: Victor Rothschild”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Young letter to MacGregor (“TVEI Extension”) [Technical and Vocational Education Initiative] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1461 to FCO (2130Z) (“Invitation to Soviet defence minister to visit the US”) [“to discuss quote the wide gulf on issues related to each other’s military forces, doctrine and intentions unquote”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (MT meeting with Mrs Bonner, visit to Israel, South Africa, hippies) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (ship building redundancies, Tory revolt) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (trespass, warship design, litter, Labour party failures) [released 2017]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Private Secretaries (“Value for Money targets”) [report commissioned by MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Chairman of Luton Town Football Club (membership card scheme) [MT welcomes initiative] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 31 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe message to UKDEL NATO ("Ministerial Meeting of The North Atlantic Council, Halifax 29/30 May: Afternoon Session") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 May 31 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Energy: Mikhail Gorbachev message to MT (post-Chernobyl) ["the first thing that is needed is an early warning system in case of accidents"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: MT message to P.W. Botha (reactions to recent events) ​​​​​​​["We ought now to put this behind us"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 1 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Israel: Vice-Chairman of Yad Vashem letter to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, May 1986) [brings attention to incorrect number of deaths quoted by MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [press leak of MT letter to President Botha; MT "extremely angry... confirmed her fear that her communications and conversations with foreign Heads of Government were in general given too wide a circulation"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["Clearly we were both upset by the other's reaction to recent events. We ought now to put this behind us. What matters is... the hope of progress offered by the... Group's initiative"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 1 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Treasury and Civil Service Committee report (“Proposals for an Appraisal Scheme in the Senior Open Structure”) [“Results of the consultative process”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Yelena Bonner Sakharova message to MT (MT, Yelena Bonner Sakharov) [message of thanks] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell note to MT (Shevardnadze visit to London) [proposed dates] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Young, Lawson, Tebbit, MacGregor, Clarke) [“Workfare”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("SALT II: Soviet Government Statement") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute for MT ("Comprehensive Test Ban (CTB): UK Public Posture") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("State of Play at Geneva") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Lord President: Wicks briefing for MT (bilateral with Whitelaw) [DHSS personnel; visit to Russia; general political position] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Kaunda letter to MT (South African attack on UN High Commission for Refugees Camp) ["write to thank you... for your... sympathy and solidarity... following South Africa's wanton and unprovoked bombing"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Clarke letter to Howe (“European Community: United Kingdom initiative on creating conditions for employment growth”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“European Community Budget: Council v European Parliament in the European Court of Justice”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lynda Chalker letter to Peter Morrison (“ERDF Community Programmes”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Richard Luce minute for MacGregor (“1986 Public Expenditure Survey: Arts and Libraries”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Paul Channon minute for MacGregor (“PES”) [Department of Trade and Industry bids for expenditure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute for MacGregor (“1986 Public Expenditure Survey: Management and Personell Office (Cabinet Office)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: David Plastow letter for MT (future intentions of the MOD for fighting vehicles procurement) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute for MT (“Education - Changing Public Perceptions”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“TVEI Extension”) [Technical and Vocational Education Initiative] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit letter to MacGregor (“TVEI Extension”) [Technical and Vocational Education Initiative] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [hippy trespass, social security, South Africa, Channel Tunnel] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (litter, unions, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (Value for Money targets) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Money and Interest Rates”) [Chancellor no longer wanting a cut this week] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 684 to FCO (0545Z) ("Elena Bonner") [arrival back in Russia, following medical treatment abroad] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: MT letter to Sir Edward du Cann (All-Party Maritime Affairs Group) [request for meeting to discuss merchant shipping] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Younger minute for Howe ("Mine Clearance in the Falkland Islands") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“EC/New Zealand: visit of Prime Minister Lange”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No. 10 minute for MT (“Public Expenditure”) [Lawson “EXTREMELY anxious” about public spending & taxation section in MT’s speech] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Big Bang”) [deregulation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Brian Griffiths briefing for MT (“Education - Changing Public Perceptions”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Richard Luce PS letter to No.10 (“Junior Ministers: Follow-up to seminar on 8 November 1985”) [MT to speak to Cabinet to give civil service reforms “a push”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (economy, public expenditure, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: MT letter to Chairman of ACARD (Council’s report on medical equipment industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [proposed dissolution of Assembly, could give impression that policies have run into a cul-de-sac] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: Meeting of Ministers on 5 June") [proposed dissolution of Assembly, wider policy issues] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Howe-Hurd-King) [failure of Assembly to carry out statutory functions, proposed dissolution, decision would need to be presented with finesse] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 691 to FCO (0630Z) ("Visit o[f] of a British IPU Delegation to the Soviet Union, 23 May - 2 June") [summary of visit] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("US/Soviet Relations and Arms Control") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Chairman of Cable & Wireless Ltd letter to Howe (transPacific fibre optic cable) [press release announcing proposed US-Japan joint venture] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa internal") [situation report: "clamp down on the continuing violence... I believe we may have reached something of a watershed"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [money markets, public spending, education] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Douglas Hurd minute for MacGregor (“Public Expenditure Survey”) [the Home Office bids for additional resources] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Warry minute for Powell (“Privatisation of the Royal Ordnance”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute to MT (“School Teachers’ Pay Negotiations in England and Wales”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (hippies, law and order, NHS, public spending) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Richard Luce letter to MT (“Scrutiny of Occupational Health and Hygiene Provision throughout the Civil Service”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: MT letter to President Chirac (Foundation for Age Research) [Paris to London fundraising relay] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Israel: UKE Tunis telegram to FCO ("PLO's reaction to Prime Minister's visit to Israel") ["...fiercely critical..."; MT: "What a shower they are!"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("The shipbuilding industry") ["[My] report will contain some recommendations in its own right. It will also, however, provide the background to a number of specific operational questions due to come to Ministers in the next few weeks"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lord Hill-Norton letter to Younger ("Hull Forms for Warships") [concerns about the terms of reference of the Inquiry] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Confidentiality of Normal Vetting (NV)") ["If, as a result of a breach, it became necessary to discuss NV with the Defence Committee... there should be no reference to the role of the police, who have co-operated... on the understanding that the practice would remain confidential"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute to Younger ("Mine Clearance in the Falkland Islands") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group (negotiations about the democratic future of South Africa) ["We strongly believe that... [our] negotiating concept is sound... difficult to understand how the term suspension of violence provides difficulties for the South African Government... a prior reduction in the level of violence before the Government itself takes specific action... would not be feasible"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Brooke letter to Ian Lang (“European Social Fund - Position for 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Jopling minute for MacGregor (“PES: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food”) [bids for expenditure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Paul Channon minute for MacGregor (“Public Expenditure Survey 1986: Office of Fair Trading”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Governor of the Bank of England, Channon) [deregulation of financial markets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Lawson-MacGregor) [education capital receipts] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT (“Education”) [Baker’s proposals for extra expenditure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MacGregor letter to Lord Young (“TVEI”) [Technical and Vocational Education Initiative] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 22nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (MT speech signals tax cuts, hippies, law and order, economy) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: FCO minute to Caroline Ryder ("Prime Minister's Visit to Vancouver: 11-13 July 1986") [outline programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Northern Ireland Assembly") [Assembly is "behaving in a totally irresponsible manner" but dissolution is not intended to be permanent] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland Assembly: OD Meeting at 10.30 on Monday 9 June") [decision on proposed dissolution, timing and presentation, Council of Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 511 to FCO (0830Z) ("Land Elections in Lower Saxony, 15 June") [narrow win for CDU/FDP a relief for coalition in Bonn] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1500Z) ("US-Soviet Relations") (NSPG 0134) [Arms control - Reagan suggests Soviets might view SDI test] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Alan Clark PS letter to No.10 (meeting with German Federal Economics Minister and French Trade Minister) [advance notification to No.10] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Local government finance") ["Ministers at E(LA) have begun squaring up for the 1987-88 RSG Settlement. You might find it helpful to have a progress report"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chernobyl: Cabinet Office minute for Home Secretary ("The Lessons of Chernobyl") [Civil Contingencies Unit to consider lessons and "prepare appropriate new plans for the future"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO telegram to UKE The Hague ("My Call on Lubbers and Van den Broek: 1600-1730 on 6 June") [Howe record of conversation] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: President Botha") [meeting with European Heads of Government proposed by Pik Botha; Howe reports on soundings with Genscher & Raimond: "neither liked the idea"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Lubbers, van den Broek) ["South Africa": further sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“European Council, 26-27 June”) [the possible agenda] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Community 1986 Budget”) [implications for the forthcoming UK Presidency] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Norman Fowler minute for MacGregor (“Public Expenditure Survey 1986: Social Security and DHSS Administration”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Northern Ireland Office minute for MacGregor (“1986 Public Expenditure Survey”) [proposals for additional resources] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Norman Fowler minute for MacGregor (“Public Expenditure Survey 1986: OPCS”) [additional resources for the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Baker-Whitelaw; MT-MacGregor) [education spending; introduction of GCSEs] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MacGregor minute for Nicholas Edwards (“HMI Report”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1516 to FCO (1630Z) (“Geneva negotiations: new Soviet proposals”) [“for a ban on ASATS and a ban on the offensive use of defensive systems … such linkage would be bad news”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (“The Week Ahead”) [hippies, US extradition, World Cup] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (hippies, general election, health, education) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Unwin minute to Roberts (“Remuneration of Legal Profession”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Community Radio") [results of experiment] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Lord Chancellor's PS letter to Charles Powell ("Australia Constitution Act") [advises against permanent loan of original to Australia] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe message to UKE The Hague ("My Call on Lubbers and Van Den Broek: 6 June - Arms Control") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute for MT ("South Africa: Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") ["have agreed and signed their report"; their work at end, no recommendation for action; next steps] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Nigel Wicks minute to FCO Finance Division ("Prime Minister's Visit to Vancouver") [cost of PM's reception] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Geneva Negotiations: Soviet Proposals") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Energy: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (post-Chernobyl) ["the main task is to ensure that there should be no more nuclear accidents"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("MISC 118") [comments on draft paper for cabinet committee: "Little if anything is said about the likely impact of measures on South Africa... the case for measures seems to depend primarily on the need to maintain our position in the Commonwealth, the Community and the Third World"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Barber) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group Report; further measures; MT: "Front Line States... would in turn seek aid to compensate them, which we would be in no position to provide"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: ComGEP") [Eminent Persons Report: "general feeling in the Group was that they were being strung along... unlikely to be able to play any further role... very high risk of increased violence... need to prepare our position as thoroughly - and as quickly - as possible... [Howe] observes... before long we... [will] have exhausted the scope for minor, relatively painless measures"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Nicholas Edwards minute for MacGregor (“1986 Interdepartmental PES”) [the Welsh Office additional bids] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Paul Channon letter for MacGregor (Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) additional public expenditure bids) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Paul Channon minute for Financial Secretary to the Treasury (“Privatisation of British Airways, British Airports Authority and Rolls-Royce”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Young minute to MT (“The Proposed National Council for Vocational Qualifications”) [MT: “horrified… a quango to end all quangos”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Channon letter to MacGregor (“TVEI Extension”) [Technical and Vocational Education Initiative] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Yardsticks for the success of budgeting in departments”) [MT request for measurable evaluation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) [“The Peacock report on the BBC”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [hippies, caning, Austrian election, SOGAT conference, SDP] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (SDP/Alliance, South Africa, hippies, economy, pay) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Ridley minute to MT (“Football Spectator Violence”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Caroline Ryder minute to MT ("Your Visit to Canada: Hair") [draft programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: FCO minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Visit to Vancouver: Concorde Flight on Friday 11 July") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: President Kyprianou letter to UN Secretary-General (draft framework agreement on Cyprus) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Budapest telegram 123 to FCO (1447Z) ("Gorbachev's Visit to Hungary: 8-9 June") [summary & analysis] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Paris telegram 38 to FCO (1447Z) ("Mitterrand's Visit to Moscow") [] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Fowler letter to Lord Young (‘Restart’ pilot scheme: cases of failure to comply) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Channon letter to Kenneth Clarke (“European Community: UK Initiative on Creating Conditions for Employment Growth”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to FCO (MT discussion on Nimrod project) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Secretary-General of the Commonwealth letter to MT ("Mission to South Africa Report of the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons") ["the report leaves little doubt that... there will not have been adequate progress... the question arises as to what further measures Commonwealth governments will adopt"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Pik Botha letter to co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group (negotiations) [preconditions for, process and nature of the negotiations: "unacceptable that violence or the threat of violence should be used as a bargaining counter"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute for MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group Report) [encloses conclusions; MT: "It is worse than I thought"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Powell minute for MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group Report: message from Chancellor Kohl) ["anxious to avoid any substantive reaction... until he had a chance to co-ordinate views with you"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe telegram to UKE The Hague (“Informal EC Foreign Ministers Weekend: Heemkerk, 8 June”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Flotation of Royal Ordnance plc (ad hoc meeting at 4.15 pm on Wednesday, 11 June)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Minister of State for Defence Procurement minute for MT (“Flotation of Royal Ordnance plc”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Department of Health and Social Security letter to Department of Employment (picketing at Huyton local office) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Office of Manpower Economics letter to MT (“Review Body on Armed Forces Pay”) [recommendation from the Chairmen] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: King memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 16 (Dissolution of the Northern Ireland Assembly) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Call on Zagladin: East/West relations”) [proposals for second summit, SALT II] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Jun 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (hippies, Austria, domestic politics) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: King PS minute to Charles Powell ("Northern Ireland Assembly") [draft statement announcing dissolution] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland Assembly C(86) 16") [proposed dissolution, timing and presentation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: John Rodgers letter to Michael Havers (Joint Irish Courts) [membership of three-man courts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("The Widdicombe Report on the conduct of local authority business") ["...my proposals on handling on publication day and thereafter"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["South Africa": "brief discussion... of the Report of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group and how the Government should respond publicly to it"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the co-Chairmen of the Eminent Persons Group") ["The Group's report in effect recommends that sanctions should be applied... it seems evident that Mandela holds the key to the situation"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Message to the Prime Minister") [cover letter only, referring to message from President Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("ComGEP: Background Papers for Members of the Cabinet") [conclusions of the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons report on its work, and copies of correspondence between the Group and the South African government] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“European Community Budget”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [public spending] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Baker letter for MacGregor (Department of Education and Science additional bids for Public Expenditure Survey) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: MOD minute to No.10 (“Royal Ordnance: Flotation”) [possible alternative courses] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: MOD minute to No.10 (“Flotation of Royal Ordnance plc”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: No.10 minute for MT (“Royal Ordnance”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker minute for MT (introduction of the GCSE examination) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker letter to MacGregor (“TVEI extension”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind letter to Lord Young (“TVEI Extension”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John Moore minute to MT (“Engines for British Airways Boeing 747-400s”) [Rolls-Royce vs US bid] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd minute to MT (“Peacock report”) [Committe maps out “ultimate goal of a completely unregulated market” outwith its terms of reference] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour lead, Bob Geldof, economy, industry) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Remuneration of Lawyers”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Nicholas Edwards minute to Willie Whitelaw (Community Radio) [proposals pose political problems] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 233 to FCO (0900Z) ("Greek Cypriot Response to the UN Secretary General") ['very negative letter'] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1800Z) ("US-Soviet Relations") (NSPG 0135) [Arms control - Reagan, with Weinberger and Shultz, argues for "zero ballistic missiles" tied to SDI deployment] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1580 to FCO (2340Z) ("Geneva Negotiations: New Soviet Proposals") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("South Africa") [MT "inclined to think that she should send a further message to President Botha... to sound [him] out on the possibility of some progress between now and the meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government next September"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Fraser, Obasanjo) ["Prime Minister's meeting with the co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group on South Africa": analysis of the Group's failure and assessment of South Africa's future; MT of the opinion that Mandela's release would be key to a breakthrough] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group letter to Shultz (further sanctions against South Africa) ["[our] report will be released today... we are not dealing with a government which wishes to negotiate"; the Group's view on necessary further measures] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Howe, Jopling) [European Community budget] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Edwards letter to Peter Morrison (“EC Integrated Operations”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay negotiations in England and Wales”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 23rd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Affairs, Northern Ireland Assembly) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKDEL Vienna telegram to FCO (“ Warsaw pact summit”) [“It is unrealistic to try to make agreement in MBFR a pre-condition for movement to the larger forum”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Jun 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Brighton trial, law and order, education) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 499 to FCO (0915Z) ("Land Elections in Lower Saxony, 15 June") [important test for the coalition] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 737 to FCO (1630Z) ("Shevardnadze's visit to London") [Cartledge, Shevardnadze: record of conversation: proposed dates] [released Dec 2016]

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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