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| Date | Category | Type |
Value |
Author/Source | Title |
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| 82 May 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (Reagan commends Haig's latest peace proposals) ["The decisions I made last Friday were aimed at putting you in the strongest position to achieve a peaceful settlement...I believe there is now a chance to realise that aim"] [released 2013] |
| 82 May 30 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: MT message to President Mitterrand (French supply of Exocet missiles to Peru; Peru passing Exocets on to Argentina) [if French supply of Exocets became publicly known "this would have a devastating effect on the relationship between our two countries"] [released 2013] |
| 82 Jun 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Reagan message to MT (congratulations on victory in the Falklands) ["A just war requires a just peace"] [released 2013] |
| 82 Nov 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Reagan message to MT (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) [US will vote for resolution] [released 2013] |
| 82 Nov 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: MT message to Reagan (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) [UK "dismayed" by Reagan's message: "A vote by the United States for the resolution would be received here with incomprehension"] [released 2013] |
| 82 Nov 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Reagan message to MT (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) [Reagan argues for keeping open possibility of "a solution by negotiations sometime in the future"] [released 2013] |
| 82 Nov 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: MT message to Reagan (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) ["The British people would see your vote for this resolution as an American decision to...support a dictatorship against the home of democracy"] [released 2013] |
| 82 Nov 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: Reagan message to MT (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) ["I realize that our understanding of these events is indeed quite different"] [released 2013] |
| 82 May 30 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: MT message to President Mitterrand (possible delivery by France of Exocets to Peru) ["If it became known...that France was now releasing weapons to Peru that would certainly be passed to Argentina for use against us...this would have a devastating effect on the relationship between our two countries"] [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Oct 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Grenada: Reagan message to MT (situation in Grenada: US intervention) ["I have decided to respond positively" to OECS request for US intervention in Grenada] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Grenada: MT message to Reagan (US intervention in Grenada) ["I must tell you at once that the decision which you describe causes us the gravest concern"] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Grenada: Reagan message to MT (US intervention in Grenada) ["I well appreciate the dangers inherent in a military operation...but, on balance, I see this as the lesser of two risks"] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Grenada: Reagan message to MT (OECS request US participation in "collective security effort" in Grenada) ["I am giving serious consideration to the OECS request"] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Grenada: MT message to Reagan (US intervention in Grenada) ["I must tell you at once that the decision which you describe causes us the gravest concern"] [released 2013] |
| 83 Oct 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Grenada: Reagan message to MT (OECS request US participation in "collective security effort" in Grenada) ["I am giving serious consideration to the OECS request"] [released 2013] |
| 83 Oct 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Grenada: Reagan message to MT (situation in Grenada: US intervention) ["I have decided to respond positively" to OECS request for US intervention in Grenada"] [released 2013] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Grenada: Reagan message to MT (US intervention in Grenada) ["I well appreciate the dangers inherent in a military operation...but, on balance, I see this as the lesser of two risks"] [released 2013] |
| 84 Jul 28 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Hong Kong: Foreign Secretary telegram to MT (negotiations on Joint Declaration) [close to Chinese bottom line] [released 2014] |
| 80 Jan 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Signor Cossiga) [detente, US-European relations, world affairs] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Hungary: MT letter to President Reagan (visit to Hungary) ["as far ahead as we can see we have to find a way of living side by side with the Communist system, repugnant as it is"] [declassified 2014] |
| 90 Nov 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Bush Library) | Resignation: President Bush letter to MT (regrets) ["your wisdom and determination"] [declassified 2012] |
| 88 Jul 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Poland: MT letter to General Jaruzelski (visit to Poland) ["I want my visit to mark a step forward... I am convinced that a brief visit to Gdansk would capture the imagination of literally millions of people"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 82 Nov 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: President Reagan message to MT (vote on UN resolution) ["I realise that our understanding of these events is indeed quite different"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Nov 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: MT message to President Reagan (vote on UN resolution) ["an American decision to support Argentina against Britain"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Nov 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: President Reagan message to MT (UN General Assembly resolution calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations) ["I am truly sorry that we disagree on this matter"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Nov 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (UN General Assembly resolution calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations) ["we believe it reasonable now to vote for the substantially modified resolution"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Nov 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: MT letter to President Reagan (UN General Assembly Debate) [resolution calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations; MT: "we are utterly dismayed by [US position]"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 79 Jul 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary policy: MT meeting with ministers (record of conversation) [mortgage rates - possible subsidy] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jun 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: MT meeting with Soviet PM Kosygin (record of conversation) [stop-over in Moscow en route to Tokyo] [declassified 2009] |
| 80 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: No. 10 record of conversation (Monetary Policy Seminar) [system of monetary control; debate over future monetary policy] [declassified 2011] |
| 86 Jan 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Cabinet Office) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 1st (extract on Westland affair) [Heseltine resigns] [declassified 2010] |
| 81 Feb 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 note of conversation (Reagan-Thatcher meeting) [plenary session] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (MT meeting with Chancellor, Wass, etc) [Budget discussion - no decisions] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (MT meeting with Chancellor, Wass, etc) [Howe thinks PSBR below £11b not "politically possible"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor) [Howe now wants to raise basic rate in order to increase allowances; MT agrees] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor & Wass) [MT 'dismayed' at £11.25b PSBR, but accepted Howe rejection of increased basic rate] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor) [Howe reports decision to freeze thresholds & reduce PSBR below £11b] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jun 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Trudeau) [extract] [reflections on Venice summit] [declassified 2010] |
| 79 Jul 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Zimbabwe/Rhodesia PM Bishop Muzorewa) [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington) [Carrington regards success in constitutional conference as "virtually inconceivable"] [declassified 2009] |
| 80 Jun 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Canada: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada) [extract] [patriation of Canadian Constitution, Anglo-Canadian air talks, G7 summit in Venice] [declassified 2010] |
| 82 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Haig) [full transcript of second call: further discussion of UK use of Ascension Island] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 17 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Reagan) [Reagan does "not think [MT] should be asked to go any further" in order to reach compromise] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 17 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Pym-Nott) ["it was decided that authority should be given to the SSNs to attack any Argentine naval warships which entered the Maritime Exclusion Zone"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Reagan) [Reagan urges MT to consider ceasefire; MT refuses: "[MT] had lost valuable British ships and invaluable British lives. She was sure that the President would act in the same way if Alaska had been similarly threatened"] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jul 18 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Woodfield) ["The Maze hunger strike"; contacts with hunger strikers] [declassified 2011] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Reagan) [US intervention in Grenada; Reagan to MT: "We are already at zero"] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Reagan) [US intervention in Grenada: Reagan said he "very much regretted the embarrassment that had been caused" to HMG] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Sep 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan) [first meeting: Lebanon, East/West, arms control, KAL007, INF, Belize, US supply of arms to Argentina] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Luce, MT-Whitelaw, MT-Heseltine) [response to proposals by CARICOM states for intervention in Grenada] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Grenada: No.10 letter to FCO (“Grenada”) [record of No.10 meetings & decisions 24-25 Oct] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Sep 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Premier Zhao Ziyang of China) [NATO, trade with USSR, Poland, arms control, Afghanistan, US foreign policy, Taiwan, Japan, Kampuchea, Vietnam, Middle East] [declassifed 2013] |
| 82 Sep 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Premier Zhao Ziyang of China) [bilateral relations, future of Hong Kong, Guangdong Nuclear Project, trade, defence, consulates, technical co-operation] [declassifed 2013] |
| 83 Sep 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Walker-Tebbit-Armstrong-Gregson-Scholar) [Ian MacGregor's strategy for coal, pit closures, redundancies, miners' pay] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Dec 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gorbachev) [private lunchtime conversation: trade, USSR economy, human rights, miners' strike, communism and free enterprise] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Jun 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | G7: No.10 record of conversation (Heads of Delegation “Falklands”) [Versailles economic summit] [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Jun 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | EC budget: No.10 record of conversation (“European Council: Budget Imbalances”) [British bottom line, 1000-1250m ecu] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 May 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan) [Reagan asks MT to hold off military action, says US has sided with UK "at the price of its relations with Latin America"] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Apr 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Cossiga) [European Council: budget] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Oct 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Armstrong-Gregson) ["Enduring a coal strike"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, European Community, unemployment, financial issues, bilateral issues, Malta, Cyprus] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, terrorism, Brighton bomb attack] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Sep 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Multi-National Forces in Lebanon] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT-First Secretary Kádár) [UK-Hungarian bilateral relations, East-West relations, arms control, communism and the USSR] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor-Governor) [monetary policy: overfunding, reducing the Bill Mountain, money market operations] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Jul 13 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Canada: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Mulroney of Canada) [bilateral issues, Ireland, economic issues, agriculture, Middle East] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jul 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-Marshall-Couzens-Gregson-Buckley) [miners' strike: power station endurance] [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Feb 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Australia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser of Australia) [post-Afghanistan situation and the US, Iran] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Sep 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Miners' Wives Back to Work Campaign representatives) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hungarian National Archive) | Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry record of conversation (MT-Kádár tête-à-tête) [East-West relations] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013] |
| 84 Dec 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gorbachev) [afternoon meeting: East/West relations, arms control, Anglo-Soviet relations] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Vice-President George Bush) [terrorism, Middle East, Southern Africa, Strategic Defence Initiative] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Sep 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [INF deployment, defence issues, arms control, East-West relations] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Oct 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [plenary meeting: bilateral relations, arms control, Poland, East-West relations, Western alliance, defence issues, Falklands] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Oct 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [immigration issues, allied defence cooperation, industry] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Apr 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [defence sales, Argentina, French-German defence cooperation, cooperation with the US, East-West economic relations] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Haig) [dinner conversation: Anglo-US responses to the invasion of the Falklands] [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Feb 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [European Community issues] [declassified 2013] |
| 86 Nov 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: Shultz Evening Reading Item for Reagan ("My meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher") [MT expressed extreme concern about the potential impact of the proposals made at Reykjavik ] [declassified 2013] |
| 84 Jun 2 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Botha: plenary) [South Africa, Cuban presence in Angola, South West Africa] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Jun 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | G7: No.10 record of conversation (“conversation between Heads of Delegation on the evening of Friday, 4 June 1982”) [Versailles economic summit] [declassified 2012] |
| 85 Dec 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, MacGregor, Middleton, Burns dinner) [MT expresses “serious concern at the current stance of policy … too loose … risked higher inflation”] [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Apr 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Cossiga) [European Council: Iran] [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Jan 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Cossiga) [European Community: UK contribution to the budget] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy & other ministers) [Anglo-Italian Summit plenary] [European Community, world affairs, UK-Italian cooperation] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, Falklands at the UN, European Community, CERN, financial issues, East-West relations, Middle East] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jun 9 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [European Community, Libya, terrorism, NATO] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Sep 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [European Community, Greece, Italian economy, USSR, arms control] [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Dec 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Carter, Vance, Brzezinski, Lord Carrington) [“The successor to Polaris”] [declassified 2012] |
| 86 Jul 13 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Canada: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Mulroney of Canada) [South Africa] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Apr 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Australia: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Hawke of Australia) [common agricultural policy, relations with the US, EC economic policy, East-West relations, trade with Japan, Australian economy] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Apr 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Australia: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Hawke of Australia) [the common agricultural policy] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Jul 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Australia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Fraser of Australia) [the Australian economy, relations with South Africa, Commonwealth issues, Middle East, Namibia] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Jul 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Australia: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT- Prime Minister Fraser of Australia) [his planned visits to UK] [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Feb 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Australia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser of Australia) [lunch conversation: Olympic Games] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Secretary for Defense Weinberger) [Strategic Defence Initiative, Mobile Subscriber Equipment, Fylingdales, arms control, Falklands] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Sep 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [European airbus, economic developments, European budget] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Oct 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [recent developments in Poland] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Oct 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [Spanish elections, Falklands, East-West economic relations, economic summit, EC economic and budget issues, Poland] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Apr 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [plenary meeting: bilateral relations, Community affairs, arms control, East-West relations, industrial cooperation] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Apr 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [plenary meeting: EC budget, disarmament, human rights] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [INF stationing problem, EC-US relations, world economic prospects] [declassified 2013] |
| 85 Jan 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [tete a tete: German domestic scene, UK economy, international economic questions, East-West relations, SDI, commemoration of the 40th anniversary of VE Day, Falklands-Argentina] [declassified 2015] |
| 83 Nov 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [East-West relations, US foreign policy, Middle East, Grenada, Allied cooperation, arms supplies for Argentina] [declassified 2015] |
| 85 Jan 18 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [plemary: future development of the Community, financial issues in the Community] [declassified 2015] |
| 84 Jun 2 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Botha: tête-à-tête) [South Africa’s internal situation, Soviet activities, the ANC offices in London, Nelson Mandela] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jun 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Governor, Middleton, Burns et al) [MT worries over conduct of monetary policy] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Aug 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: Michael Alexander record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl at Imlau) [Spaak Committee, internal situation in the Federal Republic, the European Community, East-West relations] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Sep 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [Northern Ireland, the Cancun meeting & foreign aid, European Community matters] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Oct 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [Anglo-French Summit: East-West relations, arms control, Allied cooperation, Falkland Islands, Middle East, EC issues, British-French bilateral relations] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Oct 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [defence disarmament, Allied cooperation, East-West relations, Middle East] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Oct 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [UN Resolution on the Falkland Islands, European issues] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Oct 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [European Community issues, UN Resolution on the Falkland Islands] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 May 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [Versailles Summit, EC mandate] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 May 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [lunch conversation: Middle East, UN Resolution on the Falkland Islands & the Falklands War, East-West relations] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Sep 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [plenary session: foreign affairs, international economy, industry, transport, energy, research and space, EC issues] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [European Community affairs, the future political development of Europe, East/West relations] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Dec 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Carrington) [Franks "pretty wintery" in recall testimony; "very unfair" if he was the only person criticised by name] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Franks) [final sentence narrowly related to Junta decision to invade on 2 April] [declassified 2013] |
| 84 Jun 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [Community issues, Kohl’s visit to Argentina,International Development Association (IDA) Replenishment, Summit issues] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (Anglo/German Summit: lunch discussion) [international economic situation, arms control, trade, protectionism, relations with the US, terrorism] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (Anglo/German Summit: plenary session) [EC affairs, relations with the US, East/West, international terrorism, defence and arms control, environmental issues] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [Cyprus, Iran/Iraq, Libya, Law of the Sea Convention, Argentina, East/West relations and arms control] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [tete-a-tete: European Community affairs] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [extract: cooperation between like-minded groups in the European Parliament] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Sep 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | International economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Leigh-Pemberton) ['Brazil'] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Jan 25 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Westland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [letting her know that “out here in the colonies” she had a friend] [declassified 2016] |
| 89 Jun 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Bush) [Tiananmen Square] [declassified 2016] |
| 84 Jun 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [East/West relations - “Mrs Thatcher’s general impression was that the US Government was rather at a loss as to how to proceed”; Middle East; Central America; Northern Ireland; trade issues; Laker case] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [Strategic Defence Initiative, civil aviation, US economy, Middle East, famine in Africa, UK-Irish relations] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 82 May 16 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Italian Foreign Minister Colombo) [Italy unwilling to continue sanctions against Argentina] [declassified 2012] |
| 88 Nov 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Solidarity leaders, Father Jankowski, Cardinal Józef Glemp) [ninety seven minute meeting] [declassified 2016] |
| 88 Nov 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, General Jaruzelski) [MT visit to Gdansk, Polish internal situation, Solidarity] [declassified 2016] |
| 88 Nov 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, General Jaruzelski) [East-West relations, UK-Polish bilateral relations, economy and trade, arms control, trade union reforms] [declassified 2016] |
| 85 Oct 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (“CHOGM: Heads of Government Retreat at Lyford Clay”) [MT “considerably disillusioned by the double standards applied by a number of the Commonwealth countries”] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 84 Mar 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Michael Quinlan paper on ethics of nuclear deterrence) [MT: “This essay is brilliant and must be published”] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 May 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Nott) [“Future Defence Policy”] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Feb 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Nott, Carrington) [future Defence policy/cutbacks] [declassified 2013] |
| 86 May 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [GATT Round, European Community Budget, CAP, EC/US, East/West relations] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 May 4 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [Libya, Middle East, South Africa, Ireland, Japan, East/West relations, Soviet nuclear accident, EC/US, Korea] [declassified 2014] |
| 90 Sep 30 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Bush, General Scowcroft, Charles Powell; James Baker in part) ["The Gulf Crisis: the Military Option"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, US Defense Secretary Cheney, Tom King) [military situation in the Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Oct 20 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Foreign Minister Primakov and others) [Primakov describes visit to Saddam; urges face-saving "flexible linkage" of withdrawal from Kuwait to Arab/Israeli problem; MT emphatically rejects approach - Saddam "a dictator pure and simple", "We must NOT offer him blandishments"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 85 Feb 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Middleton, Robin Leigh-Pemberton & others) ["EMS": meeting "to discuss whether the UK should join the Exchange Rate Mechanism"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Jun 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-National Party leader F.W. De Klerk: tête-à-tête) [MT "did not find his emphasis on group rights and the need to avoid tyranny by any one group of another was very helpful ... it would look as though white South Africans were expecting blacks to behave better to them than they had behaved towards the blacks"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Oct 14 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-De Klerk at Chequers) [De Klerk worried Mandela losing grip on the ANC; annex records MT would love to visit South Africa, but only when there had been "substantial progress in negotiations"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 90 Jun 17 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (Mandela phone call to MT) [asks her not to press colleagues at upcoming European Council to lift sanctions; MT afterwards said she was "a bit disappointed with Mandela, who seemed to have rather a closed mind"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 85 Jul 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | EC: Renwick letter to Bullard ('Milan') ["account of atmospherics at and just before the European Council"] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 85 Jun 29 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | EC: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“European Council: Milan: 28-29 June") [argument over IGC] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 85 Jun 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, Horst Teltschik) [draft Treaty on European Union between West Germany & France, incorporating British text without consultation; Powell: "I said that I took an extremely dim view of this message ... a black day for our co-operation"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 83 May 29 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Economic Policy: Armstrong record of conversation (MT, Howe, Reagan, Kohl, Trudeau, Mitterrand, Fanfani, Nakasone, Regan and others) [Williamsburg Economic Summit: plenary session] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 89 May 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Lennox-Boyd conversation record (MT-Walters-Turnbull-Gray-Powell) [reformulating her position on ERM entry] [released Mar 2019] |
| 90 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: No.10 record of conversations (MT, President Bush; No.10, UKMIS New York; Charles Powell-Scowcroft) ["Security Council resolution: killings in Jerusalem"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Gulf War: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, President Bush) [Bush "agreed that the key calculation was whether we had the luxury of giving sanctions time to work"; disagreement over reprovisioning Embassies in Kuwait and necessity of a further 'provocation' to justify use of force] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 89 Sep 23 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [Gorbachev's assessment of current internal situation; human rights/emigration; Eastern Europe; US/Soviet relations; arms control/chemical weapons/START; NATO/CFE/SNF; bilateral issues; environmentalism;China; Japan; Middle East; German unification/Warsaw Pact] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 89 Nov 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Bush) [East/West relations; EC; China; Cambodia; Arab/Israel; Nicaragua; Afghanistan; Iran; Cyprus; Argentina; Defence spending; arms control; South Africa; Vietnamese refugees; India/Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Japan; Czechoslovakia; Australia/New Zealand; El Salvador] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 89 Apr 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 conversation record (MT-Gorbachev) [Introduction; International Attitudes to the Soviet Union; Perestroika; Defence and Arms Control; Regional problems; Moscow Embassy, President Bush, Central America, Namibia, etc; family unification; Royal visit to the USSR] [declassified Jul 2018] |
| 85 Sep 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Middleton, Robin Leigh Pemberton, Sir Terence Burns, Professor Brian Griffiths & others) ["European Exchange Rate Mechanism"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 May 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, Howe) [MT furious with Howe for raising EMS in his Perth speech; refuses his request for trilateral meeting with Lawson, tells him to keep quiet] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Jun 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT (economic & monetary union: unscheduled meeting with Lawson & Howe) [MT agrees to meeting next day, prior to departure for European summit in Madrid; CDP: "very selfish"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 84 Jun 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, FitzGerald) [Northern Ireland: proposed amendment to Irish constitution to relinquish territorial claims; MT scepticism about "joint authority"; next steps/press handling; FitzGerald direct talks with Unionists; House of Commons debate; FitzGerald talks with Opposition leaders in London; Sinn Fein/presonation of elections; long-term strategy for negotiations] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 89 May 20 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Lawson unhappy; MT seeks to smooth over public perception of rift in regard to economic policy; efforts to present united front complicated by subsequent No.10 press office advice/actions] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 89 Jun 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lawson) [line to take in Madrid - MT "remained sceptical whether a concession by us on membership of the ERM would really achieve our agreed aim of blocking an IGC and Stages 2 and 3 of Delors"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 90 May 19 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-De Klerk at Chequers) [MT thought De Klerk had grown in stature since last meeting; moving speeches over lunch marked return of South Africa's "acceptance back into the international community"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 90 Jul 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Mandela) ["a successful meeting with an excellent atmosphere ... he expressed his views on the main issues in conciliatory terms"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
| 83 Mar 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Keith Joseph, Tebbit, King, Parkinson, Armstrong, Mount) [Joseph paper on radical voucher scheme] [declassified Aug 2013] |
| 89 Nov 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: MT conversation record (MT-Kohl phone call) [fall of the Berlin Wall] [released Mar 2019] |
| 88 Nov 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | USA: Charles Powell conversation record (MT-President Reagan, tête-à-tête then plenary) [US deficit, Gorbachev, Latin America, START & Trident; Middle East, Soviets, Afghanistan, GATT] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 90 Apr 15 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Bermuda: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Bush) [Germany; NATO; nuclear arms in Europe; USSR; CSCE; COCOM; CFE; chemical warfare; Anglo-French defence; UK defence policy; Trident; Middle East; Central America; China; Hong Kong; Vietnamese refugees; S. Africa; Mozambique; Kashmir; Afghanistan; Cyprus; Argentina/Falklands] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Jun 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [Germany; NATO/Warsaw Pact/US forces in Europe; MT visit to Kiev; US/Soviet summit; the nuclear deterrent; CSCE; Lithuania; biological weapons; Oleg Gordievsky; UK Embassy residence; Royal visit; environmental issues; the transition from socialism to a free market economy; Middle East; Israel/Soviet Jews] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 90 Mar 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, Professor Gordon Craig, Profesor Fritz Stern, Lord Dacre, Professor Norman Stone, Timothy Garton-Ash, George Urban) [analysis of the anticipated role and character of a united Germany in Europe] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 89 Jun 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | USA: No.10 conversation record (MT-President Bush) [NATO/East West relations and defence; Austrian membership of the EC; China; Vietnamese Boat People; Middle East; Lebanon; Southern Africa; Argentina; SDI; Environmental Questions; Cambodia; intelligence cooperation; IDU] [declassified Jul 2018] |
| 84 Nov 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (congratulations on his reelection) [declassified 1998] |
| 85 Oct 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (South African DFA) | South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (drift towards international sanctions against SA) [declassified ?2005] |
| 85 Oct 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (South African DFA) | South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (outcome of Nassau Commonwealth Meeting) [declassified ?2005] |
| 85 Oct 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (South African DFA) | South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (account of Nassau CHOGM & way ahead; urges release of Mandela) [declassified ?2005] |
| 85 Nov 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (South African DFA) | South Africa: President P.W. Botha to MT (cannot cooperate with Commonwealth initiative; alternatives) [declassified ?2005] |
| 85 Nov 17 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (South African DFA) | South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (dismayed at his reply) [declassified ?2005] |
| 85 Dec 14 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (South African DFA) | South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (urges he meet Eminent Persons Group) [declassified ?2005] |
| 86 Jan 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (South African DFA) | South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (encouraged by his response to EPG) [declassified ?2005] |
| 86 Feb 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (South African DFA) | South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (praises his new reform initiative) [declassified ?2005] |
| 86 Mar 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (South African DFA) | South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (welcomes end of state of emergency) [declassified ?2005] |
| 86 Mar 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (South African DFA) | South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (urges constructive response to Eminent Persons Group) [declassified ?2005] |
| 86 Jun 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | South Africa: Reagan letter to Thatcher (concerting policy) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Karpov”) [MT “said she had been very disturbed by Soviet tactics at Reykjavik”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Karpov”) [“Karpov said that the Soviet side had gone to Reykjavik in the hope of achieving concrete results”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to Price (record of MT’s meeting with Karpov”) [for Price’s eyes only] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan phone call on Reykjavik summit) ["Reagan said he had put forward a radical proposal under which the US would guarantee not to deploy a strategic defence system for ten years in return for an undertaking to eliminate all US and Soviet nuclear weapons over that same period"] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan phone call) ["particularly sensitive" points on ABM, Reagan's pride in proposal to eliminate nuclear weapons in ten years; President's admiration for Tom Clancy book] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik: initial German reactions”) [“the door is not closed”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik summit: preliminary view from Moscow”) [“Gorbachev put an unexpectedly high price - severe SDI constraint - on agreement in other arms control areas … which me must have known Reagan would be unlikely to pay”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 21 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations”) [proposal for follow-up meeting between Hartman and Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Weinberger: 9 September”) [“A disturbing insight into right-wing attitudes on arms control”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Reykjavik aftermath”) [Acland discussion with Reagan: “The President said that he understood British and European concerns about the imbalance in non-nuclear forces”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Post-Reykjavik arms control negotiations”) [“Unsatisfactory discussion with Poindexter”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 85 Nov 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Leigh-Pemberton, Whitelaw, Biffen, Tebbit, Wakeham, Brittan, Sir Peter Middleton, Sir Terence Burns, Mr Eddie George, Professor Brian Griffiths) ["Membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the EMS"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 90 Nov 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kohl) [Kohl's "slightly heavy handed display of solidarity" over leadership election; MT wanting IGCs not to conclude 'rapidly'] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Nov 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Press Office: Ingham press briefings (Paris Embassy) [after the first ballot] [released 2015] |
| 90 Nov 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Ingham note to MT (Geoffrey Howe's resignation speech) [text from which Howe spoke] [released Feb 2020] |
| 90 Nov 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Peter Morrison minute to MT (Party Leadership election) [lines to take] [released Feb 2020] |
| 90 Nov 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Kenneth Baker memo to MT (Party Leadership contest: campaign strategy) ["your overriding theme should be Party unity, under your leadership"] [released Feb 2020] |
| 90 Nov 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: MT and DT letter to Bernard Ingham (leaving No.10) ["My last act as Prime Minister must be to thank you"] [released Feb 2020] |
| 90 Nov 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: MT letter to Kenneth Clarke (her resignation) ["Thank you so much for your kind and generous message" - "Stock 1"] [released Feb 2020] |
| 90 Nov 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: Charles Powell letter to MT (her resignation) ["the small men who contrived their petty coup"] [released Feb 2020] |
| 90 Nov 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: Turnbull memorandum ("Prime Minister's resignation, 22 November 1990") [events 20-22 Nov] [released Feb 2020] |
| 90 Oct 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: Ingham minute to MT ("Presentation post-Bournemouth/Eastbourne") [government and party "need to be made to snap out of it .... It's later than they think"] [released Feb 2020] |
| 90 Oct 14 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Gulf, etc: MT note ("Notes for reply to President Bush phone call Oct 1990") [no option to play it long] [released Feb 2020] |
| 90 Oct 27 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand lunch in Rome) [agriculture/GATT; European political union; Germany; EMU; Turkey; EBRD; EC membership; USSR; the Gulf; Defence co-operation] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 90 Oct 27 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand lunch in Rome) [agriculture/GATT, political union, Germany, EMU, EBRD, enlargement, Soviet Union, the Gulf, defence cooperation] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Jan 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Scotland: Rifkind minute to MT (paper on strategy in Scotland) ["level of support is dangerously low for the party of Government"] [released Jul 2018] |
| 90 Apr 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (State Department) | Cold War: Bush-Thatcher meeting in Bermuda (record of conversation) [declassified 2003] |
| 90 Mar 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Major-Lamont-Patten-Portillo) [MT: "with community charge at the present level, the system was leading to an intolerable burden"] [released Dec 2016] |
| 85 May 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Lawson paper circulated to E(LF) - E(LF) (85) 3 ("Local Government Finance Studies") ["the proposal for a poll tax would be completely unworkable and politically catastrophic"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 87 Nov 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ridley-Lawson-Whitelaw-Major-Wakeham-Waddington-Howard) [Lawson's copy - note for future use MT stating no extra money] [released Feb 2018] |
| 84 Sep 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: Redwood briefing for MT (“Local government” - ministerial meeting) ["some kind of poll tax ... most likely to meet the requirements of accountability and visibility"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Sep 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Whitelaw, Brittan, Lawson, Biffen, Joseph, Ridley, Younger, Rees etc.) [“Local government policies” - Jenkin to announce government "looking at the most serious inequities and deficiencies of the system but without giving this the status of a review"] [declassified 2014] |
| 87 Nov 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ridley-Lawson-Whitelaw-Major-Wakeham-Waddington-Howard) [decision to abandon "dual running"] [released Feb 2016] |
| 90 Jun 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 letter to Law Officers Department ("Community Charge") [MT surprised at Solicitor-General's new advice that existing capping powers could be used so extensively] [released Dec 2016] |
| 90 Jun 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Solicitor-General minute to MT ("The Community Charge") [judgments in capping cases, ability of government to implement policies] [released Dec 2016] |
| 90 Apr 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Sir Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Towards a Community Charge package") [too high, unjust between authorities, unfair between individuals; wants relief for worst hit &'multiplier' based on house value for richest; easing of fiscal stance] [released Dec 2016] |
| 90 Mar 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 record of conversations (MT-Major-Lamont-Portillo; joined by Butler, Wilson, Mills) [MT concluded that "the general public were blaming the Government for the high levels of community charge"; suggested proposals for radical review from 1991/92 on] [released Dec 2016] |
| 87 Jul 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No 10 record of conversation (MT-Ridley) [Ridley's "growing concern about opposition" to the charge; problem "increased by the decision to have a transition rather than to abolish rates immediately"; inclined to rethink some major aspects of the charge, which MT "discouraged firmly"] [released Feb 2016] |
| 88 Nov 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Lawson (Nigel) | Economy: Lawson minute to MT ("An independent central bank") [argues for] [published 1992] |
| 89 Jun 25 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party/ERM: MT note on meeting with Howe and Lawson ("G.H. and N.L. Madrid Conference") ["Demanded that I give an undertaking to join the ERM and specify a date .... If not - they would both resign"] [released Mar 2019] |
| 89 Mar 19 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Reshuffle") ["Your comments suggest that you may consider moving or even dropping the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary"] [released Mar 2019] |
| 89 Sep 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Baker-Patten-Major) [local authority grant settlement - expectations of transition problems] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Sep 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT bilateral with Chris Patten) [Community Charge (Patten did not propose safety net for individuals); litter; pollution; environment; planning; water; homelessness] [released Jul 2017] |
| 87 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: FCO briefing for MT ("E(LF) meeting on 26 February: review of local authority fees and charges") [MT opposes charging for library services] [declassified Oct 2016] |
| 83 May 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Conservative Party | Conservative General Election Manifesto 1983 |
| 84 Oct 28 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Waldegrave, Terry Heiser, Oliver Letwin, Turnbull) [“Local government finance”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jan 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Turnbull note for the record ("Lord Rothschild's Note on Local Government Studies") [shows "signs of frustration", but progress being made; Waldegrave "thought interesting and radical proposals would emerge but there would be some difficulty in selling them to the rest of Whitehall"] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Community Charge: Alison record of conversation (MT - Scottish Conservative chairman) [“Goold came to express his great anxiety about the damage to the Conservative Party which is likely to result from Scottish rating revaluation”] [released 2015] |
| 85 Feb 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Whitelaw, Younger, Rees, Alison, officials) ["Rates and revaluation in Scotland"] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Robin Butler minute to MT (Lord Rothschild) [Rothschild asks to see MT, Butler suspects, "to ask if you want to abolish domestic rates altogether ... (h)e hankers after this"] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: John Redwood briefing for MT (meeting with Lord Rothschild) [Rothschild's thinking] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Redwood and Letwin briefing for MT ("Local Government Seminar") [Waldegrave will propose "(a)bolition of domestic rates ... by installing a new, simple, across-the-board poll tax for all local inhabitants"; "a first-rate job ... we agree"] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Lord Rothschild paper for MT ("The Local Authority Problem Viewed by an Outsider, 1.1.1985") [promised "sharp look at local authority finance and function"] [released Dec 2014] |
| 89 May 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("Role of local authorities") [stock-taking meeting; "[our] major programme of incremental reform ... is now resulting in a seachange in attitudes ... I would advise against another wave of radical reform in the immediate future"] [declassified July 2017] |
| 89 Apr 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: No.10 letter to Ridley PS ("Role of local authorities") [MT "rather surprised" by Conservative County Council manifesto reference to no further significant structural reforms; was not consulted; requests meeting with Ridley and paper] [declassified July 2017] |
| 85 Mar 31 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Waldegrave, Whitelaw, Jenkin, Younger, Baker, Edwards, Rees, Young, Gummer, Ancram; Rothschild, Butler, Heiser, Redwood, Brearley, Meyer) [Chequers seminar on local government finance studies - origins of community charge] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Redwood and Letwin minute for MT ("Local Government Finance Reform") [DOE 'Specifiction Report' - "a number of unpleasant effects ... Unless some of them can be sorted out this reform is unattractive"] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Lord Rothschild letter to Robin Butler ("Local Authority Finance") ["The Community Charge is, I believe, a winner. But I am nervous lest it is accidentally or deliberately misinterpreted, for example: 'Tories hit the poor again'"] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 May 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (85) 1st ("Local Government Finance Studies") [Most confidential record] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 87 Jul 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Community Charge: Katharine Ramsay conversation record (Conservative backbench Environment Committee) [Ridley defends poll tax; Heseltine, Gow, Young criticisms] [released Oct 2017] |
| 89 Jun 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, John Gummer, Sir Terry Heiser) ["Role and structure of local government"] [declassified July 2017] |
| 89 Sep 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Baker, Patten, Lamont, David Hunt, Brian Griffiths) ["Local authority grant settlement"] [declassified July 2017] |
| 85 Jun 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | EC: FCO record of conversation (“informal record” of Milan European Council, 28/29 June) [argument over IGC] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 82 Sep 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (Carrington testifies - 1st time) ["much more sensible for them gradually to build up the pressure against us"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Oct 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (MT testifies) [invasion "the worst...moment of my life"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Dec 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (Carrington testifies - 2nd time) ["I take it that I am the only person who is being criticised"] [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Jan 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: MT's annotated text of the Franks Report ("Falkland Islands Review") [released 2013] |
| 89 Apr 29 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Lubbers, Van den Broek, Ruding) [Europe: nuclear deployment; Delors Report; economic & monetary union] [declassified Dec 2017] |
| 82 Apr 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: MT message to world leaders ("Falkland Islands: economic measures against Argentina") [urges support for measures to bring Argentina to act on Security Council resolution] [declassified 2012] |
| 91 Jul 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 minute to Major ("Inter-governmental conferences") ["FCO... assessment of what we might hope to achieve at Maastricht and what the main pitfalls for us are likely to be"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 91 Jul 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("Inter-Governmental Conferences") [best achievable outcome at Maastricht; PM's broad agreement with Foreign Secretary] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 84 Jun 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | EC budget: MT memoir (Fontaineableau European Council) [settlement of the British budget question] [released 2015] |
| 84 Jun 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (FCO) | EC budget: FCO record of conversation (“informal record” of Fontainebleau European Council) [settlement of British budget question] [declassified 2008] |
| 84 Jun 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | EC budget: UKREP Brussels to FCO (“Discussion of budgetary imbalances at Fontainebleau”) [Mitterrand presenting outcome as “one in which there were neither victors nor vanquished”; Tietmeyer reaction] [declassified 2014] |
| 79 May 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (Energy, EC, East/West, etc) [master copy of whole briefing set][declassified 2009] |
| 79 May 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“The Budget”) [declassified 2009] |
| 85 May 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with Chancellor Kohl, on 18 May, 1985") [attaches paper on political cooperation; meeting "will be crucial in determining whether we succeed in channelling the debate on the future of the European Community over the next months towards sensible conclusions with which we can live"; need to convince Euro-enthusiasts Britain moving ahead, but "we don't want to succumb to the drivel about European Union"] [released Dec 2014] |
| 82 May 2 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Nott-Parkinson-Havers-Lewin-Fieldhouse-Acland) [Rules of Engagement widened to permit attack on General Belgrano] [declassified 2012] |
| 79 Dec 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | US: No.10 record of conversation (MT plenary meeting with President Carter) [Iran, Rhodesia, Middle East, energy, Northern Ireland, defence] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Dec 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | US: No.10 record of conversation (MT restricted meeting with President Carter) [Diego Garcia; China; Cambodia] [declassified 2009] |
| 89 Sep 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Clarke) [implementation of NHS Review] [released Dec 2016] |
| 90 Apr 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Clarke) [possible delay in introduction of NHS and community care reforms] [released July 2017] |
| 90 Jul 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Clarke) ["NHS Reforms" - Clarke convinced reforms had to be introduced next year; MT agreed, with reservations] [released July 2017] |
| 87 Dec 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [MT "expressed her very strong concern about the continued very large scale intervention needed to hold sterling below DM3"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Aug 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Lawson urges 1 percent interest rate increase; MT "most unconvinced" but yields to his view] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 87 Jul 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Leigh Pemberton-Middleton) [Lawson urges 0.5 percent increase in base rates, with Bank support; MT rejects, issue should be revisited in August] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Feb 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Lawson proposed 0.5 per cent interest rate increase; MT agreed, subject to no intervention to check rise in sterling above 3DM] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Mar 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: Gray minute for MT ("Overnight Market Report") [further heavy intervention overnight to hold down sterling against DM; Lawson not wanting to uncap so near to budget; MT opts to meet with Lawson] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Mar 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: No.10 conversation record (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Governor of the Bank of England) ["Exchange Rate Policy"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Jun 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: No.10 conversation record (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [market handling in light of bad trade figures; possible increase in interest rates; Lawson agreed need for "a period of significant tightening of policy", rates at 10 percent or higher] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jan 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: No.10 conversation record (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [decision to 'uncap' the pound from Monday] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Mar 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: No.10 conversation record (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Market Management" - Lawson accepts that rate should be allowed to move above DM3 on Monday if sterling still under upwards pressure] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Mar 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: Gray minute for MT ("The Markets") [heavy intervention to hold down sterling against DM; options, including uncapping the pound] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jul 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for Butler (Alan Walters interview in Daily Mail) [told him he had to behave like a Trappist monk or "his return to No.10 would be in serious doubt"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Jul 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Markets" - intervention of over $600m) [MT wants interest rate rise "very early next week"; "HIS [Lawson's] REPUTATION IS AT STAKE"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Nov 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to MT ("An Independent Central Bank") [MT: "NO" - inflation not defeated] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 88 Dec 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [MT refuses to consider an independent Central Bank until inflation reduced to "a very low level" and kept there, perhaps in four years] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 76 Aug 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph notes (goals) ["internal note by KJ"] |
| 90 Aug 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Bush Library) | Gulf War: National Security Council minutes on Persian Gulf [uncertain response] [declassified 2012] |
| 90 Aug 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Bush Library) | Gulf War: National Security Council minutes on Persian Gulf ["It's fortunate that Mrs Thatcher is at Aspen"] [declassified 2000] |
| 90 Aug 4 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Bush Library) | Gulf War: National Security Council minutes on Persian Gulf [military options] [declassified 2000] |
| 90 Aug 4 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Bush Library) | Gulf War: White House record of phone conversation (President Bush-Saudi King Fahd) [Bush: "We need your view on a US force presence [in Saudi Arabia]"; Fahd: "We think we have a few days to coordinate, to make a tight, successful plan"] [declassified Aug 2009] |
| 90 Aug 5 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Bush Library) | Gulf War: National Security Council minutes [covert options; UN; Saudi Arabia] [declassified2000] |
| 90 Apr 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("EMU") [meeting with the Chancellor; our evolutionary approach has run out of steam; options for handling EMU] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 90 Jun 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Major) [ERM - MT "said she no longer had reservations about the UK joining .... The issue was when was the right time to join"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
| 90 Jun 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Nick Ridley minute to MT ("Economic and Monetary Union") [promote regional groupings or currency arrangements; for trade "it is the Single Market which matters"; "To be alone in the 12 is not the end of the world, nor would we be alone if other candidates were allowed to join the EC"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
| 90 May 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Major minute for MT ('EMU') [risk of "the beginning of a path to a two-tier Europe"; MT: "What's wrong with that if the other tier is going in the wrong direction?"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
| 90 May 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: EMU") [MT sceptical others would go ahead without us, and even if they did, does not believe UK should follow "a fundamentally wrong direction"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
| 90 May 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Major; Middleton, Wicks) [EMU - MT rejects Major suggestion that UK should accept Treaty committing to EMU "leaving to individual states ... whether and when to join"; instead, campaign to instill doubts about EMU and in favour of alternative concepts] [declassified Jun 2018] |
| 89 Oct 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Turnbull note for MT (Alan Walters article/interview) [MT: "advisers ADVISE, Ministers DECIDE policy"] [declassified Jul 2018] |
| 79 Sep 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [MT comments on leaseback scheme: "I could not possibly agree to the line the Foreign Secretary is proposing"] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Dec 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 minute to MT ("Falkland Islands: Mr Ridley's statement") [leaseback - "Mr Ridley had an awful time in the House this afternoon"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Luce, Ros and officials) ["Anglo-Argentine Ministerial Talks on the Falkland Islands: New York, 26/27 February 1982"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Falklands Talks: Argentine Press Comment") [MT: "We must make contingency plans"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (Reagan phone call to Galtieri) ["[Galtieri] left me with the clear impression that he has embarked on a course of armed conflict"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: MT message to President Reagan (intelligence reports Argentine navy preparing to invade) [MT asks Reagan to intervene with Galtieri] [declassified 2012] |
| 90 Sep 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Powell minute for Turnbull (Chancellor's statement on ERM entry) [MT "pretty indignant" with 'panic' statement and with Governor's reaction] [declassified Jun 2018] |
| 90 Oct 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Major; Middleton, Burns, Wicks, George) [ERM entry; decision to announce interest rate cut at same time and to join tomorrow, 5 Oct; present rate of DM2.93 "very close to what we would like the central rate to be"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Falklands Governor Rex Hunt-Major Norman-Major Noott) [Argentine invasion of the Falklands] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Retaking the Falkland Islands: The Political Costs") ["hard to persuade people that the game was worth the candle"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Sep 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Vice Chairman Deng Xioaping of China) [future of Hong Kong] [MT's annotated copy] [released 2013] |
| 82 Sep 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping of China) [future of Hong Kong] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Jan 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (first meetings with MT as economic adviser) ["What should she do about Geoffrey? Who could she promote. No one"] [released 2012] |
| 82 Apr 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Rentschler MSS) | Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (imminent Argentine invasion) [Reagan calls Galtieri; writes result to MT] |
| 82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Rentschler MSS) | Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (US decision to launch mediation; Haig's first visit to London) [MT: "Interim authority? - to do what?"] |
| 82 Apr 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Rentschler MSS) | Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (Haig shuttle back in London) [MT: "the fleet must steam on!"] |
| 82 Apr 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Rentschler MSS) | Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (Haig in Buenos Aires again) [Haig: "a charade ... a f***ing charade - these guys are diddling me"] |
| 81 Jan 8 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (meeting with MT) [MT on Niehans: "no one must know about it"] [released 2012] |
| 81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Walters MSS) | Economy: Alan Walters diary (MT meeting with Howe & Wass) [“PM told GH he must get the PSBR down or ‘you are for the chop’”] [released 2012] |
| 79 Dec 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Carter Library) | US: President Carter phone call to MT (Soviet invasion of Afghanistan) [declassified 1996] |
| 79 Dec 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: President Carter phone call to MT (Soviet invasion of Afghanistan) [“extremely grave development”] [released 2010] |
| 79 May 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Transition to power: Ronnie Millar letter to MT (congratulations) [“At least three Parliaments’ worth of work to do”] [released 2010] |
| 79 Dec 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Press Office: Bulletin (PM’s letter to Brezhnev) [MT “profoundly disturbed at recent developments in Afghanistan”] [released 2010] |
| 82 May 5 We | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: MT draft letter to Reagan (MT: "The letter to Reagan that was never sent...") [US proposals not "faithful to the basic principles we must protect"] [released 2013] |
| 82 May 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (MT expresses serious concerns about US/Peruvian peace proposals; proposes amendments) ["I am writing to you...because I think you are the only person who will understand the significance of what I am trying to say"] [released 2013] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: No.10 minute (“Record of a meeting between the Prime Minister and President Reagan at Camp David on 22 December 1984 at 1030 hours”) [tête-à-tête on Gorbachev, SDI] [released 2014] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: No.10 minute (“Record of a meeting between the Prime Minister and President Reagan at Camp David on 22 December 1984 at 1120 hours”) [plenary on SDI] [released 2014] |
| 86 Jan 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 1st (Parliamentary Affairs, Westland, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Economic Affairs, Local Government Finance Studies) [Heseltine resigns; confidential annex on local government finance] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 82 Apr 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 15th (Diplomatic and Military Situation) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 24 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Pym memorandum circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 25 (Falkland Islands: Washington Discussion with Mr Haig) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | US: UKE Washington to FCO ("President Reagan's Visit") [Deaver suggests that "we had better drop the idea of a visit to the UK at this time"; Henderson doubts that "crying off at this stage would be understood in London"] [declassified 2012] |
| 90 Jan 20 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Cabinet Office) | German unification: No.10 memorandum of conversation (MT & President Mitterrand) [prospect of unification had turned them into "the 'bad' Germans they used to be"] [declassified 2010] |
| 82 Apr 18 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Parsons) [possible UN resolution requiring UK Task Force to "drop anchor, to turn around, to hold off as it were, which obviously we couldn't accept"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Haig) [full transcript of first call: dispute over British use of Ascension Island] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 8 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Haig) [pre-dinner conversation: Anglo-US responses to the invasion of the Falklands] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [transcript; Mitterrand expresses support for MT] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT, King Hussein of Jordan) [seeks, and gets, Jordan's support for UN Security Council resolution] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 May 31 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: White House record of telephone conversation (Reagan-MT) [President calls MT urging ceasefire plan] [declassified 2016] |
| 82 May 8 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Parsons) [MT wants UN Secretary-General to visit London; MT: "it is going to be the most awful waste of young life if we really have to go and take those islands"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Haig) [first meeting: discussion of Haig proposals] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Haig) [second meeting: further discussion of Haig proposals] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Haig) [third meeting: discussion of American draft agreement] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Haig) [discussion of further Argentine demands; Argentina moving closer to USSR; concerns about UK public opinion] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Sep 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (Nick Ridley testifies) [leaseback not accepted "but there was every chance in due course it would have been"] [declassified 2012] |
| 89 Sep 23 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (National Security Archive) | Cold War: MT conversation with Mikhail Gorbachev (extract from Soviet memcon in Gorbachev Archive) [“Britain & Western Europe are not interested in the unification of Germany”] |
| 82 Apr 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: US draft of peace agreement (as of 23rd April) [Haig proposals delivered via Pym & unacceptable to MT] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jun 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Major General Moore message (surrender of Argentine forces in Port Stanley) ["The Falkland Islands are once more under the Government desired by their inhabitants. God Save The Queen"] [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Sep 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Ministerial talks on the Falklands (Ridley-Cavandoli secret meeting in Geneva) [leaseback with 99 year term agreed as basis to proceed] [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Nov 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Defence and Oversea Policy Committee - OD(80) 23rd (Falkland Islands, Health of the Alliance) [OD approves Ridley putting leaseback to Falkland Islanders] [declassified 2010] |
| 84 Jun 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: HMG paper ("Europe - the Future") [given by MT to EC heads of government at Fontainebleau European Council] [published Jun 1984] |
| 79 Jul 21 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Nicholas Ridley, Falkland Island Councillors) [taxation, agriculture, oil industry, nationality, cooperation with Argentina] [declassified 2012] |
| 79 Sep 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [Carrington's copy] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Rentschler telegram to McFarlane (negotiations) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Apr 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Reagan telegram to Haig (negotiations) [declassified 1999] |
| 82 Apr 18 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Haig telegram to Clark (negotiations) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Apr 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Haig telegram to Pym (negotiations) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Apr 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Haig telegram to Pym (Argentine terms) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (dinner table talk) [declassified 2000] |
| 81 Apr 18 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Haig to Thatcher (Pakistan/Afghanistan) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Nov 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan report to meeting of NATO Leaders (Geneva Summit) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Jul 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSA brief for Reagan letter to MT (John Brown & Polish sanctions) [declassified 2000] |
| 90 Jan 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Margaret Thatcher interviewed about Ronald Reagan [released 2002] |
| 83 Dec 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Thatcher letter to Reagan (resuming US arms sales to Argentina) [summary declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Economy: Reagan letter to Thatcher (& briefing) (civil aviation) [declassified 2000] |
| 93 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Bosnia: US Embassy in London telegram to Secretary of State (Thatcher attacks UK policy in Bosnia) [unclassified] |
| 90 Apr 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: US Embassy (Bonn) telegram to Secretary of State (German Government reaction to Thatcher visit) [declassified 1997] [external link] |
| 88 Jul 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Middle East: US Embassy (London) to Secretary of State (UK reaction to US shooting down Iranian Airbus) [declassified 1996] [external link] |
| 85 Feb 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Economy: Reagan letter to Thatcher (environment - London G7 follow-up) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Jan 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Economy: Thatcher letter to Reagan (environment - London G7 follow-up) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Nov 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Middle East: Thatcher letter to Reagan (Lebanon) [summary declassified 2000] |
| 89 Dec 9 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | Europe: Strasbourg European Council (Presidency Conclusions) [external link] |
| 90 Apr 28 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | Europe: Dublin European Council (Presidency Conclusions) [external link] |
| 90 Jun 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | Europe: Dublin European Council (Presidency Conclusions) [external link] |
| 88 Dec 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | Europe: Rhodes European Council (Presidency Conclusions) [external link] |
| 88 Jun 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | Europe: Hanover European Council (Presidency Conclusions) [external link] |
| 88 Feb 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | Europe: Brussels European Council (Presidency Conclusions) [external link] |
| 83 Oct 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands/Chile: US State Department Report on resuming arms sales to Chile & Argentina [declassified 1999] [external link] |
| 82 May 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands/Chile: Vernon Walters meeting with Pinochet (record of conversation) [declassified 2000] [140K scan] |
| 82 May 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands/Chile: Haig telegram to US Embassy (Santiago) (certifying Chile for arms sales) [declassified 2000] [external link] |
| 88 Jul 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Chile: US Ambassador (London) to Secretary of State (UK toughening on Pinochet?) [declassified 2000] [external link] |
| 83 Mar 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Shultz memorandum for President Reagan [draft] (resuming US arms sales to Argentina) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Northern Ireland: NSC note on Shultz Evening Report (British urge revision of US/UK extradition treaty) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Northern Ireland: US State Department briefing on Doherty case (US extradition rules) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: President Reagan's briefing cards for Camp David meeting [declassified 2000] [81K scanned image] |
| 84 Aug 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (thanks for photo with Churchill portrait) [unclassified] |
| 83 Sep 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Ambassador (London) to Secretary of State (British hopes for Thatcher US visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Treasury briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 83 Sep 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Ambassador (London) to Secretary of State (extraterritoriality) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Jun 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: Americas Watch paper (Argentine government human rights abuse during Falklands War) [released 2002] |
| 84 Dec 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US State Department brief (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Mar 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Falklands: US Embassy Buenos Aires to State Dept (Argentine policy on eve of Enders visit) ["Galtieri's vigorous style of leadership"] [declassified 2002] |
| 87 Feb 22 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (G7) | Economy: Statement of G6 Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors ("the Louvre Accord") |
| 85 Sep 22 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (G7) | Economy: Announcement of [G5] Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors (the Plaza Agreement) |
| 84 Dec 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Economy: Secretary Shultz's Evening Report (extract on civil aviation) [declassified 2000] |
| 87 Dec 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan call to Kohl (reporting Washington Summit) (record of conversation) [declassified 2000] |
| 87 Dec 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Reagan call to Mitterrand (reporting Washington Summit) (record of conversation) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (NSA) | Nicaragua: McFarlane-North briefings (possible approach to MT for help with Contras) [declassified 1987] [149K scanned image] |
| 85 Aug 31 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (NSA) | Nicaragua: North-Poindexter emails (possible approach to MT) [declassified 1987] [114K scanned image] |
| 85 Feb 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (NSA) | Nicaragua: Howe telegram to Embassies (meeting with Nicaraguan Vice-President) [declassified c.1987][144K scanned image] |
| 90 Apr 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (NSA) | Middle East: US Ambassador (London) telegram to Secretary of State Baker (Iraqi supergun affair) [declassified 1993] |
| 89 Jun 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Bush Library) | Cold War: White House telcon (Bush-Kohl) [Gorbachev] [declassified 1999] |
| 89 Jun 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Bush Library) | Cold War: White House telcon (Bush-Kohl) [G7; Europe] [declassified 1999] |
| 89 Oct 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Bush Library) | Cold War: Bush-Kohl phone conversation (European situation) [declassified] [90K scan] |
| 89 Nov 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Bush Library) | Cold War: Bush-Kohl phone conversation (Poland; situation in Berlin) [declassified] [66K scan] |
| 89 Nov 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Bush Library) | Cold War: Bush-Kohl phone conversation (German situation; Bush-Gorbachev summit) [declassified] [80K scan] |
| 90 Feb 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Bush Library) | Cold War: Bush-Kohl phone conversation (Kohl talks in Moscow) [declassified] [50K scan] |
| 90 Feb 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Bush Library) | Cold War: Bush-Kohl phone conversation (procedural) [declassified] [38K scan] |
| 90 Mar 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Bush Library) | Cold War: Bush-Kohl phone conversation {German unification) [declassified] [105K scan] |
| 90 Mar 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Bush Library) | Cold War: Bush-Kohl phone conversation (East German elections) [declassified] [119K scan] |
| 90 May 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Bush Library) | Cold War: Bush-Kohl phone conversation (Gorbachev visit to Washington) [declassified] [43K scan] |
| 90 Jul 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Bush Library) | Cold War: Bush-Kohl phone conversation (Kohl visit to USSR) [declassified] [123K scan] |
| 70 Dec 19 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Minute of Chequers meeting with Heath (& Joseph) [declassified 2003] [155K scan] |
| 71 Mar 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Thatcher minute to Heath (student union finance) [declassified 2003] [151K scan] |
| 71 Nov 20 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Heath minute (student union finance) [declassified] [125K photo] |
| 71 Nov 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Chief Whip's minute (student union finance) [declassified] [328K photo] |
| 72 Oct 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Thatcher-Campbell minute to Heath (Education White Papers) [declassified] [111K scan] |
| 72 Nov 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Education: Cabinet Secretary's minute (Education White Papers) [declassified] [76K scan] |
| 67 Feb 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US visit: State Department program for MT's 1967 US tour (20 Feb-31 Mar) [unclassified] [221K scan] |
| 67 Feb 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | US visit: State Department file on MT's 1967 US tour (20 Feb-31 Mar) [unclassified] [376K scan] |
| 82 Jul 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: Weinberger memorandum to Reagan ("Military Lessons from the Falklands") [declassified 2000] |
| 82 Jul 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Falklands: US NATO delegation to US Joint Chiefs (Falklands briefing at NATO) [declassified 2000] |
| 70 Jan 31 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Conservative Party) | Conservative Party: Selsdon Meeting transcript (morning session) |
| 70 Jan 31 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Conservative Party) | Conservative Party: Selsdon Meeting transcript (afternoon session) |
| 70 Feb 1 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Conservative Party) | Conservative Party: Selsdon Meeting transcript (morning session) [‘rough’ transcript] |
| 70 Feb 1 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Conservative Party) | Conservative Party: Selsdon Meeting transcript (morning session) ['smooth' transcript] |
| 78 Apr 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | General Election: MTs notes on Shadow Cabinet (manifesto draft) |
| 76 Oct 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 135th Meeting |
| 76 Nov 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 136th Meeting |
| 76 Nov 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 137th Meeting |
| 76 Nov 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 138th Meeting |
| 76 Nov 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 139th Meeting |
| 76 Nov 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 140th Meeting |
| 76 Dec 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 141st Meeting |
| 76 Dec 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 142nd Meeting [agenda only] |
| 76 Dec 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 143rd Meeting |
| 76 Dec 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 144th Meeting |
| 77 Jan 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 145th Meeting |
| 77 Jan 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 146th Meeting |
| 77 Jan 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 147th Meeting |
| 77 Jan 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 148th Meeting |
| 77 Feb 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 149th Meeting |
| 77 Feb 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 150th Meeting |
| 77 Feb 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 151st Meeting |
| 77 Feb 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 152nd Meeting |
| 77 Mar 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 153rd Meeting |
| 77 Mar 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 154th Meeting |
| 77 Mar 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 155th Meeting |
| 77 Mar 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 157th Meeting |
| 77 Apr 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 158th Meeting |
| 77 Apr 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 159th Meeting |
| 77 Apr 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 160th Meeting |
| 77 May 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 161st Meeting |
| 77 May 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 162nd Meeting |
| 77 May 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 163rd Meeting |
| 77 May 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 164th Meeting |
| 77 Jun 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 165th Meeting |
| 77 Jun 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 166th Meeting |
| 77 Jun 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 167th Meeting |
| 77 Jul 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 168th Meeting |
| 77 Jul 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 169th Meeting |
| 77 Jul 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 170th Meeting |
| 77 Jul 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 171st Meeting |
| 77 Jul 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 172nd Meeting |
| 77 Jul 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 173rd Meeting |
| 77 Aug 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 174th Meeting |
| 77 Oct 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 175th Meeting |
| 77 Oct 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 176th Meeting |
| 77 Nov 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 177th Meeting |
| 77 Nov 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 178th Meeting |
| 77 Nov 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 179th Meeting |
| 77 Nov 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 180th Meeting |
| 77 Nov 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 181st Meeting |
| 77 Dec 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 182nd Meeting |
| 77 Dec 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 183rd Meeting |
| 78 Jan 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 184th Meeting |
| 78 Jan 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 185th Meeting |
| 78 Jan 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 186th Meeting |
| 78 Jan 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 187th Meeting |
| 78 Feb 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 188th Meeting |
| 78 Feb 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 189th Meeting |
| 78 Feb 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 190th Meeting |
| 78 Feb 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 191st Meeting |
| 78 Feb 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 192nd Meeting |
| 78 Feb 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 193rd Meeting |
| 78 Mar 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 194th Meeting |
| 76 Dec 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Adam Ridley note (spending cuts) |
| 76 Dec 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Adam Ridley note (mini-budget) |
| 78 Mar 20 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of Meeting on pay |
| 78 Mar 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Adam Ridley paper for pay meeting |
| 78 Feb 15 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of Meeting on pay |
| 77 May 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: "Concerted Action" paper (educating the public) |
| 78 Apr 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Report of Conservative backbench Finance Committee meeting |
| 78 Jun 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Adam Ridley note for Keith Joseph (money supply) |
| 78 Jun 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Adam Ridley paper ("Red Socialism") |
| 78 Sep 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Gordon Reece note (tax credit remark misreported) |
| 79 Jan 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: CBI Situation Report ("Winter of Discontent") |
| 76 Nov 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (inflation-proofed pensions) |
| 76 Nov 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe tp Michael Heseltine (British Leyland) |
| 76 Nov 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (US attitude to sterling) |
| 76 Dec 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to Thorneycroft (Shadow Cabinet tours) |
| 76 Dec 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to Robbie Gilbert (miners pay) |
| 76 Dec 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to Angus Maude (Policy Groups on the economic side) |
| 77 Feb 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to Colin Jones ( Financial Times not reporting Tories) |
| 77 Mar 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT (civil service) |
| 77 Mar 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe speech to 35 Club (defends mortgage tax relief) |
| 77 Mar 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Economy: MT to Basil Feldman (Tory links with City) |
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