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PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT (“Scottish Teachers’ Inquiry”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord King) [“British Airways”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Channon PS letter to No.10 (“British Airways: US anti-trust suits”) [planned use of powers under the Protection of Interests Act] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay 1986”) [negotiating strategy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Judiciary: No.10 internal minute: Flesher to Wicks (“Richard Holt, M.P.”) [No.10 seeks to avoid being drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Judiciary: No.10 letter to Treasury Solicitor (Richard Holt libel action) [No.10 seeks to avoid being drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Judiciary: No.10 letter to Office of the Treasury Solicitor (Richard Holt MP libel action) [“this is a matter on which the response should come formally from Treasury Solicitors”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Budget) [smokers, drinkers and drivers expected to be hit] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Lord Hailsham PS letter to No.10 (“Remuneration of Barristers”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Bernard Wilkie letter to Home Office (“New Ideas in Security”) [proposal for a dedicated research establishment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Giles Shaw PS letter to No.10 (“Crime Prevention”) [setting up of a Ministerial Group] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Younger minute for Howe ("Arms Control: President Reagan's Message") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King) ["Anglo-Irish relations: Northern Ireland": "line which Mr. King should take in further meetings with Mr. Molyneaux"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Willie Whitelaw minute to Douglas Hurd ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite") [extension of DBS contract period] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Common Agricultural Policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“European Community Budget for 1986”) [UK application against the European Parliament to the European Court of Justice] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Channon letter to Baker (“Environmental Assessment Directive”) [redraft of the consultation document] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MacGregor minute for MT (“Public Expenditure: 1985-86 Outturn”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lord Advocate letter to Hurd (“Strasbourg - Proofing”) [reducing impact of European Court on Human Rights findings] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT (“GCSE”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: UKE Luxembourg telegram to Department of Education and Science (“My Letter of 16 December to Capey and Telecon Miles/Norbury of 26 February: European School, Luxembourg”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph, Rifkind, MacGregor) [inquiry into Scottish teachers’ pay] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 11th (Budget) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (law and order) [public disclosure of name of accused in rape case] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Geoffrey Pattie letter to David Waddington (“Deregulation Fire Safety in Cinemas and MISC 121”) [declassified 2014]
Text 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Key Hansard Economy: 1986 Budget (Lawson 3)
PDF 86 Mar 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Hurd letter to Whitelaw (“Proposed change in the immigration rules to prevent the admission or stay of child spouses under 16”) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Hurd minute to MT (Prison industries) [rationalisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Command Paper publication") ["Accounts of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for year ended 31 March 1985. The Accounts do not contain anything controversial"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Chirac) [British hostages in Lebanon, Chirac's visit] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: John MacGregor minute to Tom King ("Northern Ireland: An International Fund") [the resources will be additional to existing block resources] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Baker letter to MT (‘Conservation and Development - the British Approach’) [UK Government response to World Conservation Strategy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, MacGregor, Jopling, Channon, Tebbit) [European Community: the common agricultural policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walker letter to Whitelaw (“Implementation of the European Directive on Environmental Assessments”) [Baker proposals for publishing the consultation document] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind minute to MT (“Scottish Teachers’ Inquiry”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) [Chairman of the Scottish teachers’ inquiry] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 680 to FCO (2355Z) (“Shultz meeting with Ryzhkov: 15 March”) [timing of a further US-Soviet summit] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Channon PS letter to No.10 (“British Airways: anti-trust suits”) [planned use of powers under the Protection of Interests Act] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John MacGregor letter to Nick Ridley (“BA pay”) [“I cannot see how offers as high as have been made can be justified”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Budget) [“Odds on Conservatives to win next election after Budget”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Whitelaw letter to Hurd (“Public Order Bill: controls on alcohol in executive boxes and restaurants at football grounds”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Whitelaw letter to Hurd (“Family Law Bill and second wives”) [separation from Bill as a distinct policy issue] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Michael Alison minute to MT (meeting with Sarah Hogg) [article on popular capitalism] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The new Government") [list of Ministers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Statement by Chirac") ["basis on which his Government will cohabit with the President"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The French Legislative elections summary") ["apparently Mitterrand wanted Simone Veil but she failed to secure the backing of other UDF leaders... hard bargaining between Mitterrand and Chirac over Cabinet appointments"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Formation of the new French Government: messages") [courtesy letters from MT to Fabius, Chirac & Mitterrand] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by Lothar Spaeth") [MT agrees to Howe advice that she meet with Minister-President of Baaden Württemberg during his UK visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: MT message to P.W. Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["your Government should give the Group a response which would enable them to continue discussions with you"] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons) ["The Group's report will clearly be of major importance... Your response to their 'possible negotiating concept' will be the determining factor in shaping that report and subsequent steps"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Reagan (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons) ["hope... that you might agree to add your support to their efforts at what could prove to be a critical moment"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: John Browne MP letter to MT (visit to South Africa) [proposals, in advance of meeting with MT] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("HRH Princess Margaret's Visit to Vancouver") [travel, Royal Ballet performance] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (South African DFA) South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (urges constructive response to Eminent Persons Group) [declassified ?2005]
Text 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: Eminent Persons Group paper (“A Possible Negotiating Concept”) [declassified 1999]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Sherboune minute for Addison (possible MT visit to Broadwater Farm Estate riots) [MT decided against] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Sherbourne minute for Addison (possible MT visit to Broadwater Farm Estate riots) [MT decided against] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph, Whitelaw, Edwards, Brian Griffiths, Brian Mawhinney) [“GCSE”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 12th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Budgeting in Government Departments”) [“what we do need are clear targets”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: MT letter to Lord Rayner (promoting the strengths of British industry) [“campaigns… need to be developed carefully… to ensure that efforts are not… counter-productive, particularly in overseas markets”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Budget) [interest rates, petrol prices] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MT letter to Rajiv Gandhi (Westlands helicopter contract) [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (promotion of enterprise, employment and training) [MT concerned about staggered nature of forthcoming papers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("New French Agriculture Minister") ["...seen as confirmation that a Chirac government will...take a tough line in defence of French interests in the CAP..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("New Government") ["...biographical notes on key members..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Chirac's Government") ["...Mitterrand has given him what he wanted... [on] the economy and electoral reform... [Chirac] has not had his way over foreign affairs and defence..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT telegram to Chirac ("Message from the Prime Minister to Monsieur Jacques Chirac") ["...congratulations on your success in the recent elections..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT telegram to Fabius ("Message from the Prime Minister to M Laurent Fabius") [on his leaving office] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Koenigswinter Conference 1986") [MT message of support for annual UK-German conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letters to Molyneaux & Paisley (Anglo-Irish Agreement: follow-up talks) ["I made clear at our meeting that I recognised the strength of your feelings about the Anglo-Irish Agreement; but I must take issue with some of the interpretations placed on it in the resolutions enclosed with your letter"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: MT message to President Duarte (UN Commission on Human Rights) ["We warmly support your efforts to improve the human rights situation"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“European Court of Justice Cases on Insurance”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MacGregor minute for MT (“Guidelines for the 1986 Expenditure Survey”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“‘Requiem for the Sixth Form’: the DES and 16+ Education Provision”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office internal minute (“Teachers’ Pay”) [Scottish Inquiry and ACAS talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Douglas Hogg MP) [nuclear waste disposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 minute to MT (“Douglas Hogg MP: NIREX”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Baker PS briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Douglas Hogg: 21 March”) [nuclear waste disposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Grades 2 and 3: Discretionary Pay and Arrangements for Assessment and Appraisal”) [Government follow-up to Top Salaries Review Body report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (economy) [mortgage rates, Job Start programme, petrol] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Terrorism: Oliver North memo for Poindexter ("US-UK Bilateral Talks on Terrorism, March 5, 1986") [topics covered by "semi-annual and very frank talks with the UK on terrorism"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("New French Government: privatisation programme") ["...would like to send experts to London to discuss British experience of denationalisation..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Anglo-Japanese financial talks") [...improvement and the score is beginning to look quite respectable..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Scotland: Wicks briefing for MT ("Meeting with Secretary of State for Scotland") [Rifkind in post for three months - "time for a talk about how he is getting on"; possible topics] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute (internal) to Howe PS ("South Africa Revisited (13-20 March 1986)") [situation report; Charles Powell note: "Rather gloomy so far as the prospects for the Eminent Persons Group are concerned"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: William Bennett letter to MT (Expo 86) [invitation to MT] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to King PS ("Force Levels in Northern Ireland") [provision of additional infantry battalion] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Tom King letter for Douglas Hurd (anonymity of rape victims) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 letter to Keith Joseph PS (‘Guardian’ article on education policy) [MT has “grave concern”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Government Evidence to the ACAS Panel”) [a position statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Taoiseach letter to MT (radioactive pollution at Sellafield) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 10 (Land Rover-Leyland) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Glenholmes affair) [Home Secretary to make statement] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [lively in run up to Easter recess] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Parliamentary Affairs: Criminal Legal Aid”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Hurd letter to Lord Hailsham (“Admission of second wives”) [MT requests more robust restrictions] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Nuclear Testing: Message from President Reagan") [draft reply for MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Commonwealth Fellowship Scheme for Black South Africans") [details of implementation; "We expect that the... scheme will make a valuable contribution to... convincing South African blacks of our good will"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Visit to Vancouver for Expo '86: Accommodation") [hotel choices] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1600Z) ("RSVP Options") (NSPG 0130) [Arms control - Responding to Soviet Violations Policy] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Agriculture Council: 24-25 March 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“An Inquiry into Bias in Education”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (“Academic Tenure”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind minute to MT (“Scottish Teachers’ Inquiry”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MacGregor letter to Keith Joseph (“Government Evidence to the ACAS Panel”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind minute to MT (“Government Evidence to the ACAS Panel”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Government Evidence to the ACAS Panel”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Howe note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 11 (White Paper on Developments in the European Community: July-December 1985) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Younger memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 12 (Statement on the Defence Estimates) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 13th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, British Leyland) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, Glenholmes affair) [US operations in Gulf, review of extradition procedures] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Teddy Taylor MP briefing for No.10 (MT meeting with Conservative European Reform Group members) [budgetary limits; agriculture & CAP; single European Act] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Economic Summit 1986”) [agenda] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Economic Summit 1986”) [agenda] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to President Reagan (nuclear testing: the new US proposal) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute for Younger ("Arms Control: President Reagan's Message") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Younger minute for MT ("Nimrod AEW") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MacGregor letter to Kenneth Baker ("Local Authority contracting out") ["... to extend competition in the provision of local authority services..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker letter to Edwards ("Water privatisation: environmental protection") [White Paper on water privatisation: draft consultation document about Paper's environmental protection proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: UKE Portugal letter to No.10 (600th anniversary of the Anglo/Portugese Treaty of Windsor) [possible MT conversation with Soares] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Visit of the President of Korea") [recommended points for discussion and subjects to avoid] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: FCO briefing for MT ("Call by Mr Chun Doo Hwan, President of the Republic of Korea on the Prime Minister, 9am, 9 April 1986") [points for discussion] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons on South Africa": timing of next meeting] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe) ["Direct Satellite Broadcasting" - Howe mentions problems, MT willing in principle to have officials examine] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1600Z) ("Briefing on the Machine Tools, Section 232 Case") (NSC 0130) [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Central America: National Security Council minutes (1927Z) ("Aid to the Nicaraguan Resistance") (NSPG 0129A) [discussion immediately after House of Representatives voted to end aid to the Contras] [declassified Jul 2010]
Text 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (NSA) IranContra: McFarlane email to Oliver North (acquiring British Blowpipe missiles from third parties) [declassified 1994 or 1995]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“European Community: legal action by the United Kingdom against the Commission and other Community Institutions”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“How to Get Better Schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (“Teachers’ pay and duties”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Budgeting in Government Departments”) [“The cause of better budgeting would suffer considerable harm if this report were widely circulated”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya) [US action, MT backs Reagan] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MacGregor letter to Michael Havers (“Remuneration of Barristers”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 internal minute: Policy Unit to PS (“The Bar Council against the Lord Chancellor”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tebbit letter to Chairman of the European Democratic Group (complaints brought by Teddy Taylor MP against EDG members) [Taylor breaking rank over Conservative Party policy on European Community] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Nimrod AEW") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The Franc and the EMS") ["...inflation in France has significantly outpaced that of her biggest trading partner, the FRG..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Federal German Economy") ["The inflation figure is a graphic illustration of why unemployment here is still going up."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute to MT (Molyneaux proposal of meeting to discuss situation in Northern Ireland) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Admiral Hill-Norton's Report on Warship Design") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Pik Botha: President Botha's forthcoming reply to MT; "prospects for a positive response to the Group's ideas rest on a knife edge"; proposal that Group defer meeting to maximise chances] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Representations by the Twelve on the current unrest in South Africa") [Howe "has judged it right to agree... We have however proposed certain modifications on the line which the Dutch propose to take"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 107 to FCO (1130Z) ("Call on Kyprianou") [nervous about the content of the UN Secretary General's new document] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Powell minute for MT ("Meeting with President of Cyprus") [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“The FRG and the CAP”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Baker letter to Channon (EC Environmental Assessment Directive) [consultation document] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Attorney General letter to Hurd (“Strasbourg - Proofing”) [reducing impact of European Court on Human Rights findings] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Hartley Booth minute for MT (“Unused Public Sector Land and Property - the Next Round in the Battle”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Grant-aided Primary Schools - ‘H’, 26 March”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour party, law and order) [Labour in turmoil over Liverpool militants] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Wicks minute to MT (Trade & Industry Select Committee: Westland inquiry) [Alan Bristow’s refusal to disclose two names] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Howe minute to Hurd (“Admission of polygamous wives”) [MT supports proposal to end recogniton of second wives not resident in UK] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (thanks) [her support over US exercises in Gulf of Sidra] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Nuclear Testing: Gorbachev Statement on Soviet Television") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland") [unionist attitudes to Anglo-Irish Agreement, unionist marches, contingency plans for strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 30 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Francis Noel-Baker letter for MT (offering to mediate in the Cyprus dispute) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 776 to FCO (1600Z) (text of White House Deputy Press Secretary's Statement of 29 Mar: Nuclear Testing) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chairman of the European Democratic Group letter to Tebbit (complaints brought by Teddy Taylor MP against EDG members) [Taylor breaking rank over Conservative Party policy on European Community] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of President Chun Doo Hwan of the Republic of Korea") [comments on draft MT dinner speech] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Nicaragua") [analysis of current political situation and advice on what stance UK should take] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Political bias in Education”) [proposed inquiry “a non-starter”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 letter to John MacGregor PS (Budgeting in Government Departments report) [MT concerned that report is superfluous] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (Control of Civil Service running costs) [rebuttal of ‘Times’ article suggesting reform efforts have stalled] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: MT letter to Ralph Harris (thanks for lunch) [hopes he gets "satisfactory reply" from Rothermere over sharedealing accusations] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 1 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ryder minute to MT (Wyatt dinner) [Wyatt asks about guests - MT: "Is Rupert Murdoch in town?"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Mexico: MT message for President Miguel de la Madrid of Mexico (“Mexicana Air Crash”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Moscow Press Conference: Gorbachev's Statement on Testing and Message to UN Secretary-General") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: MT letter to Chairman of the Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development ("ACARD report: 'Software: A Vital Key to UK Competitiveness'") [MT: "The Council has identified an important area for the future..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute: Flesher to Powell, Wicks, MT (Tom King proposal for candidates at Northern Ireland Assembly and District Council elections to denounce terrorism) ["...obvious attractions but... implications for electoral law... [and] problems in making the requirement stick..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Molyneaux & Paisley letter to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement) ["We are of course anxious to find a way out of the present impasse, but the terms of your letter... sadly rejects consultation in favour of confrontation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: Chairman of United Scientific Holdings letter to No.10 ("South Korea") [Alvis of Coventry commercial contract with Daewoo affected by UK pay dispute/trade union action] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: John MacGregor PS letter to Hurd PS (“Roskill Report: Unified Organisation”) [copy of working group report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Review of the Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development (ACARD)”) [Report for the Period 1982-1986] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: John MacGregor letter to Lord Young (“Presentation of Enterprise, Employment and Training Policies”) [need for consistency & the financial implications of White Paper proposals on vocational education and training] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute for Powell ("NIMROD Airborne Early Warning") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: No.10 letter to Channon PS ("Access to Japanese financial markets") [MT message to Chairman of Nissan offering condolences on death of predecessor Kawamata] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Baker minute for MacGregor (“Guidelines for the 1986 Expenditure Survey”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Ridley minute for MT (“Privatisation of British Airports Authority”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“How to get better schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“an Inquiry into bias in Education”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Fowler note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 13 (Primary Health Care) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with the European Reform Group, 8 April”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("France/Germany") [meeting of Foreign Ministers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: FCO briefing for MT ("Call on the Prime Minister by the President of the Republic of Korea: 9 April") [British Council; Scotch whisky; publishing/recording copyright; Ferranti/Marconi contract] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the Review Bodies' reports, international issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Douglas Hurd ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite (DBS)") [Howe concerned a UK DBS Service should have a wide European coverage] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Meeting with President Kyprianou: 4 PM Monday 7 April") [important part in the effort to persuade Kyprianou to agree to the UN proposals] [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Meeting with President Kyprianou") [Greek Cypriots in a nervous state; Kyprianou likely to need 'delicate handling'] [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Keith Joseph letter to Hurd (“Strasbourg - Proofing”) [reducing impact of European Court on Human Rights findings] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Political bias in Education”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (draft GCSE syllabuses in science subjects) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“VIP Visitors: Carriage of Arms by Bodyguards”) [revision to guidelines] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (GCSEs, Keith Joseph’s position, Northern Ireland, oil, Saudia Arabia) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: MT letter to Chairman of ACARD (work of the Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Department of Trade and Industry minute to No.10 (“UK Provident Institution”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Chancellor’s PS (“Standard Chartered”) [possible bid by Lloyds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Chancellor’s PS (Lloyds Bank bid for Standard Chartered) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to MOD ("NIMROD Airborne Early Warning") [MT's comments on the MOD report: "it conceals more than it reveals"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Northern Ireland: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland") [situation over Easter; intimidation of RUC families; Molyneaux/Paisley letter; parades; election legislation] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Reagan letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["I am pleased to support your efforts and will write to State President Botha, as you suggest, to urge him to continue the dialogue with the.... Group"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: Poindexter memo for President Reagan ("Response to Libyan Terrorist Attacks") [recommendations of Terrorist Operations Sub-Group after Berlin disco bombing] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS briefing for No.10 (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with the European Reform Group: 8 April”) [Fontainebleau Agreement, VAT ceiling] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [his conversations in Washington] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Norgrove minute for Powell ("NIMROD AEW") [his comments on the MOD report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: EMS realignment and accompanying measures") ["to maintain downward pressure on inflation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office briefing for MT (Prime Minister's meeting with Lord Brookeborough and Lord Moyola to discuss the current political situation in Northern Ireland) [Anglo-Irish Agreement; devolution; dialogue with unionists] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King) ["Northern Ireland": security; dialogue with unionists] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office record of conversation (dialogue with the unionists) [Robert Armstrong, Irish Ambassador] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Whitelaw ("Rate Support Grant 1986/7: legal challenge by Birmingham City Council") ["...essential to introduce a short piece of legislation during this session of Parliament..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Edwards PS letter to No.10 ("Government response to the Committee on Welsh Affairs Report on Coastal Sewage Pollution in Wales") ["It is not expected that the content of the response and its publication date will give rise to any Parliamentary problems"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute to FCO (MT farewell meeting with Soviet Ambassador) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Paul Channon minute to John MacGregor ("Blank Tape Levy") [impact of receipts on budgetary provision] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Ankara telegram 193 to FCO (0850Z) ("Cyprus") [the Turks 'not looking at the draft agreement as part of an integrated package'] [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 112 to FCO (0930Z) ("UN Secretary General's Initiative") [row continues over whether or not both sides have agreed procedure] [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: North memo for Fortier ("Next steps re Libya") [decisions needed in afternoon meeting] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Hurd letter to MT (Educational reform) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [Fulham by-election dominates] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Northern Ireland bombings, clashes in Wapping, law and order) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [Lawson described the two bids received for JMB; MT agreed Westpac bid should be accepted] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Department of Trade and Industry (“UK Provident Institution”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Conservative European Reform Group) [budgetary control, Common Agricultural Policy, Single European Act] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 letter to Lord Young PS (“Workfare”) [MT urgent request for report on feasibility of introducing a US-style system of compulsion to work or train in return for benefits] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Geoffrey Pattie letter to Howe ("Framework Programme for European Community research and development") ["...one of the major issues for the [UK] Presidency later this year"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MacGregor letter to Kenneth Baker ("Deferred Purchase Schemes") ["...I [and MT are]... increasingly concerned about the way in which some local authories are using [DPSs] to [flout] both our capital and current control systems"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with President Chun") [itinerary, arrangements & copy of Chun Doo Hwan dinner speech] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Korea: Crown Agents letter to No.10 ("The Prime Minister's visit to Korea") [Crown Agents' activities in Korea] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Korea: High Level visits") [announcement of MT visit] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) New Zealand: MT message to Robert Muldoon (visit by John Turner, businessman) [may not be possihble to see him] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: MT message to Jacques Chirac (new French government) [invitation for informal chat] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: North, Teicher & Stark memo for Poindexter ("Next steps: Libya") [draft memo for the President] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: North, Teicher & Stark memo for Fortier ("Next steps re Libya") [draft letters to European leaders] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to MT ("Response to Libyan terrorism") [seeks support for use of British based FB-111s to respond to Libyan attacks] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Biffen minute for Ridley (“Privatisation of British Airports Authority”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations: summit prospects”) [US ambassador’s “disappointment with the current Soviet approach to East/West relations”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (“Discretionary Increments for Grades 2 and 3 in the Civil Service”) [MT to meet with Lawson to discuss his objections to Cabinet Office proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Budgeting in Government Departments”) [“The recommendations are very much a matter of making budgeting work rather than of setting up new systems to achieve the same objectives”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Possible ‘Minister for Children’/‘Minister for the Family’”) [“An attempt to split off all responsibilities relating to children and concentrate them in a single Department would raise awkward questions of definition”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (attacks on RUC homes in Northern Ireland, prison officer strikes, industry, education) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO minute to Charles Powell (CHOGM photos) [suggested uses] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Wicks minute to MT (Trade & Industry Select Committee: Westland inquiry) [Dalyell calls for prosecutions and Speaker rejects complaint from Committee] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Johnson Matthey Bankers”) [report on enquiries into company’s involvement in gold fraud] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Department of Trade and Industry minute to No.10 (“UK Provident Institution”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Your meeting with Genscher, 11-12 April: political situation in the FRG") [briefing for Howe] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Moyola, Lord Brookeborough) ["[MT] spoke forcefully of the need for moderates in Northern Ireland to stop wringing their hands and to come forward with practical proposals"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland") ["...events of Easter Monday and the attacks by loyalist elements on members of the [RUC]... increasing polarisation in the unionist community and the question... [of] dialogue with the Government"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: MacGregor PS letter to No.10 ("Discussions with Nationalised Industries' Chairmen's Group (NICG)") [board members' terms of appointment; pay; future arrangements for corporations remaining in public ownership; Byatt report on effective accounting policies for nationalised industries] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Visit of the President of the Republic of Korea: defence sales") [MT & President Chun Doo Hwan seek to push through sale to Korea of the Ferranti/Marconi naval fire system] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, President Chun Doo Hwan, Ambassador Spreckley, Ambassador Young Choo Kim) [strategic value of Korean peninsula in the Cold War; North Korea; Gorbachev; trade; sale to Korea of the Ferranti/Marconi naval fire system; Olympics] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [Howe's suggestions on handling of the Falklands issue - MT "expressed very considerable reluctance ... cautioned against running after the Argentinians"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Mark Addison minute to MT (Guinness kidnapping) [PIRA believed responsible] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 118 to FCO (1000Z) ("Prime Minister's Meeting with President Kyprianou") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Francis Noel-Baker letter for MT (Noel-Baker's book "My Cyprus File") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: MT letter for Francis Noel-Baker (his offer to mediate in the Cyprus dispute) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [reply to MT's points] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Paul Channon minute for Ridley (“Privatisation of British Airports Authority”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Handling of Review Body Reports”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Office of Manpower Economics letter to MT (“Review Body on Top Salaries”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Grant-aided primary schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (Education Bill - amendments on indoctrination”) [Whitelaw-Joseph correspondence] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Wicks (“Discretionary Increments for Grades 2 and 3”) [“this is the wrong time to give yet more money to senior civil servants”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT letter to US Ambassador to West Germany Richard Burt (Berlin bomb) ["horrified … by the dreadful incident"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (economy, Northern Ireland, education) [papers dominated by latest terrorist outrages] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Picketing Law”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Chairman of ACARD letter to MT (work of the Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Stephen Sherbourne minute for MT (“Meeting at Chequers on Sunday, 13th April”) [pre-election strategy] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Chairman of Cable and Wireless plc letter to Howe (Anglo-Japanese telecommunications project) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The new Government's economic programme") ["change in a liberal direction...[while] safeguarding the progress made by the previous government in dealing with inflation and industrial relations"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ​​​​​​​[Mandela's release should not be accompanied by an increase in violence] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT,Tom King) [proposed reply to Molyneaux and Paisley] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: King PS letter to No.10 (draft reply to James Kilfedder MP) [proposal to write to the Queen requesting she host a Conference to resolve political deadlock in Northern Ireland post-Anglo/Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Mark Robinson letter to Baker ("Water privatisation: environmental protection") [White Paper on water privatisation: comments on draft consultation document about Paper's environmental protection proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Privy Council Office record of conversation ("Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Bill") [Whitelaw, Fowler, Biffen, Wakeham, Lord Denham, John Moore, Kenneth Clarke] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lord Hailsham letter to Whitelaw ("QL Legislative Programme 1986/87 Rate Support Grant Settlement 1986/87: Bill proposed for this Session by the Secretary of State for the Environment") [legislation requiring services of Parliamentary Draftsmen as a priority] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Portugal: President Soares of Portugal letter to MT (election to Presidency) [courtesy reply to MT letter of congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: President Chun Doo Hwan message to MT (visit to UK) [courtesy note on departure home] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKE Washington telegram 882 to FCO (0430Z) ("US/Central America") [Oliver Wright record of conversation with Philip Habib] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group: message from President Botha") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Pik Botha: "it was an assurance from the... [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons] rather than the ANC which the South African Government would be needing in regard to cessation of violence"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group 'possible negotiating concept' and the cessation of violence) ["If... [we] could receive a definite assurance to the effect that violence would cease... [we] would be prepared to consider... the"possible negotiating concept" of the [CGEP]"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 346 to FCO (0020Z) ("Cyprus") [Perez de Cuellar 'extremely grateful' to MT for her support] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for seeing Walters] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: North, Stark & others memo for Poindexter ("Letters regarding Libyan terrorism") [presidential letters to Mitterrand, Chirac, Kohl, Craxi, Gonzalez & MT] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: FCO minute to No.10 (“Visit of the Australian Prime Minister”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Cheap Butter for Russia”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKDEL IMF telegram to FCO (“IMF: Interim Committee - informal session”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 14th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, defence estimates, health) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 884 to FCO (0445Z) (“US-Soviet relations”) [“No date yet for summit, but summer not yet ruled out”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Richard Luce letter to MT (“Discretionary Increments for Grades 2 and 3”) [“I favour the introduction of some form of discretionary performance-related element”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Keith Joseph letter to John MacGregor (Budgeting in Government Departments) [“need for flexibility”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, Northern Ireland, GLC, Fulham by-election) [Reagan on brink of retaliation] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Brian Griffiths minute (“The 1979 and 1983 Manifestos”) [“Restoring the balance”; “The Road to Recovery”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Nimrod AEW") [briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("Soviet Ambassador's Farewell Call") ["important to use Popov's farewell calls to (...) establish ourselves in Soviet eyes as independent interlocutors with views of our own"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/DTI: Wicks briefing for MT ("Meeting with Secretary of State for Trade and Industry") [Channon in post for two months - "purpose of this general chat is to hear from him his current concerns"; shipbuilding; manifesto] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Montevideo telegram to FCO ("UK/Argentina - Restrictions") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 916 to FCO (2320Z) ("US/South Africa") [PW Botha letters to MT & Reagan; Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons - Lord Barber meeting with Shultz; Tokyo Economic Summit/S. Africa; ComGEP - Fraser/Obasanjo meeting with Shultz ] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 356 to FCO (2301Z) ("Cyprus") [Perez de Cuellar asking for MT's urgent help] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 357 to FCO (2301Z) ("Cyprus") [text of UN Secretary-General's three points] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for her decision; targets] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: North, Stark & others memo for Poindexter (Libya) [message to Lubbers; instructions for Walters] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: UPI report (Libya) [reports from Washingon that Weinberger dissenting from Libyan attack; MT asked for permission to use FB-111s]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Policy Unit minute for MT (“Drugs - Report and Action Needed”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Tebbit minute for Ridley (“Privatisation of the British Airports Authority”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Big Bang: a Progress Report”) [deregulation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Griffiths minute for MT ("The 1979 and 1983 Manifestoes") [comparison for Chequers strategy meeting] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (Shops Bill, Northern Ireland, Libya) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, Fulham by-election, economy) [US fleet on battle alert] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 12 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to President Mitterrand (requests immediate decision on overflight request) [warns against "luke-warm support or no support at all from our closest allies"] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: Poindexter telegram to Vernon Walters ("Special instructions for Presidential Emissary Walters") [request overflight for FB-111s flying from UK (request then cancelled but too late)] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for Ibbs ("Nimrod") [MT not satisfied with the report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Ankara telegram 203 to FCO (0730Z) ("Cyprus: Secretary General's Request for Help") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: Spanish PM Gonzalez letter to President Reagan (Libyan terrorism) ["I consider inappropriate the resorting to this type of war actions" (sic)] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT notes on conversation (Chequers strategy meeting) ["Lost sense of direction. Economic success - not enough … Restore the faith - best defence"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT letter to John Wakeham (thanks for dinner with whips) ["It was so relaxed but I felt we all learned from it more than any other and that we really are a winning team"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Edward du Cann (European Reform Group members) [EC budget, agricultural markets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Powell minute for MT (“Economic Summit”) [meeting with Howe and Lawson; main topics of summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 947 to FCO (2340Z) ("Nuclear Testing: New US/Soviet Dialogue?") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Admiral Hill-Norton's Report on Warship Design") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to the Republic of Korea: possible meetings with Opposition leaders") [suggested candidates] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [farewell call: Anglo-Soviet relations, arms control, East-West relations] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons") [timing, venue and level of Group Review Meeting: Howe reluctant to delay beyond July; MT reluctant to be rushed at the expense of a worthwhile outcome] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 132 to FCO (0710Z) ("Cyprus") [British as an intermediary] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Cyprus") [a possible message from MT to President Kyprianou] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: MT message for President Kyprianou (1130Z) ("Cyprus") [the Secretary-General's initiative] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO telegram 128 to UKE Athens (1130Z) ("Cyprus: MT message for Kyprianou") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO minute to No.10 ("Cyprus: Prime Minister's Meeting with President Kyprianou") [progress of the UN negotiations] [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO draft telegram to UKE Athens (1130Z) ("Cyprus") [MT message to Kyprianou] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Athens telegram 183 to FCO (0820Z) ("Cyprus") [Kyprianou/Papandreou meeting: British influence] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Kabul telegram 73 to FCO (1000Z) ("Kabul SitRep 8-14 April 1986") [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Michael Butler’s book about the working of the European Community) [includes critique of MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“How to get better schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Young letter to MacGregor (“Vocational Education and Training White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Libya - Media highlights alleged request for use of British air bases”) [speculation MT denied request] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Demonstrations at Embassy London”) [opposition to US action in Libya] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Oakley meeting at FCO, April 14”) [UK government working on “convincing justification” for intervention] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Religion: Chief Whip note (Shops Bill) [breakdown of ministerial views - opposed by majorities at all levels] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Treasury ("Official Committee on Research and Development") [individual proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for Channon ("E(RD)(86) 1st meeting, 17 April 1986") [Government funded research & development] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("The Calcutt Report") [Inquiry into allegations of improper treatment of servicemen charged under the Official Secrets Act: proposed date for publication of Report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker briefing for MT ("Planning: the Sainsbury Group") ["...to let you know of progress since the last meeting on 10 December..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: MOD minute to No.10 (Visit to London by the Yugoslav Minister of Defence) [MT will not be attending - "No way"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe minute to MT ("South Africa: CHOGM Accord - Krugerrands") [Howe in favour of legislative ban on imports; Channon's view "a legislative ban would be a clear breach of GATT" ] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: USE The Hague to State Department ("EC Foreign Ministers April 14 Statement on Terrorism") ["gravely concerned … the twelve underline the need for restraint on all sides"]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: Poindexter telegram to Robert Armstrong (Libyan raid) [President "sincerely appreciates" MT's stand; ""we will do everything possible to help you"] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to Egyptian President Mubarak (Libyan terrorism) [explains US action] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Channon letter to Baker (“EC Environmental Assessment Directive”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Nicholas Ridley minute for Financial Secretary to the Treasury (“Privatisation of the British Airways Authority, British Airways and Rolls Royce”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Article in “Good Housekeeping””) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Hailsham letter to Whitelaw (“Education Bill: Amendments on Indoctrination”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Teachers Pay”) [developments and prospects on the teachers dispute] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 15th (Libya, Shops Bill) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Early morning radio and TV coverage of US bombing mission over Libya”) [difficult position of UK government] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Libya: USE London to State (“Libya - British public and political reactions to US air strikes on Libya”) [Howe’s justification for US intervention] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Thatcher defends UK support for US strike”) [“Thatcher did not give Washington carte blanche”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: UKE Washington telegram 948 to FCO (0350Z) (“Libya crisis”) [text of Reagan broadcast] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: UKE Washington telegram 949 to FCO (0425Z) (“Libya crisis: Shultz/Weinberger press conference”) [“tolerance or appeasement of aggression has historically brought more aggression”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: FCO briefing (“Colonel Quadhafi support for terrorism”) [“Quadhafi said that he would train, arm and protect Arab guerillas and other volunteers for ‘suicide and terrorist missions’”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: Stephen Sherbourne minute to MT (“Your speech tomorrow (Wednesday)”) [concerns over Reagan “provoking Qadhafi” … “people are unconvinced about what precisely and how much the US action will achieve”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: US Information Service fact sheet (Libya) [US acting in self-defence, Reagan on US successes, questions and answers] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, law and order, economy) [Reagan attacks terrorist targets] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Helmut Schmidt letter to MT (Final Statement by the Interaction Council) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Paris to FCO (“French Aims at the Tokyo Summit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: MT letter to Prison Governors Branch (Prison Service) [funding & threat of industrial action] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Argentine Trade Embargo") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Reply to President Botha") [draft reply: "have to make Botha feel that his efforts are appreciated... [but] bring home to him... that he must deal direct with the [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group]"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1600Z) ("Options in Responding to Soviet Violations") (NSPG 0131) [Arms control - Responding to Soviet Violations Policy] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: North, et al memo for Poindexter ("NSDD: Counter-Terrorist Operations against Libya") [targetting & additional planning] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: Poindexter telegram to Robert Armstrong (Libyan raid) [President agrees with MT’s understanding of the situation] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra to FCO (“Mr. Hawke’s Visit: the Agenda”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Brooke minute to MT (“1986 EC Budget”) [payments of non-VAT own resources] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: John MacGregor PS letter to Hurd PS (“Serious Fraud Organisation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Political Indoctrination in Schools”) [Lord President’s views] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Socialist International condemns US attack”) [“urges the US to ‘provide the evidence’ supporting terrorist claims against Libya”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Anglo-Soviet relations so far unaffected by British support for US strikes on Libya”) [“Soviets have taken no action against the UK”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Libya - further UK reaction”) [Conservatives have “closed ranks”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: US Ambassador London telegram to Secretary Shultz (“Briefing the British”) [“The British should not feel shortchanged on privately communicated technical information”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to White House (“Libya - Support from Prime Minister Thatcher”) [“She could hardly have been more resolute as an ally and a friend”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Dublin to State (“Local reaction to US attack on Libya”) [“Irish Arab Liberation organisation” threats to retaliate] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (State Department) Libya: US Consul Edinburgh to State (“Reaction in Scotland to US action against Libya”) [demonstrations outside consulate] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Consul Belfast to State (“Sinn Fein protests Libyan bombing”) [“call on the US administration to cease all such acts of aggression”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Vienna to State (“US strike against Libya: Austrian reaction”) [initial reactions not favourable] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: UKE Washington telegram 978 to FCO (2359Z) (“US/Libya”) [US administration is “immensely appreciative”; "future benefits for us"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT draft speech (Libya House of Commons debate) [government’s decision to support US military action, “taken in self-defence, against terrorist targets in Libya”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT notes for speech (Libya House of Commons debate) [evidence we have of Libyan complicity] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: No.10 minute (Tony Baldry phone call) [opinion in Upper Heyford on US military action] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, Sunday trading) [only Canada, Israel, UK back US] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Robin Ibbs minute to MT (“Value for Money Targets”) [“those fighting to improve efficiency still need all the support you and I can give them”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Cabinet Office minute to FCO (“Tokyo Economic Summit: 4-6 May 1986”) [briefing arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Michael Howard minute to MT ("Access to Japanese financial markets") [note of visit to Far East, including meeting with Japanese Vice Minister for Finance to secure extension of reciprocal market opening measures] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Hurd minute to MT ("Possible industrial action by prison officers") [government strategy outline; Hurd statement to Parliament; Policy Unit analysis] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Abolition of the GLC/MCCs") [MT offers Baker personal congratulations: "This has been a major achievement..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Governor of the Falklands telegram to FCO ("By-Election in Camp Constituency") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: North, et al memo for Poindexter ("CABO Cable to PM Thatcher and Message from you to Bianco") ["disappointment and confusion over the exact policy of France towards Libya"] [declassified 2005]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Rifkind letter to Jopling (“European Community: the Common Agricultural Policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Channon letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Financial Services Bill: Status and Powers of the Designated Agency”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Attorney General’s Chambers letter to Treasury (Relationship of a unified fraud unit to Attorney General) [note by Solicitor General] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Whitelaw letter to Lord Hailsham (political indoctrination in schools) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 16th (Queen’s birthday, Parliamentary Affairs, Libya, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay”) [prevention of industrial action worth the cost of a higher offer] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Younger letter to John MacGregor (“Budgeting in Government Departments”) [“I consider it important that Departments should be free to interpret the principles in the light of their own particular needs and circumstances”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 letter to John MacGregor PS (“Budgeting in Departments”) [“The Government does not want systems for their own sake or as window dressing”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Soviets low key in protest to Britain over support for US strikes in Libya”) [“a ‘routine, low key’”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Sierra Leone to State (“Unofficial GOSL reaction to Libyan situation”) [GOSL not likely to take a public position on the bombing] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: FCO situation report (“Libya: Sitrep No.7: 17 April 1986 (0630Z)”) [Tripoli, Gaddafi, European reactions, Libyans in UK, British hostages Beirut, Public Reaction, US evacuation Sudan] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: Sir Geoffrey Howe letter to Conservative MPs (government position on Libyan crisis) [evidence of Libyan-sponsored terrorism] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, economy) [party split 2-1 on US action] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe message to UKE Moscow ("UK/Soviet Arms Control Talks: Visit of Karpov") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: MT message to P.W. Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ​​​​​​​[should signal interest in Group's Negotiating Concept] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Archbishop of Armagh (negotiations in the wake of Anglo-Irish Agreement) [offer of assistance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: King PS letter to No.10 (Police Federation for Northern Ireland) [Eldon Griffiths MP proposal that MT meet with the Federation; records of Ministerial conversations with the Federation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Whitelaw ("New burdens on local government") ["...Government initiatives... which will have resource implications for local government"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 1004 to FCO (0430Z) ("US/South Africa: ComGEP") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: report on visit to US] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons' 'negotiating concept') ["worth making a serious effort... rising chorus of calls for economic sanctions... would encourage you to explore with the Group exactly what a suspension of violence would entail"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: John MacGregor minute to Paul Channon ("Blank Tape Levy") [classification of receipts from levy] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Expo '86 Prime Minister's Visit to Vancouver") [Princess Margaret's attendance at Royal Ballet] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra telegram 255 to FCO (0630Z) ("Mr Hawke's talks in Washington on Agricultural Commodities: Australian press reporting") [effects of a US-EC trade war] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra telegram 1016 to FCO (2359Z) ("Visit by Prime Minister of Australia") [agriculture, Libya, New Zealand] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Meeting with M. Chirac") [arrangements, timings] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (UK hostages killed in Beirut) ["deeply grieved"; "direct Libyan role in their deaths"; French & Spanish "fully prepared to take more profound action to remove Qadhafi from power"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: FCO briefing for MT (“Visit of the Australian Prime Minister”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Jopling (“CAP price fixing 1986”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Policy Unit minute for MT (“Law and Police Update”) [release of dangerous psychopaths, crime prevention, proposed solution] [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Dutch PM Ruud Lubbers letter for MT (international co-operation to fight drug trafficking) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Roskill Report: Unified Fraud Organisation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Civil Service Pay”) [“considerable advantages in an agreed settlement of 6%, as opposed to a disagreed settlement of 5 2/3 per cent” ] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Budgeting in Departments”) [draft of report’s proposed foreword by MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Libya: UK reaction III”) [British deaths in Beirut, Heathrow bomb attempt “fueled further controversy over the Libya raid”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE London to State (“Security Council: United Kingdom confirms it will vote ‘no’ on resolution on central MED”) [resolution condemning US action fails to recognize Libyan involvement in terrorism] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Consul Belfast to State (“Sinn Fein/IRA attack US British, and Irish Governments and defend Gadaffi in more explicit terms than usual”) [adoption of “a more prominent apologist role on Libya than is ordinarily the case”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Sofia to State (“Bulgarian demarche to Uk on Libyan situation”) [concern over use of British bases] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Beijing to State (“Chinese tilt toward Libya: Embassy Security issue”) [additional security for US missions and personnel] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT letter to US Ambassador to UK Charlie Price (thanks for his letter) ["vital to stand up to terrorism even though the price can be very harsh, as the murder of the hostages has shown"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: Caspar Weinberger letter to MT (action in Libya) [“Your courage and strength is a source of great inspiration to all of us”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya) [papers dominated by latest terrorist outrages] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights (Libya will dominate) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 19 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UKDEL OECD Paris minute to FCO (text of the Communique issued at the end of the OECD Ministerial Council) [macro-economic policies, energy, technology, employment, agriculture, relations with developing countries, trade policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: President Kyprianou of Cyprus letter to UN Secretary General (comments to the 'Draft Framework Agreement') [declassified Jul 2021]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit: Political Issues”) [MT found the draft statement “rather weak”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Tokyo to FCO (“Japan: Monthly Economic Report - April 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute to MT ("Meeting with Sir Eldon Griffiths") [attacks on the RUC; Tom King keen to be present at meeting but Policy Unit advises against] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jopling letter to Baker ("Water privatisation: environmental protection") [White Paper: resolution of outstanding points of disagreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hawke) [Libya; New Zealand ship visits; South Africa; South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone; Australian Bicentennial] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Reform in South Africa") [Howe flags up speech by Principal of University of Cape Town; No.10 notes speech to "depict an ideal and academic outcome rather than a practical one"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 147 to FCO (1030Z) ("Cyprus: UN Secretary General's Initiative") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: President Kyprianou letter for MT (the Cypriots' response to the Secretary-General's draft agreement) ['even conditional acceptance of those proposals would have irreparably prejudiced our position'] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major 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]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Hawke of Australia) [US actions against Lybia, New Zaeland ship visits, South Africa, South Pacific nuclear free zone] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Hawke of Australia) [the common agricultural policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“European Community: Resolution of the European Parliament on Agricultural Prices”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tom King letter to Howe (“CAP Price Fixing”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Channon letter to Jopling (“European Community: the Common Agricultural Policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Jopling (“European Community: the Common Agricultural Policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Jopling (“CAP price fixing 1986”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Norman Fowler minute for Douglas Hurd (“Psychopaths and the Mental Health Act”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Whitelaw letter to Baker (“Implementation of the European Directive on Environmental Assessment”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Morrison letter to Lynda Chalker (“EC Integrated Operations”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Attorney General letter to Channon (“Financial Services Bill: Status and Powers of the Designated Agency”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Civil Service Pay 1986”) [advises going with offer of 6%, given indications Unions will accept, despite initial 17% demand] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Dublin to State (“Libya - further Irish reaction”) [Fianna Fail more critical, alleging military aggression] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (State Department) Libya: US Consul Edinburgh to State (“Demonstration against US raid on Libya”) [number of protestors, police action] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Madrid to State (“International democrat union statement in support of US action in Libya”) [scourge of terrorism] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Stephen Sherbourne minute ("Notes on future speeches") [Libya raid changing defence debate to Labour advantage] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Libya: MT letter to Dr David Owen (responds to his letter of 17 Apr) ["I reserved the position of the UK on any question of further action which might be more general or less clearly directed against terrrorism"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, economy, Northern Ireland) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [Libya dominates, Queen’s birthday] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Defence Committee letter to No.10 (Westland inquiry) [transcript of evidence] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone letter to MT (the forthcoming Tokyo Economic Summit: world economy, international monetary system) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 ("Government response to the Employment Select Committee Report on long term unemployment") ["... believes that the measures announced in the Budget offer a surer and more cost-effective way of providing help... than the Select Committee's proposals"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister/Northern Ireland: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Northern Ireland Secretary") [Libya and IRA; security situation; Molyneaux/Paisley; Intergovernmental Conference; RUC] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Younger minute for MT ("Mine Clearance in the Falkland Islands") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: UKHC Ottawa telegram 219 to FCO (2245Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Expo") [clash with Royal Ballet opening night] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 403 to FCO (2101Z) ("Cyprus: UN Secretary-General's Initiative") [intends to play things in low key] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 150 to FCO (0830Z) (President Kyprianou letter for MT) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 152 to FCO (1130Z) ("UN Secretary General's Initiative") [position 'not as bad as it might have been'] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Prime Minister Hawke of Australia letter to MT (his visit to London) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tom King letter to Hurd (“Strasbourg-Proofing”) [European policy on human rights] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Channon letter to Lord Hailsham (“Financial Services Bill: SRO’s Liability for Damages”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Channon letter to Attorney General (“Financial Services Bill: Status and Powers of the Designated Agency”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Solicitor General (measures against political indoctrination in schools) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Consul Belfast to State (“London Times editorial on extradition treaty”) [political reaction to UK decision to allow US use of military bases] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: USE Buenos Aires to State (“Demonstration at US stand - international book fair, Beunos Aires”) [three political groups identified as organisers] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, domestic politics, industry) [Europe finally acts on Libyan terrorism] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ridley letter to Baker (“Deregulation: Consultation under Article 15 of the GDO”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit 1986”) [briefing on economic issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit”) [MT-Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan meeting agenda] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Soviet Compliance with Arms Control Agreements") [draft message to President Reagan] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King) [situation in wake of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Tebbit letter to Biffen ("Company political donations (Government contractors)") ["... [why should we] recommend that Ministers should abstain in a vote on measures to which we are fundamentally opposed[?]"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 letter to Michael Meacher MP (Prime Minister's Questions) [transfer of Meacher PQs to Fowler] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Agriculture Council”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: community affairs”) [international trade and markets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [the markets, stamp duty, economic prospects, Civil Service pay] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Lord Advocate letter to Channon (“Financial Services Bill: Status and Powers of the Designed Agency”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Peter Hordern MP letter to Keith Joseph (need for extra resources in schools) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit letter to MacGregor (“Vocational Education and Training White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Channon memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 14 (Land Rover (UK) Limited: Privatisation) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Libya: US Ambassador London telegram to Secretary Weinberger (“London press conference on Libya”) [“Thatcher urgently needs our help in convincing the UK public”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Apr 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, Labour’s new programme) [released 2017]

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

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

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