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PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn to FCO (MBFR: President Reagan's letters to MT and Kohl) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation and Opening of Parliament") [handling and points to note] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1985 (C(85) 23)") [planning totals, baseline figure] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [bids by departments to spend more] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: MacGregor PS note to David Norgrove (Public Expenditure Survey) [departmental briefs] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Willetts minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Cabinet") [figures on spending growth, taxation] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to David Norgrove ("3 October Cabinet") [speaking note on restraining spending] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Douglas Hurd minute for Norman Fowler (“Drug Misuse: Conservative Party Conference Debate”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (education seminar) [higher education, schools, vocational education, TVEI] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay”) [dispute update] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Kinnock attacks Militant) [“Mail leads with ‘The courage of Kinnock’”] (released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“3 October Cabinet: Control of Running Costs”) [“we have agreed to running costs targets ultimately in place of a manpower count”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: John Carlisle MP letter to MT (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [Gleneagles Agreement; request to MT to write article] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: PM Mulroney of Canada letter to MT (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Douglas Hurd (problems of enforcing a residents’ charge) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Reform of Local Government Finance”) [briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Local Government Finance Studies: E(LF) (85) 3rd Meeting on 3rd October”) [briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Norman Tebbit minute to MT (“The Consequences of Price Restraint for British Agriculture”) [Michael Jopling’s minute] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Policy Unit minute to MT (“Party Conference: Agricultural Policy”) [the 1986 Annual Review White Paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Woodrow Wyatt notes for MT (“Some thoughts about vision”) [“aim is to enlarge freedom of the human spirit”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Chris Patten minute (“Notes Towards a Speech Skeleton”) [“The Next Ten Years”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Bishop Tutu, 3 October”) [sanctions, non-violent reform, dialogue] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Young minute to MT ("Deregulation, City Action Teams, and Tourism") [arrangements and organisation following Cabinet reshuffle] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Charles Powell minute to FCO ("South Africa at CHOGM") [feedback on draft speaking notes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Howe PS minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's briefing meeting for CHOGM") [attendees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO telegram 930 to UKHC New Delhi (1630Z) ("Lobbying of Commonwealth Governments on South Africa before CHOGM") [text of Howe message to UK High Commissions: "we expect all Commonwealth posts to lobby their host governments and report reactions"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Ingham minute to Powell ("Northern Ireland") [Anglo-Irish talks: media presentation of Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Coal - Notts Break-Away Movement") ['favourable developments' imminent] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2769 to FCO (2200Z) ("MSE") [Mobile Subscriber Equipment: UK firm, Plessey, vs. French bid for contract to supply combat phones to US army] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Paris telegram 834 to FCO (1332Z) ("Summit Seven Meeting in New York") [French representation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKDel NATO telegram 237 to FCO (1519Z) ("Alliance Consultation") [Shultz to attend Ministerial meeting of the Council in Brussels] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT message to President Reagan (1040Z) (US/Soviet Talks) [meeting of the seven economic summit countries to discuss Reagan's forthcoming meeting with Gorbachev] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Kohl) [Charles Powell highlights passages for MT on economic Summit Seven lunch; arms control; SDI research; discussion of MT dismay over Kohl's failure to observe "special confidence" in regard to draft treaty on PoCo and security matters; UK/FRG relationship; Luxembourg Council] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Greville Janner MP/President of the Commonwealth Jewish Council (Commonwealth Jewish Council's Greetings to Heads of Government) [released Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan, Peter Morrison) ["BL": privatisation of British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 note: Flesher to Robilliard (State Opening of Parliament) [Denis Thatcher's attendance] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (85) 3rd ("Local Government Finance Studies") [education; distributional impact; timetable] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 record of conversation ("Note for the Record") [Ingham, Norgrove: presentation of the payment of arrears of housing benefit to Liverpool and other authorities] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 28th (Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs, Public Expenditure, Queen s Speech) [spending bilaterals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Norman Fowler minute for Douglas Hurd (“Drug Misuse: Conservative Party Conference Debate”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 note to MT (meeting with the Chancellor before CHOGM) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“a limited number of proposals, the main one of which, a graduate tax, is fraught with objections”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Teachers pay”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph (“Teachers’ Pay Dispute”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Kinnock attacks Scargill) [“Sun says Kinnock yesterday finally smashed Scargill’s strangehold on the Labour Party”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT letter to Eddie Molyneux (sale of arms) [Israel’s right to defend itself] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (BBC) Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Governors minutes (“Real Lives”) [issue unlikely to dominate coming meeting of General Advisory Council] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: No.10 briefing (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Conservative Friends of Israel”) [unhappiness at invitation to Jordanian/PLO delegation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: No.10 briefing (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Conservative Friends of Israel”) [unhappiness at invitation to Jordanian/PLO delegation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Senior Management Development Programme”) [response to MT request for improved management training] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Tebbit letter to Hurd (“Public Order Bill”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO (“South Africa: internal”) [reforms] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Bishop Tutu) [violence, apartheid, sanctions] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Mayhew minute to MT (The Crown Prosecution Service: remuneration of solicitors) [response to letter from Prosecuting Solicitors' Society] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Hailsham PS to Howe PS ("Australia Constitution Act: Request for Permanent Loan to Australia") [against allowing PRO copy to leave official custody permanently] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: MT letter to Turkish Prime Minister Ozal (Assistance for Turkey's admission in EDU) [declassified July 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: UKHC Colombo telegram 667 to FCO (0540Z) ("Commonwealth Finance Ministers meeting: Maldives 1985") [record] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: UKHC Canberra telegram 686 to FCO (0630Z) ("CHOGM: South Africa") [Bob Hawke public criticism of UK stance on sanctions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: UKE Pretoria telegram 376 to FCO (1445Z) ("Commonwealth economic relations with SA") ["answers to your queries about economic relations between SA and Commonwealth countries"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Howe minute to MT ("South Africa at CHOGM") ["a note on the action being taken to manage the South African issue in the run-up to CHOGM and at the meeting itself"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe PS minute to Heseltine PS ("Invitations from the Soviet Ambassador") [need to return to business as usual following expulsions; no ostracism, but social contacts should be avoided] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Taoiseach Fitzgerald (Anglo-Irish Agreement: state of play in talks) [outstanding drafting points; date of summit; Irish accession to European Convention on Suppression of Terrorism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (Anglo-Irish Agreement: message from Bud McFarlane) [US position on Anglo-Irish Agreement and US financial support for Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Irish Government suggests signing Agreement in New York] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: AP wire report ("Miners Cannot Buy Pit") ['the National Coal Board said today it had told 25 Yorkshire Miners that they cannot buy their pit when it closes at the end of December'; Norgrove annotation: 'Another PR triumph for the Coal Board'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Electricity and Gas EFLs") [MT concerned about overshoots of External Financing Limits for electricity supply industry and British Gas] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Geneva Talks: Soviet Counter-Proposals") [preliminary analysis & advice on UK response] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit 1986”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Tokyo Economic Summit 1986”) [dates announcement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT (Anglo-German proposal on MBFR: draft reply to President Reagan's letter) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Inland Revenue minute to John Moore ("Visit to Japan, Hong Kong and Mauritius") ["...pleasant statements about the ICL arrangement as an important example of technological collaboration between Japan and the UK but there is no question that Japanese interests come first."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: UK Ambassador Hungary despatch to FCO ("Kádár's Hungary: or 29 Years is a Long Time in Politics") [General Secretary János Kádár visit to UK] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT ("Public inquiries") ["H committee discussed both delays and disruptions at major public inquiries and whether improvements in compensation arrangements might obviate them"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Wakeham letter to MT (Water Fluoridation Bill) ["... there is a hard core of opposition to it mainly from our own side..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Dog Licensing") [options] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Treasury minute to David Norgrove ("Defence Expenditure as a Proportion of GDP") [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Hurd letter to Tony Newton (Green Paper: enforcement of requirements under the new pension arrangements) [Hurd proposes "a new sort of relationship (between employers and pension providers)... subject to the oversight of your inspectors. I would hope that on those grounds the powers could be defended in the face of any objections there may be"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Treasury minute to MacGregor ("Social Security Reviews and 1985 Survey: Mr Fowler's 2 October Package") [implications of Fowler proposals; tactics to be adopted in Treasury discussions with Fowler; request for guidance on how to handle Fowler's forthcoming paper to MISC III] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (South African DFA) South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (drift towards international sanctions against SA) [declassified ?2005]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Brittan minute for MT (‘Westland’) [examine European solution urgently; do not rule out Sikorsky if no alternative] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (‘Westlands’) [Heseltine organised meeting of European NADs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (‘Westland’) [suggests meeting chaired by Chancellor] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Lawson letter to Brittan (“Take-over Panel”) [at least create contingency plan for statutory basis] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Douglas Hurd letter for MT (recent riots and racial discrimination) [suggests wording for MT conference speech] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Edwards minute for Scholar (“Family Policy Group”) [historical background on the taxation of husband and wife] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (“Teachers’ pay (England and Wales)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Labour party: CRD briefing (Labour Party conference) [Kinnock’s leadership, divisions within the party, policies] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Wicks minute (“Breakfasts”) [meetings offer “the opportunity to discuss, informally, governmental and political issues”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Lynda Chalker letter to MT (“Economic regulation of airports”) [objectives: privatisation of BAA and conversion of local authority airports into companies] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd letter to Whitelaw (“Shops Bill: Sunday trading”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (internal reform) [defence of record] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (President Machel visit to London) [aid to Mozambique, sanctions against South Africa] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Secretary of State for Wales letter to Kenneth Baker (“Rating Reform: A Green Paper for Wales”) [the E(LF) meeting: assessment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to MT (“Gold, JMB and South Africa”) [permitting JMB role] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Consequences of Price Restraint for British Agriculture”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: John MacGregor minute to Michael Jopling (“Emergency Relief for Farmers”) [draft statement suggestions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Robin Harris draft (“Draft section for the PM’s conference speech”) [“Neil Kinnock is no Gaitskell”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Oct 5 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Younger PS ("Local Authority Expenditure: Scotland: Aggregate Exchequer Grant 1986-87") [transferring money from the block grant] [declassified Jul 2015]
Text 85 Oct 6 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Meeting between President Alfonsin and Mr Steel") [text of a joint communique] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT draft (conference speech) [“Draft 1”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science & Technology: MT letter to Sir Henry Chilver (exploitable areas of science) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Howe-King-Armstrong-Spring-Barry-Nally and others) [Anglo-Irish Agreement: Convention on Suppression of Terrorism; Northern Ireland courts; Secretariat of Intergovernmental Committee; devolution; summit timing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to Powell (comment on joint letter from Jim Molyneaux MP and Ian Paisley MP) [suggested reply] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Emley Moor Drift Mine") [requests urgent investigation of report that NCB has told miners that they cannot buy their pit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Visit of Mr Kadar") [General Secretary János Kádár; programme of visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Brittan ("BL privatisation") [dismayed by delay of Unipart sell-off; GM negotiations; "...1oo per cent of the businesses should be sold ... [but] separate out.... profitable companies like Land Rover for separate privatisation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury minute replying to the 15th to 25th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee 1984-85") ["Even with the interest of the coming debate we doubt whether the Treasury minute will attract much interest"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 letter to DTI (‘Westland’) [MT thinks if Indian deal falls through “not necessarily a bad thing to allow the company to go into receivership”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Tebbit letter to Brittan (‘Westland’) [suspects European solution “may well owe more to an effort to keep Westland out of Sikorsky’s hands than to offer a lifeline to Westland”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Brittan letter to Lawson (“Financial Services Bill: International Reciprocity”) [proposes clause to deny access to UK market to firms from countries not granting it to UK firms] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Press Office minute for MT (line on riot) [said you are in close touch, talked to Home Sec; shock at murder & use of guns; support for police] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Douglas Hurd) [Tottenham riots] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger minute to MT (“The Teachers’ dispute in Scotland”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Ken Clarke (BA pay proposals) [“BA will not have an easy ride in attempting to restructure the engineering grades”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Pay Assumption and Running Cost Limits”) [outlines concerns with Lawson proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Nyerere letter to MT (“South Africa: economic sanctions”) [appeal for UK support] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Education Default in Liverpool”) [Government intervention] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [Joseph’s proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Brittan minute to MT (“JMB”) [his decision against launching an inquiry] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Foreign policy: Charles Powell minute for MT (defence and foreign policy sections of conference speech) [Gaitskell fought against the people who now control the Labour Party] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Nyerere letter to MT (apartheid and sanctions) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Baker minute to MT (securing value for taxpayers' money) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chile: Proposed EC Demarche") [proposed diplomatic response to latest Chilean government crackdown; MT bemoans "double standards"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chile: Internal") ["a proposed EC statement to welcome the [Democratic Opposition parties'] "National Accord" of 25 August"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: UKHC Lusaka telegram 427 to FCO (0825Z) ("CHOGM: attendance by the ANC") [details] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: UKE Seoul telegram 232 to FCO (0300Z) ("IMF/IBRD Annual Meeting: Development Committee") [record of 27th meeting on 7 October 1985] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Charles Powell letter to Lord Lewin (project to restore the wartime operations room at Lascarts) [potential topic to be raised with MT by Prime Minister of Malta at next Heads of Government meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Channon PS letter to No.10 ("Malaysian Projects") ["My Minister shares the concern which... [MT] has expressed about the Malaysian Government's handling of... [UK] contracts"; MT talks with Dr Mahathir at Heads of Government meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3270 to FCO (2015Z) ("Preparatory Group for IGC: Brussels 7/8 October") ["death of a thousand cuts on most... proposals"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Home Office letter to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Discussions on Northern Ireland: Ministerial Security") [implications of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker minute to MT ("Restocking of CEGB Power Stations") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter for President Reagan (Anglo-German proposal on MBFR: her views) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell (Anglo-German proposal on MBFR: MT's draft reply to President Reagan) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to David Norgrove ("MISC 120: Position Paper") [position reached after bilaterals with ministers] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Ridley minute to MT (“Contingency planning for oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [comments on report - content with conclusions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: President Reagan letter to MT ("Terrorist seizure of Achille Lauro ") ["no intention of acting precipitously … [but] this act cannot become another protracted hostage situation"] [declassified 2001]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“The Common Agricultural Policy: buttressing a policy of price restraint”) [MT: “The paper reveals an appalling state of affairs”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Hurd letter to Howe (“European Convention on Human Rights: renewal of option Clauses 25 and 46 (Right of Individual Petition and Compulsory Jurisdiction of the Court”) [MT opposed] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: MT draft letter to Conservative Friends of Israel (invitation to Jordanian/PLO delegation) [“this is not an invitation to the PLO, nor does it signify a change in our attitude to that organisation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: MT draft letter to Conservative Friends of Israel (invitation to Jordanian/PLO delegation) [“this is not an invitation to the PLO, nor does it signify a change in our attitude to that organisation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker minute to Whitelaw (“Appeal Court Judgement: 1985-6 Targets”) [Nottingham and Bradford expenditure targets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Dar es Salaam telegram to FCO(“Letter from President Nyerere to the Prime Minister”) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT (Deregulation, City Action Teams, and Tourism) [arrangements and organisation following Cabinet reshuffle] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Chairman of the Council of Turkish Cypriot Associations letter to MT (plight of the Turkish Cypriot people) [request for MT to meet delegation in advance of Commonwealth conference in Bahamas] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Chairman of Shell letter to MT (negotiations between Shell and Brunei Government over oil and gas arrangements) [status report in advance of Heads of Government meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: US Congress letter to MT (UK Government policy in the Middle East) [Defence sales to Saudi Arabia; talks with PLO] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on Armstrong's latest round of talks with Nally; amended draft Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Timing of Summit") [Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe draft letter to Shultz (US/Soviet Summit in Geneva: Soviet counter-proposals) [outline of Howe's initial impressions of the proposals; Charles Powell advises redraft to emphasise need for US to present fresh proposals of their own] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2819 to FCO (2130Z) ("Interpretation of the ABM Treaty") [McFarlane's interview] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Soviet Nuclear Arms Control Counter-Proposals: Briefing of the Council by Nitze") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for September 1985") ["...industrial production is increasing... inflation is down... surplus on trade... unemployment continues to rise..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Whitelaw letter to Lord Hailsham ("Legislative Programme 1986-87") ["It is important that colleagues should start thinking now what Bills they want to bid for so that the bids themselves reflect so far as possible developed rather than purely broad-brush ideas"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("The Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation and Opening of Parliament") [drafts for approval] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("European Exchange Rate Mechanism") [draft Q&A-format briefing] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Macgregor PS minute to Whitelaw PS (Star Chamber) [how to minimise press speculation] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Review of Social Security") [draft MISC III paper: "What is not at all clear... is the public expenditure and PSBR implications"; timing of implementation of proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Hailsham letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“we should not pursue the idea of a graduate tax”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: Conservative Friends of Israel letter to MT (meeting with CFI National Delegation) [peace talks, terrorism, UN resolutions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: Conservative Friends of Israel letter to MT (meeting with CFI National Delegation) [peace talks, terrorism, UN resolutions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Richard Luce minute to MT (“Senior Management Development Programme”) [MT request for improved, and value-for-money, management training] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Nassau telegram to FCO (“South Africa and CHOGM”) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (sanctions and international aid) [Mozambique, Angola, the Nkomati Accord] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO minute to No.10 (“Possible Meeting between the Prime Minister and President Reagan in New York”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT draft (conference speech) [“Wednesday lunchtime draft”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MacGregor PS letter to No.10 ("Crown Prosecution Service") [response to letter from Prosecuting Solicitors' Society] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Saudi Arabia: Tornado/Hawk") [details of London-based Arabic-language press report on alleged deal] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong's report of latest round of talks with Nally; date of summit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (British Museum: Japanese Gallery proposal) [MT rejects suggestion that she write "begging" letter to PM Nakasone to encourage fundraising in Japan for the required £5m] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Debate on the Address") [Queen's Speech on the Opening of Parliament: proposed topics for MT speech for the Debate] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office minute (internal) ("Social Security") [gainers & losers from Green Paper proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Board of Inland Revenue minute to Treasury (“Cost of Introducing Transferable Allowances”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Young letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“basic reservations about the graduate tax proposal which runs into many of the disadvantages of a student loan scheme”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Northern Ireland Office minute to No.10 (Anne Mueller speech on excellence in public sector) [personnel management initiatives] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Nyerere (sanctions against South Africa: British position) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to PM Pindling of the Bahamas (Comonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Italy: CIA National Intelligence Daily (“Italy/Middle East - Achille Lauro hijacking ends”) [likely the work of Syrian-backed PLO groups wanting "to discredit Arafat and derail the peace process"] [declassified 2010]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to PM Lange of New Zealand (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to PM Mulroney of Canada (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to PM Hawke of Australia (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Banda (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to PM Jonathan of Lesotho (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Prince Bhekimpi of Swaziland (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Masire (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Mugabe (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Kaunda (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Babangida (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lawson minute to MT (“PWLB Lending to Liverpool”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit of Iraqi Foreign Minister to London") [urges that MT renew invitation to Tariq Aziz] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("CHOGM: Attendance by National Representatives") ["None of these people should... attend any of the formal sessions... there will, however, be mingling in the margins"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT message to Francois Mitterrand (fighter aircraft) [proposal for European study and programming group] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [suggestion that Brian Mawhinney is included in internal meeting of Northern Ireland Office on presentation of Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to Powell (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [King suggests amendments; response to allegations of leaks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO telegram 1610 to UKE Washington (1116Z) ("Geneva Talks: Soviet Counter Proposals") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Mitterrand letter to MT (European Fighter Aircraft: cooperation in military aircraft design and production) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (Memorandum on the 8th and 14th Reports from the Committee of Public Accounts 1984/85) [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Report on the Review of Social Security") [Green Paper proposals; consultation reactions; proposed modifications; main issues; pensions; other social security policy proposals; timing; interaction with local government finance proposals; future processing; handling; conclusions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("What Should We Do About SERPS?") [options] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with the Chancellor”) [MISC 111, banking supervision, exchange rate mechanism, Green Paper on taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Board of Inland Revenue minute to Lawson (“Green Paper on Personal Taxation: Effect on Married Women’s Incentive to Work”) [overseas experience suggests no disincentive] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Board of Inland Revenue minute to Lawson (“Green Paper: Who are the ‘Losers’?”) [hardly any, but there are "non-gainers"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT letter to Michael Fidler (Jordanian/Palestinian delegation to London) [“Our decision to receive a delegation in London is intended to strengthen the resolve of moderate Palestinians to make progress”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (“Industrial action by CPSA at Companies Registration Office”) [“a firm stand is needed, especially in view of the programme of improvements in efficiency over the next several years”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute (“Information Pack: British Policy Towards South Africa”) [need to “get across how much Britain is already doing to promote peaceful change”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UN Associations of Great Britain and Northern Ireland letter to MT (“Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting”) [resolutions on South Africa - apartheid, violence] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Dar es Salaam telegram to FCO (“South Africa at CHOGM”) [Tanzanian views] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Masire letter to MT (Commonwealth strategy on apartheid) [South African punitive measures against Botswana] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Lusaka telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s message”) [President Kaunda views on apartheid and sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Treasury minute to No.10 (“PWLB Lending to Liverpool”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 12 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Mikhail Gorbachev message to MT (birthday message) [hopes their understanding on priority problems will remain, needs political wisdom and goodwill] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Gorbachev letter for MT (disarmament: the new Soviet initiatives) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Gorbachev to Reagan (maintain usual diplomatic channels) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Oct 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Nyerere letter to MT (Commonwealth strategy on apartheid) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 13 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Young PS ("Deregulation, City Action Teams and Tourism") [arrangements and organisation following Cabinet reshuffle] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Morrison letter to Rifkind (European Regional Development Fund: non-quota measures) [line to take] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [InterGovernmental Conference; EC policy towards Japan; EC en largement/trade; Internal Market Council, 7 Oct; 1986 EC draft Budget/UK VAT abatement; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on Armstrong's latest round of talks with Nally: wording of Agreement; joint press release and presentation; communique; Ulster Defence Regiment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on Armstrong's latest round of talks with Nally: wording of Agreement; joint press release and presentation; communique; Ulster Defence Regiment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (Anglo-Irish talks: press leaks) [Irish Government alleges that British Cabinet Minister has shown draft Agreement to media] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on Armstrong's latest round of talks with Nally: date of summit; concern about Unionist attempts to "wreck" Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letters to Ian Paisley MP and Jim Molyneaux MP (Anglo-Irish talks) ['I can only repeat my assurance that, whatever emerges from our negotiations...there is no threat whatsoever to the Union'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Utilities: Redwood minute to MT ("Water Rates and Gas Charges") ['recent press stories about the Treasury seeking to pay for tax cuts by forcing up people's water rates and gas bills are damaging'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Electricity and Gas EFLs") [overshoots of External Financing Limits for electricity supply industry and British Gas attributable to coal strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Address by the US Secretary of State George Shultz before the 31st Annual Session of the North Atlantic Assembly ("Arms Control, Strategic Stability and Global Security")
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Whitelaw & Wakeham PS letter to Hailsham PS ("Carrying the Cap of Maintenance at the State Opening of Parliament") [ceremonial arrangements] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 letter to Buckingham Palace (The Queen's Speech on the Opening of Parliament 1985) [request for approval] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of the President of Korea") [proposed dates] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Social Security and Local Authority Finance") [analysis of the combined impact of proposed changes] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Leon Brittan minute to MT ("Review of Social Security: The Next Steps") [thoughts on the proposed abolition/modification of the state-earnings-related pension scheme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("MISC 111 tomorrow") [Social Security review: summary of papers for the meeting; proposed Cabinet Office further study on impact of proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Cost of SERPS") [Social Security review: state-earnings-related pension scheme: analysis] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("MISC 111") [Social Security reform: "If we are driven back to draining SERPS rather than abolishing it, it is important to set fairly penal rates for those remaining in SERPS. Norman Fowler should be invited to produce final proposals along these lines"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Tom King letter to Fowler ("Social Security Reforms") ["universally and vociferously criticised in Northern Ireland"; highlights specific issues; "will need to have convincing arguments in defending the Government's position"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Review of Social Security (MISC 111 (85) 14") [SERPS; other social security measures] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Hurd minute to MT (MISC 111: Review of Social Security: State-Earnings-Related Pension Scheme (SERPS)) [Hurd now in favour of retaining SERPS whilst limiting open-ended nature of commitment] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Hurd minute to MT (“Contingency planning for oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [comments on report - which level of road deliveries is best] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (conference speech thanks) [“The most carefully sieved speech that we have ever done!”]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: John MacGregor minute for Douglas Hurd (“Handsworth”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 note for MT (presentation of macro-economic policy) [“unhelpful article” in FT shows why Chancellor concerned] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John MacGregor letter to Nick Ridley (“BA pay”) [“a settlement at the level of the opening offer would be unhelpful for other public trading sector negotiations”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to George Younger (Running Costs) [“I want to make an early announcement confirming the decision to move to control of running costs and ending the pay assumption”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Howe (“Pay Assumption and Running Costs Limits”) [Select Committee scrutiny] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Pay Assumption and Running Costs Limits”) [“I feel that there would be merit in… an alternative method”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“CHOGM: Prime Minister’s Statement on the World Political Scene”) [tighter structure needed, expand section on Non-Proliferation Treaty] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT (“CHOGM: Briefing Meeting”) [handling of situation in South Africa, bilaterals with other leaders] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“Brunei Shell Petroleum”) [“The situation requires delicate handling”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO (“South Africa on the eve of CHOGM”) [“Government’s worst handicap is a virtual loss of credibility among blacks”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to PM Mulroney of Canada (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to James Barber (Fellowship Programme for black South Africans) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Nigel Lawson minute to MT (“Common Agricultural Policy”) [Michael Jopling’s letter: support measures for agricultural production] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Prosecuting Solicitors' Society of England and Wales (The Crown Prosecution Service) [remuneration proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: King minute to MT ("Lear Fan") [development of new aircraft at Aldergrove: liquidation of Lear Fan company] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Fitzgerald) ["Anglo-Irish Talks: Northern Ireland"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Walker letter to Hurd (“Crime Prevention Seminar”) [theft from gas & electricity coin meters] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Treasury ("ERM") [Exchange Rate Mechanism: MT request for Q&A-format briefing] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Lord Hailsham letter to Tony Newton ("Green Paper Proposals for New Pension Arrangements") ["county courts are quite inappropriate for your proposals regarding coercive orders"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 29th (Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs, Public Expenditure, Queen’s Speech) [Tottenham riot] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Pollution”) [Baker proposals for new inspectorate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MT letter to Anna Jones (education seminar: points on the future of education) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MT letter to John Wright (education seminar: Roy Honeyford’s attendance) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute (“World Economic Prospects: Autumn 1985”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Younger letter to John MacGregor (“Control of Civil Service Running Costs”) [“Department of the Registers of Scotland… is an important element in achieving our policy of extending home ownership in Scotland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“CHOGM: South Africa”) [Commonwealth Liaison Group] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO record of conversation (“Senior Officials Meeting 15 October 1985”) [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: FCO minute (“CHOGM: UNICEF - Global Immunisation”) [briefing ahead of possible CHOGM discussion] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Edward Seaga statement (joint IMF-Commonwealth Caribbean Group of Countries meeting) [need for reform] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Geoffrey Howe minute to Kenneth Baker (“CHOGM and the Gleneagles Agreement”) [“we do not have the power to limit individual freedoms in the sort of way others may have”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Machel letter to MT (bilateral cooperation and situation in South Africa) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to MT (“Banking Supervision”) [Treasury proposals to be discussed at a meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: George Younger minute to MT (“Consequences of Price Restraint for British Agriculture”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: 18 November 1985") [French domestic situation, east/west relations, EC, bilateral relations, Channel link] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Walker minute to MT (gas purchase negotiations and gas privatisation) ['I believe your office's suggestion...that you should write to Denis Rooke...is misconceived'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Hurd minute for Howe ("Macau") [Portugese passport holders' special status vis-a-vis EC] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Portugal: FCO telegram to UKE Lisbon ("New government") [messages of congratulations from MT and Howe to incoming/outgoing PMs and Foreign Ministers] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI record of conversation (‘Westland’) [Brittan, Heseltine, Tebbit, MacGregor, Raison] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Brittan letter to Hurd (“European Convention on Human Rights: renewal of option Clauses 25 and 46”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Kaunda) [how to avoid bloodshed in South Africa, question of sanctions] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Mulroney) [Commonwealth action on South Africa meaningless unless UK involved, Mulroney suggests UK propose package of measures] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: MT letter to Shell Petroleum (negotiations with Brunei government) [will take up the matter with the Sultan in Nassau] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Ridley letter to Hurd (“Public Order Bill”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Tom King letter to Hurd (“Public Order Bill”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Kenneth Baker letter to Hurd (“Public Order Bill”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Maputo telegram to FCO (“Machel’s message to Prime Minister”) [sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Brittan letter to Howe (“South Africa; EC Code of Conduct”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Emley Moor Colliery") [NCB response to request to sell pit to miners] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 (“Training Given by the Armed Services”) [publicity value for Government of benefit to private sector] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe message to UKDEL Nassau ("Arms Control: Gorbachev's Letter to the Prime Minister") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to David Norgorve (economic assumptions) [unemployment, pay] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MODUK telegram to UKE Bonn (Heseltine-Woerner conversation) [Sikorsky threat to European helicopter industry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI record of conversation (‘Westland’) [Brittan-Sir John Cuckney] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Commonwealth Secretariat record of conversation (CHOGM first executive session) [Armstrong comments on draft record of MT's remarks] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (tax relief for donations to educational institutions) [draft response to recommendation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Industry: Gaisman note (“Lunches for industrialists”) [arrangements for possible event] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (BBC) Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Governors minutes (“Real Lives”) [to be discussed at General Advisory Council on 30 Oct] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Hawke) [no intention to embarrass or attack the UK; “it was necessary to be ready to talk about sanctions”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Brian Mulroney note to MT (executive session) [“this meeting is the ultimate test of the patience of any reasonable person of conservative persuasion!”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT statement (introductory remarks on the world political scene) [global security, arms control, South Africa] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe to UKE Bonn (“Quadripartite Discussion of Summit Seven Follow Up”) [British participation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 6 to UKDEL Nassau (2030Z) (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with President Reagan”) [subjects for discussion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2895 to FCO (1900Z) (“UK-US Supplementary Extradition Treaty”) [MT-Reagan talks in New York] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (thanks for UK help with Achille Lauro terrorist attack) [grateful & proud] [released 2015]
Text 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (thanks for birthday message) [hopes "understanding can be enlarged" and talks with Reagan are fruitful] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute to No.10 ("European Fighter Aircraft") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT (Chequers seminar) [main results] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling letter to Howe (“Perspectives for the Common Agricultural Policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“I see no merit in introducing an income tax surcharge”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Heseltine letter to Hurd (renewal of Articles 25 and 46 of the European Convention on Human Rights) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lord Hailsham letter to Hurd (“European Convention on Human Rights: Articles 25 and 46”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mugabe) [“Mugabe seemed ready to endorse violence”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: CHOGM draft communiqué (declaration on world order; declaration on South Africa; Benjamin Moloise execution) [“we resolve to redouble our support for the struggle to hasten the end of the abomination of apartheid”] [declassified Dec 2016]
Text 85 Oct 19 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT (“South Africa”) [draft text expected, recomended changes] [declassified Dec 2016]
Text 85 Oct 20 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 20 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President of Maldives) [requests for fishing rights, equipment needed for new hospital] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Wicks minute (“Your Time”) [“suggests a framework within which you might wish to allocate your time”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute (“Additional Measures”) [trade, economic relationships with South Africa] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“Press conference this evening”) [“Your main problem will be to kill the charge that you have had to give a lot in order to get an agerement”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Note on sanctions against South Africa (“Commonwealth Declaration of Opposition to Apartheid”) [comparison of US, British and Canadian actions] [declassified Dec 2016]
Text 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Conservation Lunch on 25 November") [key issues/priorities; attendees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1730Z) ("Briefing on President's Participation in UNGA [UN General Assembly]") (NSC 0124) [discussion of upcoming bilateral with MT; President noted "the Thatcher Government has been a true friend and currently faces major economic problems ... anything we can do would be helpful"; unitary taxation] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) USSR: UKMIS Geneva telegram 428 to FCO (1058Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Joint Statement") ["They agreed about the need to improve U.S.-Soviet relations and the international situation as a whole"] [released 2017]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (South African DFA) South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (outcome of Nassau Commonwealth Meeting) [declassified ?2005]
Text 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: NSC memorandum for McFarlane (“Public Diplomacy Program for South Africa”) [declassified 1999]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Brittan letter to Lawson (“Takeover Panel”) [reserve powers would undermine existing panel] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Flesher minute for Wicks (proposed Hurd statement) [Tottenham riots] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Flesher minute for Wicks (proposed Hurd statement) [Tottenham riots] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“decision that we took collectively in July not to proceed with the loans option has removed from the paper the principal alternative to the present system”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger PS letter to No.10 (“Teachers’ dispute”) [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (“Teachers’ dispute in England and Wales”) [Younger statement to Parliament] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Midday Supervision”) [possible specific grant power] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit letter to Keith Joseph (“Teachers Pay”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Younger letter to Nick Ridley (“Economic regulation of airports”) [“your proposed solution risks causing uncertainty among potential investors in relation to the BAA prospectus”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“Pay Assumption and Running Cost Limits”) [“I could not justify presenting your Department’s estimates to Parliament in a format that differed from others”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO ("The Achille Lauro Affair") [Craxi's statements to Italian cabinet & parliament] [declassified 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (“CHOGM: Heads of Government Retreat at Lyford Cay”) [MT “considerably disillusioned by the double standards applied by a number of the Commonwealth countries”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Jayewardene) [Tamil situation, need for military equipment from the UK] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“CHOGM: Final Session: Briefing Meeting”) [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: UKHC Nassau minute to No10 (“Tree Planting Ceremony at Roywest Trust Corporation”) [MT invited by RoyWest Trust Corporation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: CHOGM draft communique (“South Africa. The Commonwealth Accord”) [“apartheid must be dismantled now if a greater tragedy is to be averted”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: CHOGM Secretary minute (draft communique) [disarmament, small states, Southern Africa] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKDEL Nassau telegram to UKE Pretoria (MT message to President Botha) [outcome of Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: FCO telegram 72 to UKMIS New York (1930Z) (“Cyprus”) [UK account on Secretary General’s initiative] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe to UKDEL Nassau (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with President Reagan”) [subjects for discussion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe to UKDEL Nassau (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with President Reagan: Arms Control Aspects”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Moscow to FCO (“Marshal Akhromeev on Soviet Arms Control Proposals”) [Soviet stance on SDI and the ABM Treaty] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe to UKDEL Nassau (“Prime Minister’s Visit to New York: Meeting with Secretary-General”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe to UKDEL Nassau (“Prime Minister’s Lunch with Businessmen in New York”) [British objectives] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO telegram to UKDEL Nassau (“South Africa: Commonwealth Accord”) [lines to take on Namibia and S. Africa for Lords and Commons debates] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Riyadh telegram U/N to MoD (1230Z) ("Observer Story on Tornado") [message from King Fahd] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn to FCO ("Arms Control: Latest Soviet Proposals") [German views on latest Soviet INF proposals & how to handle] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Shultz briefing for Reagan ("Your meeting with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher") [British worries, US goals; talking points] [declassified 2007]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 24 (The Queen’s Speeches on the Prorogration of Parliament and the Opening of the New Session) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Ian MacGregor letter to MT (intimidation) [NCB’s efforts to tackle intimidation, problems with return to work] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Baroness Young letter to Hurd (“European Convention on Human Rights: renewal of optional Clauses 25 and 46 (Right of Individual Petition and Compulsory Jurisdiction of the Court)”) [reply on behalf of Howe] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“CHOGM: Parliamentary Statement”) [MT expected to have to give a statement, which should deal principally with discussions on South Africa] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (“Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting: South Africa: Group of Eminent Persons”) [nomination of group members] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell telegram to UKE Pretoria (South African reactions to Commonwealth accord) [a rebuff by Both would be damaging to MT’s position and all she has worked for] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKDEL Nassau telegram to UKEs (“South Africa: The Commonwealth Accord”) [a major achievement, call for end to violence a considerable step forward] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO telegram to UKDEL Nassau (“South African reactions to the Commonwealth Accord”) [Botha “particularly critical of the six month time limit for concrete progress towards reform”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: CHOGM statement (“The Nassau Communique”) [commitments and resolutions] [declassified Dec 2016]
Text 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (regional conflicts) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (CHOGM:position of South African government) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe to UKDEL Nassau (“President Reagan’s Address to UNGA 24 October”) [US-Soviet relations, regional conficts] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 4 to FCO (1345Z) (“MBFR”) [UK proposals on arms control] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO telegram 521 to UKMIS New York (2100Z) (President Botha letter to MT) [sanctions and international aid] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKDEL Nassau telegram to UKHC Canberra (“Southern Africa: The Commonwealth Accord”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Nigel Wicks ("Afghanistan Talks with Reagan") [Soviet involvement in drug trade] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO telegram 531 to UKMIS New York (1505Z) ("Arms Control: Latest Soviet Proposals") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Officer letter to Keith Joseph (tax relief for donations to educational institutions) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Brittan letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (tax relief for donations to educational institutions) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Baker letter to Hurd (“European Convention on Human Rights- renewal of optional Clauses 25 and 46 (Right of Individual Petition and Compulsory Jurisdiction of the Court)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan) [cover note only: McFarlane said US working on arms control counterproposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: MT briefing cards (meeting with Reagan) [Achille Lauro, Gorbachev/arms control, UN speech, South Africa, SDI, Middle East, MSE, MBFR, Ireland, trade] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: McFarlane message to No.10 (MT-Reagan meeting) [two new agenda items] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: White House record of conversation (MT, Reagan, Shultz, Regan, McFarlane, Ridgway) [arms control, SDI; Achille Lauro; South Africa; PLO] [declassified Jan 2010]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with the UN Secretary General: Southern Africa”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with the UN Secretary General: Cyprus”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with the UN Secretary General: Middle East”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with the UN Secretary General: UN High Commissioner for Refugees”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with the Prime Minister of Israel at the UN Plaza Hotel, New York”) [Peres’s proposals to the UN] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO telegram 529 to UKMIS New York (1440Z) (“British Participation in SDI Research: Mr. Weinberger’s letter”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Nyerere of Tanzania letter to MT (Inkatha’s commitment to non-violent reform) [condemns ANC and international media reporting] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 24 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation ("MSE") [Charles Powell, Robert McFarlane] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Emley Moor Colliery") [comment on NCB response to request to sell pit to miners] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Patrick Jenkin request for advice regarding offer of part-time consultancy with Arthur Andersen and Co) [sensitivities owing to ongoing Government court case against the firm over failure of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: George Younger minute to MT ("Local Authority Expenditure: Scotland: Aggregate Exchequer Grant 1986-87") [rating burden, penalties] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Willie Whitelaw minute to Kenneth Baker ("MISC 120: DoE Programmes") [housing problems, water] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT (“CAP Reform: consequences of price restraint for British agriculture”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKMIS New York telegram 935 to FCO (2320Z) (“President Reagan’s meeting with allied leaders”) [arms control negotiations at Geneva] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Younger minute to MT (“Legal Aid in Scotland”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Governor of the Bank of England minute to MT (“Banking Supervision”) [the proposal for a banking commission] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Italian political situation, US-Soviet Summit, Achille Lauro] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: George Younger minute to MT (“Emergency Aid for Farmers”) [situation in Scotland, relief package, European Commission assistance] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Home Office letter to No.10 ("Police and Criminal Evidence Act") [police anxieties about the Act] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Soviet National Day Reception") [ministerial representation should be consistent wtih desire to conduct businesslike dialogue with Soviets] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("European Community: InterGovernmental Conference") [meeting with Michael Butler: key issues; negotiating tactics] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: King minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks - Meeting with Mr Molyneaux and Mr Paisley") [brief for meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [handling of meeting with Howe and Hurd] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO letter to MOD ("Alleged Soviet Violations of the ABM Treaty") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: UKE Hungary telegram to FCO ("My Call on Janos Kadar") [UK ambassador conversation preceding General Secretary János Kádár's visit to UK] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: UKE Hungary telegram to FCO ("Kadar's visit to London: scene-setter") [General Secretary János Kádár "...thinks that he has secured Gorbachev's approval for further reform... But he also needs the help of the West"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 briefing for MT ("Kádár's Hungary: or 29 Years is a Long Time in Politics") [General Secretary János Kádár visit to UK: biographical note] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: David Hunt PS letter to No.10 (visit to Hungary) [background for General Secretary János Kádár's visit to UK] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Mr Kadar: 31 October - 2 November") [General Secretary János Kádár; "the Hungarians see Kadar's visit to London as the most significant event in Anglo-Hungarian relations since the War"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("BL") [ailing British Leyland being taken in hand by Government; Unipart to be sold off] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Cabinet Discussion of Public Expenditure") [defence spending] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Oliver Letwin minute to MT ("Scotland: Local Authority Spending") [Younger "is trying his usual tactics"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Kenneth Baker minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Housing") [extent of housing problems] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [morale could do with a boost] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Star Chamber") [attempts to get programmes back to baseline] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("SERPS") [Social Security review: state-earnings-related pension scheme: notes on 'how SERPS works' & on proposed reforms; MT notes that she wishes to discuss] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 minute for MT (H Committee decisions) [28 vs 24 week abortion term, MT thinking perhaps a government issue] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Policy Unit minute for MT (“Drugs-Pakistan”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [banking supervision,TSRB, fiscal adjustment and the Autumn Statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Edwards letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [“risk the criticism… [of] implementing loans by other means”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Midday Supervision”) [Keith Joseph proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tom King letter to Hurd (“European Convention on Human Rights - renewal of optional Clauses 25 and 46 (Right of Individual Petition and Compulsory Jurisdiction of the Court)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No10 (“Prime Minister’s Oral Statement: CHOGM and Visit to New York”) [draft statement focusing on discussions of South Africa] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“‘H’ on Public Order Bill”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO (“South Africa - a responsible Black Homeland leader’s view”) [Mabuza speech on government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to MT (“Building Societies Commission”) [arrangements for the supervision of building societies] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Economic Secretary to the Treasury minute to MT (“Visit to Washington and New York: 22-28 September”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Structure of Banking Supervision”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Brian Griffiths minute to MT (“Banking Supervision”) [briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (“President Reagan’s Meeting with Allied Leaders”) [MT suggestions to Reagan: points to make to Gorbachev] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Strategic Defence Initiative Research: United Kingdom Participation”) [OD meeting, 28 Oct 1985] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Michael Jopling letter to John MacGregor (“Emergency Relief for Livestock Sector”) [aid package proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Agriculture: Michael Jopling minute to MT (“Emergency Aid for Farmers”) [assistance from the European Commission] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: Church Commissioners Secretary minute to Church Commissioners (“Investment and South Africa”) [copied to No.10 for interest] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 26 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1 to FCO (1800Z) ("US/Soviet Meetings in New York") [record of conversations: Reagan, Shevardnadze; Shultz, Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 26 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Christopher Tugendhat letter to MT (nomination to the Eminent Persons’ Group) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 27 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 27 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [presentation of Anglo-Irish discussions and Agreement to Cabinet] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 27 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe minute to MT (“CHOGM: Group of Eminent Persons (EPG)”) [British objectives, main problems of the proposal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 27 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT (“South Africa: Group of Eminent Persons”) [Howe declining to join it] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3550 to FCO (1225Z) ("Call on President of the Commission: 28 October 1985") [Hannay, Delors: record of conversation: InterGovernmental Conference] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [comment on King's suggested amendments to Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 (“Training Given by the Armed Services”) [publicity value for Government of benefit to private sector] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter for MT ("Arms Control: Soviet Violations") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Fabius criticises the UK") [TV debate with Chirac: "everything you propose... has just been tried in Great Britain"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Fabius criticises the UK") [options on how to react to comments made in TV debate with Chirac] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Visit of Mr. Kadar") [General Secretary János Kádár's visit to UK: schedule & subjects for discussion] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 (The Queen's Speech on the Opening of Parliament 1985) [copies and guidance for circulation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: George Younger minute to John MacGregor ("'Territorial' Implications of Local Authority Overspending in England") [compensation to Scottish block] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: George Younger minute to John MacGregor ("PES 1985: Housing") [impact of Baker's proposals] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [Lawson may try to lobby MT over differences with MacGregor] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Lawson PS ("Autumn Statement: Forecast Fiscal Adjustment") [figure should not be published] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: David Norgrove minute to Lawson PS ("Public Expenditure Assumptions") [unemployment] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("Autumn Statement: Forecast Fiscal Adjustment") [should not be published] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Star Chamber: State of Play") [departmental bids exceeding baseline] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Norgrove minute to Armstrong (“Contingency planning for oil tanker drivers’ strike”) [PM accepts report with regrets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO letter to Cabinet Office (“Anglo-German summit: 27 November 1985”) [draft list of briefs for MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to Sherbourne (Prime Ministerial meetings with editors) [who to invite] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Younger letter to John MacGregor (“Running Costs Control”) [“all Departmental Ministers will, in effect, be required to conceal their pay assumptions”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome minute for Head of Chancery (“Achille Lauro/US-Italy Extradition Treaty”) [account of crisis from US Dept of Justice official in Italy] [declassified Jan 2010]
Text 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (arms control verification) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President of the Confederation of British Industry letter to MT (Commonwealth Conference) [congratulations on MT taking firm line on sanctions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Canberra telegram to FCO (“CHOGM, South Africa: Committee of Eminent Persons”) [press speculation on Howe’s appointment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Nassau) [“blatant interference in our national affairs”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Brittan minute to MT (“Ansbacher”) [undertaking an enquiry about the affair] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Governor) [banking supervision] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Armstrong minute to Norgrove (“Building Societies Commission”) [reorganisation of the Registry of Friendly Societies] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Armstrong minute to Wicks (call from the Bank of England: MT’s discussion on banking matters) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2958 to FCO (1830Z) (“SDI Participation”) [extracts from a Washington Post article] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Canberra telegram to FCO (“CHOGM: South Africa”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: President Duarte message to MT (in Spanish) [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Christopher Gerard letter to MT ("Policy Respect by Civil Servants?") ["despite what you were informed, there has been little change [within the Overseas Development Administration] about the implementation of your preferred policies... [ODA has been] quietly opposing your views about privatisation at all levels"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: FCO letter to Powell ("Possible Visit to the UK by the Turkish Prime Minister") [MT accepts case for an early invitation for Feb or Mar 1986] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Michael Butler) ["European Community Inter-Governmental Conference": "progress (or lack of it)"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland Affairs") [Anglo-Irish talks and Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-King-Howe-Armstrong-Cradock) ["Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland": joint courts; European Convention on Suppression of Terrorism; procedure and presentation of Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]

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

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

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

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