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PDF 84 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) By-election: Sherbourne note for MT (“Southgate By-Election”) [“the Liberals are … going to run hard that the Goverment are going to tax the pension lump sum and withdraw tax relief for pension contributions”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Michael Alison note for Robin Butler (administration) [MT “snowed under with papers … some of the work she was being given to sign could possibly be dealt with by Departments”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Adam Ridley letter to Sherbourne (Special Advisers) [terms and conditions of employment] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 28 November 1984”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Attorney General's Office letter to No.10 (“Miners’ Dispute: Sequestration of the NUM’s Assets”) [NUM “tried to put itself outside the reach of the court”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Mulroney letter to MT (election as new Canadian Prime Minister) [“our two countries can do much together to meet the enormous challenges facing us”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Archbishop of Liverpool letter to MT (unemployment in Liverpool) [“unless the young people can be given greater hope of employment, their sense of insecurity will be an obstacle to the long-term commitment”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Statements by Catholic bishops and archbishops (strike strife) [Archbishop of Liverpool calls for resumption of negotiations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Warry minute to Turnbull (“Coal Dispute”) ['Having weathered the storm we should now go for more publicity'] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (Lawson, Bérégovoy, Brian Unwin, Jean-Francois Stoll, officials) ["Franco-British Summit, Paris, 29-30 November 1984": EC Budget discipline; 1985 Budget; IMPs; EIB capital increase; EMS; special fund for Africa; world economy; mixed credits; Guangdong nuclear project; Washington meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo/French Summit: Channel Fixed Link") [line to take at press conference] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Anglo/French Summit: Stilettos") ["for use in argument about the more high-flown ideas on the future of the Community"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Robin Ibbs minute to MT ("Scrutiny of BBC External Services") [uneconomical practices, improvements in performance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MOD record of conversation (Heseltine-Hernu & others) [Anglo-French defence cooperation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Secretary minute to MT (possible transfer of Ministerial responsibility for marriage guidance work) [MT: "I prefer to leave matters as they are"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Ibbs ("Implementation of Efficiency Scrutinies") [agrees investigation of slow and incomplete implementation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO letter to Powell ("Hong Kong: UMELCO Statement on the Future of Hong Kong") [S.Y. Chung letter to MT in advance of meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO letter to Powell ("Hong Kong: Capital Punishment") [Youde commutes death sentence of Keung Sin-Chi; warning of possible public outcry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zaire: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Zaire: Possible Message to President Mobutu") [follow-up to meeting with Mobutu in which MT committed to "study carefully... Zaire's economic problems"; Mobutu reinvestiture ceremony for third term of office] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Robin Ibbs minute to MT ("Merit Pay") [analysis & advice regarding potential weaknesses in Lord Gowrie's proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Treasury record of conversation ("Taxation of Pensions") [John Moore, Robin Ibbs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Tebbit PS ("Small Business Loan Guarantee Scheme") [finalisation of the terms of the announcement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 4027 to FCO (1700Z) ("Preparation of the European Council") [EC enlargement; EC Budget discipline; IMPS; Dooge Committee] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Taoiseach Fitzgerald (response in Ireland to MT press conference) [Anglo-Irish relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Lamont letter to Rees (privatisation of warship building: foreign ownership) ["how I propose to handle the question of restrictions"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Channon minute to MT ("EC/US Steel: Pipes and Tubes") [imposition of further US tariffs on steel products] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Department of Trade and Industry ("British Steel Corporation") [MT urges continued work on privatising parts of BSC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by the Prime Minister to Peking and Hong Kong") [briefing proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("European Council, Dublin 3/4 December 1984") [briefing and related items] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Taoiseach FitzGerald (European Council, Dublin, 3/4 December 1984) [MT clarifies comments made at the Anglo/Irish summit press conference earlier that month] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Taoiseach FitzGerald letter to MT (European Council, Dublin, 3/4 December 1984) [priorities] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Rees minute to MT ("Inspection and Consultancy Services in Departments") ["To ensure co-ordination... [Lord Gowrie and I] propose to set up a small joint unit"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("US/Soviet relations: the Shultz/Gromyko meeting") [meeting of the four ambassadors on 28 November: record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Christopher Tugendhat (European Commission) [reflections on his term as a Commissioner] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling letter to Howe ("1985 Common Agricultural Policy Price Fixing") ["I have been considering how best to register our ideas... with the Commission and the other Member States"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Cabinet Office record of conversation (first meeting of Lord President’s group) [“presentation of the government’s economic and social policy”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 39th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, BT flotation) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Geoffrey Pattie letter to Keith Joseph (“Education for Economic Awareness”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Anglo/Irish Relations and Irish Politics") [assessment of current state of relations and politics: Fitzgerald's "standing in the party and with the public is now very low"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Anglo/Irish Relations") [note of Hurd-Paisley-Robinson meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Office of the Leader of the Opposition letter to No.10 (Kinnock's meeting with Tolkunov) [Gorbachev's visit to the UK] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Privy Council Office minute (“Note of a meeting … to discuss the presentation of the government’s economic and social policies) [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 29 November 1984”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Press Office briefing for MT (“Brenda Stout: Daily Mirror article by Paul Foot”) [House of Commons PQs: line to take] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Budd letter to Charles Powell (“Visit of Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs”) [“the first opportunity we shall have for substantive discussions with a member of the new Canadian Government”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1418 to FCO (0100Z) (“Cyprus: meeting with Iacovou”) [“The initial Greek Cypriot reaction to the Turkish sides new proposals is one of interest but also concern”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 record of conversation (meeting with Robert Kilroy-Silk MP on redundancies at BICC Prescott) [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: No.10 briefing (meeting with Kilroy-Silk on redundancies at BICC Prescott) [“Negotiations are taking place with the company about a limited amount of regional selective assistance”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (Liverpool City Council finances) [“there will be no extra money for Liverpool, this year or next, as a result of highwayman tactics”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lord Rothschild letter to Robin Butler (review of local government finance & functions) [bureaucratic issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Newcastle DHSS industrial dispute) [Whitelaw, Fowler, King, Hayhoe] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw PS letter to Lord Hailsham PS (“H Committee Correspondence”) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“Yugoslavia: Rescheduling”) [“Yugoslav Debt: Geneva Meeting, 26 November”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rees letter to Whitelaw (“Scottish local authority expenditure 1985-86”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Conservative Research Department brief (“The Local Government Bill”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 minute to MT ("Your Press Meeting") [UK/French Summit, 29-30 Nov 84: "This note sets out various considerations for your joint press conference with President Mitterrand... after the Plenary"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand, Howe, Lawson, Heseltine, Ridley, Walker, Cockfield, Pattie, Cheysson, Dumas, Bérégovoy, Hernu, Quiles, Malvy, Lang, Cresson) ["Plenary Session, Anglo-French Summit, 30 November, 1984"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand) [UK/French Summit: China; defence cooperation: Libya/Chad, weakness of African armies, US/Soviet involvement in Africa; East/West arms control; Channel Fixed Link/press conference] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Middleton, Governor of the Bank of England) [Johnson Matthey Bankers enquiries; taxation of pension funds] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Rees PS minute to Howe PS ("Review of BBC External Services") [publication of report, funding issues] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Chief Statistical Officer minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Sir James Cleminson and Sir Terence Beckett: 21 November") [response to criticism of index of production] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Student Grants") ["Student Grants": Government plan for parental full contribution to tuition fees: Labour expected to table Amendment; Conservative backbench revolt anticipated; options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("School Teachers' Pay and Conditions of Service (England and Wales)") [concern about expense of the offer being made by local authority employers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer letter ("School Teachers' Pay and Conditions of Service (England and Wales)") [outline of instructions to officials for resumption of talks in December; breakdown in negotiations anticipated] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("Agriculture and Conservation") [merits of existing voluntary approach to safeguarding of important sites; cost of site safeguards; changes to financial guidelines; Landscape Areas Special Development Order; landscape & nature conservation orders; conservation of the Broads landscape] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Patrick Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("Government Response to Select Committee Report on Acid Rain") [publication] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Rifkind minute to MT ("Dooge Committee") [analysis of interim Report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Stewart PS letter to No.10 ("Budget Council: 29 November") [proposed changes to draft 1985 Budget; reimbursement of Inter-Governmental Agreement money; aid expenditure and IMPS] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (incident at Mertyhr Vale Colliery: death of taxi driver) [statement by Neil Kinnock] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Mayhew minute to MT (review of DPP Policy on prosecution of offences arising from miners' dispute) [DPP will seek expedited trials for intimidation offences] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1845Z) ("Soviet Defense and Arms Control Objectives") (NSPG 0100) [declassified Oct 2006]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Taoiseach FitzGerald of Ireland letter to colleagues (Council meeting) [enlargement, union, African drought/famine] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Federal German economy") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Dublin European Council: Italian position") [3/4 December] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("German views on the Dooge Committee") [European Council, Dublin, 3/4 December] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10: Sherbourne minute to Powell ("European Council - Dublin") [3/4 December; "I hope [MT] will be made aware that some journalists might try to drive a wedge between the Government and [Conservative MEPs]] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("European Council (Dublin): ETUC meeting with the Irish Prime Minister) [3/4 December 1984; European Trade Union Confederation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: The Hague telegram to FCO ("European Council: Dublin 3/4 December: Dutch objectives) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("European Council: Checklist) [3/4 December 1984: "...things we want, things we could accept and things we could not accept..."] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Top Management Programme") ["The attached report describes progress since [April]... we now need to inform Parliament... should be presented positively as part of our strategy to improve management in the Civil Service"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to MT ("UN Law of the Sea Convention") [Charles Powell annotation: "[Howe] recommends against the signature, but in favour of allowing the Community to sign"; MT requests further advice from Treasury & Energy Secretary] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) France: Menu for MT dinner after Franco-British Council (hosted by French PM Laurent Fabius) [brief MT notes on conversation] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 30 November 1984”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (“Incident at Merthyr Vale Colliery”) [taxi carrying working miner struck by concrete post: police 'treating the case as one of murder'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague to FCO (“Visit by Mr Lubbers”) [Dutch acceptance of invitation to Chequers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Ingham minute to MT (incident in the coal dispute: Merthyr Vale Colliery) [concrete post thrown on to taxi carrying working miner: death of taxi driver] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull (“Value-for-money in local government”) [Audit Commission report] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 1 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3570 to FCO (0220Z) ("Senate Changes") [analysis] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: President Nyerere of Tanzania letter to MT (drought in Africa: Ethiopia, Mozambique, Mali, Chad, Sudan and Somalia) [seeks increased UK food and logistical support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 Duty Clerk note to MT (Court of Appeal dismisses NUM appeal againt sequestration of assets) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Africa: President Nyerere of Tanzania letter to MT (famine) [appeal for aid] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO (text of speech by Irish Foreign Minister Peter Barry) [Anglo-Irish summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") ["general feeling of frustration and despair" on part of Irish leaders] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 2 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: MT message to Bob Hawke (federal election) [congratulations on second term] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Student Grants") [Government plan for parental full contribution to tuition fees: "some concession [to backbench & public opposition] now seems inevitable": options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Keith Joseph, Tristan Garel Jones) ["Student Grants": Government plan for parental full contribution to tuition fees: options for concession in light of backbench & public opposition] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT telegram to Taoiseach FitzGerald of Ireland (Council meeting) [no agreement on foreign affairs text] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10: Powell minute to Ingham ("Prime Minister's press conference: Northern Ireland") [European Council, Dublin, 3/4 December] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("European Council") [Dublin, 3/4 December; "[Charles Powell/Michael Butler] find the... briefs deficient in some points"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 press briefing for MT ("Dublin: the media") [European Council, 3/4 December: lines to take on fallout from controversial Anglo/Irish summit press conference] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Education: Letwin minute for MT (“Student Grants”) [“If the Government plays its cards right, it may rescue a long-term victory out of this defeat”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Education: Letwin minute to MT (“Student Grants”) [“position has clearly deteriorated over the weekend. Some concession now seems inevitable”] [released 2014]
Text 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Gas Turbines for the Delhi Electric Supply Undertaking (DESU)") [no decision likely until after Indian elections] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: Prime Minister Soares letter to MT (Visit to London: 20-23 November) [thanks; hopes for "solidarity between european countries"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zaire: MT message to President Mobutu (1050Z) (Reinvestiture as President of the Republic of Zaire) ["ready to do all we can to help"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Peter Rees minute to MT ("Student Grants") [response to MT request to find scope for reducing impact of new scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Student Grants") [options for covering costs of delaying transition to parental full contribution to tuition fees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [European Council meeting; Northern Ireland affairs; response in Ireland to MT press conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT (Taoiseach Fitzgerald requests bilateral meeting with MT) [MT: 'I will if he wishes - but I really think the less said the better'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Geoffrey Pattie PS letter to MT ("British Telecom") [flotation: statement to Parliament] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: FCO record of conversation (“informal record” of Dublin European Council, 3/4 Dec) [first day - economic & social situation; enlargement; Integrated Mediterranean Programmes (IMPs); environment; dinner discussion - institutions, IMPs, Political Cooperation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) France: MT letter to President Mitterrand of France (thanks for hospitality) [“discussions the most stimulating and reqarding of the many talks which we have had”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Garret FitzGerald) [European Council, Dublin: bilateral meeting to discuss Northern Ireland, specifically fallout from controversial press conference following Anglo/Irish summit] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("European Council: US/EC: pipes and tubes") [Dublin, 3/4 December; "...the dispute is only one of a number of EC/US trade disputes..."] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO telegram to Flash Dublin ("UN Law of the Sea Convention") [Howe "notes that it is not proposed that the UK should sign... still has reservations about the idea of Community signature... [but] concludes that the balance of advantage lies with not blocking [it]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Colette Bowe minute to Norman Tebbit’s Private Secretary (“Economic & Social Policy Campaign”) [wants immediate discussion of Ingham invitation to participate] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Colette Bowe minute to Norman Tebbit’s Prviate Secretary (“Economic & Social Policy Campaign”) [attended meeting last night - caring not enough, “got to be paid for”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Waldegrave minute to MT (“Sellafield Discharges”) [draft written PQ reply] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit of the Supreme Soviet Delegation") [proposed response to letter from Kinnock's office] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham letter to DTI Press Office (“Economic and Social Policy Campaign”) [objective “a sustained drive by Departments to reinforce each other's efforts to secure a more favourable public view”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 3 December 1984”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Mayhew letter to MT (“Sequestration of NUM’s assets”) [Attorney General indemnifies sequestrators for costs unrecovered from NUM] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Budd minute to Charles Powell (“Visit of Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs”) [attendees] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Lord Young letter to Brittan (“Committee of Inquiry into proposals to amend the Shops Act”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: UKE Berne BIS telegram to FCO (“Press summary (1, 2 and 3 Dec)”) [Argentina] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Rees letter to Tom King ("National Voluntary Severance Scheme") [threat of strikes in event of refusing further loan to National Dock Labour Board] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Secretary minute to Gowrie ("Location of the proposed Central Unit on Purchasing") [MT: "Ask for advice from Robin Ibbs"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cradock minute to Powell ("Hong Kong: Call by UMELCO Delegation") [suggested approach to MT's meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO letter to Powell ("Call on the Prime Minister by the UMELCO Delegation: 0930 on 5 December") [brief for MT's meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Lamont PS letter to No.10 ("Austin Rover") [organisational changes at Austin Rover; computer-aided design technology] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Channon PS letter to No.10 ("Possible High-Level Mission to China") [MT approves Lord Young trade mission but rejects Channon proposal that she broach the idea personally during her talks in Beijing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT ("Joint Co-ordination Unit") [implementation of CIR Report; terms of reference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Top Salaries Review Body") [job-weighted differentials for Permanent Secretaries; revised timetable] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Whitelaw, Keith Joseph, Rees, Garel Jones) ["Student Grants": Backbenchers pressure on Government to withdraw proposals; discussion of options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord President record of conversation ("Student Grants") [Whitelaw, Keith Joseph, Biffen, Rees, Garel Jones: partial concession on tuition fees; funding of concession in 1985/86; Scotland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Whitelaw Meeting") [review of student support: summary of outcomes from Whitelaw/Keith Joseph meeting earlier in the day; TUC meeting with NUM; BT shares] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT ("Student Grants") [need to identify savings, following Government decision to announce concession on tuition fees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Department of Education record of conversation ("Student Grants") [Keith Joseph, Peter Rees: need to identify savings, following Government decision to announce concession on tuition fees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (England and Wales)") ["I have difficulties with the line you suggest on the employers' proposals on pay structure and conditions of service"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Trustee Savings Bank") [Treasury's White Paper on establishing TSBs as public limited companies owned by private shareholders] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Redwood minute to Turnbull ("Gas Privatisation") ['Peter Walker's fillibuster [of privatisation] is succeeding'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Type 22 Frigates") ['Heseltine would like to give one of the two orders as a sop to Cammell Laird...This makes no sense'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy record of conversation (Walker-TUC General Secretary Norman Willis) [TUC attempts to resolve coal dispute] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (Walker to meet with TUC senior representatives on 5 December) [TUC intervention in coal dispute: 'Mr Walker will take a robust line'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Treasury briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to China") [Royal Mint project discussions with China Mint] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Beijing record of conversation (1010Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit: Mr Buchanan-Smith's Meeting with Vice Premier Li Peng") [Buchanan-Smith; Li Peng] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: FCO record of conversation (“informal record” of Dublin European Council, 3/4 Dec) [second day - famine in Africa; wine; IMPs; Presidency Conclusions; Foreign Affairs Council] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Rhodes Boyson letter to Peter Rees ("Short Brothers PLC") [adjustment for increase in EFL] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [follow-up on student grants; points to make in Autumn Statement debate; markets including 2.25 percent £M3 increase; BT - 40p premium] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("UN Law of the Sea Convention (UNLOSC)") [MT "was... concerned about Community competence on taxation and on the Continental shelf": points addressed; Howe "proposes... to seek amendments along the lines requested by Mr Walker and Mr Lamont, and provided that these are agreed, to indicate that the UK would not make objection to Community signature"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Gorbachev's Visit") [UK Ambassador to Moscow meets with Gorbachev] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev's Visit") [biographical note on Gorbachev] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Culture: Michael Alison note to MT (Chairman of the Royal Fine Arts Commission) [MT: Norman St John-Stevas “not right” for the job] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 4 December 1984”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Budd letter to Charles Powell (“Canadian Prime Minister”) [proposed visit ahead of Bonn Economic Summit] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: David Willetts minute to No.10 (“Newcastle shift dispute”) [risk of legal challenge to unilateral variation of contract] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Newcastle DHSS industrial dispute) [Whitelaw, Fowler, King, Mayhew, Hayhoe] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Heseltine PS (“OD and OD(FAF) Meetings on 11 December 1984”) [circulation of memoranda] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (European Union) EC: Dublin European Council (Presidency Conclusions)
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT (“Negotiations on Future Anti Trust Arrangements with the US Government”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT (“BA Privatisation and the Laker Suits”) [situation overview, possible settlement, effects of the suits] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Berne to FCO (“Relations with Argentina”) [Argentine proposals for renewal of dialogue] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT-UMELCO Delegation-Youde-Foreign Secretary-Luce-Cradock) [Hong Kong Agreement and its implementation; MT's visit to Hong Kong; Basic Law] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Warry minute to No.10 ("Unipart") [proposed acquisition of Motorist Discount Centres by Unipart] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Paul Channon minute to Timothy Raison ("India: ATP for DESU Gas Turbines") [commercial case for an ATP offer] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Wages Councils (E(A)(84)69)") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Student Awards - Proposed Ministerial Statement") [text, announcing withdrawal of proposal that parents should make a contribution to tuition fees, and compensatory savings made by Government to address the financial shortfall; consultation on radical change to student support system] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversations (09:00 - Lawson, Keith Joseph, Hancock, Peter Middleton) (11:15 - MT, Lawson, Whitelaw, Keith Joseph, Biffen, Peter Rees, Peter Brooke, Peter Middleton, Bernard Ingham) ["Student Grants": Backbenchers pressure on Government to withdraw proposals; discussion of options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with Mitterrand, 29-30 Nov; European Council, 3-4 Dec; EC Budget Council, 29 Nov; Fisheries Council, 4 Dec; meeting of EC Health Ministers, 29 Nov; upcoming meetings, including signing of Third Lome Convention] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Geoffrey Pattie letter to John Moore ("British Aerospace") [paper from Lazards on options for disposal of Govt's remaining shares] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: FCO letter to Powell ("Food Aid for Africa") [implications for UK aid programme of European Council requirement for cereals provision for Africa] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (“Indemnity of the Sequestrators”) [sequestration of NUM funds] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1900Z) ("US-Soviet Arms Control Objectives") (NSPG 0101) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Dublin European Council: German press reaction") ["German reporting is dominated by the agreement on wine"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 3626 to FCO (2355Z) ("East-West relations and Arms Control") ["a mood of guarded optimism here... The Geneva talks are seen as crucial"; inter-agency preparation: main points under discussion] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling letter to Jenkin ("Taking Land Out of Arable Production") [Ridley proposal "would neither be a cost-effective way of dealing with EC surpluses... nor contribute to improving the countryside"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Channon letter to Howe ("GATT Contracting Parties Meeting: 26-30 November") [report] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Gregson briefing for MT (“Statutory Employment Protections”) [briefing for E-meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Letwin, Owen and Warry minute to Turnbull (“E(A): Employment protections and wages councils”) [recommendations on King’s proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative party: Sherbourne minute to MT (Tebbit public letter of support for Portillo in Enfield by-election) [NT specifically seeks MT approval; she grants it] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Sellafield Discharges”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Relations") [reaction to MT's remarks on Anglo/Irish relations at Dublin Castle press conference] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Drugs: Sherbourne note to MT (“Your meeting with Young Conservatives”) [Government policy on drug misuse] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Education: Sherbourne note to Gaisman (student grants) [“the next Conservative Government will give priority to a reduction in the parental contrubution”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 5 December 1984”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler minute to MT (report of Walker's meeting with TUC representatives) ['they did not know what to do to get the strike settled'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: President Kyprianou letter to MT (UN talks) [“relavtive improvement in the position of the Turkish side cannot be unrelated to your efforts”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Tebbit PS letter to Howe PS (Foreign Secretary’s meeting with George Shultz) [protectionism; BA anti-trust case; export controls; GATT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 3625 to FCO (2347Z) (“Shultz at Chevening: US trade policy”) [“The US external account has continued to deteriorate”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“Contingency Planning for Banking Problems Caused by Events Overseas”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Policy Unit minute for MT (“BA Privatisation and the Laker Suits”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Contingency Planning for Banking Problems Caused by Events Overseas”) [Brazil used as a topical illustrative case] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (the Falklands resolution voting in the UN: German position) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Edwards PS letter to No.10 (“Report by HMI on the effects of local authority expenditure on education in Wales 1983/84”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Middleton, Governor of the Bank of England) [Johnson Matthey Bankers: the Chancellor's proposed public comment] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 minute to MT ("Lincolns Inn") [invitation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitsotakis) [Greek political situation, EC policy, position on Cyprus] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: MT message to Prime Minister Mara of Fiji ("Lome Negotiations") [size of the next European Development Fund] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: President Eyadema of Togo letter to MT (seeks UK support for creation of a Special Fund for Africa) [aid for Africa] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: President Kaunda of Zambia letter to MT (seeks UK support for creation of a Special Fund for Africa) [aid for Africa] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: MT letter to Emir Isa of Bahrain (aircraft sale) [disappointed that Bahrain will not be buying Hawks] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Channon PS letter to No.10 ("Sale of Airbus to Turkey") ["we suspect a degree of brinkmanship by Sir Ray Lygo - BAe are unwilling themselves to carry any share of the exposure... and their bankers have still not decided whether they will carry on their own account the risk on the £36 million loan amount not covered by ECGD"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Milk Supplementary Levy") [EC Commission talks: latest position] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“The Politics of Local Government”) [“important new developments”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) By-election: MT letter to Michael Portillo (support in Enfield Southgate) [Tony Berry “will be sorely missed”, Portillo has fought “excellent campaign”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 40th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Turnbull minute to MT ("Debate on the Autumn Statement") [report on Chancellor of the Exchequer's performance in debate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: DTI Press Officer note to Norman Tebbit (“Economic and Social Policy Presentation”) [“‘Caring’ was not enough”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Cranley Onslow note to chairmen of backbench committees (issues) [how to “sharpen your Committee’s cutting edge”?] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Whittingdale note to DTI Press Officer (“Economic and Social Policy Presentation”) [sceptical of proposals] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 6 December 1984”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Treasury minute to Treasury Solicitor (“Law Charges Vote: Revised Supplementary Estimate”) [sequestration of NUM assets] [classified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (suggestion that MT write to congratulate Gill Blackman of the CEGB on power station endurance efforts) [miners' strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell minute to Budd (“Visit to UK by Canadian Prime Minister”) [MT agrees in principle to meeting ahead of Bonn Economic Summit] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe PPS letter to No.10 (“Cyprus”) [“some of the Secretary General’s proposals pose genuine difficulties for the Greek Cypriots”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Economy: Secretary Shultz's Evening Report (extract on civil aviation) [declassified 2000]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Norman Tebbit minute to MT (“Space Station”) [his views] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John Mason minute to MT (“National Policy on Space Research”) [appeal for regaining the initiative in ESA] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT (“Inspector’s Report on Stansted-Heathrow Terminal 5 Inquiries”) [summary of conclusions and recommendations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“The politics of local government”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (draft statement to Parliament on rate support grant) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Gordon Reece letter to Caroline Ryder (Radio 3) [meeting with Ian McIntyre] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("VAT Exemption Limit") [amendment to draft reply to EC Commission, to address need for reductions in tax burden on employment and enterprise] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Agriculture and Conservation") [key problems with status quo; case for selective planning & reserve powers; capital grants; Countryside Commission policy document] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1159 to FCO (1500Z) ("Kohl on European Union") [W. German media interview; "The slowest ship should not be allowed to determine the speed of the whole convoy"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Royal Dockyards") ["compulsory redundancies are likely to be required... perhaps... [MT] should encourage... [Heseltine] to bring this overdue matter to collective discussion"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Lamont letter to Heseltine ("Privatisation of Warship Yards") ["I am... concerned about your remarks about the future of Cammell Laird which is of course a matter for collective consideration"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Redwood minute to MT ("Jobs") [plan for formulation and presentation of government strategy on employment, training and social security] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UMELCO letter to MT ("Subject: The Future of Hong Kong") [letter of thanks for meeting with delegation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO letter to No.10 ("China: Possible Visit by Her Majesty the Queen") [line to take during MT visit to Beijing] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Jopling ("1985 CAP price fixing") [comments on policy lines proposed in Jopling letter to Howe] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Jopling ("1985 Common Agricultural Policy Price-Fixing") [comments on Jopling proposals for UK strategy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Science: MT speaking notes for Oxford science seminar (“Science and Government: Political Choices for the Future”) [“we have to establish priorities”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Tebbit minute to MT (“Financial Services White Paper”) [main features] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 letter to Howe PS (“Christian A. Herter Memorial Award”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Rees minute to MT ("1985 Public Expenditure White Paper") [draft White Paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: No.10 minute to MT ("Public Expenditure White Paper") [the Chief Secretary is "playing games...He is making a gesture of protest that other colleagues have not offered enough"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute to MT ("Gorbachev Lunch") [MT requests that Mrs Gorbachev is invited to lunch] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with Gorbachev") [handling of post-lunch talks with Gorbachev] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Michael Alison note to MT (televising Lords debates) [opinions on proposals] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 7 December 1984”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT (“MISC 101(84) 50th Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Warry minute to Turnbull ("Coal Dispute") ['The return to work has reduced from 6,000 to 2,000 and now this week to a trickle'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Hartley Booth minute to MT (“NCB/NUM Dispute - The Latest Report on Crime”) ['the commission of serious offences is increasing'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: King letter to Patrick Cormack MP (“Redundant Miners Unemployment Benefit”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Trade & Industry letter to Department of Energy (“Coal Firing Scheme”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (Property Services Agency staff arrests) [allegations of bribes from, and collusion with, favoured contractors] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to MT (“Argentina: Application to Paris Club’) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“Meeting of Ministers on Space: Tuesday, 11 December, 10. 15”) [ESA and US proposals for UK participation in space programmes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Howe minute to MT (“Space Policy”) [collaboration with the ESA, civil and military aspects of space policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban Consulate”) [detention orders against people in British Consulate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lord Rothschild letter to No.10 (proposed meeting with MT) [review of local government finance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Inquiry into local government practices and procedures”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker letter to Ministers (abolition of GLC: Jenkin press notice on land transfer) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 8 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 84 Dec 9 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 9 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) By-election: Michael Portillo letter to MT (thanks for message of support in Southgate by-election) [released 2014]
Text 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Efficiency Unit minute to No.10 ("CIR Report") [leaflet for Civil Service on Consultancy, Inspection and Review report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Public Order Review") [status of the review and MT's Guildhall Speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Henry Harpur-Crewe (preservation of Calke Abbey) [National Heritage Memorial Fund] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 1025 to FCO (1200Z) ("Chauhan") [Gandhi's "entourage are extremely angry with us"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 4169 to FCO (2129Z) ("ECOFIN Council on 10 December 1984") ["Annual Economic Report": key points; Council's reactions to the Report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Sir John Sainsbury and others) ["The Planning System": response to Sir John Sainsbury's group's proposals for reform] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: King minute to MT ("Employment Exercise") [draft paper on increasing employment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley minute to MT ("Review of Road Traffic Law") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: No.10 PS minute to MT ("Employment as a Proportion of the Population") [comparison of percentage employed in UK to other nations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Athens telegram 567 to FCO (1600Z) ("IMPS and Enlargement") [Papandreou unwilling to agree to EC enlargement without agreement on IMPS & wine; "The UK is identified in all the media as the main obstacle to Greek objectives"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to Peking: Meeting with the British Press") [arrangements; Hong Kong journalists; MT annotations to questions likely to be raised] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1900Z) ("Discussion of Geneva Format and SDI") (NSPG 0102) [declassified Nov 2005]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Unemployment: Scotland Office briefing (meeting with Gordon Brown) [impact of Assisted Area status review on Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 minute to MT ("Frigates for Pakistan") ["The problem of credit... has re-emerged, with the Pakistanis pressing us to find an extra £30 million... MOD and the FCO want to [comply]... DTI... are prepared to go along... Treasury are firmly opposed"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Quarterly Report on Defence Sales and Prospects 1st July to 30th September 1984") ["very disappointing... sales in the first three quarters of 1984 some 29% lower than for the same period in 1983"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("The European Community - Portfolios") ["the outcome [of portfolio negotiations] has proved very satisfactory": details] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Department of Agriculture record of conversation (Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food meeting with the Netherlands Minister of Agriculture) [John MacGregor, Gerrit Braks, officials: 1985 price fixing; Dutch gas prices; collection of milk supplementary levy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to President Reagan (1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["three of the countries most likely to be involved in deep seabed mining have decided not to sign... There should therefore be a strong incentive for the international community as a whole to accept the need for improvements of the sort both our countries have worked for"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Department of Employment minute to Flesher (“Trade Union Act”) [answering which Trade Union leaders covered by 1984 Act; annotation pointing out Scargill now needs to be re-elected] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 50th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Oliver Wright) [possible MT visit to the United States in February 1985] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("The US Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI)") [Howe forwards Foreign Affairs article to MT; Powell: "This is very anti-SDI...Perhaps the FCO thinks it is 'educative'!"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: No.10 letter to HMT ("Public Expenditure White Paper: 1985") [MT's comments on draft White Paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [planning for next Anglo-Irish summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Gorbachev's Visit") [pre-meeting advice/briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Butler minute to Armstrong (Security Service report on "unfriendly" Soviet "transactions") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev's Visit: Briefing") [general briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr. Gorbachev") [lunch with Gorbachev and arrangements for post-lunch meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute to MT ("Gorbachev Visit: Meeting with Outside Experts") [briefing for pre-Gorbachev meeting with USSR experts] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT letter to President Reagan (Law of the Sea Convention) [“have found no reason to change our decision of two years ago not to sign”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 10 December 1984”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MT letter to Gill Blackman of the CEGB (miners’ dispute) ['Peter Walker has told me about the splendid job you...are doing to keep the nation supplied with electricity during this difficult period'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing for House of Commons PQs (“Unpublished Article on NCB Accounting Procedure”) [line to take] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Attorney General’s Office note to No.10 (“The Indemnity by the Attorney General to the Sequestrators of the NUM’s Assets”) [briefing note] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Appleyard minute to Charles Powell (“Visit of Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs: 10-12 December 1984”) [objectives, briefing papers] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: FCO letter to Charles Powell (“Proposed new Canadian High Commissioner”) [seeks MT’s agreement to informing Canadian Government that they will welcome McMurtry in London] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: President Kyprianou of Cyprus message to MT (1130Z) (“Cyprus: Message from President Kyprianou to the Prime Minister”) [MT: “I believe that there is an opportunity for a solution which must not be missed”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Unemployment: Scotltish Office briefing for MT (“Meeting with Mr Gordon Brown MP”) [redundancies and closures in Dunfermline East constituency] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: McFarlane memorandum for President Reagan (suggests he read "vintage Thatcher" interview) [unclassified]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT (“BA Privatisation and US Anti-trust Suits”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: FCO telegram 2108 to UKE Washington (1200Z) (US-UK civil aviation relationship) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Durban”) [detention orders against people in British Consulate in Durban] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO minute to No.10 (“Visit of the Hungarian Foreign Minister”) [meeting with MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Edwards PS letter to No.10 (draft statement to Parliament on rate support grant) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT ("Central Unit on Purchasing") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Booth minute to MT ("Home Office Report on Public Order") [progress report; review of the Public Order Act 1936] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Paul Channon minute to Timothy Raison ("India ATP: DESU Gas Turbines") [proposal to provide ATP support for British bids] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Portugese Prime Minister: Hong Kong") [note for Portugese explaining Hong Kong agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: MT letter to Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (Government Scrutiny of Administrative and Legislative Burdens) [CBI input] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Loan Guarantee Scheme) [Treasury/Department of Trade agreement on terms of extension; financing of losses] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Moore-Redwood) ["Gas Privatisation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Briefing Meeting for Your Visits to Peking, Hong Kong and Washington") [summary of steering briefs; attendees] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen PS letter to Home Office Parliamentary Clerk ("Government Announcements Before the Christmas Recess") [request to avoid potentially controversial Answers] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industry: Allan Stewart letter to Gordon Brown (“SDA: Woodend Estate”) [Fisher Controls factory complex now in the Agency’s possession] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Unemployment: No.10 briefing (meeting with Gordon Brown) [proposed retention of Development Area status for Dunfermline] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: MT letter to Prime Minister Lubbers of the Netherlands (Law of the Sea Convention) [“has only been a limited response to a few of the technical proposals we put forward”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: MT letter to Prime Minister Lange of New Zealand (Law of the Sea Convention) [deep seabed mining regime unacceptable but would like future consensus] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Ireland: MT letter to Taoiseach FitzGerald of Ireland (thanks) [“magnificent book on Irish houses”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chairman of the British Council) [finances] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Kenneth Warren MP (sale of Tornado to Turkey) ["There is no question of our using double standards for ECGD exposure in any given market"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Review of the Common Agricultural Policy") [Jopling proposal for independent review rejected by MT: "We know what's wrong"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Lubbers (1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["[as] the deep seabed mining regime was unacceptable in its present form... it was not possible for us to sign"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Lange (1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["[as] the deep seabed mining regime was unacceptable in its present form... it was not possible for us to sign"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Letwin minute to Turnbull (“Opinion research on attitudes to Trade Unions”) [survey results, showing support for government's aims] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Redwood minute to MT (“Financial Services White Paper”) [excellent; will talk with him further] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute (“IMF: United Kingdom consultations 1984”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: No.10 letter to Lord President's Office ("Scottish Block: Public Expenditure White Paper") [MT seeks larger savings from Scottish Office] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Speech by Gorbachev") [Gorbachev gives speech on Soviet ideology and economy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Cradock minute to Powell ("Talking to Gorbachev") [thoughts on MT-Gorbachev meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 11 December 1984”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Meeting with Joe Clark, 12 December”) [suggested topics of conversation] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1543 to FCO (0110Z) (“Cyprus: Secretary General’s initiative”) [“Iacovou has stressed to me the need for further negotiations”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industry: Allan Stewart letter to Gordon Brown MP (“SDA: Woodend Estate”) [constituency matter] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Unemployment: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gordon Brown, Allan Stewart) [unemployment in Dunfermline East constituency] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 briefing for MT (“Liverpool City Council: Potential Budget Crisis (MISC 109(84)3 and 4)”) [“Deficit and budget together would require either a massive rate increase, in the range of 150-220 percent or a substantial cut-back in services”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Fowler PS letter to Whitelaw PS (“Newcastle shiftworkers’ dispute”) [“Ministers… keeping the situation under review”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Coal: Flesher note to MT (National Council for Civil Liberties report condemns picket line violence) [miners’ strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 briefing (annual review of government-funded R&D) [publication of factual material in ACARD report] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to MT (“Johnson Matthey Bankers”) [the Bank of England’s rescue operation & bank supervision system] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Civil Commissioner Port Stanley to FCO (“The Constitution”) [councillors voting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Local authority capital controls system in England and Wales”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Rate limitation: strategy and counter-obstruction methods”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Transfer of Responsibility for the Office of the Lord Lyon") [MT agrees transfer to Scottish Court Administration Vote] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Tim Renton letter to Neil MacFarlane ("Proposed BBC Transmitting Station at Bearley") [views on proposed site] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("Implementation of Efficiency Scrutinies") [Lord Young proposes himself as chair of inter-departmental group of Ministers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: FCO minute to Robert Wade-Grey ("Mrs Gandhi's Funeral") [disagreements over return transport] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Sikh Extremists: Damage to Indo-British Relations") [urgency of the case of Chauhan and supporters, proposals for action] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Paul Channon minute to Timothy Raison ("India ATP: DESU Gas Turbines") [strong commercial case for ATP support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Timothy Raison minute to Paul Channon (India: ATP for DESU Gas Turbines) [objections to ATP support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Alan Walters briefing for MT ("Volcker Meeting US Deficit and the Treasury's "Proposals"") ["I fear a major collapse"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Treasury briefing for MT ("Visit of Paul Volcker") [Volcker speeches in debt and US growth; Ambassador Wright despatch on US prospects] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Volcker") [US economy: dollar, interest rates, deficit, banking system; international debt] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (review of pay for bomb disposal experts) [MT query prompted by press reports; MT considers proposals to downband "absurd"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("1985 Budget Day") ["This year... the Chancellor sees some arguments for making the announcement before Christmas"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (tax on lump sums paid on retirement) [draft PQ reply "to prevent the threatened rash of early retirement"; MT unhappy with proposed re-draft] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Burnham (P&S)") [latest position on teachers' pay negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Lord Hailsham minute to MT ("Agriculture and Conservation") [favours collective consideration of need for primary legislation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC Commissioners: portfolios; Environment Council, 6 Dec; Finance Council, 10 Dec; 1985 draft EC Budget; Agriculture Council, 10-11 Dec; Transport Council, 11-12 Dec; upcoming meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("Britoil") [timing of the disposal of Govt's residual shares] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: King minute to MT ("Speech to the 1922 Committee") [notes on employment and unemployment for MT's speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Redwood minute to Turnbull (dealing with long-term unemployment) [article by Paul Ashton of University of Liverpool] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Morrison) ["Youth Training Scheme": MT 'enthusiastic about having a trainee in her office'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Sr Fraga") [proposed meeting with Señor Fraga of the Alianza Popular to facilitate a conservative alliance in European Parliament; Howe advises that MT first meet with PM Gonzáles Márquez, and that she delay meeting with Fraga until after restrictions on Gibraltar are lifted] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3725 to FCO (2318Z) ("Prime Minister's Meeting with the President, 22 December: Northern Ireland") [briefing on Congressman Biaggi letter; lines to take] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to Washington") [MT request for additional briefing on arms control] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to Peking") [MT request for additional briefing] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: MT letter to Prime Minister Hawke of Australia (Law of the Sea Convention) [objection to deep seabed mining regime prevented signature] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: MT letter to Taoiseach FitzGerald of Ireland (Law of the Sea) [deep seabed mining regime unacceptable, would like to see future consensus] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for November 1984") ["...rather bleak."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Defence Technology Transfer: Civil Spin-off") ["This will be private profit-motivated company whose function will be to... market for exploitation innovative ideas and technology arising from the work of the Defence Research Establishments] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lamont letter to John Cope ("Films Bill") ["I do not expect that the opposition of some Conservative Members in Committee would be reflected much more widely during Report, but I should be grateful if you would let me know how things stand"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling PS letter to No.10 ("Council of Agriculture Ministers: 10-11 December 1984") [Statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Hawke (1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["[as] the deep seabed mining regime... was not acceptable to us in its present form... we decided that we could not sign"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Taoiseach FitzGerald (1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["[as] the deep seabed mining regime was unacceptable in its present form... it was not possible for us to sign"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s Visit to China and Hong Kong, 18-21 December 1984”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 letter to FCO ("The US Strategic Defence Initiative") [MT's response to Foreign Affairs article forwarded by Howe: MT "does not agree with some of its central propositions"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Lord President's Office letter to No.10 ("Scottish Block: Public Expenditure White Paper") [negotiations between Whitelaw, Rees and Younger] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo/Irish Relations") [request for guidance on way forward in Anglo/Irish talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("US/Soviet Relations") [recent US/USSR contacts] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Employment: Tom King note for MT (“Speech to the 1922 Committee”) [“The problem is to strike a balance between the impresion that we are doing nothing … [and] the impression … of some major change of course”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Policy: Whittingdale note to DTI Press Officer (“Economic and Social Policy Presentation”) [backbenchers’ attempt to “spread the word … failed miserably”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: [No.10] briefing (given to MPs after 1922 Committee meeting) [Government record, economy] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: [?Alison] speech draft (MT 1922 Committee speech) [“we have not lost our vision … It is only at our hands that we can suffer defeat”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 12 December 1984”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Brittan letter to Havers (“Miners’ Dispute”) [DPP's policy on prosecution of offences arising from the miners' strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler minute to MT ("TUC Meeting with the Government") [miners' strike: report on Kenneth Couzens' meeting with senior TUC representatives] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Jenkin letter to Whitelaw (“The Newcastle shift dispute”) [legal position of the government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) US: Lord Fanshawe letter to Caroline Ryder (Prime Minister’s proposed US visit) [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchquer, Paul Volcker) [US economy, deficit, banking system] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 note to MT (“Sunday Opening”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: FCO minute to No.10 (“Argentina: Application to Paris Club”) [Howe’s comments on Lawson’s proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“Cabinet: Parliamentary Affairs: Civil Aviation Bill”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Howe minute to MT (“British Airways Privatisation and Laker”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“BA Privatisation and US Anti-trust Suits”) [briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Policy Unit minute for MT (“BA Privatisation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to Turnbull (“JMB”) [the Bank of England loan to Johnson Matthey Bankers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BISBA to FCO (“Press Summary”) [human rights, internal issues, Falklands, foreign debt, Beagle, armed forces] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Fowler minute to MT ("Housing Benefit Amendment Regulations") ["to block a loophole... which allows benefit to be paid to people living with their families"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Gordon Reece letter to MT (BBC Director-General) [BBC Newsnight producer refusing to interview DG without balance has put his job in jeopardy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Robin Butler note to MT (BBC) [complications around possible meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Central Unit on Purchasing") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Younger minute to MT ("Scottish Office: Value for Money Seminar") [high level of support for agriculture in Scotland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to MT ("India ATP: DESU Gas Turbines") ["our companies are going to need all the help they can get in winning business in India"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: George Younger minute to Timothy Raison ("India: ATP for DESU Gas Turbines") [commercial case for ATP support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (the Lear Fan Project: development of new aircraft at Aldergrove) [update on private investors and company progress; Hurd sceptical about viability of project] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Volcker, Price, Newman) [banking situation in the US; prospects for US growth; US interest rates; US deficit; international banking situation; industrial action] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Technology, Growth and Employment Working Group - Fulfilment of Environmental Remit to the Group from the London Economic Summit") [copy of latest draft of the report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Department of Trade & Industry record of conversation ("British Aerospace Flotation") [Geoffrey Pattie, Austin Pearce, Raymond Lygo, Bernard Friend: disposal of Govt's residual shareholding] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Tim Flesher minute to MT ("Department of Transport letter to MPs") [Govt proposals for introducing competition into local bus transport services: Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport accused of favouritism towards Conservative MPs by prioritising responses to concerns raised on behalf of their constituents] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT (meeting with Señor Fraga of the Alianza Popular) [proposed meeting to facilitate a conservative alliance in European Parliament; MT agrees to delay meeting until after restrictions on Gibraltar are lifted] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKDel NATO telegram 433 to FCO (1930Z) ("North Atlantic Council Ministerial Meeting: Super-Restricted Session: 13 December") [renewal of US/Soviet contacts; Africa; terrorism; Poland] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Budapest telegram 300 to FCO (1705Z) ("Hungarian Views on East-West Relations") [thoughts on Gorbachev] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Dennis Lennon & Partners (Prime Minister's Visit to Peking) [accommodation arrangements] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Department of Trade and Industry briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Meeting with President Reagan") [US import restrictions; Laker; US/USSR bilateral trade] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (House of Commons Defence Committee Report: 'The Physical Security of Military Installations in the United Kingdom') [draft Government Observations; arrangements for publication; clearance] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Private Members Bills") [Sexual Offences; Intoxicating Substances (Supply)] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Co-Chairs of the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry (human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: Women's Campaign representations to Gorbachev) [thanks to MT for agreeing to No.10 delivering postcard representations to Soviet Embassy] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Bonn Economic Summit 1985") [first Sherpa meeting for Bonn; procedural aspects] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT speaking notes (1922 Committee Christmas 1984 speech) [“Get on with the job we were elected to do”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 41st (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Local Authority Capital Controls System) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Memorials: Armstrong minute for No.10 (“The Yvonne Fletcher Memorial”) [no insuperable security problem in MT unveiling it] [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Argentina, Johnson Matthey Bankers, MT visit to the US, Court appointments, IMF mission] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Lunch for Mr Gorbachev") [speaking notes for MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute to MT ("Gorbachev Visit: Meeting with Outside Experts") [brief; extensive MT annotations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 13 November 1984”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-Gregson-Alison-Butler-Turnbull) [TUC's request for meeting on coal dispute] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (non-executive directorships for Permanent Secretaries) [advice on potential conflict of interests] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: No.10 internal minute: Walters to Turnbull (“A Contingency Plan for a Banking Crisis”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: George Foulkes MP letter to MT (General Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BISBA to FCO (“Press Summary”) [human rights, internal issues, Falklands, external issues, armed forces] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (JMB review committee 1st meeting) [Johnson Matthey: method of operation; projected timetable] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Bernard Ingham note of conversation (MT-Ian McIntyre, Controller BBC Radio 3) [BBC never adapting to loss of its broadcasting monopoly, has become "a powerful state within a state"; licence fee, programme quality, External Services] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Secretary minute to MT (possible transfer of Ministerial responsibility for heritage issues) [case for moving responsibilities from Department of the Environment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Possible Visit of Indian Prime Minister to Britain") [timing, Indian election] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("India ATP: DESU Gas Turbines") ["British companies need all the help they can get in winning business in India"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Letter from Mr Paddy Ashdown MP") [possible CIA operation against British companies in the computer technology field: draft reply for MT to follow-up letter] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Howe minute to MT ("China: Nuclear Cooperation Agreement") [MT rejects Howe proposal that she raise the issue during forthcoming visit to Beijing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Payment of Supplementary Benefit to EC Nationals") [options for preventing immediate claims on arrival in UK] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to the United States") [request for briefing] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Meeting with President Reagan: Northern Ireland") [handling & public presentation of the discussion] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Peking") [supplementary briefing] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Department of Energy briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Peking") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1900Z) ("Radio Marti") (NSPG 0103) [Cuba] [declassified Nov 2005]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: Prime Minister Craxi of Italy letter to MT (meeting in Tunisia with Arafat) [prospects for Middle East peace initiative; discussions with regional leaders] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Ministry of Agriculture record of conversation (Jopling, German Minister of Agriculture and others) [cereal surpluses; milk quotas; beef prices; Agriculture Council budget] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Heseltine minute to MT ("1985 Public Expenditure White Paper") [MoD manpower figures] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("US Draft CW Convention: Article X") [text of draft convention on chemical weapons; text of Article X - compulsory acceptance of challenge inspection; text of alternative language on challenge inspection] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Defence briefing for MT ("Call by Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Ambassador in Washington, on the Prime Minister - 17th December 1984") [sale of Tornado to Saudi Arabia; Arab/Israeli conflict; MT forthcoming talks with Reagan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Walker minute to MT ("Structure of the Nuclear Industry") [Central Electricity Generating Board control of Sizewell project; Joint Venture Company] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Export Credit Consensus: Tied Aid Credits") [Lawson request that MT raise issue with Reagan, "to accept what is on offer from the Community as a first step"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO briefing for MT (talking points for meeting with Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang) [including worries about troubles during transition] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO briefing for MT (“The Future of Hong Kong”) [final Chinese position on talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO brief for MT (“Steering Brief”) [overview] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Memorials: No.10 letter to Michael Winner (Yvonne Fletcher Memorial) [MT accepts invitation provided Home Secretary and Opposition parties also invited] [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute for Lawson (“Public Sector Investment: Cost per Job, Import Content”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Howe minute to Tebbit (“Direct Private Investment Overseas”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“More Efficient Schooling”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public Expenditure: Howe minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey: Post Closures") [proposed cuts to Diplomatic Service] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Paisley letter to MT (finding of US court that IRA members cannot be extradicted) [ruling "raises serious questions of the United States sincerity in her fight against terrorism"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit of Mr Gorbachev: Lunch and Discussions with the Prime Minister at Chequers: 16 December") [further briefs and other documents] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 14 December 1984”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy transcript (“Willis Press Conference - 14 December”) [TUC-Walker meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1579 to FCO (0245Z) (“Cyprus: Secretary General’s initiative”) [“uncompromising statements by Turkish side are a serious setback”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Argentina: application to Paris Club] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Channon minute to MT (“Argentina: Application to Paris Club”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: FCO minute to No.10 (“BMD: Research and Development”) [Ballistic Missile Defence systems] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Policy Unit minute for MT (“Airports Policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT (“British Airways Privatisation and Laker”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin letter to Nick Ridley (“GRE assessments for joint boards”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Edwards PS note to No.10 (draft statement to Parliament on capital control system and capital allocations in Wales) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Dec 15 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 15 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) By-election: ?Flesher note (“Why Southgate Is a Reasonable Result For The Government”) [“governing parties have been losing by-elections for years”] [released 2014]
Text 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gorbachev) [Soviet economic system, standard of living, arms control, government of republics, UK miners' strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO record of conversation (MT-Gorbachev) [Soviet economic system, standard of living, arms control, government of republics, UK miners' strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Powell speaking notes for meeting & lunchtime speech (MT-Gorbachev) [includes some MT notes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Chernenko message to MT (East/West relations and arms control) [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Call by Prince Bandar bin Sultan on the Prime Minister") ["this meeting... could play a crucial role in recovering our chances on Tornado.... I hope that... [MT] can show... that we recognize that the main Saudi external preoccupation... [is] the Arab-Israel problem... [and the] need for the European Community to work on the Americans"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell note to MT ("Gorbachev") [notes for MT speech at lunch; Marx joke: "If only Karl had made Capital...instead of just writing about it"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gorbachev) [private lunchtime conversation: trade, USSR economy, human rights, miners' strike, communism and free enterprise] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gorbachev) [afternoon meeting: East/West relations, arms control, Anglo-Soviet relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: General Secretary Chernenko message to MT (Anglo-Soviet relations and the arms race) [declassified 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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