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PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Secretaries’ note circulated to Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 13 (“Lessons of the miners’ strike: second report to ministers”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Alan Walters) [Walters: "thought policy was if anything a little tight, rather than loose"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Secretary of State for Energy minute for MT (his conversation with Sir Peter Emery: Nigerian debts) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKDEL IMF to FCO (“IMF: Problem Countries”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit letter to MT (experimental scheme for involving parents in schools in Croydon) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tom King minute to MT (“Midday Supervision”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Alison note to David Waddington (Sunday Trading) [update on backbench misgivings - Graham Bright] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Sunday Trading (Shops Act)”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (failed UK bid for battlefield communications contract) [brief summary declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (“Abolition of the Greater London Council - Thamesmead”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Lawson minute to MT (“UK Participation in SDI”) [agrees with Brittan that MISC117 should consider draft agreement with US in detail] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Howe minute to Hurd (“Entry clearance from Bangladesh”) [review of visa policy, and handling of representations by MPs] [declassified 2016]
Text 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Jobs”) [comments on Lord Young’s proposed new initiatives] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Meeting on Jobs”) [employment and enterprise strategy: Lord Young’s proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation ("Record of a discussion on ship design, held at Ship Department, Bath on Wednesday, 6 November 1985") [Christopher Monckton, Nicholas Owen, Rear Admiral Hugh Thompson, Brian Wall, Simon Webb, John Cox] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ministry of Defence letter to Parliamentary Counsel ("Armed Forces Bill 1986") [publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury briefing for MT ("ERM") [Exchange Rate Mechanism: Q&A] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Falklands - Trial of Military Commanders") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1985 (C(85) 26)") [agreement on planning totals] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Kenneth Baker ("Public Expenditure Survey: Housing") [provision and allocation] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Norman Fowler ("MISC 120: Health and Personal Social Services") [settlement of programme] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Nicholas Edwards ("'Territorial' Implications of Local Authority Overspending in England") [proposals cause great difficulty] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Public Expenditure") [speaking note for Cabinet] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("Public Expenditure: Housing") [agreement with Baker] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa and the Commonwealth") ["I have yet to meet anyone in the Government or among ordinary South Africans who relishes the prospect of a Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group... coming to South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO telegram to UKHC Lusaka ("Eminent Persons Group") [assessment of current support amongst African governments for the Commonwealth Group] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ibbs-Beesley) [scrutiny programme and efficiency in government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Armstrong-Harland) [intelligence sharing, South Africa, agriculture, economy] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EUREKA; InterGovernmental Conference; steel & other EC/US trade; famine relief; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Howe-King-Spring-Barry) ["Anglo-Irish Negotiations"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1469 to FCO (1700Z) ("Secretary Shultz in Moscow - 4/5 November: Summit Prospects") [record of conversations: Gorbachev, Shultz, Shevardnadze, McFarlane, Dobrynin, Hartman; and Shultz, Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1469 to Deskby (1730Z) ("US NAC Briefing on Shultz's Moscow Talks") [details] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 briefing for MT ("Channel Fixed Link") [Ridley request for meeting to discuss bids, concerns about public opposition, and traffic restrictions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Briefing on Queen’s Speech (subject notes) [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Keith Joseph minute for Norman Fowler (“AIDS”) [establishment of a national epidemiological surveillance centre] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Anglo-German summit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [enterprise and employment, handling of Cabinet] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No. 10 (midday supervision proposals) [announcement to Parliament] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 26 (Public Expenditure Survey 1985) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Running Costs: Progress Report”) [“Mr Heseltine made a great fuss about this exercise”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“MOD Running Costs”) [proposed agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Policy Unit minute to Norgrove (“BBC accounts”) [MT favours public criticism of accounting practice rather than ordering the BBC to change the practice] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKA Rome despatch to FCO ("The Achille Lauro Affair") ["the most lasting effect in Italian eyes may be the memory of her unhappy experience at US hands"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: Charles Powell to Italian Ambassador (Confindustria) [MT has no time to record message; Lord Young happy to do so] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [curtailment of education services: proposed actions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Whitelaw minute to MT (“SDI Research: UK Participation”) [work of cabinet committees addressing concerns] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 letter to MOD (“SDI Research: UK Participation”) [MT's views on official group report and reactions from colleagues] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young minute to MT (“Government Support for Local Enterprise Agencies”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Young, Lawson, Tebbit, MacGregor, Kenneth Clarke) [“Enterprise and Employment”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter for Gorbachev (arms control: negotiations with the United States in Geneva) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: MT letter to General Secretary Kádár (visit to UK) [courtesy letter] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Heseltine PS letter to Biffen PS ("The Parliamentary Maritime Group") [dispute regarding an invitation from the Group to the Chief of Naval Staff to address it, initially declined by Heseltine over concerns of setting a precedent] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 3rd ("The Local Domestic Tax") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [Falklands/Argentina at the United Nations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nicholas Edwards minute to John MacGregor ("'Territorial' Implications of Local Authority Overspending in England") [request for compensation] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Tom King minute to John MacGregor ("Territorial Implications of Local Authority Overspending in England") [proposals could have "deleterious effect on the territorial blocks"] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Home Office (Autumn Statement) [arrangements for presentation] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Krugerrands: GATT aspects: Canada") ["have not... taken legislative measures... encouraged a voluntary ban... unlikely... to alter their current stance"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: MT letter to Premier Zhao Ziyang of China (Guangdong Nuclear Project) [hopes for successful conclusion of negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Possible Questions and Answers") [presentation of Agreement by British and Irish governments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Taoiseach Fitzgerald letter to MT (Anglo-Irish talks and Agreement) [concerns over Intergovernmental Conference and Secretariat] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Mayhew minute to MT ("Proposed Anglo/Irish Agreement") [addresses possible judicial review of Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Practical Matters") [signing and presentation of Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Reply to Sr Suarez's Letter Concerning the Europe/Latin American Institute (IRELA)") [MT finds it 'incomprehensible' that it takes so long to produce a reply] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 briefing for MT (MT, Ridley) ["Channel Fixed Link": consideration of bids; traffic restrictions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 31st (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Community Affairs, Public Expenditure Survey 1985) [Nassau CHOGM] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Review of Student Support”) [addresses issue of student loans] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John Moore letter to Nick Ridley (“Economic regulation of airports”) [pleased that “the CAA’s powers will be directed at unreasonable discrimination against any class of airport user”] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 (“Enterprise and Employment”) [forthcoming announcements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Surplus land sales") [""We were appalled by the total failure of the administration to carry out properly your clear guide on this issue"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1019 to FCO (0045Z) ("Falklands at the UN") ["the battle in the General Assembly has taken place ever since 1982 (...) on terrain defined by the Argentines"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Kenneth Baker minute to Nigel Lawson ("Autumn Statement: Water Authorities") [need to carry out policies with minimum trouble] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Dar es Salaam telegram to FCO ("Eminent Persons Group (EPG)") ["despite scepticism... that any measures short of economic sanctions are likely to influence the South African Government, we believe the Tanzanians are prepared to give it a try"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Implementation of the Keith Report") [collection and enforcement powers of Inland Revenue departments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MacGregor minute to MT ("Crown Prosecution Service") [proposed remuneration and career progression for prosecuting solicitors] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 962 to FCO (1812Z) ("Prospects for the Anglo-French Summit: 18 November") [Anglo-French relations in "a rough patch"] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Negotiations: Prime Minister's Meeting on Saturday, 9 November") [handling of meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Anglo-Irish Agreement: handling of meeting with King, Howe and Armstrong] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3101 to FCO (2100Z) ("Shultz's Visit to Moscow, and Summit Prospects") [analysis] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Senor Suarez (The Europe/Latin American Institute) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1473 to FCO (1015Z) ("October Revolution Anniversary - Speech by Chebrikov") [main points on internal affairs] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1474 to FCO (1015Z) ("Chebrikov's Speech - Summary of Main Points on Foreign Affairs and Defence Policy") [released Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Oil Market") [analysis] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) Conservatism: Charles Powell to Ronnie Millar (help with Lord Mayor’s Banquet speech) [“It truly makes a tremendous difference”]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute for MT (“Law and Order - Weekend Update”) [MT disturbed at rumours of petrol bombs and Napalm being prepared for use against police] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute for MT (“Law and Order - Weekend Update”) [MT disturbed at rumours of petrol bombs and Napalm being prepared for use against police] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“ERM”) [meeting with Lawson: European Exchange Rate Mechanism] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Economic regulation of airports”) [MT keen to maximise BAA scope for profitability] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“E(LF) (85) 5th Meeting: The Local Domestic Tax”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Rate Reform”) [the E(LF) meeting: assessment] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 9 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1070 to FCO (1020Z) ("Franco German Summit") [report] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-King-Howe-Armstrong) ["Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland"; outstanding points on Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Lord Stockton") [asked Lord President to find elder statesman to rebut Stockton's criticisms of Government] [released Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Powell minute to MT (“Johnson Matthey”) [Sedgemore’s allegations against Lawson] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 10 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("EFA - President Mitterrand's Letter") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ministry of Defence letter to Parliamentary Counsel ("Dockyard Services Bill") [publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: MT letter to Peter Emery MP (Select Procedures Committee review of the format for Prime Minister's Questions) ["... having given further thought to your proposals, I see very considerable difficulties... I believe... [present] arrangements represent the best available balance between the desire of the House to question the Prime Minister and the burdens which the system imposes on the Prime Minister and her staff"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury briefing for MT ("ERM") [Exchange Rate Mechanism: cover letter & Lawson paper arguing case for joining ERM] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to Treasury (Autumn Statement) [draft speaking note] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Mbabane telegram to FCO ("Swaziland: South Africa and the Commonwealth") [British High Commissioner Reith, Prime Minister Bhekimpi: record of conversation] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit") [French motives, Channel link, Falklands, Inter-Governmental conference, east-west relations] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Anglo-French Summit") [participants, arrangements, press conference] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Taoiseach Fitzgerald (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [response to Fitzgerald's message: Intergovernmental Conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [final drafts of Anglo-Irish Agreement, joint press release and summit communique] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [draft message to Taoiseach Fitzgerald] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (Anglo-Irish Summit: suggested message to US Administration to advise on timing) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [draft message to Taoiseach Fitzgerald] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell note to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement: draft message to Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [Powell comments on latest amendments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("BGC Privatisation - Meeting with Peter Walker") ['you might like to probe the balance that is being struck between consumer and investor. Could it be said that the Government has been captured by Denis Rooke?'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Norgrove minute for MT (“Lloyds”) [Hay-Davison resigns as chairman] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Lawson letter to Brittan (“Takeover Panel”) [not wholly convinced by his arguments but “obviously for you to judge”] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Alison minute to MT (lunch for speechwriters) [allocate one Monday lunch for event with “outsiders”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Alison minute to MT (1922 Committee) [Onslow asks for a December speech, MT refuses - speak to Executive instead] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Younger (“Running Costs Control”) [“I see no need to make any statement about pay assumptions in running costs limits until details of departmental figures have been announced”] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 letter to Kenneth Baker PS ("The Sainsbury Group") [briefing request for follow-up meeting on "...simplifying and speeding up the planning process"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Home Office letter to Parliamentary Counsel ("Animals (Scientific Procedures) Bill") [introduction & publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("The Exchange Rate Mechanism") [Lawson's arguments for joining EMS, and counter-arguments] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("ERM") [Exchange Rate Mechanism: summary of briefing papers & attendees; concern about Lawson pre-meetings with attending Ministers] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (85) 5th ("The Local Domestic Tax") [distributional impact; Scottish and Welsh aspects; property vaulation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Arms Sales to Argentina") [a message to Shultz to "remind him of our firm view that the supply of American arms to Argentina would be against our interests"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands at the UN General Assembly: Policy Options") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Kenneth Baker minute to John MacGregor (New Towns' receipts) [disposals are running well] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["Were it not for you admirable efforts, I would have had no hesitation in rejecting the Nassau initiative outright"; alternative proposal] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Buchanan-Smith PS letter to Biffen PS ("Establishment of Oil and Pipelines Agency") [Parliamentary announcement of successor body to BNOC] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: UKE Ankara telegram 502 to FCO (1250Z) ("Ozal's Visit to the UK") [Ozal formally accepts invitation; had given him "great pleasure"] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Gas Privatisation") [state of play: Department of Energy and HM Treasury positions on gas privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler minute to MT ("Social Security Reform") ["I would like to discuss with you informally the options open to us and their political consequences"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Fowler") ["wants to make sure you understand the political difficulties of the proposals he is being pushed into making... You are not willing to see public expenditure figures threatened"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Meeting with Norman Fowler") [Social Security reform: White Paper: proposed workaround to avoid internal government disagreements becoming public] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: MT letter to Jim Prior MP (first Cryo Magnetic Resonance Imaging system in Japan) [proposal that MT visit during her trip to Japan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (South African DFA) South Africa: President P.W. Botha to MT (cannot cooperate with Commonwealth initiative; alternatives) [declassified ?2005]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Official Group on Coal - MISC57(85) 3rd (“Lessons of the miners’ strike”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger letter to Keith Joseph (“Review of Student Support”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO letter to UN Associations of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (resolutions on South Africa) [“we do not support the extreme language of parts of the texts, the calls for sanctions”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (“Football Spectator Violence”) [progress report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Rate Reform”) [recent developments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Bank of International Settlements statement (election of a new Vice-Chairman) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“Maldives: Access to EC/Male Hospital”) [duty-free access to European market, High Commissioner’s visit to new hospital site] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for October 1985") ["inflation is at its lowest level for 13 years, but the overshooting of the money supply target is causing concern."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Leigh-Pemberton, Whitelaw, Biffen, Tebbit, Wakeham, Brittan, Sir Peter Middleton, Sir Terence Burns, Mr Eddie George, Professor Brian Griffiths) ["Membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the EMS"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Bernard Ingham minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [thought they would get a battering in the press] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("The Autumn Statement") [market response] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Internal situation") [report on detentions, incidents and deaths] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ibbs minute to MT (Capital Expenditure Contracts) [tackling time and cost overruns on major projects] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (scrutiny programme and efficiency in Government) [future role of the Property Services Agency and implementation of value for money principles] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: Participation: 18 November") [latest version of programme] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: InterGovernmental Conference") ["a note on areas where we would want to avoid majority voting and those on which we could accept it with equanimity"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [InterGovernmental Conference, 11 Nov; steel trade with US; coal industry; upcoming meetings; draft 1986 EC Budget] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland Affairs") [Anglo-Irish Agreement: handling] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks Dublin 13 November") [report on Armstrong's latest round of talks with Nally] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefings for MT ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Prime Minister's Briefing for Party Leaders") [brief for MT meetings with Kinnock, Steel and Owen, Molyneaux] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Ingham minute to MT ("Northern Ireland - Cabinet") [media presentation of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation (E(A) (85) 65)") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Norgrove minute to MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation") [dispute between HM Treasury and Walker] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("BGC Privatisation") [assessment of Walker's privatisation package] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1490 to FCO (1330Z) ("Geneva Summit, 19/21 November: Final Preparations") [attendees; topics; media arrangements; outcomes] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler, Tony Newton) ["MISC 111": Social Security reform: "discussion centred on the number of gainers and losers under the proposals"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Department of Health and Social Security minute for No.10 (“Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [autumn statement, fraud, Lloyd’s and the City] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Brittan minute for MT (“Nigeria: Proposed Oil-Debt Agreement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Teachers’ Pay”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to MT (“SDI Participation”) [next steps in UK participation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to MT (“SDI Participation”) [draft agreement with US] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by Johannes Rau, SPD candidate for Chancellor in the 1987 FRG elections") [MT agrees to Howe advice that she meet with Rau during his UK visit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Ingham letter to PS Chief Whip ("Televising the Commons") [MT: "I get more and more worried about this prospect"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Portugal: Prime Minister Cavaco Silva letter to MT (appointment as Prime Minister of the Portugese government) [reply to MT message of congratulations] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Adley MP) [Adley advises that "The best way... of encouraging... dialogue... would be to talk to the ANC"; MT "appalled by the recent pronouncements of Mr Tambo"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: Participation") [revised list of plenary attendees] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit") [want impression to go out of "a reasonably functioning Anglo-French cooperation"] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 993 to FCO (1701Z) ("The Anglo French Summit") [Mitterrand press conference prompted by French internal issues] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKREP Brussels telegram 3845 to FCO (1730Z) ("The Inter-Governmental Conference (IGC)") [possible treaty revision, confusion from plethora of proposals, tactic of constructive cooperation] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3845 to FCO (0900Z) ("The Intergovernmental Conference (IGC)") [review of draft Treaty on Political Cooperation negotiations & UK strategy] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1090 to FCO (1700Z) ("IGC: German Cabinet meeting") [detail of conclusions reached, regarding desired outcomes of InterGovernmental Conference] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit: Inter-Governmental Conference (IGC): Amendment to Article 107 (Exchange Rate Provisions) of the Treaty") [Lawson's proposed line to take in his forthcoming discussions at ECOFIN & with German Finance Minister, and for MT talks with Mitterrand] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3144 to FCO (2015Z) (Anglo-Irish Agreement: text of Reagan statement) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit: Discussion with the Taoiseach") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Ingham minute to MT ("Northern Ireland - Your Joint Press Conference") [Anglo-Irish Agreement: handling of media presentation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit: Press Conference") [Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Norgrove note to MT (possible sale of Emley Moor Colliery to miners) ['The NCB seem genuinely to be trying to be helpful to the Emley Moor miners'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT (meeting with Robert McFarlane to discuss President Reagan's address to NATO on the US/Soviet summit) [arrangements] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 32nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs) [most confidential record discussions of Northern Ireland & teachers’ pay] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Jopling letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Eggs Authority”) [abolition] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("MBFR") [Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions: Vienna negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to President Mitterrand (a five nation collaborative project for the European Fighter Aircraft) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [EC press statement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3164 to FCO (1655Z) ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [summary of President Reagan/Speaker of the House of Representatives joint press conference; UK Ambassador to the US, Oliver Wright: "In view of past and likely future rows, we might as well make the best use we can of harmony on this issue"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3167 to FCO (1700Z) ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [Congressional Friends of Ireland statement: message of support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3165 to FCO (1700Z) ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: statement by the President") [transcript] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [transcript of statement from the Quai] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Copenhagen telegram to FCO ("Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs") [message of support & congratulations for Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [message of support & congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Peter Utley ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Paisley & Molyneaux letter to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement) ["On behalf of the Unionist people of Northern Ireland, we protest most vehemently..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Garret FitzGerald) ["Anglo-Irish Sumit"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Chancellor Kohl telegram to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MT letter to Godfrey Bradman (disposal of surplus public sector land ) ["Your ideas are now being worked on... following your meeting with [Kenneth Baker]. He is very much aware of my interest in these matters..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1058 to FCO (0125Z) ("Falklands at UNGA 40") [text of Argentine draft resolution] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Warry minute to MT ("Implementation of the Keith Report") [collection and enforcement powers of Inland Revenue departments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Ian Gow minute to MT ("Assassination and Death or Injury in Service") [improvements to compensation provisions for the dependants of public servants] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT message to Francois Mitterrand (fighter aircraft) [disappointed it did not prove possible to establish a five nation collabroative project] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Meeting with President Mitterrand") [Intergovernmental Conference discussions on: environment and technology, resource transfer, EC Parliament, Commission powers] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: Brief for handling the plenary") [east/west, Falklands, Southern Africa, Middle East, bilateral relations, defence issues] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Anglo-French Summit") [participants, arrangements] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Moore PS briefing for Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: 18 November") [Channel link texts, EC shipping policy] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Intergovernmental Conference: 19 November") [draft Treaty on Political Cooperation: European foreign policy] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker minute to MT ("Restocking of CEGB Power Stations") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1499 to FCO (0820Z) ("Summit Preparations") [US/Soviet summit in Geneva] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3157 to FCO (0236Z) ("The Summit: Presidential Broadcast") [US/Soviet summit in Geneva: details of Reagan address to the nation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3183 to FCO (2000Z) ("Geneva Summit: Regional Issues") [US/Soviet summit: Afghanistan; Nicaragua; Angola, Ethiopia, Cambodia; the Middle East] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3180 to FCO (2356Z) ("Geneva Summit Prospects") [US/Soviet summit: analysis] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Hurd letter for Howe ("Macau") [advantages enjoyed by Portuguese passport holders in Macau after Portugal's entry into the EC] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone (Prince Hiro) [residence in Britain as an Oxford University student] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Young letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Training Loans”) [proposals for 3-year pilot scheme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: MT message to President Gayoom (EC Lome Convention, Male Hospital) [tariff system is complex so should raise issue with Brussels, will look into request regarding medical equipment] [declassified Dec 2016]
Text 85 Nov 16 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Press review 16 November") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Hugh Dykes MP telegrams to MT and Taoiseach FitzGerald ("Press release: Hugh Dykes sends telegrams on Anglo-Irish Accord") [congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute for MT (Meeting with the Chancellor) [Lawson wants 15 minutes talk on "monetary amendments to the European Treaty"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Black participation in decision-making") ["The President has invited suggestions on black participation in a restructured President's Council... few blacks seem likely to wish to participate"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe minute for MT ("Anglo-French Summit") [points to discuss: arms control negotiations, Inter-Governmental conference, Eureka, Channel link, defence] [declassified Feb 2019]
Text 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Prime Minister's statement") [text & MT request for additional information] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: points for answers") [Parliamentary Debate] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["dismayed... that your Government consider that it would be impossible to co-operate... The international pressures for sanctions... will fast gather momentum again"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit: Press Conference") [possible opening remarks on: Channel link, arms control, EC issues, Eureka, defence] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe minute for MT ("Your Meeting with President Mitterrand") [Intergovernmental Conference discussions on: environment and technology, resource transfer, EC Parliament, Commission powers] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson) ["Anglo-French Summit: InterGovernmental Conference Amendment to Article 107": monetary provisions of the draft Treaty on Political Cooperation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (South African DFA) South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (dismayed at his reply) [declassified ?2005]
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Terrorism: Hurd minute to Howe (“Tanzanian hijackers”) [hijackers have applied for asylum] [released Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 minute to MT (“Training Provided by the Armed Services”) [MT keen to cite its wider social and economic value] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Draft dodgers in Berlin") [implications] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo/Irish Agreement: press review 18 November") ["...Irish political reactions, speculation on the next moves, and... the Unionist reaction and HMG's plans for dealing with it"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Mood in Dublin after the Summit") [Anglo/Irish Agreement: "Sober satisfaction..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [thanks for his congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Prime Minister's statement") [background information requested by MT on the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Call by Korean Ambassador on Prime Minister") [Howe requests MT to accept call in advance of visit to UK by President Chun Doo Hwan and MT visit to S. Korea - "anxious to gain the maximum benefit to British commercial interests... but the Korean peninsula is also... a potential flash-point"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("ECOFIN: 18 November 1985: amendment to monetary provisions of the Treaty") [EU Economic & Financial Affairs Council "divided down middle" re: amendment to Treaty Establishing the EC] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to FCO ("Arms Sales to Argentina") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Department of Trade & Industry letter to No.10 ("Visit of Hassan Ali, Iraqi Trade Minister, Week Beginning 25 November") [Powell annotation: "This is a bore. But quite a lot of trade could hang on it"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Home Office record of conversation (Hurd-Joxe) [domestic terrorism and Irish situation, Anglo-Irish Agreement, New Caledonia] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand - plenary session) [Channel link, Anglo-Irish Agreement, Middle East, terrorism, defence issues, trade and industry, research and technology, transport, EC issues] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT (Privatisation of the Water Authorities) [advice on handling of forthcoming Cabinet meeting; briefing attached] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("InterGovernmental Conference") [the issue of joint European foreign policy] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand) [Channel link, China, east-west relations and arms control, European Council, CAP, EC parliament and treaty, Falklands] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Home Office letter to No.10 (Hurd meeting with Scarman; report on Handsworth riot) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Anglo-German summit 27 November: meeting with Kohl”) [“as usual he talked a lot, this time mainly about a new biography of himself”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute for No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [the major debtor countries] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: Robin Harris letter to Keith Joseph (“Oil Sales to Israel”) [“Israel does not appear to have any difficulty in securing oil supplies”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine letter to John MacGregor (“MOD Running Costs”) [Heseltine sticks to his guns] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Addison minute for Garden Room (“Delivering petitions to No.10”) [tightening up to avoid ministers bumping into petitioners] [released 2015]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3188 to FCO (0050Z) ("The Anglo-Irish Agreement: US press reactions") ["In American news terms... a one day wonder... guarded optimism"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("The Anglo-Irish Agreement: Dail Debate") [text of the Irish Government motion & Fianna Fail amendment; No.10: "Helpful at least in showing what the Agreement does not do"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: statement by Irish Catholic Bishops") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Jeremy Thorpe (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [courtesy letter of thanks for his congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Senator Orrin G. Hatch letter to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Northern Ireland Office ("Anglo/Irish Agreement: Parliamentary Debate") [draft MT speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Solicitor General PS (Anglo/Irish Agreement: Parliamentary Debate) [letter of thanks for Mayhew's assistance with drafting of speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Prime Minister Mulroney letter to MT (Anglo/Irish Agreement) [congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Tom King letter to No.10 (Anglo/Irish Agreement) ["I am trying to focus on all the pitfalls of the Statement"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Barney Hayhoe letter to Whitelaw ("Social Services Select Committee Report on Public Expenditure") ["The draft reply... [emphasises] the importance of service output rather than expenditure as a measure of NHS growth, and... [highlights] the role of efficiency in achieving service improvements"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands at the UN General Assembly") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS (visit by Canadian Governor-General) [timing of possible meeting] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Assassination and Death or Injury in Service") [summary of outcomes from interdepartmental review into compensation provisions for dependants of civil servants killed by terrorists] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris record of conversation (MacRae-Joxe) [French internal situation] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3925 to FCO (2005Z) ("InterGovernmental Conference: Brussels 19 November 1985") [report] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Own Resources Decision: UK Notification of Adoption") [to proceed without delay] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Walker minute to MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation") [regulatory regime for gas industry following privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKMIS Geneva telegram 423 to FCO (1434Z) ("Reagan/Gorbachev Summit: News Blackout") [details] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Secretary General of NATO ("Reagan/Gorbachev Summit: News Blackout") [President Reagan to address NATO meeting on outcomes of US/Soviet summit: handling of the meeting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Ministerial Group on Social Security Meeting on 20 November 1985 (MISC 111(85)17: Income Related Benefits") [modifications to Fowler's Social Security reform proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: John MacGregor minute to MT ("Social Security Reviews: Income Related Benefits") ["The proposals which Norman Fowler is recommending... cost nearly £300 million more than those we agreed as the basis for the Green Paper... If we get it wrong now, we will have to cope with the consequences"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 briefing for MT ("MISC111: Social Security Review") [details of two reform package options & their respective costs] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Social Security Reviews: Pensioner Losers") ["Fowler is right that pensioner losers present a real political problem, but... it is not as bad as he claims; and... there is a better way of dealing with it than his proposal"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Social Security Reviews: Family Credit") ["Fowler has not yet made out a strong enough case for spending more"] [released Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: State Department memorandum for NSC (“Public Diplomacy, South Africa”) [declassified 1999]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [autumn statement, fraud, international finance scene] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Lawson minute for Howe (his meeting with Nigerian Financial Minister) [pressing Nigeria to a deal with the IMF] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Howe minute for Lawson (“Nigeria: Your Meeting with the Finance Minister”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Terrorism: Howe minute to Hurd (“Tanzanian hijackers”) [“our decision to allow the Tanzanians to remain in the United Kingdom is a result of undertakings given here in 1982”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Washington minute to FCO (1415Z) ("US/Italy relations in the wake of the Achille Lauro affair") [detailed read-out from State Department] [declassified Jan 2010]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (tea party between the First Ladies) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (dinner table talk) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (impromptu dinner toasts) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT (“Liverpool: Progress Report”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Robert Armstrong minute to No.10 (message from McFarlane) [McFarlane proposes to give classified briefings to UK figures] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Security: Armstrong minute for Flesher (GCHQ dispute) [update] [released 2015]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Home Office news release (“The Best Way to Deal with Crime is to Prevent It”) [Hurd address to Standing Conference on Crime Prevention] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Dail Debate: Taoiseach's speech") [summary] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Speaker of the US House of Representatives (Anglo-Irish Agreement) ["I would like to thank you for the statement that you made at your joint press conference with President Reagan..."; US financial & economic assistance for Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 note to MT (RUC enquiry into assault on Secretary of State for Northern Ireland) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Parliamentary Debate") [amendments to draft MT speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Treasury briefing for MT ("NICG Dinner with Prime Minister 22 November") [Nationalised Industries Chairmen's Group: privatisation; board appointments; pay & industrial relations; major planning inquiries; local authority rates] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to George Younger ("Housing Support Grant Increase: Offsetting Savings") [increased spending a result of changed economic assumptions] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Implementation of the Keith Report"; Inland Revenue collection and enforcement powers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: MT message to Peter Lougheed (retirement as Premier of Alberta) [congratulations] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Environmental Lunch: Conservation and the Future of the CAP") [arguments against the concern "that a reform of the CAP will have damaging effects on the countryside"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Department of the Environment briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Lunch with Conservationists: 25 November 1985") [key issues; attendees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Morrison letter to Rifkind (EC non-quota regulations) [money for Hull, Grimsby, Clwyd, Fraserburgh] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with Mitterrand & Santer; InterGovernmental Conference; ECOFIN, 18 Nov; Transport Council, 14-15 Nov; Agriculture Council, 18-19 Nov; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Brussels, 21 November: President Reagan's Briefing of the NAC") [North Atlantic Council] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Social Security Review: Income Related Benefits") ["the essential issue... is whether... it is worth spending another £300 million to reduce the (still very large) number of losers and improve incentives": MacGregor's case vs Fowler's] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to DTI (‘Fraud’) [seeks information] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to Treasury (“Junk Bonds”) [to finance takeovers; MT seeks information] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: MT letter to Sir Nicholas Goodison (Financial Services Bill) [agrees his stress on fraud; lists action in train] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Hobson note for Griffiths (‘Fraud’) [partial typology of financial fraud] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute for MT (“Law and Order: Brixton and Tottenham Riots”) [rumours about preparation of petrol bombs & Napalm for use against police] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Anglo-German summit: 27 November”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Training Loans”) [“an excellent idea. They will introduce the public gradually to the idea of loans instead of grants… [but scheme is] poorly designed”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Public Order Bill: Incitement to Racial Hatred”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 5th Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 6th Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (tea party between First Ladies) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (dinner table talk) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (closing conversation) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Liverpool: Magistrates’s Courts”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [“disturbing signs in today's press that Ministers … getting the jitters about Liverpool”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Banking White Paper”) [the publishing timetable] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Hurd minute to Howe (“Entry clearance from Bangladesh”) [review of visa policy, and handling of representations by MPs] [declassified 2016]
Text 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO briefing for MT ("Category 1 visit by Johannes Rau: 21-22 November) [East/West relations; defence; arms control] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Dail Debate") [summary] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Dail Debate") [Haughey's position] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Anglo-Irish Agreement and its repercussions: co-operation with the security forces; power-sharing) [Tom King, John Hume MP] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Northern Ireland Office (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [revisions to draft MT Parliamentary Debate speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Howe, Tom King, Biffen, Hurd, Wakeham) ["Northern Ireland": Anglo-Irish Agreement: consulting with the Unionists] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: King PS letter to Whitelaw PS (Anglo-Irish Agreement: Debate in Parliament: draft speech for the Lord President) ["As you know, events are moving rapidly, and we may well advise the Lord President to amend the speech before it is made"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office briefing for MT (meeting with John Cushnahan, Leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) [concerns about Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Treasury briefing for MT ("NICG dinner with Prime Minister, 21 November 85") [Nationalised Industries Chairmen's Group: board appointments] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Meeting with nationalised industry Chairmen") [NICG Dinner: key points; "The main villians of the piece have been Coal, Rail, Cars and Steel... Jobs have been lost at an alarming rate"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Nationalised Industries Chairmen's Group Dinner") [guest list and topics of conversation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute: Policy Unit to PS ("Patrick Minford's views on the EMS") [main points & press notice from lecture given by University of Liverpool Professor of Economics] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands at the UNGA") [MT's draft message to Chancellor Kohl] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Paris ("Falklands at UNGA: French Vote") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1110 to FCO (1830Z) ("Falklands at UNGA 40") ["the Argentine draft has been favourably received almost universally"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Nicholas Edwards ("Local Authority Current and Capital Expenditure: Scotland and Wales") [difficulties with requests for compensation for English overspending] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to Kenneth Baker ("New Towns' Receipts") [modest increase] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") [Ambassador Moberly, Pik Botha: record of conversation: "no way in which the... [South African government] could agree to be lectured"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Tax Amnesty") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Governor-General of Canada") [arrangements for visit] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Falklands at the UN: Call on the Prime Minister by the New Zealand High Commissioner") [Lange considering a change in the NZ vote] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("New Zealand High Commissioner's Call on the Prime Minister on 22 November") [American approach to NZ anti-nuclear legislation] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Jopling letter to MT (Conservation Lunch on 25 November) [reminds MT of relevant paper he recently submitted, and offers to nominate invitees with alternative viewpoints to those already due to attend] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Brooke minute to MT ("1986 Community Budget") ["Strategy for Budget Council, 26-7 November": options for curbing proposed increase in expenditure] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Norgrove minute to MT ("Gas Privatisation") [regulatory regime for gas following privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKMIS Geneva telegram 428 to FCO (1400Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Joint Statement") [text] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKMIS Geneva telegram 429 to FCO (1353Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Gorbachev Press Conference ") [summary of Gorbachev's remarks] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1122 to FCO (1655Z) ("Geneva Summit: Initial German Reactions") [government & political party reactions to US/Soviet summit outcomes] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKDel NATO record of conversation (1937Z) (MT, Reagan, Wilfried Martens, Kohl, Willoch, Mulroney, Craxi, Özal, Schlüter, Cavaco Silva, Lubbers, Santer, Geoffrey Howe, George Shultz, Ordóñez, Dumas, Charalambopoulos, Hermansson, Carrington) ["Reagan/Gorbachev Meeting, Geneva, 19-20 November: President Reagan's Briefing of North Atlantic Council, 21 November"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO telegram 185 to UKDel NATO (1245Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Joint Statement") [Shultz/Shevardnadze summary of outcomes] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO telegram 186 to UKDel NATO (1245Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Initial Views on Joint Statement") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO News Department minute to Howe PS ("Geneva Summit: Gorbachev's Press Conference") [summary of main points] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("US/Soviet Summit: update on Briefing for NAC") [initial impressions of the outcomes; advice on line to take for media; transcript of MT press conference attached] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("Spanish TV Interview by the Prime Minister") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Tom King letter to MacGregor ("Social Security Reforms: Northern Ireland") ["I understand the justification for the... proposal [that housing benefit claimants make 20% contribution to local rates] was the desire to bring home to electors the need to maintain some control over the expenditure of local councils... [but] this chain of responsibility does not exist in Northern Ireland"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 33rd (Parliamentary Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [televising Commons] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Norgrove note for MT (“Junk Bonds”) [Griffiths & Bank of England notes also] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Terrorism: Hurd PS minute to Wicks (counter-terrorist exercise) [“a simulated take-over of an oil installation in the North Sea”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Maldives President Gayoom message to MT (medical equipment for Male Hospital) [asks government to reconsider decision] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Home Office news release (“Cars should be more thief-proof”) [“Reports calls on manufacturers to “design out” crime”] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan report to meeting of NATO Leaders (Geneva Summit) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute for MT (“Crime Prevention Seminar”) [MT concern about draft letter of invitation to event she will chair] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Johannes Rau) [US/Soviet relations; INF Middle East; chemical weapons; ABM Treaty and SALT II; Anglo-German summit; access to markets in Europe] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS note to No.10 (60th anniversary of the Locarno Pact) [request for background information following Kohl proposal for Berlin academic seminar to mark the anniversary] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's letter to Mr Cushnahan") [Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Dail Debate: Mr Barry's speech") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to James Kilfedder MP (Anglo-Irish Agreement: resolution passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly on 16th November) [acknowledges Unionist concerns and invites delegation to meet with her at No.10] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Reverend Ian Paisley MP (letter to John Cushnahan) [Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Cushnahan) [Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's speech in the Debate on the Anglo-Irish Agreement") [Howe comments on latest version of draft] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Prime Minister Craxi letter to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Biffen letter to MT ("Northern Ireland") [Anglo-Irish Agreement: "...what changes in Parliamentary arrangements at Westminster would be feasible and suitable as means of providing reassurance to Unionists] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Baker, Younger, Ridley, Lord Young, Peter Morrison, David Hunt, Chairmen of nationalised industries) ["Nationalised Industries Chairmens Group Dinner"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Falklands at the UNGA") [the Italians decided to vote in favour of Argentine draft resolution] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT message for Chancellor Kohl ("Falklands at the UN General Assembly") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 briefing note for MT (meeting with Enos Mabuza) [concise character sketch; FCO briefing attached] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: Eminent Persons Group (EPG)") [membership; announcement to S. African government; assessment of S. African government reaction] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Harland) [Falklands, nuclear ships visits, NZ-US relations] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Transport Act 1985: the Introduction of Competition into Local Bus Services: Ministerial Responsibilities") [Younger/Edwards/Ridley consideration of division of responsibilities] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Conservation Lunch, 25 November") [background; key issues; likely topics; attendees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT ("Conservation Lunch: 25 November") [key issues; attendees; summary of briefing pack; line to take for press enquiries] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Utilities: Baker minute to MT ("Water Authorities Charges and Invements 1986/7") [report on outcome of negotiations with water authority Chairmen] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Gas Privatisation") ['We should not be overawed by...Walker's assertion that we are "already well beyond the point (the BGC Board) consider reasonable"'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Gas Privatisation - Restrictive Trade Practices Act") [BGC's gas purchase agreements contravene the Act; suggested response] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Walker minute to MT ("Gas Privatisation") [regulatory regime for gas industry after privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3232 to FCO (0330Z) ("Report to Congress") [Reagan on US/Soviet Summit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Prague telegram 233 to FCO (1130Z) ("Gorbachev in Prague") [account of Gorbachev's report, on US/Soviet summit, to meeting of the Warsaw Pact members] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1524 to FCO (1400Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Soviet Press Presentation of the Outcome") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Visit of Mr McFarlane") [proposed questions to put to US National Security Advisor, following his recount of US/Soviet summit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe letter to Shultz ("US Arms Sales to Argentina") [UK concerns about security implications for Falklands] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe letter to Shultz ("UNITA") [expresses concern that US policy will lead to strengthening of Soviet influence in the region] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley letter to Biffen ("Channel Fixed Link") [timing & form of Parliamentary Debate] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Channon letter to Howe ("Hong Kong: Second Harbour Crossing") [UK Government support for East Cross Company bid] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 briefing for MT (“Anglo-German summit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Anglo-Irish Agreement: Speech in the debate”) [draft] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Application of US anti-trust law to international civil aviation”) [“I intend to resume discussion with the Americans about the application of competition rules to civil aviation”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 internal minute: Policy Unit to PS (“Liquor licensing law: changes in opening hours”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Whitelaw minute to MT (“Rate Support Grant (RSG) Settlement 1986-1987”) [E(LA) meetings: recent developments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Rate Support Grant Settlement: 1986-7”) [assessment and options] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to MT (“The Economy”) [loose money policy: options] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 23 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 23 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") ["three points which could tip the balance into South African rejection of the EPG"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 23 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal letter to MT ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") [membership; constitution; press release] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 23 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, McFarlane, Price) ["US/Soviet Summit: Briefing by Mr McFarlane"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 23 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 115”) [Gallup polls put Conservative support unchanged at 35 percent] [released 2015]
Text 85 Nov 24 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 letter to the Earl of Cromer (meeting with Giscard d'Estaing) [MT "fascinated" by account of meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Brittan minute to MT ("BL privatisation: GM/Land Rover-Leyland") [Government's conditions if sale is to proceed; need for disposal of loss-making Leyland Bus prior to GM deal; injection of public money to pay off BL residual debts, and the associated political risk] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Irish opinion poll") ["...2-1 in favour of the Anglo-Irish Agreement"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Prime Minister Mulroney (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [courtesy letter of thanks for his congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King, James Kilfedder MP, Peter Robinson, Jim Allister, Frank Millar, Jack Allen) [delegation from Northern Ireland Assembly, to discuss Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (Prime Minister's meeting with delegation from Northern Ireland Assembly to discuss Anglo-Irish Agreement) ["...remind them of the facts"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Debate in the Irish Dail") ["In preparing for the debate in the House of Commons... enclosed extracts..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Anglo-Irish Agreement: statement by Edward Heath) ["...generally supportive... but says that it is not a historic novelty..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish relations: Northern Ireland") [MT rejects "...bid by RTA [Cabinet Office] to keep control of advice on Northern Ireland firmly in his hands"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish relations: Northern Ireland") [lines for MT speech for 26 November debate in Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Prime Minister's speech in the House") [lines for MT speech for 26 November debate] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Northern Ireland Assembly delegation") ["You will want to make clear... that the Government is not going to be deflected from the Agreement. The Unionists should therefore focus on the benefits of the Agreement for them"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Enos Mabuza) [strategy for initiating dialogue between S. African government & black representatives] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Department of Environment ("Value for Money in Government") [invitation to seminar] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Home Office ("Value for Money in Government") [invitation to seminar] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: UKHC Wellington telegram 3255 to FCO (2200Z) ("New Zealand Ship Visits") [US position on anti-nuclear legislation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Lord Hailsham minute to MT ("Top Salaries Review Body") [opposes Lawson proposal to abolish TSRB] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker, Waldegrave, Rumbold, conservationists, Booth) [Government policy on land use & conservation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 4069 to FCO (2205Z) ("InterGovernmental Conference: Brussels, 25 November 1985") [Delors threatens that EC Commission to cease participation in the IGC talks] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Karl Carstens letter to MT (Action Committee for Europe) [outline of Committee's key aspirations for future of Europe; InterGovernmental Conference & the draft Treaty on Political Cooperation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong minute to MT ("Second Report on Lessons of the Miners' Strike") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Brittan minute to MT ("Gas Privatisation") ['I am afraid that I cannot agree that [Walker's] proposals provide an acceptable package'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Moore minute to MT ("Gas Privatisation") ['I share [Brittan's] reservations' about Walker's proposed privatisation package'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Norgrove minute to MT ("Gas Privatisation") [disagreement between Walker and Brittan over gas privatisation package; MT annotation: 'I am afraid we shall have to go along with Mr Walker'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1135 to FCO (1705Z) ("Geneva Summit: German Reaction") [views of Kohl & Genscher] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO record of conversation (1530Z) ("Geneva Summit: Call by Soviet Ambassador on Mr Renton") [Renton, Popov: exchange of views on outcome] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler minute to MT ("Social Security Review") [details of savings measures agreed with MacGregor] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to Biffen ("Hong Kong: White Paper on the Nationality Provisions of the Hong Kong Act 1985") [Howe endorses Hurd's proposed arrangements for debates in Parliament] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Anglo-German summit, 27 November: Five Wise Men’s report on the FRG economy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Anglo-German summit: miscellaneous points”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS briefing to No.10 (“Anglo-German summit: 27 November”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Fowler memo circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 27 (Review of Social Security: Final Decisions) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Rate Support Grant: 1986-1987”) [“why Liverpool gains so much when Hertfordshire loses so badly”] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister Lubbers of the Netherlands letter to MT (European Council) [forthcoming Meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: British Telecom letter to Cabinet Office (“1986 Tokyo Ecpnomic Summit: Video Conferencing”) [Ingham sees value for press briefing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for MT (meetings of officialls on the next Economic Summit: drugs, terrorism, sub-Saharan Africa) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office: Goodall minute to Private Secretary ("Cabinet: Anglo-Irish Agreement") [press article written by Garret Fitzgerald] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute ("Chancellor's TCSC Appearance: Opening Statement") [Autumn Statement] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Group on South Africa) [text of Statement "embodying my Government's reactions"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Top Salaries Review Body") [endorses Lawson proposal to abolish TSRB] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 4103 to FCO (0900Z) ("IGC: Brussels 25/26 November") [summary of issues discussed; "a long and poorly chaired discussion left major differences unresolved"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Gas Privatisation") [disagreement between Walker and Brittan over gas privatisation package; MT 'prepared to go along' with Walker's proposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 minute for MT (“Drug Trafficking”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS minute to No.10 (“Treaty of Rome: monetary co-operation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS briefing for MT (“Anglo-German summit, 27 November”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 minute to MT (“Royal Academy visit - 14.30 hrs, 27 November; press arrangements”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe briefing for MT (“Anglo-German summit”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 briefing for MT (“Anglo-German summit”) [programme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Banking White Paper, monetary cooperation, gas privatisation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Pay: John MacGregor letter to Brittan (“Pay in the Public Trading Sector”) [“Settlements in the 1984-85 pay round were generally too high”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO minute to Cabinet Office (“CHOGM: Commemorative Photographs”) [where to display] [declassified Dec 2016]
Text 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Anglo-Irish Relations”) [forthcoming European Council meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“IGC: Lunch with Delors”) [internal market, money, technology, cohesion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“IGC: Statement by Delors”) [“well known for his repeated threats to resign”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Tom King PS letter to No.10 ("Letter to the Prime Minister from Sir Eldon Griffiths") [RUC anxieties over the Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Anglo-Irish Agreement") [the Parliamentary debate & its possible repercussions; notification of Acceptance of the Agreement; first meeting of the Intergovernmental Conference; liaising with Unionists] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute: Monckton to Griffiths ("Times Diary: item on the Osprey case") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Department of Environment minute to No.10 ("Premiere of Falklands Film") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands/UN") [US vote: points to make in support of UK amendmends] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French sanctions against South Africa") [possibility of being mooted at annual Franco-African summit and/or European Council; Franco/African trade] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("EC Code of Conduct") ["for European companies with subsidiaries in South Africa... [role] in the economic development of black South Africans... the Code has been strengthened"; details] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Downing Street: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Speech at the 250th Anniversary Dinner") [anniversary of PM's residence: background notes from Lord Thomas] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram 1013 to FCO (0800Z) ("Italy/IGC") [Italian concerns about European Parliament reaction to outcomes of the Intergovernmental Conference] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Morrison letter to Peter Brooke ("European Regional Development Fund (ERDF): UK Receipts") ["increases in the Fund are likely to involve a net financial loss to the UK"; ERDF & UK deficit; non-quota measures: implications, for Departmental policies, of maximising receipts] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster's Office letter to No.10 ("Second Report on Lessons of the Miners' Strike") [endorses conclusion of report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Ridley minute to MT ("Gas Privatisation") [disagreement between Walker and Brittan over gas privatisation package; Ridley opposed to Walker's proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3293 to FCO (2000Z) ("US/Soviet Summit") ["Some glosses on the Joint Statement"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1542 to FCO (0740Z) ("Politburo Discussion of the Geneva Summit Results") [details; analysis] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("First Thoughts on the Summit") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Review of Social Security Review: Final Decisions") [ratification of amended proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("Social Security Review") [lines to take for media enquiries] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Personal Pensions and the Public Services") ["I was asked to consider with Norman [Fowler] the implications... We have now agreed on a proposal to contain unacceptable costs"; MT not keen on proposal] [released Dec 2014]

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

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

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

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