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| 81 Mar 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: FCO minute to No.10 (“Visit to UK by Prime Minister of Australia: October 1981: Press Release”) [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Jun 30 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: FCO note ("Visit by the Prime Minister") [MT Canberra visit schedule] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jul 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Australia: FCO to UK High Commission Canberra (convey MT irritation at publication of conversation with Australian Prime Minister (Malcolm Fraser)) [Vietnamese Boat People] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jun 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: FCO to UKE Tokyo ("Canberra Joint Statement") [Carrington suggests direct message from MT to Fraser regarding joint statement] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jun 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: FCO to UKHC Canberra ("Visit by the Prime Minister") [announcement of MT's visit to Australia] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jun 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: FCO to UKHC Canberra (Australian proposed joint statement regarding MT-Fraser meetings) ["the joint statement which the Australians have in mind is totally inappropriate for a short and informal visit..."] [declassified 2009] |
| 80 Jul 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: Howell minute to MT ("Australia: Transfer of Enrichment Technology") [declassified 2011] |
| 83 Apr 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: Malcolm Fraser letter for MT (his visit to London) [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Aug 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: Malcolm Fraser letter to MT (enjoyed their discussions & supports Government’s domestic policy) [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Mar 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: MT letter to Callaghan (Australian bush fires) [released 2013] |
| 79 Jun 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: MT letter to Fraser (Canberra meeting joint statement) ["the joint statement as at present drafted by officials is longer and more detailed than I had in mind"] [declassified 2009] |
| 83 Apr 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: MT letter to Malcolm Fraser (seeing him in London) [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Aug 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: MT letter to Malcolm Fraser (thanking for his letter on Government’s policy) [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Mar 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: MT letter to Premier Tonkin of South Australia (closure of the British-Consulate General in Adelaide) [not possible to re-open office] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Aug 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: MT letter to Premier Tonkin of South Australia (proposed uranium enrichment plant) [declassified 2011] |
| 83 Feb 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: MT letter to Prime Minister Fraser of Australia (bush fires in Australia) [released 2013] |
| 79 Nov 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: MT letter to Prime Minister Fraser of Australia (MT wishes Fraser a speedy recovery from illness and thanks him for support on Rhodesia) [released 2010] |
| 80 Jul 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: MT letter to Prime Minister Fraser of Australia (proposed uranium enrichment plant) [HMG "prepared to authorise transfer of centrifuge technology to you"] [declassified 2011] |
| 84 Jul 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: MT letter to Prime Minister Hawke of Australia (nuclear tests 1952-63) [classified information, scope of inquiry] [released 2014] |
| 79 Jun 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: MT letter to Prime Minister Muldoon of New Zealand ("Visits to Australia and New Zealand") [MT regrets that she cannot visit New Zealand at this time] [declassified 2009] |
| 83 Mar 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: MT message to Prime Minister Fraser of Australia (Fraser's election defeat) [released 2013] |
| 82 Nov 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: MT message to Prime Minister Fraser of Australia (get well soon) [Fraser admitted to hospital with back condition] [released 2013] |
| 82 Jun 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: MT message to Prime Minister Fraser of Australia (UK will retain HMS Invincible rather than selling her to Australia) [MT offers HMS Hermes instead] [released 2013] |
| 83 Sep 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: MT message to Prime Minister Hawke of Australia (congratulations on success of Australian team in the Americas Cup) [released 2013] |
| 83 Oct 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: MT message to Prime Minister Hawke of Australia (MT requests pre-CHOGM meeting with Hawke) [released 2013] |
| 83 Oct 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: MT message to Prime Minister Hawke of Australia (MT requests pre-CHOGM meeting with Hawke) [released 2013] |
| 83 Mar 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: MT message to Prime Minister-Elect Hawke of Australia (congratulations on election victory) [released 2013] |
| 86 Apr 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Australia: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Hawke of Australia) [common agricultural policy, relations with the US, EC economic policy, East-West relations, trade with Japan, Australian economy] [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Jun 30 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: No.10 message to Whitmore (UK press coverage of Tokyo summit) [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jul 1 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: No.10 message to Whitmore (UK Press coverage) [Canberra visit, Rhodesia, Lusaka, petrol prices, BP] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jul 1 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: No.10 message to Whitmore (UK Press coverage) [Tokyo Summit, Vietnamese refugees, Post Office, nuclear power, Northern Ireland] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jul 1 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Fraser) [UK/Australia relations, energy, North/South dialogue, Vietnamese refugees, inflation, East/West relations, Pakistan and nuclear weapons] [declassified 2009] |
| 80 Feb 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Fraser of Australia) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, Middle East, Iran] [declassified 2010] |
| 81 Jul 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Australia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Fraser of Australia) [the Australian economy, relations with South Africa, Commonwealth issues, Middle East, Namibia] [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Feb 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Australia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser of Australia) [lunch conversation: Olympic Games] [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Feb 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Australia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser of Australia) [post-Afghanistan situation and the US, Iran] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Jul 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Australia: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT- Prime Minister Fraser of Australia) [his planned visits to UK] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Jun 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Prime Minister Hawke of Australia) [Williamsburg Economic Summit, Australian economy] [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Jun 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: No.11 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Phillip Lynch, Australian Minister of Commerce and Industry) [economic issues in Australia] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jun 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: Palliser letter to Hunt ("Visit to Australia by the Prime Minister 30 June / 1 July") [objectives of visit] [declassified 2009] |
| 81 Mar 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: Premier Tonkin of South Australia letter to MT (closure of the British-Consulate General in Adelaide) [Tonkin lobbies for re-opening of the office] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jul 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: Premier Tonkin of South Australia letter to MT (proposed uranium enrichment plant in South Australia) [request for support] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia letter to MT (accepting MT’s invitation to speak at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool) [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Mar 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia letter to MT (bush fires in Australia) [released 2013] |
| 83 Mar 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia letter to MT (Fraser's election defeat) [released 2013] |
| 81 Feb 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia letter to MT (thanking for the invitation to visit the UK) [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Dec 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia letter to MT (thanks for message of sympathy regarding recent illness) [released 2013] |
| 82 Jul 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia message to MT (Ian Sinclair to visit London to discuss sale of HMS Invincible or Hermes to Australia) [released 2013] |
| 82 Jul 1 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia message to MT (sale of HMS Invicible to Australia) [Fraser confused by MT's alternative offer of HMS Hermes] [released 2013] |
| 83 Oct 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: Prime Minister Hawke of Australia letter to MT (appointment of new Australian High Commissioner to the UK) [released 2013] |
| 86 Apr 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: Prime Minister Hawke of Australia letter to MT (his visit to London) [declassified 2014] |
| 83 May 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: Prime Minister Hawke of Australia letter to MT (his visit to London) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jul 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: Prime Minister Hawke of Australia letter to MT (nuclear tests 1952-63) [Royal Commission into safety precautions, disclosure of sensitive information] [released 2014] |
| 86 Mar 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: Prime Minister Hawke of Australia letter to MT (suggesting that he might visit London) [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Mar 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: Prime Minister Hawke of Australia letter to MT (thanks for letter of congratulations on election victory) [released 2013] |
| 83 Nov 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Australia: Prime Minister Hawke of Australia message to MT (thanks for congratulations on success of Australian team in the Americas Cup) [released 2013] |
| 80 Jan 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser of Australia letter to MT (their forthcoming meeting in London: international affairs) [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Feb 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: Sir Anthony Royle minute to MT (his conversation with Australian Prime Minister) [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Aug 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: Tebbit despatch to Carrington ("Visit to Australia by the Prime Minister, The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP, 30 June to 1 July 1979") [official visit was "short but highly successful"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jul 1 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: Text of MT speech to Australian National Press Club (UK/Australia relations, energy, the Tokyo Summit, the Commonwealth and Rhodesia) [declassified 2009] |
| 80 Jan 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: UKE Washington to FCO (“Australian Prime Minister’s Visit to Washington”) [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Jun 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: UKHC Canberra to FCO ("Visit by the Prime Minister: Proposed passage on Rhodesia in draft joint statement") [Fraser's suggests amendments to draft statement] [declassified 2009] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: UKHC Canberra to FCO (“Mr. Hawke’s Visit: the Agenda”) [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Mar 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Australia: UKHC Canberra to FCO (“Proposed Visit to London by the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Hawke”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Jan 31 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: UKHC Canberra to FCO (“Visit of Mr. Fraser”) [briefing on Australia’s conduct in international affairs] [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Jun 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: UKHC Canberra to No.10 ("Visit by the Prime Minister: Canberra Joint Statement") ["The central difficulty is...Mr Fraser's preoccupation with Rhodesia"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 May 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: Wall letter to Cartledge ("Overseas Visits by the Prime Minister") [FCO advises MT to visit Australia] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jul 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Australia: Whitmore letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Canberra: Rhodesia") [records of meetings in Canberra] [declassified 2009] |
| 83 Jun 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Austria: Chancellor Kreisky of Austria letter to MT (thanks for farewell letter and words of tribute) [released 2013] |
| 83 Sep 30 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Austria: Chancellor Sinowatz of Austria letter to MT (invitation to MT to visit Austria) [released 2013] |
| 83 May 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Austria: MT letter to Chancellor Sinowatz of Austria (congratulations on appointment as Chancellor) [released 2013] |
| 84 Feb 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Aviation: MT telegram to Chancellor Kohl of FRG (airbus A320 launch aid) [“will show what European industries can do when they work together”] [released 2014] |
| 83 May 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Bahamas: MT letter to Prime Minister Pindling of the Bahamas (appointment of new UK High Commissioner to the Bahamas) [released 2013] |
| 83 Jul 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Bahamas: MT message to Prime Minister Pindling of the Bahamas (congratulations on 10th Anniversary of Independence) [released 2013] |
| 82 Jun 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Bahamas: MT message to Prime Minister Pindling of the Bahamas (congratulations on election victory) [released 2013] |
| 82 Aug 27 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Bahamas: Prime Minister Pindling of the Bahamas message to MT (thanks for message of congratulations on election victory) [released 2013] |
| 83 Jan 29 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Bahrain: MT message to Sheikh Khalifa of Bahrain (Davy McKee's bid to assist with aluminium processing) [released 2013] |
| 80 May 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Bangladesh: FCO letter to No.10 ("Bangladesh: Visit by President Zia") [invitation to Zia] [declassified 2010] |
| 82 Apr 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Bangladesh: Lieutenant General Ershad of Bangladesh (situation in Bangladesh) [Bangladeshi foreign policy objectives] [released 2013] |
| 82 May 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Bangladesh: MT letter to General Ershad (UK aid to Bangladesh and other matters) [released 2013] |
| 80 Jun 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Bangladesh: MT letter to President Ziaur of Bangladesh (thanks for gifts) [declassified 2010] |
| 79 May 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Bangladesh: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Zia of Bangladesh) [congratulations on MT's election, Lusaka CHOGM] [released 2010] |
| 80 Jul 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Bangladesh: President Ziaur of Bangladesh letter to MT (thanks for visit and development aid for Bangladesh) [declassified 2010] |
| 80 Jun 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Bangladesh: President Ziaur of Bangladesh message to MT (thanks for visit) [declassified 2010] |
| 79 Jul 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | BBC: MT letter to BBC Chairman Sir Michael Swann (consequences of cut to FCO's grant-in-aid on BBC External Services) [released 2010] |
| 81 Mar 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Alexander note to MT (Belize-Guatemala territorial negotiations: both sides to sign Heads of Agreement document) ["this is a considerable success for Mr Ridley and his team"] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Oct 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Anglo-Guatemalan Negotiations Over Belize (OD(80) 59)") [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Feb 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Belize (OD(81) 5 and 6)") [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Mar 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Armstrong briefing for MT ("OD: Belize: Withdrawal of the Garrison") [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Apr 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Armstrong briefing for MT ("The Dispute with Guatemala Over Belize (OD(80) 31") [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Jul 17 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Armstrong minute to Alexander ("Belize/Guatemala (OD(81) 38)") [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Mar 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Belize-Guatemala Heads of Agreement (Belize-Guatemala territorial negotiations) [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Mar 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Carrington message to Haig ("Belize-Guatemala") [thanks for message of congratulations on signing of Heads of Agreement] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Apr 23 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Carrington minute to MT ("Belize") [calm restored in Belize following declaration of State of Emergency by Governor; Ridley to visit Belize to discuss Heads of Agreement, independence and security situation] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Mar 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Carrington minute to MT (Belize-Guatemala territorial negotiations) [praise for Nick Ridley's role in achieving agreement] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Aug 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: CBF Belize to FCO ("Anglo/Guatemalan Dispute") [Nick Ridley meets with Price] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Jul 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: FCO letter to No.10 ("Belize: Defence Arrangements") [outcome of Ridley/Price meeting on defence] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Jul 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: FCO to Governor Belmopan ("Anglo/Guatemalan Talks") ["We are, as you may imagine, greatly disappointed by Price's negative reaction" to talks; Nick Ridley message to Price] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Aug 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: FCO to Governor Belmopan ("Aranda") [Belizean Opposition politicians meet with Nick Ridley: "They started by demanding that there should be a referendum or other test of public opinion in Belize before independence"] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Jul 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: FCO to UKE Guatemala City ("Belize/Guatemala: Possible Resumption of Negotiations") ["We suspect the Guatemalans may...be responding to US pressure and that their main concern may be to put themselves in the most favourable light for the UN General Assembly"] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Aug 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: FCO to UKE Kingston ("Belize/Guatemala") [Belize defence arrangements: planned joint declaration from sympathetic governments] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Dec 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: FCO to UKE Washington ("Belize/Guatemala") ["Apparent hardening of the Guatemalan position...may not be unconnected with their hopes for better understanding and support from the Reagan Administration"; need to brief Haig] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Jul 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Governor Belmopan to FCO ("Anglo Guatemala Talks") [Price's response to Nick Ridley's message; "My impression is that Price feels that having given his reaction to the New York talks there is nothing more to be said"] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Aug 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Governor Belmopan to FCO ("Anglo-Guatemalan Dispute") [Hennessy speaks with Price on outcome of New York talks: "Territorial integrity and sovereignty were, in Belizean eyes, non-negotiable. Anything else was"] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Mar 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Governor Belmopan to FCO ("Anglo-Guatemalan Talks") [US advises Guatemala "to accept a modified formula on the territorial issue"] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Jul 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Governor Belmopan to FCO ("Anglo/Guatemalan Talks") [George Price reacts negatively to New York talks] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Jun 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Governor Belmopan to FCO ("Belize Negotiations") [Price sets out Belizean negotiating position] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Aug 23 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Governor Belmopan to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala Meeting") [Belize-Guatemala territorial dispute: report of Price/Castillo Valdez meeting] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Feb 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Governor Belmopan to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala Negotiations") [Belizean Cabinet split between Price and Courtenay] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Jul 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Governor Belmopan to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala Negotiations") [Price's impression of UK/Belize/Guatemala talks in New York] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Feb 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Governor Belmopan to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala") [Belizean view of negotiations in New York: "[They] see the Guatemalan move to break off the talks last week as deliberate and calculated"] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Aug 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Governor Belmopan to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala") [Premier Price receives message from US; US pressuring Guatemala to resume talks] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Feb 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Governor Belmopan to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala") [UK Governor meets with Price: "Price said he still believed that the Guatemalans really only wanted territory"] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Aug 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Governor Belmopan to FCO ("Defence Guarantee") [Price message to Ridley on Belize-Guatemala negotiations; "Price is evidently still having trouble with his inner Cabinet"] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Mar 28 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Governor Belmopan to FCO ("Security Situation") [civil disturbances in Belize: "The cause of all this tension stems from the Opposition attitude to the agreement recently concluded with Guatemala. It is being described as a sell out"] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 May 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Governor Belmopan to FCO ("Talks in Belize") [report on "gruelling" talks between Ridley and Price] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Belize: MT letter to Prime Minister Price of Belize (Belize-Guatemala border dispute) [released 2013] |
| 81 Sep 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: MT letter to Prime Minister Price of Belize (congratulations on Belizean independence) [declassified 2013] |
| 84 Jan 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Belize: MT letter to Prime Minister Price of Belize (Hillbank project) [sees economic benefits at first glance, full evaluation to follow] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Belize: MT letter to Prime Minister Price of Belize (new High Commissioner) [“appointment will serve to maintain the relations of close friendship which so happily exist between us”] [released 2014] |
| 83 Dec 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Belize: MT letter to Prime Minister Price of Belize (thanks for gift of Belize stamp album) [released 2013] |
| 82 May 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Belize: MT letter to Prime Minister Price of Belize (timetable for withdrawal of British garrison from Belize) [garrison to stay for the time being due to uncertain situation in Guatemala] [released 2013] |
| 82 May 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Belize: MT letter to Prime Minister Price of Belize (timetable for withdrawal of British garrison from Belize) [garrison to stay for the time being due to uncertain situation in Guatemala] [released 2013] |
| 83 Oct 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Belize: MT letter to Ted Rowlands MP (reports that British garrison about to be withdrawn from Belize are false) [released 2013] |
| 82 Aug 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Belize: MT message to Prime Minister Price of Belize (British garrison in Belize) [situation will be kept under review] [released 2013] |
| 83 Aug 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Belize: MT message to Reagan (response to Reagan's concerns about possible withdrawal of British garrison) ["I have taken careful note of all you say"] [released 2013] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Belize: MT to Prime Minister George Price (introduces new High Commissioner) [routine letter signed on day of Brighton Bomb] [released 2014] |
| 81 Aug 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Nick Ridley message to Premier Price of Belize ("Belize: Security Situation") [response to Price's concerns about security arrangements for Belize after independence] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Apr 11 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: No.10 letter to FCO ("Belize: British Garrison") [MT's views on decision to retain British Garrison: "she hopes that we shall use this decision with the Americans"] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Apr 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Nott minute to MT ("Belize - British Garrison") [presentation of decision to defer withdrawal: thoughts on Pym's minute] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jul 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Belize: NSC memo to Clark (“Demarche to British Foreign Secretary”) [PM Price asks we press for retention of British garrison] [declassified 2011] |
| 83 Apr 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Belize: Prime Minister Price of Belize letter to MT (appointment of First High Commissioner for Belize to the UK) [released 2013] |
| 83 Feb 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Belize: Prime Minister Price of Belize letter to MT (impasse in Belize-Guatemala border negotiations) [released 2013] |
| 81 Sep 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Prime Minister Price of Belize letter to MT (thanks for message of congratulations on Belizean independence) [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Apr 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Pym minute to MT ("Belize: British Garrison") ["politically impossible" to withdraw garrison; US want garrison to remain; MT: "We are expected to take decisions to support [the US]. I hope this expectation will be fully reciprocated"] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Apr 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: Pym minute to MT ("Belize: British Garrison") [presentation of decision to defer withdrawal] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Aug 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Belize: Reagan letter to MT (concern about possible withdrawal of British garrison) [warns against "premature withdrawal" of UK forces] [released 2013] |
| 81 Dec 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UK High Commission Belmopan to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala") [meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Rogers: "He told me he was less sanguine than Price about the prospect for a treaty based on the American texts"] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKE Caracas to FCO ("The Falkland Islands") [Venezuela reports "that the new Guatemalan Government...were considering moving against Belize"] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Mar 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKE Guatemala City to FCO ("Belize-Guatemala") [Guatemalan views on territorial negotiations: "there would never be another chance like the present one to reach an agreement"] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Jun 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKE Guatemala City to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala Negotiations") [Ridley message delivered to Guatemala Minister of Foreign Affairs Castillo Valdez] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Aug 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKE Guatemala City to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala") [Castillo Valdez message to Nick Ridley: "My guess is that the Foreign Minister is now less interested in the renewal of negotiations than he was, and that the message has only been delivered now because of American pressure"] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Jan 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKE Guatemala City to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala") [Guatemalan side states "very clearly that if no [territorial] settlement could be agreed our other proposals were irrelevant, and that Guatemala would react "violently" to Belizean independence"] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Jul 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKE Guatemala City to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala") [President Lucas of Guatemala makes speech to Congress: "This is the first time that Lucas has publicly suggested that the negotiations might not succeed"] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKE Guatemala City to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala") [report of discussion with US Charge D'Affaires: "He said that he was sure that the Guatemalans wanted a settlement soon"; UK Ambassador worries that it is now too late] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Feb 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKE Guatemala City to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala: Negotiations") [UK Ambassador to Guatemala talks with Guatemalan side] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Aug 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKE Guatemala City to FCO ("Mr Ridley's Visit") [report of Nick Ridley's talks with Guatemalan Foreign Minister Castillo Valdez] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Jun 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKE Guatemala to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala Negotiations") [Guatemalan side turning against settlement] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Aug 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKE Mexico City to FCO ("Secretary of State's Meeting with Premier of Belize") [Belize-Guatemala territorial dispute: Carrington meets with Price] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Aug 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKE Panama City to FCO ("Visit of Premier of Belize") [Price speaks with Thomas Enders: "Price...claims that Enders said that he thought the British were trying to rid themselves of the Belize problem too quickly"] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Dec 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKE Washington to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala") ["The apparent hardening of the Guatemalan position may indeed owe something to their expectation that US/Guatemalan relations will improve under a Reagan Administration"] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Dec 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKE Washington to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala") [US report on Guatemalan position in territorial negotiations] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Aug 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKE Washington to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala: Possible Resumption of Negotiations") [US views] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Jan 27 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKE Washington to FCO ("My Call on Haig: Central America") [Henderson briefs Haig on situation in Belize] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKMIS New York to FCO ("Belize Negotiations") [Ridley meets with Guatemala Minister of Foreign Affairs Castillo Valdez and Price: "Unless the Guatemalans are prepared to change significantly their attitude...we are likely tomorrow to reach end of the road"] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Jul 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKMIS New York to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala Negotiations") [agreed press communique at end of UK/Belize/Guatemala talks] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Feb 14 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKMIS New York to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala") [Belize/Guatemala negotiations: "Guatemalan rejection of the Belizean territorial offer was not unexpected. The violence of their reaction was"] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Feb 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKMIS New York to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala: New York Talks") [account of talks with Guatemalan side] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Feb 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Belize: UKMIS New York to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala: New York Talks") [report on talks between Belizean and Guatemalan sides] [declassified 2013] |
| 84 Dec 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Bermuda: MT letter to Premier John Swan of Bermuda (US mutual assistance treaty) [requests information on “aims and objectives”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Apr 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Bermuda: MT letter to Premier John Swan of Bermuda(refuses request to attend Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) [“Earlier requests for attendance from territories which have not achieved full independence have been turned down”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Apr 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Bermuda: Premier John Swan of Bermuda letter to MT (Commonwealth Heads of Government meetings) [disappointed cannot attend, “we have much to learn … about the workings of independent nations”] [released 2014] |
| 82 Jun 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Bermuda: Prime Minister Swan of Bermuda letter to MT (thanks for bilateral meeting) [released 2013] |
| 93 Apr 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Bosnia: US Embassy in London telegram to Secretary of State (Thatcher attacks UK policy in Bosnia) [unclassified] |
| 81 Nov 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Brazil: FCO briefing for No.10 (“Brazilian Foreign Minister”) [1 Dec call on PM by Sr Guierreiro] [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Jan 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Brazil: HMA Ambassdor to Brazil despatch (“Brazil: Annual Review for 1979”) ["political opening" continues under President Figueiredo] [declassified Oct 2010] |
| 81 Jan 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Brazil: HMA Ambassdor to Brazil despatch (“Brazil: Annual Review for 1980”) [economy deteriorated but without political result] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 82 Jan 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Brazil: HMA Ambassdor to Brazil despatch (“Brazil: Annual Review for 1981”) [economy weathered storm better than expected but prospects for democracy uncertain] [declassified Dec 2012] |
| 81 Dec 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Brazil: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Foreign Minister of Brazil, Guerreiro) [Brazilian internal affairs, bilateral relations] [declassified 2011] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: Bill Deedes letter to Michael Alison (MT reaction) [“your boss is going to suffer - is already suffering - delayed shock over Friday”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: CCO platform plan (party conference) [final session] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: CDP note to MT (condolences from heads of state/government) [“to let those who were injured or bereaved … know of the very impressive list … who sent messages”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: Chancellor Kohl of FRG letter to MT (sympathy) [“enclosed a personal gift for you”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: Charles Powell note for Duty Clerk ("Brighton Bomb Attack") [list of messages from world leaders, and replies] [released 2014] |
| 84 Aug 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: DT note for Gaisman (“Re. Party Conference”) [plans to get to Gatwick on Friday by 6pm] [released 2014] |
| 84 Sep 27 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: Gaisman minute to MT (“Party Conference”) [engagements, clothes, milk quota meeting] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: Gaisman note to Grand Hotel (“Conservative Party Conference”) [MT’s room, menu requests] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: Gaisman note to MT (cancelled hair appointment) [“will send a good tip”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: Grand Hotel bill (party conference) [summary of accounts] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: Hailsham letter to MT (grieving) [“fight the good fight against the forces of darkness”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: John Coles letter to MT (admiration) [“your courage, calm and nobility in the aftermath”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: Joy Robilliard minute for MT (“Staff at Grand Hotel Brighton”) [“As the situation was so exceptional, signed photographs of you were also sent to them all and they were delighted”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Brighton Bomb: McFarlane minute for Reagan (suggested call to MT) [“nice gesture to complement your personal message”] [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Nov 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: Michael Alison letter to Simon Murphy (thanks for message) [letters “helped to demonstrate the overwhelming feeling of our people that terrorism and violence must never prevail”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: MT engagement card (party conference) [detailed list of engagements for 9 Oct] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Alma Hill (thanks for message) [“source of great strength and comfort to me”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Archbishop of Canterbury (thanks for message) [“The victims of this terrible act are and will remain in all our thoughts and prayers”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Archbishop of York (thanks for message) [“The last months have indeed been a strain, and there is more to come. I shall be very thankful if we can secure total condemnation of violence”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Chief Rabbi Jakobovits (thanks for message) [messages and prayers from all sections of the community “a source of great support over these last few days”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to David Owen (thanks for his message) [“you have voiced the concern of the whole country for the victims of this wanton act of violence ... the perpetrators of such acts shall not succeed in undermining our democracy”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to David Steel (thanks for his message) [“I share your determination that the perpetrators of this wanton act of brutality shall not be allowed to succeed in their aim of undermining our democracy”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Field Marshal Bramall (thanks for message) [“very deply touched … the last few days have been difficult indeed, and letters such as yours have been more help than I can say”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Gordon Wilson (thanks for his message) [“I know that you will share my determination that the perpetrators of this wanton act of violence shall not be allowed to succeed in their aims”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Gregor Mackenzie (thanks for his message) [“I am grateful for your prayers and your kind words which I value more than I can say”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Hugh Thomas (thanks for message) [“The terrible explosion at Brighton last week has inevitably cast a long shadow”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Ian Paisley (thanks for his message) [“I have made quite clear our determination that all attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to James Molyneaux (thanks for his message) [“all attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism in this country will fail”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: MT letter to John Wakeham (messages from heads of state/government) [“sympathy for the injuries you received and the tragic personal loss which you suffered”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Lord Dacre (thanks for message) [“Yes, it was a terrible experience, the full realisation of which only began to sink in two days afterwards”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Lord Home (thanks for message & flowers) [“overwhelming revulsion expressed by the British people for this wanton act of violence”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Lord Sieff (thanks for message & flowers) [“The Marks & Spencers manager at Brighton was marvellous”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: MT letter to Mabel Delamott (messages from heads of state/government) [“sympathy for the injuries you received”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: MT letter to Marks and Spencer manager (thanks for practical help, support) [“everyone looked so elegant”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Michael Colvin (thanks for message) [daughter Amanda “remembered to bring out the speech”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Michael Foot (thanks for his message) [“It is as well we cannot foretell the future - we could not endure the knowledge”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland (thanks for message) [“The wickedness of this terrorist act serves only to reinforce our determination to defend our peaceful and democratic way of life”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Moss Evans (thanks for his message) [“Your letter was typical of so many I received in its concern for the victims of this wanton act of violence and in its determination that those responsible shall never be allowed to prevail”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Neil Kinnock (thanks for his message) [“I share your determination that the perpetrators of this wanton act of violence shall not succeed in undermining our democracy”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: MT letter to Paul Boswell (Grand Hotel) (gratitude to staff) [“the more enduring impression will be that of the marvellous human qualities dislpayed at the moment of crisis”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 14 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Peter Thorneycroft (thoughts at church) ["this is the day I was not meant to see"] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Renée Short (thanks for her message) [“a chilling experience for all of us who believe in democracy”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Roy Mason (thanks for his message) [“You will have seen the same thing happen time & again in Northern Ireland”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: MT letter to Sarah Berry (messages from heads of state/government) [“sympathy for the injuries you received and the tragic personal loss which you suffered”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Shridath Ramphal (thanks for message) [Ramphal conveys Commonwealth outrage, sympathy] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Sir Jack Lyons (thanks for message) [“the lovely orchid plant … does indeed help to relieve the sense of sorrow which I inevitably feel”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: MT letter to Sir Russell Sanderson (grateful for role played) [that conference continued is “further testimony to the high morale of the National Union”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Stuart Young (thanks for message) [“I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your kind words”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to William Thorne (thanks for looking after her hair) ["that it lasted so well through Friday was the real test"] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letters to Anglican prelates (Archbishops Runcie (Canterbury), Habgood (York), Bishops Leonard (London), Sheppard (Liverpool), Walker (Ely), Wood (Norwich)) [thanks; prayers] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letters to Catholic prelates (Hume, Gray, Worlock, Murphy-O’Connor) [thanks; prayers] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: MT note to Pamela Hunter (thanks) [“you had a far more unusual and greater crisis to respond to … and you rose superbly to the occasion”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: MT note to Sir Alistair Graesser (thanks) [chairmanship helped “make what was a day of particular stress much easier for all of us”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 6 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: No.10 note (party conference) [Grand Hotel accommodation list] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: No.10 note (“Prime Minister’s Programme”) [detailed list of movements, engagements] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Brighton Bomb: Reagan letter to Thatcher (message of sympathy) [“We must work together to thwart this scourge”] [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Brighton Bomb: Reagan phone call to MT (sympathy and support) [audio] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Nov 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: Robin Butler minute for Tim Flesher (“The No. 10 Office Functions in the Aftermath of the Bomb Explosion at the Grand Hotel, Brighton”) [information “could be added to the Duty Clerk’s ‘bible’”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: Robin Butler note to MT (visit to Royal Sussex hospital) [arrive Saturday by RAF helicopter] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: Sherbourne letter to MT (conference speech) [“you spoke for the nation”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Sep 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: Sherbourne minute to MT (“Party Conference Speech”) [“more of a single issue speech than normal”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: Sherbourne note to Gummer (“Memorial Services”) [“to attend one you must attend them all”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb:No.10 invitation (party conference) [tea with MT] [released 2014] |
| 81 Nov 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | British Leyland: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (“BL: Longbridge dispute”) [“quite appalling that the workforce… should be prepared to set the company back”] [declassified 2012] |
| 83 May 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | British Rail: Scholar note to MT ("Naming the Airey Neave locomotive") [Scholar advises against lunching with British Rail: "it would be difficult to spend an hour or so with BR without criticising their lamentable performance"] [released 2013] |
| 83 Oct 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | British Telecom: Redwood minute to Turnbull (information on BT service for MT's speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet) [released 2013] |
| 83 Mar 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Alan Walters minute to No.10 (“Cable: the Chief Secretary’s letter of 4 March”) [restriction of competition] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Jan 25 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Armstrong briefing for MT ("BBC External Services (OD(80)1)") [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Sep 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Armstrong briefing for MT ("BBC External Services (OD(81) 42 and 45)") [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Armstrong minute to Alexander ("BBC External Services") [Carrington's proposals on expenditure cuts] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Feb 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Armstrong minute to MT ("Cable Systems and Broadcasting Policy") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Armstrong minute to MT ("Cable Systems") [note by Chairman of the Official Group on Cable Systems] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Armstrong minute to MT ("Report of Information Technology Advisers on Cable Systems") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Oct 22 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Atkins message to Carrington ("BBC External Services") [opposition in Parliament to cuts to BBC expenditure; compromise solution] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Oct 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: BBC Chairman Michael Swann letter to MT (BBC External Services) [offers to meet with MT to discuss] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: BBC Chairman Michael Swann letter to MT (thanks for meeting) [apologises for leak about meeting, ITV pay rise, cuts to BBC External Services, Pete Murray and BBC objectivity] [declassified 2011] |
| 85 May 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Biffen PS letter to Brittan PS (economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the BBC) [National Audit Office scrutiny of Home Office role] [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Nov 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Blaker minute to MT (BBC External Services) [report of Blaker-Nick Ridley-Acting Director General of the BBC Mansell-Gregson meeting] [declassified 2011] |
| 85 Apr 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Brittan letter to Chairman of the BBC (“BBC accounts”) [“should reflect the depreciation of fixed assets, according to normal commercial practice”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Brittan letter to Howe (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [next steps] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Brittan letter to Tebbit (Direct Broadcasting by Satellite) [Tebbit keen that Parliamentary announcement address unethical competitiveness as well as IBA study] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Brittan letter to Tebbit (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [“consortium has now collapsed… [MT] predicted this in May last year, and it was obvious to all save the DTI by last Christmas”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Brittan letter to Tebbit (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [“I do not see a case for seeking to insist on a British satellite in any future project”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jan 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Brittan letter to Tebbit (“Prospects for the Cable Industry”) [“the overall position is far from promising”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 May 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Brittan minute to MT (“Peacock committee”) [responses from proposed members of new committee on financing of the BBC] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 May 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Brittan PS letter to Biffen PS (economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the BBC) [National Audit Office scrutiny of Home Office role] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jul 31 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (“DBS Joint Project: Third Element”) [Direct Broadcasting by Satellite: BBC, ITV & ‘third element’] [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Aug 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Bullard minute on BBC External Services (FCO proposals for cuts) [“Experience has made me suspicious of the BBC’s own figures”] [declassified 2009] |
| 82 Dec 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cable policy: C(82)39”) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Apr 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cable: draft White Paper”) [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Cable policy”) [declassified 2013] |
| 85 Dec 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Cable Authority letter to Kenneth Baker (financial ideas) [development and allowances, enterprise zones] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 May 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Carrington minute to MT ("BBC External Services") [decisions required on expenditure cuts: "We must expect a row in the House of Commons"] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jul 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Carrington minute to MT ("BBC External Services") [further progress on expenditure cuts] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Feb 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Carrington minute to MT (BBC External Services) [expenditure cuts] [declassified 2011] |
| 85 Apr 4 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Chairman of the BBC letter to Brittan (treatment of capital expenditure in published accounts) [will obtain an independent opinion on whether practices need to change] [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Nov 17 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Carrington ("OD(80)1: BBC External Services") [Chancellor and MT opposed to "wise man" review of economies in the External Services] [declassified 2011] |
| 85 Jun 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit (“Cable Industry: Consortium Relief”) [relaxations to rules to be introduced in Finance Bill] [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Sep 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Whitelaw ("Welsh Language TV") [MT: "An unwise letter"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("BBC External Services") ["I have grave doubts about the wisdom of the approach [Carrington] advocates"] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jan 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Levy on Independent Television Contractors") [need for alternative to levy on profits] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jul 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Dafyyd Wigley MP letter to MT (fourth television channel) [Gwynfor Evans threatens hunger strike unless HMG establishes Welsh TV channel] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Aug 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: David Boddy letter to Richard Ryder (complaining against BBC) [procedure] [released 2010] |
| 79 Nov 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: David Boddy minute to Thorneycroft and others (October radio & tv) [calculation of political balance] [released 2010] |
| 84 Jul 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Department of Trade & Industry letter to No.10 (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [planned commencement of service in latter half of 1987] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Department of Trade & Industry press release (“1985, the year of opportunity for cable TV: Minister praises Swindon Cable”) [“Cable means investment in new technology and new jobs”] [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Nov 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("BBC External Services") [BBC capital expenditure to be cut in exchange for keeping External Services; MT: "If we go back on that there will only be another row"] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Jun 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("BBC Vernacular Services") [MT: "I hope they will not make cuts in BBC services to Communist countries"] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [FCO support for BBC Capital Expenditure Programme] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [possibilities for avoiding proposed cuts] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [proposed cuts] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Oct 31 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 (BBC External Service cuts) [FCO cuts yet to come] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Sep 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: FCO letter to UKE Paris (MT will not do interview with Antenne 2) [MT refusing all interview requests] [released 2011] |
| 79 Nov 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: FCO minute ("BBC External Services") [FCO contact with BBC to discuss BBC public expenditure cuts] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 13 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: FCO record of telephone conversation (Blaker-Acting Director General of the BBC Mansell) [BBC capital expenditure, BBC External Services] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Oct 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Flesher minute to MT ("The Hunt Report on Cable") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Dec 9 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Flesher minute to MT (Joseph's study of the effect of children's television on school children) [full report] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jan 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: George Howard, BBC Chairman, letter to MT (satellites and services to Francophone Africa) [declassified 2012] |
| 79 Oct 27 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Gilmour minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Dec 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Gladstone minute on BBC External Services (lunch at Bush House) [vital FCO/BBC be on same side next time; BBC to lay on “suitable claret”] [declassified 2009] |
| 80 May 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: Gordon Reece letter to MT (recommends Robin Day for role of Chairman of the BBC) ["The appointment of Robin Day would also be very popular and would be widely praised"] [released 2011] |
| 79 Oct 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: Gordon Reece letter to No.10 Press Secretary (Henry James) (ITV strike) [no chance of LWT being on air for interview this Sunday] [released 2010] |
| 79 Nov 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: Gordon Reece letter to Richard Ryder (audience figures for British tv & radio news) [“since the strike ... ITV have shown a considerable down turn”] [released 2010] |
| 80 Apr 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: Gordon Reece letter to Whitelaw (inadequate funding for Channel 4) [suggests postponement of launch] [released 2011] |
| 80 Oct 1 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: Gordon Reece letter to Whitelaw (Reece "horrified" by appointment of Jeremy Isaacs as CEO of ITV2) [released 2011] |
| 79 Nov 28 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: Gordon Reece message to Richard Ryder (ITN poll on Europe) [majority favour PM’s policy, but growing trend for withdrawal] [released 2010] |
| 79 Aug 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: Gordon Reece minute for Richard Ryder (MT’s first major tv interview as PM) [now is the time] [released 2010] |
| 79 Nov 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: Gordon Reece minute for Richard Ryder (recommends PM go on tv) [“Nothing happened”] [released 2010] |
| 79 Nov 15 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: Gordon Reece minute to MT (PPB slot available 21 Nov) [“If you considered this an appropriate moment to talk to the electorate”] [released 2010] |
| 79 Jun 20 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: Gordon Reece minute to Richard Ryder (MT at Tokyo G7) [MT’s first interview since General Election] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Gow minute to MT ("B.B.C. - External Services") [Ray Whitney MP writes to argue against cuts to BBC External Services] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Nov 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Gregson briefing for MT ("Cable Policy (E(TP) (82)10)") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Gregson minute to MT ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite: Cable Systems and Broadcasting Policy (E(82)13, 14, 16 & 18)") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Home Office letter to No.10 (BBC charter, licence and agreement) [advertising on the BBC] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Jul 25 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Home Office letter to No.10 (creation of fourth television channel) [encouraging other companies to produce content for fourth channel] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Home Office letter to No.10 (cuts to BBC External Services) [BBC would like to use Home Service income on External Services: "We do not believe this is possible"] [declassified 2011] |
| 85 Jul 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Howe minute to Brittan (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [“I should like the FCO to be actively involved in future discussions”] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Jan 6 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Howe minute to Hurd (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [UK “should not be left behind by other European governments and companies”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Sep 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Howe minute to John MacGregor (“BBC External Services: Three Year Funding”) [the proposal “is central to the Perry review and BBC agreement to your proposals for current expenditure removes the last major obstacle to its implementation”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jun 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Howe minute to John MacGregor (“BBC External Services: Three-Year Funding”) [clash of views over Howe proposal for additional funding] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Feb 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Review of BBC External Services”) [MT request to be consulted about Government reaction to Report] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Nov 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Hurd letter to John MacGregor (“BBC accounts”) [will urge the BBC to change “misleading” accounting practice] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Feb 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Hurd letter to Whitelaw (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [“role of Government in this enterprise is merely to provide the regulatory framework”] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Jun 11 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Hurd minute to MT (“Peacock report”) [Committe maps out “ultimate goal of a completely unregulated market” outwith its terms of reference] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Jun 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Hurd PS letter to No.10 (draft oral statement on Peacock Report) [financing the BBC; diversity of choice; competitive tendering; regulation; privatising radio] [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Nov 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: Ian Gow minute for MT (BBC External Services - Commons debate 13 Nov) [“receiving exceptionally favourable treatment”] [released 2010] |
| 79 Sep 19 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: Ian Gow minute to MT (encloses transcript of Monday’s Panorama ) [MT: “I really think we should protest officially”] [released 2010] |
| 85 Mar 6 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Information Technology Advisory Panel letter to MT (“Cable systems”) [Paper with recommendations] [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Oct 25 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: Ingham letter to London Correspondent for Antenne 2 (MT will not accept interview offer) [released 2011] |
| 80 Apr 30 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Ingham record of conversation (MT-BBC Officials) [BBC licence fee, advertising on the BBC, Carrickmore, Reithian Standards, BBC cuts] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 1 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: James minute to MT (brief for MT's meeting with BBC Chairman) [BBC External Services, objectivity of BBC coverage] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Mar 11 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Jenkin minute to MT ("Cable Systems and Broadcasting Policy") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Dec 1 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Jenkin minute to MT (Cable policy) [franchises] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Mar 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Jenkin minute to MT (“Cable”) [limitation on competition] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Jenkin minute to MT (“Cable”) [restriction on competition] [declassified 2013] |
| 85 Nov 4 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: John MacGregor letter to Hurd (“BBC accounts”) [MT favours public criticism of accounting practice rather than ordering the BBC to change the practice] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Jul 8 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Jopling minute to MT ("BBC External Services") ["I am becoming increasingly alarmed at the Party's reaction to these proposals"] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Dec 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Joseph minute to MT ("Television and the Schools") [study of the effect of children's television on school children] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Joseph minute to MT (impact of children's television on school children) [proposes new study] [declassified 2012] |
| 86 Jan 8 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Kenneth Baker letter to Cable Authority (financial ideas) [extension of enterprise zones to parts of the cable system] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Apr 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Kenneth Baker letter to John Wakeham (“STC and the TAT8 transatlantic submarine telecommunications cable”) [Government financial aid] [declassified 2013] |
| 79 Nov 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Lady Plowden, Chairman of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, letter to MT (ITV levy) [Chancellor of the Exchequer concerned that levy is on profits, not revenue] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 4 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Lankester minute to MT ("BBC External Services") [details of BBC spending] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 May 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Maude minute to MT ("IBA and TV Contractors") [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Aug 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: McQuillan minute to FCO Departments (BBC External Service cuts) [ministers want to protect World Service and broadcasts to Communist countries] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 May 4 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: Michael Cole letter to MT (hopes to conduct first interview with her as PM) [released 2010] |
| 82 Nov 17 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Mount minute to MT ("Cable Policy") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Dec 9 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Mount minute to MT ("Television and the Schools") [Joseph's study of the effect of children's television on school children] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Oct 13 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Mount minute to MT ("The Hunt Report on Cable Television") [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Aug 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: MT letter to Dafyyd Wigley MP (Gwynfor Evans' threatened hunger strike over fourth television channel) [MT will not meet with Evans] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Apr 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: MT letter to David Cox (rejects General Election TV debate with PM) [“We are not electing a President, we are choosing a government”] [released 2003] |
| 80 Jun 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: MT letter to Lord Vaizey (economics of the BBC) [released 2011] |
| 80 Apr 3 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: MT letter to Margaret Wickstead (cuts to BBC expenditure) [released 2011] |
| 80 Oct 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: MT letter to Mary Whitehouse (Broadcasting Bill) [broadcasting standards] [released 2011] |
| 78 Jul 20 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: MT letter to Sir Ian Trethowan (BBC urges General Election TV debate with PM) [asks for detail] [released 2003] |
| 80 Apr 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: MT letter to Thelma Cazalet-Keir (Moscow Olympic Games and BBC Chairman) ["We want someone who will actually insist that both [balance and public taste] are observed"] [released 2011] |
| 79 Nov 4 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: MT note to Lankester (BBC External Services) ["I can't make head or tail of BBC external services financing"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jul 23 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Nick Ridley circular letter (BBC External Services) [details of Government plans for BBC expenditure cuts] [declassified 2011] |
| 84 May 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Brittan PS (“DBS”) [draft statement on direct broadcasting by satellite for 2nd reading of Cable & Broadcasting Bill] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Dec 13 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Department of Education (Joseph's study of the effect of children's television on school children) [MT supports Joseph's proposals] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 May 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 letter to FCO ("BBC External Services") [MT agrees to early Ministerial discussion of Carrington's proposals on expenditure cuts] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Oct 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 letter to FCO ("Overseas Broadcasts") [cuts to BBC External Services; MT concerned at potential damage to foreign language programmes] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Feb 18 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Home Office ("Cable Systems and Broadcasting Policy") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Home Office ("Cable Systems and Broadcasting Policy") [MT agrees to Whitelaw's approach] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Home Office (BBC charter, licence and agreement) [advertising on the BBC] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Jul 18 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Home Office (creation of fourth television channel) [encouraging other companies to produce content for fourth channel] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jan 16 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Home Office (ITV levy) [MT wants option of making changes to levy left open] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 26 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Home Office (Whitelaw's proposals for legislation on broadcasting) [advertising on the fourth television channel] [declassified 2011] |
| 83 Apr 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Home Office (“Cable systems: draft White Paper”) [declassified 2013] |
| 85 Mar 13 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Tebbit PS (Information Technology Advisory Panel report) [“re-cabling Britain would generate significant economic activity and stimulate industry”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Aug 7 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Tebbit PS (“ITAP report on cable systems”) [MT would like DTI to update response to the report following talks with BT] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 18 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 minute to Brittan PS (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [MT “commented that it would not make sense to open up the market… but continue to insist that they use a British satellite”] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Mar 17 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT (Cable and employment prospects) [declassified 2013] |
| 85 May 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT (economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the BBC) [MT requests advice on National Audit Office scrutiny of Home Office role] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Aug 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT (“Cable television”) [Information Technology Advisory Panel: follow-up to report] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Feb 12 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [Hurd to announce invitation to tenders for contracts] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Jan 9 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT (“ITAP report on cable systems”) [handling of Government response and outstanding issues] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Apr 27 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT (“Statements on Cable and Citizens Advice Bureaux”) [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Apr 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 Policy Unit internal minute: Owen to Mount (“The development of cable systems and services: draft White Paper”) [risk of monopoly abuses] [declassified 2013] |
| 85 Aug 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Addison (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [“the argument about whether it must be a British satellite is not wholly resolved”] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Jan 8 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Addison (“ITAP report on cable systems”) [handling of Government response and outstanding issues] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Dec 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Ingham (“Windsor Cable TV”) [closure] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Dec 1 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Cable policy”) [declassified 2013] |
| 84 Aug 3 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Cable”) [“cable revolution… will bring… jobs… wealth… and… diversity of choice”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Sep 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Cable”) [“Many of the pilot franchise companies are disappointed and frustrated”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Apr 24 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan) [“Peacock committee”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 May 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan, Lord Cockfield, Tebbit, Rees, Jeffrey Sterling) [“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chairman of the Cable Authority) [proposals to address slow progress] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Jun 25 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whitelaw, Hurd, Tebbit, Channon, John Wakeham) [“Peacock Report”] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Jun 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) [“The Peacock report on the BBC”] [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Nov 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Blaker) [proposed cuts to BBC External Services] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Blaker-Jopling-Lawson-Nick Ridley-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["BBC External Services"] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Sep 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Edwards-Whitmore-Pattison) [Gwynfor Evans' threatened hunger strike over fourth television channel] [declassified 2011] |
| 84 Jun 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: No.10 Turnbull minute to Policy Unit (Direct Broadcasting by Satellite) [Brittan strategy to let the scheme “collapse under its own weight”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Dec 19 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Pattie PS letter to No.10 (“ITAP report on cable systems”) [no agreement between ITAP and government on forcing access to BT ducts and wires] [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Nov 8 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Pattison minute to MT (follow-up to MT's meeting with BBC Chairman Michael Swann) [BBC Panorama story on IRA at Carrickmore; cuts to BBC External Services] [declassified 2011] |
| 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] |
| 85 Jul 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Rees letter to Howe (“BBC External Services: Three Year Funding”) [“not… convinced that three year funding… requires additional money”] [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Aug 16 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: Richard Ryder to David Boddy (complaining against BBC) [predicts an avalanche] [released 2010] |
| 82 Feb 17 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Rickett minute to MT ("Cable Systems") [inquiry into broadcasting policy issues] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Rickett minute to MT ("Cable Systems") [IT Advisers' report on cable broadcasting] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 4 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Rickett minute to MT ("Direct Broadcasting by Satellite (DBS)") [Whitelaw Commons statement] [declassified 2012] |
| 85 Mar 6 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“Cable Systems”) [Information Technology Advisory Panel follow-up to 1982 report] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jan 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“Cable”) [need to counter “flagging interest”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 6 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“ITAP report: Cable Systems: A re-assessment”) [Information Technology Advisory Panel follow-up to 1982 report] [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Oct 27 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Sir Ian Gilmour letter to MT (BBC External Service cuts) [cuts reduced by one third] [declassified 2009] |
| 85 Jul 11 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Tebbit letter to Brittan (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [reluctant to abandon DTI policy] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Tebbit letter to Brittan (“Prospects for the Cable Industry”) [“this new high risk industry must be privately financed and market led”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 May 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Cable Industry: Consortium Relief”) [“increasingly concerned about the ability of the ‘independent’ cable operators to raise the finance necessary”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Apr 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Tebbit minute to MT (“Information Technology Advisory Panel (ITAP) report on cable systems: a reassessment”) [comments on report] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Tebbit minute to MT (“Information Technology Advisory Panel (ITAP) report on cable systems: a reassessment”) [“Predictably… drawn a very negative response from British Telecom”] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (“ITAP reassessment of cable”) [“A major factor for cable investors is the very large capital investment required in the early days before revenues are received”] [declassified 2014] |
| 78 Aug 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: Thorneycroft meeting with BBC (BBC urges General Election TV debate with PM) [sees problems] [released 2003] |
| 83 Apr 20 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Tom King minute to MT (“Cable television”) [‘pay-per-view’ risk to sport as a social cohesive] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Feb 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Broadcasting: UKE Paris letter to Andy Wood ("Requests from the French Media for Interviews with the Prime Minister") [released 2011] |
| 81 May 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Wade-Gery briefing for MT ("BBC External Services (OD(81) 28)") [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jul 29 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Welsh Office letter to No.10 (Gwynfor Evans' threatened hunger strike over fourth television channel) [Edwards meets with Evans] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Sep 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Welsh Office press release ("Text of a letter from the Home Secretary to the Rt Hon Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos") [HMG accepts case for Welsh television channel] [declassified 2011] |
| 83 Apr 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw letter to Howe (“BBC DBS Service”) [satellite and cable policy] [declassified 2013] |
| 79 Nov 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw letter to MT ("Tenth Report of the Select Committee on Nationalised Industries") [response to the report on Independent Broadcasting Authority] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jan 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw letter to MT (ITV levy) [Whitelaw's response to Chancellor and MT's concerns on levy] [declassified 2011] |
| 83 May 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw letter to Prior (“White Paper on the development of Cable systems and services”) [regulation] [declassified 2013] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("B.B.C. Charter and Licence and Agreement") [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Sep 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("BBC External Services") ["I believe that we now have to seek the best compromise we can get to avoid serious embarrassment in the House of Commons"] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Nov 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("BBC External Services") [Whitelaw speaks with BBC Chairman Michael Swann] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Feb 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Cable Systems and Broadcasting Policy") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 7 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Cable Systems and Broadcasting Policy") [urges an 'urgent but measured inquiry'] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Inquiry into Broadcasting Policy Aspects of Development of Cable Systems") [declassified 2012] |
| 80 Jun 9 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("ITV Levy") [Whitelaw and Chancellor agree not to introduce new levy arrangements this session] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jan 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Levy on Independent Television Contractors") [Whitelaw will remain open to possibility of making changes to levy by amending Broadcasting Bill] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Sep 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Report of the Inquiry into Cable Expansion and Broadcasting Policy") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 13 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT (impact of children's television on school children) [Joseph's proposed new study] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Dec 12 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT (Joseph's study of the effect of children's television on school children) [Whitelaw supports Joseph's proposals] [declassified 2012] |
| 83 Apr 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw minute to MT (“White Paper on ‘The development of Cable systems and services’”) [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw PS letter to Baker PS (“Commons debate on Cable systems: 2 December”) [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Nov 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw PS letter to Cabinet Office (“Cable policy”) [draft paper for Cabinet and Parliamentary debate] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Whitelaw PS letter to Jenkin PS (“White Paper on Cable systems”) [notification to Departments for their interests] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Dec 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brunei: MT letter to Sultan Hassanal of Brunei (congratulations on assumption of full sovereignty and independence for Brunei) [released 2013] |
| 81 Mar 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Budget, etc: Carrington letter to MT (complains at Ingham briefing) [have avoided indicating differences to press on "budget or anything else"] [released 2012] |
| 80 Dec 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Adam Ridley minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Budget Questionnaire") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Walters MSS) | Budget: Alan Walters diary (MT-Howe-Wass budget meeting) [MT telling Howe get down PSBR or "you are for the chop"] [released 2012] |
| 81 Feb 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Indexed Gilts") [must auction them since appropriate price unknown] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Alan Walters minute to MT (Budget) [urges tougher than expected PSBR to ease funding, interest rates & exchange rate] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Alan Walters minutes to MT (Budget) [danger of underestimating PSBR; "Budget & Monetary Policy"] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Jan 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Economic Strategy (C(82) 1)") [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Feb 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Economic Strategy (C(84) 5)") [public spending and borrowing, Medium Term Financial Strategy] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Nov 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Armstrong briefing for MT ("National Insurance Contributions") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Armstrong minute to Whitmore (leak of Chancellor of the Exchequer's paper on economic strategy) [Economist article] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 13 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Bank of England) | Budget: Bank of England record of conversation (Governor of the Bank of England-John Wiggins) [bank levy] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Battishill minute to Taylor (conversation with Lankester: follow-up to MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer meeting) [ITV levy, VAT on advertising] [declassified 2011] |
| 85 Mar 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: BBC transcript (Chancellor of the Exchequer Budget broadcast) [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Dec 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Biffen minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
| 85 Dec 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Brittan letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“1986 Budget”) [proposals] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Feb 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Brittan letter to Heseltine ("The National Insurance Surcharge and the Rate Support Grant") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Burns minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Some Outside Views") [views of Griffiths, Pepper, Rose, Budd and Samuel Brittan on budget] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Dec 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Cardona minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Mar 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Cardona minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Budget: Letters from Public") [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor minute for Lawson ("Competitiveness & the Exchange Rate") [Wass group a "post-mortem on a patient who ought to be dead but isn't!"] [declassified 2011] |
| 85 Sep 2 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer APS letter to No.10 (“Press Advertisment: Keith Package”) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 9 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer documents on Budget leak ("Suspected Leak") [line to take] [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Feb 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer draft cabinet paper ("1981 Public Expenditure Survey") [move to cash planning] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer draft letter to Sir Jeremy Morse (windfall tax on bank profits) [rejects his counter-proposal] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Jenkin (tax and private medical insurance, capital allowances for hospital buildings) [no tax relief for private medical insurance] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 3 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to MT ("The Budget") [update] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Sir Jeremy Morse (windfall tax on bank profits) [rejects his counter-proposal] [declassified 2011] |
| 85 Mar 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit (“Taxation of Fringe Benefits - Cars and Petrol”) [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Mar 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Thorneycroft (thanks for expression of views on the economic situation) [lead up to the Budget] [released 2012] |
| 85 Mar 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Walker (“FSBR”) [Financial Statement and Budget Report] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Sep 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe (“VAT Margin Scheme on Secondhand Goods: Reasoned Opinion”) [declassified 2014] |
| 80 Nov 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("1981 Budget & Public Expenditure White Paper") [timetable] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Dec 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("1981 Budget Arrangements") [10 March date] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Additional Revenue from the Banks") [no alternative now to a tax on windfall profits] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Dec 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Approach to the Budget") [preparation for the Budget; MT concerned about potential leaks] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jun 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Bank Tax & DERV Duty Concessions") [minor concession to smaller banks; firming up on DERV] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Jan 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Cabinet: 28 January") [Cabinet paper on Budget and economic strategy] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Jan 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Cabinet: 28 January") [MT: "I am very worried about this paper. I believe the way it is phrased will arouse maximum opposition and it will be difficult to get Cabinet's wholehearted support"] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jan 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Capital Tax Changes in the 1981 Budget") ["the major attack this year should be on CTT"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jan 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (HM Treasury) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Capital Tax Changes in the 1981 Budget") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Company Taxation: Stock Relief") [detailed reform proposals] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Oct 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Corporation Tax: The Reform of Stock Relief") [consultative paper proposed] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Oct 29 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Date of the 1982 Budget") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Indexed Gilts") [seeks agreement to announce in budget] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Feb 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Mortgage Interest Relief Ceiling") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 25 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("National Insurance Contribution") [proposed increases] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Nov 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("National Insurance Contributions") [proposed increase to NI Contribution] [declassified 2012] |
| 84 Mar 8 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Nissan") [mitigating effects of capital allowance changes on Nissan] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 2 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("North Sea Fiscal Regime") [Budget proposals] [declassified 2014] |
| 82 Feb 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("North Sea Fiscal Regime") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Oil Taxation Proposals") [broad lines of budget changes] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Public Expenditure & the Budget") [energy related overruns] [declassified 2011] |
| 84 Feb 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Reforming Business Taxes") [declassified 2014] |
| 81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Season Tickets" [provided by employers]) [strongly defends proposed tax] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Mar 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Benefits in Kind - Cars and Petrol") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Jul 8 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Benefits in Kind - Free Petrol") [method; agreed by MT] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Nov 24 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Benefits in Kind - Free Petrol") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Mar 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Benefits in Kind: Free Petrol") [proposal; agreed by MT] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 3 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Fringe Benefits") [MT worries about season tickets] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Nov 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Fringe Benefits") [taxing car benefits] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Mar 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Budget - The Reduction in NIS and the Public Sector") [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Budget") ["to re-establish credibility in our monetary & public expenditure objectives ... overshadows all"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 23 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Budget") [outline of budget decisions to date] [declassified 2011] |
| 82 Feb 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Forthcoming Budget - Fiscal Proposals") [update] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Feb 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The Forthcoming Budget") [update on progress] [declassified 2012] |
| 81 Feb 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("VAT on Imports") [strongly opposes] [declassified 2011] |
| 79 Jun 7 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (advancing payment of PRT) [not helpful] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 May 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (budget plans) [“quite severely contractionary” proposals] [declassified 2009] |
| 84 Feb 16 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (changes to excise duties in 1984 Budget) [declassified 2014] |
| 79 Jun 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (final outline of budget) [main proposals “more or less settled”] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jun 1 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (latest National Income forecast) [“we now expect a rather smaller impact on the RPI”] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jun 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (prescription charges) [second thoughts] [declassified 2009] |
| 84 Mar 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (proposal on 1984-85 PSBR) [declassified 2014] |
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