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PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Coles minute for MT (Hugh Thomas call regarding his contacts with Argentina) [MT agrees "it would not be helpful for him to make direct contact with Alfonsin"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Relations with Argentina") [Alfonsin accused HMG of "inflexibility"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Direct Entry Principal Competition 1983") [report on outcome: "relatively disappointing"; proposals for 1984; MT requests further information] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Multi-Department Reviews 1984/85") ["management of civil accommodation... by far the largest element after pay in departmental running expenses"; details of proposed review] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO letter to No.10 ("Paper on the Future of Europe") [distribution] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Terence Higgins MP and other backbench Members") [EC budget settlement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Overseas Development Administration minute to FCO: European Community Department ("European Council Preparations: Budgetary Imbalances") [summary of conversations with EC colleagues during London Economic Summit] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Jenkin minute to MT (“Trade Union bill: E(A) meeting”) [opposes amendments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Gregson briefing for MT (“The Trade Union Bill”) [briefing for sub-committee] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: US Treasury Secretary Donald Regan letter to MT (London economic summit) [thanks to her “highly successful in achieving a consensus among the participants on a broad agenda”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC 101(84)19th Meeting") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Howe letter to MT (“Sellafield”) [public confidence] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Redwood minute to MT ("Tilting at Castles") ["fairytale" on reform of the stock exchange] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Mr Spring’s Visit to London”) [“it might be tactful to ofer a meeting with Sir Geoffrey Howe or Mr Prior”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Coles minute to Goodall (“Anglo-Irish Affairs: Visit by the Tanaiste”) [MT unable to meet Spring] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Oliver Letwin minute for David Barclay (“Liverpool: Reorganisation of Schools”) [“We continue to believe that the proposals are disastrous, and that outright rejection would be the best solution”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Oliver Letwin minute for Turnbull (“Liverpool Schools”) [“the Council might well call Keith’s bluff”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Joseph minute to MT (“Liverpool Section 12 Proposals”) [“the Authority argue that all three modifications are beyond my powers”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit: Draft Parliamentary Statement”) [suggests that the statement be shortened] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Geoffrey Littler (London Economic Summit: Draft Parliamentary Statement) [“It lacks a section on the political matters discussed at the Summit”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“London Economic Summit: Soviet Comment”) [“Predictably the political statements have been sourly dismissed”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“London Economic Summit: Italian Press Comment”) [“The overall judgment is that, as on previous occasions, the goodwill of the participants masked fundamental differences”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1834 to FCO (2345Z) (“US Public Reactions to the Summit”) [“clearly reflecting heavy official briefing, generally favourable”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Howe to Heseltine (“Yarrow Ships: Iran”) [diplomatic activity] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Dar es Salaam to FCO (“Visit by Mr. Botha”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Gaborone to FCO (“Visit of South African Prime Minister to the UK”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: MT letter to Prime Minister Craxi of Italy (thanking for the gift) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Nick Ridley letter to Jenkin (Abolition of GLC/MCCs: cost savings) [public transport] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT letter to A.D. Pilcher (London Economic Summit) [duty on English wine] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 letter to National Portrait Gallery (London Economic Summit) [menu for Heads of State Dinner, signed by MT] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to MT ("Value for Money") [seminar for 10 July: candidates to give presentations: Home Office/DTI] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Robert Armstrong minute to Robin Butler ("Avowal of New Zealand SIGINT Organisation") [signals intelligence cooperation with allies] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Sleipner") [supply/demand; prices; UK export regime; recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Sleipner") [export regime as a condition of agreement to deal with Norway] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Gowrie letter to Biffen ("House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975") [publication of factual analysis abstracted from 1982/83 review report; follow-up to Review's findings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Brittan minute to Whitelaw ("Animals Legislation") [case for confirmation of Living Animals (Scientific Procedures) Bill in 1985/86 "in time for The Queen's Speech at the opening of the 1984-85 Session"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Urban Programme Review") [assessment of options; next steps] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Leon Brittan letter to Fowler ("Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs: Prevention Report") [draft Parliamentary announcement; proposal for inter-Departmental group] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Pay in 1984") [arbitration terms of reference; Government position] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Berne telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [Alfonsin's visit to Spain; foreign debt; the discovery of a bomb in Isabel Peron's plane] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The Security of Small States") [point by point response to MT's comments on Howe minute] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Film Industry Taxation") ["The Equipment Leasing Association... have accepted the change in the capital allowance regime... if any special treatment is provided for films, they will withdraw... [support for] the Budget strategy... I should be most concerned if that support were jeopardised"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Rees PS letter to Jenkin PS ("Booklet on UK Environmental Achievements") [Rees "concerned that the Treasury was not... consulted"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Community Budget Negotiations and the 1984/85 Budget Overrun") [proposed line to take, as agreed with Lawson] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Preparation for European Council of 25-26 June") [proposed meeting to discuss "a paper on the state of the negotiation and the possible options on the correction of the budget inequity and the... [UK] refunds"; briefing meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [EC budget/refunds; Social Affairs Council - employment issues; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Preparation for European Council") ["Presidency announced long list of possible subjects for discussion"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Adam Ridley to Conservative Central Office (draft letter for John Gummer to send to Robin Cook) [further rebuttal of VAT on food charge] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Notes for MT speech (farwell to John Coles) [humorous summary of the man] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: Japanese PM Nakasone letter to MT (thanks) [“we owe much to you, your expert chairmanship for the many achievements the Summit has made”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Redwood minute to MT (dinner with Stock Exchange chairman & council) [still somewhat divided on its future] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 19th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (need to question Walker about MacGregor's Plan for Coal) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [1984 social security up-rating, Argentina] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Reform of examinations at 16+”) [MT sceptical] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [papers on “problems involved in any proposals for re-partition or re-drawing the boundaries of Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Anglo/Irish Relations”) [MT-FitzGerald bilateral: “damp down any public expectation of substantial developments”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: David Barclay minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [Joseph “is maintaining his preference for modifying the Council’s proposals rather than outright rejection”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“London Economic Summit: French Press Reaction”) [“generally sceptical of the value of the Summit”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Howe to MT (“Iran-Iraq: The Gulf War”) [diplomatic activity] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: first day: comment”) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull (“Rate Limitation”) [extending scheme beyond London] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: President Duarte message to MT (elections) ["I look forward to continued cooperation between our governments and peoples in support of democracy"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 502 to FCO (1155Z) ("UK/India Relations: Introduction of Visa Regime") [requirements for UK passport holders on security grounds] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: FCO telegram 443 to UKHC New Delhi (1215Z) ("Sikh Agitation: Guardian Story on FCO Guidance") [story about circulation of telex by police community liaison officers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation") [options; recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT (Gas Industry Privatisation) [export regime; privatisation options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Sleipner Gas") [background to deal with Norway; UK export regime; gas prices] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 616 to FCO (2201Z) ("Cyprus: UNFICYP Mandate Renewal") [draft Security Council resolution] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("BNOC Review") [Walker endorses conclusion of multi-Departmental officials' report arguing for rentention, with review in 2 to 3 years] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("The European election in the FRG") ["There is more interest in the European Cup... The main issue is the strike..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Reme Static Workshops Review") ["...a number of areas within the [MoD] which absorb significant resources, and which might offer scope for savings in cash and manpower terms... One such is the Reme Static Workshop Organisation..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Council: meeting with the Taoiseach") [arrangements; Armstrong request to attend in view of FitzGerald's notice that he wishes to have "substantive" discussion with MT] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Visit of President of Argentina to Spain: Press Coverage") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Walker minute to MT ("Privatisation of Oil Companies") [stock market flotation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute (internal): Powell to Ryder (European Council meeting, Fontainebleau (EC Budget); British Commissioners for next EC Commission) [arrangements for MT meetings with Ministers to discuss] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Brussels telegram to FCO ("Budget Committee: 13 June") ["1985 Preliminary Draft Budget": preliminary discussions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Community Budget Negotiations and the 1984/85 Budget Overrun") [MT unhappy with line to take agreed between Lawson & Howe] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["what action might be taken to persuade Chancellor Kohl to take a more active and helpful part in obtaining a solution to the UK budget problem at Fontainebleau"; candidacy for EC Commission President; UK paper on future of EC] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Preparation for European Council of 25-26 June") [negotiations; Budget inequity; UK refunds; Ministerial meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Preparation for European Council") ["You have found it useful in the past to have a teach-in with a very limited number of officials before the normal briefing"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: MT letter to Neil Kinnock (VAT on food) [“a diversionary tactic” by Labour] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (Scargill's 'outrageous' demands: NCB was wrong to detect 'signs of realism') [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Charles Powell (“European Council: Meeting with the Taoiseach”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“London Economic Summit: German Media Reactions”) [“General reaction that the overall result was disappointingly meagre”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit record of conversation (“Meeting with Gordon Richardson, former Governor of the Bank of England”) [John Redwood, Richardson: international debt situation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1848 to FCO (0100Z) (“Argentina and the IMF”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute (“Financial Markets Report”) [May 1984] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Kaunda letter to MT (Botha’s visit to the UK) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Maputo to FCO (“Visit of the South African Prime Minister to the UK”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Bishop Huddleston (Botha’s visit to the UK: British relations with South Africa) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: 16th round: second day: comment”) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kinnock letter to MT (Rates Bill: statement in Parliament) [accusation of misleading the House] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Liverpool City Council”) [possibility of legal action or legislative measures if LCC fails to set legal rate and budget] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (London Economic Summit) ["You provided an impressive setting... particularly indebted to you and your staff"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Indira Gandhi message to MT (issues in Punjab) ["we have a difficult period ahead of us"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Sleipner") [comments on Lawson minute of 12 June; draft announcement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Peter Walker, John Redwood) ["Gas Industry Privatisation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Soviet Prisoners from Afghanistan") [applications for political asylum: arrival in UK; possibility of meeting with MT] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: Chancellor Kohl of FRG letter to MT (London economic summit) [conducive meetings, friendly atmosphere] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe PM Mugabe telegram to MT (HMQ’s birthday) [“hope that cooperation, mutual respect and understanding between our two countries will be further strengthened”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Jamaica: MT letter to Prime Minister Seaga of Jamaica (economic situation) [repayment of UK loans] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Jenkin ("Reconstitution of ILEA") [new Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Coles minute for MT ("Argentina/Falklands") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Visit of President Alfonsin") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: CBI minute to Andrew Turnbull (public service sector efficiency) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (US missile interceptor test) ["I attach a note covering both the military and arms control implications"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Bus White Paper") [draft] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Paper on the Future of Europe") [Sir Jock Taylor, Horst Teltschik: record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("European Council: the German Problem") ["how to get... Kohl to be more active and more helpful over our Budget problem"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: US Ambassador Charles Price letter to MT (thanks) [“the President appreciated fully your sensitivity to his concerns”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 22nd (Parliamentary Affairs, 1984 Social Security Uprating, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (MacGregor to write letter to striking miners) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Pascall minute to Turnbull ("The Coal Dispute - Public Opinion") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe minute to Heseltine ("Military Developments in Outer Space") [Strategic Defense Initiative: European attitudes towards SDI and ASATs] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 letter to MOD (request for advisory papers on anti-satellite systems and chemical weapons) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Channon minute to MT (report on Channon's visit to the USSR for UK-Soviet Joint Trade Commission) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC budget: Cabinet Office paper for MT (“Reform of the Community’s finances and UK refunds”) [overview of issues for decision at Fontainebleau] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Sir John Coles MSS) MT: Appreciation of Margaret Thatcher (contemporary recollection by Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs) [released 2014]
Text 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Governor of the Bank of England, Middleton) [international debt; remuneration of non-executive directors; bank pay] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Rees minute to MT ("Urban Policy and Programme Review: Report") [preliminary thoughts on Report & on Patrick Jenkin's & Robin Ibbs' proposals, in advance of meeting with MT on 2 July] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of President Kyprianou") [Cyprus negotiations; scholarships; EC/Customs Union; defence: bilateral issues] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (BNOC Review) [Walker argues for rentention, with review in 2 to 3 years; Policy Unit argues for abolition; Lawson undecided; MT sees retention as lesser of two evils] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("The FRG and the 35-hour week") [strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Berne telegram to FCO ("Argentina: Assessment") [President Alfonsin's approval rates; economy; army force reductions; human rights] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Berne telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [joint declaration by Argentina and Spain; foreign debt; economic policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("GEC and BAe") ["The absorption of BAe into a larger grouping is an unmissable opportunity for Government to dispose of its entire shareholding in BAe"; outline of "industrial pros and cons"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and amenities: No.10 briefing for MT ("Royal Academy Appeal") [options for Government's response & proposed lines to take] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 minute to MT ("Direct Entry Principal Competition") [details of revised scheme following "very disappointing" results of 1983 intake] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie PS minute to No.10 ("MPO's Management Documents for 1984-85") ["how the MPO plans to take forward its work during the year"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 minute to MT ("Libya: Defence Sales") ["contracts of potential benefit to terrorists... Martello Surveillance Radars... The Lord Chancellor... thinks that we should try to get other countries to undertake not to supply the radars. Only if they refuse should the contract for Martellos be allowed to stand"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Walker PS letter to No.10 (Acid Deposition) [Parliamentary written answer announcing publication of report; No.10 notes need for inter-Departmental coordination of environmental policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Walker minute to MT ("Acid Deposition") ["costs... [of] particular emission control standards... role of nuclear power... may be helpful if I explain some of the difficulties"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Jenkin minute to MT ("Acid Deposition") [policy options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Jock Taylor, Crispin Tickell, Michael Butler, Brian Unwin, David Williamson) ["European Community": "ways in which... Kohl might be encouraged to play a more positive role in seeking a fair settlement of the question of Community budget inequity"; EC budget 1984 overrun; own resources; 1984 UK refund] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("PESC Projection of Net Payments to EEC Institutions") [MT concerns about estimates/assumptions for net payments] [declassified Jan 2014]
Text 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Redwood paper for MT [What could be done about unreasonable Trade Union power] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: David Goodall letter to MT (farewell dinner for Coles) [thanks, Goodall also departing for FCO] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC 101(84) 20th Meeting") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (“Reform of Examinations at 16+”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Visit by Mr Spring”) [“he feels that a meeting with Mr Prior in these circumstances would attract undue publicity and attention”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Butler note to MT (future of Ireland meetings) [Alison’s request to attend] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram to FCO (“Cyprus Problem”) [relayed to Kyprianou that MT “had taken very seriously the apparent dangers in May of Turkish actions over Varosha and UNFICYP”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Fowler letter to Lawson (“Industrial action - Newcastle central office”) [management countermeasures as strike enters sixth week] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Brittan PS letter to Howe PS (“Firearms for Protection Officers”) [diplomatic incidents] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell (“London Economic Summit: Message to the Prime Minister from EFTA”) [not shown to MT during Summit, may now wish to acknowledge it] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell (“London Economic Summit: Messages from Latin American Presidents”) [“we can only support a dialogue between creditors and debtors individually”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 1889 to FCO (“Reagan on Summits”) [Reagan’s positive stance on London; press focus on possible US-Soviet summit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: UKDEL IMF telegram to FCO (“IMF: Argentina”) [managing the economic adjustment programme] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Argentina”) [IMF: the latest developments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Tebbit to Heseltine (“Yarrow Ships: Iran”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Visit of the South African Prime Minister: Messages to Presidents Dos Santos and Mobutu, and to Captain Sankara of Upper Volta”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC budget: FCO letter to No.10 (“Call by Sir J. Taylor on Chancellor Kohl”) [draft instructions; how to get Kohl engaged] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 16 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 630 to FCO (0047Z) ("Cyprus: UNFICYP Mandate Renewal") [Turkish Cypriot proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 861 to FCO (0430Z) ("Central Committe conference on the economy") [report] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 84 Jun 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Coles letter to MT (thanks for farewell dinner) [“The last two and a half years have been magnificent … a very special period of political history”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Sherbourne minute for MT (“Welsh Party Conference”) [“local police strongly advise that you leave the Pavilion immediately after your speech … because they expect a difficult demonstration”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Glenys Kinnock letter to MT (removal of the KwaNgema community) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 17 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Chair of The Burton Group PLC letter to MT (London Economic Summit) [reply to MT letter of thanks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Pushkar Johari message to MT (events in Punjab) [BBC broadcast with Chauhan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Mehtab Singh letter to MT ("Massacre at Golden Temple Amritsar") [supports for Chauhan's Khalistan Government in exile] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Wages Councils and International Labour Convention No 26") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: UKE Oslo telegram 124 to FCO (0810Z) ("Sleipner") [press comments by Prime Minister Willoch: background & advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT (UK gas) [supplies; import/export; prices] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Sleipner Gas") [new UK export regime] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Biffen ("Review of the Financial Services Sector") [supports Tebbit proposal for Debate in July] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Heseltine minute to Whitelaw ("Ordnance Factories and Military Services Bill") [stresses need to secure passage of Bill by Summer Recess in context of Government's privatisation programme] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO letter to Cabinet Office ("Commonwealth Senior Officials Meeting, Barbados") [leadership of UK delegation; preparation of meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kyprianou, Bullard, Iacovou, Panayides) [Cyprus negotiations; scholarships; EC/Customs Union; Treaty of Guarantee] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: FCO briefing for MT ("Cyprus: Prime Minister's Meeting with President Kyprianou") [extension of UN mandate; Turkish Cypriot proposals; John Thomson meeting with Pérez de Cuéllar] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (Paper on making Defence equipment procurement & supply more competitive; Prime Minister's query regarding France's right to tender for certain NATO contracts) [progress update on former; answer to latter] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Chief of the Defence Staff (Armed Forces Pay Review Body 1984) ["The fight against inflation is a central part of our economic strategy"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Greece: UKE Athens telegram 312 to FCO (0750Z) ("Greek European Elections") [current results, party distribution] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: E.W. Pegna, Managing Director of Portman Limited, letter to MT (requests UK government support for British Promotion to J.C. Penney Company) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Warship Building: E(A) (84) 23, 24 and 32") [future of Cammell Laird and warship building capacity] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Warshipbuilding Privatisation - E(A) on 20 June") [future of Cammell Laird and preparations for privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: MT letter to Presidents of Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Columbia, Panama (London economic summit) [economic recovery, protectionism] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("ILEA: direct elections") [new Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: MT letter to Sir Roy Strong (London Summit) [and other thank you letters] [released Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Prior minute to MT ("Progress with Financial Management in Northern Ireland Departments") [follow-up report: "considerable progress"; MT welcomes report but asks for it to be made "more accessible to the ordinary reader"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Walker minute to MT ("Enterprise Oil") ["the issue should be by tender... in line with a recommendation just made by the Public Accounts Committee"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Howe minute to MT ("Flotation of Enterprise Oil") [stock market flotation: "the only aspect... that concerns me is [Peter Walker's] intention to retain a special share in the company"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Film Industry") ["whether we can make a concession without undermining the Budget strategy on capital allowances... the industry now accept the loss of capital allowances... by operating on Section 72 of the 1981 Finance Act, we can avoid this problem... Treasury claims that Section 72 as it stands is an appropriate basis to apply to the UK film industry, while the industry argue... that Section 72 is based on US accounting practices"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Acid Deposition") ["Jenkin's proposals on acid rain and on vehicle emissions... should be supported... we do question however whether our nuclear objectives should be publicised as part of this package... The paper underplays the opportunities for a major UK initiative on lean burn engines"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("European Community: Call on Chancellor Kohl") [Sir Jock Taylor, Jenninger: record of conversation: UK paper on European union; candidacy for EC Commission Presidency; UK 1983 refunds] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Luxembourg record of conversation ("Foreign Affairs Council Luxembourg 18 June") ["Preparation for European Council": themes for discussion] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: John Gummer statement (election results) [“we have done better than any comparable poll at a similar time”]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: No.10 briefing for PMQs (Coal) [situation report; Llanwern] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Sherbourne minute (“Welsh Party Conference”) [police expect “difficult demonstration”, want her to leave early] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economic policy: MT’s copy of Nigel Lawson’s Mais Lecture (“The British Experiment”) [“conquest of inflation … the objective of macro-economic policy … growth … the objective of micro-economic policy”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 20th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Brittan letter to Rees ("Miners' Dispute: Policing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute ("The Coal Dispute: MISC 101 Papers on the Law") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Richard von Weizsäcker letter for MT (thanking for the message of congratulations on his election as President of the FRG) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MT letter to Bruce Sutherland (taxation of employment incomes) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph) [“Reform of examinations at 16+”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“Irish Govermment would be ready to have it solemnly declared and registered with the United Nations that there could be no change in the present position of Northern Ireland without the consent of a majority of the people of the Province”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [impact of proposed changes to Irish constitution] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 (“Meeting with Irish Ambassador: 18 June 1984”) [Irish willingness to make constitutional amendments] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Taylor letter to Butler (Danny Morrison’s possible election to European Parliament) [“the NIO have drawn attention to the risk of widening support for PIRA if we were seen to obstruct his duties”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on situation in Liverpool) [financial position of City Council] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lawson letter to Fowler (“Dispute at DHSS Newcastle”) [advises careful handling given wider context of pay negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS (“London Economic Summit: Messages from Latin American Presidents”) [signed replies from MT] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Colvin message to Robert Armstrong (“Follow Up Meeting to Discuss Political Subjects after the London Economic Summit (‘Institutionalisation’)”) [Shultz raised the issue with foreign ministers, follow-up meeting planned] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (“Argentina”) [Turnbull, Judith Simpson: banks’ negotiations with Argentina] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Younger letter to Whitelaw (“Rates Bill: invalid rates and precepts”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Deputy Chairman of De Vere Hotels and Restaurants PLC letter to MT (London Economic Summit) [reply to MT letter of thanks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Department of Environment letter to No.10 ("Soccer Spectator Violence") [evidence for a decline in football hooliganism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Meeting with Roy Griffiths") [NHS reorganisation: "a good opportunity to find out what is going wrong"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Roy Griffiths) [NHS reorganisation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Peter Walters) ["Sleipner Gas"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lamont letter to Rees (English Industrial Estates Corporation) [details of proposed legislative reforms relating to accounts, tax, borrowing & services] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Department of Trade & Industry letter to No.10 ("Warshipbuilding Privatisation - E(A), 20 June") [views of Graham Day, Chairman of British Shipbuilders on Cammell Laird] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Heseltine to MT ("Warshipbuilding Privatisation") [comments on Tebbit's proposals; argues for retention of capacity at Cammell Laird] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Canada/Arms Control") [advises against MT reply to Trudeau message about East/West relations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Whitelaw letter to Brittan (“Excessively Lenient Sentences”) [“proposed power for the prosecution to refer to the Court of Appeal”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT letter to Prime Minister Palme of Sweden (EFTA, G7 summits) [need to strengthen recovery, open trading system] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("The Taoiseach's visit to Paris") [FitzGerald, Mitterrand record of conversation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Ronald Reagan message to MT (London Summit) ["I admire the masterful job you did in organizing and presiding"] [released Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Arts and amenities: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Gowrie, Sir Hugh Casson) ["Royal Academy Appeal"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 letter to Ridley PS ("Bus White Paper") [MT "feels that this is a major subject for which it is vital to get the presentation right, and she would, therefore, like it to come back a further time to E(A)... (MT) would like the following points to be considered"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Walker, Younger, Edwards, Ridley, Gummer, Waldegrave, Peggy Fenner, Barney Hayhoe, Kenneth Baker, Malcolm Rifkind, Robin Nicholson, David Pascall) ["Acid Deposition"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("European Negotiations") [UK refunds: report on bilateral meetings with Foreign Ministers; conclusions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("European Community") ["Lubbers... would like to speak to you on the telephone before Fontainebleau"; recommended key points to make on EC budget issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("1982 Risk Sharing Refund") [1982 refund: negotiating options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cradock minute to Powell ("Justified Invasions") [MT "has noted a possible conflict of principles in foreign policy between... respect for national sovereignty... [and] the need to prevent massive violation of human rights"; thoughts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Briefing for PMQs (“background” on dispute) [“deplorable that the nation’s assets, and the jobs of miners, should be put at risk”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Briefing for PMQs (Scargill quote, David Owen question, Coalite) [background] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Ingham minute ("Miners' strike") [points for Welsh conference speech] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC 101(84)21st Meeting") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Coal: Pascall minute to Turnbull ("Coal and Civil Injunctions") [miners' strike: "if Scargill continues to promote massed battles...we recommend that the NCB or BSC should be ready to take civil remedies"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Rees letter to Brittan ("Miners' Dispute: Policing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Public Expenditure Cabinet, Argentina] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“National Savings”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Department of Education and Science minute to No. 10 (“Reform of examinations at 16+ - proposed Ministerial statement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Heseltine and Howe minute to MT ("Anti-Satellite Systems and Arms Control") [MOD/FCO paper on ASATs, SDI and arms control] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell (“New Leader of Canadian Liberal Party”) [proposed message of congratulations] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 639 to FCO (2323Z) (“Cyprus”) [“the Turkish Cypriots are open to counter proposals”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to Lord Quinton (Statement on Democratic Values) [thanks for help with early drafts] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to Olof Palme (EFTA declaration on cooperation with European Community) [thanks for sending the declaration; reciprocates with the G7 declaration on economic issues] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“Lady Young ’s Visit to Paris: Meeting with M. Gutmann”) [Latin American debt, Argentina, WEU] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Economy: Reagan letter to Thatcher (London G7 thanks) [unclassified]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Redwood minute to Turnbull (“Funding Meeting”) [policy of holding nerve and not raising rates last month has paid off] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Green Paper on constitutional development”) [future of Hong Kong] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Logica PLC letter to MT (London Economic Summit) [reply to MT letter of thanks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Tebbit letter to Lord Gowrie ("Multi-Departmental Review of Accommodation") ["happy to agree to this... a worthwhile topic"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Howe minute to Rees ("Development of the Property Repayment Services System (PRS)") [Inter-Departmental Committee recommendations & funding of maintenance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Foreign Secretary) [FCO expenditure] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Roy Griffiths) ["NHS Reorganisation"; MT: "very concerned"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 letter to Department of Trade & Industry ("Unipart") [acquisition of Edmunds Walker by Unipart: MT: "I am restricted in what I can say because D.T. is a director of Q[uinton] H[azell]...if I weren't restricted I should be making it quite clear that I am appalled"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Charles Powell minute to MT ("The late Kenneth Whitty") [MT pushes for a better compensation deal for dependants, including assurance of education costs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (pay & charges of the Armed Forces from 1 April 1984) [explanation of Government's decision to delay full implemention of recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: MT letter to Lord Plowden (Top Salaries Review Body: Seventh Report) [delay in implementation of recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Pay in 1984") [Burnham Further Education Committee referral of settlement to arbitration; Government opposition to arbitration terms of reference; Association of Polytechnic Teachers judicial review risk to arbitration process; Government position on pay structure/award level] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: Howe minute to MT ("Size of EDF IV") [renegotiation of the Lomé Convention and European Development Fund announcement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT letter to King Hussein of Jordan (“Arab-Israel dispute”) [need for renewed effort in 1985 “to achieve a just and lasting solution through peaceful negotiations”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: President Mitterrand of France message to MT (budget) [discussions at Fontainebleau] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("The FRG and the 35-hour week") [strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Brittan PS letter to Barclay (Parliamentary Boundary Commission for England: Interim Review of Parliamentary Constituencies") ["... primarily intended to realign the Parliamentary boundaries with altered local government boundaries..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: No.10 note (precedents for a visiting Foreign Minister to meet members of the Opposition) [advice from Foreign Office on visit to UK of Spanish Minister for Education] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute for MT ("Argentina/Falklands") [further developments in talks between Britain and Argentina: sovereignty issue] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT ("British Aerospace") [Chairman of Plessey Company's letter to Heseltine regarding proposed GEC takeover of BAe] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("TCSC: Long Term Trends Enquiry") [outline of DES paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie PS letter to No.10 ("Numbers on Personnel Work in the Civil Service") [report on "comparisons between personnel sections on Government departments"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Europe - the Future") ["The paper... has now been made available to all EC Heads of Government... has already met with some success..."; agreement to publication] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [UK refunds; EC enlargement/future development; new Prseident of EC Commission; European Parliamentary elections; Agricultural Council outcomes; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Preparation for European Council: Budgetary Imbalances") [French proposal] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("European Council") [report on position to be taken by Netherlands on post-Stuttgart negotiations at Fontainebleau] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("European Council: French approach") ["Various, apparently uncoordinated, ideas for settling the Budget imbalances issue are in circulation. The scene changes from day to day and as usual there is no firm indication of Mitterrand's preferences"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Preparation for the European Council") ["Meeting of Ministers... to agree the line for Fontainebleau on the UK Budget problem"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: President Mitterrand letter to MT (Preparation for the European Council) [budgetary imbalances; other key issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO telegram to UKE Athens ("Report of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee: Fontainebleau Summit") [request to circulate; summary of main points] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) France: UKE Paris despatch to FCO (Royal Visit to D-Day 40th anniversary in Normandy) [“does not fit easily with the Gaullist myth … of how France secured her liberation from German occupation”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Peter Walker notes (MT’s Welsh speech) [“no postwar government has done more for the future of the coal industry”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Arthur Seldon letter to Hayek (Birthday Honours) [congratulations on membership of the Order of the Companion of Honour]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 21st (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“H Committee”) [examinations at 16+, motorway speed limit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Heseltine minute to MT (“Sellafield”) [concern about repercussions of compensation offer] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Walker minute to MT (“Sellafield”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [meeting “to assess the position reached in our secret exchanges with the Irish”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Jopling PS letter to No.10 (“Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers - review of policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prime Minister Lubbers of The Netherlands) [INF, EC budget] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Washington telegram 1926 to FCO (1950Z) (“Middle East”) [the Gulf, Arab-Israel] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: South African Embassy in UK letter to No.10 (“Resettlement in Southern Africa: the KwaNgema Community”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC budget: Cabinet Office briefing (“European Council: reform of Community finances & UK refunds”) [for ministerial meeting 21 June] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) G7: Barrington PA letter to No.10 (London Economic Summit) [encloses sketches of Downing Street by Sir Hugh Casson] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Building Societies Green Paper") ["I have strong reservations about the paternalism inherent in the approach the Green Paper adopts"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of telephone conversations (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Governor of the Bank of England - 11.40am, 1.10pm) [Lloyds Bank rate increase] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Proposed Review of the BBC External Services") [terms of reference, review team] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Tebbit letter to Tom King (revisions to RDG Scheme and map of Assisted Areas) [goal of "major savings in public expenditure" threatened by "heavy response to your consultation on draft boundaries"; travel-to-work areas & the Wales/England border] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Transport: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("Inquiry Procedures") [proposed Code of Practice, pending outcome of review brought about by MT's concerns about cost & length of major inquiries] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Howe minute to Leon Brittan ("Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs: Prevention Report") [comments on Brittan proposal for inter-Departmental group] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("BNOC Review") [agrees to retaining BNOC at present size & with current objectives for the present, and to review in two or three years' time] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Turnbull minute to MT ("Industrial Sponsorship of Individual Students") [Joseph and Rees reach agreement on extension of scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Lord Advocate minute to MT (time limit on criminal proceedings) [recent High Court ruling affecting cases in Scotland] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversations (Chancellor-Governor) [Lawson rang re: possible base rate increase by Lloyds; Governor agreed "to ask them hold off for the time being"] [declassified 2010]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("OD: Argentina/Falklands") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Turnbull ("Taxing the Film Industry") ["The film industry is now crying foul at the loss of a perk it should never have enjoyed... [and] lobbying instead for a fixed and generous regime of write-offs which have nearly the same effect"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Film Industry Taxation") ["the industry has suffered a body blow with the budget changes to capital allowances... a concession on the lines sought by Norman Tebbit would be of enormous value"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Younger minute to MT ("Incidence of leukaemia in Bonnybridge/Denny area") ["your approval to set up a non-statutory independent review... a factory in Bonnybridge owned by Re-Chem International"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("1982 Risk Sharing Refund") [MT "regards the outstanding £42 million... as one of the issues on the table... at Fontainebleau"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("The European Council") ["Lubbers and Mitterrand... discussed a Presidency suggestion for a UK refund based on a flat rate of compensation in place of the system"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EC Council at Fontainebleau: the German approach") ["Pressures and incentives for Kohl to settle, but not at any price. Irritation over UK "intransigence" not a decisive factor"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Foreign Affairs Committee Report on the forthcoming Fontainebleau Summit") ["on the whole helpful... brings out very clearly... the question of budgetary imbalances"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("European Council: Budget Imbalances") [key points of French proposal, for MT phone call to Lubbers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations Executive Committee paper (meeting 21 June) [resolutions from constituency/area associations] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Briefing for PMQs (“additional background” on dispute) [strike “about whether coal develops into an efficient profitable industry or declines into a high subsidy low demand industry”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 23rd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Hailsham minute to MT (response of magistrates' courts to offences arising from the miners' strike) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Younger letter to Keith Joseph (“Corporal Punishment in Schools”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cabinet Office record of conversation (No.10 meeting on Northern Ireland) [Irish constitution, re-partition, future action] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT message to President Mobutu (Botha’s visit to the UK) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT message to Upper Volta Head of State (visit by the South African Prime Minister to the UK) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town to FCO (“Mr. P. W. Botha’s Visit to Europe”) [his briefing to the National Party caucus] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC budget: UKREP Brussels to FCO (“European Council: budgetary imbalances”) [European Commission viewpoint] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) EC budget: No.10 record of conversation (“European Council: Budget Imbalances”) [British bottom line, 1000-1250m ecu] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: the stationing of PLA troops in Hong Kong”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: arrangements for testing the acceptability in Hong Kong of an agreement with the Chinese”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone (London Economic Summit) ["grateful to you for the... [gift]... I found our talks particularly helpful and interesting"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Prior minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") [options for future of project] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: UKHC New Delhi telegram 544 to FCO (1135Z) ("Demonstrations against the High Commission") [protests about BBC interview of Chauhan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Benefit Reviews: Brief for Meeting with Norman Fowler") [general principles; options; conclusions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("Poverty and Unemployment Traps") [Social Security Reviews] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("Urban Policy and Programme Review - Report") [preliminary meeting; options] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Sri Lanka") [UK-Ceylon Defence Agreement: MT rejects proposed line to take in her meeting with Jayewardene on 27 June] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("EDG links with other Parties in the European Parliament") [establishing a closer working relationship with the German Christian Democrats; Howe advises MT to raise issue with Kohl; speaking notes attached] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Geoffrey Howe note to MT (“EDG Links with other Parties in the European Parliament”) [“first objective should be to attempt to establish a closer working relationship with the Christian Democrats”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Genscher and the FDP") ["...to resign as FDP Party Chairman... but continue as Foreign Minister... FDP in a major crisis."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("The FDP and the Bonn coalition") ["...domestic anxieties... have worsened with Genscher's [resignation]... growing doubts about... long term viability [of FDP] as Coalition partner."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish relations: Northern Ireland") [draft speaking note] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers) [UK contribution to EU Budget; Mitterrand "taking a very tough stance"; MT: "very bad news"] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Jenkin minute to MT ("Limpenhoe Marshes: Mr David Archer") [Jenkin/Jopling dispute over Jenkin proposal to issue order to conserve threatened landscape] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("German approach to Fontainebleau") ["a fair and lasting solution to the problem of British net contributions"; successor to Gaston Thorn] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Dumas) [EC Budget: European Council meeting, Fontainebleau, 25-26 June] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to Howe ("European Council, 25-26 June") [outline of anticipated agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Council, Fontainebleau, 25-26 June") [MT speaking notes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("European Council: preparation for the European Council") [David Williamson, Étienne Davignon: Budget imbalances] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Imperial Chemical Industries PLC ("The Fontainebleau European Council") [UK "to press hard for measures which will genuinely ensure the operation of the internal market"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Arab-British Chamber of Commerce (ABCC)") [opening of new premises: Howe emphasises need for equal treatment of Arabs/Israel, in terms of UK government representation at official events] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Education: Bob Dunn speech in Dartford (religious & moral education in schools) [“the development of moral values is also a much neglected area of the curriculum”] [annotations released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) G7: President Reagan message to MT (thanks) [“The industrial democracies now are firmly launched on a close, collaborative approach to the problems of the eighties.”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Coal Dispute: BSC") [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: MT letter to President of the World Bank Clausen (the supplementary financing of the International Development Association) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: David Barclay minute to Butler, MT (“Possible visit to Liverpool”) [proposes keeping plans quiet “to minimise the inevitable disruption and demonstrations”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Turnbull minute to Jenkin PS (“Liverpool: Commissioners”) [MT’s response to Jenkin’s suggestions for appointments] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Turnbull note to MT (Jenkin’s stance on Liverpool) [“Jenkin seems to have done well in shepherding Liverpool back towards the fold without conceding much in 1984-85”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Heseltine minute to MT (Liverpool Commissioners) [“It is essential to consider now a private list of people who could be approached if - against all our wishes and efforts - we are forced to intervene”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (meeting with Liverpool City Council) [plans for 1985-6 budget, possible rate increase agreement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (breach of security) [Brittan leaves classified papers exposed: Armstrong discusses with MT and Brittan] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italy internal”) [fresh assessment of Craxi’s prospects - DC the biggest threat to him] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Mackworth-Young (restructuring of the international debt) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“Argentina”) [latest developments & French role] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town to FCO (“South Africa’s Relations with her Neighbours”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 23 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 23 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Stephen Sherbourne note to Ronnie Millar (MT’s party election broadcast) [request for draft] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 23 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: MT draft (Aberfan) [fragment for Welsh Conference speech] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 23 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: MT message for Prime Minister Strauss of Bavaria (letter of condolences: death of Frau Strauss) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 24 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 24 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Dumas letter to Howe (EC Budget: UK refunds) [original French text of letter: outline of the various propositions] [declassified Jan 2014]
Text 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Leon Brittan minute to Norman Tebbit ("TV Licensing: Hotels and Self-Catering Establishments") [have reached a satisfactory outcome of this irksome problem] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") ["our minimum requirement for going ahead"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Heseltine minute to MT ("Maintaining the Strength of the Science Base") ["I would not wish to see any change in the present balance between intra- and extramural basic defence research"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Leon Brittan letter to Howe ("Soviet Prisoners of the Afghan Resistance") [applications for political asylum: arguments against admission point "to the desirability of making a further attempt to involve our Western allies in a joint approach"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/Central America: National Security Planning Group minutes (1800Z) ("Central America") (NSPG 0091) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Zimbabwe: MT message to Zimbabwe PM Mugabe (thanks for message on HMQ’s birthday) [attaches “importance to continuing the close co-operation we have established”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Berne telegram to FCO ("Relations with Argentina") [positive response by the Swiss regarding the new approach in talks with Argentina] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram to UKDEL Fontainebleau ("Relations with Argentina") [constructive response by the Swiss regarding a new formula on sovereignty] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram to UKDEL Fontainebleau ("Relations with Argentina") [favourable Argentine reaction to the UK acceptance of the new formula on sovereignty] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Managing Director of British Aerospace PLC letter to Tebbit ("Tornados for Turkey") ["as a result of my visit to Turkey... they have indicated an intention to proceed... subject to confirmation of the terms offered in my letter... I would like to outline the importance of this decision so that all the factors concerned may be taken into account"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Brittan minute to MT ("Film Industry") [cable & satellite broadcasting; taxation of television companies; levy on films shown on TV] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: HMG paper ("Europe - the Future") [given by MT to EC heads of government at Fontainebleau European Council] [published Jun 1984]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 briefing (“Summit briefing”) [letters to Hawke and Gandhi, Crispin Tickell’s visit to Australia and India] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food press notice (“Ministers to Study Slaughter Report”)
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Farm Animal Welfare Council press notice (“Report on the Welfare of Livestock at Slaughter Published”)
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Base Rates") [banks increasing theirs] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Ministry of Defence to MT (“Merchant Shipping in the Gulf and the Armilla Patrol”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC budget: Armstrong minute to MT (“Budget Imbalances”) [lunch with Attali - Mitterrand upper limit is two thirds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (FCO) EC budget: French Presidency dinner menu (“conseil européan Fontainebleau”) [dinner at the Bas-Breau in Barbizon; with MT jottings on conversation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Future of Hong Kong: agenda item two (arrangements before 1997)”) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Hong Kong: constitutional developments before 1997”) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Benefit Review: Brief for Meeting with Norman Fowler") [general principles] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler minute to MT ("NHS: Implementation of Griffiths") [outline of strategy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Pay in 1984") [level of arbitration pay awards; Parliamentary override; superannuation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Pay in 1984") [Burnham Primary & Secondary Committee referral of settlement to arbitration; Government response; arbitration terms of reference; next steps] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, FitzGerald) [Northern Ireland: proposed amendment to Irish constitution to relinquish territorial claims; MT scepticism about "joint authority"; next steps/press handling; FitzGerald direct talks with Unionists; House of Commons debate; FitzGerald talks with Opposition leaders in London; Sinn Fein/presonation of elections; long-term strategy for negotiations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to MT ("1984 Public Expenditure Survey") ["this is going to be a difficult operation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("Public Expenditure 1984-85") [local authority finance, electricity price] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Bus White Paper") ["We are to discuss at E(A) on June 28th... in advance of the meeting... revised opening paragraphs and a new piece about London... we should discuss the question of how to tackle fuel duty rebate"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Peter Walker letter to Conservative MPs (further briefing on coal strike) [coal stocks high, return to work increasing, redundancy scheme] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC budget: Presidency medal (keepsake given to leaders after Fontainebleau European Council) [released 2015]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Briefing for Prime Minister's Questions: 26 June 1984 - Coal Industry Dispute") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC 101(84)22nd Meeting") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (BSC, BR and NCB meeting to coordinate positions over possible injunctions) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Tom King (“Training for Jobs: public expenditure implications”) [argues against further reduction in local authority expenditure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on situation in Liverpool) [Jenkin “thinks the Liverpool City Council are genuinely anxious to strike a legal rate at their meeting”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Flesher minute to Butler (“Paving Bill”) [principal objection of the Lords has been met] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Turnbull minute to MT (Jenkin-Rees meeting on Liverpool) [“For 1985-86 Mr. Jenkin wishes to give Liverpool an assurance that he will be able to give additional help”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin PS to No10 (Jenkin letter to Liverpool City Council) [“what he had in mind was the provision of a further £10 million”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 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]
Text 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (European Union) EC: Fontainebleau European Council (Presidency Conclusions)
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC budget: MT speaking notes (for Council sessions) [includes MT jottings on conversations; ready reckoner for 60-70 per cent settlement range] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC budget: MT memoir (Fontaineableau European Council) [settlement of the British budget question] [released 2015]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (FCO) EC budget: FCO record of conversation (“informal record” of Fontainebleau European Council) [settlement of British budget question] [declassified 2008]
Text 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (European Union) EC: Fontainebleau European Council (Presidency Conclusions)
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC budget: Ingham minute to MT (“Your press conference”) [“right to strike a reasonable deal”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKDEL Fontainebleau (constitutional development and general strategy for the talks) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Hong Kong: OD(K) 28 June”) [summary of papers for the meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“OD(K): Future of Hong Kong: arrangements for testing the acceptability in Hong Kong of an agreement with the Chinese”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“OD(K): Hong Kong: constitutional development before 1997”) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“OD(K): future of Hong Kong: agenda item two”) [UK/China negotiations] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 letter to Fowler PS ("The National Health Service: Family Practitioners") [Green Paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Redwood minute to No.10 ("Nationalised Industries Bill") ['The Bill is to be welcomed. It will strengthen powers to allow privatisation...'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Whitelaw minute to MT (Nationalised Industries Bill) ['you should be aware of the need for urgency in finalising the content of the Bill'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Moscow telegram 789 to FCO (1520Z) ("Soviet Soldiers from Afghanistan") [applications for political asylum: text of Soviet MFA speaking note protesting the admission of the soldiers to the UK] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to MT ("Public Expenditure") [manpower targets, nationalised industries, contracting out, local authority spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Enterprise Oil") ["A difficulty has arisen on the flotation... the aim was to create an independent exploration and production company in the North Sea. RTZ's holding, if allowed to go through, casts doubt on Enterprise's independence"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Bus White Paper") [background; main issues; presentation/rural areas; fuel duty rebate; London; publication; handling; conclusions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Small Firms") [progress report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [results of the European Council at Fontainebleau including agreement on EC financing system/UK refunds] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversation ("Budget Imbalances") [Robin Renwick, David Williamson, Guy Legras: "Legras agreed that... [Dumas] proposal was absurd"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Follow-up to European Council") ["problems with texts published on the Presidency's own authority"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Fontainebleau: French press coverage") [summary] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Fontainebleau Summit: German media coverage") ["Outcome of Budget debate generally seen to be fair: a successful Summit"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 note to Howe PS ("European Council, Prime Minister's Statement to the House") [latest draft with MT amendments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Cockfield minute to MT (“Trade Union Bill”) [points intended to be made at meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Gregson minute to MT (“The Trade Union Bills”) [briefing on sub-committee] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Letwin minute to Turnbill (“Trade Union Bill”) [King’s fears amendment will be used to ridicule government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Taxation: Treasury record of conversation (“Film Industry”) [“the [corporation tax] changes were likely to have a far greater impact on the film companies’ behaviour” than first thought] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT personal minute to Cabinet colleagues (appointment of Special Advisers from Conservative Research Department) [“the drain on that Department’s manpower resources has become an embarrassment”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Sir Percy Cradock letter to MT (congratulations on Fontainebleau budget settlement) [“It takes courage to fight; it also takes courage to settle …a very defensible deal … an incubus removed”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italy internal: local elections”) [results not a reliable guide to standing of national parties] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 22nd (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Brittan letter to Rees ("Miners' Dispute: Policing Costs") [miners' strike: dealing with extra policing costs; MT: "hadn't we better go the whole way now?"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Coal Dispute: Numbers At Work") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Martin Bangemann, New Federal Economics Minister”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Northern Ireland”) [Irish constitutional amendments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: UKDEL IMF telegram to FCO (“IMF and Argentina”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC budget: UKREP Brussels to FCO (“Discussion of budgetary imbalances at Fontainebleau”) [Mitterrand presenting outcome as “one in which there were neither victors nor vanquished”; Tietmeyer reaction] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) EC budget: UKREP Brussels to FCO (“Second session: budgetary imbalances”) [summary of plemary & bilaterals leading to agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: visit of UMELCO delegation to Peking”) [“cold and abrupt”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") ["Simple cancellation would... damage Anglo-Irish relations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Fowler") [NHS Management Board] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Department of Health & Social Security letter to No.10 ("Chairman of the NHS Management Board") [salary] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Department of Health & Social Security letter to No.10 (Deputy Secretary posts) [letter of protest at plans to reduced number of posts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Urban Programme - Policy Review") [recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Nationalised Industries' Bill (E(NI) (84) 6") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Turnbull minute to MT ("ENI: Nationalised Industries Bill") [Chief Whip's concerns about Bill; risk of 'guerilla tactics' by the Opposition] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl of FRG (UK budget contribution) [grateful for help at Fontainebleau] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT letter to Prime Minister Lubbers of the Netherlands (thanks for help at European Council) [search for solution to budget problem at Fontainebleau] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT to President Mitterrand (Fontainebleau European Council) [thanks for "hospitality … and excellent arramgents", congratulations on a "successful outcome"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Namibia: MT telegram to President Diouf of Senegal (independence) [“South Africa should have left the territory long ago”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO telegram to UKE Paris ("OECD: EDRC meeting on the French economy") ["Milleron described the broad thrust of French economic policy as being to improve the external balance by reducing inflation and slowing the growth of internal demand. Several other statements by Milleron during the course of the meeting illustrate how far French policy has apparently shifted since 1981/82..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute for MT ("Relations with Argentina: First Round of Talks") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("GEC and British Aerospace") [GEC examining takeover bid; "We suggest that... [MT] might put DTI on notice that she is becoming concerned about the apparent inaction"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit letter to Chairman of European Ferries PLC (sale of Sealink) ["The decision not to release European Ferries from the undertaking [not to acquire Sealink] was taken in accordance with the advice of the Director-General of Fair Trading"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Mr. Walker's Statement on Enterprise Oil") ["What could have been a difficult occasion for the Government proved to be very successful"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("1982 Risk Sharing Refund") ["We should not put our gain at risk by continuing to pursue the outstanding amount on the 1982 refund"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Fontainebleau: French reactions") ["Increasing recognition that British demands were reasonable"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Fontainebleau - German government statement and further press reaction") ["Federal Government... upbeat... Press comment by comparison less euphoric"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Outcome of Fontainebleau") ["Colleagues may find it useful to have the attached note explaining the main features of the agreement"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Foreign Policy: Possible Conflict of Principles") ["our policy on intervention by one country in the affairs of another... [has] clear implications for the police and the security service... in this country"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Briefing for PMQs (“additional background” on dispute) [strike “regardless of whether civil remedies are sought, society has a right and the duty to protect itself from mob rule”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 24th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Enterprise Oil) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Most Confidential Record to Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 24th (Parliamentary Affairs: Northern Ireland) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Sir Walter Marshall, Chairman of the CEGB, letter to Walker (report on CEGB meeting with BSC) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("UK/Soviet Relations") [arrangements for Howe visit to Moscow] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute to MT ("Sir Geoffrey Howe's Visit to Moscow") [MT rejects FCO plan to invite Chernenko to UK] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Dr FitzGerald’s Visit to London on 27 June”) [Taoiseach’s “wish that Anglo-Irish relations should not become an object of party controversy in the United Kingdom”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Robert Young minute to MT (“The Urban Programme - Policy Review”) [“Keep an Urban Programme, confine it to, and set clear objectives for, housing, the elimination of derelict land, and the support of voluntary social projects in the worst areas”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 letter to US Embassy (US tax reform measures in relation to imported cars) [“not discriminatory”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to Bob Hawke (London Economic Summit outcomes) [Crispin Tickell to brief Hawke on agreements and declarations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: MT message to Indira Gandhi (London Economic Summit outcomes) [Gandhi’s letter helped with wider perspective in discussions; Crispin Tickell to brief Gandhi on agreements and declarations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“Argentina”) [MT disturbed that further loans being considered without satisfactory IMF agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT letter to Graesser and others (Welsh party conference) [thank yous, early departure] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Muscat to FCO (“Situation in the Gulf”) [conversation with the Sultan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: discussions on general strategy”) [Youde and Evans visit to London] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Ingham minute to Whitelaw (“Local government/London Transport”) [abolition of GLC: media campaign to lay ground for White Paper] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary

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