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PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan to MT (account of Gromyko visit to US) [declassified 2007]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Rees memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 29 (Public Expenditure Survey 1984) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 43rd (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 3 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Flesher minute to MT ("Bishop of Durham") [miners' strike: Walker-Bishop of Durham meeting 'extremely unsatisfactory'] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Flesher minute to MT ("Working Miners at Manton Colliery") [miners' strike: report of attempted murder of working miners] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT ("NACODS and the Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: report of attempted murder of working miners] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hong Kong: Michael Alison note to Charles Powell (mooted trip to China) [“likely to be too many people in the Conservative Party who felt instinctively that we had really given Hong Kong away to the Chinese”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“the farthest we are likely to get by the time of the Summit is to be able to report to the Prime Minsiter and the Taoiseach on the outlines of a possible package”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell minute to Appleyard (“New Canadian Prime Minister”) [proposed meeting with Mulroney: MT’s autumn diary “already exceptionally full”] [declassified December 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Robert Armstrong minute to MT (“Airline Competition Policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rees minute to MT (“Party Conference: Motion on local government financial arrangements”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“A Voice for London”) [campaign against GLC abolition proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Local government finance”) [Jenkin review] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: FCO letter to Powell ("Comments by the French Prime Minister on Britain") [performance of UK economy] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 2967 to FCO (1425Z) ("Laker Grand Jury") [ex-BA employees informed by US Dept of Justice of their implication in crime; UK Govt protests at timing & at not being notified in advance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: MT letter to Prime Minister Hawke of Australia (Hong Kong agreement) [grateful for your support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Powell letter to FCO ("Hong Kong: Negotiating Team") [MT to give a party for those involved in negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Indo-British Colloquim (IBC)") [Gandhi has agreed to new body] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Robin Butler minute to MT (article in The Listener: disputed vote on Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Bill in 1976) [broken pair controversy - Tom Pendry MP request for documentation held by No.10; considers legal action against author of article, Julian Critchley MP] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Chief Constable of Merseyside Police Force (Visit to Liverpool, 2 October) [thanks for police arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Chairman of the Merseyside Development Corporation (tackling urban decay: International Garden Festival and the Albert Dock) [follow-up to MT visit to Liverpool, 2 October] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Lord Aberconway (International Garden Festival) [Commissioner General for the Festival: follow-up to MT visit to Liverpool, 2 October] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Chairman of Plesset PLC (Wavertree Technology Park) [follow-up to MT visit to Liverpool, 2 October] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Liverpool on 2 October") [draft replies to people MT was introduced to] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Howe minute to Lord Gowrie ("Megaw: The Payment of Permanent and Deputy Secretaries") ["as far as the Diplomatic Service is concerned I do not wish at present to seek any change in existing procedures"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 3164 to FCO (1830Z) ("Enlargement: The Prospects") ["If we cannot get ahead soon, the German position on our own resources will begin to make the... Fontainebleau package precarious... the major difficulties come from Greek[s]... and French obstructiveness"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: FCO letter to No.10 ("Sleipner") [encourages movement in negotiations on imports from Sleipner gas field] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: FCO letter to No.10 ("British Shipbuilders: Disposal of Brooke Marine") [FCO supports Department of Trade & Industry decision not to sell majority stake to Omani Government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: Gaisman note to Grand Hotel (“Conservative Party Conference”) [MT’s room, menu requests] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Gummer note to Sherbourne (Garner’s notes for MT’s speech to agents’ dinner) [elections, grass roots] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hong Kong: MT letter to Prime Minister Hawke of Australia (Joint Declaration) [Australian support “will do much to foster confidence … at this critical time”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Biffen ("Education in London") [elections to new Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Education in London") [elections to new Inner London Education Authority] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [venue & travel arrangements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: FCO minute for Powell ("Visit of the Yugoslav Foreign Minister") [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [foreign debt, visit by the Swiss Foreign Minister, Jimmy Carter's visit to Buenos Aires, Alfonsin one of the nominees for the Nobel peace prize] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Tokyo ("Falklands at the UN") [unofficial translation of amended draft resolution] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Norman Tebbit minute to MT (DTI spending) [efforts to reduce spending] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("New EC Commission") [West German Commissioners] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Budgetary Questions. European Parliament Press Conference") [UK 1983 refunds] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKDel Strasbourg telegram to FCO ("EC Budget 1983 Refunds") [latest position] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Ingham minute for MT (“Conference Speech”) [“people v. the machine”; ultra left v the nation; David English] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 32nd (Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Economic Affairs, Queen's Speech, Airline Competition Policy, Local Government Finance, Public Service Pay and Expenditure 1985-6, Public Expenditure Survey 1984) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Thursday 4 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Power Station Endurance") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Havers minute to MT (DPP to take over case of murder threat against working miner) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Anglo-German Consultations, 2 November: Programme”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit (“Direct Private Investment Overseas”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to MOD ("Ministerial Contacts with the Soviet Union") [responding to Soviet invitations to UK Ministers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell note to MT (Gorbachev accepts invitation to visit UK) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Jenkin minute to MT (Fund for Animal Welfare campaign: “Save our Swans”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Baker, Lord Avon, Letwin) [“London dimension of abolition”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker letter to Whitelaw (“Abolition: By-elections”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Permanent Secretary to the Treasury letter to Rees ("Value for Money") [outline of concerns about Government strategy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (extract from Books) [the gilt-edged market] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: UKE Washington telegram 27 to FCO (0400Z) ("El Salvador") [losses at El Paraiso] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 2996 to FCO (2236Z) ("Laker Consultations") ["particular issues that may come up"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Ridley PS letter to Howe PS ("Laker") [paper for Ministerial meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 3132 to FCO (0900Z) ("Hong Kong Agreement: Media Coverage") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("BL - Who Should Drive?") [letter from Austin Bide of British Leyland; Corporate Plan; privatisations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Andrew Pearce MEP (Merseyside industry and commerce) [follow-up to meeting during MT visit to Liverpool, 2 October; MT welcomes 'good news' stories whilst criticising "extravagant policies" of some local authorities] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Managing Director of Barratt Urban Renewals (Northern) Ltd (Minster Court urban renewal) [follow-up to meeting during MT visit to Liverpool, 2 October; "astonished... I hope that Barrats will.... repeat this... in other cities"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Leon Brittan minute to MT ("Drug Abuse") [request that all Departments 'keep lid' on Government proposals, to maximise impact of announcement at Conservative Party Conference] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (VAT exemption for small businesses) [MT firmly opposed to EC proposal to reduce real value of exemption] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: MT letter to Sir James Gowans (financial position of the Medical Research Council) [follow-up to meeting with Jellicoe and Gowans] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Lord Renton letter to MT (legislative drafting) [respective roles of Government and Parliamentary Counsel] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to Powell ("The Belgrano") [MT's draft replies to letters from George Foulkes and David Owen] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("DTI: Expenditure Programme") [possible savings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1984: Trade and Industry") [savings in DTI's mainline programme] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Hurd PS (Northern Ireland block) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("Industrial Collaboration and Community R & D") ["we already face very difficult decisions on public expenditure. Moreover... [these proposals] depart from the arrangements which... [we] agreed in February... There is also the important question of funding for Community R&D generally"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Trade: Treasury minute (internal) ("ECGD: Liability to 'Take-Out' Loans in US Dollars and DM") [ECGD officials to discuss with banks the possibility of "unacceptable consequences for the availability of dollar or deutschmark or problems in implementing the change without an increase in public expenditure"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report”) [“Significant that those miners who have been able to vote, have voted overwhelmingly to work”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Peter Walker letter to Bishop of Durham (the miners’ strike) [MT’s annotated copy] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Margaret King notes (“Conference Clothes”) [list of items] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Tim Flesher minute for MT (“Unemployment”) [employment and unemployment increasing at same time] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Employment briefing for MT ("Major Industrial Disputes") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler minute to MT (MacGregor letter to NACODS) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler minute to Department of Employment (supposed departure of a 'certain American lady' to the US: she had in fact remained in the UK throughout) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("MISC 101(84)44th Meeting: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Bishop of Durham (the miners' strike) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: National Working Miners Committee dossier (“The Miners‘ Dispute. A Catalogue of Violence.’) [“working miners … have come under constant attack from striking miners”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Colin Budd minute to Charles Powell (“Capture of PIRA Shipment by the Irish Navy”) [“the Americans were not involved at any stage”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell letter to Sandiford (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT “said that she was worried that the Irish Government were trying to push the talks along too fast”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Meeting of Ministers: 5 October. Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [to agree instructions for Armstrong] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Sandiford minute to Charles Powell (“Meeting with the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs”) [proposed Hurd-Barry bilateral] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd letter to Havers (“R v Dominic McGlinchey”) [likely impact of an acquittal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Walker letter to Peter Rees (“AEA Review: financial implications”) [future of UK Atomic Energy Authority] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hungary: FCO minute to No.10 (“Visit by Matyas Szuros, Central Committee Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party”) [MT doubtful of seeing him; CDP urges] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (controls over activities of the abolition authorities) [GLC contracts] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 6 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 3141 to FCO (0440Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: Report on Public Opinion") [generally positive first responses; "inevitably there will be more cautious second thoughts"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: No.10 note (party conference) [Grand Hotel accommodation list] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT notes for conference speech (liberty & law) [“The choice is between a responsible freedom, and an East European state”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Bernard Ingham note for MT ( Sunday Times opinion poll) [“some interesting results about the Labour Party and violence on the picket line”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: MT notes for conference speech (“Miners Strike”) [“an agonising struggle”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 7 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 3005 to FCO (1600Z) ("Laker: Civil Action") [proceedings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Ronnie Millar draft for conference speech (Miners Strike) [polishes MT handwritten text] [released 2014]
Text 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Efficiency Unit minute to MT ("Value for Money Seminars") [Scottish Office] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: President Ershad of Bangladesh message to MT (Hong Kong Agreement) [congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Archbishop of Liverpool (the future of Liverpool) [follow-up to meeting during MT visit to Liverpool on 2 October] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Secretary of the Grafton Crescent Housing Cooperative (Visit to Grafton Crescent Housing Corporation) [2 October; MT impressed by residents' involvement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Regional Manager of Anglican Cathedral Precinct Housing Corporation (Anglican Cathedral Precinct housing and commercial facilities development) [Visit to Liverpool, 2 October: "an exciting project"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Bishop of Liverpool (future of Liverpool) [follow-up to meeting during MT visit to Liverpool, 2 October; "share your concern... [and] appreciate greatly your work"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3006 to FCO (1729Z) ("Reagan/Mondale Debate on 7 October") [report on first television Debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: report on H Committee position] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) NHS: Redwood minute to MT ("The Health Service") [proposed strategy for health policy: 'The more we spend the less popular we become'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Geoffrey Pattie letter to Peter Rees ("Post Office Closure Programme and DHSS Industrial Dispute") [closures delayed until dispute resolved] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Tebbit letter to Whitelaw ("British Telecom Flotation") [guidance on appropriate responses to questions from the public during share offer period] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: No.10 note (“Prime Minister’s Clothes - Party Conference”) [list of outfits by day] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: No.10 note (“Prime Minister’s Programme”) [detailed list of movements, engagements] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (“Time Limits on Criminal Proceedings”) [Prosecution of Offences Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Anglo-German Special Advisers/Private Secretary contacts") [suggested meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [the Beagle and Falklands disputes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to George Foulkes MP (sinking of the Belgrano) ["if ... you believe that Ministers did not act in good faith and reasonably, I would prefer you to say so openly"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Dr David Owen MP (sinking of the Belgrano) ["the process of the disclosure will never satisfy those determined to misinterpret the Government's actions at the time"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: David Hunt note to Michael Alison (background information on pit closures for MT) [Labour record, unemployment, assistance] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Redwood draft fragment (MT conference speech) [“Violence is evil. And only this Party and the British people have the courage to condemn it”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Sherman draft speech module (“Modules, mark three: Job casualties of the class war”) [“The silent majority must speak up, or suffer the consequences”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Foreign policy: Sir Anthony Parsons letter to MT (reflections following Chequers seminar) [intervention & international law] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Draft MT speech (on arrival at Brighton) ["Monday 8th October AM"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: David Hart draft for MT (contribution to conference speech) ["The Left have lost the economic argument"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: The Times Editor's office letter to Hayek (The Times unable to use Hayek's article)
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 44th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Monday 8 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (report on power station endurance) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Tebbit letter to Rees ("Miners' Dispute - Policing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Gaisman note (“Prime Minister’s Clothes - Party Conference”) [precise listing of outfits by event] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: No.10 note (“Grand Hotel Accommodation”) [floorplan & guest list] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Foreign Secretary PS minute to Charles Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [FitzGerald speech on Forum report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Secretary PS minute to Charles Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [errors in previous letter] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FitzGerald letter to MT (PIRA arrests) [thanks for letter] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy/trade: Tebbit minute to MT (“Visit to Italy: 1-2 October 1984”) [account of visit; market large and worth exploiting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Tebbit letter to Peter Walker (“Review of the AEA”) [future of UK Atomic Energy Authority] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT letter to Michael Lingens (response to Bow Group open letter) [“the Government are pressing full steam ahead”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO to UKE Pretoria (“Durban Consulate”) [a radio interview from within the building] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 3011 to FCO (2142Z) ("Laker: Grand Jury") ["details of the evidence... to support the proposed indictments"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO letter to Powell ("Hong Kong: Signature of Agreement") [MT to travel to Peking to sign Agreement; timing of visit; handling of contacts with China] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Prime Minister Lange of New Zealand letter to MT (appointment to Privy Council) [sends thanks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (London Weighting) ["the Government will be implementing the recommended increases from 1 April"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: MT letter to Ministers in Charge of Deparments (Scrutiny of Administrative and Legislative Burdens on Business) [new policies or regulatory measures] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Tebbit minute to MT ("Sheffield Forgemasters") [possible failure of Forgemasters] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Turnbull minute to MT ("Sheffield Forgemasters") [possible failure of Forgemasters and possible supporting action by British Steel] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Young minute to MT ("Sheffield Forgemasters Steel Company") [possible failure of Forgemasters] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: MOD letter to No.10 ("British Shipbuilders: Disposal of Brooke Marine") [MOD opposes sale of majority stake to Omani Government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: MT engagement card (party conference) [detailed list of engagements for 9 Oct] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Berne telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Argentine Relations") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Norman Tebbit minute to MT (DTI spending) [budget agreed with Rees] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Howe minute to Jenkin ("Acid Deposition") [emissions from large combustion plants"expose the hesitations of others... we shall not... accept... [an EU] directive contrary to our interests"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 note to MT (European Community: UK 1983 refund) [vote to release funds] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Ad Hoc Committee on Institutions (Dooge Committee): Participation of Spain and Portugal") ["compromise worked out... observer status once the accession negotiations have been completed"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Tebbit minute to MT (“Financial Services”) [has decided “self-regulation within a statutory framework is my preferred approach”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 9 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Home Office press release ("Further Government Help for Police Costs in Miners' Dispute") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Magilligan Hunger Strike") [prisoners at Magilligan prison end hunger strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Secretary PS minute to Charles Powell (“Macgilligan Hunger Strike”) [“it is useful that in this incident the authority of the Government in the prisons has been maintained”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Rees letter to Peter Walker (“AEA Review: financial implications”) [future of UK Atomic Energy Authority] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (McMahon, Middleton) ["Future structure of the gilts market"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Charles Powell minute to Caroline Ryder ("UNICEF") [Director General's request to meet with MT during visit to London] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Department of Trade and Industry ("Sheffield Forgemasters") [possible failure of Forgemasters; MT supports BSC provision of guarantee] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Hurd PS letter to Biffen PS ("Ministerial Statements") [bids for Oral Statements in period following summer recess; RUC inquiry into death of Sean Downes] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("BT") [flotation: limit on individual shareholdings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Possible call on the Prime Minister by the FRG Minister of the Interior: Dr Friedrich Zimmermann") ["...an opportunity to emphasise our commitment to... reduce environmental pollution."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute for Powell ("The Belgrano") [replies to Mr Dalyell regarding the sinking of the Belgrano] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Jopling PS ("Report of a Study of ADAS") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nicholas Owen minute to Andrew Turnbull ("MISC 106: Agriculture and ADAS") [report on ADAS] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("E(NI): Review of UK Atomic Energy Authority") [recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("European Community: State of the Budget Discussions") [1983 refund; Own Resources decision; budget discipline' 1984 draft supplentary budget; 1985 draft prelimary budget] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Willetts minute to MT (“Financial Services”) [explains Tebbit plan; suggests MT ask reassurance on five points] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 10 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (reaction of Northern Ireland parties to Government negotiations with Ireland) [Armstrong suggests against taking 'early soundings' of NI parties] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [speaking notes for upcoming secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Andrew letter to Charles Powell (Hurd-Barry bilateral) [“meeting did not herald any dramatic new development in Anglo-Irish relations”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (talks with Nally) [“Unionists already have reason to suspect that there is a process of secret talks between the British and Irish Governments”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Havers letter to Hurd (“McGlinchey”) [likely course of action] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: MT message to Turkish President Evren(“Cyprus: Secretary General’s initiative”) [MT: “moment for those of us truly interested in finding a settlement to urge them to redouble their efforts”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 letter to Howe PPS (“Cyprus: Possible Message to President Evren of Turkey”) [“I am encouraged that the leaders of both communities in Cyprus considered that sufficient progress had been made”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO to UKE Pretoria (“Prime Minister’s Reply to President Botha’s letter of 30 September”) [Durban Consulate situation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban Consulate”) [a radio interview from within the building] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rees letter to Jenkin (“New burdens on local government”) [central government initiatives] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Governor of the Bank of England, Middleton) [Johnson Matthey; Tebbit and City regulation; Mansion House speech; Last Trade tape; EMS - Middleton doubts] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (extract from Books) [satisfactory meeting with Treasury on gilt-edged market] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: FCO telegram 1759 to UKE Washington (1800Z) ("Laker Consultations") [tactics] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: No.10 minute to Heseltine PS ("Visit by the Portugese Prime Minister: 20-23 November") [MT keen for Heseltine, Tebbit and Brittan to make time for meetings with Soares] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (efficiency and morale in the Civil Service) [MoD/Cabinet Office concerns regarding loss of key staff to private sector] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to MT ("East/West Relations") [note on recent background & views on general policy guidelines for coming year] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Islamabad telegram 634 to FCO (0625Z) ("Afghan Air Attacks on Pakistan") [report of confidential Pakistan talks with US & China] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: Grand Hotel bill (party conference) [summary of accounts] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The German Question") [reunification: "The division into two states is firm and stable for the foreseeable future."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Falklands at the UN") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Younger PS ("Territorial Blocks") [needs assessment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: MT minute to Norman Tebbit (DTI spending) [position on departmental programmes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (resignations from the civil service) [public sector/private sector disparity of pay increases for management staff] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Lord Cockfield Monday 15 October") [European Commissioners: portfolios] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with Monsier Delors, 15 October") [EC Presidency; European Commissioners: portfolios] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Draft MT speech (opening discarded due to bomb) ["The shadow grows darker"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to DTI (“Financial Services”) [MT seeks reassurance on five points] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 11 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Home Office letter to No.10 (French Communist Trade Union (CGT) to bring shipment of food and supplies to UK in support of striking miners) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-King, MT-Walker) [miners' strike: NUM-NCB negotiations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Merseyside: Jenkin minute to MT ("Future of the Liverpool Garden Festival Site") [paper MT finished reading moments before Brighton Bomb exploded] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Heseltine and Howe minute to MT ("Ballistic Missile Defence: UK Policy Towards the US Strategic Initiative") [advocates sceptical stance towards SDI] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Powell minute to MT ("Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD): UK Policy Towards the US Strategic Initiative") [response to MOD/FCO paper on SDI: "the paper caricatures BMD in order to make its point"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT: "The events of Thursday night at Brighton mean that we must go very slow on these talks if not stop them"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Draft for conference speech (section on strike) [probably final draft pre-bomb] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: MT notes (speech to Conservative Agents) [“Scargill - a very good OIL salesman”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Appointment of New Secretary of State for Northern Ireland”) [cautious press reaction] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Future of the Liverpool Garden Festival site”) [“it will be possible, while meeting the immediate demand for housing sites, to retain most of the best gardens for next summer at least”] [released Dec 2014]
Text 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: Cabinet Office briefing book ("Anglo-Italian Summit 18-19 October 1984") [FCO, Treasury & other departments contributing] [declassified Feb 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Efficiency Unit minute to MT ("The Urban Programme") [advice on Jenkin proposals, and on papers, for forthcoming MISC 104 meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: UKE Washington telegram 3056 to FCO (2052Z) ("Laker Consultations") [strategy; objectives] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Howe PS letter to Ridley PS ("Laker") [agenda for Ministerial meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3048 to FCO (0045Z) ("The Presidential Campaign") [report on first television Debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Conveyancing") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: H Committee proposals are 'a weak package'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (BT/IBM: Value Added Networks) [MT agrees with DTI decision not to allow venture to proceed] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb:No.10 invitation (party conference) [tea with MT] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: CCO platform plan (party conference) [final session] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Belize: MT letter to Prime Minister Price of Belize (new High Commissioner) [“appointment will serve to maintain the relations of close friendship which so happily exist between us”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("European Political Cooperation Meeting: Falklands at the UN") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("MISC 106") [MT anotation: "I wonder if we have not misssed some possible economies"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to George Younger ("Territorial Blocks: Needs Assessment") [draft terms of reference] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Michael Jopling ("Report on Agricultural Development and Advisory Services") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Professor Bell report ("Report of a Study of ADAS") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Robin Nicholson minute to MT ("MISC 106: R&D Expenditure by Departments") [government-funded R&D out of balance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO minute (internal): Crispin Tickell to Robin Renwick ("Italian Commissoners") [Communist Party candidate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: State Department telegram to USE Buenos Aires & USMIS New York ("Falkland Islands (Malvinas) UNGA Resolution") [published 2015]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: Hailsham letter to MT (grieving) [“fight the good fight against the forces of darkness”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Catford minute for MT (Runcie’s criticism of government) [“He had apparently not realised the significance of the timing in relation to the Party Conference”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Sherman speech module (“The NUM and the British People”) [“the dispute is part of an attempt by the NUM and like-minded unions to impose their diktat on the British people”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Belize: MT to Prime Minister George Price (introduces new High Commissioner) [routine letter signed on day of Brighton Bomb] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Draft speech opening (post-bomb) [rejected draft referring to bomb as assault on government] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Employment briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Briefing - 12 October 1984: Major Industrial Disputes") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Friday 12 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("MISC 101(84)45th Meeting: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Hurd content with proposed speaking notes for secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Irish constitutional amendments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Ankara telegram to FCO (“Secretary General’s initiative”) [reports of “Denktash’s genuine intention to negotiate”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Robert Young minute to MT (“The Urban Programme - Misc 104”) [criticises Environment Department’s response to programme review] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Urban Programme resources (Misc 104(84)5)”) [proposed distribution of cuts, level of resources for the programme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Rees minute to MT (“The AEA Review”) [future of UK Atomic Energy Authority] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“The Future of the Atomic Energy Authority”) [“the best solution would be to privatise the AEA”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Chief Scientific Adviser minute to MT (“E(NI) Review of UK Atomic Energy Authority”) [favours privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Review”) [“AEA should become primarily a contract Research & Development… organisation operating through a Trading Fund”] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Brighton Bomb: Reagan letter to Thatcher (message of sympathy) [“We must work together to thwart this scourge”] [declassified 2000]
Text 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Brighton Bomb: McFarlane minute for Reagan (suggested call to MT) [“nice gesture to complement your personal message”] [declassified 2000]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO minute to No.10 (“Anglo-Italian Summit 18-19 October: Participation by Officials”) [declassified 2014]
Audio 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Brighton Bomb: Reagan phone call to MT (sympathy and support) [audio] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 13 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 13 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: John Coles letter to MT (admiration) [“your courage, calm and nobility in the aftermath”] [released 2014]
Text 84 Oct 14 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 14 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: UKE Dublin telegram 553 to FCO (1730Z) ("Brighton Bombing") [press report that the bombing was IRA's second attempt on MT's life] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 14 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Peter Thorneycroft (thoughts at church) ["this is the day I was not meant to see"] [released 2014]
Text 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Lord Gowrie minute to MT (Implementation of Improvements in the Financial Management of Advisory and Other Public Bodies) [asks MT to issue minute to Ministers to emphasise her personal backing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Lord Gowrie minute to MT (Review of the Financial Management of Advisory and Other Public Bodies) [progress & next steps] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Peking telegram 2596 to FCO (0847Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: Signature of the Agreement") [Zhou informed of MT's wish to sign Agreement in Peking] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: MT letter to US Ambassador Price (Hong Kong Agreement) [thanks for congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Security Risks in Certain Civil Service Grades") [MT gives approval "for the procedure to be adopted for dealing with a civil servant who becomes a security risk while employed in a grade for all of whose members normal vetting security clearance is essential"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: MT message to President Jayewardene (1400Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Sri Lanka") [MT unable to commit to attending inauguration of Victoria Dam] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Department of Trade & Industry ("British Shipbuilders: Disposal of Brooke Marine") [MT agrees 'that the Omani Government should be allowed to acquire a minority stake in Brooke Marine'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Treasury Minute Replying to the 19th to 23rd and 26th to 36th Reports of the Public Accounts Committee 1983-84") [publication of Government response; background note] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: UKHC New Delhi letter to No.10 ("Bomb Attack at Brighton") [press coverage in India] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Washington telegram 3079 to FCO (2310Z) ("Afghan Air Attacks on Pakistan") [US position] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: Gaisman note to MT (cancelled hair appointment) [“will send a good tip”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: MT note to Sir Alistair Graesser (thanks) [chairmanship helped “make what was a day of particular stress much easier for all of us”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: MT note to Pamela Hunter (thanks) [“you had a far more unusual and greater crisis to respond to … and you rose superbly to the occasion”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: MT letter to Paul Boswell (Grand Hotel) (gratitude to staff) [“the more enduring impression will be that of the marvellous human qualities dislpayed at the moment of crisis”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: MT letter to Sir Russell Sanderson (grateful for role played) [that conference continued is “further testimony to the high morale of the National Union”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe telegram to UKE Berne ("Relations with Argentina") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute for Governor of the Falklands ("Falklands: New Hospital") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Whitelaw PS ("MISC 106: R&D Expenditure by Departments") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Michael Jopling minute to Peter Rees ("Report on Agricultural Development and Advisory Services") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Ministerial Group on Public Expenditure (MISC 106) Foreign and Commonwealth Office Programmes") [unable to reach agreement with Howe] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Channon minute to MT ("ECGD cover: Turkey and Pakistan") ["I would hope that we could review the whole position of cover in cases like this at the OD meeting on 22 October so that we do not lose other good potential business"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Cockfield) ["EC: new Commission": portfolios] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Delors, Pascal Lamy) ["President-Designate of the [EC] Commission": internal market; Dooge Committee; allocation of Commissioner portfolios; Budget/agricultural spending; EMS/European currency; Third World aid] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Sir Henry Plumb (European Community: UK 1983 refunds) ["my warm thanks and appreciation for all your efforts"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Grierson) ["European Community Industrial Policy"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Net Payments to European Community Institutions") ["We have not hitherto disclosed figures showing the effects of the European Council agreement"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("A People's Europe") ["enclosed note on a proposed UK initiative on frontier facilitation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Shridath Ramphal (thanks for message) [Ramphal conveys Commonwealth outrage, sympathy] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Stuart Young (thanks for message) [“I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your kind words”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: Sherbourne letter to MT (conference speech) [“you spoke for the nation”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to William Thorne (thanks for looking after her hair) ["that it lasted so well through Friday was the real test"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: Charles Powell note for Duty Clerk ("Brighton Bomb Attack") [list of messages from world leaders, and replies] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Neil Kinnock (thanks for his message) [“I share your determination that the perpetrators of this wanton act of violence shall not succeed in undermining our democracy”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Gordon Wilson (thanks for his message) [“I know that you will share my determination that the perpetrators of this wanton act of violence shall not be allowed to succeed in their aims”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to David Owen (thanks for his message) [“you have voiced the concern of the whole country for the victims of this wanton act of violence ... the perpetrators of such acts shall not succeed in undermining our democracy”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to James Molyneaux (thanks for his message) [“all attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism in this country will fail”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Ian Paisley (thanks for his message) [“I have made quite clear our determination that all attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letters to Catholic prelates (Hume, Gray, Worlock, Murphy-O’Connor) [thanks; prayers] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letters to Anglican prelates (Archbishops Runcie (Canterbury), Habgood (York), Bishops Leonard (London), Sheppard (Liverpool), Walker (Ely), Wood (Norwich)) [thanks; prayers] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Archbishop of Canterbury (thanks for message) [“The victims of this terrible act are and will remain in all our thoughts and prayers”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (“Week Ahead” & Press Digest for MT) [Brighton Bomb] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Lord Sieff (thanks for message & flowers) [“The Marks & Spencers manager at Brighton was marvellous”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to David Steel (thanks for his message) [“I share your determination that the perpetrators of this wanton act of brutality shall not be allowed to succeed in their aim of undermining our democracy”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Monday 15 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Endurance") [miners' strike: report on power station endurance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: HMT letter to Department of Energy ("PSBR Costs of the Coal Strike") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (enforcement of fine imposed upon Scargill) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker, MT-King, MT-MacGregor) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to Butler ('little action' by the Security Service) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 letter to MOD ("Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD): UK Policy Towards the US Strategic Initiative") [response to MOD/FCO paper on SDI: "The Prime Minister's general view is that the case against [SDI] is not so open and shut as suggested"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [Howe content with proposed speaking notes for secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT content for exploratory talks to continue, but stresses need to avoid impression "of being bombed into making concessions to the Republic"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO to UKE Moscow ("Soviet Ambassador's Call 15 October: UK/Soviet Relations") [Soviet Ambassador to UK meets with Howe] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: Bill Deedes letter to Michael Alison (MT reaction) [“your boss is going to suffer - is already suffering - delayed shock over Friday”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Foreign Secretary PS minute to Northern Ireland Secretary PS (“Dominic McGlinchey”) [impact of an acquittal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to Armstrong (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [events in Brighton have confirmed to MT “that we must go very slow on these talks and must at all costs avoid the impression of being bombed into making concessions to the Republic”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Rees minute to MT (“Future of the Liverpool Garden Festival Site”) [“The extra cost of the MDC retaining some of the existing gardens and opening them to the public next year will be £2 million”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (detention orders against men in the British Consulate, political situation in South Africa) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (South Africa-UK relations: men in the British Consulate in Durban) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Prime Minister's Luncheon at the BBC, Wednesday, 17 October: BBC External Services") [background, review, transmission] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Tom King letter to Jenkin (introducing the Youth Training Scheme in the Civil Service) ["lack of progress... [MT's] "disappointment with the negative response of the trade unions"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of Mrs Jeane Kirkpatrick: 18/19 October") [MT advised that meeting is unnecessary] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3096 to FCO (2230Z) ("Presidential Campaign") [Vice-Presidential Debate; first Presidential Debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Madrid telegram 509 to FCO (1800Z) ("Spain/EC") [record of PM González's meeting with EC ambassadors to convey his concerns about lack of progress in negotiations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister González Márquez message to MT (1800Z) (Accession of Spain to the EC) [concerns about lack of progress in negotiations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Lord President draft statement to the House of Lords ("Bomb at the Grand Hotel, Brighton") [drafts; Hansard; progress of the investigation] [this copy released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: Robin Butler note to MT (visit to Royal Sussex hospital) [arrive Saturday by RAF helicopter] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Spanish PM González telegram to MT (accession of Spain and Portugal) [“progress of the negotiating process can only be regarded with anxiety”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [the Nobel prize for medicine awarded to Dr Cezar Milstein; new central market; Beagle and Falklands disputes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull (economic assumptions for public spending 1985-86 - 1987-88) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Hurd PS minute to Rees PS (Northern Ireland block) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Treasury minute to Rees PS ("MISC106: Gas and Electricity") [target for nationalised industries] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Consultancy, Inspection and Review (CIR) Services") ["value for money... whether staff inspection staff (560) should retain their independence to advise top managements and the Treasure, as Treasury would prefer, or whether they should advise line managers, as Robin Ibbs proposes"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.11 record of conversation (Lawson, Delors, Pascal Lamy) [EC: international finance; Budget; agricultural prices; development of internal market; Commissioner portfolios] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Delors, Rifkind, Pascal Lamy & officials) [improving the working of the EC institutions; internal market; Budget discipline; information policy; agriculture; research & development; relations with US] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("European Community: Standards and Industrial Collaboration") [possible UK initiatives: updated on work by officials] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Chief Rabbi Jakobovits (thanks for message) [messages and prayers from all sections of the community “a source of great support over these last few days”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Lord Home (thanks for message & flowers) [“overwhelming revulsion expressed by the British people for this wanton act of violence”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Michael Foot (thanks for his message) [“It is as well we cannot foretell the future - we could not endure the knowledge”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Gregor Mackenzie (thanks for his message) [“I am grateful for your prayers and your kind words which I value more than I can say”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Moss Evans (thanks for his message) [“Your letter was typical of so many I received in its concern for the victims of this wanton act of violence and in its determination that those responsible shall never be allowed to prevail”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Roy Mason (thanks for his message) [“You will have seen the same thing happen time & again in Northern Ireland”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Willetts minute to MT (“Financial Services”) [summary of plan due to be announced tomorrow] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 16 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to Butler (need to expose Kinnock's "ignorance" on issues behind strike) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Conservative Party backbenchers (coal dispute situation report) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to MacGregor (need to make facts of NCB's 'incredibly generous offer' public) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Contacts with the Soviet Union") [Gromyko and Gorbachev accept invitations to visit UK] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO to UKE Pretoria (“President Botha’s Letter to the Prime Minister”) [Durban Consulate situation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 minute to MT (“Anglo-Italian Summit”) [dinner for Craxi: speech] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-French Summit: 29-30 November") [programme; Ministerial participation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Reagan letter to MT (Hong Kong Agreement) [importance of Agreement to US interests] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Redwood minute to MT ("Jobs and Pay") ['If there were no social benefits and inadequate private philanthropy, no labour cartels, and enough honest money around, there would be little unemployment'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: UKE Washington telegram 3103 to FCO (2206Z) ("Brighton Bombing: US Media Comments") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [Autumn Statement/BT, the exchange rate and the oil market, the prospects for public expenditure; appointments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [foreign debt, Beagle and Falklands disputes, human rights] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Heseltine minute for MT ("A Naval History of the Falklands Campaign") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: George Foulkes MP letter to MT (circumstances surrounding the sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (Treasury assumptions) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Meeting with Secretary of State for Scotland") [territorial needs assessment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Rees, Gowrie, Robin Ibbs, Robert Armstrong, Peter Middleton) ["Inspection and Management Consultancy in Departments"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Own Resources Advance") ["will enable the Commission to pay us the bulk of our 1983 refunds this month... we do not consider the advance a legal obligation... will therefore have to be made... from the Contingencies Fund"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("European Community: Chairmanship of the Ad Hoc Committee on a People's Europe") [candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT report on meeting with Delors; other EC business] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Archbishop of York (thanks for message) [“The last months have indeed been a strain, and there is more to come. I shall be very thankful if we can secure total condemnation of violence”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 17 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Employment (request for King to supply list of trade unionists for MT to invite to No.10) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-King-Gregson) [miners' strike: response to NACODS' decision to strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT ("Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: response to NACODS' decision to strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Payments to Miners for Mortgage Payments") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong argues that Sir John Hermon, the Lord Chancellor and the Attorney General should be included in secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland") [speaking to Northern Ireland parties about secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [thoughts on giving advance warning to Unionist parties about secret Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Foreign Secretary PS minute to Charles Powell (“Northern Ireland”) [risks of speaking to Northern Ireland parties ahead of Anglo-Irish summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Charles Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Nally talks: package of security arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodison record of conversation (“Anglo-Irish relations”) [FitzGerald “regarded it as absolutely essential that HMG should be seen to be taking action on the ground in Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3110 to FCO (2254Z) (“Irish Gun-Running”) [US Customs action against ship owner] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 3110 to FCO (2254Z) (“Visit to Ireland by United States Bishops”) [“Everyone they had met had placed their hopes for political change on the Anglo-Irish Summit”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Hong Kong: Reagan letter to Thatcher (welcomes Sino-British agreement) [declassified 1998]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO (“Durban”) [“the Consulate could become a Mecca for international opposition to the South African Government”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO minute to No.10 (“Anglo-Italian Summit: Joint Press Conference”) [introductory statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Conservatism: No.10 press notice (“No.10 Policy Unit”) [staff list] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: David Barclay minute to MT ("Office of the Social Security Commissioners") [transfer of administrative responsibility from DHSS to Lord Chancellor's Office] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: President Duarte message to MT (in Spanish) [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("CSCE: Budapest Cultural Forum") [appointment head of UK delegation] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: David Trippier letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Small Business Loan Guarantee Scheme") [lessons learnt & the future of the Scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: David Trippier letter to Robin Ibbs (Scrutiny of Administrative and Legislative Burdens) [study plan] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Heseltine letter to Norman Lamont ("Privatisation of Warship Building") ["need for decisions on... [warship and refit] orders to be taken before the sales documents for the warshipbuilding yards can be finalised"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Rees minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: Rees believes H Committee proposals too timid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Charles Powell note to Robin Butler (Brighton Hotel Bombing) [crush injuries medical specialists] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Leon Brittan letter to Howe ("Soviet Prisoners of the Afghan Resistance") [applications for political asylum: cooperaton with US & EC on resettlement] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: MT letter to Marks and Spencer manager (thanks for practical help, support) [“everyone looked so elegant”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Buckingham Palace (Anglo-Irish Summit: Republic of Ireland, 18/19 November) [request for permission to attend] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Argentina: Assessment") [Alfonsin's visit to the United States, Argentine foreign debt, Beagle and Falklands disputes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Argentina: Economic Restrictions") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Prime Minister of the New Zealand letter to MT ("Falklands at the UN") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Younger) [territorial blocks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Sir Jack Lyons (thanks for message) [“the lovely orchid plant … does indeed help to relieve the sense of sorrow which I inevitably feel”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Lord Dacre (thanks for message) [“Yes, it was a terrible experience, the full realisation of which only began to sink in two days afterwards”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Field Marshal Bramall (thanks for message) [“very deply touched … the last few days have been difficult indeed, and letters such as yours have been more help than I can say”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: MT letter to Hayek (thanks for leather bound edition of The Road to Serfdom ) ["It means so much to me"]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 33rd (Brighton Bomb, Security in Parliament, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Economic Affairs) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Brittan letter to Rees ("Miners' Dispute: Policing Costs") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Thursday 18 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler note to MT (draft letter from NCB Regional Managers to members of NACODS) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Paul Foot article for the Daily Mirror ("Hart in the right place?") [miners' strike: David Hart's involvement in the National Working Miners' Committee] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: possible Chequers meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to DHSS ("Payments to Striking Miners for Mortgage Interest") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker press statement (Walker's response to Kinnock's claims about NCB's '20 pit hit list') [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [account of secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (record of conversation between UK Ambassador to Dublin and Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [Powell: "This shows Dr Fitzgerald wildly over-optimistic...we are in a different world following the Brighton bomb"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [thoughts on giving advance warning to Unionist parties about secret Anglo-Irish talks; MT: "'the bomb' has slowed things down and may in the end kill any new initiative"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (“Northern Ireland”) [“anxious that neither you nor I should be accused later of misleading the Unionists”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [talks with Irish leaders] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“We agreed that the exchanges were continuing on a basis of no commitment by either side”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Walker minute to MT (“Collaboration with the United States on energy research and development”) [“there are prospects of combining R&D resources to achieve results which benefit both our countries”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries (“Ministers’ Weekend Addresses”) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Gowrie PS letter to No.10 (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster’s responsibilities) [procedure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: No.10 minute to MT (“VIP Visitors: Carriage of Arms by Bodyguards”) [recommendations in advance of visit by President Mitterrand] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Mexican Ambassador letter to MT (London Economic Summit) [message from Latin American leaders on trade, financing and debt] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, terrorism, Brighton bomb attack] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: MT letter to Italian Minister of Defence (participation in the British-Italian Summit) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("El Salvador: Visit to Britain by Senor Licenciado Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes, Minister of the Presidency") [meeting between Duarte and FMLN/FDR "opens up a real prospect of national reconciliation"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: UKE San Jose telegram 405 to FCO (1900Z) ("El Salvador: Duarte/Guerilla Talks") ["Negotiations would inevitably be protracted"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Peking telegram 2627 to FCO (0429Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: Prime Minister's Visit") [Chinese Government welcomes MT's proposed visit to sign Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram 3266 to FCO (1030Z) ("Future of Hong Kong: Report on Public Opinion") ["Reactions remain generally favourable, though various areas of concern continue to be the subject of comment"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Greece: Andreas Papandreou message to MT (European City of Culture) [progress on Athens preparations, invitation to inauguration ceremony] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: supportive of Rees' proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Employment: Redwood minute to MT (response to David Owen MP article on job creation) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to Prime Minister González Márquez (Accession of Spain and Portugal to the EC) ["I share your concern at the slow progress of the negotiations"; Gibraltar] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Geoffrey Pattie) ["British Telecom": share options for management] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Chancellor Kohl of FRG letter to MT (meeting with Gummer) [cooperation, Exercise Lionheart, budget] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT telegram to Spanish PM González (accession of Spain and Portugal) [“some of the issues outstanding are difficult and politically sensitive for member states] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (working together) [Conservative Party delegation visit to Bonn; defence; EC budget; future of EC; meeting in November] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Address to the European Parliament by the President of Argentina") [a suggested press line] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands at the UN: New Zealand") [MT's draft letter to the New Zealand Prime Minister] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Prior PS (public expenditure discussions) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("OD: Tornados for Turkey") [export credit support proposals: "dramatic increase in both the total contract value of the order... and the resulting... [UK] credit exposure"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Stewart letter to Howe ("1984 Supplementary Budget, Implications of Inter-Government Agreement") [timing & options for seeking Parliamentary approval of extra financing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: MT letter to Sir Arthur Hockaday (NATO strategy) [follow-up to Chequers seminar; MT rejects Hockaday's criticism of Trident] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Draft communiqué (Chequers meeting of Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Council) [annotated by MT] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Charles Powell to Michael Gorman (the Margaret Thatcher Rose) [MT recalled it "with pleasure"] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Hugh Thomas (thanks for message) [“The terrible explosion at Brighton last week has inevitably cast a long shadow”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Renée Short (thanks for her message) [“a chilling experience for all of us who believe in democracy”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Ryder minute to Barclay (Don Concannon MP asks to see MT to discuss position of Notts miners) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Friday 19 October 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Endurance") [miners' strike: report on power station endurance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Fowler minute to MT ("Payments to Striking Miners for Mortgage Interest") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MT letter to Kinnock (response to Kinnock's position on Colliery Closure Procedures) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT ("The Coal Dispute") [miners' strike: briefing for Chequers meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Cutting from The Times (attack on home of Irene McGibbon, working miner's wife) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Jenkin (opencast coal site at Springhill, Staffordshire) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to Northern Ireland Office ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's thoughts on giving advance warning to Unionist parties about secret Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Tessa Gaisman minute for MT (Vice-Chairman for the Scottish party) [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT “has commented that the terrorist bomb in Brighton has slowed these confidential talks down”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1192 to FCO (2335Z) (“Cyprus: Secretary General’s initiative”) [de Cuéllar “working privately on Kyprianou and Denktash to try to extract some movement”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Consulate-General NY telegram 56 to FCO (1930Z) (“Call on Archbishop O’Connor”) [visit to Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy & other ministers) [Anglo-Italian Summit plenary] [European Community, world affairs, UK-Italian cooperation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, European Community, unemployment, financial issues, bilateral issues, Malta, Cyprus] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, Falklands at the UN, European Community, CERN, financial issues, East-West relations, Middle East] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer - Italian Finance Minister) [Italian financial situation, European Community budget issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food - Italian Minister of Agriculture) [1985 price negotiations, milk quotas, wine] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Rees letter to Jenkin (“Local authority capital expenditure”) [“your proposals… would… cause uproar among our own supporters”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: Charles Powell minute to MT ("UK-Sri Lanka Defence Agreement") [draft MT letter to Jayewardene making clear that UK unable to offer military assistance for internal situation in Sri Lanka] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT telegram to King Hassan of Morocco (“Anglo/Libyan Relations”) [hostages] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-David Hart) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell letter to Armstrong (Anglo-Irish talks) ["The Prime Minister thinks that the Ambassador did well to make clear to the Taoiseach that there was no possibility of reaching agreement on 19 November"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's comments on record of Armstrong-Nally talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to Armstrong (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT “does not agree with the proposal put forward by the Irish side for a Ministerial Committee for Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 briefing for MT (“Supplementary speaking note”) [UN talks on future of Cyprus] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“Situation at the Durban Consulate”) [the statement issued by the imprisoned men: further options] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 21 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: No.10 minute to MT (Brighton Hotel Bombing) [medical report; log of messages of sympathy] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Net Payments to EC Institutions") [comments on Lawson minute to MT of 15 Oct; "need to pay careful attention to the public presentation of the figures"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) [secondment of Michael Eaton to NCB head office] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Warry minute to No.10 ("Jaguar Cars: Pay Claim") [strike action threatened] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Hailsham minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: comment on Rees' proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and Telecommunications: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("British Telecom Flotation - Executive and Employee Share Option Schemes") [implications for future privatisations if scheme is given go-ahead] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Home Secretary draft statement to the House of Commons ("Bomb Explosion at the Grand Hotel, Brighton") [this copy released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Brighton bomb: Sherbourne note to Gummer (“Memorial Services”) [“to attend one you must attend them all”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Prime Minister Lange of New Zealand (UN debate) [NZ to vote with UK, “reflects the unique mutual loyalty on which our relations rest”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Taoiseach FitzGerald of Ireland note to MT (UN debate) [Ireland to abstain in vote] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("The Five Institutes' Autumn Report") [West Germany's five major economic institutes' domestic & global economic forecast 1984-5: background for MT visit to Bonn] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Press Summary") [the publication of the Argentine/Chilean agreement on the Beagle, the Falklands dispute] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands at the General Assembly") [MT's draft letters to the EC Heads of Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Lord Hailsham of St. Marylebone minute for MT ("A Naval History of the Falklands Campaign") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Falklands at the UN General Assembly: Alfonsin's Visit to Paris") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Falklands at the UN) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Geoffrey Howe minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Public Expenditure - FCO Programmes") [non-military parts of FCO expenditure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Booth minute to MT (legal position of the NCB against the NUM) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]

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

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

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

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