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PDF 90 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter (Exemption for 18 and 19 Year Old School Leavers) ["student gap" problem] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Chancellor's Statement on ERM") [text for delivery] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey: Defence") [practicable and politically desirable to make further reductions] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Update on PES Negotiations") [progress with Home Office, education, employment] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2497 to FCO (0046Z) ("Occupied Territories") [message for Hurd - Baker message to Levy] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1645 to FCO (0122Z) ("Occupied Territories") [inconclusive meeting between Secretary-General and Israel Ambassador to UN] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Jordan: UN Sanctions") ["Crown Prince replies helpfully, if somewhat testily, to your message about sanctions enforcement"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UK Consulate Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's visit to Israel: Plenary Session: Gulf crisis") [Israeli concern that Arab support for Saddam will grow in any "long haul scenario"; containing Saddam if he survives; Jordan worries] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Cradock minute for MT ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") [topics for his visit; "The signs are still of lack of clarity and determination"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("The Gulf") [Cradock visit to Washington - limitation on topics he can safely raise because he has not been briefed on highest level American thinking] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Gulf Crisis: Embargo Surveillance Unit") [essential but not glamorous work, could she see them as a "nice gesture"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Gulf Business Note") ["rather elaborate" note from Robin Butler, lising papers on crisis to prepare and put to cabinet committee OD(G); MT unhappy] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Gulf: ROE") [Foreign Secretary satisfied] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Butler minute for Powell ("Gulf Business Note") [summarises work in preparation and agenda for OD(G) for following month; MT critical, worried over leaks] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92") [publication of proposals for grant settlement] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social services: Tony Newton minute to MT ("Social Security benefits: 1991/92 uprating") [advance notice of main features of forthcoming statement] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT letter to Sir Ronald Millar (Conservative Party Conference 1990, Eastbourne) [thank you letters to speechwriters; "I Do, Ron Ron"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Gorbachev, Economy) [Hurd gets frosty reception in Israel] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [doing nothing is not an option] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rating") [case for indexation] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Afghanistan: Mujahedin Attacks on Kabul") [report] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (conference speech thanks) [“speech-writing process seemed to be easier than in some previous years”]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2510 to FCO (2109Z) ("UNSG's mission to Jerusalem") [US policy towards Israel and PLO] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (2105Z) (French draft SCR on Iraq/Kuwait) [early draft of SCR674] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1655 to FCO (0415Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait") [message for Secretary of State in Jerusalem - continuing UK-US differences over scope of next steps SCR] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1656 to FCO (0430Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait: comment") ['infuriating' that USMIS at UN was undercut by "yet another premature Baker press statement"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UK Consulate Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Message from Baker to Secretary of State") [wants a "clean humanitatian resolution" without reparations to address plight of foreign nationals; MT annotates strong disagreement] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Primakov's Visit to Rome, 16 October") ["Soviets reportedly link Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait to a UN initiative on the Occupied Territories"; Andreotti preference for a negotiated settlement] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for Cradock ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") [topics he can safely raise, excluding military options, timing and strategy] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Cradock minute for Charles Powell ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") ["this agenda would raise problems for me" - need to be able to "cover the issue in broad terms" to encourage US to think through options more clearly] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Telephone conversation with President Bush") [Scowcroft says President will want to call tomorrow or Friday evening; draft message for MT to send Bush first] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for Robin Butler ("Gulf Business Note") [MT reaction - distinguish issues which can go to OD(G) and some that need "to be handled on an even more restricted basis"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: the Gulf") [diplomatic (Hurd, Primakov, Heath, Bush, UN, Kuwait Embassies), military, future work] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT (King Hussein comment) [Saddam seized whole of Kuwait as bargaining chip for disputed territory] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO briefing for MT ("The Prime Minister's Telephone Conversation with President Bush") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO telegram to UKE Moscow ("Primakov's Tour: Meeting with the Secretary of State") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf/Middle East, Soviet Union, South Africa) [MT and Bush warn Hussein of war crimes charges] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("President Cossiga") ["A high and controversial profile in recent months after five quiet years"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Potter minute to Professor Griffiths ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [legislation needed to plug the gap in government's capping powers] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge Exemption for 18 and 19 Year Old School Leavers") ["student gap" problem] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU: Visit by Financial Secretary") [Poehl said British hard ecu proposals too late to influence debate, too soon to broker agreement in IGC] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU: Visit by Financial Secretary to Bonn, 15 October") [Maude addresses German equivalent of CBI] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2520 to FCO (2220Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Primakov's Tour") ["Administration will take a tough line on the compromise solution which they expect Primakov to bring to Washington"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1664 to FCO (0030Z) ("Jerusalem: Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution") [text agreed in five, aim to have resolution passed end of week, "but final US go-ahead still awaited"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1665 to FCO (0035Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait: Military Staff Committee") [discussion in five on Soviet proposal for Military Staff Committee meeting, US without instructions, other four in favour] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1667 to FCO (1315Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait") ["US modus operandi in New York is certainly not designed to get the best results"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (2010Z) ("US/UK New York text of 16/10") [draft of SCR674] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's call on Israeli Defence Minister") ["cordial and detailed exchange" - Occupied Territories; UNSG's mission; Jordan; Iraqi military capabilities] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister") ["Good atmosphere but predictable differences"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO record of conversation (Hurd-Baker) ["Gulf Crisis: next steps at the UN"] [declassified Jul 2017]

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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).

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