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86 Jan 9 Th	Chronology	Key	[Chronology]	Westland: Heseltine resigned; Younger replaced him at Defence; Rifkind joined the Cabinet as Scottish Secretary
86 Jan 9 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 1st (Parliamentary Affairs, Westland, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Economic Affairs, Local Government Finance Studies) [Heseltine resigns; confidential annex on local government finance] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 9 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Cabinet Office)	Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 1st (extract on Westland affair) [Heseltine resigns] [declassified 2010]
86 Jan 9 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: MT speaking notes (necessity of restoring collective responsibility) [“must restore govt’s standing & observe conclusions of 19th Dec”] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 9 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Lobby Briefing ("Resignation of Michael Heseltine over Westland Helicopters Affair") [12.10pm, including Downing Street statement] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 9 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Lobby Briefing ("Resignation of Mr Heseltine, Rates, Channel Fixed Link") [17.30pm, reaction to Heseltine press conference at MoD; "resigned on a very narrow point of procedure"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 9 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Westland: MT letter to Michael Heseltine (resignation) [drafts as well as final text of letter] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 9 Th	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	Letter to Michael Heseltine MP (resignation)
86 Jan 15 We	Multimedia	Key	Margaret Thatcher	HC S: [Westland plc] [audio]
86 Jan 15 We	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	HC S: [Westland plc]
86 Jan 23 Th	Multimedia	Key	Margaret Thatcher	HC Stmnt: [Westland plc] [audio]
86 Jan 23 Th	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	HC Stmnt: [Westland plc]
86 Jan 24 Fr	Chronology	Key	[Chronology]	Westland: Brittan resigned; Channon replaced him at DTI
86 Jan 25 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Westland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [letting her know that “out here in the colonies” she had a friend] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Chronology	Key	[Chronology]	Westland: emergency debate, ending the crisis
86 Jan 27 Mo	Multimedia	Key	Margaret Thatcher	HC S: [Westland plc] [audio]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: Charles Powell letter to MT (thanks for defending him and Bernard Ingham in speech) [offer to "slip away" if she would prefer "a less notorious Private Secretary"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: Charles Powell note to MT (congratulations & thanks) [“Your loyalty and thoughtfulness towards your staff far exceeds anything which I have known in over 20 years in the government service”] [released Jan 2017]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	HC S: [Westland plc]
86 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: Robert Armstrong letter to MT (thanks) [devoutly hopes his evidence to the Select Committee “will have helped to take the heat out of the affair”] [released Jan 2017]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (South African DFA)	South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (praises his new reform initiative) [declassified ?2005]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Westland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Wicks, Brittan) [Brittan critical of Armstrong evidence, "a flagrant steer … in a particular direction which he could not accept"] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama
86 Feb 20 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: Ingham minute for MT ("Language/Vision") [“your domination of politics and intellectual argument - need to maintain flow of ideas and for "new and more appealing language … the, to you, hateful word 'vision'”] [released Jan 2017]
86 Mar 5 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (South African DFA)	South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (welcomes end of state of emergency) [declassified ?2005]
86 Mar 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Hansard	Economy: 1986 Budget (Lawson 3)
86 Mar 20 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (South African DFA)	South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (urges constructive response to Eminent Persons Group) [declassified ?2005]
86 Apr 8 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Libya: President Reagan letter to MT ("Response to Libyan terrorism") [seeks support for use of British based FB-111s to respond to Libyan attacks] [declassified 2005]
86 Apr 9 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [reply to MT's points] [declassified 2005]
86 Apr 10 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for seeing Walters] [declassified 2005]
86 Apr 11 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for her decision; targets] [declassified 2005]
86 Apr 12 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Libya: President Reagan letter to President Mitterrand (requests immediate decision on overflight request) [warns against "luke-warm support or no support at all from our closest allies"] [declassified 2005]
86 Apr 15 Tu	Chronology	Key	[Chronology]	US air raids on Libya, mainly flown from British bases
86 Apr 15 Tu	Press	Key	Shultz (George)	Cold War: US bombing of Libya (Shultz memoirs)
86 Apr 16 We	Multimedia	Key	Margaret Thatcher	HC S: [US bombing of Libya] [audio]
86 Apr 16 We	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	HC S: [US bombing of Libya]
86 Apr 18 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (UK hostages killed in Beirut) ["deeply grieved"; "direct Libyan role in their deaths"; French & Spanish "fully prepared to take more profound action to remove Qadhafi from power"] [declassified 2008]
86 May 4 Su	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [Libya, Middle East, South Africa, Ireland, Japan, East/West relations, Soviet nuclear accident, EC/US, Korea] [declassified 2014]
86 May 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [GATT Round, European Community Budget, CAP, EC/US, East/West relations] [declassified 2014]
86 May 18 Su	Chronology	Key	[Chronology]	Budget
86 Jun 12 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1800Z) ("US-Soviet Relations") (NSPG 0135) [Arms control - Reagan, with Weinberger and Shultz, argues for "zero ballistic missiles" tied to SDI deployment] [declassified Dec 2005]
86 Jun 23 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	South Africa: Reagan letter to Thatcher (concerting policy) [declassified 2000]
86 Jul 8 Tu	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	Interview for The Guardian
86 Jul 10 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: Gorbachev message to MT (visit of Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs to London: arms control) [message delivered personally to MT by Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2016]
86 Jul 24 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Powell minute to MT ("Interview with Graham Turner") [in present form article risks "exposing you to sharp criticism for dealing too vigorously with Southern African problems at a very sensitive moment", but Sunday Telegraph resisting changes; MT - interview "obtained on a FALSE BASIS"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jul 24 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Westland: Charles Powell letter to MT (thanks for defending her officials in speech) ["characteristically brave and generous of you"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Aug 1 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	South Africa: Sir Geoffrey Howe letter for MT (South Africa) ["extreme concern at the way matters have been managed in relation to yesterday's OD discussion"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Aug 2 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	South Africa: MT draft letter to Sir Geoffrey Howe (South Africa) [defends Ingham, "some of your people subsequently behaved very badly"; "your dedicated and stout-hearted efforts in South Africa"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Aug 21 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	National Health: Norman Fowler minute for Whitelaw (“AIDS - Public Education”) [proposes leaflet delivered to every household] [declassified 2015]
86 Sep 10 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2314 to FCO (1545Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Weinberger: 9 September”) [“A disturbing insight into right-wing attitudes on arms control”] [released Dec 2015]
86 Sep 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Education: Baker minute for MT (thoughts on future education policy) [ for your eyes only at this stage ] [declassified 2014]
86 Oct 10 Fr	Multimedia	Key	Margaret Thatcher	Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film]
86 Oct 10 Fr	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	Speech to Conservative Party Conference
86 Oct 11 Sa	Chronology	Key	[Chronology]	Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (ended 12 Oct)
86 Oct 11 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000]
86 Oct 11 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000]
86 Oct 12 Su	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000]
86 Oct 12 Su	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000: the crucial session]
86 Oct 12 Su	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th session [declassified 2000; second version]
86 Oct 12 Su	Press	Key	Shultz (George)	Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Shultz memoirs)
86 Oct 13 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: White House record of conversation (Reagan-MT) [Reykjavik summit] [declassified 2010]
86 Oct 13 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan phone call on Reykjavik summit) ["Reagan said he had put forward a radical proposal under which the US would guarantee not to deploy a strategic defence system for ten years in return for an undertaking to eliminate all US and Soviet nuclear weapons over that same period"] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 13 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan phone call) ["particularly sensitive" points on ABM, Reagan's pride in proposal to eliminate nuclear weapons in ten years; President's admiration for Tom Clancy book] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 14 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Karpov”) [MT “said she had been very disturbed by Soviet tactics at Reykjavik”] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 14 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Karpov”) [“Karpov said that the Soviet side had gone to Reykjavik in the hope of achieving concrete results”] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 14 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: Charles Powell minute to Price (record of MT’s meeting with Karpov”) [for Price’s eyes only] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 14 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram 858 to FCO (1815Z) (“Reykjavik: initial German reactions”) [“the door is not closed”] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: Poindexter memo for President Reagan ("Why We Can't Commit to Eliminating All Nuclear Weapons Within 10 Years") [focus instead on proposal to eliminate all ballistic nuclear missiles in ten years, as handed to Soviets at Reykjavik] [declassified 2005]
86 Oct 21 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1235 to FCO (1134Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [proposal for follow-up meeting between Hartman and Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2734 to FCO (2200Z) (“Reykjavik aftermath”) [Acland discussion with Reagan: “The President said that he understood British and European concerns about the imbalance in non-nuclear forces”] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 30 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2768 to FCO (2200Z) (“Post-Reykjavik arms control negotiations”) [“Unsatisfactory discussion with Poindexter”] [released Dec 2015]
86 Nov 10 Mo	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet
86 Nov 12 We	Multimedia	Key	Margaret Thatcher	HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio]
86 Nov 12 We	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	HC S: [Debate on the Address]
86 Nov 13 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Cold War: MT notes (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["Alarmed by suggestion to eliminate in 10 years all strategic ballistic missiles … Security of West in danger"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Nov 13 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Cold War: MT briefing cards (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["CAN'T trust RUSSIANS when taking a few tanks & columns out of Afghanistan - surely you wouldn't trust them over ballistic missiles"] [released Jan 2017]
86 Nov 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (State Department)	Cold War: Shultz Evening Reading Item for Reagan ("My meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher") [MT expressed extreme concern about the potential impact of the proposals made at Reykjavik ] [declassified 2013]
86 Nov 15 Sa	Chronology	Key	[Chronology]	Anglo-US Summit at Camp David: arms control statement agreed
86 Nov 15 Sa	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	Press Conference after Camp David talks (nuclear weapons and arms control)
86 Dec 3 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: NSC note for ?Poindexter (MT letter to Reagan urging NATO commit to Camp David points) [declassified 2000]
86 Dec 4 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (Iran-Contra -"anything which weakens you weakens America") [declassified/released 2000]
87 Jan 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Percy Cradock, Charles Powell) ["Foreign Policy": MT sceptical of Gorbachev's plans for reform; concern that US still apparently working for elimination of strategic nuclear weapons; Afghanistan; China; Lebanon - no deals for hostage release] [released July 2016]
87 Feb 22 Su	Chronology	Key	[Chronology]	"Louvre Accord" to halt decline in the dollar; Lawson began shadowing Deutschmark
87 Feb 23 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Local Government: FCO briefing for MT ("E(LF) meeting on 26 February: review of local authority fees and charges") [MT opposes charging for library services] [declassified Oct 2016]
87 Mar 1 Su	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversations (MT, Howe, academics, officials) ["Seminar on the Soviet Union"] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 17 Tu	Chronology	Key	[Chronology]	Budget
87 Mar 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Hansard	Economy: 1987 Budget (Lawson 4)
87 Mar 28 Sa	Chronology	Key	[Chronology]	MT visited USSR (ended 1 Apr)
87 Mar 29 Su	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachevs, Geoffrey Howe, Kovalev, Zamyatin, Cartledge) ["Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow: Supper Party with Mr and Mrs Gorbachev at the Bolshoi"] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 30 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [decisions as to what to say to the press] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 30 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [tête-à-tête] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 31 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachevs, Ryzhkovs, Cartledge, Zamyatin, Charles Powell) ["Prime Minister's Visit to the Soviet Union: Supper with Mr and Mrs Gorbachev on 31 March"] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 31 Tu	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	TV Interview for Soviet Television
87 Apr 1 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 537 to FCO (0500Z) ("Prime Minister's talks with Gorbachev on 30/31 March") [analysis; summary; record] [released Jul 2017]
87 Apr 1 We	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: MT message to President Reagan (Prime Minister's Visit to the Soviet Union) [MT outlines her impressions of Gorbachev & her conclusions drawn from her visit] [released Jul 2017]
87 May 11 Mo	Chronology	Key	[Chronology]	General Election called for 11 June
87 May 11 Mo	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	TV Interview for BBC (“Yes, I hope to go on and on”)
87 May 15 Fr	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	Speech to Scottish Conservative Party Conference
87 May 19 Tu	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	General Election Press Conference (launching Conservative manifesto)
87 May 22 Fr	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	General Election Press Conference

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