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36 Jul 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Grantham Journal) |
1925-43 (Grantham): Alfred Roberts address as Rotary President ("a manacled age") |
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39 Jan 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Grantham Journal) |
1925-43 (Grantham): Alfred Roberts Rotary address (Chamberlain's "will intent on peace") |
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41 Jan 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
1925-43 (Grantham): Alfred Roberts (extract from sermon notes) ("Mahogany & Child") [123K high quality scan] |
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41 Jan 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
1925-43 (Grantham): Alfred Roberts (extract from sermon notes) ("Strength comes from within") [132K high quality scan] |
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44 May 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: 1944 Employment White Paper [MT's annotated copy] |
|
45 Dec 1 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
1943-47 (Oxford): Oxford University Conservative Association Report (reacting to 1945 election defeat) [report co-authored by Margaret Roberts, Michael Kinchin-Smith and Stanley Moss] |
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48 Dec 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
1949-59 (candidate): J.L.M. Miller to Margaret Roberts (offers interview for Dartford "short list") |
|
49 Jan 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
1949-59 (candidate): J.L.M. Miller to Margaret Roberts (chosen for Dartford "short list") |
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52 May 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Grantham Journal) |
Early life Photo of Alfred Roberts laying down his robes as Alderman (voted out by Labour) |
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52 Jun 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Conservative Party) |
1949-59 (candidate): Beryl Cook to John Hare ("without exception the best woman candidate I have known") |
|
52 Jun 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
1949-59 (candidate): John Hare interview with MT ("immense personality & charm") |
|
52 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
1949-59 (candidate): Beryl Cook note on MT ("an amazing young woman") |
|
55 Jan 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
1949-59 (candidate): MT to Hare (not thinking of a parliamentary career for "many years") |
|
55 Jan 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
1949-59 (candidate): MT to Hare (mind made up to pursue law "to the exclusion of politics") |
|
56 Feb 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
1949-59 (candidate): MT to Donald Kaberry (asks to meet) |
|
56 Mar 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Conservative Party) |
1949-59 (candidate): Donald Kaberry Interview with MT (wishes to return to list) |
|
58 Aug 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
1949-59 (candidate): MT to Kaberry ("anti-woman prejudice") |
|
60 Feb 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Private Member's Bill: MT notes for her maiden speech |
|
70 Oct 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Education: Private Office minute to Heath (not practicable to exclude MT from discussion of education policy) [declassified 2003] |
|
72 Jan 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Education: Minute of Chequers meeting with Heath [declassified] [240K scan] |
|
72 Feb 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hailsham MSS) |
Miners' strike: Hailsham diary (government's hand forced) [coded diary with translation] |
|
72 Feb 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Miners' strike: Cabinet minutes (government's hand forced) [CM (72) 8th Conclusions] |
|
73 May 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (State Department) |
Conservative Party: State Department record of MT conversation (lunch at the Connaught) [declassified 1998] |
|
73 Jun 24 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Conservative Party: Chief Whip note to PM (MT would like to leave Education but not go to Health) [reshuffle recommendations] [declassified 2002] |
|
74 Mar 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hailsham MSS) |
General Election: Hailsham diary (MT & Keith Joseph oppose deal with Liberals) |
|
74 Mar 2 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Heath: Robert Armstrong note (“Note for the Record”) [Heath meeting with Thorpe] [declassified 2005] |
|
74 Mar 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hailsham MSS) |
General Election: Hailsham diary (note of failed negotiations with Liberals) |
|
74 Mar 7 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
|
Education: MT to John Vaizey (despite the problems thoroughly enjoyed her time at the DES) |
|
74 Mar 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (IEA MSS) |
Conservatism: Ralph Harris record of conversation (visit from Keith Joseph) [plans "a new 'crusade' for private enterprise", acknowledging 'guilt' for Heath Government failings] |
|
74 Mar 16 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Heath: Robert Armstrong note (“Events leading to the resignation of Mr Heath’s Administration on 4 March 1974”) [declassified Oct 2005] |
|
74 Mar 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (IEA MSS) |
Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph note ("The Erhard Foundation") [Fabian Society for Conservatives, Howe among managing trustees] |
|
74 Jun 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (IEA MSS) |
Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph draft prospectus ("Centre for Policy Studies Limited") ["denationalisation ... not politically feasible"] |
|
74 Jun 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (IEA MSS) |
Conservatism: Ralph Harris letter to Keith Joseph (attacks his ruling out denationalization) ["blinkered vision"] |
|
74 Jul 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (IEA MSS) |
Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (agrees on denationalization) ["strong grounds for your complaints ... strong wish of several subscribers that we should be realistic"] |
|
74 Aug 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (IEA MSS) |
Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Ralph Harris (update - CPS in existence but not yet active) ["steeping myself in Hayek"] |
|
74 Oct 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hayek MSS) |
Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph to Hayek (thanks for praise of Preston speech) ["most grateful for your blessing"] |
|
74 Nov 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hailsham MSS) |
Conservative leadership: Hailsham diary (close allies discuss Heath's future) |
|
75 Feb 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Vaizey MSS) |
Conservatism: MT to John Vaizey (senses a "yearning to get things right again among people of many political views") |
|
75 Feb 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative leadership election: MT’s notes on handling Ted Heath |
|
75 Feb 16 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hailsham MSS) |
Conservative leadership: MT letter to Hailsham (warm thanks) [realises magnitude of her task] |
|
75 Apr 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Joseph "Notes towards the definition of policy") [464K] |
|
75 Apr 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hailsham MSS) |
Conservative policy: Hailsham diary (Shadow Cabinet squabbles over Keith Joseph paper) |
|
75 Apr 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 57th Meeting |
|
75 Apr 30 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (fall of Saigon) ["a dark day ... somehow the shadows seem to have lengthened"] [released 2003] |
|
75 May 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Steering Committee: Minutes of 27th Meeting |
|
75 May 18 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Fentiman Road seminar (principles of economic policy) |
|
75 May 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Steering Committee: Paper circulated (Maudling on economics) |
|
75 Jun 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Steering Committee: Minutes of 29th Meeting |
|
75 Jul 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hailsham MSS) |
Heath: Hailsham letter to MT (coalition risks) |
|
75 Jul 27 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hailsham MSS) |
Heath: MT letter to Hailsham (coalition risks) |
|
75 Jul 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hailsham MSS) |
Heath: Hailsham letter to MT (danger of Wilson recruiting Heath) |
|
75 Aug 3 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT to Professor Merrett (economic & political outlook) |
|
75 Sep 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Ford Library) |
Cold War: White House memcon (President Ford, Brent Scowcroft, MT) [declassified 2004] |
|
75 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Economic Reconstruction Group - Minutes of Meeting 9 |
|
75 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Economic Reconstruction Group - Minutes of Meeting 10 |
|
76 Jan 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hailsham MSS) |
Heath: Hailsham diary (Heath says MT no good) ["I am much better and I ought to be there still"] |
|
76 Feb 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 97th Meeting |
|
76 Feb 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 98th Meeting |
|
76 Mar 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Lawson to MT ("benign neglect" of trade union leaders) |
|
76 Mar 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT to Lawson (incomes policy cannot work without union support) |
|
76 May 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Maudling "Incomes Policy") |
|
76 May 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Steering Committee: Thorneycroft note for MT (suggestions for an economic speech) |
|
76 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Heseltine "Industrial Policy Recommendations") [325K] |
|
76 Jul 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Heseltine on nationalised industries; Nationalised Industries Policy Group - Report) |
|
76 Aug 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hoskyns MSS) |
Conservatism: Sir Keith Joseph notes (goals) ["internal note by KJ"] |
|
76 Oct 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hailsham MSS) |
Labour: Hailsham diary (Brian Walden offers support to bring down government) [coded entry with translation] |
|
76 Oct 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Conservative Party |
The Right Approach (Conservative policy statement) |
|
76 Oct 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Steering Committee: Paper circulated (Joseph & Maude on next stage of policy work) |
|
76 Nov 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hailsham MSS) |
Conservative Party: Hailsham diary (criticism of Keith Joseph) ["You wear too much sackcloth"] |
|
76 Dec 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Joseph "Our Tone of Voice & Our Tasks") [273K] |
|
76 Dec 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hailsham MSS) |
Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (threatens to resign over devolution) [likely to go "if the Scots went"] |
|
76 Dec 12 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hailsham MSS) |
Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham letter to Angus Maude (devolution) [still thinks of resigning] |
|
77 Mar 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Steering Committee: Paper circulated (Howe on pay policy) |
|
77 Mar 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 156th Meeting |
|
77 Mar 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hailsham MSS) |
MT: Hailsham diary (discussion with Peter Carrington) [serious doubts about MT & Keith Joseph] |
|
77 Apr 7 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to Sir Keith Joseph (general economic approach) |
|
77 May 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to MT ("Concerted Action" frightens MT to death) |
|
77 May 31 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Sir Keith Joseph to Jim Prior (conversation with union leader, John Lyons) ["in general terms a monetarist"] |
|
77 Jun 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Report of Nationalised Industries Policy Group (leaked Ridley report) |
|
77 Aug 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Transition to power: MT letter to Alcon Copisarow (advisers) [“I shall have to take most of the major decisions myself”] [released 2010] |
|
77 Oct 8 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Conservative Party |
The Right Approach to the Economy (Conservative policy statement) |
|
77 Oct 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Sherman letter to MT (initiatives) [proposes Tories bid for social democracy as Labour becomes marxist] |
|
77 Oct 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Richard Ryder letter to Sherman (speech outline on Conservatives as “heirs to the Social-Democratic heritage”) [MT ‘very impressed’ - go ahead as soon as possible] |
|
77 Nov 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hailsham MSS) |
Shadow Cabinet: Hailsham diary (devolution meeting) [MT moving towards federalism with England a single unit] |
|
77 Nov 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: “Stepping Stones” Report (final text) |
|
78 Jan 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe speech draft on trade unions (MT: "the press will crucify you for this") |
|
78 Jan 15 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Strategy: Lawson paper (Patten paper on "Stepping Stones") [513K] |
|
78 Jan 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Steering Committee: Paper circulated (Hoskyns on "Stepping Stones") |
|
78 Jan 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Steering Committee: Minutes of 51st Meeting (argument over "Stepping Stones") |
|
78 Feb 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Steering Committee: Paper circulated (Whitelaw on control of immigration) |
|
78 Feb 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Whitelaw "The Control of Immigration") |
|
78 Feb 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Steering Committee: Paper circulated (Patten on "Stepping Stones" & strategy) |
|
78 Feb 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Whitelaw "The Control of Immigration" - supplementary paper) |
|
78 Feb 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Steering Committee: Minutes of 54th Meeting ("Stepping Stones") |
|
78 Apr 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Commentary (The Times) |
Strikes: “Mrs Thatcher warned in secret report of defeat in confrontation with unions” (leak of Carrington Report - Authority of Government Policy Group) |
|
78 Jul 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Lawson to MT (denies Conservative economic plans will increase unemployment) |
|
78 Aug 30 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (Conservative Party Manifesto for 1978 General Election - 2nd draft) [1,436K] |
|
78 Oct 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 220th Meeting (Rhodesia discussion - extended minute) |
|
78 Oct 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Strategy: Lawson to MT (importance of her faith & resolve) |
|
78 Oct 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
EMS: Meeting of Shadows (Conservative view of European Monetary System) [deciding what to advise MT] |
|
78 Oct 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Ronnie Millar to MT (right approach between now & election) [stress failure of pay policy while giving Ted his dignity] |
|
78 Oct 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
EMS: Lawson note for MT ("The European Monetary System") |
|
78 Oct 31 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
EMS: Sir Geoffrey Howe letter to MT ("European Monetary System") [Conservative line] |
|
78 Nov 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of
Meeting (attitude to European Monetary System) |
|
78 Nov 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bundesbank) |
EMS: Bundesbank Council meeting with Chancellor Schmidt (assurances on operation of EMS) [declassified 2008] |
|
79 Jan 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Steering Committee: Minutes of 61st Meeting (Commons debate on industrial situation) |
|
79 Jan 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT's notes for her Commons speech (offer to HMG) [391K] |
|
79 Feb 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Sir Geoffrey Howe to John Nott (Bank sympathise with exchange control abolition) |
|
79 Mar 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Steering Committee: Minutes of 64th Meeting (manifesto drafting) |
|
79 Mar 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of
239th Meeting (Government defeated on confidence motion) |
|
79 Mar 31 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Henderson (Sir Nicholas) |
Economy: The Henderson Despatch (British decline, causes & consequences) [leaked 1979; declassified 2006] |
|
79 Apr 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Conservative Party |
Conservative General Election Manifesto 1979 |
|
79 May 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Transition to power: Richard Ryder note for MT (meeting with Ken Stowe) [handover of power] [released 2010] |
|
79 May 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
General Election: Draft remarks on becoming Prime Minister (St Francis's prayer) |
|
79 May 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
General Election: MT draft (St Francis’s Prayer) [“moving & beautiful song of St Francis”] [released 2015] |
|
79 May 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
General Election: Aide-memoire for St.Francis prayer ("Where there is discord ...") |
|
79 May 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (Energy, EC, East/West, etc) [master copy of whole briefing set][declassified 2009] |
|
79 May 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“Summary and Timetable of Urgent Economic Issues”) [declassified 2009] |
|
79 May 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“The Budget”) [declassified 2009] |
|
79 May 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“Pay and Cash Limits”) [declassified 2009] |
|
79 May 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary incoming brief for MT ('Rhodesia') [MT: "I agree we need care but a little courage is necessary too"] [declassified 2009] |
|
79 May 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Transition to power: MT notes for cabinet-making (near final copy?) [Heseltine refuses Energy; alternative names for other jobs, etc] [released 2010] |
|
79 May 5 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) |
General Election: MT to Ronnie Millar (letter of thanks) [“I could not have done it without you”] |
|
79 May 5 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hoskyns MSS) |
General Election: MT to John Hoskyns (letter of thanks) ['invaluable' contribution over past two years, "a new dimension to the way ... the Party thinks and operates"] |
|
79 May 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Carter Library) |
Cold War: Vance-Brown memo to Carter (urging TNF modernization) [declassified 1997] |
|
79 May 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Transition to power: Ronnie Millar letter to MT (congratulations) [“At least three Parliaments’ worth of work to do”] [released 2010] |
|
79 May 12 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Carter Library) |
US: Brzezinski memo for Carter (Thatcher no longer "the dogmatic lady" who visited in 1977) [declassified 2000] |
|
79 May 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Transition to power: MT letter to Daily Mail editor David English (thanks for congratulations) [“You have been a wonderful friend in recent years ... I hope I will not let you down”] [released 2010] |
|
79 May 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Transition to power: MT letter to Sun editor Larry Lamb (thanks for congratulations) [“your encouragement meant so much”] [released 2010] |
|
79 May 30 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: Ronne Millar draft Party Election Broadcast (European Elections) [MT: “This is NOT a script for me”] [released 2010] |
|
79 Jun 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Hansard |
Economy: 1979 Budget (Howe 1) |
|
79 Jun 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The European Monetary System") [economic considerations should have primacy in UK decision] [declassified 2009] |
|
79 Jun 24 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Housing: MT note for Chancellor of the Exchequer (mortgage rate) [MT concerned at press reports mortgage rates may go up in a few days; "This MUST NOT happen"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
79 Jun 24 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary policy: MT note to Chancellor of the Exchequer (press reports possible increase in mortgage rates) [“This MUST NOT happen” - if necessary cap by subsidy] [declassified 2009] |
|
79 Jun 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: MT meeting with Soviet PM Kosygin (record of conversation) [stop-over in Moscow en route to Tokyo] [declassified 2009] |
|
79 Jul 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary policy: MT meeting with ministers (record of conversation) [mortgage rates - possible subsidy] [declassified 2009] |
|
79 Jul 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington-Zimbabwe/Rhodesia PM Bishop Muzorewa) [declassified 2009] |
|
79 Jul 21 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Nicholas Ridley, Falkland Island Councillors) [taxation, agriculture, oil industry, nationality, cooperation with Argentina] [declassified 2012] |
|
79 Aug 5 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Commonwealth: MT notebook (conversation at Lusaka CHOGM retreat) [case for British initiative on Rhodesia] [released 2010] |
|
79 Aug 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington) [Carrington regards success in constitutional conference as "virtually inconceivable"] [declassified 2009] |
|
79 Aug 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: President Carter letter to MT (Mountbatten) [“tragic death”] [released 2010] |
|
79 Aug 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Lawson minute to Howe ("Economic and Financial Situation Report") ["strong £ is the biggest thing we have going for us"] [declassified 2009] |
|
79 Sep 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: MT letter to President Carter (Mountbatten) [“brutal and senseless murder”] [released 2010] |
|
79 Sep 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [Carrington's copy] [declassified 2012] |
|
79 Sep 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [MT comments on leaseback scheme: "I could not possibly agree to the line the Foreign Secretary is proposing"] [declassified 2012] |
|
79 Oct 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: MT notes for conference speech (“Thoughts on the Moral Case I”) [“There is no such thing as a collective conscience ...”] [released 2010] |
|
79 Oct 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: MT notes for conference speech (“The First Few Months”) [“Not just actions but attitudes”] [released 2010] |
|
79 Oct 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
|
EC: Donald Maitland minute to Foreign Secretary (state of EC-UK relations) ["the mood is sober, if not sombre"] [declassified 2009] |
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79 Nov 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Monetary policy: Hall minute to Howe ("Monetary Policy") [MT "profoundly unhappy"; interest rates not working, new mechanisms needed] [declassified 2013] |
|
79 Nov 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: President Carter phone call to MT & Giscard (Iran) [asks UK to reduce its diplomatic presence in Iran] [released 2010] |
|
79 Nov 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe: Speech to Dublin European Council (urges British budget rebate) [“arrangement would last as long as the problem”] [released 2010] |
|
79 Dec 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
US: No.10 record of conversation (MT plenary meeting with President Carter) [Iran, Rhodesia, Middle East, energy, Northern Ireland, defence] [declassified 2009] |
|
79 Dec 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
US: No.10 record of conversation (MT restricted meeting with President Carter) [Diego Garcia; China; Cambodia] [declassified 2009] |
|
79 Dec 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Carter, Vance, Brzezinski, Lord Carrington) [“The successor to Polaris”] [declassified 2012] |
|
79 Dec 23 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Henderson (Sir Nicholas) diary |
US: Sir Nicholas Henderson diary (MT visit to Washington) |
|
79 Dec 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: President Carter phone call to MT (Soviet invasion of Afghanistan) [“extremely grave development”] [released 2010] |
|
79 Dec 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Carter Library) |
US: President Carter phone call to MT (Soviet invasion of Afghanistan) [declassified 1996] |
|
79 Dec 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Carter Library) |
Cold War: Carter phone call to Giscard (Soviet invasion of Afghanistan) [declassified 1996] |
|
79 Dec 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Carter Library) |
Cold War: Carter phone call to Schmidt (Soviet invasion of Afghanistan) [declassified 1996] |
|
79 Dec 29 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: MT letter to President Brezhnev (Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan) [“profoundly disturbed”] [released 2010] |
|
79 Dec 29 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Carter Library) |
Cold War: Brezhnev letter to Carter (defending Afghanistan invasion) [declassified 1995] |
|
79 Dec 31 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Ingham MSS) |
Press Office: Bulletin (PM’s letter to Brezhnev) [MT “profoundly disturbed at recent developments in Afghanistan”] [released 2010] |
|
80 Jan 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Signor Cossiga) [detente, US-European relations, world affairs] [declassified 2014] |
|
80 Jan 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Gibraltar: FCO letter to British Embassy Madrid (“The Armero Affair” ) [Lisbon Declaration negotiations] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Jan 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Carter Library) |
Cold War: Carter note (British & European reaction to Afghanistan invasion “very weak”) [unclassified] |
|
80 Jan 30 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Cossiga) [European Community: UK contribution to the budget] [declassified 2014] |
|
80 Feb 17 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Trade Unions: No.10 record of conversations (MT phone calls with Joseph, Whitelaw, Havers, Howe) [picketing at Hadfields] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Mar 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Monetary Policy: Biffen minute for Chancellor (“Medium Term Financial Strategy”) [minutes disagreement, copied to MT & Wass] [declassified 2013] |
|
80 Mar 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Hansard |
Economy: 1980 Budget (Howe 2) |
|
80 Apr 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Sherman minute to MT ("Need for Better Economic Advice - in re Alan Walters") [Walters ready to return from US if made a reasonable offer] [released 2011] |
|
80 Apr 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Cossiga) [European Council: budget] [declassified 2014] |
|
80 Apr 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Cossiga) [European Council: Iran] [declassified 2014] |
|
80 May 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Trade Unions: Gow minute to MT (“Employment Bill”) [Chief Whip knows Ian Percival is behind dissent to Clause 16] [released 2011] |
|
80 Jun 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Trudeau) [extract] [reflections on Venice summit] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jun 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Canada: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada) [extract] [patriation of Canadian Constitution, Anglo-Canadian air talks, G7 summit in Venice] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Jul 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Monetary Policy: Biffen minute for Chancellor (“Incomes, Inflation & Unemployment”) [“there really is not much difference in substance between us”] [declassified 2013] |
|
80 Aug 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Lawson (Nigel) |
Economy: The New Conservatism (Lecture to the Bow Group) |
|
80 Sep 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Ministerial talks on the Falklands (Ridley-Cavandoli secret meeting near Geneva, 10-11 Sep) [leaseback with 99 year term agreed as basis to proceed] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Sep 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: McMahon minute for Governor (“The Bank’s position on monetary policy”) [“The PM has told us that she would like to have the exchange rate lower”] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Sep 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Nott letter to Carrington (“Trade with the Soviet Union”) [protecting UK’s competitive position] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Sep 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Governor phone call to Lankester) ["uncomfortable meeting ... the Governor should not be alarmed about it"] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Sep 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary policy: Treasury record of conversation (“Economic Strategy”) [Wass, Ryrie & Burns propose change of course] [released 2011] |
|
80 Sep 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: Lavelle draft paper (“Inflow controls and other options for reducing the exchange rate”) [pros and cons] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Sep 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Ryrie & McMahon) [Wass, Ryrie & Burns urge public sector pay freeze] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Sep 28 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to Chancellor ("Reducing the exchange rate: inflow controls & other options") [inflow controls offering cover] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No. 10 record of conversation (Monetary Policy Seminar) [system of monetary control; debate over future monetary policy] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Oct 21 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary policy: Wass minute to Couzens (“The Exchange Rate”) [Wass called to No.10 for talk with MT] [released 2011] |
|
80 Oct 21 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: McMahon minute for Governor (“The Roll-over and policy generally: tomorrow’s meeting with the Chancellor”) [“the exchange rate now cries out for action”] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Oct 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Carter Library) |
Cold War: SCC meeting on “Polish Contingencies” [declassified 2000] |
|
80 Oct 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary policy: Treasury record of conversation among officials (“The Exchange Rate: Contingency Planning”) [“possibilities for action if the exchange rate continued to move upward”] [released 2011] |
|
80 Oct 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: McMahon minute for Governor (“Policy and the exchange rate”) [“The level of the exchange rate is now clearly intolerable ”] [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Oct 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: FCO briefing to No.10 (“Sir Y K Pao”) [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Nov 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Defence and Oversea Policy Committee - OD(80) 23rd (Falkland Islands, Health of the Alliance) [OD approves Ridley putting leaseback to Falkland Islanders] [declassified 2010] |
|
80 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary policy: Treasury minute to No.10 ("The financial effects of a 2 point cut in MLR") [markets getting ready to accept - medium-term will depend on budget] [released 2011] |
|
80 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Governor of the Bank of England) [declassified 2011] |
|
80 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 minute to MT ("Falkland Islands: Mr Ridley's statement") [leaseback - "Mr Ridley had an awful time in the House this afternoon"] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Cockfield minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Biffen minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Cropper minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Lawson minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Rees minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Adam Ridley minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Budget Questionnaire") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Wiggins minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot responses from HMT ministers and advisors] [declassified 2012] |
|
80 Dec 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Budget: Cardona minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jan 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Alan Walters diary (1981) [whole year transcribed as a single document] [released 2013] |
|
81 Jan 4 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham minute for MT ("Note for the Record") ["Rupert Murdoch Lunch"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jan 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Economy: Alan Walters diary (first meetings with MT as economic adviser) ["What should she do about Geoffrey? Who could she promote. No one"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jan 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Economy: Alan Walters diary (meeting with MT) [MT on Niehans: "no one must know about it"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Jan 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Lawson (Nigel) |
Economy: Thatcherism in Practice: A Progress Report (Speech to Zurich Society of Economics) |
|
81 Jan 17 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hoskyns MSS) |
Monetary policy: Hoskyns diary (Chequers meeting) [discussion of “PSBR crisis”] |
|
81 Jan 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (inaugural congratulations) [unclassified] |
|
81 Jan 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: No.10 telcon (Reagan phone call to MT on inauguration day) [MT promises to brief him on her mistakes] [declassified 2010] |
|
81 Jan 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Sir Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("The 1981 Budget") [urges £1b "industrial package" & direct action to reduce sterling 5-10 per cent] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary policy: Lawson minute for Chancellor ("The Money Supply Target") [separate monetary & fiscal targets perhaps better than £M3] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor's meeting with Governor) ["Monetary Policy & the Budget"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Nott, Carrington) [future defence policy/cutbacks] [declassified 2013] |
|
81 Feb 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: No.10 minute (MT meeting with Chancellor, Wass, etc) [Budget discussion - no decisions] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: No.10 minute (MT meeting with Chancellor, Wass, etc) [Howe thinks PSBR below £11b not "politically possible"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hoskyns MSS) |
Economy: Hoskyns diary (budget discussion) [MT & Howe rejecting draconian budget as "not on politically"] |
|
81 Feb 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Lawson minute for Chancellor ("Competitiveness & the Exchange Rate") [response to Wass working group] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Monetary Policy: Middleton minute for Chancellor (“Niehans”) [analysis of his report] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Feb 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor) [Howe now wants to raise basic rate in order to increase allowances; MT agrees] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (HM Treasury) |
Monetary Policy: Lawson minute for Chancellor (“Niehans”) [Middleton critique “wholly valid”] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Feb 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Walters, Hoskyns & Wolfson minute to MT ("Budget Strategy") [necessity of a tough budget] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Economy: Alan Walters diary (MT meeting with Howe & Wass) [“PM told GH he must get the PSBR down or ‘you are for the chop’”] [released 2012] |
|
81 Feb 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Budget: Alan Walters diary (MT-Howe-Wass budget meeting) [MT telling Howe get down PSBR or "you are for the chop"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Feb 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor & Wass) [MT 'dismayed' at £11.25b PSBR, but accepted Howe rejection of increased basic rate] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Treasury minute (Chancellor's meeting with ministers & officials) [decisions to freeze income tax & CTT thresholds, reducing PSBR by further £1b] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor) [Howe reports decision to freeze thresholds & reduce PSBR below £11b] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Henderson (Sir Nicholas) diary |
Cold War: Sir Nicholas Henderson diary (MT visit to Washington) |
|
81 Feb 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: No.10 briefing for MT (Reagan-Thatcher discussions) [topics to raise] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: White House record of conversation (MT-Reagan plenary) [East/West, Central America especially Belize; jellybeans] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Feb 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: No.10 note of conversation (Reagan-Thatcher meeting) [plenary session] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Walters letter to Sir Douglas Wass (disappointment at budget measures) [budget proposals "too little and of the wrong kind"; maximum 1 per cent MLR cut] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Feb 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary policy: Middleton minute to Chancellor (“MLR in the Budget”) [urges 2 point cut “to give a proper balance”] [released 2011] |
|
81 Feb 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary policy: Riley minute to Middleton (“MLR Cuts in the Budget”) [2 point cut consistent with £M3 target; estimates impact on company sector’s finances] [released 2011] |
|
81 Mar 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary policy: Lawson minute to Chancellor (“MLR in the Budget”) [agrees with Middleton, 2 point cut “needed to give a proper balance to the Budget”] [released 2011] |
|
81 Mar 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary policy: Ryrie minute to Chancellor (“MLR in the Budget”) [agrees with Middleton, 2 point cut. “There should be some tangible benefit apparently flowing from the harsh measures you are taking”] [released 2011] |
|
81 Mar 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary policy: Wass minute to Chancellor (“MLR in the Budget”) [“The case for considering 2 percent now is in my view largely political”, “not at all sure that a reduction of 2 percent is right or sensible”; but finally backs it] [released 2011] |
|
81 Mar 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Governor of the Bank of England) [“Monetary Affairs”] [released 2011] |
|
81 Mar 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Budget: MT notes (Budget Cabinet) [comments by individual ministers] [released 2013] |
|
81 Mar 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hoskyns MSS) |
Economy: Hoskyns diary (Cabinet reaction to budget) [Prior strongly attacks but with little support] |
|
81 Mar 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [report on Anglo-Argentine talks in New York - Carrington's copy] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Mar 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [report on Anglo-Argentine talks in New York] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Mar 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hoskyns MSS) |
Economy: Hoskyns diary (Reece warns MT to be ready) [Macmillan, Thorneycroft and du Cann will tell you to stand down in the summer] |
|
81 May 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Nott) [“Future Defence Policy”] [declassified 2013] |
|
81 May 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Rates: Rifkind minute to MT (Scottish Conservative Conference debate on domestic rates) [“rates are… becoming an explosive political issue”] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 May 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Middleton says Wass & Ryrie opposed £1b extra tax in budget; Brittan and Howe agreed with their view that “you must not put interest rates down if you had to put them up again!!”] [released 2012] |
|
81 May 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Nott minute to MT (views of First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Henry Leach, on defence programme) [Leach disagrees with Nott's proposals] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 May 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: First Sea Lord minute to MT ("The Defence Programme") ["I am confident that you will at least spare two minutes to read this note...before you and your Cabinet colleagues consider a proposition to substantially dismantle the Navy"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 May 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Carrington-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Joseph-Nott-Armstrong) ["Defence Programme"] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jun 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Lawson MSS) |
Monetary policy: Lawson minute to Howe (“EMS”) [“should seriously consider taking the occasion of our presidency of the EEC to join the EMS”] |
|
81 Jun 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Fearn minute to Ure ("Falkland Islands: Strategy Meeting") [draft record of meeting of FCO officials, Falklands Governor Hunt and UK Ambassador to Buenos Aires] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Jul 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Northern Ireland Office) |
Northern Ireland: MT meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary (record of conversation) [authorises communication with PIRA over hunger strikes] [declassified 2009] |
|
81 Jul 18 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Woodfield) ["The Maze hunger strike"; contacts with hunger strikers] [declassified 2011] |
|
81 Jul 18 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Northern Ireland Office) |
Northern Ireland: MT meeting/phone exchange with Northern Ireland officials & Secretary of State (record of conversations) [decision not to take further initiative on hunger strikes] [declassified 2009] |
|
81 Jul 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Richard Allen memo for President Reagan (“Britain Drifts”) [declassified 2000] |
|
81 Aug 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hoskyns MSS) |
MT: Hoskyns, Wolfson and Millar memo for MT ("Your Political Survival") ["The Blockbuster" memo - "Your own management competence, like that of most of your colleagues, is almost non-existent ... Your own Leadership style is wrong"] [released 2016] |
|
81 Sep 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [plenary session: foreign affairs, international economy, industry, transport, energy, research and space, EC issues] [declassified 2014] |
|
81 Sep 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [Northern Ireland, the Cancun meeting & foreign aid, European Community matters] [declassified 2014] |
|
81 Sep 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [state of play regarding Falklands dispute - Carrington copy of minute] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Sep 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") [state of play in Anglo-Argentine dispute] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Sep 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Lawson MSS) |
Monetary policy: Lawson minute to Howe (“EMS”) [case for joining getting stronger] |
|
81 Oct 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UK Ambassador to Buenos Aires letter to Fearn ("Falkland Islands Strategy") ["In effect, as I understand it, the decision is to have no strategy at all beyond a general Micawberism"] [declassified 2012] |
|
81 Nov 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: President Reagan meeting with US Ambassador to London (possible Thatcher defeat) [declassified 1998] |
|
81 Nov 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Gow minute to MT ("Drinks for backbenchers") [Dorrell letter; now gives assurances "he will NOT be joining the SDP"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Nov 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: "Gang of 25" letter to Chief Whip (collective protest against government economic policy) [will vote against any measures "which deflate aggregate demand"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Dec 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Social Services: Walters minute to MT ("Unemployment, Benefits and the Change from the 1950s to the 1970s") [analysis] [released Dec 2014] |
|
81 Dec 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Gow minute to MT ("Tuesday's Debate") ["disturbing note" from Jopling; 45 possible rebels] [released 2012] |
|
81 Dec 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Chief Whip minute to MT ("The Prime Minister") ["we are facing a very serious situation which we must discuss"] [released 2012] |
|
81 Dec 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1930Z) ("Poland") (NSC 0034) [Reagan calls European leaders “chicken littles … let our Allies know ... we have long memories”] [declassified Oct 2004] |
|
81 Dec 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Gow letter to MT (support & encouragement) ["a giant among pygmies"] [released 2012] |
|
82 Feb 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 365 to FCO (0310Z) ("President Reagan's Visit") [Deaver suggests that "we had better drop the idea of a visit to the UK at this time"; Henderson doubts that "crying off at this stage would be understood in London"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Feb 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Luce, Ros and officials) ["Anglo-Argentine Ministerial Talks on the Falkland Islands: New York, 26/27 February 1982"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Feb 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Ministerial talks on the Falkland Islands in New York (First Session) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Feb 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Ministerial talks on the Falkland Islands in New York (Second Session) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Feb 27 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Ministerial talks on the Falkland Islands in New York (Third Session) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Feb 27 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Ministerial talks on the Falkland Islands in New York (Fourth Session) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Feb 27 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Ministerial talks on the Falkland Islands in New York (Annexes) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 671 to FCO (0030Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Luce meeting with Enders] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 57 to FCO (1742Z) ("Falklands Talks: Argentine Press Comment") [separate Argentine statement undercuts agreed communique - MT copy] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 57 to FCO (1742Z) ("Falklands Talks: Argentine Press Comment") [Argentine press comment on Anglo-Argentine talks in New York] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 58 to FCO (1755Z) ("Falklands Talks") [Argentine statement following Anglo-Argentine talks in New York - Carrington copy] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 60 to FCO (1735Z) ("Falklands Talks") [further Argentine press comment following Anglo-Argentine talks in New York] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 60 to FCO (1735Z) ("Falklands Talks: Argentine Press Comment") [MT: "We must make contingency plans"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 letter to FCO ("Falkland Islands") ["On her copy of Buenos Aires telegram no. 60 of 3 March the Prime Minister minuted: "we must make contingency plans""] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Hansard |
Economy: 1982 Budget (Howe 4) |
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82 Mar 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Budget: Walters notes ("Cabinet on Budget 1982") [views of Ministers on the Budget] [released 2013] |
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82 Mar 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Governor Falklands flash telegram to FCO (1125Z) ("Illegal Landing on S. Georgia") ["shots fired Argentine flag hoisted notices in English changed to Spanish"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) |
Argentine Junta: Military Committee minutes No.2"M"/82 (c2100Z) (English translation, Spanish transcription & Spanish original) [Costa Mendez to play for time with the British; reciprocity to be sought from US between Nicaragua & Malvinas issues] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") ["we may now face the prospect of an early confrontation with Argentina" - MT copy] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Carrington minute to MT ("Falkland Islands") ["we may now face the prospect of an early confrontation with Argentina"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) |
Argentine Junta: Military Committee minutes No.3"M"/82 (English translation, Spanish transcription & Spanish original) [decision to bring forward planning to invade the Falklands] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO telegram 72 to UKE Buenos Aires (2030Z) ("South Georgia") [compromise proposal to regularise presence of Argentine party at Leith - "ultimate effort of goodwill"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) |
Argentine Junta: Military Committee minutes No.4"M"/82 (c2215Z) (English translation, Spanish transcription & Spanish original) [decision to invade the Falklands] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Mar 27 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 110 to FCO (1400Z) ("South Georgia") ["...growing impression that Costa Mendez has been less than honest with me and that, in fact, the Argentines have been playing us along"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO telegram 98 to UKE Tel Aviv (for Carrington PS) (2120Z) ("South Georgia") [two reports from secret sources of Argentine intentions; Anaya briefing to naval staff on 28 March saying incident was not contrived but had come "at a wonderful time"] [declassified Mar 2016] |
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82 Mar 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: SIS UKE Buenos Aires signal to GCHQ (1640Z) (decrypted Argentine signal) [British Naval Attaché comments: "This looks serious and suggests a recce of an invasion beach on the West of East Falkland"] [declassified May 2023] |
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82 Mar 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1055 to FCO (0310Z) (“Reagan statement on nuclear arms policy and East-West relations”) [“My goal is to reduce nuclear weapons dramatically”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Mar 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Acting Chief of Defence Staff briefing for Nott (?before 1700Z) ("Falkland Islands") [updated military options before OD tomorrow; plus draft and criticism of it as too negative] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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82 Mar 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MT message to President Reagan (2025Z) (intelligence reports Argentine navy preparing to invade) [MT asks Reagan to intervene with Galtieri] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO telegram 48 to Port Stanley (1825Z) ("Argentine Action Against the Falkland Islands") ["We now have reliable evidence that an Argentine task force will gather off Cape Pembroke early tomorrow morning ... You (and Buenos Aires) will wish to make your dispositions accordingly"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: NSC briefing for President Reagan ("Suggested Talking Points for Telephone Call to President Galtieri") ["Maggie is a very determined woman .... The use of force by anyone will be met by force on her part"] [published 2015] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO note for the record (c0100Z) ("Points arising from Ministers' discussion at No.10") ["as reported by Mr Ure" - decisions made] [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) |
Argentine Junta: Argentine Presidency record of Reagan-Galtieri phone conversation (0034-0114Z) (Spanish original & transcript, with English translation) [Reagan fails to persuade Galtieri not to invade the Falklands] [declassified 2013; this copy 2015] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Rentschler MSS) |
Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (imminent Argentine invasion) [Reagan calls Galtieri; writes result to MT] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (0245Z) (Reagan phone call to Galtieri) [just spoken with Galtieri: "he left me with the clear impression that he has embarked on a course of armed conflict"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: President Reagan letter for MT (0245Z) (his conversation with Galtieri: situation in the Falklands) [published 2015] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (State Department) |
Falklands: State Department to USE Buenos Aires (0304Z) ("UK-Argentine confrontation - Secretary calls in Argentine Ambassador") [if force used "we will have to side with the British"] [declassified 2001] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (State Department) |
Falklands: State Department to USE Buenos Aires (0437Z) ("President's conversation with Argentine President") [use of force "would gravely compromise US-Argentine relations"] [declassified 2002] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO Defence Department minute for Foreign Secretary ("Retaking the Falkland Islands: The Political Costs") ["hard to persuade people that the game was worth the candle" - MT's copy] [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO Defence Department minute for Foreign Secretary ("Retaking the Falkland Islands: the political costs") [Richard Luce's copy] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: FCO note (c1200Z) ("Falklands") [British Antarctic Survey ship RSS Bransfield intercepts Falkland Island radio saying that 200 troops have landed: "We must accept this as confirmation of an Argentine landing" - MT's copy] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 15th (1830Z) (Falkland Islands) [decision to despatch Task Force] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hailsham MSS) |
Falklands: Hailsham diary (Argentina invaded the islands) ["Cecil Parkinson told me he was surprised at the invasion!!! He had been at the meetings y'day. ... One only (not me) for staying in port"] [released 2011] |
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82 Apr 3 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Gow notes (1310Z?) (1922 Committee Meeting: The invasion of the Falkland Islands) [released 2013] |
|
82 Apr 3 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Gow notes (1310Z?) (1922 Committee Meeting: The invasion of the Falkland Islands) [transcript of Gow's notes] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 3 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (1700Z) (MT-President Mitterrand) [transcript; Mitterrand expresses support for MT] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 3 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) |
Argentine Junta: Military Committee minutes No.8"M"/82 (?2100Z) (English translation, Spanish translation & original) [decision to reinforce the Argentine garrison on the islands] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Apr 3 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (2100Z?) (MT, King Hussein of Jordan) [seeks, and gets, Jordan's support for UN Security Council resolution] [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Apr 4 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Defence Staff briefing for Chief of Defence Staff ("The Falkland Islands Invasion") [update prepared for Lewin on his return from New Zealand] [declassified Feb 2018] |
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82 Apr 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1130Z) (MT-Falklands Governor Rex Hunt-Major Norman-Major Noott) [Argentine invasion of the Falklands] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT note to ?Gow (appointment of new Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary) ["It was Francis or George Younger...I realise your worries"] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Lewin minute for Nott (afternoon) ("Falkland Islands: military appreciation") [military options reflecting views of Chiefs of Staff] [declassified Feb 2018] |
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82 Apr 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Jopling minute to Pym (reaction within the Parliamentary Party to Falklands situation) [account of views of individual MPs] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram 174 to FCO (1326Z) ("Falklands and Time Scale of Argentine Intentions") ["we refused to face the fact that our encouragement of total intransigence from the Islanders involved a physical risk to them"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT notes made during conversation with Macmillan (c1500Z) (advice on handling the crisis) [released 2013] |
|
82 Apr 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MT message to world leaders (1846Z) ("Falkland Islands: economic measures against Argentina") [urges support for measures to bring Argentina to act on Security Council resolution] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Jopling minute to Pym (further reaction within the Parliamentary Party to Falklands situation; Labour and SDP reactions) [account of views of individual MPs] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1169 to FCO (1835Z) ("Falklands") [conversation with Haig about Kirkpatrick - "Haig said that he had no words bad enough for that person. The trouble was that she had the ear of the White House. She was a complete disaster"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Apr 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1700Z) (MT-Haig) [pre-dinner conversation: Anglo-US responses to the invasion of the Falklands] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1700Z) (MT-Haig) [pre-dinner meeting: Anglo-US responses to the invasion of the Falklands - MT annotations] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (State Department) |
Falklands: USE London to State Dept (1700Z) ("Secretary's Meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher April 8: Falkland Islands crisis") [MT: "impossible to be neutral in the face of unprovoked aggression"] [declassified 2009] |
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82 Apr 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1830Z) (MT-Haig) [dinner conversation: Anglo-US responses to the invasion of the Falklands] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Rentschler MSS) |
Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (US decision to launch mediation; Haig's first visit to London) [MT: "Interim authority? - to do what?"] |
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82 Apr 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: Haig telegram to State Department (0131Z) ("Memo to the President: discussions in London") ["The Prime Minister has the bit between her teeth"] [declassified 2000] |
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82 Apr 11 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) |
Argentine Junta: Military Committee minutes (1400Z) (Spanish original, transcript and English translation) [1. Analisis de MALVINAS; 2. Analisis di mision secreta a CUBA; 3. Informe Ministro RR.EE; 4. Resolucion Comite Militar - "The US has done nothing for Argentina. Defends Mrs Thatcher"] [declassified 2015] |
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82 Apr 12 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (0830-1000Z) (MT-Haig) [first meeting: discussion of Haig proposals] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 12 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1110Z) (MT-Haig) [second meeting: further discussion of Haig proposals] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 12 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1655Z) (MT-Haig) [third meeting: discussion of American draft agreement] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 12 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Rentschler MSS) |
Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (Haig shuttle back in London) [MT: "the fleet must steam on!"] |
|
82 Apr 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (0815Z) (MT-Haig) [discussion of further Argentine demands; Argentina moving closer to USSR; concerns about UK public opinion] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Robilliard note to MT ("Constituency Day Friday 21 May 1982") [MT would rather not agree to operate forklift at Michael Gerson Ltd. event given Falklands situation; "unless it has all been resolved by then"] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (1830Z) (MT-Haig) [full transcript of first call: dispute over British use of Ascension Island] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (1900Z) (MT-Haig) [full transcript of second call: further discussion of UK use of Ascension Island] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Chiefs of Staff directive to CINCFLEET COS 9/82 (Operation Sutton) [Planning Directive with appendix "Appreciation of the Options for Landing Operations in the Falkland Islands"] [declassified Oct 2018] |
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82 Apr 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Rentschler MSS) |
Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (Haig in Buenos Aires again) [Haig: "a charade ... a f***ing charade - these guys are diddling me"] |
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82 Apr 17 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (1930-1934Z) (MT-Reagan) [Reagan does "not think [MT] should be asked to go any further" in order to reach compromise] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 18 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (evening) (MT-Parsons) [possible UN resolution requiring UK Task Force to "drop anchor, to turn around, to hold off as it were, which obviously we couldn't accept"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Jopling minute to MT (views within the Parliamentary party on Falklands crisis) ["no surrender" group, pro-negotiations group, fears about "military disaster", pro-UN group, anti-violence group] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: US draft of peace agreement (as of 23rd April) [Haig proposals delivered via Pym & unacceptable to MT] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 24 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of OD Sub-Committee on South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands - OD(SA)(82) 15th (1715Z) ("Diplomatic and Military Situation") [proposals brought back by Pym from Washington - agreed message to Haig urging him to put them to Argentina first] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 24 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Pym memorandum circulated to OD(SA) Committee - OD(SA)(82) 25 (Falkland Islands: Washington Discussion with Mr Haig) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Apr 25 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Nott statement (recapture of South Georgia) ["The White Ensign flies alongside the Union Jack"; annotated by MT] [released 2013] |
|
82 Apr 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (1322Z) (apparent rejection by Argentina of latest peace proposals) ["I cannot conceal from you how deeply let down [we] would feel if under these circumstances the U.S. were not now to give us its full support"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Apr 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: State Department paper for NSC meeting ("Next Steps on Falklands") [range of possible measures] [declassified 2002] |
|
82 Apr 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (Argentina rejects US plan) (extract) [will make clear UK "worked with us in good faith", acting on self-defence] [declassified 1993] |
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82 Apr 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (2218Z) (position of US Administration given Argentina's failure to accept US proposals) [US "tilt" towards UK] [with MT annotations] [released 2013] |
|
82 Apr 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Reagan message to MT (2218Z) (Argentina rejects US peace proposal) [Argentina's refusal "to negotiate in good faith [has] made it necessary for the United States to adopt a new posture toward Buenos Aires"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Apr 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: National Security Council minutes (1335-1430Z) ("South Atlantic Crisis") (NSC 0048) [US 'tilt' towards Britain] [declassified 2011] |
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82 May 2 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1145Z) (MT-Whitelaw-Nott-Parkinson-Havers-Lewin-Fieldhouse-Acland) [Rules of Engagement widened to permit attack on General Belgrano] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 2 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: HMS Conqueror Report of Proceedings (1857Z) [extract covering 2 May, including attack on General Belgrano] [declassified 2006] |
|
82 May 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (2036Z) (MT proposes US enact complete ban on imports from Argentina to US) ["with so many young lives at risk - British and Argentine - I feel that we must make a supreme effort to prevent a major military clash"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (0204Z) (Reagan urges MT to consider new US peace proposals) [need to seize chance for a peaceful settlement "before more lives are lost"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (0204Z) (Reagan commends Haig's latest peace proposals) ["The decisions I made last Friday were aimed at putting you in the strongest position to achieve a peaceful settlement"] [released 2013] |
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82 May 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (0204Z) (Reagan commends Haig's latest peace proposals) ["The decisions I made last Friday were aimed at putting you in the strongest position to achieve a peaceful settlement...I believe there is now a chance to realise that aim"] [released 2013] |
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82 May 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: US National Security Adviser memo for Reagan ("PM Thatcher's Reply on your Falklands Demarche") ["In a word, Maggie accepts the proposal"] [declassified 2006] |
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82 May 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT draft letter to Reagan (MT: "The letter to Reagan that was never sent...") [US proposals not "faithful to the basic principles we must protect"] [released 2013] |
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82 May 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (2030Z) (negotiations with Argentina: Haig's proposals) [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 May 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (2030Z) (MT expresses serious concerns about US/Peruvian peace proposals; proposes amendments) ["I am writing to you...because I think you are the only person who will understand the significance of what I am trying to say"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (2030Z) (MT expresses serious concerns about US/Peruvian peace proposals; proposes amendments) ["I am writing to you...because I think you are the only person who will understand the significance of what I am trying to say"] [released 2013] |
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82 May 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: MT letter for President Reagan (2030Z) (The Falklands conflict: Haig's latest proposals) [published 2015] |
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82 May 8 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Parsons) [MT wants UN Secretary-General to visit London; MT: "it is going to be the most awful waste of young life if we really have to go and take those islands"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1740Z) (MT-Reagan) [Reagan asks MT to hold off military action, says US has sided with UK "at the price of its relations with Latin America"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: National Security Decision Directive (NSDD34) ("U.S. Actions in the South Atlantic Crisis") [measures arising from 30 Apr tilt] [declassified 1990] |
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82 May 16 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (1335Z) (MT-Italian Foreign Minister Colombo) [difficulties for Italian government in continuing sanctions against Argentina] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (1100Z) (MT-President Mitterrand) [Versailles Summit, EC mandate] [declassified 2014] |
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82 May 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (1215Z) (MT-President Mitterrand) [lunch conversation: Middle East, UN Resolution on the Falkland Islands & the Falklands War, East-West relations] [declassified 2014] |
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82 May 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy/Falklands: UKE Rome letter to FCO ("Italy and the Falklands") [detailed analysis of decision not to renew economic sanctions] [declassified Jan 2010] |
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82 May 30 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MT message to President Mitterrand (1850Z) (possible delivery by France of Exocets to Peru) ["If it became known...that France was now releasing weapons to Peru that would certainly be passed to Argentina for use against us...this would have a devastating effect on the relationship between our two countries"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 30 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT message to President Mitterrand (1850Z) (French supply of Exocet missiles to Peru; Peru passing Exocets on to Argentina) [if French supply of Exocets became publicly known "this would have a devastating effect on the relationship between our two countries"] [released 2013] |
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82 May 31 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (2230Z) (MT-Reagan) [Reagan urges MT to consider ceasefire; MT refuses: "[MT] had lost valuable British ships and invaluable British lives. She was sure that the President would act in the same way if Alaska had been similarly threatened"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 31 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: White House record of telephone conversation (2300-2325Z) (Reagan-MT) [President calls MT urging ceasefire plan] [declassified 2016] |
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82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MT draft telegram to Galtieri (coming Battle for Port Stanley) ["On my side, grief will be tempered by the knowledge that these men died for freedom, justice, and the rule of law. And on your side? Only you can answer that question"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“President Reagan and the US budget debate”) ["I am sorry to go on about this"; urges MT to intercede with Reagan, to get interest rates down] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (evening after 1800Z) (Heads of Delegation “Falklands”) [Versailles economic summit] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (evening after 1800Z) (“conversation between Heads of Delegation on the evening of Friday, 4 June 1982”) [Versailles economic summit] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Reagan Public Papers |
Cold War: Reagan speech to the Houses of Parliament (1100Z) [external link] |
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82 Jun 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Pattison minute to MT (British casualties on Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram: heated argument between Nott and Fieldhouse) ["C in C Fleet would like to leave open the idea that the casualty figures were considerably higher...this would help to confuse the Argentines"; "argument became an issue of confidence between the two men"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 12 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: No.10 note to MT (HMS Glamorgan struck by suspected EXOCET missile) [released 2013] |
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82 Jun 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT notes of telephone conversation (2000Z) (MT receives news from Northwood of Argentine surrender and situation in Falklands) [released 2013] |
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82 Jun 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT notes for Commons speech on Argentine surrender (2115Z) (report from Northwood of Argentine surrender and situation in Falklands) [released 2013] |
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82 Jun 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Major General Moore message (0120Z) (surrender of Argentine forces in Port Stanley) ["The Falkland Islands are once more under the Government desired by their inhabitants. God Save The Queen"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for MT (“Long Term Trends in Public Expenditure”) [Public Expenditure Survey 1982 - cash planning] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Reagan message to MT (congratulations on victory in the Falklands) ["A just war requires a just peace"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Jun 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: Reagan telegram to Thatcher (victory congratulations & need for "a just peace") [declassified 2000] |
|
82 Jun 19 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Falklands Governor Rex Hunt letter to MT (message of thanks) ["without your resolution, courage and singleness of purpose, victory would not have been achieved"] [released 2013] |
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82 Jun 27 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada letter to MT (message of congratulations) ["Throughout this crisis you have demonstrated both your strength and your integrity"] [released 2013] |
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82 Jul 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Parsons valedictory despatch ("The Falklands Crisis at the United Nations") [reflections by Sir Anthony Parsons] [released 2013] |
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82 Jul 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT personal minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer - unsent (public spending, taxation, and growth) ["need to change the climate" of opinion to favour cuts in public spending & taxes] [released 2013] |
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82 Jul 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Henderson Valedictory Despatch ("US Policy in the Falkands Crisis with some Valedictory Comments on US/UK Relations") [declassified 2012] |
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82 Aug 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Reshuffle: Gow minute to MT ("Shuffle") [thoughts on MT's strength in Cabinet and reshuffle of junior Ministers] [released 2013] |
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82 Sep 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Weinberger note of meeting with MT (Middle East; John Brown Engineering; Falklands) [declassified 1998] |
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82 Sep 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Tokyo ("Massacre of Palestinians") ["it looks as though the [Israeli] government intend to brazen matters out"; reactions in Israel; UK position on responsibility for the massacre; MT statement; extracts from Report of Israeli Judicial Commisson of Inquiry (Feb 1983)] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Sep 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Premier Zhao Ziyang of China) [NATO, trade with USSR, Poland, arms control, Afghanistan, US foreign policy, Taiwan, Japan, Kampuchea, Vietnam, Middle East] [declassifed 2013] |
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82 Sep 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Premier Zhao Ziyang of China) [bilateral relations, future of Hong Kong, Guangdong Nuclear Project, trade, defence, consulates, technical co-operation] [declassifed 2013] |
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82 Sep 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping of China) [future of Hong Kong] [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Sep 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Vice Chairman Deng Xioaping of China) [future of Hong Kong] [MT's annotated copy] [released 2013] |
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82 Sep 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
China: UKE Peking to FCO (MT and Deng agreed press line on future of Hong Kong) ["They agreed to enter talks through diplomatic channels following the visit with the common aim of maintaining the stability and prosperity of Hong Kong"] [declassifed 2013] |
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82 Sep 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (0945Z) (Carrington testifies - 1st time) ["much more sensible for them gradually to build up the pressure against us"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Sep 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (1330Z) (Nick Ridley testifies) [leaseback not accepted "but there was every chance in due course it would have been"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Sep 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (1445Z) (Ambassador Williams testifies) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Sep 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: No.10 minute to MT (Pym “Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union”) [MT: “we have a major problem… shallowest paper I have ever read”] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Oct 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (Luce testifies) [events Spt 1981-Apr 1982] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Oct 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Government machinery: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Pym) [Pym & MT at odds over her intention to have a dedicated adviser on foreign, defence & intelligence matters, based in No.10] [declassified Jan 2014] |
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82 Oct 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Armstrong letter to Acland ("The Falklands Crisis: Operational Lessons") [OD Secretariat report on "The Goverment Machine and the Falklands Crisis 2 April to 15 July 1982 An Assessment"] [declassified Aug 2015] |
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82 Oct 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (MT testifies) [invasion "the worst...moment of my life"] [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Oct 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: Thatcher letter to Reagan (U.N. resolution unacceptable to UK) [summary declassified 2000] |
|
82 Oct 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [immigration issues, allied defence cooperation, industry] [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Oct 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [recent developments in Poland] [declassified 2013] |
|
82 Oct 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [plenary meeting: bilateral relations, arms control, Poland, East-West relations, Western alliance, defence issues, Falklands] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Oct 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [Spanish elections, Falklands, East-West economic relations, economic summit, EC economic and budget issues, Poland] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: President Reagan message to MT (UN General Assembly resolution calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations) ["I am truly sorry that we disagree on this matter"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (UN General Assembly resolution calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations) ["we believe it reasonable now to vote for the substantially modified resolution"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MT letter to President Reagan (UN General Assembly Debate) [resolution calling for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations; MT: "we are utterly dismayed by [US position]"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Reagan message to MT (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) [US will vote for resolution] [released 2013] |
|
82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT message to Reagan (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) [UK "dismayed" by Reagan's message: "A vote by the United States for the resolution would be received here with incomprehension"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Reagan message to MT (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) [Reagan argues for keeping open possibility of "a solution by negotiations sometime in the future"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Nov 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: Reagan letter to Thatcher (defends US stance at UN) [declassified 2000] |
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82 Nov 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong Cradock telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Nov 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: President Reagan message to MT (vote on UN resolution) ["I realise that our understanding of these events is indeed quite different"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Nov 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MT message to President Reagan (vote on UN resolution) ["an American decision to support Argentina against Britain"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
82 Nov 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT message to Reagan (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) ["The British people would see your vote for this resolution as an American decision to...support a dictatorship against the home of democracy"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Nov 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Reagan message to MT (proposed Argentine UN resolution on future negotiations over Falklands sovereignty) ["I realize that our understanding of these events is indeed quite different"] [released 2013] |
|
82 Nov 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (reaction to death of Brezhnev) [agrees his view that "a more constructive East/West relationship is available" if new leaders "adopt a new approach"] [declassified 2010] |
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82 Dec 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Ian Gow minute for MT (“Nicholas Ridley”) [“wonders whether you are displeased with him because of the Falklands matter”; if not in cabinet after next election wants EC Commissionership] [released 2017] |
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82 Dec 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Franks Enquiry evidence transcript (Carrington testifies - 2nd time) ["I take it that I am the only person who is being criticised"] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Dec 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Carrington) [Franks "pretty wintery" in recall testimony; "very unfair" if he was the only person criticised by name] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Jan 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Michael Jopling minute to MT (Whip’s office) [John Major “will be a considerable asset to the Whips Office”; MT comment: ‘Excellent’] [released 2017] |
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83 Jan 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1805Z) (Arms Control) (NSPG 0050) [general support for the zero/zero option for INF, President thinks "Maggie would go along"; Pershing not Cruise the missile the Soviets fear; portrayal of London blowing up too strong for the President's speech] [declassified Dec 2000] |
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83 Jan 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT's annotated text of the Franks Report ("Falkland Islands Review") [released 2013] |
|
83 Jan 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Franks) [final sentence narrowly related to Junta decision to invade on 2 April] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Feb 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [European Community issues] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Feb 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [INF stationing problem, EC-US relations, world economic prospects] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Feb 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Possible visit by representative of Hong Kong and Shanghai bank”) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Feb 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("A radical voucher scheme: Paper by the Secretary of State for Education and Science") ["entails radical changes in the law and some very difficult political choices... to give all parents financial power to choose a school and to bring about the greater diversity, improved efficiency and higher standards flowing from the exercise of that power"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 Feb 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT personal minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Mortgage Interest Relief") ["I couldn't disagree more with your paper on this subject"] [released 2013] |
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83 Mar 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Keith Joseph, Tebbit, King, Parkinson, Armstrong, Mount) [Joseph paper on radical voucher scheme] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Mar 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: MT letter to Chinese Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang (future of Hong Kong) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Mar 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Hansard |
Economy: 1983 Budget (Howe 5) |
|
83 Apr 3 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [personal account of her conduct of the war, handwritten text interleaved with transcript] [released 2015] |
|
83 Apr 3 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [1992 photocopy of text] [released 2015] |
|
83 Apr 3 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [1992 photocopy of text] [released 2015] |
|
83 Apr 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [plenary meeting: bilateral relations, Community affairs, arms control, East-West relations, industrial cooperation] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Apr 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [defence sales, Argentina, French-German defence cooperation, cooperation with the US, East-West economic relations] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Apr 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [plenary meeting: EC budget, disarmament, human rights] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 May 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Governor of the Bank of England, Trade Secretary) [Stock Exchange and the Restrictive Practices Court - agreed to drop case in return for reform] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 May 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
City: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor, Trade Secretary, Governor of the Bank of England) [possible abandonment of Stock Exchange RPC case] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 May 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
General Election: Butler minute to MT ("Election Contingency Plans") [plans for a 23rd June election; MT annotates and notes plan for 9th June election] [released 2013] |
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83 May 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Conservative Party |
Conservative General Election Manifesto 1983 |
|
83 May 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Reshuffle: No.10 minute to Butler ("Ministerial Appointments") [MT's appointments list following General Election] [released 2013] |
|
83 May 29 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Armstrong record of conversation (MT, Howe, Reagan, Kohl, Trudeau, Mitterrand, Fanfani, Nakasone, Regan and others) [Williamsburg Economic Summit: plenary session] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
83 Jun 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
General Election: Ingham minute to MT ("Presentation - To Recess") ["the bigger your majority - the more the media will seek to bring you down to earth and humble you" (MT ticks)] [released 2013] |
|
83 Jun 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bank of England) |
Monetary Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Governor of the Bank of England, Trade and Industry Secretary) [Stock Exchange case and the Restrictive Practices Court - confirms 6 May decision to withdraw the case in return for reforms] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Jun 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
City: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor, Trade & Industry Secretary, Governor of the Bank of England) [confirms 6 May decision to exempt] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Jul 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
City: Parkinson minute to MT (“Stock Exchange & Restrictive Practices Court”) [seeks permission to negotiate a settlement] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Jul 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (Deng Xiaoping remarks to Hong Kong delegates at CPPCC/NPC) [future of Hong Kong] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Sep 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Manpower: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Joseph, Walker, Jenkin, Tebbit, Parkinson, Cockfield, Lord Young, Walters, Mount, Armstrong) ["Employment Strategy Meeting at Chequers on 6-7 September"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
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83 Sep 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (FCO) |
Cold War: Chequers Soviet seminar (minute of meeting) [declassified 2007] |
|
83 Sep 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
International economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Leigh-Pemberton) ['Brazil'] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Sep 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Walker-Tebbit-Armstrong-Gregson-Scholar) [Ian MacGregor's strategy for coal, pit closures, redundancies, miners' pay] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Sep 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Multi-National Forces in Lebanon] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Sep 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [European Community, Greece, Italian economy, USSR, arms control] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Sep 17 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with Kohl: 21 September”) [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Sep 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Parsons minute to Coles ("Anglo-American Relations") [argues for re-assessment of support for US policies in the Middle East and elsewhere] [released 2013] |
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83 Sep 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [European airbus, economic developments, European budget] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Sep 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [INF deployment, defence issues, arms control, East-West relations] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Sep 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan) [first meeting: Lebanon, East/West, arms control, KAL007, INF, Belize, US supply of arms to Argentina] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Sep 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: White House record of conversation (MT-Reagan, then lunch plenary) [Lebanon, East/West, arms control, KAL007, INF, Belize, US supply of arms to Argentina; Middle East, economy] [declassified 2008] |
|
83 Oct 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Hong Kong”) [policy options on future of Hong Kong] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Oct 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Grenada: MT message to Reagan (US intervention in Grenada) ["I must tell you at once that the decision which you describe causes us the gravest concern"] [released 2013] |
|
83 Oct 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [defence disarmament, Allied cooperation, East-West relations, Middle East] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Oct 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [Anglo-French Summit: East-West relations, arms control, Allied cooperation, Falkland Islands, Middle East, EC issues, British-French bilateral relations] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Oct 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [UN Resolution on the Falkland Islands, European issues] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Oct 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Mitterrand) [European Community issues, UN Resolution on the Falkland Islands] [declassified 2014] |
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83 Oct 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Luce, MT-Whitelaw, MT-Heseltine) [response to proposals by CARICOM states for intervention in Grenada] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Oct 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Grenada: Howe draft statement to House of Commons (situation in Grenada) [MT annotation: "No reason to think that military intervention is likely to take place"] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Oct 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Grenada: Reagan message to MT (OECS request US participation in "collective security effort" in Grenada) ["I am giving serious consideration to the OECS request"] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Oct 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Grenada: UK High Commission Bridgetown to MODUK ("Grenada: From Col Beaumont in Bridgetown for Cossec") [details of US intervention plan] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Oct 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Grenada: Reagan message to MT (OECS request US participation in "collective security effort" in Grenada) ["I am giving serious consideration to the OECS request"] [released 2013] |
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83 Oct 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Grenada: FCO letter to No.10 ("Grenada") [MT draft message to Reagan: "In short, I have serious doubts about mounting a military operation"] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Oct 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Grenada: Reagan message to MT (situation in Grenada: US intervention) ["I have decided to respond positively" to OECS request for US intervention in Grenada] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Oct 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Grenada: Reagan message to MT (situation in Grenada: US intervention) ["I have decided to respond positively" to OECS request for US intervention in Grenada"] [released 2013] |
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83 Oct 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Grenada: Reagan letter to Thatcher (thinking of intervening) [declassified 2000] |
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83 Oct 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Grenada: Reagan letter to Thatcher (decided to intervene) [declassified 2000] |
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83 Oct 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Grenada: MT message to Reagan (US intervention in Grenada) ["I must tell you at once that the decision which you describe causes us the gravest concern"] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Oct 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Grenada: No.10 letter to FCO (“Grenada”) [record of No.10 meetings & decisions 24-25 Oct] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Oct 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Reagan) [US intervention in Grenada; Reagan to MT: "We are already at zero"] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Oct 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Grenada: Reagan message to MT (US intervention in Grenada) ["I well appreciate the dangers inherent in a military operation...but, on balance, I see this as the lesser of two risks"] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Oct 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Grenada: Reagan message to MT (US intervention in Grenada) ["I well appreciate the dangers inherent in a military operation...but, on balance, I see this as the lesser of two risks"] [released 2013] |