|
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 1 Su |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Northern Ireland: second Republican hunger strike began (ended 3 Oct with ten deaths) |
|
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 |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Budget |
|
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 10 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Hansard |
Economy: 1981 Budget (Howe 3) |
|
81 Mar 10 Tu |
Press |
Key |
Thatcher memoirs |
Economy: The 1981 budget [memoirs extract] |
|
81 Mar 11 We |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Interest rates reduced 2 per cent, from 14 to 12 per cent |
|
81 Mar 11 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Guardian Young Businessman of the Year Award (defence of the budget) |
|
81 Mar 12 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Archive (Lawson MSS) |
Statement on budget ("The Budget Judgement") ["no reason... to characterise... as contractionary"] |
|
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 Mar 26 Th |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
SDP formed (Alliance formed 16 June) |
|
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 27 Mo |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Economic Censure] [audio] |
|
81 Jul 27 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Economic Censure] |
|
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 |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Reshuffle: Soames, Gilmour, Carlisle dropped; Prior moved to Northern Ireland; Tebbit joined Cabinet to replace him at Employment; Lawson joined Cabinet (Energy); Parkinson became Party Chairman |
|
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 Sep 15 Tu |
Press |
Key |
Commentary (The Times) |
Conservative Party: "Three Cabinet ministers sacked" (reshuffle) [purging the wets] |
|
81 Sep 23 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for Australian TV (Channel 9 60 Minutes) |
|
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 Oct 16 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Conservative Party Conference (plus address to overflow meeting) |
|
81 Oct 28 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Economic Censure] |
|
81 Nov 4 We |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio] |
|
81 Nov 4 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on Address] |
|
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 16 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
|
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 Nov 26 Th |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Crosby by-election: Shirley Williams won Conservative seat for SDP |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 Mar 9 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Budget |
|
82 Mar 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Hansard |
Economy: 1982 Budget (Howe 4) |
|
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] |
|
82 Mar 19 Fr |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Falklands: illegal Argentine landing on South Georgia detected by BAS; London informed 20 Mar |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 Mar 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: GCHQ intercept of Argentine signal ("Argentine submarine force commander gives instructions relating to possible submarine threat, and also to reconnaissance mission") ["reconnaissance of the beach and/or disembarkation [word garbled]"] [declassified May 2023] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 Mar 31 We |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Falklands: Argentine invasion learned to be imminent - likely to be Friday; MT evening meeting at her room in House of Commons |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 Apr 2 Fr |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Falklands: Argentina invaded the islands |
|
82 Apr 2 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Thatcher memoirs |
Falklands: Argentina invades the Falklands [memoirs extract] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Rentschler MSS) |
Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (imminent Argentine invasion) [Reagan calls Galtieri; writes result to MT] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 Apr 3 Sa |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Falklands: Parliament met to debate the crisis; UN SCR 502 demanding Argentine withdrawal |
|
82 Apr 3 Sa |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: (1019Z) [Falkland Islands] [audio] |
|
82 Apr 3 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: (1019Z) [Falkland Islands] |
|
82 Apr 3 Sa |
Multimedia |
Key |
John Nott |
HC S: (1245Z) [Falkland Islands] [audio] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 Apr 5 Mo |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Falklands: FCO Ministers resigned, Pym new Foreign Secretary; Task Force sailed |
|
82 Apr 5 Mo |
Press |
Key |
Commentary (The Times) |
Falklands: “We Are All Falklanders Now” [leading article urging Carrington's resignation] |
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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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 Apr 5 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for ITN (1630Z) (Falklands) |
|
82 Apr 5 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC (c1640Z) (Falklands) |
|
82 Apr 5 Mo |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC (1640Z) (Falklands) [film] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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?"] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 Apr 14 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: (1335Z) [Falkland Islands] |
|
82 Apr 14 We |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Falkland Islands] [audio] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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"] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 Apr 24 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Thatcher memoirs |
Falklands: A crisis in the War Cabinet and the recapture of South Georgia [memoirs extract] |
|
82 Apr 25 Su |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Falklands: South Georgia recaptured |
|
82 Apr 25 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks on the recapture of South Georgia ("Rejoice") |
|
82 Apr 25 Su |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks on the recapture of South Georgia ("Rejoice") [film] |
|
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 26 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC Stmnt (1431-1506Z) [Falkland Islands] |
|
82 Apr 26 Mo |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC Stmnt (1431-1506Z) [Falkland Islands] (recapture of South Georgia) [audio] |
|
82 Apr 26 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama (2010Z) (Falklands) |
|
82 Apr 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Minutes of MOD Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 34th Meeting/82 (1300Z) (Operation Corporate, Force Levels) [discussion of the merits and demerits of Operation Sutton] [declassified 2012] |
|
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 |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: (1443-1506Z) [Falkland Islands] |
|
82 Apr 29 Th |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: (1443-1506Z) [Falkland Islands] [audio] |
|
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] |
|
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 |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Falklands: US `tilt’ in favour of Britain; Total Exclusion Zone put in force |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 May 2 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Thatcher memoirs |
Falklands: Decision to sink the Belgrano [memoirs extract] |
|
82 May 2 Su |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Falklands: General Belgrano torpedoed by HMS Conqueror (1857Z); cruiser sank with 321 dead |
|
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 |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Falklands: HMS Sheffield hit by Argentine missile |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 May 20 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
U.K. Government |
Falklands: British ultimatum to Argentina (“The Falkland Islands: Negotiations for a peaceful settlement”) |
|
82 May 20 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: (1443-1510Z) [Falkland Islands] |
|
82 May 20 Th |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: (1443-1510Z) [Falkland Islands] [audio] |
|
82 May 21 Fr |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Falklands: British Forces landed at San Carlos Bay |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 May 30 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: GCHQ intercept of Argentine signal (0531Z) ("Falkland Islands Dispute: Commander Falklands Group laments the inferiority of Argentine forces") [battle for Darwin/Goose Green assessed; British possess absolute air superiority and control of the sea, "unsurpassable conditions to extend the occupation of the islands"] [declassified May 2023] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 May 31 Mo |
Press |
Key |
Commentary (Sunday Times) |
Falklands: Reagan phone call to Thatcher (urges ceasefire) |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 Jun 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Reagan Public Papers |
Cold War: Reagan speech to the Houses of Parliament (1100Z) [external link] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 Jun 14 Mo |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Falklands: Argentine surrender |
|
82 Jun 14 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC Stmnt: (1114Z) [Falkland Islands] |
|
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] |
|
82 Jun 14 Mo |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC Stmnt: (2115Z) [Falkland Islands] (Argentinian surrender) [audio] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 Jun 15 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC Stmnt: [Falkland Islands] |
|
82 Jun 15 Tu |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC Stmnt: [Falkland Islands] (Argentinian surrender) [audio] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 Jul 3 Sa |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Rally at Cheltenham [audio extract] |
|
82 Jul 3 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Rally at Cheltenham |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 Aug 3 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Woman’s Own |
|
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] |
|
82 Sep 1 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC (US pipeline sanctions - "deeply wounded by a friend") |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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 8 Fr |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
|
82 Oct 8 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 Nov 3 We |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio] |
|
82 Nov 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong Cradock telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [declassified 2012] |
|
82 Nov 3 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on Address] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
82 Nov 15 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
83 Jan 6 Th |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Reshuffle: Heseltine replaced Nott at Defence |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
83 Jan 16 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for London Weekend Television Weekend World ("Victorian Values") |
|
83 Jan 18 Tu |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Falkland Islands (Franks Report)] [audio] |
|
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 18 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
UK State Paper |
Falklands: Falkland Islands Review ("the Franks Report") |
|
83 Jan 18 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC Stmnt: [Falkland Islands (Franks Report)] |
|
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] |
|
83 Jan 25 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Falkland Islands (Franks Report)] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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 |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Budget |
|
83 Mar 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Hansard |
Economy: 1983 Budget (Howe 5) |
|
83 Mar 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Pym, Gaston Thorn, Michael Butler, David Hancock, Brian Unwin, Émile Noël, Alexander Schaub) [EC budget reform; UK refund] [released Dec 2014] |
|
83 Mar 23 We |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Reagan announced Star Wars programme (SDI) |
|
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 5 Tu |
Multimedia |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT memoir (“Notes on the Emergency Cabinet Committee”) [podcast - episode 1] [released 2015] |
|
83 Apr 11 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Observer (4th anniversary as PM) |
|
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] |
|
83 May 9 Mo |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
General Election announced for 9 Jun |
|
83 May 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Conservative Party |
Conservative General Election Manifesto 1983 |
|
83 May 18 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
General Election Press Conference launching manifesto |
|
83 May 20 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
General Election Press Conference (the economy) |
|
83 May 23 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech in Cardiff |
|
83 May 24 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC1 Nationwide (On the Spot) |
|
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 May 31 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama |
|
83 Jun 3 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC (SDP failure to "fight from within" "The Labour Party will never die") |
|
83 Jun 5 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for LWT Weekend World |
|
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 9 Th |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
1983 General Election: Conservative majority 144 |
|
83 Jun 11 Sa |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
New Government formed |
|
83 Jun 22 We |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio] |
|
83 Jun 22 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on Address] |
|
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 5 Tu |
Press |
Key |
Commentary (The Times) |
Coal: "'Pit leaders seek backing for big pay increase" [Scargill: “A fightback … will inevitably take place outside rather than inside Parliament”] |
|
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] |
|
83 Sep 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (FCO) |
Cold War: Chequers Soviet seminar (minute of meeting) [declassified 2007] |
|
83 Sep 8 Th |
Press |
Key |
Thatcher memoirs |
Cold War: Chequers Seminar on future of the Soviet Union [memoirs extract] |
|
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] |
|
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 Sep 29 Th |
Press |
Key |
Thatcher memoirs |
Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting in Washington (record of conversation) [memoirs extract] |
|
83 Sep 29 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at the Winston Chuchill Foundation Award dinner |
|
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 6 Th |
Press |
Key |
Commentary (The Times) |
Cecil Parkinson: "'Parkinson admits love affair" (Parkinson admits relationship with Sarah Keays) |
|
83 Oct 14 Fr |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Cecil Parkinson resigned over Keays affair |
|
83 Oct 14 Fr |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
|
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 14 Fr |
Press |
Key |
Commentary (The Times) |
Cecil Parkinson: "I implored him to tell Thatcher" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) [Keays interview] |
|
83 Oct 14 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
|
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] |
|
83 Oct 22 Sa |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Grenada: Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States requested US intervene (following coup 19 Oct) |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
83 Oct 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Grenada: Reagan letter to Thatcher (thinking of intervening) [declassified 2000] |
|
83 Oct 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Grenada: Reagan letter to Thatcher (decided to intervene) [declassified 2000] |
|
83 Oct 25 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
US invasion of Grenada |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
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] |
|
83 Oct 25 Tu |
Press |
Key |
Thatcher memoirs |
Grenada: Thatcher letter to Reagan ("deeply disturbed" at US plans) [memoirs extract] |
|
83 Oct 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Grenada: Reagan letter to Thatcher (intervention goes ahead) [declassified 2000] |
|
83 Oct 26 We |
Multimedia |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Grenada: Reagan phone call to MT (throwing his hat in the door) [audio] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Oct 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Grenada: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Reagan) [US intervention in Grenada: Reagan said he "very much regretted the embarrassment that had been caused" to HMG] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Oct 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Grenada: Parsons minute to Coles ("Grenada") ["It is becoming increasingly obvious that [the US] had been planning the Grenada move for some time"] [declassified 2013] |
|
83 Oct 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Grenada: Reagan phone call to Thatcher (record of conversation) [declassified 2000] |
|
83 Oct 31 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Armstrong-Gregson) ["Enduring a coal strike"] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Nov 4 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Daily Mail (Grenada, Cruise) |
|
83 Nov 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [East-West relations, US foreign policy, Middle East, Grenada, Allied cooperation, arms supplies for Argentina] [declassified 2015] |
|
83 Nov 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
US: Coles minute to Armstrong [MT doubts McFarlane’s value as an interlocutor; thinks US advance notice of Grenada quite inadequate] [declassified 2014] |
|
83 Nov 14 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
|
83 Dec 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: Reagan letter to Thatcher (resuming US arms sales to Argentina) [declassified 2000] |
|
84 Jan 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Coal: No.10 record of conversation ("Coal Policy") [pit closure programme; enhanced Redundant Mineworkers Payments Scheme] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Jan 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("First Thoughts") ["I take a bleak view of the international scene" - annotated by MT] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
84 Jan 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("First thoughts") ["I take a bleak view of the international scene"] [released 2014] |
|
84 Feb 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Hungary: Notes for MT (“Call on Mr Kádár”) [talking points on notecard] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Feb 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Hungarian National Archive) |
Hungary: Hungarian Foreign Ministry record of conversation (MT-Kádár tête-à-tête) [East-West relations] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013] |
|
84 Feb 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Hungary: No.10 record of conversation (MT-First Secretary Kádár) [UK-Hungarian bilateral relations, East-West relations, arms control, communism and the USSR] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Feb 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Hungary: MT letter to President Reagan (visit to Hungary) ["as far ahead as we can see we have to find a way of living side by side with the Communist system, repugnant as it is"] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Mar 12 Mo |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Coal strike began |
|
84 Mar 13 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Budget |
|
84 Mar 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Lawson (Nigel) |
Economy: 1984 Budget (Lawson 1) (Hansard) |
|
84 Mar 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-MacGregor) ["Coalmining Dispute"] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Mar 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Brittan-Walker-Jenkin-Fowler-King-Havers-Moore-Gummer-Gregson) ["Coalmining Dispute"] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Apr 9 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama |
|
84 May 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson-Stoltenberg) [Community budgetary matters] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 May 30 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks on Orgreave picketing ("attempt to substitute the rule of the mob for the rule of law") |
|
84 Jun 2 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Botha: tête-à-tête) [South Africa’s internal situation, Soviet activities, the ANC offices in London, Nelson Mandela] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Jun 2 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Botha: plenary) [South Africa, Cuban presence in Angola, South West Africa] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Jun 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [East/West relations - “Mrs Thatcher’s general impression was that the US Government was rather at a loss as to how to proceed”; Middle East; Central America; Northern Ireland; trade issues; Laker case] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Jun 9 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [European Community, Libya, terrorism, NATO] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Jun 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Sir John Coles MSS) |
MT: Appreciation of Margaret Thatcher (contemporary recollection by Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs) [released 2014] |
|
84 Jun 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economic policy: MT’s copy of Nigel Lawson’s Mais Lecture (“The British Experiment”) [“conquest of inflation … the objective of macro-economic policy … growth … the objective of micro-economic policy”] [released 2014] |
|
84 Jun 18 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Lawson (Nigel) |
Economic policy: The British Experiment (The Mais Lecture) |
|
84 Jun 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Coal: Pascall minute to Turnbull ("Coal and Civil Injunctions") [miners' strike: "if Scargill continues to promote massed battles...we recommend that the NCB or BSC should be ready to take civil remedies"] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Jun 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
EC budget: No.10 record of conversation (“European Council: Budget Imbalances”) [British bottom line, 1000-1250m ecu] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Jun 25 Mo |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Fontainebleau European Council (ended 26 Jun); budget settlement |
|
84 Jun 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: HMG paper ("Europe - the Future") [given by MT to EC heads of government at Fontainebleau European Council] [published Jun 1984] |
|
84 Jun 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, FitzGerald) [Northern Ireland: proposed amendment to Irish constitution to relinquish territorial claims; MT scepticism about "joint authority"; next steps/press handling; FitzGerald direct talks with Unionists; House of Commons debate; FitzGerald talks with Opposition leaders in London; Sinn Fein/presonation of elections; long-term strategy for negotiations] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
84 Jun 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
EC budget: MT memoir (Fontaineableau European Council) [settlement of the British budget question] [released 2015] |
|
84 Jun 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (FCO) |
EC budget: FCO record of conversation (“informal record” of Fontainebleau European Council) [settlement of British budget question] [declassified 2008] |
|
84 Jun 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
EC: Sir Percy Cradock letter to MT (congratulations on Fontainebleau budget settlement) [“It takes courage to fight; it also takes courage to settle …a very defensible deal … an incubus removed”] [released 2014] |
|
84 Jun 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
EC budget: UKREP Brussels to FCO (“Discussion of budgetary imbalances at Fontainebleau”) [Mitterrand presenting outcome as “one in which there were neither victors nor vanquished”; Tietmeyer reaction] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Jul 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Foreign policy: Sir Percy Cradock minute ("Meeting with the Prime Minister 20 July" - UK foreign policy overview) [MT: "May I have a spare copy for the flat to ponder on from time to time"] [released 2014] |
|
84 Jul 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (“Jack Peel’s views on the Coal strike”) [perhaps HMG & NCB missed a trick by not invoking civil law] [released 2014] |
|
84 Jul 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Coal: MT notes for 1922 speech (including transcript) ["enemy within"] [released 2014] |
|
84 Jul 19 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to 1922 Committee ("the enemy within") |
|
84 Jul 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-Marshall-Couzens-Gregson-Buckley) [miners' strike: power station endurance] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Jul 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Coal: Tebbit minute to MT ("Miners' Dispute") [expresses concerns about handling of the miners' strike: "I do not see that time is on our side"] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Jul 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Coal Dispute") [Tebbit's minute on handling of the miners' strike] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Jul 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Coal Dispute: Endurance") [miners' strike: follow-up to MT's meeting with Walker on power station endurance] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Jul 28 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Hong Kong: Foreign Secretary telegram to MT (negotiations on Joint Declaration) [close to Chinese bottom line] [released 2014] |
|
84 Jul 29 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Hong Kong: Foreign Secretary telegram to MT (negotiations on Joint Declaration) [wants to close deal; no meeting with Deng otherwise] [released 2014] |
|
84 Jul 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (guidance for upcoming meeting with Tebbit: power station endurance) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Jul 31 Tu |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [No confidence in Government economic policy] [audio] |
|
84 Jul 31 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reagan letter to Ambassador Charles Price (defends MT style in foreign policy-making) [declassified 2000] |
|
84 Jul 31 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [No confidence in Government economic policy] |
|
84 Aug 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("The Diplomatic Service") [Howe sends parting thoughts of Chief Clerk; CDP comments on the "Foreign Office way of looking at the world" - "At worst it can degenerate into a tendency to pre-emptive surrender"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
84 Aug 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: Michael Alexander record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl at Imlau) [Spaak Committee, internal situation in the Federal Republic, the European Community, East-West relations] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: Charles Powell minute to Cradock (“Possible visit of the PM to Peking”) [should MT sign Joint Declaration in person?] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
84 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: Charles Powell minute to Cradock ("Possible visit of the PM to Peking") [should MT sign the Joint Declaration in person?] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
84 Sep 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Miners' Wives Back to Work Campaign representatives) [miners' strike] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Sep 23 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-MacGregor-Gregson-Butler-Turnbull) [miners' strike: NCB talks with TUC, involvement of ACAS, NACODS, ending the dispute, redundancies and closures, civil law, working miners, criminal offences, media, communities, open cast mining, structure of the coal industry] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Sep 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Redwood briefing for MT (“Local government” - ministerial meeting) ["some kind of poll tax ... most likely to meet the requirements of accountability and visibility"] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Sep 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Coal: Butler minute to MT ("Meeting with the Secretary of State for Energy and Home Secretary: Suggested Speaking Note") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Sep 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Whitelaw, Brittan, Lawson, Biffen, Joseph, Ridley, Younger, Rees etc.) [“Local government policies” - Jenkin to announce government "looking at the most serious inequities and deficiencies of the system but without giving this the status of a review"] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Oct 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Draft MT speech (on arrival at Brighton) ["Monday 8th October AM"] [released 2014] |
|
84 Oct 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Draft MT speech (opening discarded due to bomb) ["The shadow grows darker"] [released 2014] |
|
84 Oct 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Merseyside: Jenkin minute to MT ("Future of the Liverpool Garden Festival Site") [paper MT finished reading moments before Brighton Bomb exploded] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Oct 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Coal: MT notes (speech to Conservative Agents) [“Scargill - a very good OIL salesman”] [released 2014] |
|
84 Oct 12 Fr |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Brighton bomb |
|
84 Oct 12 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC (immediate reaction to Brighton Bomb) [“The conference will go on, as usual”] |
|
84 Oct 12 Fr |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
|
84 Oct 12 Fr |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC (immediate reaction to Brighton Bomb)
[film] |
|
84 Oct 12 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: MT speaking text (Conservative Conference speech) [post-Brighton Bomb] [released 2014] |
|
84 Oct 12 Fr |
Press |
Key |
Thatcher memoirs |
Northern Ireland: The Brighton Bomb [memoirs extract] |
|
84 Oct 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Brighton Bomb: Reagan phone call to MT (sympathy and support) [audio] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Oct 12 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
|
84 Oct 14 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Peter Thorneycroft (thoughts at church) ["this is the day I was not meant to see"] [released 2014] |
|
84 Oct 15 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for Channel 4 A plus 4 (Brighton Bomb) [“it just occurred to me that this is the day I was not meant to see”] |
|
84 Oct 16 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Woman’s Own (Brighton bomb) |
|
84 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, terrorism, Brighton bomb attack] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy & other ministers) [Anglo-Italian Summit plenary] [European Community, world affairs, UK-Italian cooperation] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, European Community, unemployment, financial issues, bilateral issues, Malta, Cyprus] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, Falklands at the UN, European Community, CERN, financial issues, East-West relations, Middle East] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Oct 28 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Waldegrave, Terry Heiser, Oliver Letwin, Turnbull) [“Local government finance”] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Nov 6 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Reagan reelected US President |
|
84 Nov 6 Tu |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio] |
|
84 Nov 6 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on Address] |
|
84 Nov 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Thatcher telegram to Reagan (congratulations on his reelection) [declassified 1998] |
|
84 Nov 12 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
|
84 Nov 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (congratulations on his reelection) [declassified 1998] |
|
84 Nov 19 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference following Anglo-Irish Summit ("out ... out ... out") |
|
84 Nov 20 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Flotation of British Telecom |
|
84 Dec 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: FCO briefing for MT (talking points for meeting with Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang) [including worries about troubles during transition] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
84 Dec 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: FCO briefing for MT (“The Future of Hong Kong”) [final Chinese position on talks] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
84 Dec 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: FCO brief for MT (“Steering Brief”) [overview] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
84 Dec 16 Su |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Gorbachev visited Chequers |
|
84 Dec 16 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gorbachev) [Soviet economic system, standard of living, arms control, government of republics, UK miners' strike] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
84 Dec 16 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: FCO record of conversation (MT-Gorbachev) [Soviet economic system, standard of living, arms control, government of republics, UK miners' strike] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
84 Dec 16 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gorbachev) [private lunchtime conversation: trade, USSR economy, human rights, miners' strike, communism and free enterprise] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Dec 16 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gorbachev) [afternoon meeting: East/West relations, arms control, Anglo-Soviet relations] [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Dec 16 Su |
Press |
Key |
Thatcher memoirs |
Cold War: The Gorbachevs visit Chequers [memoirs extract] |
|
84 Dec 17 Mo |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC (“I like Mr Gorbachev. We can do business together”) [film] |
|
84 Dec 17 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC (“I like Mr Gorbachev. We can do business together”) |
|
84 Dec 19 We |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Hong Kong: MT signed Joint Agreement with China |
|
84 Dec 19 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Hong Kong: MT speaking text (signature of Joint Declaration) |
|
84 Dec 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang) [signature of Joint Declaration] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
84 Dec 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Deng Xiaoping) [signature of Joint Declaration] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
84 Dec 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Beijing telegram 3046 to FCO (1807Z) ("PM's Visit: Meeting with Chairman Deng Xiaoping: 19 December: Sino-Soviet and East-West Relations") [MT, Deng Xiaoping, Howe meeting - Sino-Soviet relations; Hong Kong] [released Dec 2014] |
|
84 Dec 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: MT message to Reagan (account of MT's meeting with Gorbachev) [released Dec 2014] |
|
84 Dec 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: No.10 minute (“Record of a meeting between the Prime Minister and President Reagan at Camp David on 22 December 1984 at 1030 hours”) [tête-à-tête on Gorbachev, SDI] [released 2014] |
|
84 Dec 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: No.10 minute (“Record of a meeting between the Prime Minister and President Reagan at Camp David on 22 December 1984 at 1120 hours”) [plenary on SDI] [released 2014] |
|
84 Dec 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: MT message to Reagan (account of MT's meeting with Gorbachev) [declassified 2014] |
|
84 Dec 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [Strategic Defence Initiative, civil aviation, US economy, Middle East, famine in Africa, UK-Irish relations] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
84 Dec 22 Sa |
Press |
Key |
Shultz (George) |
Cold War: MT’s visit to Camp David (Shultz memoirs) |
|
84 Dec 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting at Camp David (record of conversation) [declassified 2000] |
|
84 Dec 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Camp David Declaration (draft) [declassified ?2000] [23K scanned image] |
|
84 Dec 22 Sa |
Press |
Key |
Thatcher memoirs |
Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting at Camp David (account of conversation) [memoirs extract] |
|
84 Dec 22 Sa |
Multimedia |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
White House photos: MT visiting Reagan at Camp David (2) |
|
84 Dec 22 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference after Camp David talks (the "Camp David Declaration") |
|
85 Jan 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Lord Rothschild paper for MT ("The Local Authority Problem Viewed by an Outsider, 1.1.1985") [promised "sharp look at local authority finance and function"] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Jan 5 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (Shultz/Gromyko Meeting on Arms Control, Geneva, 7/8 January) [outline of objectives] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Jan 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Norman Tebbit to MT (thanks for her support during his recovery) [returning to cabinet] [released 2015] |
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85 Jan 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Turnbull note for the record ("Lord Rothschild's Note on Local Government Studies") [shows "signs of frustration", but progress being made; Waldegrave "thought interesting and radical proposals would emerge but there would be some difficulty in selling them to the rest of Whitehall"] [released Dec 2014] |