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85 Jan 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [plemary: future development of the Community, financial issues in the Community] [declassified 2015] |
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85 Jan 30 We |
Press |
Key |
Commentary (The Times) |
Oxford: “Oxford votes to snub Thatcher” (Congregation rejects honorary degree 738:319) |
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85 Jan 31 Th |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Economic Censure] [audio] |
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85 Jan 31 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Economic Censure] |
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85 Feb 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Middleton, Robin Leigh-Pemberton & others) ["EMS": meeting "to discuss whether the UK should join the Exchange Rate Mechanism"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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85 Feb 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Community Charge: Alison record of conversation (MT - Scottish Conservative chairman) [“Goold came to express his great anxiety about the damage to the Conservative Party which is likely to result from Scottish rating revaluation”] [released 2015] |
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85 Feb 20 We |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Joint Houses of Congress |
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85 Feb 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Weinberger briefing for President Reagan (MT stopped sensitive technology exports to USSR) [declassified 2002] |
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85 Feb 20 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Joint Houses of Congress |
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85 Feb 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Whitelaw, Younger, Rees, Alison, officials) ["Rates and revaluation in Scotland"] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Mar 3 Su |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
NUM voted to end coal strike |
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85 Mar 4 Mo |
Press |
Key |
Commentary (The Times) |
Coal: “Strike ends but Scargill defiant” [NUM vote to end strike without agreement] |
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85 Mar 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (affirms “personal commitment ... to serious negotiations”) |
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85 Mar 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Robin Butler minute to MT (Lord Rothschild) [Rothschild asks to see MT, Butler suspects, "to ask if you want to abolish domestic rates altogether ... (h)e hankers after this"] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Mar 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John Redwood briefing for MT (meeting with Lord Rothschild) [Rothschild's thinking] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Mar 16 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: MT memoir (“Return to Moscow”) [personal account of Chernenko’s funeral] [released 2015] |
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85 Mar 19 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Budget |
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85 Mar 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Lawson (Nigel) |
Economy: 1985 Budget (Lawson 2) (Hansard) |
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85 Mar 24 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Gorbachev to Reagan (declares “positive attitude to ... a personal meeting ”) [declassified 2000] |
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85 Mar 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Redwood and Letwin briefing for MT ("Local Government Seminar") [Waldegrave will propose "(a)bolition of domestic rates ... by installing a new, simple, across-the-board poll tax for all local inhabitants"; "a first-rate job ... we agree"] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Mar 31 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Waldegrave, Whitelaw, Jenkin, Younger, Baker, Edwards, Rees, Young, Gummer, Ancram; Rothschild, Butler, Heiser, Redwood, Brearley, Meyer) [Chequers seminar on local government finance studies - origins of community charge] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Apr 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Lord Rothschild letter to Robin Butler ("Local Authority Finance") ["The Community Charge is, I believe, a winner. But I am nervous lest it is accidentally or deliberately misinterpreted, for example: 'Tories hit the poor again'"] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Apr 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reagan to Gorbachev (value of “political meetings” in building trust) [declassified 2000] |
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85 Apr 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Announcement by Gorbachev of moratorium on deployment of medium range weapons”) [“each of the systems will prove by strength of example and not by strength of arms which of them is better”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Apr 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Political Cooperation") [draft agreement for MT to give privately to Kohl at Chequers; MT approves, with amendments] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 May 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with Chancellor Kohl, on 18 May, 1985") [attaches paper on political cooperation; meeting "will be crucial in determining whether we succeed in channelling the debate on the future of the European Community over the next months towards sensible conclusions with which we can live"; need to convince Euro-enthusiasts Britain moving ahead, but "we don't want to succumb to the drivel about European Union"] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 May 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with Chancellor Kohl, on 18 May, 1985") [attaches paper on political cooperation; meeting "will be crucial in determining whether we succeed in channelling the debate on the future of the European Community over the next months towards sensible conclusions with which we can live"; need to convince Euro-enthusiasts Britain moving ahead, but "we don't want to succumb to the drivel about European Union"] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 May 10 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Scottish Party Conference |
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85 May 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Lawson paper circulated to E(LF) - E(LF) (85) 3 ("Local Government Finance Studies") ["the proposal for a poll tax would be completely unworkable and politically catastrophic"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 May 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Redwood and Letwin minute for MT ("Local Government Finance Reform") [DOE 'Specifiction Report' - "a number of unpleasant effects ... Unless some of them can be sorted out this reform is unattractive"] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 May 18 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: Draft Agreement on Political Cooperation (text discussed during Chancellor Kohl’s visit to Chequers: 18 May) [declassified 2014] |
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85 May 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (85) 1st ("Local Government Finance Studies") [Most confidential record] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Jun 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: MT letter to Walters (inflation and monetary control) [MT: “I am very worried about M3, the Bill mountain, the rate of inflation and rising property prices”] [declassified 2014] |
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85 Jun 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Westland: No.10 record of conversation (‘Westland’) [late night crisis meeting] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Jun 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Westland: No.10 record of conversation (‘Westland’) [if Bristow withdraws, encourage creditors to instal new management] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Jun 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Governor, Middleton, Burns et al) [MT worries over conduct of monetary policy] [declassified 2014] |
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85 Jun 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
European Policy: No.10 record of phone conversation (Charles Powell, Horst Teltschik) [draft Treaty on European Union between West Germany & France, incorporating British text without consultation; Powell: "I said that I took an extremely dim view of this message ... a black day for our co-operation" - copy annotated by MT] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Jun 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of phone conversation (Charles Powell, Horst Teltschik) [draft Treaty on European Union between West Germany & France, incorporating British text without consultation; Powell: "I said that I took an extremely dim view of this message ... a black day for our co-operation"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Jun 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: FCO record of conversation (“informal record” of Milan European Council, 28/29 June) [argument over IGC] [declassified Nov 2016] |
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85 Jun 29 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“European Council: Milan: 28-29 June") [argument over IGC] [declassified Nov 2016] |
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85 Jun 29 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference after Milan European Council |
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85 Jul 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: Renwick letter to Bullard ('Milan') ["account of atmospherics at and just before the European Council"] [declassified Nov 2016] |
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85 Jul 15 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to American Bar Association ("we must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend") |
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85 Jul 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor-Governor) [monetary policy: overfunding, reducing the Bill Mountain, money market operations] [declassified 2014] |
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85 Jul 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Vice-President George Bush) [terrorism, Middle East, Southern Africa, Strategic Defence Initiative] [declassified 2014] |
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85 Jul 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Secretary for Defense Weinberger) [Strategic Defence Initiative, Mobile Subscriber Equipment, Fylingdales, arms control, Falklands] [declassified 2014] |
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85 Jul 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Michael Alison letter to MT (encouragement) [awesome achievements; Good Samaritan & Moses] [released 2015] |
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85 Aug 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (BBC) |
Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Management minutes (“Real Lives”) [Milne: Real Lives "had to hit the air if this place is to run properly"] [released 2015] |
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85 Aug 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (BBC) |
Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Management minutes (“Real Lives”) [Chairman clashes with Director-General; DG's statement revised] [released 2015] |
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85 Sep 2 Mo |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Reshuffle: Hurd replace Brittan at Home Office; Tebbit new Party Chairman; Jenkin replaced as Environment Secretary by Baker |
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85 Sep 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Reshuffle: Gummer letter to MT (regrets at leaving CCO, accepts new job, her vital role) ["you ought not to entertain thoughts of the kind you raised latterly with me"] [released 2015] |
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85 Sep 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Armstrong-'C'-Duff) [decision not to pursue release for HETMAN's family and to expel 25 Soviet GRU agents; line to take for the press; message to Reagan] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Sep 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: General Secretary Gorbachev letter to President Reagan (US/Soviet Summit in Geneva, November 1985) [agenda; desired outcomes; Shultz/Shevardnadze meeting; joint document] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Sep 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: Powell letter to FCO (“Policy towards South Africa” - Secret and Personal) [repeats that MT regards withdrawal of Defence Attachés as "a futile gesture", made "against her better judgment"] [declassified 2014] |
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85 Sep 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Middleton, Robin Leigh Pemberton, Sir Terence Burns, Professor Brian Griffiths & others) ["European Exchange Rate Mechanism"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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85 Oct 2 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for Yorkshire Television Woman to Woman |
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85 Oct 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (South African DFA) |
South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (drift towards international sanctions against SA) [declassified ?2005] |
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85 Oct 11 Fr |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
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85 Oct 11 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
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85 Oct 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (South African DFA) |
South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (outcome of Nassau Commonwealth Meeting) [declassified ?2005] |
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85 Oct 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (“CHOGM: Heads of Government Retreat at Lyford Cay”) [MT “considerably disillusioned by the double standards applied by a number of the Commonwealth countries”] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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85 Oct 27 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: No.10 minute to MT (“South Africa: Group of Eminent Persons”) [Howe declining to join it] [declassified 2014] |
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85 Oct 31 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (South African DFA) |
South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (account of Nassau CHOGM & way ahead; urges release of Mandela) [declassified ?2005] |
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85 Nov 6 We |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio] |
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85 Nov 6 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on the Address] |
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85 Nov 11 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
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85 Nov 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (South African DFA) |
South Africa: President P.W. Botha to MT (cannot cooperate with Commonwealth initiative; alternatives) [declassified ?2005] |
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85 Nov 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Leigh-Pemberton, Whitelaw, Biffen, Tebbit, Wakeham, Brittan, Sir Peter Middleton, Sir Terence Burns, Mr Eddie George, Professor Brian Griffiths) ["Membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the EMS"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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85 Nov 15 Fr |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Anglo-Irish Agreement signed at Hillsborough |
|
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85 Nov 15 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Joint Press Conference with Irish Prime Minister (Dr Garret FitzGerald) |
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85 Nov 17 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (South African DFA) |
South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (dismayed at his reply) [declassified ?2005] |
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85 Nov 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000] |
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85 Nov 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000] |
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85 Nov 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000] |
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85 Nov 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000] |
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85 Nov 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 5th Session [declassified 2000] |
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85 Nov 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 6th Session [declassified 2000]
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85 Nov 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (closing conversation) [declassified 2000] |
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85 Nov 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKMIS Geneva telegram 428 to FCO (1400Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Joint Statement") [text] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Nov 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKDel NATO record of conversation (1937Z) (MT, Reagan, Wilfried Martens, Kohl, Willoch, Mulroney, Craxi, Özal, Schlüter, Cavaco Silva, Lubbers, Santer, Geoffrey Howe, George Shultz, Ordóñez, Dumas, Charalambopoulos, Hermansson, Carrington) ["Reagan/Gorbachev Meeting, Geneva, 19-20 November: President Reagan's Briefing of North Atlantic Council, 21 November"] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Nov 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: FCO News Department minute to Howe PS ("Geneva Summit: Gorbachev's Press Conference") [summary of main points] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Nov 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("US/Soviet Summit: update on Briefing for NAC") [initial impressions of the outcomes; advice on line to take for media; transcript of MT press conference attached] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Nov 23 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, McFarlane, Price) ["US/Soviet Summit: Briefing by Mr McFarlane"] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Dec 2 Mo |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Luxembourg European Council; Single European Act agreed (ended 3 Dec) |
|
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85 Dec 4 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference after Luxembourg European Council |
|
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85 Dec 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Westland: No.10 record of conversation (‘Westland’) [MT, Whitelaw, Brittan, Heseltine, Tebbit, Lawson] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Dec 14 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (South African DFA) |
South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (urges he meet Eminent Persons Group) [declassified ?2005] |
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85 Dec 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks (‘Westlands’) [investigates Heseltine claim that cabinet committee meeting was cancelled] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Dec 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, MacGregor, Middleton, Burns dinner) [MT expresses “serious concern at the current stance of policy … too loose … risked higher inflation”] [declassified 2014] |
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85 Dec 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Westland: MT letter to Michael Heseltine (ultimatum "drafted but not sent") [“In this situation no Minister should use his position to promote one commercial option in preference to another - so long as he remains in Government”] [released Jan 2017] |
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85 Dec 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Westland: Heseltine letter & minute for MT (‘Westland plc’) [“the Government should indicate, at least informally, that … it would prefer a British/European solution … will not be an easy one for you”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Jan 4 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Westland: Charles Powell minute (“Westland”) [original of CDP minute on securing a letter from the Solicitor-General - "I think this is worth doing but don't place great reliance on it"] [released Jan 2017] |
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86 Jan 4 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Westland: Powell minute for MT ('Westland') [follow up to Chequers discussion - Solicitor-General finds Heseltine letter contains a "material inaccuracy"; Powell suggests Solicitor write to Heseltine requiring correction] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Jan 6 Mo |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Westland: leak of Solicitor-General’s letter to Heseltine |
|
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86 Jan 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Westland: Solicitor-General letter to Heseltine ('Westland') ["material inaccuracies" in Heseltine's earlier letter to Horne which he should correct; Powell annotates it "very satisfactory"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Jan 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Westland: Heseltine letter to Solicitor-General ('Westland') [no "material inaccuracies" needing correction] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Jan 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Westland: Solicitor-General letter to Heseltine ('Westland') [glad that Heseltine is confident his earlier letter was accurate, judgment his responsibility; concern at leak however] [declassified Feb 2016] |
|
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86 Jan 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (South African DFA) |
South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (encouraged by his response to EPG) [declassified ?2005] |
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86 Jan 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Westland: MT speaking note for cabinet ("a word about Westland") ["We cannot go on like this … even questions of fact should be cleared through the Cabinet Office"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
|
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86 Jan 9 Th |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Westland: Heseltine resigned; Younger replaced him at Defence; Rifkind joined the Cabinet as Scottish Secretary |
|
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86 Jan 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 1st (Parliamentary Affairs, Westland, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Economic Affairs, Local Government Finance Studies) [Heseltine resigns; confidential annex on local government finance] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
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86 Jan 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Cabinet Office) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 1st (extract on Westland affair) [Heseltine resigns] [declassified 2010] |
|
|
86 Jan 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Westland: MT speaking notes (necessity of restoring collective responsibility) [“must restore govt’s standing & observe conclusions of 19th Dec”] [released Jan 2017] |
|
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86 Jan 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Ingham MSS) |
Press Office: Lobby Briefing ("Resignation of Michael Heseltine over Westland Helicopters Affair") [12.10pm, including Downing Street statement] [released Jan 2017] |
|
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86 Jan 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Ingham MSS) |
Press Office: Lobby Briefing ("Resignation of Mr Heseltine, Rates, Channel Fixed Link") [17.30pm, reaction to Heseltine press conference at MoD; "resigned on a very narrow point of procedure"] [released Jan 2017] |
|
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86 Jan 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Westland: MT letter to Michael Heseltine (resignation) [drafts as well as final text of letter] [declassified Feb 2016] |
|
|
86 Jan 9 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Letter to Michael Heseltine MP (resignation) |
|
|
86 Jan 15 We |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Westland plc] [audio] |
|
|
86 Jan 15 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Westland plc] |
|
|
86 Jan 23 Th |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC Stmnt: [Westland plc] [audio] |
|
|
86 Jan 23 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC Stmnt: [Westland plc] |
|
|
86 Jan 24 Fr |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Westland: Brittan resigned; Channon replaced him at DTI |
|
|
86 Jan 25 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Westland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [letting her know that “out here in the colonies” she had a friend] [declassified 2016] |
|
|
86 Jan 27 Mo |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Westland: emergency debate, ending the crisis |
|
|
86 Jan 27 Mo |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Westland plc] [audio] |
|
|
86 Jan 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Westland: Charles Powell letter to MT (thanks for defending him and Bernard Ingham in speech) [offer to "slip away" if she would prefer "a less notorious Private Secretary"] [released Jan 2017] |
|
|
86 Jan 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Charles Powell note to MT (congratulations & thanks) [“Your loyalty and thoughtfulness towards your staff far exceeds anything which I have known in over 20 years in the government service”] [released Jan 2017] |
|
|
86 Jan 27 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Westland plc] |
|
|
86 Feb 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Westland: Robert Armstrong letter to MT (thanks) [devoutly hopes his evidence to the Select Committee “will have helped to take the heat out of the affair”] [released Jan 2017] |
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|
86 Feb 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (South African DFA) |
South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (praises his new reform initiative) [declassified ?2005] |
|
|
86 Feb 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Westland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Wicks, Brittan) [Brittan critical of Armstrong evidence, "a flagrant steer … in a particular direction which he could not accept"] [declassified 2016] |
|
|
86 Feb 17 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama |
|
|
86 Feb 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Ingham minute for MT ("Language/Vision") [“your domination of politics and intellectual argument - need to maintain flow of ideas and for "new and more appealing language … the, to you, hateful word 'vision'”] [released Jan 2017] |
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|
86 Mar 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (South African DFA) |
South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (welcomes end of state of emergency) [declassified ?2005] |
|
|
86 Mar 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Hansard |
Economy: 1986 Budget (Lawson 3) |
|
|
86 Mar 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (South African DFA) |
South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (urges constructive response to Eminent Persons Group) [declassified ?2005] |
|
|
86 Apr 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Libya: President Reagan letter to MT ("Response to Libyan terrorism") [seeks support for use of British based FB-111s to respond to Libyan attacks] [declassified 2005] |
|
|
86 Apr 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [reply to MT's points] [declassified 2005] |
|
|
86 Apr 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for seeing Walters] [declassified 2005] |
|
|
86 Apr 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for her decision; targets] [declassified 2005] |
|
|
86 Apr 12 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Libya: President Reagan letter to President Mitterrand (requests immediate decision on overflight request) [warns against "luke-warm support or no support at all from our closest allies"] [declassified 2005] |
|
|
86 Apr 15 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
US air raids on Libya, mainly flown from British bases |
|
|
86 Apr 15 Tu |
Press |
Key |
Shultz (George) |
Cold War: US bombing of Libya (Shultz memoirs) |
|
|
86 Apr 16 We |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [US bombing of Libya] [audio] |
|
|
86 Apr 16 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [US bombing of Libya] |
|
|
86 Apr 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (UK hostages killed in Beirut) ["deeply grieved"; "direct Libyan role in their deaths"; French & Spanish "fully prepared to take more profound action to remove Qadhafi from power"] [declassified 2008] |
|
|
86 May 4 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [Libya, Middle East, South Africa, Ireland, Japan, East/West relations, Soviet nuclear accident, EC/US, Korea] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 May 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [GATT Round, European Community Budget, CAP, EC/US, East/West relations] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 May 18 Su |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Budget |
|
|
86 Jun 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1800Z) ("US-Soviet Relations") (NSPG 0135) [Arms control - Reagan, with Weinberger and Shultz, argues for "zero ballistic missiles" tied to SDI deployment] [declassified Dec 2005] |
|
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86 Jun 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
South Africa: Reagan letter to Thatcher (concerting policy) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
86 Jul 8 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for The Guardian |
|
|
86 Jul 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Gorbachev message to MT (visit of Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs to London: arms control) [message delivered personally to MT by Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2016] |
|
|
86 Jul 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: Powell minute to MT ("Interview with Graham Turner") [in present form article risks "exposing you to sharp criticism for dealing too vigorously with Southern African problems at a very sensitive moment", but Sunday Telegraph resisting changes; MT - interview "obtained on a FALSE BASIS"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
|
|
86 Jul 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Westland: Charles Powell letter to MT (thanks for defending her officials in speech) ["characteristically brave and generous of you"] [released Jan 2017] |
|
|
86 Aug 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
South Africa: Sir Geoffrey Howe letter for MT (South Africa) ["extreme concern at the way matters have been managed in relation to yesterday's OD discussion"] [released Jan 2017] |
|
|
86 Aug 2 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
South Africa: MT draft letter to Sir Geoffrey Howe (South Africa) [defends Ingham, "some of your people subsequently behaved very badly"; "your dedicated and stout-hearted efforts in South Africa"] [released Jan 2017] |
|
|
86 Aug 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
National Health: Norman Fowler minute for Whitelaw (“AIDS - Public Education”) [proposes leaflet delivered to every household] [declassified 2015] |
|
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86 Sep 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2314 to FCO (1545Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Weinberger: 9 September”) [“A disturbing insight into right-wing attitudes on arms control”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Sep 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Education: Baker minute for MT (thoughts on future education policy) [ for your eyes only at this stage ] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Oct 10 Fr |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
|
|
86 Oct 10 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
|
|
86 Oct 11 Sa |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (ended 12 Oct) |
|
|
86 Oct 11 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000] |
|
|
86 Oct 11 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000] |
|
|
86 Oct 12 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000] |
|
|
86 Oct 12 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000: the crucial session] |
|
|
86 Oct 12 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th session [declassified 2000; second version] |
|
|
86 Oct 12 Su |
Press |
Key |
Shultz (George) |
Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Shultz memoirs) |
|
|
86 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: White House record of conversation (Reagan-MT) [Reykjavik summit] [declassified 2010] |
|
|
86 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan phone call on Reykjavik summit) ["Reagan said he had put forward a radical proposal under which the US would guarantee not to deploy a strategic defence system for ten years in return for an undertaking to eliminate all US and Soviet nuclear weapons over that same period"] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan phone call) ["particularly sensitive" points on ABM, Reagan's pride in proposal to eliminate nuclear weapons in ten years; President's admiration for Tom Clancy book] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Karpov”) [MT “said she had been very disturbed by Soviet tactics at Reykjavik”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Karpov”) [“Karpov said that the Soviet side had gone to Reykjavik in the hope of achieving concrete results”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Charles Powell minute to Price (record of MT’s meeting with Karpov”) [for Price’s eyes only] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram 858 to FCO (1815Z) (“Reykjavik: initial German reactions”) [“the door is not closed”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Poindexter memo for President Reagan ("Why We Can't Commit to Eliminating All Nuclear Weapons Within 10 Years") [focus instead on proposal to eliminate all ballistic nuclear missiles in ten years, as handed to Soviets at Reykjavik] [declassified 2005] |
|
|
86 Oct 21 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1235 to FCO (1134Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [proposal for follow-up meeting between Hartman and Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2734 to FCO (2200Z) (“Reykjavik aftermath”) [Acland discussion with Reagan: “The President said that he understood British and European concerns about the imbalance in non-nuclear forces”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2768 to FCO (2200Z) (“Post-Reykjavik arms control negotiations”) [“Unsatisfactory discussion with Poindexter”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Nov 10 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
|
|
86 Nov 12 We |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio] |
|
|
86 Nov 12 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on the Address] |
|
|
86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: MT notes (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["Alarmed by suggestion to eliminate in 10 years all strategic ballistic missiles … Security of West in danger"] [released Jan 2017] |
|
|
86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: MT briefing cards (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["CAN'T trust RUSSIANS when taking a few tanks & columns out of Afghanistan - surely you wouldn't trust them over ballistic missiles"] [released Jan 2017] |
|
|
86 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (State Department) |
Cold War: Shultz Evening Reading Item for Reagan ("My meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher") [MT expressed extreme concern about the potential impact of the proposals made at Reykjavik ] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
86 Nov 15 Sa |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Anglo-US Summit at Camp David: arms control statement agreed |
|
|
86 Nov 15 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference after Camp David talks (nuclear weapons and arms control) |
|
|
86 Dec 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: NSC note for ?Poindexter (MT letter to Reagan urging NATO commit to Camp David points) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
86 Dec 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (Iran-Contra -"anything which weakens you weakens America") [declassified/released 2000] |
|
|
87 Jan 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Percy Cradock, Charles Powell) ["Foreign Policy": MT sceptical of Gorbachev's plans for reform; concern that US still apparently working for elimination of strategic nuclear weapons; Afghanistan; China; Lebanon - no deals for hostage release] [released July 2016] |
|
|
87 Feb 22 Su |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
"Louvre Accord" to halt decline in the dollar; Lawson began shadowing Deutschmark |
|
|
87 Feb 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: FCO briefing for MT ("E(LF) meeting on 26 February: review of local authority fees and charges") [MT opposes charging for library services] [declassified Oct 2016] |
|
|
87 Mar 1 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversations (MT, Howe, academics, officials) ["Seminar on the Soviet Union"] [released Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Mar 17 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Budget |
|
|
87 Mar 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Hansard |
Economy: 1987 Budget (Lawson 4) |
|
|
87 Mar 28 Sa |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
MT visited USSR (ended 1 Apr) |
|
|
87 Mar 29 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachevs, Geoffrey Howe, Kovalev, Zamyatin, Cartledge) ["Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow: Supper Party with Mr and Mrs Gorbachev at the Bolshoi"] [released Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Mar 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [decisions as to what to say to the press] [released Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Mar 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [tête-à-tête] [released Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Mar 31 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachevs, Ryzhkovs, Cartledge, Zamyatin, Charles Powell) ["Prime Minister's Visit to the Soviet Union: Supper with Mr and Mrs Gorbachev on 31 March"] [released Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Mar 31 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for Soviet Television |
|
|
87 Apr 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 537 to FCO (0500Z) ("Prime Minister's talks with Gorbachev on 30/31 March") [analysis; summary; record] [released Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Apr 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: MT message to President Reagan (Prime Minister's Visit to the Soviet Union) [MT outlines her impressions of Gorbachev & her conclusions drawn from her visit] [released Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 May 11 Mo |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
General Election called for 11 June |
|
|
87 May 11 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC (“Yes, I hope to go on and on”) |
|
|
87 May 15 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Scottish Conservative Party Conference |
|
|
87 May 19 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
General Election Press Conference (launching Conservative manifesto) |
|
|
87 May 22 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
General Election Press Conference |
|
|
87 Jun 4 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
General Election Press Conference (Health and Social Security) |
|
|
87 Jun 8 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama |
|
|
87 Jun 10 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC (eve of poll; "drool and drivel they care") |
|
|
87 Jun 11 Th |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
General Election |
|
|
87 Jun 12 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks returning to Central Office ("a big job to do in some of those inner cities") |
|
|
87 Jun 13 Sa |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Reshuffle: five ministers left cabinet |
|
|
87 Jun 13 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Charles & Carla Powell letter to MT (congratulations) ["All the same, I hope that you will not put yourself through it again"] [released Oct 2017] |
|
|
87 Jun 21 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
General Election: MT speaking notes (acknowledging victory) ["More choice in education & housing / especially for those in inner cities"] [released Oct 2017] |
|
|
87 Jun 25 Th |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio] |
|
|
87 Jun 25 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on the Address] |
|
|
87 Jul 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Community Charge: Katharine Ramsay conversation record (Conservative backbench Environment Committee) [Ridley defends poll tax; Heseltine, Gow, Young criticisms] [released Oct 2017] |
|
|
87 Jul 11 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Visit to Washington") ["The task is at least to disguise the weakness of American leadership and to restrain any inclination to erratic and ill-thought out initiatives"] [released Oct 2017] |
|
|
87 Jul 11 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Charles Powell conversation record ("Seminar on the Soviet Union") [MT meets academics at Chequers; enthusiasts vs sceptics] [released Oct 2017] |
|
|
87 Jul 17 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for CBS News (visiting Washington) (defending Reagan) |
|
|
87 Jul 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Leigh Pemberton-Middleton) [Lawson urges 0.5 percent increase in base rates, with Bank support; MT rejects, issue should be revisited in August] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
|
87 Jul 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: No 10 record of conversation (MT-Ridley) [Ridley's "growing concern about opposition" to the charge; problem "increased by the decision to have a transition rather than to abolish rates immediately"; inclined to rethink some major aspects of the charge, which MT "discouraged firmly"] [released Feb 2016] |
|
|
87 Aug 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Lawson urges 1 percent interest rate increase; MT "most unconvinced" but yields to his view] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
|
87 Sep 10 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for The Independent |
|
|
87 Sep 23 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Woman's Own ("no such thing [as society]") |
|
|
87 Oct 9 Fr |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
|
|
87 Oct 9 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
|
|
87 Oct 19 Mo |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
"Black Monday": Dow Jones fell 23 per cent |
|
|
87 Oct 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to President Reagan (concern at US deficit) [declassified 2007] |
|
|
87 Oct 23 Fr |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Interest rates reduced 0.5 per cent, from 10 to 9.5 per cent, following Black Monday |
|
|
87 Nov 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Economy: President Reagan letter to MT (concern at US budget deficit) [fell by one third between 1986 and 1987;"my views on the potential harm of increased taxes have not changed"; with supporting documents] [declassified 2007 & 2021] |
|
|
87 Nov 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Economy: Reagan letter to MT (concern at US budget deficit) [fell by one third between 1986 and 1987;"my views on the potential harm of increased taxes have not changed"] [declassified 2007] |
|
|
87 Nov 16 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
|
|
87 Nov 17 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Community Charge: "dual running" with rates abandoned |
|
|
87 Nov 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ridley-Lawson-Whitelaw-Major-Wakeham-Waddington-Howard) [decision to abandon "dual running"] [released Feb 2016] |
|
|
87 Nov 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ridley-Lawson-Whitelaw-Major-Wakeham-Waddington-Howard) [Lawson's copy - note for future use MT stating no extra money] [released Feb 2018] |
|
|
87 Nov 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Monetary policy: MT interview for Financial Times [includes unpublished material on shadowing the DM] [released Oct 2017] |
|
|
87 Nov 20 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Financial Times |
|
|
87 Dec 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic policy: Charles Powell minutes for MT ("Exchange Rate") [Chancellor leaning on Bank to intervene directly in DMs; MT asks "why intervene at all?"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
87 Dec 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [MT "expressed her very strong concern about the continued very large scale intervention needed to hold sterling below DM3"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
|
88 Jan 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 conversation record (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [decision to 'uncap' the pound from Monday] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
|
88 Jan 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Rifkind minute to MT (paper on strategy in Scotland) ["level of support is dangerously low for the party of Government"] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
88 Jan 25 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama (announces NHS review) |
|
|
88 Feb 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Lawson proposed 0.5 per cent interest rate increase; MT agreed, subject to no intervention to check rise in sterling above 3DM] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
|
88 Feb 8 Mo |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Gorbachev announced Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan from May |
|
|
88 Mar 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Gray minute for MT ("The Markets") [heavy intervention to hold down sterling against DM; options, including uncapping the pound] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
|
88 Mar 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Gray minute for MT ("Overnight Market Report") [further heavy intervention overnight to hold down sterling against DM; Lawson not wanting to uncap so near to budget; MT opts to meet with Lawson] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
|
88 Mar 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 conversation record (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Market Management" - Lawson accepts that rate should be allowed to move above DM3 on Monday if sterling still under upwards pressure] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
88 Mar 7 Mo |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Sterling `uncapped’ on MT’s insistence; rose above 3DM |
|
|
88 Mar 15 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Budget |
|
|
88 Mar 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Hansard |
Economy: 1988 Budget (Lawson 5) |
|
|
88 Mar 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 conversation record (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Governor of the Bank of England) ["Exchange Rate Policy"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
88 Apr 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Education: Baroness Cox MP & colleagues letter to MT (Christian content of religious education) [proposed amendents to Education Reform Bill] [declassified 2016] |
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88 Apr 26 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview with Brian Walden for Sunday Times |
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88 Apr 26 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview with Brian Walden for Sunday Times [full transcript released Jul 2018] |
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88 Apr 28 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Centre for Policy Studies (AGM) |
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88 May 12 Th |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs [audio] |
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88 May 12 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
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88 May 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, Howe) [MT furious with Howe for raising EMS in his Perth speech; refuses his request for trilateral meeting with Lawson, tells him to keep quiet] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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88 May 17 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Interest rates reduced 0.5 per cent, from 8 to 7.5 per cent (lowest 1979-90); MT formula of support for Lawson at PQs |
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88 May 17 Tu |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs [audio] |
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88 May 17 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
88 May 21 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: MT speaking text ("Speech to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Saturday 21 May 1988") ["it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong but love of money for its own sake"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 May 21 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to General Assembly of the Church of Scotland ("The Sermon on the Mound") |
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88 Jun 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Lawson (Nigel) |
Economy: Tax Reform (The Government's Record) (CPC pamphlet) |
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88 Jun 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 conversation record (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [market handling in light of bad trade figures; possible increase in interest rates; Lawson agreed need for "a period of significant tightening of policy", rates at 10 percent or higher] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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88 Jul 6 We |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Jacques Delors told European Parliament that in ten years 80 per cent of economic and social legislation would be made there rather than at national level |
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88 Jul 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: MT letter to General Jaruzelski (visit to Poland) ["I want my visit to mark a step forward... I am convinced that a brief visit to Gdansk would capture the imagination of literally millions of people"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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88 Jul 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Markets" - intervention of over $600m) [MT wants interest rate rise "very early next week"; "HIS [Lawson's] REPUTATION IS AT STAKE"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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88 Jul 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for Butler (Alan Walters interview in Daily Mail) [told him he had to behave like a Trappist monk or "his return to No.10 would be in serious doubt"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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88 Sep 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (FCO) |
Europe: Stephen Wall minute (Geoffrey Howe’s criticisms of No.10 draft of MT Bruges speech) [“plain & fundamental errors”] |
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88 Sep 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (FCO) |
Europe: John Kerr to Patrick Wright (state of play on MT Bruges speech) [CDP “reasonably responsive” to view that too controversial a speech would meet rebuttals] |
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88 Sep 8 Th |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Jacques Delors addressed TUC Conference & invited them to join "the architects of Europe" |
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88 Sep 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Alan Clark minute for MT ("The Bruges Speech") ["The speech is of crucial importance .... will signal our attitudes todevelopments in the Community both micro and macro over the next decade"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Sep 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (FCO) |
Europe: Charles Powell to FCO (MT Bruges speech) [final draft - “PM now broadly content with it”] |
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88 Sep 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
China: Cradock minute for MT ("China: position of Zhao Ziyang") [rumours his position under threat, but UKE in Beijing thinks it remains strong; Cradock thinks reform likely to slow down] [declassified 2016] |
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88 Sep 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (FCO) |
Europe: John Kerr (FCO) note for Patrick Wright (MT Bruges speech) [“looks as if our damage limitation exercise is headed for success”] |
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88 Sep 20 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
MT addressed the College of Europe (the "Bruges Speech") |
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88 Sep 20 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to the College of Europe ("The Bruges Speech") |
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88 Sep 20 Tu |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to the College of Europe ("The Bruges Speech") [film] |
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88 Sep 27 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to the Royal Society (climate change) |
|
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88 Oct 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT ("European Community: Extension of Commission powers and competence") [need to "be prepared to 'terrorise' the Commission politically on the lines of the Bruges speech"] [released Jul 2018] |
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88 Oct 14 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
|
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88 Nov 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, General Jaruzelski) [MT visit to Gdansk, Polish internal situation, Solidarity] [declassified 2016] |
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88 Nov 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Solidarity leaders, Father Jankowski, Cardinal Józef Glemp) [ninety seven minute meeting] [declassified 2016] |
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88 Nov 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, General Jaruzelski) [East-West relations, UK-Polish bilateral relations, economy and trade, arms control, trade union reforms] [declassified 2016] |
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88 Nov 14 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
|
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88 Nov 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Colin Powell NSC briefing for President Reagan (MT visit to Washington) [declassified 2000] |
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88 Nov 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: President Reagan briefing cards for MT visit (one-on-one meeting) [declassified 2000] |
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88 Nov 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: Charles Powell conversation record (MT-President Reagan, tête-à-tête then plenary) [US deficit, Gorbachev, Latin America, START & Trident; Middle East, Soviets, Afghanistan, GATT] [declassified Nov 2016] |
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88 Nov 16 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speeches at White House State Banquet (MT & President Reagan) |
|
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88 Nov 22 Tu |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on Address] [audio] |
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88 Nov 22 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on the Address] |
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88 Nov 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to MT ("An Independent Central Bank") [MT: "NO" - inflation not defeated] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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88 Nov 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Lawson (Nigel) |
Economy: Lawson minute to MT ("An independent central bank") [argues for] [published 1992] |
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88 Dec 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [MT refuses to consider an independent Central Bank until inflation reduced to "a very low level" and kept there, perhaps in four years] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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89 Jan 11 We |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
NHS White Paper published ( Working for Patients ) |
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89 Jan 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: President Reagan letter to MT (farewell) ["You have been an invaluable ally, but more than that, you are a great friend"] [released Mar 2019] |
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89 Jan 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: MT letter to Reagan ("you stood for all that is best in America") [declassified 2000] |
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89 Jan 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (farewell) [declassified 2000] |
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89 Jan 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (farewell) ["You have been a great President, one of the greatest, because you stood for all that is best in America"] [released Mar 2019] |
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89 Jan 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: MT letter to President Bush (congratulations) ["You bring to the Presidency enormous experience in Government which will be of immense value"] [released Mar 2019] |
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89 Mar 14 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Budget |
|
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89 Mar 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Hansard |
Economy: 1989 Budget (Lawson 6) [Hansard extract] [218K file] |
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89 Mar 19 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Reshuffle") ["Your comments suggest that you may consider moving or even dropping the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary"] [released Mar 2019] |
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89 Apr 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 conversation record (MT-Gorbachev) [Introduction; International Attitudes to the Soviet Union; Perestroika; Defence and Arms Control; Regional problems; Moscow Embassy, President Bush, Central America, Namibia, etc; family unification; Royal visit to the USSR] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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89 Apr 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (National Security Archive) |
Cold War: Politburo discussion of MT-Gorbachev meeting (document from Gorbachev Archive) [“I like the independence of Thatcher”] |
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89 Apr 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: No.10 letter to Ridley PS ("Role of local authorities") [MT "rather surprised" by Conservative County Council manifesto reference to no further significant structural reforms; was not consulted; requests meeting with Ridley and paper] [declassified July 2017] |
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89 Apr 29 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Lubbers, Van den Broek, Ruding) [Europe: nuclear deployment; Delors Report; economic & monetary union] [declassified Dec 2017] |
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89 May 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Environment: No.10 record of conversation ("Global Climate Seminar") [global warming 'likely'; "essential to tackle this problem"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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89 May 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Walters minute to MT ("When 'The Time Will Be Ripe'") ["This note attempts to set out a positive response [to the EMS issue] which will, nevertheless, preserve our position" - copy annotated by MT] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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89 May 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Walters minute to MT ("When 'The Time Will Be Ripe'") [proposals to restate British position on ERM entry in positive terms "which will, nevertheless, preserve our position"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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89 May 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Walters minute to MT ("When "The Time Will Be Ripe"") ["we always appear to be negative [on EMS].... this note atttempts to set out a positive response"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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89 May 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Lennox-Boyd conversation record (MT-Walters-Turnbull-Gray-Powell) [reformulating her position on ERM entry] [released Mar 2019] |
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89 May 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Reagan article |
Ronald Reagan: Margaret Thatcher & the Revival of the West: Her Real Legacy [external link] |
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89 May 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Lawson unhappy; MT seeks to smooth over public perception of rift in regard to economic policy; efforts to present united front complicated by subsequent No.10 press office advice/actions] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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89 May 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
China: UKE Beijing to FCO ("Chinese Internal Situation") [US believes "Chinese Government has decided that there is no way to avoid bloodshed"] [declassified 2016] |
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89 May 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Ridley minute to MT ("Role of local authorities") [stock-taking meeting; "[our] major programme of incremental reform ... is now resulting in a seachange in attitudes ... I would advise against another wave of radical reform in the immediate future"] [declassified July 2017] |
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89 Jun 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: No.10 conversation record (MT-President Bush) [NATO/East West relations and defence; Austrian membership of the EC; China; Vietnamese Boat People; Middle East; Lebanon; Southern Africa; Argentina; SDI; Environmental Questions; Cambodia; intelligence cooperation; IDU] [declassified Jul 2018] |
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89 Jun 3 Sa |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
China: Tiananmen Square massacre |
|
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89 Jun 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Bush) [Tiananmen Square] [declassified 2016] |
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89 Jun 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
China: No.10 minute for MT ('China') [situation developing "very fast", possible UK measures; "you can probably afford to step up further your condemnation of what is happening"] [declassified 2016] |
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89 Jun 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Powell minute to MT (European Council Madrid: EC issues) [critical analysis of Howe-Lawson minute urging UK commits to join ERM by end 1992] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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89 Jun 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Howe-Lawson joint minute to MT ("EC issues, and Madrid") [urges Britain should set a non-legally binding timetable to join the ERM by end 1992] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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89 Jun 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Madrid European Council: Delors Report") [evolving UK position on ERM membership; meetings with Walters then Howe and Lawson] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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89 Jun 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Madrid European Council: ERM") [following meeting with Walters MT evolving her position before meeting Howe & Lawson] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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89 Jun 20 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
MT met Howe and Lawson to discuss ERM line at Madrid Council (met again 25 Jun) |
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89 Jun 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Powell minute to MT ("Madrid European Council") [proposed line to take on entry to ERM] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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89 Jun 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lawson) [line to take in Madrid - MT "remained sceptical whether a concession by us on membership of the ERM would really achieve our agreed aim of blocking an IGC and Stages 2 and 3 of Delors"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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89 Jun 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Foreign Secretary & Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Madrid European Council: economic and monetary union") ["we would welcome the opportunity of another talk with you this week about what should be said there"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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89 Jun 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-National Party leader F.W. De Klerk: tête-à-tête) [MT "did not find his emphasis on group rights and the need to avoid tyranny by any one group of another was very helpful ... it would look as though white South Africans were expecting blacks to behave better to them than they had behaved towards the blacks"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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89 Jun 24 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT (economic & monetary union: unscheduled meeting with Lawson & Howe) [MT agrees to meeting next day, prior to departure for European summit in Madrid; CDP: "very selfish"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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89 Jun 24 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Tomorrow's meeting") [Howe/Lawson: European Council Madrid: discussion of their concerns, primarily on ERM & Conservative Party divisions over Europe; outline of counter-arguments for MT to deploy if deemed necessary] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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89 Jun 25 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party/ERM: MT note on meeting with Howe and Lawson ("G.H. and N.L. Madrid Conference") ["Demanded that I give an undertaking to join the ERM and specify a date .... If not - they would both resign"] [released Mar 2019] |
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89 Jun 26 Mo |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Madrid European Council (ended 27 Jun): MT set "Madrid conditions" for ERM entry; rejected Social Charter |
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89 Jun 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Madrid summit") [post mortem - "judgment of [Howe & Lawson]... was faulty" - no pressure to set date for entry; setting a date would not have forestalled future work on Stages 2 & 3] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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89 Jun 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Director Conservative Research Department briefing ("Report on 1989 Euro-Election Campaign") [too negative, substance not presentation the problem] [released Mar 2019] |
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89 Jun 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, John Gummer, Sir Terry Heiser) ["Role and structure of local government"] [declassified July 2017] |
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89 Jun 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (State Department) |
China: White House/State Department memorandum ("Themes") [paper for Scowcroft/Eagleburger secret mission to Beijing] [declassified 1998] |
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89 Jul 24 Mo |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Reshuffle: Major replaced Howe at Foreign Office; Howe new Deputy PM; Ridley went to DTI, Patten replacing him at Environment |
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89 Sep 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT bilateral with Chris Patten) [Community Charge (Patten did not propose safety net for individuals); litter; pollution; environment; planning; water; homelessness] [released Jul 2017] |
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89 Sep 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Clarke) [implementation of NHS Review] [released Dec 2016] |
|
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89 Sep 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Baker-Patten-Major) [local authority grant settlement - expectations of transition problems] [released Dec 2016] |
|
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89 Sep 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Baker, Patten, Lamont, David Hunt, Brian Griffiths) ["Local authority grant settlement"] [declassified July 2017] |
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89 Sep 23 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [Gorbachev's assessment of current internal situation; human rights/emigration; Eastern Europe; US/Soviet relations; arms control/chemical weapons/START; NATO/CFE/SNF; bilateral issues; environmentalism;China; Japan; Middle East; German unification/Warsaw Pact] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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89 Sep 23 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (National Security Archive) |
Cold War: MT conversation with Mikhail Gorbachev (extract from Soviet memcon in Gorbachev Archive) [“Britain & Western Europe are not interested in the unification of Germany”] |
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89 Oct 13 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
|
|
89 Oct 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Turnbull note for MT (Alan Walters article/interview) [MT: "advisers ADVISE, Ministers DECIDE policy"] [declassified Jul 2018] |
|
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89 Oct 26 Th |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Lawson resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer; Major succeeded him; Hurd became Foreign Secretary; Waddington succeeded Hurd as Home Secretary; Renton became Chief Whip |
|
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89 Oct 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: MT memoir ("Nigel Lawson's Resignation Oct 1989") ["unless I agreed to sack Alan Walters, he would hand in his resignation ... an absurd, indeed reprehensible proposition"] [released Mar 2019] |
|
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89 Oct 28 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for The Walden Interview (Lawson’s resignation) |
|
|
89 Oct 31 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Lawson (Nigel) |
Economy: Resignation speech (Hansard) |
|
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89 Nov 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: MT message to President Gorbachev (developments in East Germany) ["I agree with you that the speed with which these changes are taking places carries its own risk of instability"] [released Jul 2017] |
|
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89 Nov 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Nationalised industries: Wakeham minute for MT ("Electricity Privatisation and Nuclear Power") [necessity of retaining nuclear power in public sector if electricity privatisation is to go ahead in this parliament] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
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89 Nov 5 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Walters MSS) |
Economy: MT letter to Alan Walters (his resignation) [thanks, regrets, explanations] [released Mar 2019] |
|
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89 Nov 9 Th |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
East Germany announced opening of its border with West Germany; demolition of Berlin Wall began 10 Nov |
|
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89 Nov 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: MT conversation record (MT-Kohl phone call) [fall of the Berlin Wall] [released Mar 2019] |
|
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89 Nov 10 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks on the Berlin Wall (fall thereof) ["a great day for freedom"] |
|
|
89 Nov 13 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
|
|
89 Nov 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) ["East/West Relations": "action required by the Government over the next week or so"] [released Jul 2017] |
|
|
89 Nov 21 Tu |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on the Address] [film] |
|
|
89 Nov 21 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on the Address] |
|
|
89 Nov 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bush Library) |
USA: White House record of conversation (1500-1930Z) (MT, President Bush) [partial record] [declassified May 2009] |
|
|
89 Nov 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: No.10 record of conversation (1500-1930Z) (MT, President Bush) [East/West relations; EC; China; Cambodia; Arab/Israel; Nicaragua; Afghanistan; Iran; Cyprus; Argentina; Defence spending; arms control; South Africa; Vietnamese refugees; India/Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Japan; Czechoslovakia; Australia/New Zealand; El Salvador] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
89 Nov 27 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama ("What Future for Thatcherism?") |
|
|
89 Dec 3 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bush Library) |
Cold War: Bush-Kohl meeting record [memcon] (German unification) [declassified] [105K scan] |
|
|
89 Dec 5 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
MT won Conservative leadership election; 314:33 (27 abstained) |
|
|
89 Dec 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Younger MSS) |
Leadership election: George Younger’s “Post Mortem Meeting Notes” (MT campaign team’s secret discussion) |
|
|
89 Dec 8 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Leadership election: Lennox-Boyd note for MT (leadership election post mortem) [about 50 voted for you "with reluctance", you are vulnerable if another 50 become reluctant; enclosures from Younger in preparation for meeting] [released Mar 2019] |
|
|
89 Dec 8 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Younger MSS) |
Leadership election: George Younger’s “Report and Recommendations” (conclusions from leadership campaign) [“The result is not as good as the figures”] |
|
|
89 Dec 10 Su |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Czechoslovakia: end of Communist rule (Havel President 29 Dec) |
|
|
89 Dec 22 Fr |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Romania: Ceausescu overthrown (killed 25 Dec) |
|
|
90 Jan 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Cabinet Office) |
German unification: No.10 memorandum of conversation (MT & President Mitterrand) [prospect of unification had turned them into "the 'bad' Germans they used to be"] [declassified 2010] |
|
|
90 Jan 24 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Wall Street Journal |
|
|
90 Jan 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Horst Teltschik diary |
Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Kohl angry at MT’s criticisms in Wall Street Journal interview) [translation] |
|
|
90 Jan 27 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, King, Clark, Hamilton, Waldegrave, Cradock, Weston, Mottram, Appleyard, Powell) ["Diplomatic and Defence Implications of Recent Developments in East/West Relations"] [released Dec 2016] |
|
|
90 Feb 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("FRG policy on the German Question: German political director gives read out on Genscher's talks with Baker") ["Kastrup says that the situation in the GDR is now so near collapse that the Federal Government is embarking immediately on economic and monetary union.. Kastrup claims that Baker is on board for this"; CDP: "This is it: the Germans are going full tilt for reunification without waiting for anyone"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
90 Feb 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Horst Teltschik diary |
Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Charles Powell explains MT’s point of view on German unification) [translation] |
|
|
90 Feb 10 Sa |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Kohl in Moscow: Gorbachev agreed German reunification |
|
|
90 Feb 10 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: Powell letter to Wall ("Germany and NATO") ["To put it bluntly, we have to bear in mind - although not say - that we might one day need the Soviet Union as a counter-balance to a united Germany"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
90 Feb 21 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Sunday Times |
|
|
90 Mar 11 Su |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Lithuania declared independence of USSR |
|
|
90 Mar 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Cabinet Office) |
Cold War: Charles Powell letter to Timothy Garton-Ash (agenda for Chequers German seminar) [declassified 2007] |
|
|
90 Mar 20 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Budget |
|
|
90 Mar 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Hansard |
Economy: 1990 Budget (Major 1) [Hansard extract] [139K file] |
|
|
90 Mar 23 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Der Spiegel |
|
|
90 Mar 24 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, Professor Gordon Craig, Profesor Fritz Stern, Lord Dacre, Professor Norman Stone, Timothy Garton-Ash, George Urban) [analysis of the anticipated role and character of a united Germany in Europe] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
90 Mar 24 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Cabinet Office) |
Cold War: Chequers Seminar on Germany (“Summary Record”) [declassified 2007] |
|
|
90 Mar 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: No.10 record of conversations (MT-Major-Lamont-Portillo; joined by Butler, Wilson, Mills) [MT concluded that "the general public were blaming the Government for the high levels of community charge"; suggested proposals for radical review from 1991/92 on] [released Dec 2016] |
|
|
90 Mar 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Major-Lamont-Patten-Portillo) [MT: "with community charge at the present level, the system was leading to an intolerable burden"] [released Dec 2016] |
|
|
90 Mar 31 Sa |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Trafalgar Square riot |
|
|
90 Apr 1 Su |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Strangeways prison siege (ended 25 Apr); disturbances in other gaols |
|
|
90 Apr 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (State Department) |
Cold War: US Ambassador (London) telegram to President Bush (British hopes for Thatcher-Bush Bermuda meeting) [declassified 1997] [external link] |
|
|
90 Apr 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Sir Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Towards a Community Charge package") [too high, unjust between authorities, unfair between individuals; wants relief for worst hit &'multiplier' based on house value for richest; easing of fiscal stance] [released Dec 2016] |
|
|
90 Apr 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (State Department) |
Cold War: Bush-Thatcher meeting in Bermuda (record of conversation) [declassified 2003] |
|
|
90 Apr 15 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Bermuda: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Bush) [Germany; NATO; nuclear arms in Europe; USSR; CSCE; COCOM; CFE; chemical warfare; Anglo-French defence; UK defence policy; Trident; Middle East; Central America; China; Hong Kong; Vietnamese refugees; S. Africa; Mozambique; Kashmir; Afghanistan; Cyprus; Argentina/Falklands] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
90 Apr 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("EMU") [meeting with the Chancellor; our evolutionary approach has run out of steam; options for handling EMU] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
90 Apr 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Clarke) [possible delay in introduction of NHS and community care reforms] [released July 2017] |
|
|
90 May 19 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-De Klerk at Chequers) [MT thought De Klerk had grown in stature since last meeting; moving speeches over lunch marked return of South Africa's "acceptance back into the international community"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
|
|
90 May 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Major minute for MT ('EMU') [risk of "the beginning of a path to a two-tier Europe"; MT: "What's wrong with that if the other tier is going in the wrong direction?"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
|
90 May 30 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: EMU") [MT sceptical others would go ahead without us, and even if they did, does not believe UK should follow "a fundamentally wrong direction"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
|
90 May 31 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Major; Middleton, Wicks) [EMU - MT rejects Major suggestion that UK should accept Treaty committing to EMU "leaving to individual states ... whether and when to join"; instead, campaign to instill doubts about EMU and in favour of alternative concepts] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
|
90 Jun 7 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to North Atlantic Council at Turnberry |
|
|
90 Jun 8 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [Germany; NATO/Warsaw Pact/US forces in Europe; MT visit to Kiev; US/Soviet summit; the nuclear deterrent; CSCE; Lithuania; biological weapons; Oleg Gordievsky; UK Embassy residence; Royal visit; environmental issues; the transition from socialism to a free market economy; Middle East; Israel/Soviet Jews] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
90 Jun 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Major) [ERM - MT "said she no longer had reservations about the UK joining .... The issue was when was the right time to join"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
|
90 Jun 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Nick Ridley minute to MT ("Economic and Monetary Union") [promote regional groupings or currency arrangements; for trade "it is the Single Market which matters"; "To be alone in the 12 is not the end of the world, nor would we be alone if other candidates were allowed to join the EC"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
|
90 Jun 17 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (Mandela phone call to MT) [asks her not to press colleagues at upcoming European Council to lift sanctions; MT afterwards said she was "a bit disappointed with Mandela, who seemed to have rather a closed mind"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
|
|
90 Jun 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Solicitor-General minute to MT ("The Community Charge") [judgments in capping cases, ability of government to implement policies] [released Dec 2016] |
|
|
90 Jun 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: No.10 letter to Law Officers Department ("Community Charge") [MT surprised at Solicitor-General's new advice that existing capping powers could be used so extensively] [released Dec 2016] |
|
|
90 Jul 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Clarke) ["NHS Reforms" - Clarke convinced reforms had to be introduced next year; MT agreed, with reservations] [released July 2017] |
|
|
90 Jul 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-Mandela) ["a successful meeting with an excellent atmosphere ... he expressed his views on the main issues in conciliatory terms"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
|
|
90 Jul 14 Sa |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Ridley resigned over comments on Germany; Lilley joined Cabinet to succeed him at DTI |
|
|
90 Jul 14 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Ridley (Nicholas) |
Interview with The Spectator (“Saying the unsayable about the Germans”) |
|
|
90 Aug 2 Th |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Iraq invaded Kuwait; MT with Bush in Aspen |
|
|
90 Aug 2 Th |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
UN Security Council Resolution 660 condemns Iraq's invasion of Kuwait |
|
|
90 Aug 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bush Library) |
Gulf War: National Security Council minutes on Persian Gulf [uncertain response] [declassified 2012] |
|
|
90 Aug 2 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher & George Bush |
Joint Press Conference with President Bush (Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) |
|
|
90 Aug 2 Th |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher & George Bush |
Joint Press Conference with President Bush (Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) [film] |
|
|
90 Aug 2 Th |
Press |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Gulf War: Visiting Aspen [memoirs extract] |
|
|
90 Aug 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bush Library) |
Gulf War: National Security Council minutes on Persian Gulf ["It's fortunate that Mrs Thatcher is at Aspen"] [declassified 2000] |
|
|
90 Aug 4 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bush Library) |
Gulf War: National Security Council minutes on Persian Gulf [military options] [declassified 2000] |
|
|
90 Aug 4 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bush Library) |
Gulf War: White House record of phone conversation (President Bush-Saudi King Fahd) [Bush: "We need your view on a US force presence [in Saudi Arabia]"; Fahd: "We think we have a few days to coordinate, to make a tight, successful plan"] [declassified Aug 2009] |
|
|
90 Aug 5 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Bush (George) |
Remarks by President Bush ("This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait") |
|
|
90 Aug 5 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bush Library) |
Gulf War: National Security Council minutes [covert options; UN; Saudi Arabia] [declassified2000] |
|
|
90 Aug 5 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to the Aspen Institute ("Shaping a New Global Community") |
|
|
90 Aug 6 Mo |
Press |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Gulf War: Bush-Thatcher meeting in Washington [memoirs extract] |
|
|
90 Aug 9 Th |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
UK announced commitment of forces to the Gulf |
|
|
90 Sep 6 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Gulf Crisis] |
|
|
90 Sep 6 Th |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Gulf Crisis] [film] |
|
|
90 Sep 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Powell minute for Turnbull (Chancellor's statement on ERM entry) [MT "pretty indignant" with 'panic' statement and with Governor's reaction] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
|
90 Sep 30 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Bush, General Scowcroft, Charles Powell; James Baker in part) ["The Gulf Crisis: the Military Option"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
90 Oct 3 We |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
German reunification |
|
|
90 Oct 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Major; Middleton, Burns, Wicks, George) [ERM entry; decision to announce interest rate cut at same time and to join tomorrow, 5 Oct; present rate of DM2.93 "very close to what we would like the central rate to be"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
|
90 Oct 5 Fr |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Britain joined ERM; announcement that interest rates would be reduced by one per cent, from 15 to 14 per cent |
|
|
90 Oct 5 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference announcing decision to join the ERM |
|
|
90 Oct 7 Su |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on the Address] [film] |
|
|
90 Oct 8 Mo |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Interest rates reduced by one per cent, from 15 to 14 per cent |
|
|
90 Oct 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of conversations (MT, President Bush; No.10, UKMIS New York; Charles Powell-Scowcroft) ["Security Council resolution: killings in Jerusalem"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
90 Oct 12 Fr |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
|
|
90 Oct 12 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
|
|
90 Oct 14 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-De Klerk at Chequers) [De Klerk worried Mandela losing grip on the ANC; annex records MT would love to visit South Africa, but only when there had been "substantial progress in negotiations"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
|
|
90 Oct 14 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Gulf, etc: MT note ("Notes for reply to President Bush phone call Oct 1990") [no option to play it long] [released Feb 2020] |
|
|
90 Oct 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, US Defense Secretary Cheney, Tom King) [military situation in the Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Butler minute for Powell ("Gulf Business Note") [summarises work in preparation and agenda for OD(G) for following month; MT critical, worried over leaks] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, President Bush) [Bush "agreed that the key calculation was whether we had the luxury of giving sanctions time to work"; disagreement over reprovisioning Embassies in Kuwait and necessity of a further 'provocation' to justify use of force] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Bush & Scowcroft memoir |
Gulf War: MT letter to George Bush ("we should go sooner rather than later") [excerpt] |
|
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of phone conversation (General Scowcroft-Charles Powell) [reprovisioning/evacuation of US Embassy in Kuwait; US confusion as to events at the UN] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
90 Oct 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Foreign Minister Primakov and others) [Primakov describes visit to Saddam; urges face-saving "flexible linkage" of withdrawal from Kuwait to Arab/Israeli problem; MT emphatically rejects approach - Saddam "a dictator pure and simple", "We must NOT offer him blandishments"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Ingham minute to MT ("Presentation post-Bournemouth/Eastbourne") [government and party "need to be made to snap out of it .... It's later than they think"] [released Feb 2020] |
|
|
90 Oct 27 Sa |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Rome European Council (ended 28 Oct) |
|
|
90 Oct 27 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand lunch in Rome) [agriculture/GATT, political union, Germany, EMU, EBRD, enlargement, Soviet Union, the Gulf, defence cooperation] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
90 Oct 27 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand lunch in Rome) [agriculture/GATT; European political union; Germany; EMU; Turkey; EBRD; EC membership; USSR; the Gulf; Defence co-operation] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
90 Oct 30 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC Stmnt: [Rome European Council] ["No no no"] |
|
|
90 Oct 30 Tu |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC Stmnt: [Rome European Council] ["No no no"] [film] |
|
|
90 Nov 1 Th |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Howe resigned |
|
|
90 Nov 1 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Letter to Sir Geoffrey Howe MP (resignation) |
|
|
90 Nov 1 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Letter to Sir Geoffrey Howe MP (resignation) |
|
|
90 Nov 3 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Powell, General Scowcroft) [background for MT forthcoming talk with President Bush: Administration debates] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
90 Nov 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UK position paper ("Iraq/Kuwait: UK Position Paper") [Strategic Objectives, Military Objectives, Guidance to military commanders, Co-ordination with allies] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
90 Nov 7 We |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on the Address] [film] |
|
|
90 Nov 7 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on the Address] |
|
|
90 Nov 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bush Library) |
Gulf War: Jim Baker note for President Bush (meeting MT & Hurd) [declassified 1999] |
|
|
90 Nov 12 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
|
|
90 Nov 13 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
HC: Howe’s resignation speech |
|
|
90 Nov 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Ingham note to MT (Geoffrey Howe's resignation speech) [text from which Howe spoke] [released Feb 2020] |
|
|
90 Nov 14 We |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Heseltine stood for Conservative leadership |
|
|
90 Nov 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Kenneth Baker memo to MT (Party Leadership contest: campaign strategy) ["your overriding theme should be Party unity, under your leadership"] [released Feb 2020] |
|
|
90 Nov 15 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Sunday Times |
|
|
90 Nov 15 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Sunday Telegraph |
|
|
90 Nov 17 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for The Times |
|
|
90 Nov 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kohl) [Kohl's "slightly heavy handed display of solidarity" over leadership election; MT wanting IGCs not to conclude 'rapidly'] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
90 Nov 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Peter Morrison minute to MT (Party Leadership election) [lines to take] [released Feb 2020] |
|
|
90 Nov 20 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Conservative leadership election first ballot (MT 204:152 Heseltine) |
|
|
90 Nov 20 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks outside the Paris Embassy ("I confirm it is my intention to let my name go forward for the second ballot") |
|
|
90 Nov 20 Tu |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks outside the Paris Embassy (“I confirm it is my intention to let my name go forward for the second ballot”) [film] |
|
|
90 Nov 20 Tu |
Multimedia |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Ingham press briefings (Paris Embassy) [after the first ballot] [released 2015] |
|
|
90 Nov 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Ingham press briefings (Paris Embassy) [after the first ballot] [released 2015] |
|
|
90 Nov 20 Tu |
Press |
Key |
Thatcher memoirs |
Falling from power: Hearing the result of the first ballot [memoirs extract] |
|
|
90 Nov 22 Th |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
MT announced decision not to contest second ballot |
|
|
90 Nov 22 Th |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government] [film] |
|
|
90 Nov 22 Th |
Press |
Key |
Thatcher memoirs |
Falling from power: Cabinet overboard [memoirs extract] |
|
|
90 Nov 22 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Resignation: MT resignation statement (announces decision not to contest second ballot) [declassified 2016] |
|
|
90 Nov 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Resignation: Gorbachev letter to MT (parting thoughts) [“very warm message”] [declassified 2016] |
|
|
90 Nov 22 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Written Statement announcing decision to resign as Prime Minister |
|
|
90 Nov 22 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Confidence in Her Majesty's Government] |
|
|
90 Nov 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Charles Powell letter to MT (her resignation) ["the small men who contrived their petty coup"] [released Feb 2020] |
|
|
90 Nov 24 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Turnbull memorandum ("Prime Minister's resignation, 22 November 1990") [events 20-22 Nov] [released Feb 2020] |
|
|
90 Nov 24 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Resignation: MT letter to President Gorbachev (parting thoughts) [“together we really did contribute to changing our world”] [declassified 2016] |
|
|
90 Nov 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: MT letter to Kenneth Clarke (her resignation) ["Thank you so much for your kind and generous message" - "Stock 1"] [released Feb 2020] |
|
|
90 Nov 27 Tu |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Conservative leadership election second ballot; Major became leader |
|
|
90 Nov 28 We |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
MT resigned as Prime Minister |
|
|
90 Nov 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: MT and DT letter to Bernard Ingham (leaving No.10) ["My last act as Prime Minister must be to thank you"] [released Feb 2020] |
|
|
90 Nov 28 We |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks departing Downing Street [film] |
|
|
90 Nov 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Bush Library) |
Resignation: President Bush letter to MT (regrets) ["your wisdom and determination"] [declassified 2012] |
|
|
90 Nov 28 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks departing Downing Street |
|
|
90 Dec 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Younger MSS) |
Leadership election: MT to George Younger (thanks for help & advice) [“What has happened is now in the past”] |
|
|
90 Dec 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: ("Iraq/Kuwait") [UK position paper] [declassified Jul 2018] |
|
|
91 Jan 16 We |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Air campaign launched against Iraq ("Desert Storm") |
|
|
91 Feb 24 Su |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Ground war began in Kuwait |
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91 Feb 27 We |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Kuwait liberated; ceasefire |
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91 Mar 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
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Hansard |
Economy: 1991 Budget (Lamont 1) [external link] |
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91 Jun 28 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for ITN (recalls losing office) |
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91 Jul 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 minute to Major ("Inter-governmental conferences") ["FCO... assessment of what we might hope to achieve at Maastricht and what the main pitfalls for us are likely to be"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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91 Jul 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("Inter-Governmental Conferences") [best achievable outcome at Maastricht; PM's broad agreement with Foreign Secretary] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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91 Aug 19 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Statement and interview on events in USSR (coup against Gorbachev) ["an old-fashioned style attempt at a coup belonging to the Stalin and Brezhnev era"] |
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91 Nov 20 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S [European Community] |
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91 Dec 9 Mo |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Maastricht European Council (ended 10 Dec) |
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