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Date range: 4 May 197928 Nov 1990. Document type: Declassified documents.

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PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Australian High Commissioner Parsons) [Hawke visit, economic summit, east-west relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Guangdong Nuclear Power Station: (EX(84)3)") [UK Government support for GEC bid; competing French bid; negotiating parameters] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Guangdong Nuclear Power Station") [UK Government support for GEC bid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to Alick Buchanan-Smith (Scott Lithgow: BP oil rig contract) [cancellation/renegotiation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: David Barclay minute to MT ("Archway") [report on Ridley announcement to Parliament of Michael Giddings' resignation from Inquiry due to harassment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram 701 to FCO (1155Z) ("Research Council: 28 February 84 ESPRIT") [Kenneth Baker argues for 600m ECU ceiling for EC research & development in Chapter 73] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Stephen Sherbourne minute for MT (manifesto launch) [arrangements] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (Parliamentary Boundary Commission for Wales: Report on 1983 Review of European Parliament Constituencies) ["Two issues have to be decided.."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Andrew Turnbull (Green Paper on public expenditure and taxation) [inter-departmental clearance needed] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Howe report on meeting with French Minister for EC affairs; East/West relations; funding for ESPRIT information technology programme; agriculture 1984 price proposals; upcoming meetings & engagements] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Community cash position 1984: 1983 refunds") ["I reported that... the Commission would... pay up to 90 per cent of our refunds... by the end of March... it now seems... that this will not be the case"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 note to MT (Channel Bridge/Euroroute) [MT agrees to Ian MacGregor request for meeting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: FCO minute to No.10 (“Visit of President Mitterrand: 5 March”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-German Ambassador) [European Community issues, the Western European Union (WEU)] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [European Community affairs, the future political development of Europe, East/West relations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lawson minute for Tebbit (“Competition Policy”) [taxation aspects of the proposed policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger letter to Tom King (“Training for Jobs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [handling of Green Paper on long-term public expenditure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 letter to HMT ("Nissan") [MT "feels there is a serious problem to be addressed" in relation to effect of company tax package on Nissan] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Redwood minute to MT (early reaction to leaks of Budget proposals) ["Early reaction has centered on condemning the widening of the VAT base"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Heseltine-Weinberger) [arms control] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Heseltine-Weinberger) [technology transfer, equipment cooperation, arms sales, equipment procurement, defence budget, East-West relations, SDI] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: MOD record of conversation (“Note for the Record of a Meeting with the US Defence Secretary, Mr. Weinberger”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: statement by Mrs Shirley Williams”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Jaguar Privatisation") [flotation date] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Bank of England record of conversation (Governor of the Bank of England, Middleton) [position on Lloyds, RBS and OFT; Citibank lobbying power] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Ridley minute to MT ("Abolition of Control Over Port Development) [background to proposed announcement; MT calls for discussion in light of concerns of industrial action] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("INMOS") [institutional investment; buyers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: MacInnes minute to Howe PS ("Possible Review of BBC External Services") [cash limits, pay] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: No.10 letter to Ronald Thatcher (Politique Internationale award to MT for "political courage") [MT declines award] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Redwood minute to No.10 ("Independent Prosecution Service") [management, service quality, transfer and recruitment of staff] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Tebbit letter to Whitelaw (Legislative Programme 1984-85: Films Bill) [bid for legislation rejected] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Prior letter to Whitelaw ("Legislative Programme 1984-85: Northern Ireland Bills") [Elections; Emergency Provisions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Legislative Programme 1984-85") [public transport; civil aviation; gas; private rented housing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Legislative Programme 1984-85") [details of proposed Bills; handling; 85-86 programme] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Keston College: Mrs Alyona Kojevnikov") [feedback following distribution of report on visit to USSR: "lively, interesting and perceptive"] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Biffen, Wakeham, Moore) ["MPs' Expenses Payments and Tax"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 briefing for MT ("MPs Expenses Payments and Tax") [additional costs allowance] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Aviation: MT telegram to Chancellor Kohl of FRG (airbus A320 launch aid) [“will show what European industries can do when they work together”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Goodall minute for MT ("OD: Argentina/Falklands") [re-establishment of normal diplomatic and commercial relationships] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute for MT ("Argentina/Falklands") [re-establishment of normal diplomatic and commercial relationships] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Goodall minute for MT ("Future Force Levels and Further Capital Works (OD) (FAF) (84)2") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term") [latest changes to Green Paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley letter to Heseltine ("Sealink Sale: privatisation and defence") ["the possibility of restricting Sealink from "flagging out" any of its ships at any time, after privatisation, without Government approval"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley letter to John Moore (timetable for the sale of Sealink) [delay; bids] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("European Community: French views on the post-Stuttgart negotiations") [Robert Armstrong, David Williamson, Jacques Attali, Bianco: control of spending; budget imbalance; own resources; agriculture; MT meeting with Mitterrand] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: No.10 minute for MT (“Visit of President Mitterrand: 5 March”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Lord Young minute to National Economic Development Council (“Technical and Vocational Education: Some Personal Reflections”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Composite Rate for Banks"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: NIO record of conversation (meeting between Prior and Enoch Powell) [Molyneaux’s position] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on situation in Liverpool) [“agreed that the Government’s objective should be to increase the pressure on Labour Councillors to make a legal rate”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Tebbit PS minute to Tim Flesher (London Summit) [proposed commemorative stamp, design selected, rate proposed] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO briefing for MT (“Visit of the Dutch Prime Minister, Mr Lubbers, on 2 March”) [main brief] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Algiers to FCO (“Algerian Mediation in Iran-Iraq War”) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: UKE Algiers to FCO (“Iran-Iraq”) [appeal to the belligerents] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: FCO to UKE Paris (“A320 letter to Mitterrand”) [message from MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Mrs Williams and Zhou Nan”) [record of conversation: tension over Roger Lobo motion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe telegram to Hong Kong Government (“Future of Hong Kong: strategy and timetable”) [update for EXCO] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe telegram to Hong Kong Government (“Future of Hong Kong: strategy and timetable”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to Lord Gowrie PS (Efficiency Studies of Common Support Activities) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Housing: W.N. Stott minute to Gow PS ("Housebuilding: January 1984; Renovations: 1983") [statistics; press notice] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: John Coles minute to Howe PS ("Review of BBC External Services") [public handling of review] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Kenneth Baker letter to Deputy Chief Executive, The Plessey Company plc (supply of System X equipment to the French PTT) ["we need to carry British Telecom with us"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Department of Environment letter to No.10 ("Superstores and the Planning System") [amended draft response to Sir John Sainsbury's concerns] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Argentina") [Foreign Minister Caputo's stopover in Madrid] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Turnbull ("Cable and Satellite Broadcasting") ["The response of the market place confirms that our policy... is correct... We should not, however, use public money... to stimulate investement"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by Mr Lubbers: INF") [lines to take for MT to call to Lubbers in event that Dutch Cabinet decides on reduced deployment of cruise missiles] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to MT ("MBFR") [Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction: recommendations on the Western approach to forthcoming negotiations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling PS letter to No.10 ("Council of Agriculture Ministers: 27-28 February 1984") [statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Paper on the Future of the European Community") [EC relations with the 'outside world': paper for Kohl] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MAFF briefing (European Council meeting) [objectives; proceedings] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 8th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Economic Affairs, Government Legislation for 1984-85) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute to No.10 (“Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Residual Shareholdings") [concerns about effect of Budget announcements on future privatisations: "I strongly urge that you make no reference to residual shareholdings in your Budget Speech"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Walters minute to MT (thoughts on the Budget) [PSBR, consumer credit tax, medium term tax-benefits strategy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington letter to FCO Information Department (“Northern Ireland and the Daily Express”) [“What we do is seek to counter NORAID propaganda”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO briefing for MT (“Visit of The Netherlands Prime Minister: European Monetary System (EMS)”) [Lubbers thinks UK membership "psychologically important to the future of the Community"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Netherlands: FCO briefing for MT (“Call by Mr Lubbers, The Netherlands Prime Minister: 2 March”) [EC road transport liberalisation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Williamson minute for Coles (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with Mr Lubbers, 2 March: The Post-Stuttgart Negotiations”) [Dutch resistant to financing budget relief for Germany] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: LEGCO debate”) [Roger Lobo motion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe telegram to Hong Kong Government (“Future of Hong Kong: strategy and timetable”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Hong Kong: letter from Mr Robert Adley MP”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Future of Hong Kong: working paper on civil aviation”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Fowler PS letter to Edwards PS (NHS Rayner Scrutiny on non-Ambulance Transport) [publication; press conference; covering letter to Regional Health Authorities] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 note to MT (BL PLC) [sale of Jaguar] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("INMOS") [institutional investment; buyers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Heseltine PS ("European Commission on Human Rights: Farrell v. the U.K.") [settlement negotiations: opening offer] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe minute to Heseltine ("European Commission on Human Rights: Farrelll -v- the United Kingdom") [settlement negotiations: opening offer] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("Possible Hunger Strike in Belfast Prison") [details] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Jordanian Draft Security Council Resolution") [analysis/advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull (Ministerial seminar on employment) ["some ideas for an agenda"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Seminar on Industry and Employment") [date & agenda] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Macfarlane minute to MT ("Football Related Hooliganism: England v France 29 February") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("Scott Lithgow") [BP oil rig contract; sale of the shipyard] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Gas Manuals Pay Negotiations") [latest offer rejected; possibility of industrial action] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: David Barclay minute to MT ("Merit Pay") [main features of Lord Gowrie's proposed paper for Cabinet; Lawson's views] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT (Performance-Related Pay) [proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (National Economic Development Council) [TUC non-attendance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen letter to Whitelaw ("House of Commons Committee on Procedure") [setting up] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Police: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Police Pay") [terms & scope of the pay review] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1600Z) ("Combatting Terrorism") (NSPG 0086) [new NSDD; DOJ objections] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("OD: Argentina/Falklands") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John Redwood minute to Andrew Turnbull (Public Expenditure Green Paper draft) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term") [Green Paper draft] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: MT letter to President dos Santos ("Release of British prisoners") [message of thanks; "I should like to stress our readiness to help in any way we can in the search for a solution to the problems of the region"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Credit for Defence sales to India") ["Although the ECGD system appeared to be acceptable, clearly the normal terms applicable were not... Credit terms are clearly going to play an important part in our efforts to secure a major piece of the Indian defence market"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("Review of the Loan Guarantee Scheme") ["Given... the scale of the losses... I do not now propose to refer to it in the [Budget] Speech"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Monetary compensatory amounts") ["The French invented this system and are now regretting it... [MT] should continue to object and to assert our own interest"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to Howe ("Community Financing") [MT meeting with Mitterrand; EC budget imbalance; EC budgetary discipline; members states' own resources] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("French ideas for a European Council Secretariat") ["Mitterrand referred to the idea of having a special Secretariat"; MT: "I prefer each country to provide its own for the Presidency"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe minute for Walker (“International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("North Sea Fiscal Regime") [Budget proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: HMT letter to No.10 ("Consumer Credit Duty") [Chancellor drops proposed consumer credit duty] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Ingham minute to MT ("VAT on Newspapers") [urges MT to drop proposed VAT extension from Budget: "I am profoundly concerned lest you set actual or potential supporters against you"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Redwood minute to Turnbull ("Residual Shareholdings") [urges sale of residual holdings in British Aerospace: "It will not jeopardise the BT issue"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Turnbull note to MT (passage on sale of residual shareholdings in Budget Speech) [highlights concerns of Tebbit and Walker] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Lord Thomas note to MT (conversations in Washington) [US trade, Cold War, defence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Hugh Thomas note to MT (“Dr Kissinger’s recent Article”) [Europe’s role in the Atlantic Alliance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: John Coles minute to Robert Armstrong (“Economic Summit”) [outline programme, concern over timing of closing press briefing] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: No.10 note to John Coles (“Commemorative Stamps for London Economic Summit”) [denomination of 31p seems to be fair] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Walker minute to MT (Review of the UK Atomic Energy Authority) [MT concurs with need for comprehensive review] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prime Minister Lubbers of the Netherlands) [EC matters: the Common Agricultural Policy, the single market & the budget] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: President Reagan letter to MT (the US Space station project) [UK participation in a Space Shuttle mission] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: strategy and timetable”) [record of conversation: Youde, S.Y. Chung] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Chinese press comment”) [Roger Lobo motion] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 3 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: John Gummer minute to Cabinet (strategy paper) [“We stand up for British interests but are also committed to making a success of the Community.”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris briefing for MT ("Post-Stuttgart Negotiations: Prime Minister's meeting with Mitterrand, 5 March") ["French tactics for the Brussels European Council are emerging"; monetary compensation amounts; control of EC spending; limits on milk production; UK budgetary refund & link to new own resources ceiling] [declassified Jan 2014]
Text 84 Mar 4 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) New Zealand: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lange) [NZ/EC trade relations, nuclear ships visits, nuclear weapons] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: National Economic Development Council record of conversation (Lawson, Tebbit, Patrick Jenkin, Tom King, Keith Joseph, Buchanan-Smith, Robin Leigh Pemberton, Terence Beckett, Walter Marshall, JS Cassels, George Jefferson, Campbell Fraser, Stuart Hollander, JJR Pope, JS McFarlane, RE Waterhouse, D. Young & others) [higher education & the needs of the economy; cotton & allied textiles; employment trends in US, Europe & Japan; trade patterns & industrial change; NEDO budget] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: UKE Washington telegram 736 to FCO (0048Z) (“President Reagan and the London Economic Summit”) [timing of bilateral with Reagan] [released Dec 2014]
Text 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("BL") ["sale of Jaguar and additional equity"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Cabinet Secretary minute to Cabinet Office ("Freedom of Information Campaign: Sir Douglas Wass") [Wass to become adviser to campaign] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Redwood minute to MT ("Freedom of Information Bill") [David Steel to introduce bill] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("The National Prosecution Service") [H Committee favours introduction of service] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Westland Helicopters for India") [Indian request for increase in amount of aid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Lord Aldington letter to MT (Westland helicopters) [loss of contract would be damaging] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Proposed Review of High Energy Particle Physics") ["to seek your formal concurrence"; UK withdrawal from CERN] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Performance-Related Pay") [comments on the proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Mr Chernenko's Speech on 2 March") [copy sent to MT: advice on the need for a reply] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Conservative Research Department Brief ("Relations with the Soviet Union") [brief for Parliamentary Debate on 9 March] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Julian Amery MP (the political side of Special Operations) [follow-up to discussion of Amery's concerns in meeting of 21 February] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Paymaster General's salary) [clarification of entitlement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("School Teachers' Pay (England and Wales) 1984") [report on Burnham (Primary & Secondary) Committee; Government line for first meeting of Burnham (Further Education) Committee meeting in March] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand) [Lebanon/Gulf; East/West relations] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Future financing and development of the Community") [Preparation for the European Council in Brussels, 19/20 March] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to Jim Prior ("The Northern Ireland Block") [block running at a level in excess of need] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS note to Andrew Turnbull ("Long term public expenditure") [Green Paper versions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Jim Prior minute to Nigel Lawson (Public Expenditure Green Paper) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Lawson PS ("Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term") [MT's suggested changes to draft] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: George Younger minute to Nigel Lawson ("Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term") [terms used in draft] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Heseltine PS minute to Lawson PS (Public Expenditure Green Paper) [proposed changes to draft on defence] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Keith Joseph minute to Nigel Lawson ("Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term") [changes to the draft on education] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: King PS minute to Lawson PS ("Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term") [changes to the draft on economic growth] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("British Airways privatisation") [MT request, following meeting with Chair of BA, for further details on route transfers & Civil Aviation Authority review] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT ("ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority: London Conservative MPs' reform proposals; direct elections] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Environmental Pollution") [report on first meeting of the Official Committee on Environmental Protection; advice to confirm date for Ministerial meeting in order to galvanise the work of the Committee] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Visit of President Mitterrand") [cover note for record of MT, Mitterrand conversation, not attached; MT request for paper on EC Budget to send to Mitterrand] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("1982 Risk-Sharing Refunds") [key points in response from EC Commission President Thorn; "the Commission were never likely to accept our case fully or seek to involve themselves directly... the choice is likely to be between our own readiness to drop the issue... and action in the Court or withholding"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opposition: No.10 note (“The Prime Minister’s Meetings With Opposition MP’s [ sic ] 1981-84”) [names, subjects, dates] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Gow letter to MT (personal attacks on her) [“betrayal of jealous and ambitious Cabinet colleagues”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO to UKE Bonn (“International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Turnbull minute to MT ("Bilateral With the Chancellor") [brief for Budget meeting with Chancellor of the Exchequer] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Turnbull minute to MT ("Lord MacAlpine") [MacAlpine wishes to organise function with members of the construction industry; possible adverse reaction to Budget] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: No.10 letter to Francis Noel-Baker (ideas on Cyprus problem) [“we are supporting the efforts of the UN Secretary General”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: AGO drafts (statement on local government spending) [government help for Merseyside and Liverpool] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit 1984”) [terrorism issue has not been raised at meetings of personal representatives, but Reagan may continue to push for a multilateral solution] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PPS letter to No.10 (“International Debt Problems: Argentina and Yugoslavia”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (“Local authority spending in 1985-86”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Rees letter to Keith Joseph ("The Audit Commission - Value for Money") [HM Inspectorate of Schools role in ensuring value for money from local authorities] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("INMOS") [institutional investment] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Howe minute to Tom King ("National Dock Labour Scheme") [effect on fishing industry] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: John Coles minute to MT ("Westland helicopters for India") [Indian request for additional aid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Electricity Supply Industry and British Gas Corporation: Board Salaries) [MT agrees percentage figure for pay rise offer] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Whitelaw letter to Hailsham ("Legislative Programme 1984-85") [list of Bills; procedural issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("TSRB Pensions") [special action to mitigate effects of staging of the 1983 award] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Prime Minister Lubbers of the Netherlands letter to MT (European Council meeting) [Netherlands’ concerns over transport policy] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Rees minute to George Younger ("The Scottish Block") [block running at a level in excess of need] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS minute to Andrew Turnbull (Public Expenditure White Paper draft) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Rees PS note to Andrew Turnbull (TCSC proposals) [plans are unrealistic] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Norman Fowler minute to Nigel Lawson ("Public Expenditure in the Longer Term") [changes to the draft on social security] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Peter Walker minute to Nigel Lawson ("Green Paper on Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term") [changes to the draft on taxation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Brittan PS minute to Lawson PS ("Public Expenditure and Taxation in the Longer Term") [presentation of GDP to expenditure ratio] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph, Waldegrave, Letwin, Bob Dunn) ["ILEA": Inner London Education Authority; London Conservative MPs' reform proposals; direct elections] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Community Cash Position 1984: 1983 Refunds") [advance payment of member states' own resources & likely repercussions: "Notwithstanding [these]... the right course is for us to go playing strictly by the Community rules... We need not bind ourselves at this stage actually to pay the money over"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Channel Tunnel Link") [background; key questions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Liaison Committee (documents for meeting) [agenda, priority action points, coming weeks] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (proposal on 1984-85 PSBR) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Coles minute to Armstrong (“Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT to meet FitzGerald at Brussels summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong minute to John Coles (“London Economic Summit 1984”) [arrangements for reception at St James’ Palace] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Robert Armstrong letter to Julian Bullard (“London Economic Summit 1984: Political Discussion”) [list of subjects to be discussed] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Sherbourne minute for MT (“Local Government Conference”) [opposes press release on rate capping] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT (“Abolition of GLC/MCCs: By-Elections”) [“past the point of no return”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Efficiency Unit minute to No.10 ("Overdue Scrutiny Decisions") [draft requests to Ministers for progress reports] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (British Nationality Fees) [White Paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (proposed Review of High Energy Particle Physics) [MT concurs with Robin Nicholson's case for the Review & notes Geoffrey Howe's concerns] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: No.10 Policy Unit minute MT ("Trade Policy") [comments on Tebbit paper of 28 February; additional proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Ministerial Steering Committee on Economic Strategy, 11am, 8 March") [trade policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Soviet Ambassador to the UK Popov letter to Howe (message from the Prime Minister on the death of Andropov) [thanks for condolences] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Hailsham, Biffen, Heseltine, Fowler, Robert Armstrong) ["TSRB Pensions"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("European Council: Paper for President Mitterrand") [MT doubtful as to offering VAT share-expenditure gap as a basis for budget settlement at this point] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Preparation for European Council, 19/20 March") [brief for ministerial meeting 8 March] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 833 to FCO (1505Z) ("Preparation for European Council") [COREPER discussion; Council may continue until evening of 20 March] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Nicholas Edwards minute to Norman Fowler ("Public Expenditure Reviews") [attention to Welsh circumstances] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Biffen, Brittan, Jenkin, Wakeham, Lord Bellwin, Waldegrave, Gummer) ["Education in London"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Inner London Education Authority") [abolition of GLC/Paving Bill; direct elections to ILEA] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Coles ("CAP: Monetary Compensation Amounts") ["The UK position on this item is unconvincing and negative": strategy proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting on EC issues") [EC Commission request for advance payment; issues for the European Council; letter to President Mitterrand] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet Office: Community Affairs") [negotiating situation for European Council; 1983 EC budget refunds; Energy Council: package of measures; advance transfer of members states' own resources to EC Commission; agriculture: 1984 price proposals; Environment Council & Consumer Affairs Council: outcomes; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Hailsham letter to MT (personal attacks on her) [condemns “dirty tricks brigade in trying to get at you though your family”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Pascall minute to Turnbull ("Coal") ["The temperature is rising in the coalfields...there is a strong possibility that the Scottish and Yorkshire miners could be on strike by the weekend"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Joseph and Jenkin memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 10 (Education in London) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [1984-5 PSBR; agreement to drop proposal to impose VAT on newspapers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“the Taoiseach is heavily preoccupied with bringing the Forum to a successful conclusion (ie a consensus report)”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Commonwealth: MT letter to Governor of St Helena (thanks for gift) [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong: timetable”) [Howe visit to Beijing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Joseph, Whitelaw, Biffen, Brittan, Jenkin, Jopling, Lord Bellwin, Waldegrave, Gummer) [“Abolition of the GLC and MCCs: By-Elections”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 letter to Tom King PS ("Scrutinies and Value for Money") [request for progress report on 1980 recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 letter to Brittan PS ("Scrutinies and Value for Money") [MT congratulates Brittan & asks to be kept informed] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Tom King minute to MT ("Employment") [work in hand; next steps] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Treasury minute (internal) to Palmer ("Nationalised Industries: Quarterly Monitoring Report (December 1983)") [Rees concern that Report circulated too late for its figures to be relevant] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen letter to Gowrie ("Hereditary Peerages Bill") [Queen's Consent; Bill to be opposed by Government at Second Reading] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Rees minute to MT ("Proposed Review of High Energy Particle Physics") ["the review would have little point if radical options for our involvement in CERN were off the agenda"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 816 to FCO (1930Z) ("US Elections: Gary Hart") [assessment of his campaign to date] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: UKE Athens telegram 139 to FCO (2120Z) ("Turkish/Greek Incident") [opening of fire during Turkish anti-aircraft exercise viewed as provocation, Greek diplomatic action] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Biffen ("Education (Grants and Awards Bill)") [Bill to come back to Commons in order to delete clause inserted by Opposition blocking use of education support grants, paid to local authorities, to support expenditure in grammar schools] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Lord Thomas minute to MT ("A European Initiative on East/West Issues") [proposal] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (1645-1815Z) (MT, Howe, Lawson, Jopling, Wakeham, Biffen) [European Council, Brussels, 19/20 March] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 letter to Prior PS ("Shorts: corporate plan and privatisation") ["...[MT] agrees that it is useful to confirm privatisation as the objective for the company but shares the Chief Secretary's doubts... [about making] adjustments to the balance sheet in advance of detailed discussions..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Younger letter to Brittan ("Boundary Commission for Scotland: Report on Review of European Assembly Constituencies") [recommendations and next steps] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (Civil Aviation Authority review of the implications of British Airways privatisation) ["Lord King's view that CAA could produce a report which would damage BA and make privatisation more difficult"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office record of conversation (direct elections to the Inner London Education Authority) [Whitelaw, Brittan, Keith Joseph, Jenkin, Rees, Havers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Walker ("Refund Regulations: Energy Items") ["I have instructed our representative on the [Energy] Working Group to raise coal social measures... Only if... this approach cannot succeed, and... to persist in it would jeopardise our refunds, will we lift our reserve on coking coal"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Michael Alison minute to MT (draft speech defending No.10) [MT & Ingham advise against] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 9th (Parliamentary Affairs, Coal Industry: Pit Closures, Northern Ireland, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Education in London) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Most Confidential Record to Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 9th (Northern Ireland) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter for Defence Minister Abu Ghazala of Egypt (thanking for the brooch) [declassified 2015]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Nissan") [mitigating effects of capital allowance changes on Nissan] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: HMT letter to No.10 (draft Budget Speech with MT annotations) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Turnbull minute to MT (comments on draft Budget Speech) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Harvey Thomas letter to Tessa Gaisman (“Central Council At The Metropole Hotel Birmingham”) [autocue arrangements] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute (“Financial Markets Report”) [Feb 1984] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: UK Ambassador Rome letter to No.10 (phone call from President Pertini after visit to London) [“great pleasure”, “atmosphere of allegria and good company” at state banquet] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Clift, FCO minute to Howe PS (“Hong Kong: strategy and timetable”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Rapier") [Richard Parsons, Juan Carlos I: record of conversation: Rapier contract] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: David Barclay minute to MT ("Right to Buy: the Five Year Rule") [Rees paper on repayment of purchase discount when house is sold again] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Proposed Review of BBC External Services") [MT believes review will raise alarms] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Tebbit minute to MT ("BT Flotation") ["complexities and issues which must be settled, many in very short order"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: FCO telegram to UKE Santiago ("Walter Rauff") [instructions to UK ambassador to support W. German request for Nazi war criminal's repatriation to stand trial] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Merit Pay") [comments on Lord Gowrie's proposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Lord Thomas minute to MT ("Conversations with the Russians") [note by Soviet Group of the Centre for Policy Studies: advocates meeting with new Soviet leadership] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("TSRB Pensions") [draft PQ reply] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan letter to MT (visit of Japanese Crown Prince and Princess to the UK) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Cradock minute to John Coles ("East/West Relations: Further Steps") [follow-up to MT visits to Budapest & Moscow: Soviet/British contacts; arms control] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Mrs Ida Nudel") [human rights abuses: request for MT to take up case with Soviet ambassador] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European elections: Geoffrey Howe note to MT (draft manifesto) [MT note: “Marvellous for Chatham House but not for a manifesto”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Japan: Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan letter to MT (Imperial visit to UK) [“warmth of hospitality”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT letter to President Mitterrand of France (budget imbalance) [encloses paper on “Future Financing of the Community”, of use for next Council meeting] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: No.10 letter to Brittan PS ("Scrutinies and value for money") [MT keen to maintain momentum of reform, and presses for report on efficiency in the prison service] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Chairman of the Coalite Group letter to MT (the Falkland Islands: immigration and commercial fishing) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Angola: Howe minute to MT ("Angola: UNITA's British hostages") [latest position; MT concerned about handling] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to President Mitterrand (imbalance in the European Community Budget) ["I promised to let you have a paper... designed to describe a lasting and systematic solution"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Community Cash position") ["At her meeting yesterday... [MT] asked about the balance on the Commission's account... Commission officials have... [assured us] that they will be able to find the necessary cash to pay out refunds before the end of March"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Hayek speech to the Mont Pelerin Society ("Professor Friedrich Hayek's Closing Speech") [reflections on the history of the society and the resurgence of classical liberalism]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turbull minute to MT ("Miners' Industrial Action") [Department of Energy situation report on strike, and other matters] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Lawson minute for Howe (“International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer documents on Budget leak ("Suspected Leak") [line to take] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Turnbull minute to MT ("Residual Shareholders") [Chancellor modifies Budget proposals on sale of residual shareholdings] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Robert Armstrong) [restructuring the Property Services Agency] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Nigerian Debts: British Caledonian Airways”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Royal Netherlands Embassy in London letter to MT (thanking) [breakfast at No.10 on 2 March] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Sherbourne minute for MT (“Local Government Conference”) [agenda, programme, rate capping background] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Sherbourne minute for MT (speech notes for Local Government Conference) [rate capping] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Julian Amery letter to MT (South African relations with her neighbours) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: composition of British delegation”) [China hostile to inclusion of Hong Kong Attorney General] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Future of Hong Kong: working paper on Nationality, Citizenship, Right of Abode, Freedom of Travel, Emigration and Immigration”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 10 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler letter to Rees ("Social Services Inspectorate (SSI)") ["I hope that in the light of this fuller explanation of the background to my proposals... the difficulties you foresaw need not arise"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT notes [?for her speech] (Conservative Local Government Conference) [“grand design” theme] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: dinner with Zhou Nan”) [Lobo motion, timetable] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 11 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Jopling, Wakeham, Biffen, Robert Armstrong, Michael Butler, David Williamson, David Hannay & others) ["Preparation for the European Council: 19-20 March": advance payment from member states/UK's 1983 refund; fair sharing of EC budget burden; agricultural spending; monetary compensatory amounts; milk levy; butter subsidy] [declassified Jan 2014]
Text 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science & Technology: MT letter to Sir Henry Chilver (ACARD initiatives arising from the Seminar on Science, Technology and Industry) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Memorials: Mrs James Illingworth letter to Secretary-Treasurer of the Yalta Victims Memorial Appeal (preservation of the Memorial) ["totally neglected"; letter copied to MT] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler minute to MT ("Liverpool Health Strategy") ["I think we should go ahead as soon as possible"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) India: Indira Gandhi message to MT (Republic Day) [thanks for good wishes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Howe minute to Tebbit ("Shipbuilding: Intervention Fund") [negotiations with European Commission] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: David Barclay minute to MT ("The Archway Inquiry") [MT approves Policy Unit proposal for wider review of inquiry procedure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing ("Visit of the Prime Minister and Secretary of State to Moscow: Community Issues") [own resources/UK abatement, EC enlargement, emissions, GATT, Mediterranean programmes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Tenure in the Universities") [conclusions & recommendations; background paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Special Adviser to the Select Committee on Defence) [MT shares Heseltine's concerns about appointment of a working journalist] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Community Budget: Fair Sharing of the Burden") [figures as to whether a budget settlement will leave the UK better off] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Angola: MT telegram to President Jose Dos Santos of Angola (release of British prisoners) [“clear demonstration of the constructive relationship which exists between our two governments”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Falkland Islands' Members of Executive and Legislative Councils message for MT (Rex Hunt's position as the Civil Commissioner) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Department of Transport briefing for MT ("Channel Fixed Link - Mr Ian McGregor's Meeting with the Prime Minister") [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Sherbourne minute for MT (“Party Political Broadcast”) [Saatchis attracted to Macmillan theme] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: MT letter to John Vaizey (thanks for words of support) [Oman/Cementation case] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong minute to MT ("Proposed Ministerial Group on Coal") [Armstrong proposes setting up group to deal with strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO letter to No.10 (“WEU: NATO”) [French view: revitalised WEU a ‘stepping stone’ to full integration with NATO] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 letter to HMT ("Residual Shareholdings") [MT comments on Chancellor's modification of Budget proposals on sale of residual shareholdings] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Gregson briefing for MT ("Strikes in Essential Services") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Redwood and Letwin minute to MT ("Strikes in Essential Services") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Keith Joseph letter to Peter Walker (“Review of the UKAEA”) [future of the UK Atomic Energy Authority] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Nicholas Ridley (“Nigeria: Economic Relations”) [the problem of British Caledonian Airways] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin minute to MT (“Local Government policies Commissioner legislation”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Ridley minute to MT ("National Dock Labour Scheme and the Port of London Authority") [request for paper to be considered at next E(A) committee meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Keith Joseph") [schooling pupils/teachers in economic awareness; science budget] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("Electricity Supply Industry and British Gas Corporation: Board Salaries") [concern that salary increases could affect trade unions' pay settlement demands] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: David Barclay minute to MT ("Fluoridation") [MT agrees with proposal for legislation to provide water authorities with a power rather than a duty] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Keith Joseph") [Science Budget priorities; economic awareness in schools; Review of High Energy Particle Physics] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Howe minute to MT ("Review of High Energy Particle Physics (HEPP)") [concern that Review will be seen as heralding UK withdrawal from CERN & as being indicative of lack of UK commitment to European collaboration] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 330 to FCO (0747Z) ("Peace letters") [text of Chair of Soviet Women's Committee response to MT letter: both letters published simultaneously in 'Komsomolskaya Pravda'] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Heseltine, Biffen, Wakeham, Robert Armstrong) [concern at appointment of a working journalist as an adviser to Select Committee on Defence] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen PS letter to Howe PS ("Select Committee on European Legislation") [Parliamentary scrutiny of EC documents] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) France: National Security Council Minutes (1900Z) ("Visit of French President Francois Mitterrand") (NSC 0102) [declassified Spt 2013]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to MOD ("Possible Royal Visits to the Falkland Islands") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Goodall minute for MT ("Future Force Levels and Further Capital Works (OD) (FAF) (84)2") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("EEC Budget and Refunds") ["The technical points on our refunds have been disposed of... Only the French are holding out... [Howe] suggested that you might authorise... me to ring Attali... will have to be done within the next few minutes"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("EC Budget and Refunds") [Robert Armstrong, Jacques Attali; Armstrong: "even if the Council agreed the regulations today... There would be further opportunities... for the French Government to block the refunds"; both MT & Attali unfamiliar with this reasoning] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Treasury briefing for backbenchers (budget) [themes, proposals, economic outlook, taxation] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal") [brief for MT-Walker-MacGregor meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 10th (The Budget, Foreign Affairs, Miners' Strike) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Jenkin memo circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 11 (Education in London) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(84) 12 (Education in London) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Tebbit minute to MT (comments on King's paper on strikes in essential services) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom Hadden and Kevin Boyle submission to Forum for a New Ireland (“analysis of the problems in Northern Ireland”) [recommends package of measures for move “towards peace and stability on the island”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, etc) [“Although an illegal rate could not be ruled out, the more likely outcome was now that no rate would be made at all”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Sherbourne minute for MT (“Central Council speech”) [arrangements for completing draft] [released 2014]
Text 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Key Lawson (Nigel) Economy: 1984 Budget (Lawson 1) (Hansard)
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: timetable”) [MT: “Their true nature is now being revealed”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley PS letter to Howe PS (“Panamanian freight tax”) [Ridley pressing for refund following UK exemption; Lawson and Howe doubtful] [declassified 2013]
Text 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph) ["Science Budget"; economic awareness in schools] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Mr William Ross (Soviet 'Peace' letters) [request for names & address of the Soviet citizens who wrote to MT, from Linlithgow Churches Peace Concern group] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("BNOC: Second Quarter Prices") [no change, for most part, to prices, following revival in demand] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Germany: Chancellor Kohl of FRG letter to MT (Rudolf Hess) [“should for reasons of humanity no longer be denied a pardon”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute for MT ("Argentina/Falklands") [negotiations with Argentina: no discussion of the sovereignty issue] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Hugh Thomas minute to No.10 (Reports on Argentina: Political & Economic Situation) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("ILEA") [Inner London Education Authority: "direct elections would be the easiest course politically... [but] you will almost certainly be making it impossible to achieve improvements in London's education for many years"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: MT letter to Lord Zuckerman (civil nuclear power in the USA) ["unlikely... that the worst features... will be repeated here... nevertheless I think we... need to keep closely in touch with developments"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Next President of the European Commission") [candidates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling PS letter to No.10 ("Council of Agriculture Ministers: 11-13 March 1984") [statement to Parliament: milk & monetary compensation amounts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Department of Agriculture briefing for MT (meeting with President of the National Farmers' Union) [milk levy; monetary compensation amounts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Community Cash Position 1984: 1983 refunds") ["we ought... to put ourselves in a position to make the advance on 30 March... But we need not commit ourselves to making the advance before we know where we stand on the refunds"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Ian Stewart PS letter to Howe PS ("Interest on non-payment of advance of own resources in 1983") ["there is no obligation to make an advance under the own resource's regulation; and... we should make no concession until the Court rules otherwise"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [Howe report on EC negotiations: fair sharing of budget burden; Foreign Affairs Council: energy issues; common commerical policy regulation; UK 1983 EC budget refund; Agriculture Council: Jopling report on milk quotas agreement; monetary compensatory amounts; upcoming meetings] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ian MacGregor) [Channel Crossing] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-MacGregor) ["Coalmining Dispute"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Brittan-Walker-Jenkin-Fowler-King-Havers-Moore-Gummer-Gregson) ["Coalmining Dispute"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Coal Strike: Picketing") [Brittan statement to Chief Constables: "It is the duty of the Police to prevent...intimidation so that the law is upheld"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute for Coles (“Anglo-German Summit: 2 May 1984”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hill minute to Coles (“Secretary of State for Northern Ireland”) [topics for discussion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Belize: Defense Intelligence Agency letter to CIA Director (Guatemalan rebels (FAR) being supplied logistics network from Belize) ["High Belize Government officials are said to be aware ... the long suspected FAR network in Belize appears to be a fact"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) US: Ridley PS minute to No.10 (“Visit of Mrs Elizabeth Dole, US Secretary for Transportation”) [“a useful opportunity to discuss aviation, maritime and other transport matters”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Ridley PS minute to No.10 (“Visit of Mrs Elizabeth Dole, US Secretary for Transportation”) [“a useful opportunity to discuss aviation, maritime and other transport matters”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Department of Trade and Industry letter to David Barclay (the US Space station project) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute (“Monthly Monetary Report: February to May”) [monetary growth less than expected in Feb] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: Italian President Pertini letter to MT (thanking for visit) [“a sweet memory for me”; forwards gift of shoes] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: constitutional development”) [consultation with EXCO] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Gibraltar") [negotiations with Spain over accession to EC/normalisation of border relations with Gibraltar; MT approves Howe message to Morán, on condition Hassan has no reservations; MT rules out linking Rapier contract to Gibraltar] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 letter to Jenkin PS ("Inquiry Procedures") ["There is widespread concern, which... [MT] shares, about not only the disruption of major inquiries but also their cost and length of time"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 briefing for MT ("Merit Pay") [cover note only; industrial relations implications of the proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Peter Rees ("Efficiency Study in the Universities") [funding, membership & remit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Peter Rees ("The Audit Commission - Value for Money") [liaison between Commission and Her Majesty's Inspectorate; local authority deployment of resources] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: John MacGregor letter to Michael Alison (European Council: 19/20 March) [MT asked for figures showing British share of CAP] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry letter to No.10 (human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: the Alexander Paritsky case) [latest developments] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Bilateral meeting with Dr FitzGerald on 19-20 March 1984 Anglo-Irish relations: Northern Ireland") ["The main purpose of Dr FitzGerald's request is to enable him to talk to you about the approach which I made to... the Irish Government on the Cabinet's instructions on 1 March"; key points; "The initial Irish reaction to our approach has been a mixture of gratification that we have taken their concerns seriously, surprise at our readiness to put specific... ideas on the table, and dismay at being confronted with the need to move from rhetoric to reality"; James McGovern case] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Brittan letter to Sir Antony Part (Direct Broadcasting by Satellite (DBS): transmission standards) ["a suitable moment for us to consider you discharged from the commission which you so kindly accepted from us"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jopling, Richard Butler) [EC negotiations on the Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling PS letter to No.10 (Common Agricultural Policy negotiations: latest position) [milk & Monetary Compensation Amounts] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling letter to Nigel Spearing MP ("CAP prices for 1984/85") ["it could be that next Thursday evening's debate will be held when decisions on some or all of this year's price proposals have already been taken"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("European Council: French approach") ["essentially a contest with the UK over Budget refunds"; analysis of Mitterrand's probable strategy; "I am not sure that he has grasped even now the necessity for a... [genuinely] long-term settlement"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: John MacGregor letter to Michael Alison (Common Agricultural Policy) [UK’s relative share - “for background briefing … if the going gets really tough”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MAFF briefing (Common Agricultural Policy) [“Any proposal to make extra money available for agriculture this year is objectionable on policy grounds”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: David Williamson note to John Coles (Common Agricultural Policy) [MAFF opinions on milk regulations] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: James Prior note to Michael Jopling (“1984 CAP Price Fixing”) [Athens Summit: milk and beef] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal: MISC 101(84)1st Meeting") [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Brittan statement to the House of Commons ("Collieries (Picketing)") ["Any attempt to obstruct or intimidate those who wish to go to work is a breach of the criminal law"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 11th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Education in London) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Gregson note circulated to members of the Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 1 (Oil Supplies to the Central Electricity Generating Board in the Event of a Miners' Strike) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (the new national savings rates announcement) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Heseltine minute for Tebbit (“Competition Policy”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Space: MT telegram to Reagan (manned space station programme) [thanks for offer to fly British astronaut on Shuttle] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT telegram to Reagan (Iraq-Iran war) [readying mine counter-measures force, need to establish objectives of any Western intervention] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FitzGerald address (advance text of speech to joint meeting of Congress) [“not one of us, in Britain or in Ireland, is free of some guilt for what has been happening in Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Argentina: Commercial Bank Lending”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (space cooperation) [summary declassified 1998]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT message to President Botha (congratulations on signing the Nkomati Accord) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit letter to Lord Cockfield (INMOS) ['low' offer from AT&T] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Ridley minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Port of London Authority: Dockers' Pay") [ACAS proposal] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("PLA and National Dock Labour Scheme") [Treasury/Employment opposition to Transport proposal to wind up NDLS] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Rees letter to Peter Walker (electricity standing charge rebate scheme) [proposed revisions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Review of High Energy Particle Physics") [announcement; EU; comparative costs of Defence R&D expenditure and Dept of Education & Science expenditure on CERN] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Lord Gowrie, Robin Ibbs, Robert Armstrong, Peter Middleton, John Redwood) ["Merit Pay"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("1984 Pay Negotiations for Non-Industrial Civil Servants") [preliminary assessment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: David Barclay minute to MT ("Academic Tenure") [MT's approval requested for Keith Joseph to proceed with his proposals to phase out tenure in respect to new contracts only] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("School Teachers' Pay (England and Wales) 1984") [Government tactics for forthcoming Burnham Committee negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Security Commission: Miss Sarah Tisdall") [argument for referral of case to Commission; MT asks to discuss before deciding] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("European Council: 19/20 March") [MT asked for figures showing how other EC members benefit from trade with the UK] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Netherlands PM Lubbers ("Transport Liberalisation in the European Community") [MT approves draft reply to Lubbers; copy of reply] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: ?Cabinet Office speaking notes for MT ('Agriculture', "Budgetary Discipline", etc) [briefing for MT interventions during the Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: Reagan telegram to MT (Iraq-Iran war) [supports plans for enhancing readiness of counter-measures force] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 minute to MT ("Export credit support for Vosper Thorneycroft") [MT advised to call OD or EX committee meeting in order to decide between two potential Vosper Thorneycroft contracts: frigates for Pakistan or fast patrol craft for Kenya] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Ridley letter to John Moore ("Sealink Sale") [announcement; BR press release] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("Economic and Social Committee: Letter from M. Ceyrac to the Prime Minister") [text of reply addressing Ceyrac's concerns about future of the EC] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Withholding: use of suspense account") ["objections outweigh the possible advantages... we should continue to base our contingency plans [for non-payment of UK's 1983 refund] on the blocking of payments out of the EEC no.1 account"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to Biffen PS ("EC Budget: contingency planning for withholding") ["against the possibility that we do not receive the bulk of our refunds for 1983 by the end of March... possible Parliamentary implications"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: FCO briefing (“Commission Text on Budgetary Imbalances”) [“a basis for negotiation but there are a number of aspects which are not satisfactory”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: No.10 Policy Unit note to John Coles (“The Community's future own resources”) [“The European publics are not impressed by the Commission’s zest for expenditure”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Peter Walker letter to Conservative MPs ("background information" on the strike) [rebuts Scargill claims on pay offers & pit closures] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 1st (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Michael Jopling minute for Tebbit (“Competition Policy: Food and Drink Products”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Prior-MT meeting on Maze prison) [“Action must be taken to ensure that control was effective”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Jenkin minute to MT (“The River Mersey initiative”) [“convinced of its cumulative benefits and long-term potential”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hungary: MT message for British Business Hungarian issue (“Hungary Today” event) [visit of Hungarian Trade minister] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 note for MT (“Message from Energy Private Office”) [information for NCB] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: tenth round: first day: comment”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Walter Sulke letter to No.10 (UK/China negotiations and the future of Hong Kong) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: working paper on Nationality, Citizenship, Right of Abode, Freedom of Travel, Emigration and Immigration”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (UK/China negotiations: timetable) [draft message to Zhao Ziyang] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: visit by the Secretary of State to Hong Kong and China”) [Howe rules out visit to Hong Kong] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Brittan letter to Howe (“Future of Hong Kong: working paper on Nationality etc”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 17 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler letter to Whitelaw ("Closure of Thornton View Hospital, Bradford") [closure plans & opposition] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 1004 to FCO (1735Z) ("Council of Ministers (Agriculture)") [Agricultural Price Fixing: Concluding Stages] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Presidency Conclusions from Agriculture Council of Ministers ("Working Document") [meeting 11-13 and 16-17 March] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: President Mitterrand letter to MT (European budget) ["indispensable d'arriver maintenant à un accord"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: COI London telegram to FCO ("Minister Fail To Agree EC Farm Package") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 923 to FCO (0115Z) (“US budget deficit: Presidents proposals”) [the package “has returned the political initiative to the administration”] [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 18 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 18 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute for MT ("European Council: 19/20 March") [meeting with Roland Dumas; "I am in no doubt at all ... the French want to get an agreement next week"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 18 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Coles minute for British delegation ("Prime Minister's Briefing Meetings") [arrangements & attendees] [declassified Jan 2014]
Text 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Scrutinies and Value for Money") [progress report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("INMOS") [objectives/options for future of company] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("The Port of London Authority and the National Dock Labour Scheme") [backs Treasury opposition to Ridley proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Brittan letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("National Dock Labour Scheme and the future of the Port of London Authority") [opposes repeal of NDLS] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: MT message to Lord Aldington (Westland helicopters) [UK agreed to provide aid for helicopters, spares and training] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: Kenneth Baker letter to Peter Rees ("Postal Tariff Increases") [proposed figures] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Conservative Research Department briefing ("European Community Document 7619/83 on Developments in Information Technology (ESPRIT)") [for House of Commons debate on 21 March 84] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: European Council Presidency Conclusions draft (CAP, Commercial Policy) [elements only] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversation (Brussels European Council) [first day] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to Rees (British Council funding) [case for additional funding] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO telegram to UKrep Brussels ("Dominic McGlinchey's extradition from the Republic of Ireland") [advice for MT on line to take with FitzGerald] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Anglo-Irish relations") [Armstrong, Nally: conversation during European Council regarding MT's next meeting with FitzGerald] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Dalyell letter to Heseltine (sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Luxembourg telegram to FCO ("Post-Stuttgart Negotiations: duration of budgetary imbalance solution") [the views of Prime Minister Werner] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: [No.10] briefing [for PMQs?] (‘background’ on the strike) [Labour party, Government policy, miners’ pay] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Sherman memo for MT (“‘In Place of Mining’”) [employ some miners in land reclamation to “reduce their resistance to pit-closures and undermine Scargill’s stand”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT notes for & of conversations (European Council dinner) [budget imbalances; CAP; own resources; checklist for meeting] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 2nd (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: MT letter to Lord Mayor of London (London Economic Summit) [reading of final declaration to take place at the Guildhall: “the grandeur of the setting will certainly match the importance of the occasion”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO telegram 542 to UKE Washington (1615Z) (“Visit of President Reagan for the London Economic Summit”) [MT “envisages tete-a-tete talks but would prefer to leave open for decision nearer the time”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Coles minute to MT (call from Turnbull) [sitrep; NUM executive expected to call for a ballot] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: dinner on 17 March”) [record of conversation: Evans, Zhou Nan] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe telegram to Hong Kong Government (“Future of Hong Kong: working paper on Nationality”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Future of Hong Kong: constitutional development up to 1997”) [declassified 2014]
Text 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Spain and Gibraltar") [Richard Parsons, Morán; Parsons; Berdejo: record of conversations: Howe message; civil aviation; David Hannay visit in advance of Luxembourg Ministerial meeting in April; Morán meeting with Hassan; paper on legal issues; Spanish accession to EC] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler minute to MT ("Social Security Policy Reviews") [announcement; arrangements; membership] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: David Barclay minute to MT ("H Committee") [private rented sector; Crombie Code; commerical activities in further education establishments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Conservative Research Department briefing ("Fuel Costs & Poverty") [for House of Commons debate on 21 March] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Mr. Tebbit to discuss industrial issues) [BSC privatisation/closures; Mercury; Middle East contract; "Ministerial matter"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley letter to Lord Hailsham ("Archway and the Scott Wilson Report") [Parliament Q&A to precede Report's publication, followed by announcement repudiating Report's findings; Archway Inquiry/Regents Park Road improvement withing MT constituency] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Treasury letter to Alan Walters (Fiscal Policy) [Peter Middleton comments on 'sensitivities' in draft Walters article prior to its publication] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (Government economic policy post-1984 Budget) ["appeal to wider interests of voters as a whole coupled with careful reading of the differences within any given interest group can provide a basis for acceptable and often popular change"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Nicholas Ridley (impact of the 1984 Budget on the shipping industry) [Lawson delineates the positives; case against inclusion of shipping in the Business Expansion Scheme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: David Barclay minute to MT ("H Committee") [private rented sector; Crombie Code; commerical activities in further education establishments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Overseas Aid: Willy Brandt and Shridath Ramphal letter to MT (International Development Association funding negotiations) [Independent Commission on International Development Issues: the Brandt Commission] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: European Council Presidency Conclusions draft (?1200Z) ("Nouvelle version ... 1st Draft") [?late morning] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: European Council Presidency Conclusions draft (1500Z) (revised first draft) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversation (Brussels European Council) [second day] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Draft MT statement to press conference (European Council, 19/20 March) ["Prime Minister's statement: failure"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East/energy: National Security Council Minutes (1900Z) ("Iran-Iraq War: the Energy-Economic Dimension") (NSC 0103) [declassified Spt 2013]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("Regional Aids") [text of message from EC Commission: request to "submit a notification giving full details of the proposed aid"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor") [Budget issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Sherbourne minute for Turnbull (CPS Trade Union reform committee draft report - extract) [FT story - CPS urges MT to ban strikes in essential services] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Liaison Committee (documents for meeting) [agenda, priority action points, coming weeks] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: MT speaking note (“Budgetary Discipline”) [“The time has come to take action and it must be firm action”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Presidency draft (“Conclusions of the Presidency”) [with MT annotations] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: UK minute (“Draft Presidency Conclusion: UK Amendments”) [possible amendments on CAP & budget] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economic policy: Redwood minute for MT (“How far should the government go?”) [“bring consolidators and radicals nearer together”] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Report on Coal Dispute") [situation report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 3rd (Policing: Financial Arrangements, Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Financial Secretary to the Treasury minute for Tebbit (“Competition Policy: Programme for Action”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Space: President Reagan telegram to MT (manned space station programme) [“highly positive centerpiece for demonstrating our unity of purpose, goodwill and friendship”] [released 2014]
Text 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (space cooperation) [declassified 1998]

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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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