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| Date | Category | Type | Value | Author/Source |
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| 89 May 25 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 19th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified 2016] |
| 89 Jan 12 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 1st (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified 2016] |
| 89 Jul 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 27th (Ministerial Changes, Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified 2016] |
| 89 Sep 14 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 28th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified 2016] |
| 89 Sep 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 29th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified 2016] |
| 89 Oct 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 30th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified 2016] |
| 89 Oct 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 31st (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified 2016] |
| 89 Jan 26 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 3rd (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, White Paper on the Reform of the National Health Service) [declassified 2016] |
| 89 Feb 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 5th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified 2016] |
| 89 Mar 9 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of full Cabinet - CC(89) 9th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, the Legislative Programme 1989/90) [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Oct 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Whitelaw memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 20 (The Queen’s speeches on the prorogation and opening of Parliament) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Oct 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Canada: Turner letter to MT (Brighton bomb) [“how glad we were you escaped without injury”] [declassified December 2014] |
| 86 May 4 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War, Libya, etc: White House record of conversation (MT, Reagan, Shultz, Regan, Poindexter) [terrorism, Libya, Middle East, South Africa, Northern Ireland; G7, trade, East/West, Chernobyl, EC enlargement, South Korea] [declassified 2011] |
| 84 Dec 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Burt briefing for Shultz (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 90 Jan 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cold War: Margaret Thatcher interviewed about Ronald Reagan [released 2002] |
| 84 Dec 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: McFarlane memorandum for President Reagan (suggests he read "vintage Thatcher" interview) [unclassified] |
| 85 Oct 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan) [cover note only: McFarlane said US working on arms control counterproposal] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Dec 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] [125K scanned image] |
| 80 Jun 20 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | Cold War: NSC or State Department memo (actions by allies on Iran and Afghanistan) [declassified 2005] |
| 84 Dec 19 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: President Reagan's briefing cards for Camp David meeting [declassified 2000] [81K scanned image] |
| 86 Nov 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Ridgway briefing for Secretary of State Shultz (meeting with Foreign Secretary Howe) [declassified 2000] |
| 88 Dec 16 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Cold War: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (“Your meeting with British Prime Minister Thatcher, Wednesday, December 16 at 11:00am”) [relations with Gorbachev, Afghanistan, the Gulf, Middle East peace process, South Africa, terrorism] [declassified 2013] |
| 86 Nov 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Shultz briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Shultz briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] [117K scanned image] |
| 85 Feb 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Shultz briefing memo for President Reagan (MT visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Feb 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (topics discussed during her visit) [declassified 1998] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting at Camp David (record of conversation) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Press |
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Key | Shultz (George) | Cold War: US bombing of Libya (Shultz memoirs) |
| 86 Nov 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Embassy London to State Department (British party reaction to Reykjavik Summit) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Nov 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Embassy Vienna to State Department (Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting - day 1) [declassified 2000] |
| 86 Nov 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US Embassy Vienna to State Department (Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting - day 2) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US State Department brief (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Oct 23 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: White House record of conversation (MT, Reagan, Shultz, Regan, McFarlane, Ridgway) [arms control, SDI; Achille Lauro; South Africa; PLO] [declassified Jan 2010] |
| 83 Nov 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Commonwealth: No.10 PS minute to MT (“Goa retreat: Bilaterals”) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Nov 24 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Commonwealth: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Mugabe) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013] |
| 79 Jul 19 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Commonwealth: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Premadasa of Sri Lanka) [Lusaka Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Rhodesia, Non-Aligned Movement, Sri Lankan affairs] [declassified 2009] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: Draft speech opening (post-bomb) [rejected draft referring to bomb as assault on government] [released 2014] |
| 80 Jan 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Hayek MSS) | Conservatism: Hayek letter to The Times (US response to the Iran hostage crisis) ["I am genuinely puzzled by the restraint shown by the United States in the recent emergency..."] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: MT speaking text (Conservative Conference speech) [post-Brighton Bomb] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservatism: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations minutes (Executive Committee meeting) [conference, appointments] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Adam Ridley letter to Sherbourne (Special Advisers) [terms and conditions of employment] [released 2014] |
| 82 Sep 24 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: FCO to Hong Kong Government ("Conservative Party Conference: PM's Speech") [draft passage on international issues; sent to PM's party in Hong Kong] [released 2013] |
| 84 Dec 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative party: Sherbourne minute to MT (Tebbit public letter of support for Portillo in Enfield by-election) [NT specifically seeks MT approval; she grants it] [released 2014] |
| 83 May 16 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cyprus: FCO telegram to UKHC Nicosia (message from MT to Kyprianou) [allegations about Armenian terrorism in Cyprus] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jun 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cyprus: FCO telegram to UKHC Nicosia (“Referendum on Turkish Cypriot independence”) [“HMG would be strongly opposed to the declaration of an independent Turkish Cypriot state or a referendum about it”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 May 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cyprus: MT message to President Kyprianou of Cyprus (Cypriot-Turkish relations: supposed Armenian terrorist bases in Cyprus) [released 2013] |
| 84 Dec 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cyprus: President Kyprianou letter to MT (UN talks) [“relavtive improvement in the position of the Turkish side cannot be unrelated to your efforts”] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Apr 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Cyprus: President Kyprianou of Cyprus letter to MT (Cypriot-Turkish relations: supposed Armenian terrorist bases in Cyprus) [released 2013] |
| 83 May 4 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cyprus: Pym PS letter to Coles (“Cyprus”) [“We have no evidence from any source that Armenian terrorists have established bases in southern Cyprus”] [declassified 2013] |
| 79 Aug 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Lord Mountbatten") [Chancellor Schmidt "deeply shocked" by murder] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Carter Library) | Death of Mountbatten: Christopher minute to Carter (IRA claims responsibility for Mountbatten's death) [US Embassy in London "reports receipt of numerous phone calls protesting support of the IRA by Irish-Americans and expects to be the target of a demonstration tomorrow"] [declassified 2008] |
| 79 Aug 31 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: FCO letter to No.10 ("Death of Mountbatten: President Carter's Message") ["we have been struck by the lack of reference in [Carter's] message to the circumstances of Lord Mountbatten's death"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: Message from Lord Chamberlain's Office (Queen commands mourning to be worn) [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Sep 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Death of Mountbatten: MT letter to President-Elect Shagari of Nigeria (thanks for message of sympathy) [released 2010] |
| 79 Sep 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Death of Mountbatten: MT letter to Prime Minister Hussein of Malaysia (thank you for message of condolence) [released 2010] |
| 81 Apr 10 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Death of Mountbatten: MT letters to David Steel and Michael Foot (delay to launch of appeal to raise funds for statue of Lord Mountbatten) [released 2012] |
| 81 Mar 18 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Death of Mountbatten: MT letters to David Steel and Michael Foot (public appeal for statue in memorial of Lord Mountbatten) [MT asks for support] [released 2012] |
| 79 Sep 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: No.10 note to Peterson ("Flowers") [wreath for Mountbatten] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Sep 3 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: Peterson minute to James ("Lord Mountbatten's Funeral") [arrangements] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: Peterson minute to Lieutenant-Colonel Johnstone (seating arrangements for Mountbatten's funeral) [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: Peterson minute to MT ("Lord Mountbatten's Funeral") [arrangements] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: Peterson minute to MT (arrangements for Lord Mountbatten's funeral) [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Nov 28 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: Peterson minute to MT (memorial service for Lord Mountbatten, Lady Brabourne and Nicholas Knatchbull) [MT: "Yes - we must go"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Sep 1 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Death of Mountbatten: President-Elect Shagari of Nigeria letter to MT (sorrow at murder of Mountbatten and condolences) [released 2010] |
| 79 Aug 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Death of Mountbatten: Prime Minister Botha of South Africa letter to MT (shock at murder of Mountbatten and condolences) [released 2010] |
| 79 Sep 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Death of Mountbatten: Prime Minister Chomanan of Thailand letter to MT (shock at murder of Mountbatten and condolences) [released 2010] |
| 79 Aug 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Death of Mountbatten: Prime Minister Cossiga of Italy letter to MT (shock at murder of Mountbatten and condolences) [released 2010] |
| 79 Aug 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Death of Mountbatten: Prime Minister Marcos of the Phllippines letter to MT (shock and sorrow at murder of Mountbatten) [released 2010] |
| 79 Aug 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Death of Mountbatten: Prime Minister Muldoon of New Zealand letter to MT (shock at murder of Mountbatten and condolences) [released 2010] |
| 79 Aug 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Death of Mountbatten: Prime Minister Nordli of Norway letter to MT (shock at murder of Mountbatten and condolences) [released 2010] |
| 79 Aug 30 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Death of Mountbatten: Prime Minister Werner of Luxembourg letter to MT (sorrow at murder of Mountbatten and condolences) [released 2010] |
| 79 Aug 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Death of Mountbatten: Schmidt message to MT (expression of sympathy) [released 2010] |
| 79 Aug 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: Taoiseach John Lynch message to MT (condolences and condemnation) ["I was horrified and saddened at the news of the murder of Earl Mountbatten"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Death of Mountbatten: Taoiseach Lynch of Ireland letter to MT (shock at murder of Mountbatten and condolences) ["This subversive organisation has brought death or sorrow to many thousands of innocent people and shame to all true Irish men and women"] [released 2010] |
| 79 Aug 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: Text of proposed Younger statement (death of Earl Mountbatten) ["Not issued, on PM's instruction"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 27 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Explosion of Lord Mountbatten's Boat") [initial report] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 29 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Lord Mountbatten") [expressions of sorrow, shock and shame in the Republic of Ireland] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 28 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Death of Mountbatten: UKE Washington to FCO (statement by the US State Department on death of Mountbatten) ["I reiterate in the strongest terms the condemnation of the US Government of all groups or organisations which seek their goals in Northern Ireland through violence"] [declassified 2009] |
| 85 Jul 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Senate Arms Control Group) [arms control, US-Soviet Summit, East-West relations, terrorism, Middle East, EC, economy, Japan, security] [declassified 2014] |
| 87 Dec 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Defence: US State Dept briefing (“UK: terrorism”) [seek UK support for US approaches to GDR, Polish, Bulgarian, Yugoslavian governments “to persuade these countries to sever links with or take active measures against terrorist groups”] [declassified 2013] |
| 80 Apr 3 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Disasters: Israeli Embassy letter to MT (Alexander Kielland: Norwegian oil rig disaster) [message of condolence] [declassified 2013] |
| 84 Dec 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (European Union) | EC: Dublin European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
| 90 Jun 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (AEI) | EC: Dublin European Council - Presidency Conclusions |
| 81 Jun 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand) [Anglo-French relations, British economy, EC budget, TNF, Soviet Union and US, Middle East] [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Dec 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Haughey) [Northern Ireland, hunger strikes] [declassified 2010] |
| 75 Nov 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | EC: Steering brief for Rome European Council [declassified 2006] |
| 86 Apr 30 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Economic policy: Powell minute for MT (“Economic Summit: Briefing Meeting”) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jun 3 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | European Elections: CCO briefing (“Broadcasting Digest for June 3rd, 1984”) [Ulster, Amritsar, miners' strike] [released 2014] |
| 86 Nov 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Oct 22 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Oct 1 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Nov 27 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Anglo-Irish Relations”) [forthcoming European Council meeting] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Nov 20 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (immigration, terrorism and security of Europe) [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Oct 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: FCO letter to No.10 (“White Paper: Developments in the European Community: January-June 1986”) [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Mar 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Howe minute to MT (“United Kingdom Presidency of the European Community: July-December 1986”) [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Nov 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“European Council: Discussion Papers”) [and draft message to EC heads of government] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Nov 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“European Council: Presidency papers”) [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Nov 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: MT message to EC Heads of Government (“Presidency Report on Frontier Controls, Terrorism, Immigration and Drugs”) [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Nov 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Delors) [EC affairs: economic and social situation; terrorism, immigration, drugs; CAP; structural funds; sex discrimination] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Apr 21 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram to FCO (“Threats to British community in Buenos Aires”) [Argentine next of kin potential unauthorised landing on Falklands] [declassified 2013] |
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