Go to: Speeches, etc. | Archive | Multimedia | Commentary | Chronology
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Category | Type | Value | Author/Source | Title |
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| 84 Sep 27 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: Gaisman minute to MT (“Party Conference”) [engagements, clothes, milk quota meeting] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Colin Budd letter to Charles Powell (“Capture of PIRA Shipment by the Irish Navy”) [“This capture is a badly needed boost to the morale of the Irish security forces”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Independent Study Group report (“Britain’s Undefended Frontier: A Policy for Ulster”) [protagonists, alternative approaches, policy, conclusions] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Home Affairs: Hurd letter to Brittan (“Time Limits in Criminal Proceedings”) [“The enactment of Home Office legislation would leave Northern Ireland unhappily exposed, as the only jurisdiction in the United Kingdom unable to conform”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: MT telegram to FitzGerald (PIRA shipment captured) [congratulations to security forces] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Colin Budd minute to Charles Powell (“Capture of PIRA Shipment by the Irish Navy”) [“the Americans were not involved at any stage”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 8 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: FitzGerald letter to MT (PIRA arrests) [thanks for letter] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Magilligan Hunger Strike") [prisoners at Magilligan prison end hunger strike] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (talks with Nally) [“Unionists already have reason to suspect that there is a process of secret talks between the British and Irish Governments”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 10 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Havers letter to Hurd (“McGlinchey”) [likely course of action] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Merseyside: Jenkin minute to MT ("Future of the Liverpool Garden Festival Site") [paper MT finished reading moments before Brighton Bomb exploded] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 11 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT: "The events of Thursday night at Brighton mean that we must go very slow on these talks if not stop them"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Press |
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Key | Thatcher memoirs | Northern Ireland: The Brighton Bomb [memoirs extract] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for BBC (immediate reaction to Brighton Bomb) [film] |
| 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 Oct 12 Fr | Press |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: “To Kill the Cabinet” (“The story behind the Grand Hotel bombing”) [Brighton Evening Argus 40 page supplement] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: Hailsham letter to MT (grieving) [“fight the good fight against the forces of darkness”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Brighton Bomb: Reagan phone call to MT (sympathy and support) [audio] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Remarks following Brighton bomb |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for BBC (immediate reaction to Brighton Bomb) [“The conference will go on, as usual”] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Remarks entering Brighton Conference Centre |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Chronology |
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Key | [Chronology] | Brighton bomb |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Brighton Bomb: Reagan letter to Thatcher (message of sympathy) [“We must work together to thwart this scourge”] [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Brighton Bomb: McFarlane minute for Reagan (suggested call to MT) [“nice gesture to complement your personal message”] [declassified 2000] |
| 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] |
| 84 Oct 12 Fr | Multimedia |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
| 84 Oct 13 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: John Coles letter to MT (admiration) [“your courage, calm and nobility in the aftermath”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 13 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Financial Times) | Brighton Bomb: (“IRA bomb kills 3 at Brighton”) [“A sombre closing of Tory ranks”] |
| 84 Oct 14 Su | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Peter Thorneycroft (thoughts at church) ["this is the day I was not meant to see"] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 14 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Brighton Bomb: (“Intelligence warnings that were ignored”) [“Police told of possible attack”] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT content for exploratory talks to continue, but stresses need to avoid impression "of being bombed into making concessions to the Republic"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: Charles Powell note for Duty Clerk ("Brighton Bomb Attack") [list of messages from world leaders, and replies] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letters to Catholic prelates (Hume, Gray, Worlock, Murphy-O’Connor) [thanks; prayers] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letters to Anglican prelates (Archbishops Runcie (Canterbury), Habgood (York), Bishops Leonard (London), Sheppard (Liverpool), Walker (Ely), Wood (Norwich)) [thanks; prayers] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Archbishop of Canterbury (thanks for message) [“The victims of this terrible act are and will remain in all our thoughts and prayers”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Lord Sieff (thanks for message & flowers) [“The Marks & Spencers manager at Brighton was marvellous”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Shridath Ramphal (thanks for message) [Ramphal conveys Commonwealth outrage, sympathy] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Stuart Young (thanks for message) [“I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your kind words”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: Sherbourne letter to MT (conference speech) [“you spoke for the nation”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: Bill Deedes letter to Michael Alison (MT reaction) [“your boss is going to suffer - is already suffering - delayed shock over Friday”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to Armstrong (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [events in Brighton have confirmed to MT “that we must go very slow on these talks and must at all costs avoid the impression of being bombed into making concessions to the Republic”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: Gaisman note to MT (cancelled hair appointment) [“will send a good tip”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: MT note to Sir Alistair Graesser (thanks) [chairmanship helped “make what was a day of particular stress much easier for all of us”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: MT note to Pamela Hunter (thanks) [“you had a far more unusual and greater crisis to respond to … and you rose superbly to the occasion”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: MT letter to Paul Boswell (Grand Hotel) (gratitude to staff) [“the more enduring impression will be that of the marvellous human qualities dislpayed at the moment of crisis”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: MT letter to Sir Russell Sanderson (grateful for role played) [that conference continued is “further testimony to the high morale of the National Union”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for Channel 4 A plus 4 (Brighton Bomb) [“it just occurred to me that this is the day I was not meant to see”] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Neil Kinnock (thanks for his message) [“I share your determination that the perpetrators of this wanton act of violence shall not succeed in undermining our democracy”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Gordon Wilson (thanks for his message) [“I know that you will share my determination that the perpetrators of this wanton act of violence shall not be allowed to succeed in their aims”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to James Molyneaux (thanks for his message) [“all attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism in this country will fail”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Ian Paisley (thanks for his message) [“I have made quite clear our determination that all attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to David Owen (thanks for his message) [“you have voiced the concern of the whole country for the victims of this wanton act of violence ... the perpetrators of such acts shall not succeed in undermining our democracy”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to David Steel (thanks for his message) [“I share your determination that the perpetrators of this wanton act of brutality shall not be allowed to succeed in their aim of undermining our democracy”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Ingham minute (“Week Ahead” & Press Digest for MT) [Brighton Bomb] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Roy Mason (thanks for his message) [“You will have seen the same thing happen time & again in Northern Ireland”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Chief Rabbi Jakobovits (thanks for message) [messages and prayers from all sections of the community “a source of great support over these last few days”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Lord Home (thanks for message & flowers) [“overwhelming revulsion expressed by the British people for this wanton act of violence”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: Robin Butler note to MT (visit to Royal Sussex hospital) [arrive Saturday by RAF helicopter] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Interview for Woman’s Own (Brighton bomb) |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Michael Foot (thanks for his message) [“It is as well we cannot foretell the future - we could not endure the knowledge”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Gregor Mackenzie (thanks for his message) [“I am grateful for your prayers and your kind words which I value more than I can say”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 16 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Moss Evans (thanks for his message) [“Your letter was typical of so many I received in its concern for the victims of this wanton act of violence and in its determination that those responsible shall never be allowed to prevail”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Archbishop of York (thanks for message) [“The last months have indeed been a strain, and there is more to come. I shall be very thankful if we can secure total condemnation of violence”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Irish Gun-Running”) [US Customs action against ship owner] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 17 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Italy: FCO minute to No.10 (“Anglo-Italian Summit: Joint Press Conference”) [introductory statement] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (record of conversation between UK Ambassador to Dublin and Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [Powell: "This shows Dr Fitzgerald wildly over-optimistic...we are in a different world following the Brighton bomb"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [thoughts on giving advance warning to Unionist parties about secret Anglo-Irish talks; MT: "'the bomb' has slowed things down and may in the end kill any new initiative"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Field Marshal Bramall (thanks for message) [“very deply touched … the last few days have been difficult indeed, and letters such as yours have been more help than I can say”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Lord Dacre (thanks for message) [“Yes, it was a terrible experience, the full realisation of which only began to sink in two days afterwards”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Sir Jack Lyons (thanks for message) [“the lovely orchid plant … does indeed help to relieve the sense of sorrow which I inevitably feel”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“We agreed that the exchanges were continuing on a basis of no commitment by either side”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: MT letter to Marks and Spencer manager (thanks for practical help, support) [“everyone looked so elegant”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, terrorism, Brighton bomb attack] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 33rd (Brighton Bomb, Security in Parliament, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, Economic Affairs) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to Northern Ireland Office ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's thoughts on giving advance warning to Unionist parties about secret Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Hugh Thomas (thanks for message) [“The terrible explosion at Brighton last week has inevitably cast a long shadow”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT “has commented that the terrorist bomb in Brighton has slowed these confidential talks down”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: Consulate-General NY telegram to FCO (“Call on Archbishop O’Connor”) [visit to Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Oct 19 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Joint Press Conference with Italian Prime Minister (Bettino Craxi) |
| 84 Oct 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Renée Short (thanks for her message) [“a chilling experience for all of us who believe in democracy”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 20 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Finchley Conservatives (25th anniversary as MP) |
| 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] |
| 84 Oct 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: Sherbourne note to Gummer (“Memorial Services”) [“to attend one you must attend them all”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 22 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at dinner celebrating 50th anniversary of the British Council |
| 84 Oct 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Summit: Ashford Castle, Republic of Ireland") ["proposals on participation by Ministers and officials at the meeting"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 23 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland (thanks for message) [“The wickedness of this terrorist act serves only to reinforce our determination to defend our peaceful and democratic way of life”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Attorney General letter to Cabinet ("New European Commission") [allocation of portfolios] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Oct 24 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) | MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (thanks for being at Brighton) [“which has cost our friends so dear”] |
| 84 Oct 24 We | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Michael Colvin (thanks for message) [daughter Amanda “remembered to bring out the speech”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Oct 25 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: NIO record of conversation (Hurd meeting with Barry and Noonan) [security, extradition, procedures] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 25 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Interview for Birmingham Post |
| 84 Oct 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks") [Hurd's thoughts on talks with Irish Ministers: "I found the outcome rather depressing"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Discussions") [full record of Hurd talks with Irish Minister] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 30 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 84 Oct 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Meeting of Ministers: Northern Ireland") [brief for meeting with Howe and Hurd] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Meeting of Ministers: Northern Ireland”) [Armstrong-Nally talks; Anglo-Irish Summit] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [briefing ahead of ministerial meeting on Armstrong-Nally talks, Anglo-Irish Summit] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 31 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Foreign Secretary PS (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [position paper for Armstrong-Nally talks] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Summit: Venue”) [in aftermath of Brighton bomb, suggests event be held at Chequers] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 31 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for ORF (Austrian TV) ("vintage Thatcher") |
| 84 Oct 31 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Interview for Die Welt |
| 84 Oct 31 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [Assassination of Mrs Gandhi] |
| 84 Oct 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Hurd-Armstrong-Andrew-Goodall-Cartledge) ["Anglo-Irish Relations: North Ireland"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 31 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to Northern Ireland Secretary PS (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“a risk that the result of the talks might simply be to step up violence rather than reduce it”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Nov 1 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (Conservative Newsline) | Brighton bomb: “We Will Never Bow To Terrorism” (MT “demonstrated once again her tremendous qualities of leadership”) |
| 84 Nov 2 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference leaving for India (Mrs Gandhi’s funeral) |
| 84 Nov 2 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Written Statement on Mrs Gandhi’s assassination |
| 84 Nov 3 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference in New Delhi (Mrs Gandhi’s funeral) |
| 84 Nov 3 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Shultz) [funeral of Indira Gandhi, terrorism, Cold War, Laker case] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Nov 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Parliament: No.10 letter to David Steel MP (Queen's Speech on the Opening of Parliament) [advance copy] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 84 Nov 7 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Interview for Suomen Kuvalehti (Finnish weekly journal) |
| 84 Nov 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | US: No.10 briefing for MT (“Call by American Ambassador”) [Reagan’s priorities for second term, MT meeting with Shultz, Freddie Laker case, IRA] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Nov 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Germany: Chancellor Kohl letter for MT (sympathy at the attack in Brighton) ["my sympathy and my horror at the attack on your life"] [declassified 2015] |
| 84 Nov 7 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: Chancellor Kohl of FRG letter to MT (sympathy) [“enclosed a personal gift for you”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 10 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Remarks visiting Finchley (miners’ strike; Mrs Gandhi) |
| 84 Nov 12 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Local government: MT letter to Robert Kilroy-Silk (rating system) [“This Government recognises that the present system is far from perfect; it will be looking for a system that is altogether fairer and more robust”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 12 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet |
| 84 Nov 14 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Hurd-Armstrong-Goodall-Andrew-Cartledge-Goodison) ["Anglo-Irish Summit"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Nov 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: MT letter to John Wakeham (messages from heads of state/government) [“sympathy for the injuries you received and the tragic personal loss which you suffered”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: MT letter to Sarah Berry (messages from heads of state/government) [“sympathy for the injuries you received and the tragic personal loss which you suffered”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 15 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: MT letter to Mabel Delamott (messages from heads of state/government) [“sympathy for the injuries you received”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 15 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: CDP note to MT (condolences from heads of state/government) [“to let those who were injured or bereaved … know of the very impressive list … who sent messages”] [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 18 Su | Chronology |
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Major | [Chronology] | Anglo-Irish summit at Chequers |
| 84 Nov 19 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Key | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference following Anglo-Irish Summit ("out ... out ... out") |
| 84 Nov 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Ingham minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Bilateral - Press Conference") [arrangements] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Nov 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Howe-Hurd-Spring-Barry) [Northern Ireland] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Nov 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [Anglo-Irish relations and Northern Ireland] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Nov 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Fitzgerald-Howe-Hurd-Spring-Barry-Nally) [Anglo-Irish relations and Northern Ireland] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Nov 20 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [Anglo-Irish Summit] |
| 84 Nov 20 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Kuwait: MT telegram to Emir Al-Sabah of Kuwait (aircraft hijacking) [“I applaud your Government’s resolute stand in rejecting the terrorists’ demands”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: Robin Butler minute for Tim Flesher (“The No. 10 Office Functions in the Aftermath of the Bomb Explosion at the Grand Hotel, Brighton”) [information “could be added to the Duty Clerk’s ‘bible’”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 21 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton bomb: Joy Robilliard minute for MT (“Staff at Grand Hotel Brighton”) [“As the situation was so exceptional, signed photographs of you were also sent to them all and they were delighted”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 21 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Radio Interview for British Forces Broadcasting Service (Seven Days) |
| 84 Nov 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: MT letter to Alma Hill (thanks for message) [“source of great strength and comfort to me”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: Michael Alison letter to Simon Murphy (thanks for message) [letters “helped to demonstrate the overwhelming feeling of our people that terrorism and violence must never prevail”] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Memorials: No.10 minute for MT (“Police Memorial Trust”) [suggests MT decline invitation to unveil; MT overrules] [declassified 2015] |
| 84 Nov 26 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | The Second Carlton Lecture ("Why democracy will last") |
| 84 Nov 27 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 84 Nov 28 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: Adam Ridley letter to Sherbourne (Special Advisers) [terms and conditions of employment] [released 2014] |
| 84 Nov 29 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("European Council, Dublin 3/4 December 1984") [briefing and related items] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Dec 2 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10: Powell minute to Ingham ("Prime Minister's press conference: Northern Ireland") [European Council, Dublin, 3/4 December] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Dec 4 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (European Union) | EC: Dublin European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
| 84 Dec 5 We | Declassified documents |
|
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] |
| 84 Dec 5 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [Dublin European Council] |
| 84 Dec 5 We | Declassified documents |
|
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] |
| 84 Dec 6 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 40th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Dec 7 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference for American correspondents in London |
| 84 Dec 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: McFarlane memorandum for President Reagan (suggests he read "vintage Thatcher" interview) [unclassified] |
| 84 Dec 13 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Memorials: Armstrong minute for No.10 (“The Yvonne Fletcher Memorial”) [no insuperable security problem in MT unveiling it] [declassified 2015] |
| 84 Dec 13 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 41st (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Local Authority Capital Controls System) [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Dec 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Paisley letter to MT (finding of US court that IRA members cannot be extradicted) [ruling "raises serious questions of the United States sincerity in her fight against terrorism"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Dec 17 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Key | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for BBC (“I like Mr Gorbachev. We can do business together”) |
| 84 Dec 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Northern Ireland: NSC note on Shultz Evening Report (British urge revision of US/UK extradition treaty) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: US State Department brief (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 19 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: President Reagan's briefing cards for Camp David meeting [declassified 2000] [81K scanned image] |
| 84 Dec 19 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Burt briefing for Shultz (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 20 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (NSA) | Nicaragua: McFarlane-North briefings (possible approach to MT for help with Contras) [declassified 1987] [149K scanned image] |
| 84 Dec 20 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Shultz briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] [117K scanned image] |
| 84 Dec 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Northern Ireland: US State Department briefing on Doherty case (US extradition rules) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: NSC briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] [125K scanned image] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting at Camp David (record of conversation) [declassified 2000] |
| 84 Dec 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [Strategic Defence Initiative, civil aviation, US economy, Middle East, famine in Africa, UK-Irish relations] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 84 Dec 23 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (FBI) | US: FBI memorandum (“Threat against British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher”) [Camp David visit] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Dec 31 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | New Year Message |
| 85 Jan 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | MT: Norman Tebbit to MT (thanks for her support during his recovery) [returning to cabinet] [released 2015] |
| 85 Jan 10 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: HMA Ambassdor to Italy despatch (“Italy: Annual Review for 1984”) [Craxi's first full year as PM - good economic record, but political costs for PSI and DC; death of PCI leader Berlinguer] [declassified Oct 2016] |
| 85 Jan 14 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference for Regional and London Editors |
| 85 Jan 29 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Interview for Mail on Sunday |
| 85 Feb 1 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at Memorial Ceremony for WPC Yvonne Fletcher |
| 85 Feb 4 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Letter to Michael Mates MP (New Ireland Forum) |
| 85 Feb 7 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (NSA) | Nicaragua: Howe telegram to Embassies (meeting with Nicaraguan Vice-President) [declassified c.1987][144K scanned image] |
| 85 Feb 12 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Home Affairs: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (article for the Daily Star on law and order issues) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 14 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s visit: foreign policy issues”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 14 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Anglo-Italian meeting in London, tête-à-tête & working supper] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Shultz briefing memo for President Reagan (MT visit) [declassified 2000] |
| 85 Feb 15 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for CBS 60 Minutes |
| 85 Feb 19 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 85 Feb 20 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for CNN (visiting Washington) |
| 85 Feb 20 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Joint Houses of Congress |
| 85 Feb 20 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Robert Armstrong minute to Robin Butler ("Bonn Economic Summit") [meeting of sherpas: declaration on end of WW2, draft of Thematic Paper; MT wanting more robust line on GATT and terrorism] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 20 We | Multimedia |
|
Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Joint Houses of Congress |
| 85 Feb 21 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference at British Embassy in Washington |
| 85 Feb 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Cold War: Thatcher letter to Reagan (topics discussed during her visit) [declassified 1998] |
| 85 Feb 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Charles Powell minute to Robert Armstrong ("Bonn Economic Summit") [MT "is surprised to hear that we are being cautious on the launching of a new trade round in the GATT"; space policy, terrorism] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 26 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 85 Feb 26 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [Prime Minister (Washington Visit)] |
| 85 Feb 28 Th | Chronology |
|
Major | [Chronology] | Newry RUC Station attacked by IRA mortars; 9 killed |
| 85 Mar 1 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Remarks on IRA attack on Newry RUC Station |
| 85 Mar 7 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Libya: Leon Brittan to MT (lunch with Archbishop & Terry Waite) [very helpful to have Waite’s insights into Libyan activities] [released 2015] |
| 85 Mar 8 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: BISBA to FCO (“Armed Forces Reshuffle”) [situation in Argentina] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Security: Sir Percy Cradock minute to No.10 (“Attempted assassination of Air Marshall Hine”) [German authorities investigate possible act of terrorism] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 13 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Vice-President Bush) [Mozambique, arms control, Egypt, Laker case, Soviet Union, Middle East, exchange rates] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Northern Ireland: No.10 note for MT (Airey Neave) [“You said you wished to send flowers to his grave whilst you were Prime Minister”] [released 2015] |
| 85 Mar 20 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mayor Feinstein of San Francisco) [“Contributions from United States to Irish causes”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 27 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | US: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Secretary of State for Northern Ireland’s visit to Washington”) [“although serious work was going on between London and Dublin, it was too early to say what practical results could emerge from the dialogue”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 28 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | US: Howe APS letter to No.10 (“Contributions from United States to Irish causes”) [Howe says “it needs to be related to the idea of setting up a fund for economic reconstruction and development in Ireland”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Mar 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | US: Brittan letter to Howe (“UK/US extradition”) [US seeks removal of Article IV on refusal to extradite where offence is punishable by death] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | US: Nicholas Scott letter to Brittan (“UK/US extradition”) [“It could be argued that in effect we are asking the United States to return murderers”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | US: Michael Havers letter to Brittan (“UK-US extradition treaty”) [“The retention of Article IV should not … be seen as essential to satisfy our obligations under the Convention”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | US: Howe minute to Brittan (“UK/US extradition”) [“There is no way of discovering to what extent the Americans want to press their demand without being frank with them about the difficulties it would cause us”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 3 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | US: Hurd minute to MT (“Visit to the United States 24 March - 2 April”) [“The level of general public interest in Irish matters is low”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 9 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | US: Brittan letter to US Attorney General (UK/US extradition treaty) [would be “very difficult” to agree to US request for removal of Article IV on refusal to extradite where offence is punishable by death] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 11 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference in Indonesia |
| 85 Apr 12 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference in Sri Lanka |
| 85 Apr 13 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to the Sri Lankan Parliament |
| 85 Apr 14 Su | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Minor | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for Indian TV (visiting Sri Lanka) |
| 85 Apr 15 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Security: Howe minute to MT (“Review of Vienna Convention and Reply to Foreign Affairs Committee Report on Diplomatic Immunities and Privileges: Command Paper”) [repercussions of Libyan Embassy siege] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Apr 16 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 85 Apr 17 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: FCO telegram to UKE embassies in Washington and Tokyo ("Bonn Summit: Bilaterals") [MT to meet Reagan, Nakasone and Mitterrand; dates and times, possible subjects for discussion] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 18 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 13th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 19 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("Bonn Economic Summit: Political Aspects") [meeting of G7 Political Directors in Washington; progress made in the drafting] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 25 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("The Second Reagan Administration and the Approach to the Bonn Summit") ["with the re-election honeymoon over, the administration is in a bad patch"; "1986 mid-terms begin to cast a long shadow"] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | US: Howe PS briefing for MT (“Call on the Prime Minister by Mrs Geraldine Ferraro”) [Vice-Presidential candidate] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 27 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: MT message to Ronald Reagan (Bonn Economic Summit) [hopes to "work very closely together" on setting dates for new GATT round, terrorism, strategic defence initiative] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 28 Su | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Radio Interview for BBC Radio 4 It’s Your World (phone-in) |
| 85 May 4 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference after Bonn G7 Summit |
| 85 May 4 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Radio Interview for IRN (Bonn G7 Summit) |
| 85 May 7 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [Bonn G7 Summit] |
| 85 Jun 6 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 85 Jun 6 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | US: UKE Lisbon telegram to FCO (“Secretary of States bilateral with Shultz: Northern Ireland”) [UK talks with Irish government; impact of terrorism] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jun 7 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for TV-AM |
| 85 Jun 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Middle East: US Embassy London memo for Shultz (“The Secretary’s meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher, June 7”) [King Hussein, terrorism and peace talks] [declassified 2013] |
| 85 Jun 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Middle East: Shultz memo for Reagan (“My meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher, June 7”) [MT would not sit down with a Jordanian-PLO delegation “unless the PLO rejected terrirosim”] [declassified 2013] |
| 85 Jun 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, George Shultz) [Middle East; East/West relations; economic questions] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jun 8 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Middle East: Shultz on the record briefing (Soviet proposal for international conference) [“as far as we are concerned, the objective is direct negotiations”] |
| 85 Jun 10 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference for regional lobby correspondents |
| 85 Jun 14 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: UKHC Gaborone to FCO (“South African Raid on Gaborone”) [details of attack] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jun 18 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 85 Jun 20 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 21st (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, public expenditure) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jun 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to Private Secretaries ("The Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation and Opening of Parliament") [request for contributions to the drafts] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Jun 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Possible guidelines for the Milan summit") [European Council: terrorism; hijacking/aviation incidents; Middle East/Lebanon] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jun 25 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 85 Jun 26 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Immigration: Home Office press release (“Select Committee immigration report welcomed by Minister”) [review of visa policy, and handling of representations by MPs] [declassified 2016] |
| 85 Jun 26 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Milan Council: Elysee view") [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jun 27 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 22nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jun 28 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [EC/US relations; future of the EC; terrorism & hijacking; internal market; technological cooperation; football disaster] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jun 29 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Draft communiqué following bilateral (MT, Garrett FitzGerald) ["The two Prime Ministers reaffirmed their condemnation of all forms of terrorism..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jun 29 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for BBC (Milan European Council) |
| 85 Jun 29 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Radio Interview for BBC (Milan European Council) |
| 85 Jun 29 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Key | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference after Milan European Council |
| 85 Jun 29 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for ITN (Milan European Council) |
| 85 Jun 29 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Radio Interview for IRN (Milan European Council) |
| 85 Jul 1 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("European Council") ["...draft [MT] statement to the House on the recent European Council in Milan"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jul 2 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 85 Jul 2 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [Milan European Council] |
| 85 Jul 2 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: FCO minute to No.10 (“UK Policy towards South Africa”) [Howe urges MT write to Botha warning against further raids, prepare measures] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 3 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Senor Fraga") [co-operation between non-socialist parties in the European Assembly; European Council; NATO; terrorism; Gibraltar; Alianza Popular election prospects] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Jul 3 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at lunch for US Vice-President (George Bush) |
| 85 Jul 3 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Joint Press Conference with US Vice-President (George Bush) |
| 85 Jul 3 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Joint Written Statement by Prime Minister and Vice-President Bush (terrorism) |
| 85 Jul 4 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 85 Jul 4 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (South African raids on Angola and Gaborone) [repetition would force "specific steps to mark our repudiation of it"] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 4 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Spain: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Manuel Fraga, James Spicer MP, Michael Alison MP, Stephen Sherbourne, Marques de Perinet, Señor Navarro) [co-operation between non-socialist parties in the European Assembly; European Council; NATO; terrorism] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Jul 4 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 23rd (leak, Home Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, US/UK diplomatic relations) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jul 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (South African attack on Botswana) ["considerable dismay" at her message; combatting terrorism] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 5 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
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] |
| 85 Jul 9 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 85 Jul 10 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (his defence of Gaborone raid) ["I shall reply with equal frankness"] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 11 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 24th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Situation & Public Expenditure 1986-87 & 1988-89, Review of Student Support) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jul 12 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Gaborone raid) [values "constructive dialogue"] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 15 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to American Bar Association ("we must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend") |
| 85 Jul 16 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 85 Jul 22 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington minute to FCO (“Terrorism: Role of the US Media”) [US press: MT about the role of the media in covering terrorism] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 25 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington to FCO (“Prime Minister’s Visit: Political Subjects”) [Reagan-Gorbachev Summit, Middle East, SDI, South Africa, terrorism, MSE] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 25 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 26th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Industrial Affairs, Home Affairs, Northern Ireland affairs) [Anglo-Irish Agreement draft] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jul 26 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for CBS |
| 85 Jul 26 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference for British journalists (visiting Washington) |
| 85 Jul 26 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (TNA) | USA: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Vice-President George Bush) [terrorism, Middle East, Southern Africa, Strategic Defence Initiative] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jul 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Management minutes (extract on “Real Lives” documentary) [Brittan’s request not to show the documentary] [released 2015] |
| 85 Jul 29 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: Brittan letter to Stuart Young (“Real Lives”) [“terrorism thrives on the oxygen of publicity”] [released 2015] |
| 85 Jul 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: Brittan letter to Stuart Young (“Real Lives”) [welcomes BBC decision, happy to discuss issues relating to handling of terrorism on TV] [released 2015] |
| 85 Jul 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: Stuart Young letter to Brittan (“Real Lives”) [Governors have decided it would be unwise to transmit programme in present form; seeks meeting] [released 2015] |
| 85 Jul 30 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Governors minute (special meeting to discuss “Real Lives”) [majority of Board against tranmission] [released 2015] |
| 85 Jul 30 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for BBC2 Newsnight |
| 85 Jul 30 Tu | Chronology |
|
Minor | [Chronology] | BBC Governors withdrew Real Lives for editing |
| 85 Jul 31 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | France: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with M. Fabius") [arrangements; press conference; social/economic matters; French elections; EC; Channel link; South Africa; Falklands; Defence; international debt; Soviet Union; trade; terrorism] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jul 31 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | France: FCO briefing for No.10 ("French Prime Minister's visit to London: Argentina") [Falklands; social/economic matters; EC; Channel link; South Africa; Defence; international debt; Soviet Union; terrorism] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Aug 5 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Management minutes (“Real Lives”) [Milne: Real Lives "had to hit the air if this place is to run properly"] [released 2015] |
| 85 Aug 6 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Governors minutes (special meeting to discuss “Real Lives”) [DG attends; Young comments BBC "in turmoil"] [released 2015] |
| 85 Aug 7 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Management minutes (special meeting to discuss “Real Lives”) [Milne gives account of BBC meeting with Brittan; draft statements by him] [released 2015] |
| 85 Aug 8 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Key | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Management minutes (“Real Lives”) [Chairman clashes with Director-General; DG's statement revised] [released 2015] |
| 85 Aug 9 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference visiting New Scotland Yard |
| 85 Aug 9 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Letter to Neil Kinnock MP (Real Lives controversy) |
| 85 Aug 19 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Japan: Japanese Embassy letter to MT (JAL passenger air crash) [acknowledgement from PM Nakasone of MT condolences] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Aug 22 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Remarks visiting Manchester (air disaster) |
| 85 Aug 22 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Parliament: Tebbit PS letter to Cabinet Office ("The Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation and Opening of Parliament") [amendments to the drafts] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Aug 23 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (TNA) | Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to Private Secretaries ("Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation and Opening of Parliament") [circulation of revised drafts for comment] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Aug 31 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (NSA) | Nicaragua: North-Poindexter emails (possible approach to MT) [declassified 1987] [114K scanned image] |
| 85 Sep 5 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Governors minutes (“Real Lives”) [approved airing of the programme in October following statement agreed with Board of Management that reference procedures failed in this case] [released 2015] |
| 85 Sep 10 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to MT (membership of Cabinet Committees) [effect of recent Ministerial changes] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Sep 12 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Interview for Al Ahram |
| 85 Sep 12 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 27th (Membership, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs, Economic Affairs) [Handsworth riot] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Sep 17 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference in Cairo |
| 85 Sep 17 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference in Cairo |
| 85 Sep 17 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Parliament: Whitelaw PS minute to No.10 ("The Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation and Opening of Parliament 1985") [revised schedule of legislative programme; drafts of speeches] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Sep 19 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Governors minutes (“Real Lives”) [notes programme scheduled for transmission on 16 October] [released 2015] |
| 85 Sep 20 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference in Aqaba |
| 85 Sep 20 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for ITN (visiting Jordan) |
| 85 Sep 25 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Explosion at British Airways office in Rome”) [14 people injured; Arab man arrested; no responsibility yet claimed] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Sep 30 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference for Israeli and British Jewish press |
| 85 Oct 3 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Governors minutes (“Real Lives”) [issue unlikely to dominate coming meeting of General Advisory Council] [released 2015] |
| 85 Oct 3 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Middle East: MT letter to Eddie Molyneux (sale of arms) [Israel’s right to defend itself] [released 2015] |
| 85 Oct 3 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 28th (Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs, Public Expenditure, Queen s Speech) [spending bilaterals] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Oct 7 Mo | Chronology |
|
Major | [Chronology] | Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro hijacked by Palestinian terrorists (arrested on Sicily 11 Oct) |
| 85 Oct 8 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Remarks on murder of PC Keith Blakelock (Broadwater Farm riot) |
| 85 Oct 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Middle East: President Reagan letter to MT ("Terrorist seizure of Achille Lauro ") ["no intention of acting precipitously … [but] this act cannot become another protracted hostage situation"] [declassified 2001] |
| 85 Oct 8 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Remarks on hijack of Achille Lauro (best not say too much) |
| 85 Oct 10 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (CIA) | Italy: CIA National Intelligence Daily (“Italy/Middle East - Achille Lauro hijacking ends”) [likely the work of Syrian-backed PLO groups wanting "to discredit Arafat and derail the peace process"] [declassified 2010] |
| 85 Oct 11 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
| 85 Oct 11 Fr | Multimedia |
|
Key | Margaret Thatcher | Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
| 85 Oct 12 Sa | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Interview for Press Trust of India |
| 85 Oct 14 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Minor | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at dinner for Indian Prime Minister (Rajiv Gandhi) |
| 85 Oct 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 29th (Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs, Public Expenditure, Queen’s Speech) [Tottenham riot] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Oct 17 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington to UKDEL Nassau (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with President Reagan”) [subjects for discussion] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Oct 17 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: UKE Washington to FCO (“UK-US Supplementary Extradition Treaty”) [MT-Reagan talks in New York] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Oct 17 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Minor | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Governors minutes (“Real Lives”) [to be discussed at General Advisory Council on 30 Oct] [released 2015] |
| 85 Oct 17 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Howe to UKE Bonn (“Quadripartite Discussion of Summit Seven Follow Up”) [British participation] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Oct 17 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | US: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (thanks for UK help with Achille Lauro terrorist attack) [grateful & proud] [released 2015] |
| 85 Oct 20 Su | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference at Nassau Commonwealth Summit |
| 85 Oct 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | USA: Howe to UKDEL Nassau (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with President Reagan”) [subjects for discussion] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Oct 21 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO ("The Achille Lauro Affair") [Craxi's statements to Italian cabinet & parliament] [declassified 2016] |
| 85 Oct 23 We | Declassified documents |
|
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] |
| 85 Oct 23 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: MT briefing cards (meeting with Reagan) [Achille Lauro, Gorbachev/arms control, UN speech, South Africa, SDI, Middle East, MSE, MBFR, Ireland, trade] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Oct 23 We | Declassified documents |
|
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] |
| 85 Oct 24 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Speech at 40th Anniversary Session of UN General Assembly |
| 85 Oct 24 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Italian political situation, US-Soviet Summit, Achille Lauro] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Oct 28 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome minute for Head of Chancery (“Achille Lauro/US-Italy Extradition Treaty”) [account of crisis from US Dept of Justice official in Italy] [declassified Jan 2010] |
| 85 Oct 29 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 85 Oct 29 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Nassau)] |
| 85 Oct 30 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (CIA) | Italy: CIA Office of European Analysis talking points (“PLO relations with Italy”) ["pro-Arab, pro-PLO bias of Craxi and Andreotti"; Spadolini sharply critical] [declassified Dec 2009] |
| 85 Oct 31 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (BBC) | Northern Ireland: BBC Board of Governors minutes (“Real Lives”) [Young hoped GAC discussion previous day had exorcised the ghost of "Real Lives"; Milne agreed] [released 2015] |
| 85 Oct 31 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO ("Achille Lauro: British involvement") ["very minor player" - Gibraltar, SIGINT, Akrotiri] [declassified 2016] |
| 85 Nov 5 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Parliament: No.10 letter to Lord Hailsham PS (State Opening of Parliament: the Queen's Speech) [circulation] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 85 Nov 6 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKA Rome despatch to FCO ("The Achille Lauro Affair") ["the most lasting effect in Italian eyes may be the memory of her unhappy experience at US hands"] [declassified 2016] |
| 85 Nov 14 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 85 Nov 14 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: FCO briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [EC press statement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [transcript of statement from the Quai] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: UKE Copenhagen telegram to FCO ("Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs") [message of support & congratulations for Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [message of support & congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Paisley & Molyneaux letter to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement) ["On behalf of the Unionist people of Northern Ireland, we protest most vehemently..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 15 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Key | Margaret Thatcher | Joint Press Conference with Irish Prime Minister (Dr Garret FitzGerald) |
| 85 Nov 15 Fr | Chronology |
|
Key | [Chronology] | Anglo-Irish Agreement signed at Hillsborough |
| 85 Nov 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [summary of President Reagan/Speaker of the House of Representatives joint press conference; UK Ambassador to the US, Oliver Wright: "In view of past and likely future rows, we might as well make the best use we can of harmony on this issue"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement") [Congressional Friends of Ireland statement: message of support] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 15 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: UKE Washington telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: statement by the President") [transcript] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 16 Sa | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Press review 16 November") [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 17 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Terrorism: Hurd minute to Howe (“Tanzanian hijackers”) [hijackers have applied for asylum] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 17 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Terrorism: Hurd minute to Howe (“Tanzanian hijackers”) [hijackers have applied for asylum] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 17 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Prime Minister's statement") [text & MT request for additional information] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 17 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: No.10 minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: points for answers") [Parliamentary Debate] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 17 Su | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | TV Interview for London Weekend Television Weekend World |
| 85 Nov 18 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Prime Minister's statement") [background information requested by MT on the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 18 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [Anglo-Irish Agreement] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Terrorism: Howe minute to Hurd (“Tanzanian hijackers”) [“our decision to allow the Tanzanians to remain in the United Kingdom is a result of undertakings given here in 1982”] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Terrorism: Howe minute to Hurd (“Tanzanian hijackers”) [“our decision to allow the Tanzanians to remain in the United Kingdom is a result of undertakings given here in 1982”] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: No.10 letter to Northern Ireland Office ("Anglo/Irish Agreement: Parliamentary Debate") [draft MT speech] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 85 Nov 19 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Washington minute to FCO ("US/Italy relations in the wake of the Achille Lauro affair") [detailed read-out from State Department] [declassified Jan 2010] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Dail Debate: Taoiseach's speech") [summary] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 20 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: MT letter to Speaker of the US House of Representatives (Anglo-Irish Agreement) ["I would like to thank you for the statement that you made at your joint press conference with President Reagan..."; US financial & economic assistance for Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 21 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Terrorism: Hurd PS minute to Wicks (counter-terrorist exercise) [“a simulated take-over of an oil installation in the North Sea”] [released Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 21 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Anglo-Irish Agreement and its repercussions: co-operation with the security forces; power-sharing) [Tom King, John Hume MP] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 21 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: King PS letter to Whitelaw PS (Anglo-Irish Agreement: Debate in Parliament: draft speech for the Lord President) ["As you know, events are moving rapidly, and we may well advise the Lord President to amend the speech before it is made"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 22 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Anglo-Irish Agreement: Speech in the debate”) [draft] [released 2015] |
| 85 Nov 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Irish opinion poll") ["...2-1 in favour of the Anglo-Irish Agreement"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish relations: Northern Ireland") [lines for MT speech for 26 November debate in Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Prime Minister's speech in the House") [lines for MT speech for 26 November debate] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Northern Ireland Assembly delegation") ["You will want to make clear... that the Government is not going to be deflected from the Agreement. The Unionists should therefore focus on the benefits of the Agreement for them"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King, James Kilfedder MP, Peter Robinson, Jim Allister, Frank Millar, Jack Allen) [delegation from Northern Ireland Assembly, to discuss Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Cabinet Office: Goodall minute to Private Secretary ("Cabinet: Anglo-Irish Agreement") [press article written by Garret Fitzgerald] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 26 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 85 Nov 26 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | HC S: [Anglo-Irish Agreement] |
| 85 Nov 26 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Armstrong minute for MT (meetings of officialls on the next Economic Summit: drugs, terrorism, sub-Saharan Africa) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Nov 27 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Anglo-Irish Relations”) [forthcoming European Council meeting] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Nov 27 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Tom King PS letter to No.10 ("Letter to the Prime Minister from Sir Eldon Griffiths") [RUC anxieties over the Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 27 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Anglo-Irish Agreement") [the Parliamentary debate & its possible repercussions; notification of Acceptance of the Agreement; first meeting of the Intergovernmental Conference; liaising with Unionists] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 27 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Joint Press Conference with West German Chancellor (Helmut Kohl) |
| 85 Nov 28 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 85 Nov 28 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 34th (Parliamentary Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Social Security Review) [Ulster by-elections; Fowler review approved] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Taoiseach") [speaking note: Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Reverend Ian Paisley MP (resignation from the House of Commons) ["My reason for this action is that I believe the Anglo/Irish Agreement is an Act of Treachery to the people of Ulster, a surrender to the IRA and Dublin, and destruction of the Union"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Nov 29 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: MT letter to Prime Minister Craxi (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [courtesy letter of thanks for his congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 4 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Key | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference after Luxembourg European Council |
| 85 Dec 5 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [Luxembourg European Council] |
| 85 Dec 5 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 35th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Economic Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 12 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Interview for Belfast Telegraph |
| 85 Dec 27 Fr | Chronology |
|
Major | [Chronology] | Palestinian terrorists killed 27 at Rome and Vienna airports; Libya involved |
| 86 Jan 7 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | G7: Armstrong minute for MT (“Economic Summit 1986”) [preparatory meeting report] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Jan 8 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Interview for Le Figaro |
| 86 Jan 10 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference for American correspondents in London |
| 86 Jan 13 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | Press Conference for American Press (CSIS Group) |
| 86 Jan 16 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 86 Jan 21 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 86 Jan 23 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 86 Jan 28 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 86 Feb 4 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 86 Feb 5 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: FCO briefing to Cabinet Office ("Anglo-Italian Summit: 12 March 1986") ["...it is always important to show the Italians that we take them seriously"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 6 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | France: MT letter to President Mitterrand (terrorist bombings in Paris) [message of support & solidarity to French government] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 10 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("CFL ceremony at Canterbury: President Mitterrand's current preoccupations") ["...the elections increasingly dominate [his] thinking... But polls still show the RPR/UDF likely to win a clear majority. Terrorism has become an election issue in the last week."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 13 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 86 Feb 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish relations") [post-Anglo/Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: press interview with the Taoiseach") ["... the Agreement is no threat to [the Unionists]... In fact, [it is] in their best interests"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 17 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Germany: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Younger, Wörner, Bullard and others) [UK forces in Germany; Westland helicopters; NATO; SDI; chemical weapons; arms control; Spain; environmental impact of training, European Fighter Aircraft; SP70; Nimrod AEW; anti-radar drone] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Taoiseach") [Sellafield; Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 18 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 86 Feb 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Tom King briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Taoiseach") ["...we must ensure he really appreciates just how strong is the unionist reaction to the [Anglo/Irish Agreement]..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with the Taoiseach: 19 February 1986") [post-Anglo/Irish Agreement discussions] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 18 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong/Nally record of conversation, for MT meeting with Taoiseach to discuss post-Anglo/Irish Agreement negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 19 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: No.10: Press Officer minute to Ingham & Powell ("Dr. FitzGerald's speech to the press gallery: 19 February) [Sellafield; Northern Ireland: security; terrorism; Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 19 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland: meeting of Ministers on 20 February") [line to take for MT/Tom King meeting with Unionists regarding Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 19 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Garret FitzGerald) [Anglo/Irish Agreement & the Unionists; Sellafield] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 20 Th | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
|
Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 86 Feb 21 Fr | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland") [MT meeting with Molyneaux & Paisley to discuss Unionist position post-Anglo/Irish Agreement: lines to take] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 23 Su | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: White House memcon (President Mitterrand-Ambassador Vernon Walters) [possible cooperation over Libya] [declassified 2008] |
| 86 Feb 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Taoiseach FitzGerald letter to MT (Prime Minister's meeting with Unionists to discuss the Anglo-Irish agreement) ["...facts and figures on the issues which are causing concern"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Molyneaux and Dr. Paisley") [Anglo-Irish Agreement: the Unionist position] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kinnock) [Anglo-Irish Agreement: assessment of the Unionist position] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Home Affairs: Tom King letter to Hurd (Ministerial Group on Crime Prevention) [membership] [declassified 2014] |
| 86 Feb 26 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Northern Ireland Office briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with Mr. Hume") ["...the primary aim should be to bring home to Mr Hume that without the SDLP commitment to political dialogue and devolution, and more wholehearted endorsement of the RUC, the [Anglo-Irish] Agreement could founder..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 26 We | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland") [contingencies for possible repercussions from Unionist rejection of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 27 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: MT letter to Archbishop Eames (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [outline of Government policy, following meeting with Church of Ireland delegation] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 27 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Hume) [SDLP and Unionist positions following Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 27 Th | Declassified documents |
|
Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, King, Howe, Hurd, Younger, Tebbit, Wakeham) [contingencies for anticipated Unionist strike action in response to Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Feb 28 Fr | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Letter to Church of Ireland Primate (Rt. Rev. Robin Eames) |
| 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 Mar 5 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: Powell minute to MT ("United Kingdom Presidency of the EC") ["The Foreign Secretary's minute... reports the outcome of OD(E)'s discussion on objectives and priorities"; summary of main points & advice; minute attached] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Mar 6 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's Toast at Lunch on Wednesday 12 March") [draft] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Mar 7 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit: agenda") [CAP price fixing; Tokyo economic summit; arms control & East/West relations; terrorism; extradition; scientific/industrial collaboration; aid; Anglo-Italian roundtable; Middle East] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Mar 11 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit meeting in Florence: Italian press comment") [extradition; terrorism; East/West relations; Tokyo economic summit; nuclear defence; EEC; Middle East] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Mar 12 We | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Joint Press Conference with Italian Prime Minister (Bettino Craxi) |
| 86 Mar 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: FCO briefing to No.10 (Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence) [arrangements for end of summit; note on extradition treaty] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Mar 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence) [Younger, Spandolini, officials] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Mar 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: Home Office record of conversation (Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence) [Hurd, Scalfaro, officials] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Mar 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (TNA) | Italy: MT draft opening statement for press conference (Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence) ["...we found ourselves substantially in agreement..."; deletes joke about Sikorsky helicopter] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Mar 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Hurd, Younger, Geoffrey Pattie, Craxi, Andreotti, Scalfaro, Spadolini, Granelli) [Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence, plenary] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Mar 12 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence, tête-à-tête] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Mar 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French elections: Mitterrand") ["...undiminished appetite for power... expressed satisfaction about the state of Anglo-French relations..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Mar 13 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 10th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Mar 22 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Terrorism: Oliver North memo for Poindexter ("US-UK Bilateral Talks on Terrorism, March 5, 1986") [topics covered by "semi-annual and very frank talks with the UK on terrorism"] [declassified 2008] |
| 86 Mar 24 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Glenholmes affair) [Home Secretary to make statement] [released 2017] |
| 86 Mar 24 Mo | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | Interview for The Times |
| 86 Mar 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, Glenholmes affair) [US operations in Gulf, review of extradition procedures] [released 2017] |
| 86 Mar 25 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 13th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, British Leyland) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Mar 26 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya) [US action, MT backs Reagan] [released 2017] |
| 86 Apr 1 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Korea: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of President Chun Doo Hwan of the Republic of Korea") [comments on draft MT dinner speech] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 86 Apr 2 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: No.10 minute: Flesher to Powell, Wicks, MT (Tom King proposal for candidates at Northern Ireland Assembly and District Council elections to denounce terrorism) ["...obvious attractions but... implications for electoral law... [and] problems in making the requirement stick..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Apr 5 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Prime Minister/Northern Ireland: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland") [situation over Easter; intimidation of RUC families; Molyneaux/Paisley letter; parades; election legislation] [released Jul 2017] |
| 86 Apr 6 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: Poindexter memo for President Reagan ("Response to Libyan Terrorist Attacks") [recommendations of Terrorist Operations Sub-Group after Berlin disco bombing] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: North memo for Fortier ("Next steps re Libya") [decisions needed in afternoon meeting] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Northern Ireland bombings, clashes in Wapping, law and order) [released 2017] |
| 86 Apr 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Northern Ireland Office briefing for MT (Prime Minister's meeting with Lord Brookeborough and Lord Moyola to discuss the current political situation in Northern Ireland) [Anglo-Irish Agreement; devolution; dialogue with unionists] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Apr 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Cabinet Office record of conversation (dialogue with the unionists) [Robert Armstrong, Irish Ambassador] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Apr 7 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King) ["Northern Ireland": security; dialogue with unionists] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Apr 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: North, Teicher & Stark memo for Poindexter ("Next steps: Libya") [draft memo for the President] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: North, Teicher & Stark memo for Fortier ("Next steps re Libya") [draft letters to European leaders] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (attacks on RUC homes in Northern Ireland, prison officer strikes, industry, education) [released 2017] |
| 86 Apr 8 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 86 Apr 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT ("Response to Libyan terrorism") [seeks support for use of British based FB-111s to respond to Libyan attacks] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Libya: MT letter to US Ambassador to West Germany Richard Burt (Berlin bomb) ["horrified … by the dreadful incident"] [released Jan 2017] |
| 86 Apr 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (economy, Northern Ireland, education) [papers dominated by latest terrorist outrages] [released 2017] |
| 86 Apr 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland") ["...events of Easter Monday and the attacks by loyalist elements on members of the [RUC]... increasing polarisation in the unionist community and the question... [of] dialogue with the Government"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Apr 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [reply to MT's points] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 9 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Your meeting with Genscher, 11-12 April: political situation in the FRG") [briefing for Howe] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Apr 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | South Africa: P.W. Botha message to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) [Mandela's release should not be accompanied by an increase in violence] [released 2017] |
| 86 Apr 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: North, Stark & others memo for Poindexter ("Letters regarding Libyan terrorism") [presidential letters to Mitterrand, Chirac, Kohl, Craxi, Gonzalez & MT] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, Northern Ireland, GLC, Fulham by-election) [Reagan on brink of retaliation] [released 2017] |
| 86 Apr 10 Th | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for seeing Walters] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: UPI report (Libya) [reports from Washingon that Weinberger dissenting from Libyan attack; MT asked for permission to use FB-111s] |
| 86 Apr 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, Fulham by-election, economy) [US fleet on battle alert] [released 2017] |
| 86 Apr 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to MT (Libyan terrorism) [thanks for her decision; targets] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 11 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: North, Stark & others memo for Poindexter (Libya) [message to Lubbers; instructions for Walters] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 12 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: Poindexter telegram to Vernon Walters ("Special instructions for Presidential Emissary Walters") [request overflight for FB-111s flying from UK (request then cancelled but too late)] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 12 Sa | Declassified documents |
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Key | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to President Mitterrand (requests immediate decision on overflight request) [warns against "luke-warm support or no support at all from our closest allies"] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 13 Su | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: Spanish PM Gonzalez letter to President Reagan (Libyan terrorism) ["I consider inappropriate the resorting to this type of war actions" (sic)] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 14 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Libya: USE London to State (“Oakley meeting at FCO, April 14”) [UK government working on “convincing justification” for intervention] [declassified 2013] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Press |
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Key | Shultz (George) | Cold War: US bombing of Libya (Shultz memoirs) |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: President Reagan letter to Egyptian President Mubarak (Libyan terrorism) [explains US action] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: USE The Hague to State Department ("EC Foreign Ministers April 14 Statement on Terrorism") ["gravely concerned … the twelve underline the need for restraint on all sides"] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Libya: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Libya crisis”) [text of Reagan broadcast] [released Jan 2017] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Libya: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“Libya crisis: Shultz/Weinberger press conference”) [“tolerance or appeasement of aggression has historically brought more aggression”] [released Jan 2017] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Libya: FCO briefing (“Colonel Quadhafi support for terrorism”) [“Quadhafi said that he would train, arm and protect Arab guerillas and other volunteers for ‘suicide and terrorist missions’”] [released Jan 2017] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Libya: Stephen Sherbourne minute to MT (“Your speech tomorrow (Wednesday)”) [concerns over Reagan “provoking Qadhafi” … “people are unconvinced about what precisely and how much the US action will achieve”] [released Jan 2017] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Libya: US Information Service fact sheet (Libya) [US acting in self-defence, Reagan on US successes, questions and answers] [released Jan 2017] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, law and order, economy) [Reagan attacks terrorist targets] [released 2017] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | House of Commons PQs |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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Major | Margaret Thatcher | HC Stmnt: [US bombing of Libya] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: Poindexter telegram to Robert Armstrong (Libyan raid) [President "sincerely appreciates" MT's stand; ""we will do everything possible to help you"] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (US State Dept) | Libya: USE London to State (“Thatcher defends UK support for US strike”) [“Thatcher did not give Washington carte blanche”] [declassified 2013] |
| 86 Apr 15 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 15th (Libya, Shops Bill) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Reply to President Botha") [draft reply: "have to make Botha feel that his efforts are appreciated... [but] bring home to him... that he must deal direct with the [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group]"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Reagan Library) | Libya: North, et al memo for Poindexter ("NSDD: Counter-Terrorist Operations against Libya") [targetting & additional planning] [declassified 2005] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Libya: UKE Washington telegram to FCO (“US/Libya”) [US administration is “immensely appreciative”; "future benefits for us"] [released Jan 2017] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Libya: MT draft speech (Libya House of Commons debate) [government’s decision to support US military action, “taken in self-defence, against terrorist targets in Libya”] [released Jan 2017] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Minor | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Libya: No.10 minute (Tony Baldry phone call) [opinion in Upper Heyford on US military action] [released Jan 2017] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Libya: MT notes for speech (Libya House of Commons debate) [evidence we have of Libyan complicity] [released Jan 2017] |
| 86 Apr 16 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, Sunday trading) [only Canada, Israel, UK back US] [released 2017] |
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